Climate summaries
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The latest CoCoRaHS blog summarizes the 2016-2017 winter season that just ended as “the winter that mostly wasn’t.” If you live anywhere in the eastern half of the country, your temperature this season was well above normal, and even quite a bit of the western US with the exception of the Pacific Northwest was above…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina has issued their latest monthly climate summary for February 2017. You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=227&h=5666e5c1.
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People have been asking me if this is a record-setting winter for temperature. Using the Southeast Regional Climate Center’s Perspectives tool at https://www.sercc.com/perspectives?user=true, you can look at maps which show the rankings for the month or season to date. With just a couple of days left to go in the season, the maps show that while…
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Yesterday NOAA released their global statistics for January 2017. They show that the January temperature across global land and ocean surfaces was 1.58°F above the 20th century average of 53.6°F. This was the third highest for January in the 1880–2017 record, behind 2016 (highest) and 2007 (second highest). This is in agreement with the…
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NASA released their global climate summary today, and it shows that according to their calculations, January 2017 was the third warmest in 137 based on modern record-keeping. Last year was the warmest, followed by 2007. Note that as expected, most of the warming is occurring at higher latitudes due in part to snow and sea…
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So far this month, we have seen well above normal temperatures and dry conditions across most of the Southeast. Most stations are in their top ten warmest for the month so far, and since warm conditions are expected to continue for most of the next two weeks, it would not surprise me if the final…
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NOAA released their monthly climate summary for the United States for January 2017. It shows that overall the US was wetter and warmer than average, although of course there was variation across the country. For Georgia, for example, it was ranked 117 out of 123 years for temperature (7th warmest) and 118 out of 123…
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