Weather-wise, 2018 started out with a bang and continues to be anything but ordinary.
Weather-wise, 2018 started out with a bang and continues to be anything but ordinary.
n just the first three months of year, the U.S. experienced three weather and climate disasters with losses exceeding $1 billion each. These included a severe storm in the Southeast and two winter storms in the central and eastern U.S. that caused the deaths of at least 34 people and had significant negative economic impacts.
Let's dive deeper to see how March 2018 and the year to date fared in terms of the climate record.
The average March temperature across the contiguous U.S. was 42.6 degrees F, 1.1 degrees above average, and ranked near the middle of the 124-year record, according to scientists from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information. The month brought below-average temperatures to parts of the East Coast, Northern High Plains and West, and above-average temperatures across the south-central U.S. and parts of New England and the Upper Midwest.
Continue reading at NOAA.
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