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The December 2021 Climate outlook for the lower 48 from @NWSCPC favors a warmer-than-average end to 2021 with drier-than-average conditions extending across the Southeast.
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/december-2021-us-climate-outlook-la-ni%C3%B1a-pattern-warmth-over
A reminder that you don't have to use the 1991-2020 period as "normal" for whatever you're doing. One major use of these updated normals is for the seasonal outlook. (For El Nino/La Nina, we actually update the sea surface temperature "normals" every 5 years, not 10 years). 1/3
The 30-year period used to define "normal" shifted this year from 1981-2010 to 1991-2020. Check out the updated temperature and precipitation climatology maps for the contiguous US.
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/featured-images/new-maps-annual-average-temperature-and-precipitation-us-climate
This story was about the dying oak tree in our neighbors yard directly behind our house. Not mentioned: that was the 3rd large White Oak to die in the past 5 years within a 3-4 house radius. And the only one that didn't crash into someone's house.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/11/25/oak-trees-dc-mid-atlantic-dying/
Nothing like clicking on an article to read and seeing a random photo of yourself taken at COP26 as the top image. It is I...the delegate.
https://www.reuters.com/business/cop/white-house-send-kigali-amendment-climate-warming-gases-senate-officials-2021-11-16/
