Tuesday, August 7, 2012

2012 Hottest Year on Record for Northeast So Far

Inside Climate News: The first seven months of 2012 were the warmest the U.S. Northeast has seen since recordkeeping began in 1895. So says the Northeast Regional Climate Center (NRCC) at Cornell University, adding to a string of data showing record-smashing temperatures amid the country's worst heat wave and drought in more than 50 years. The average temperature regionally was 49.9 degrees Fahrenheit from January through July, the warmest on record for the 12-state Northeast, except for Pennsylvania and West Virginia....

URL: http://insideclimatenews.org/breaking-news/20120807/2012-hottest-year-record-northeast-so-far?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+solveclimate%2Fblog+%28InsideClimate+News%29

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