Posted on 08/08/2006 1:35:00 PM PDT by 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.
I would consider anything in the 70s cool for July second in my part of the country.
So despite 70 years of automobiles and those dreaded SUVs spewing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, we still cannot top temps from the 1930s.
Exactly. It is interesting that as the number of cars and factories multiplied during the 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, and 90's, the temperatures in July got cooler. Hmmm.
Wow - 105 years of records so they must be right!
I'd rather be stupid than gullible.
I got in a "debate" with a global warming koolaid drinker the other day and they told be "the whole planet is baking right now". When I tried to explain that it was winter in the southern hemisphere I got yelled at and called a moron.
These are the stupid idiots that make up the global warming movement. And that's what it is - a movement, not science. I didn't bother to explain to her that when it's summer in the northern hemisphere the Earth is farther away from the Sun in its orbit. Her brain would probably have exploded.
No, it's the lack of pirates. There is an inverse ratio in the number of pirates in the world and global temperatures.
It was much cooler when there were thousands of priates! lol
They are not liars or junk science. Those pushing global warming are communists. The last leader of Russia said so. He said the global warming movement was the last chance of communism as it allows governments to take land, taxes, etc unto itself and control all those that it cannot.
You are fighting and idology here and, stupid americans that listen to them.
Solution: make smarter americans.
Arrrgh! Ye be on ta something thar matey...
Thats right on! I just can't believe how much hotter it is this month than just 5 months ago. There has to be something to this theory.
Arr, matey, we'll be doin' our best to remedy this pirate sityation on the 19th o' this September next, and ye may lay to that!
Just another case of "where do the numbers come from"... the temperatures for July here in Central Arkansas have actually been a degree or two cooler overall than the average. Of course, when you are talking about the high 90s +, folks don't differentiate too much. But we have had several hotter July temps just in the last decade here.
But still - where do these numbers come from? Are they a national average, the average in one specific location, or what?
I suspect a case of selective statistics use, because using statistics from our single location, we might say that the last two years have shown a trend for "global cooling"....
Let us also not forget that there are more temperature monitoring stations around the world... many of which are in arid and hot climates... but that is just a detail.
Over the history of the earth (regardless of your timeline of creation or "big bang"), temperatures have had FAR more drastic changes both colder and hotter LONG before mankind produced any "greenhouse gasses".... On a historical scale, the current claimed warming spell (and I am STILL not convinced of that) is very minor.
And lest we forget that just a few decades ago, the same sort of "scientists" were claiming that we were headed towards another ice age - from the same sources that they now claim are causing warming.... go figure.
Oh my God! The sky is falling! The sky is falling!
A big reason people buy into this kind of crap is because they only know the world as it has been since they existed. Sure, they may grasp the idea of history, and that there was a world before they came into being, and will be after they're gone, but they don't really comprehend it. So it's easy for them to believe that "this has been the (fill in the word)est year ever!!!"
No kidding. Here in Iowa July temps were average at best. I think we got into triple digits one or two days, and that I can't vouch for that for sure. I know we came close, I do know it didn't go over 100. We had numerous days with highs in the 80's and a few in the 70's. Nothing special about July in these parts.
I'm waiting for someone to 'explain' how global warming caused cooler sea tempertatures this year.
Paging algore.
Meanwhile, South Africa had a large snowstorm that is rare by that country's standards.
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