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Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook for the Missouri River Basin - December 2017

Document Author

NOAA/NIDIS, Natalie Umphlett

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Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook for the Missouri River Basin - December 2017 (1.67 MB)

Document Date

December 21, 2017

Document Type

Outlooks

Document Description

Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook for the Missouri River Basin September – November 2017. Dated December 2017.

Fall temperatures were above average for the majority of the Basin; however, the season ended quite warm, with many western states ranking in the top 10 warmest Novembers on record. This included Colorado (record warmest) and Wyoming (8th warmest). Precipitation, on the other hand, varied widely throughout the fall. This resulted in no top 10 rankings for wettest or driest fall.

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.

Example image of the Climate Impacts and Outlooks report

State(s)

Colorado

Iowa

Kansas

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

North Dakota

South Dakota

Climate Region(s)

High Plains