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Uncategorized Sunday, July 8th 2012 at 12:00 pm

United States Broke 2,284 Daily High Temperature Records in June

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If you happen to live in the United States, chances are you’ve noticed it’s been a bit hot lately. That’s all anecdotal, sure, but folks across the States are saying the same thing: It’s too hot to go outside. But if you’re the sort that likes that have some data behind your whining, the National Climatic Data Center has some results that shouldn’t come as a surprise. During the month of June, the United States broke 2,284 daily high temperature records. It has now been confirmed that it has, indeed, been hot.

And that’s not all. On top of the 2,284 broken records, 998 daily high records were tied. Added together, the United States broke or tied around 110 daily high temperature records every single day of the month. According to NPR, in the first five days of July the U.S. broke another 942 records and tied 273 more. It is officially obscenely hot.

NPR also notes that, for the year so far, they’ve set 23,282 daily high temperature records whilst during the same period last year only 13,582 were broken. My rusty-but-accurate math puts this year at having a 71.4 percent increase in records broken. The maps created by the National Climatic Data Center when given the right parameters will spit out all of this and more.

Hopefully it will end soon for the sake of everyone looking to actually enjoy their time outside.

(National Climatic Data Center via NPR)

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  • Jack Bond

    It must be global warming… I mean global climate change… whatever those crazy kids are calling it nowadays. All I know is we have to put out the sun otherwise we’ll never survive.

  • http://www.facebook.com/briancmckinley Brian C McKinley

    What if the natural temperature of Earth on a geologic scale is much higher than we want it to be. Even if humans are helping the Earth out perhaps Earth wants to be hot anyway. I say large scale colonization of the solar system is in order. 

  • Anonymous

    It’s raining like crazy in the British Isles.  There were forecasts that the melting of the polar ice caps and the diminution of the glaciers in  Greenland would introduce fresh water into the Gulf Stream and disrupt the climate in Western Europe.

  • Idlethoughts

    What the earth “wants” is of very little consequence compared to the needs of its inhabitants and I don’t just mean humans I mean life in general, the changing climate is already proving disastrous to numerous plants and animals. Furthermore we are no where near advanced enough to maintain a single biosphere for a couple people and we don’t even have the funding to send a single man to mars; The large scale effects of climate change will start taking effect within the next 50-200 years which quite frankly just isn’t enough time to reasonably foresee planetary population displacement. 

    Also it should be noted that the earths natural hot and could cycle (the one which causes minor ice ages, not the annual one) would seem to indicate that the earth should be getting colder not hotter, leading climate scientist to generally believe that we are in fact responsible for this.

    Honestly I think that we should put more effort into fixing the problem instead of fantasizing about ill-conceived ways of abandoning it.

  • The End is Near

    what we need is more trees!!!!…if we are to survive global warming until the earth is fully consumed by fire.

    …and the scientists say there is no global warming. what are they saying now with all the evidence? 

  • Troyldailey

    Why?  1)  Humans, for the most part don’t care about what is done to the planet at any other time, regardless of what it means for life on the surface.
               2)  Yes, in the seventies we were worried about dropping into an ice age…oh, speaking of ice ages, what happens to the worlds oceanic circulation system when tons of fresh water is mixed in–in the space of a few years?
               3)  As far as the biosphere is concerned, our wants is not a concern.  What the earth “wants”, in the end, the earth “gets”.

  • Diarmaid Callaghan

    I hope your joking.  We can’t survive without the sun.