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July Was Hottest Month in US History

It trumps all federal records going back to 1895

By John Johnson,  Newser Staff

Posted Aug 8, 2012 11:27 AM CDT

(Newser) – One more milestone to help remember the scorching weather of July: It is now in the books as the hottest month in US history, reports CNN. The average temperature for the contiguous US came in at 77.6 degrees, which is the highest mark since the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration started keeping records in 1895. It edges the previous mark of 77.4 set in 1936 and smashes the 20th-century average by 3 degrees. This comes after the nation wrapped up its hottest 12-month stretch in history.

The sun rises over grain bins and a struggling corn crop in Ashland, Ill.
The sun rises over grain bins and a struggling corn crop in Ashland, Ill.   (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)
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KaliforniaUniKorn
Aug 8, 2012 6:11 PM CDT
This is not climate change. This is a result of the stagnant upper-level weather pattern across the northern hemisphere this summer, which is in a large part due to the ocean temperature and currents. There has been a large ridge across the US and Canada since early June, and it has only shifted very little. Meanwhile, a large trough has been present over the Atlantic portions of Western Europe, thus producing record-breaking cold and rainfall over that region. This long wave pattern usually vacillates back a forth a little more often in the summer than it has this year, giving breaks to regions from the heat or cold. This year, the global pattern has been very stable, producing long stretches of heat or cold. All you "experts" that claim this proves man-made global warming is here, need to take a step back from your dogma and let the educated people speak.
Sundiata
Aug 8, 2012 5:12 PM CDT
ED'CATION is fer libtards..... By the dumbness of the comments on this article I wish I was not American.  The Pechanga may not have had the amenities you white people brought here, but at least we knew how to survive.  Traitors to the human race is an appropriate term.
vernonniners
Aug 8, 2012 2:43 PM CDT
This is entirley on the handes of the Republicans I am 54 this has been talked about for at least 32 yrs pretty heavely or as heavely as we could talk about it, because all the repubilcans has done was hire some scientest back then to say it was not a problem so they would not face it. that main person back then was REAGAN . And that is when we should of been doing something about it. When there was time. Probably no time to change it now. But I did hear yrs back that those same scientest said that they were wrong that it does exist. This is on the backs of the repubilcans, there greed for money has not changed, the reasion we are where we are today is the congress and stupid tax cuts that should of never happened, hell we could of put that money to this issue instead of in the rich mans pocket.  I have lived it it is no where else to put but the REPUBLICANS.

 
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