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The Version 6 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for December, 2023 was +0.83 deg. C departure from the 1991-2020 mean, down from the November, 2023 anomaly of +0.91 deg. C.
Conditions in context: snow cover Snow-covered area for the 2021 water year continued to decrease in April after reaching its maximum in mid-February (Figure 1, left). Storms in April increased the snow-covered area from values near the twenty-fifth percentile to near-average conditions. At this time of year, the total snow-covered area for the western United does not significantly vary from other years as most of the shallow snowpack has already melted, leaving snow mostly at higher elevations where the snowpack is deeper. However, certain regions within the western United States deviated si...