Summer was hot, but August was scorching (2nd Hottest Ever)

[RamboLiberal]

Source: USA Today

If you thought it was unusually hot this summer, you were right: Nationally, the summer of 2007 was the sixth-warmest since records began in 1885, based on preliminary data from the National Climatic Data Center. Only 1936, 2006, 1934, 2002 and 1988 were hotter.

The average temperature for the continental USA was 73.8°F, which was 1.7°F above the long-term average.

Specifically, it was the warmest summer ever recorded in Utah and Nevada. And cities such as Washington, D.C. (Dulles Airport), Raleigh, Key West, Boise, Las Vegas, Reno and Salt Lake City, all endured their hottest June-August period on record.

Only two of the lower 48 states – Texas and Oklahoma – were cooler-than-average.

And August 2007 was especially brutal: It was the second-warmest August nationally on record since 1885, behind only August 1983. The average temperature across the USA this August was 75.45°F, which is 2.7°F above average. In 1983, the average was 75.84°F.



Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/2007-09-07-summer-heat_N.htm

[Hissyspit]

1. Heat records in this county in NC were SMASHED.

And were in severe drought STILL.

[Mudoria]

2. Same here. 32 days in a row of 90+ degree days...

whew... fall/winter can't get here soon enough. NC too btw.. :hi:

[Hissyspit]

4. Welcome to DU!

Why won't it rain!?

[3waygeek]

3. Just got my August electric bill...

for $250, almost twice the previous month's. Here in metro Atlanta, we had about 2 weeks straight of triple-digit temps.

[OneBlueSky]

5. conversely, here in the lower Hudson Valley of New York, this August . . .

seemed to be significantly cooler than most years . . . August is usually scorching and horribly humid, but this year most of the month seemed more like Spring or Fall . . .