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Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook for the Northeast Region - September 2017

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NOAA/NIDIS, Ellen Mecray, Samantha Borisoff

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Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook for the Northeast Region - September 2017 (1.58 MB)

Document Date

September 22, 2017

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Outlooks

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Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook for the Northeast Region for June – August 2017. Dated September 2017.

Summer precipitation was variable, with drought developing in Maine and extreme rain and flash flooding in other areas. During summer, the Northeast averages 28 tornadoes (based on NOAA's Storm Prediction Center data from 1989–2013). This summer, 38 tornadoes touched down in the region: 11 in Pennsylvania, 10 in New York, 7 in Maine, 4 in West Virginia, 3 in Maryland, 2 in New Jersey, and 1 in Delaware.

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.