Climate summaries
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Temperatures were far above normal across the state in February 2017 in Georgia. Anomalies ranged from six to more than nine degrees above average. This is the 13th month in a row with above-normal temperatures for the state as a whole. Rainfall across the state was well below normal with the sole exception of a…
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The latest monthly climate summary for Florida covering February 2017 is now available. You can find it at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries?id=507.
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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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