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The State Climate Office of North Carolina has released their monthly and seasonal climate summary for North Carolina for November 2015. You can read it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=167&h=5666e5c1.
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From the National Hurricane Center Facebook page this morning: “Here’s the preliminary track map of the tropical cyclones that occurred over the Atlantic basin in 2015. There were 11 named storms formed, four became hurricanes, and two of those reached major hurricane status. There was also one unnamed tropical depression. While the number of named…
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Steve Hilberg has an interesting post on the CoCoRaHS blog this week about the history of how clouds acquired their names (like cirrus, cumulus, etc.) and the man that classified them. You can read it here. If you like pictures of clouds, you can find many at the Cloud Appreciation Society website, https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/.
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The latest climate outlook from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center is out and shows that for the Southeast, December looks like it has a good chance to continue to be wetter and warmer than normal. Most long-range models show that we are not likely to feel the impacts of Arctic air anytime soon, although a change…
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With our rain chances on the rise for the next few days, you might have heard your local forecaster talk about the probability of precipitation or PoP. But what does a 40% chance of rain really mean? It turns out that not even meteorologists agree on a definition. Check out Dr. Marshall Shepherd’s blog from…
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November is winding down, and we can see from the month to date maps that this month has been wet and warm across most of the area. Most of the warmth has been moderate, but most of Florida has been well above normal and is close to setting a record for the month. Many NWS…
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The latest Drought Monitor indicates that all drought is now gone from Georgia and northern Florida, leaving only a small area of moderate drought in the very southern tip of the Florida peninsula. That area of the Southeast has been dry for the last month as the most active rainfall track has been on the northern…