Climate summaries
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The National Centers for Environmental Information released the climate maps for April 2017 today. They show that for most of the East coast, temperatures were well above normal and many areas were the warmest on record. This helped contribute to the year-to-date maps, which show a large swath of the South and East with its…
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Jordan McLeod of the Southeast Regional Climate Center published this climate summary for April 2017: Temperatures were well above average across the Southeast region, with numerous record-breaking extremes observed during April. Mean temperature departures ranged from 5 to as much as 9 degrees F (2.8 to 5.0 degrees C) above average across much of the region…
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For the 15th month in a row, Georgia’s temperature was above normal, even though neutral conditions remain in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Rainfall was plentiful in north Georgia, leading to a reduction of extreme drought there, but was scarce in the south, which helped lead to the development of moderate drought there. The dry conditions…
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The latest Florida monthly summary for April 2017 is now available from the Florida Climate Center. You can find it at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries?id=509.
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina released their monthly summary for April 2017 this morning. It shows that NC had the warmest April and the second wettest April on record! You can read all about it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=233&h=5666e5c1.
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April is winding down, and while the final results are not yet in, it looks like the month as a whole will be well above normal across the Southeast. This means that for every month from February 2016 on, we have been above the 1981-2010 normals in temperature. At the same time, precipitation was above…
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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…