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Climate Central has produced an easy to use map which provides color-coded information about trends in temperature across the country. You can find it here. It’s interesting to see how the trends change by region as well as season. In the Southeast, the highest warming trends have been occurring in winter and summer, with less…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina released their latest outlook for summer for North Carolina this morning. While it is specific to NC, a lot of the information in it is generally true for the entire Southeast. You can see it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=193&h=5666e5c1.
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The History Channel has an excellent retrospective on the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France, which occurred on June 6, 1944. The weather forecast for that event was crucial in making it a success. You might enjoy reading about it and watching some video at https://www.history.com/news/the-weather-forecast-that-saved-d-day. USA Today also had a feature about this in 2014 which…
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Spring has ended and the preliminary statistics show that for many areas in the Southeast, temperatures were much above normal, placing them in the top ten warmest on record. A number of stations were also in the top ten driest on record, particularly in the areas that are now experiencing drought. A few coastal stations…
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If you are interested in seeing which hurricanes and tropical storms have passed through your area in the past, you should try out the NOAA hurricane track viewer. You can access it at https://www.climate.gov/maps-data/dataset/historical-hurricane-tracks-gis-map-viewer. It includes tracks going back for the last 150 years, although areas far from land may be underrepresented because no satellites were…
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One of my favorite site, https://earth.nullschool.net, is showing the broad circulation around Tropical Storm Colin. You can see that there is a tremendous amount of moisture being pulled into the Southeast ahead of the storm. It is no wonder that rainfall amounts of up to several inches of rain are predicted to occur over the next…
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The National Hurricane Center noted the official development of Tropical Storm Colin this afternoon at 5:30 EDT. This is the earliest ever in the season for a third named storm. Colin is forecast to continue to develop and move off to the northeast over the next few days. It is expected to land on the Florida…