Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook for the Southern Region for June–August 2022. Dated September 2022.

Summer started off dry and hot across most of the Southern region and stayed that way until mid-August. Weather conditions shifted in August, as a persistent ridge of high pressure gave way to deep tropical air from the southeast.

Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook for the Southern Region for March–May 2022. Dated June 2022.

Except for Arkansas, temperatures were well above normal during Spring 2022. It was a wetter than normal spring from central and eastern Oklahoma to east-central Mississippi, with especially wet conditions near the Ozarks. In contrast, dry weather gripped Texas.

Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook for the Southern Region for December 2021–February 2022. Dated March 2022.

Winter 2021–2022 temperatures were near normal across western Oklahoma and western and southern Texas. In the rest of the Southern Region, average winter temperatures ran about 2°F to 4°F above normal. The northern half of Arkansas, all of Tennessee, parts of northern Mississippi, and isolated portions of Texas experienced above-normal precipitation during winter 2021–2022. Elsewhere, it was quite dry.