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Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook for the Southeast Region - March 2018

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NOAA/NIDIS, Ellen Mecray, Jordan McLeod

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Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook for the Southeast Region - March 2018 (3.88 MB)

Document Date

March 16, 2018

Document Type

Outlooks

Document Description

Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook for the Southeast Region for December 2017 – February 2018. Dated March 2018.

With two periods of extreme coldness during January, monthly mean temperatures were at least 3°F below average for approximately 60% of the 194 long-term (i.e., period of record equaling or exceeding 50 years) stations across the region. Mean temperatures during the first week of the year were the coldest on record for at least 122 long-term stations, and numerous locations in the Carolinas observed their coldest 7-day period for any month on record, including Brevard, NC and Charleston, SC.

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.