Community | January 08, 2013 | 6 comments

NOAA: 2012 hottest year on record in the Lower U.S.

source: http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/08/16413805-noaa-2012-was-warmest-year-ever-for-us-s...

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http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/08/16413805-noaa-2012-was-war...

And 2012 also had the second-most "extreme" weather events.

This story doesn't say, but I believe the records go back to the 1800s.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/08/16413805-noaa-2012-was-warmest-year-e...
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6 comments // NOAA: 2012 hottest year on record in the Lower U.S.

  • The_Wanderer_Kansas
  • northernexpat
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      northernexpat  

    • In 2012, the Canadian Arctic saw it's warmest year in record history too. Remember, the melting of the Arctic Ice Cap raises sea levels all over the world. So what happens up here effects everyone.

    • 4 months ago
  • HarukoHaruhara
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      HarukoHaruhara  

    • The headline on the NBC story is slightly off. Alaska actually had record cold.

      "It was also a historic year for "extreme" weather, scientists with the federal agency said. With 11 disasters that surpassed $1 billion in losses, including Superstorm Sandy, Hurricane Isaac, and tornadoes across the Great Plains, Texas, and the Southeast and Ohio Valley, NOAA said 2012 was second only to 1998 in the agency's "extreme" weather index."

    • 4 months ago
  • The_Wanderer_Kansas
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      The_Wanderer_Kansas  
    • HarukoHaruhara:

      Actually dig a little deeper on that tornadoes bit... yeah we saw several but the percentage of twister on the plains out of the national total was staggeringly low this year... weather pattern shifts seem to take the tornadoes well east of their usual home. Seemed to me like the western side of appalachia received this years brunt.

    • 4 months ago
  • HarukoHaruhara
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      HarukoHaruhara  

    • “The extent of Arctic sea ice reached a new record low. The alarming rate of its melt this year highlighted the far-reaching changes taking place on Earth’s oceans and biosphere. Climate change is taking place before our eyes and will continue to do so as a result of the concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, which have risen constantly and again reached new records,” World Meteorological Organization Secretary-General Michel Jarraud said.

    • 4 months ago
  • HarukoHaruhara
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      HarukoHaruhara  

    • "The average temperature for 2012 was 55.3 degrees Fahrenheit, 3.2 degrees above normal and a full degree higher than the previous warmest year recorded -- 1998 -- NOAA said in its report Tuesday. All 48 states in the contiguous U.S. had above-average annual temperatures last year, including 19 that broke annual records, from Connecticut through Utah."

    • 4 months ago

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