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It’s Official: 2012 Was Hottest Year Ever in U.S.
By JUSTIN GILLIS, NYT
The numbers are in: 2012, the year of a surreal March heat wave, a severe drought in the corn belt and a massive storm that caused broad devastation in the mid-Atlantic states, turns out to have been the hottest year ever recorded in the contiguous United States.
How hot was it? The temperature differences between years are usually measured in fractions of a degree, but last year blew away the previous record, set in 1998, by a full degree Fahrenheit.
If that does not sound sufficiently impressive, consider that 34,008 new daily high records were set at weather stations across the country, compared with only 6,664 new record lows, according to a count maintained by the Weather Channel meteorologist Guy Walton, using federal temperature records.
That ratio, which was roughly in balance as recently as the 1970s, has been out of whack for decades as the country has warmed, but never by as much as it was last year.
(More here.)
The numbers are in: 2012, the year of a surreal March heat wave, a severe drought in the corn belt and a massive storm that caused broad devastation in the mid-Atlantic states, turns out to have been the hottest year ever recorded in the contiguous United States.
How hot was it? The temperature differences between years are usually measured in fractions of a degree, but last year blew away the previous record, set in 1998, by a full degree Fahrenheit.
If that does not sound sufficiently impressive, consider that 34,008 new daily high records were set at weather stations across the country, compared with only 6,664 new record lows, according to a count maintained by the Weather Channel meteorologist Guy Walton, using federal temperature records.
That ratio, which was roughly in balance as recently as the 1970s, has been out of whack for decades as the country has warmed, but never by as much as it was last year.
(More here.)
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For those that fear the End of the World with the key being the Mount of Olives in Israel .... well ... better watch out ... did you know that Israel is now experiencing their most rainfall in twenty years ... River overflows onto Tel Aviv's main artery, Ayalon Highway, causing mass closures, deaths and displaced residents ... snow in the forecast ... and this has caused other problems :
due to the effects of the storm, the Environmental Protection Ministry warned that there would be high levels of air pollution in the Negev during afternoon hours following dust storms. It is therefore crucial that sensitive populations – such as heart disease or lung disease patients, the elderly, pregnant women or children – stay indoors and refrain from physical activity, according to the authority.
Yep, it's the End !
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