NOAA’s State of the Climate report shows the June 2010 average temperature for the contiguous United States was 71.4 degrees F, which is 2.2 degrees F above the long-term average (1901-2000). The average precipitation for June was 3.33 inches, 0.44 inch above the long-term average.The month was also wetter than average:
Where we live it was wet and warm, so our gardens have grown better than any we've had in the past ten years; it's mid-July and we haven't had to sprinkle the lawn yet.
Posted just as a curiosity; let's avoid rehashing all the climate change arguments in the Comments...
Via Paul Douglas' weather blog.
Just as a curiosity, the ten hottest years in the 120-year records have been 1998 and the last 9 years. 2010 is on track to be hotter.
ReplyDelete2012 here we come!
ReplyDelete