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Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook for the Great Lakes Region - September 2019

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NOAA/NIDIS

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Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook for the Great Lakes Region - September 2019 (1.65 MB)

Document Date

September 24, 2019

Document Type

Outlooks

Document Description

Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook for the Great Lakes Region for June – August 2019. Dated September 2019.

June temperatures ranged from 3°C (5°F) below normal to near normal. July was warm, with temperatures up to 3°C (5°F) above normal. Temperatures during August and for summer were within 1°C (2°F) of normal for most of the basin. The basin experienced a wet period from the fall of 2018 through the spring. This extended into June, with all basins but Superior being wetter than average and the overall basin seeing 109% of average in June.

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.