Climate summaries
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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…
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NASA reported this week that their calculated global temperature for February 2017 shows it as the second warmest on record, slightly below the record-setting year of 2016 (which had a strong El Niñ0). NOAA should be releasing their numbers in a few days. You can read about it at https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/news/20170315/.
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For the month of March so far, conditions across the Southeast have generally been warmer and drier than normal, although the cold spell this week should bring temperatures back closer to average. Once this cold outbreak passes, we are expected to go back into above normal temperatures with an increased chance of wet conditions in…
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NOAA released their latest climate summary today. It shows that the US experienced its second warmest every February and its 6th warmest winter. Nearly one quarter of the US was record warm in February, and it surpassed every year except 1954. You can see more and view maps at https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/national-climate-201702.
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Climate summary for February from the Southeast Regional Climate Center: Temperatures were well above average across the Southeast region, with numerous record-breaking extremes observed during February. Mean temperature departures ranged from 3 to as much as 10 degrees F (1.7 to 5.6 degrees C) above average across the region, with the greatest departures found in…
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Weather Underground‘s blog provided an interesting overview of the 2016-17 winter that ended last week. Their analysis showed that most of the eastern US experienced top-five warmest years, including quite a few in the Southeast, while a few stations in the Pacific Northwest felt top-five coldest conditions. California not surprisingly had one of its five…