Climate summaries
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If you follow the news at all, you are aware of the solar eclipse that will be viewed across the US, including a path of totality that stretches from coastal Oregon to South Carolina. But it’s summer, and you might wonder if clouds will obscure the view. Just in time, NOAA has produced a cloud…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina’s latest blog post discusses the 2017 year to date and gives some insight into what might happen the rest of the year. While the summary statistics are just for North Carolina, the general trends are the same for the whole Southeast and the five questions they are asking…
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With half of July in the bag, the climate so far has been quite variable, but overall the region is warmer than normal in temperature and slightly wetter than normal in precipitation. The only part of the region that has been cooler than normal is northern Georgia and northeast Alabama, where precipitation is also above…
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NASA released their latest global climate summary today for June 2017. It shows that for the earth as a whole, the temperature was the 4th warmest. But there are some significant variations around the globe, with Antarctica being significantly colder than average and most other places above normal. You can read their press release at…
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NOAA released their monthly climate summary today. It shows that June was above average for the US as a whole but cooler than normal in most of the Southeast. The Southeast was also much above normal in precipitation. It also shows that Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina all have experienced their record warmest January…
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The climate report for the Southeast from the Southeastern Regional Climate Center is available below. Southeast Region: (Information provided by the Southeast Regional Climate Center) Temperatures were near average across much of the Southeast region during June. Only eight long-term (i.e., period of record equaling or exceeding 50 years) stations across the region observed June…
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For the first time since January 2016, most of the state was below normal in temperature, although a few areas remained warmer than normal. Most of the northern half of the state was also very wet, but the south also received enough rain to eliminate the drought by the end of the month. In Atlanta,…
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