2012 was hottest year on record in contiguous U.S., NOAA says – The Washington Post
2012 was hottest year on record in contiguous U.S., NOAA says – The Washington Post. 2012 hottest year on record in contiguous U.S., NOAA says By Juliet Eilperin, Published: January 8 Temperatures in the contiguous United States last year were the hottest in more than a century of record-keeping, shattering the mark set in 1998 by a wide margin, the federal government announced Tuesday. The average temperature in 2012 was 55.3 degrees, one degree above the previous record and 3.2 degrees higher than the 20th-century average, scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said. They described the data as part of a … Continue reading this post
