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Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook for the Southeast Region - December 2017

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NOAA/NIDIS, Ellen Mecray, Jordan McLeod

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Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook for the Southeast Region - December 2017 (7.61 MB)

Document Date

December 21, 2017

Document Type

Outlooks

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Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook for the Southeast Region for September – November 2017. Dated December 2017.

Four tropical cyclones (Hurricane Irma, Hurricane Maria, Hurricane Nate, and Tropical Storm Philippe) produced significant impacts across the Southeast region, including Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Hurricane Irma was the first major hurricane to make landfall in Florida since Hurricane Wilma in October 2005. Hurricane Maria was the strongest hurricane to strike Puerto Rico since the San Felipe Segundo hurricane in September 1928, and it was also the tenth most intense hurricane on record in the Atlantic basin.

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.