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The State Climate Office of North Carolina has published their monthly climate summary for November 2022. You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/blog/2022/12/novembers-weather-buffet-spanned-warm-to-wet-chilled-to-charred/.
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As expected, the copious rain in the northern part of our region has significantly reduced drought in those areas, with most severe (D2) drought being removed. In the southern part of the region and especially in the Florida panhandle, the severe drought remains and expanded just slightly. Western parts of the Panhandle may see some…
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Earlier this month, Weather Underground offered a good look at the two previous times that La Nina occurred three years in a row and how it affected climate. As their analysis shows, temperature was less similar than precipitation, so if this holds, you are more likely to see a dry winter than a warm one.…
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The latest monthly and seasonal regional summary maps show that November 2022 was very warm across the Southeast after a fairly cool October. Most parts of the region were wetter than normal this month except for the coastal plains. For fall, or September through November, temperatures were cooler than normal except the coastal plains and…
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Just when you think the tropical season is done, we get one last hiccup. The National Hurricane Center posted a 5-day outlook that includes a potential area of development in the central Atlantic with a 50 percent chance of becoming a named storm. This would likely be a subtropical storm, not a true tropical storm,…
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Aarohi Sheth of Currently newsletter reported that “The world’s insurance bill from extreme weather events and climate disasters this year is $115 billion — 42 percent higher than the 10-year average of $81 billion, according to Swiss Re, a Zurich-based reinsurance giant.“ The story also noted that the firm estimates that Hurricane Ian, the Category 4…
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This week’s 7-day QPF map shows that most of the rain this week should be focused on a band stretching from Arkansas through northern Alabama and Georgia and into the Southern Appalachians. Coastal areas and Florida should be largely left out. Rain is expected in that area throughout the week. Areas to the south of…
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