Climate summaries
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NOAA released their May, spring and year to date climate assessments for the US today. It shows that the average temperature for the lower 48 states as a whole was near the center of the pack of all Mays on record, while the precipitation received made it rank as the 25th wettest. You can read…
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The May 2017 climate summary from North Carolina is available at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=235&h=5666e5c1. The climate summary for Florida is at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries?id=510. Here is the text summary for the whole Southeast Region: (Information provided by the Southeast Regional Climate Center) Temperatures were near average across much of the Southeast region (including Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands)…
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Above-normal temperatures covered most of Georgia in May 2017, with all but two National Weather Service offices reporting temperatures as much as 3.0 degrees above normal. This is the 16th month in a row with above-normal temperatures for the state as a whole. Rainfall was plentiful in most of Georgia and heavy rain reduced drought…
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Here is a quick look at the climate statistics for May now that it is almost over. With two days to go, the maps from the High Plains Regional Climate Center show that most of the Southeast was slightly above normal in temperature, with the largest departures from normal in southern Florida where the drought…
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With just a few days to go until the end of the month, it looks like May 2017 is likely to be above normal in temperature for the Southeast and every individual state except possibly Alabama, although a good portion of Georgia was also cooler than normal. This would make the string of months of…
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NOAA’s latest monthly global climate summary for April 2017 was released this week. It shows that this past April was the second warmest since records began in 1880 for the globe. It also marked the 388th consecutive month that the globally-averaged temperature across the world’s land and ocean surfaces was nominally above the 20th century average.…
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NOAA released their latest monthly summary of climate for the US in April 2017 yesterday. It shows that for the US as a whole, it was the second wettest and the 11th warmest April since records began in 1895. It was the second warmest year to date and the 5th wettest. You can read more…
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