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Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook for the Gulf of Maine Region - March 2017

Document Author

NOAA/NIDIS, Ellen Mecray, Samantha Borisoff

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Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook for the Gulf of Maine Region - March 2017 (1.15 MB)

Document Date

March 17, 2017

Document Type

Outlooks

Document Description

Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook for the Gulf of Maine Region for December 2016 – February 2017. Dated March 2017.

Drought conditions lingered but slowly improved during winter in New England and parts of the Maritimes. By early January, extreme drought had eased in eastern Massachusetts and New Hampshire. By late January, severe drought had eased in eastern Massachusetts and Maine, while moderate drought had eased in New Brunswick and much of Nova Scotia. Conditions continued to improve in Maine during February. See Impacts section for more details.

NOAA’s Regional Climate Services Program created these Climate Outlooks to inform the public about recent climate impacts within their respective regions. Each regional report contains easy-to-understand language, and anyone can access them through the Drought Portal at https://www.drought.gov/drought/resources/reports

State(s)

Maine

Massachusetts

New Hampshire

New Jersey

Climate Region(s)

Northeast Climate Region