Climate summaries
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Gotta love that title! NOAA describes the current active tornado season in their latest blog at Climate.gov here. According to the article, “as of April 17, 570 tornadoes have been reported (preliminarily), which is almost a hundred more than average. The season jumped out of the gate with an incredibly active January: 134 tornadoes in…
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NOAA released their latest global climate summary for March 2017 today. It shows that the global temperature for March 2017 was the second warmest on record after the El Niño-enhanced 2016. The year to date global temperature so far is also the second warmest on record. You can read the NOAA news story at https://www.noaa.gov/news/us-had-2nd-warmest-year-to-date-and-9th-warmest-march-on-record and…
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The latest monthly global summary from NASA came out today. It shows that March 2017 was the second warmest on record after last year’s blistering March heat. According to the story, “March 2016 was the hottest on record, at 1.27 degrees Celsius warmer than the March mean temperature. March 2017’s temperature was 0.15 degrees Celsius…
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We’re almost halfway through April so let’s take a look at the monthly climate so far. The temperature departure maps shows that once again, the region is all warmer than normal, which has been the case for almost everywhere for the last 15 months or so. Rainfall has been above normal in many places but…
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According to the USDA’s Water and Climate Update for April 6, “The number of tornadoes touching down across the U.S. are at a near record pace for 2017. The NWS records starting in 2005 report the number of tornadoes are the second highest as of April 5. 486 tornadoes have touched down thus far, with…
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NOAA’s latest climate summary for the United States was published yesterday. It shows that overall it was the second warmest year to date on record since 1895, following the very warm 2012. The warmest part of the country was the Southwest, where many areas observed record high temperatures, and the coldest part of the US…
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NOAA announced yesterday that the official report from the National Hurricane Center on Hurricane Matthew is now available. Matthew caused 34 direct deaths in the Southeast along with several indirect deaths following the storm’s passage. Of those, 25 deaths were in North Carolina. The highest rainfall amount of the storm in the US was 18.95…