Posted on 06/06/2018 5:49:18 PM PDT by EdnaMode
At a Glance:
May 2018 was the hottest in 124 years of May records across the Lower 48.
Eight states broke warmth records and no state was colder than average.
Two states had their wettest Mays.
May 2018 was the hottest of any May in 124 years of recording keeping for the continental United States, eclipsing the extreme heat of that month in the 1930s during the Dust Bowl era.
The average temperature for the Lower 48 states last month was 65.41 degrees Fahrenheit, 5.21 degrees Fahrenheit above the 1901-2000 average, according to the state of the climate report released by NOAA on Wednesday.
That knocked out May 1934 for the warmest May on record. Rounding out the top five warmest Mays are 1936, 2012 and 2000.
(Excerpt) Read more at weather.com ...
1. Not evident in Connecticut, not at all. It is 62 right now in SW CT. It is 58 in New London. Sorry, that is not hot for June.
2. So how do they calculate this anyway? There certainly are not weather instruments in every 1 km grid across the USA. And going backwards in time, there were obviously fewer and fewer of them.
3. Even if it can be calculated objectively and accurately, why would anyone ascribe significance to an “average temperature” of the Lower 48, given the extreme regional differences over the vast expanse of this nation?
Naw, finally got their proof of Global warming. Happens every year about this time in the Northern Hemisphere and every October in the southern Hemisphere. It is called Climate Change. Been going on for a while. What a boring world it would be if it were a constant 72 degrees (and life would be unsustainable).
Global Warming on Free Republic here, here and here
There are many ways, one suspects, to game the temperature gathering and reporting systems, and these folks are not shy and are not at all bothered by that pesky conscience thingy.
One of the coldest Mays i can remember. Ditto June. This is PC bull.
Exactly.
John Coleman, one of the co-founders of the Weather Channel, maintained until his dying day that global warming/climate change was pure bull shit.
“There are many ways, one suspects, to game the temperature gathering and reporting systems...”
Like ashphalt parking lots in Phoenix in July.
“Hotter than hell in Louisiana”
Ft. Polk, hot in the summer? I’m stunned! Lackland AFB in San Antonio was pretty goddamned hot in the summer of ‘63 too as I vividly recall.
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