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The latest monthly climate summary for November 2020 is now available from the Southeastern Regional Climate Center. You can view it at https://sercc.co/SoutheastRegionMonthlyClimateReportNovember2020.pdf.
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This week’s Drought Monitor shows a slight decrease in abnormally dry conditions in Alabama and Georgia and no change in South Carolina, Florida and Puerto Rico. There continues to be no drought in the region. I don’t foresee any big changes in next week’s map, either.
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At my Flash Drought conference this week, one of the tools mentioned that I had not seen in a while was a map of short-term dry conditions that covers the US and provides a detailed spatial look at the variability of those conditions. It is the QuickDRI map that is available at https://quickdri.unl.edu/. In addition…
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Today marks the first day of climatological (or meteorological) winter. This year, parts of the Southeast even saw snow yesterday, which does not often happen so early in our winter season. Hope you are enjoying the colder weather! If you would like to know more about why climatological seasons are not the same as astronomical…
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The Perspectives tool at the Southeastern Regional Climate Center shows how individual station temperature and precipitation observations this fall rank compared to their long-term averages. The maps show that many areas in the Southeast reported their top ten warmest falls on record, not a big surprise for those of us who have enjoyed it. Precipitation…
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I’m attending a virtual conference on flash drought this week, and one of the things we have discussed so far is the difficulty in identifying where drought conditions are occurring, especially when they are just beginning to be felt. The current network of weather stations, even when supplemented with entries in the Drought Impact Reporter…
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Today marks the official end of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season. But even as we speak, there is an area of interest in the eastern Atlantic that has a 40 percent chance of developing into a subtropical storm, although it won’t affect the Southeast. This has been an amazing and frustrating year for tropical weather…