Climate summaries
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The latest monthly climate summary for March 2017 for North Carolina is now available. You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=232&h=5666e5c1. You can read the Florida climate summary for March 2017 at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries?id=508.
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The month of March is almost complete, and overall in the Southeast it’s been a very dry month, with large parts of the region receiving less than half their normal rainfall. No wonder the abnormally dry area in the Drought Monitor expanded so much this week! It’s also been a little above normal in temperature…
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Many weather forecasters never publish stories of how their forecasts verified, although many of the best ones will take the time to discuss what went wrong when the forecast seriously busted. Here NOAA provides us with a look at how their winter forecast did compared to what they predicted last year. You can read their…
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The WunderBlog has posted a map showing the coldest temperatures each location in the United States felt this past winter, which includes December 2016 through February 2017. It’s probably important to point out that this year, the coldest temperatures actually occurred in March in some locations, when the frost last week occurred. But that’s a…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina released their winter recap this morning discussing the weather which has affected North Carolina over the last few months. You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=231&h=5666e5c1.
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The Southeast Regional Climate Center’s summary of the winter of 2016-2017 is now available. You can view it at https://www.sercc.com/seasonalsummary along with previous seasonal summaries.
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NOAA’s report on global climate came out this morning and shows that, like NASA’s analysis released yesterday, February was the second warmest on record, after 2016’s El Niño-affected record. The winter record for December 2016 through February 2017 was also the second-highest on record. You can read more at https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/global-climate-201702 as well as this story by Jeff…