Climate summaries
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After a month of below normal temperatures, the state has rebounded to mostly a little above normal conditions. Most of the state was also drier than normal with the exception of the southeastern counties, which were well above normal due to several rain events in the region. In Atlanta, the monthly average temperature was 81.2…
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The Florida Climate Center has released their monthly climate summary for July 2017. You can find it at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries/climate-summary-for-florida-July-2017.
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With just a couple of days to go in the month, the ACIS maps from the High Plains Regional Climate Center show that precipitation was variable across the Southeast but that most areas have experienced above normal temperatures. A major contribution to the warm temperatures was nighttime high temperatures. You can see maps for other…
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Here’s a list of the record hottest temperature in each of the 50 states according to KOCO TV. The link is here. However, they managed to forget Alabama. That record is 112 F, set on September 6, 1925 in Centreville, a very hot year in many parts of the Southeast. Note that the record high…
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The latest global climate summary for the globe was released today by NOAA. It shows that overall, this was the third warmest June on record and the second warmest year to date since 1880, just less than last year’s record warmth. Their latest report, which you can read at https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/global-climate-201706, also discusses this year’s sea…
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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…