The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced, the past 12 months were the warmest in U.S. history. And the first 6 months of this year were the warmest Jan-June on record.
Below are some of the details from a CNN report.
Past 12 months warmest in history.
The mainland United States, which was largely recovering Monday from a near-nationwide heat wave, has experienced the warmest 12-month period since record-keeping began in 1895, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Monday.
High temperatures during June also contributed to a record-warm first half of the year, the agency said in its monthly analysis. The heat during the last half of June broke or tied 170 all-time high temperature records in cities across the lower 48 states.
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The state of Colorado, which saw several large wildfires, had its warmest June ever, NOAA said.
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Nationwide, there have been more than 4,500 daily record highs in the past 30 days, according to the National Climatic Data Center.
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And directly from the NOAA report:
State of the Climate June 2012
The January-June period was the warmest first half of any year on record for the contiguous United States.
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The U.S. Climate Extremes Index (USCEI), an index that tracks the highest and lowest 10 percent of extremes in temperature, precipitation, drought and tropical cyclones across the contiguous U.S., was a record-large 44 percent during the January-June period, over twice the average value
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Twenty-eight states east of the Rockies were record warm and an additional 15 states were top ten warm.
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The nation, as a whole, experienced its tenth driest June on record, with a nationally-averaged precipitation total of 2.27 inches, 0.62 inch below average. Record and near-record dry conditions were present across the Intermountain West,
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According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, as of July 3, 56.0 percent of the contiguous U.S. experienced drought conditions, marking the largest percentage of the nation experiencing drought conditions in the 12-year record of the U.S. Drought Monitor.
And when was the last time you heard Global Warming or Climate change mentioned in this campaign?