Climate summaries
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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…
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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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