SON OF HARRY HOPE
2006-09-18 19:44:28 UTC
WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Weather experts say the United States this year
experienced its hottest summer in 70 years, with temperatures not
seen since the Dust Bowl era.
National Climatic Data Center officials say between June 1 and Aug. 31
-- the official summer climate period -- the continental U.S. had an
average temperature of 74.5 degrees -- the second highest summer
temperature recorded since record keeping started in 1895, USA Today
reported. The only warmer summer -- by about two-tenths of a degree --
occurred in 1936.
Jay Lawrimore, chief of the data center's climate monitoring office,
noted temperatures remained higher than usual at night this year in
many
parts of the country. "It's the 100-degree afternoons that people
notice, but more of the country was affected by the high minimum
temperatures," he told USA Today.
Forecasters say the record and near record warm conditions might
continue this winter, at least across northern and western states,
because El
NiA o - a Pacific Ocean warming pattern -- has returned, the National
Oceanic
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"It doesn't matter what you believe just so long as you're sincere."
--Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000) US cartoonist
experienced its hottest summer in 70 years, with temperatures not
seen since the Dust Bowl era.
National Climatic Data Center officials say between June 1 and Aug. 31
-- the official summer climate period -- the continental U.S. had an
average temperature of 74.5 degrees -- the second highest summer
temperature recorded since record keeping started in 1895, USA Today
reported. The only warmer summer -- by about two-tenths of a degree --
occurred in 1936.
Jay Lawrimore, chief of the data center's climate monitoring office,
noted temperatures remained higher than usual at night this year in
many
parts of the country. "It's the 100-degree afternoons that people
notice, but more of the country was affected by the high minimum
temperatures," he told USA Today.
Forecasters say the record and near record warm conditions might
continue this winter, at least across northern and western states,
because El
NiA o - a Pacific Ocean warming pattern -- has returned, the National
Oceanic
====================
"It doesn't matter what you believe just so long as you're sincere."
--Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000) US cartoonist