Climate summaries
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In addition to the snow information I posted for Georgia yesterday, you might be interested in this report from the State Climate Office of North Carolina describing their impacts from the recent snow event. You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=249&h=5666e5c1.
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NOAA released their climate summary for November 2017 for the US today. It shows that this November was the 7th warmest on record and the year to date so far is the 3rd warmest on record for the country as a whole. For Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina and Virginia, it has been the…
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The latest monthly summaries of November 2017 climate are now available from Florida and North Carolina. You can access them using the links below. North Carolina: https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=248&h=5666e5c1 Florida: https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=516
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Dry conditions and moderate drought moved into Georgia in November as temperatures were above normal almost everywhere in the state and little rain fell at most stations. In Atlanta, the monthly average temperature was 56.2 degrees F (2.2 degrees above normal), in Athens 54.8 degrees (1.0 degrees above normal), Columbus 59.4 (2.1 degrees above normal),…
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AgWeb posted a really good and complete description of all of the weather and climate events that have affected agriculture across the US in 2017 by Anna-Lisa Laca. It includes the hurricanes and March frost in the Southeast as well as flooding in central areas of the country and the exceptional drought in Montana. In…
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With a half-day to go, the November regional maps for 2017 show that temperatures in the eastern half of the region were generally below normal and areas in the western half were generally above normal, while precipitation across almost all of the area was drier than usual. The only exceptions were two thin strips of…
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The latest monthly summary of global climate conditions from NOAA shows that the land plus ocean surface temperature for October 2017 was tied with 2003 as the fourth warmest on record. The January through October value was the third warmest on record, following the record hot years of 2016 and 2015. As reported earlier in…
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