Climate update from NOAA

Second-warmest U.S. August ever

Posted by Joseph Romm (Guest Contributor) at 2:53 PM on 17 Sep 2007

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Let's look at some of the records for the month:, according to the National Climatic Data Center, a division of NOAA:

For the contiguous U.S., the average temperature for August was 75.4�F (24.1�C), which was 2.7�F (1.5�C) above the 20th century mean and the second warmest August on record.
More than 30 all-time high temperature records were tied or broken, and more than 2000 new daily high temperature records were established.
Raleigh-Durham, N.C., equaled its all-time high of 105�F on August 21, and Columbia, S.C., had 14 days in August with temperatures over 100�F, which broke the 1900 record of 12 days. Cincinnati, OH, reached 100�F five days during August, a new record for the city.
The warmest August in the 113-year record occurred in eight eastern states (West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida) along with Utah.
Texas had its wettest summer on record.
This was the driest summer since records began in 1895 for North Carolina, and the second driest for Tennessee.
At the end of August, drought affected approximately 83 percent of the Southeast and 46 percent of the contiguous U.S.

Coincidence? I think not!

This post was created for ClimateProgress.org, a project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund.

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Heat is brewing a hell of a stew!

My folks are in Kentucky. Kentuckians are generally rural townspeople used to rolling hills, corn and tobacco fields, horses and weather that lets every season bloom. It's not like the northwest where it's either drizzly or grey, in Kentucky you get baking hot sun, bright fall colors, white winters, and green springs!
Now they pay attention to the seasons. They have to because the shifts in weather mean a big difference in what is going on! How can you plan a pig roast when the fields are smoking hot? What about betting on the horses, your front runner might die from heat stroke!
While they might have voted for Bush, they certaintly aren't a bunch of neocons! They just like the government to mind their own business. One thing that you can count on though is that they will not ignore the weather. They feel the heat and they understand that this is serious for the future of their families. They have never hardly had to deal with any true threat to their lifestyles in Kentucky. Things been pretty much the simple way it has always been there. I mean they are just as modern as the next American but it doesn't seem to matter as much to them about material things. They are happy with what they've got!
Now is a new time, and expect those states that are being affected to rise together. All they need is a little prompting and they'll be angry as hell about who is causing all this. Shove them a little bit in the right direction point out the end of their way of life and see what happens!

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by wildleaf at 3:18 PM on 17 Sep 2007

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