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After a long dry period with limited rain, it looks like rain will be returning to most of the region by mid-week. The weekend should be relatively dry again, but a shift in the pattern will bring a wet front across the area starting on Monday afternoon and progressing to the east over time. Areas…
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I am one of the coauthors of the upcoming 5th National Climate Assessment’s chapter on the Southeast. In January and February 2022, we will be holding online meetings for public comments on the draft outline of the chapter before we flesh it out. This will improve our chances to address the climate issues that of…
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The lack of rain across the region along with the warm temperatures has led to an expansion in drought and dry conditions across all of the region except for the Florida Peninsula. Severe (D2) drought has reappeared in North Carolina and Virginia. Moderate (D1) drought has also significantly expanded across Puerto Rico. Conditions may continue…
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If you use daily climate normals for temperature and precipitation, you can now find the new updated ones for 1991-2020 available in tabular form from Jan Null at https://ggweather.com/normals/daily91.htm.
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The latest monthly summary for North Carolina’s climate is linked here. In it, they look at one of their driest Novembers on record and discuss how it is impacting the development of drought there.
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December 1 marks the beginning of climatological winter, which corresponds roughly to the coldest 90-day period in the year across most of the country. Climatologists use December 1 through February 28 (or 29 in a leap year) as the winter period rather than using astronomical seasons. The map below from Brian Brettschneider @Climatologist49 shows this…
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NOAA released their winter outlook in late November. It provides a detailed look at what to expect knowing that we are now in a La Nina that should last through the winter and into spring. You can see maps of the climate variations in each of the first- and second-year La Ninas over the last…