Posted on 06/04/2014 3:42:14 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The United States is warming fastest at two of its corners, in the Northeast and the Southwest, an analysis of federal temperature records shows.
Northeastern states - led by Maine and Vermont - have gotten the hottest in the last 30 years in annual temperature, gaining 2.5 degrees on average. But Southwestern states have heated up the most in the hottest months: The average New Mexico summer is 3.4 degrees warmer now than in 1984; in Texas, the dog days are 2.8 degrees hotter.
"In the United States, it isn't warming equally," said Kelly Redmond, climatologist at the Western Regional Climate Center in Reno, Nevada. "Be careful about extrapolating from your own backyard to the globe."
The Southwest warming, especially in the summer, seems to be driven by dryness, because when there is little water the air and ground warm up faster, said Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist at Texas Tech University in Lubbock.
"Heat and drought are a vicious cycle that has been hitting the Southwest hard in recent years," Hayhoe said.
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La Nina
Hello..there is still ice on Lake Superior that will likely remain until July. If CBS want to know about hot let them dig up the temperatures for the summer of 1934 and compare them to today’s readings.
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