Sweltering July was 2nd hottest on record (Global Warming Amber Alert)

Associated Press ^ | Mon Aug 7, 2006

[presidio9]

Folks who sweated through last month's blistering heat wave may be surprised to know it was only the second hottest July on record for the United States.

More than 2,300 daily temperature records were broken from coast to coast, and the average temperature for the 48 contiguous states was 77.2 degrees Fahrenheit, the National Climatic Data Center reported Monday.

July 1936 still holds the record at 77.5, while July 1934 fell to third place at 77.1, the agency said.

The average July temperature is 74.3 degrees based on records going back to 1901.

Overall, the first seven months of 2006 were the warmest January-July of any year in the United States on record.

Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration say that no single heat wave can be blamed exclusively on human-induced global warming. However, they added that in coming decades heat waves will become more likely and progressively more intense.

In July, 51 percent of the United States, mostly in the Plains states and Southeast, was in moderate-to-extreme drought. The most extensive drought occurred in July 1934 when 80 percent of the country was affected.

[DTogo]

Great! Let's build the Cape Wind project NOW!!

The Limousine Liberals of Nantucket will love it!!

[edzo4]

when they say warmest ever do they mean?

a, since the earth's crust first cooled

b, since they invented the thermometer
or
c, since they started keeping weather records

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

No! No! No! Those old 1930's thermometers were no good! They read too high!

[presidio9]

Incidently, due to sun spot activity, Mars and Venus are actually warming faster than the Earth.

Pass it on.

[c-five]

That settles it for me, if 70 years of 'global warming' hasn't been able to set a new record, we don't have much to worry about.

[Godzilla]

Incidently, due to sun spot activity, Mars and Venus are actually warming faster than the Earth. >

Bush's fault.

[Alas Babylon!]

I have it on strong authority (from channeling spirits and staring at crystals), that July, 1401, was the hottest in the Unted states for this millineum at 82.7 degrees, and the hottest ever July in history of the Earth was July, 117,253,259 BC, during the mid-Cretaceous. That month it was 97.2 fahrenheit, on average.

Anyone, prove I'm wrong! It cannot be done.

[MNJohnnie]

Then there are these items.

Pluto thought to be warming up

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200607/s1697309.htm

The truth about global warming(now on mars) - it's the Sun that's to blame

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1488731/posts

[Alas Babylon!]

That settles it for me, if 70 years of 'global warming' hasn't been able to set a new record, we don't have much to worry about.

Global warming movement followers are like Chicago Cubs fans; "Wait 'til next year!"

[MNJohnnie]

It was much cooler when there were thousands of pirates!

But of course! How obvious. That MUST be it!

[Mamzelle]

But it snowed in Johannesburg on this date for the first time in a decade...

[MNJohnnie]

And New Deli had an ice storm. New Deli is one of the reliably warmest places on earth and it had a killer of an Ice Storm.

[Mamzelle]

Aw. Ya beat me to it...

[MNJohnnie]

I have it on strong authority (from channeling spirits and staring at crystals), that July, 1401

Nien! I personally have it from the study of glacerial rock samples dug up in my back yard that the hottest day in World History was July 16th 972.

[Covenantor]

But still - where do these numbers come from?

Same place that their rectal thermometers are stored?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

July 1936 still holds the record at 77.5

Must have been all those SUV's and Jumbo Jets back then.

[RockinRight]

Keep in mind that's the average of both highs AND lows.

A high of 87 and a low of 67 averages to 77.

[GOP_1900AD]

Notice the backpeddling. A few weeks ago it was "hottest July ever" and now it's been scaled back to "since 1950."

[GOP_1900AD]

They are the northeast media zone weighted, UHI biased, average.

[USS Alaska]

And New Deli had an ice storm. New Deli is one of the reliably warmest places on earth and it had a killer of an Ice Storm.

Ice storm? Anybody tell ben and jerry?