The July heat wave that wilted crops, shriveled rivers and fueled wildfires officially went into the books Wednesday as the hottest single month on record for the continental United States.
The average temperature across the Lower 48 was 77.6 degrees Fahrenheit, 3.3 degrees above the 20th-century average, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration reported. That edged out the previous high mark, set in 1936, by two-tenths of a degree, NOAA said.
U.S. forecasters started keeping records in 1895. The seven months of 2012 to date are the warmest of any year on record and were drier than average as well, NOAA said.
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What a stupid headline, as if global weather knows what the month of July is. How'd the rest of the world do? How did the Southern hemisphere do? The weather patterns are perhaps changing. But is that good or bad? And since this land call the US has been here for quite awhile, we really don't know the significance of it being warmer.
Well, according to the man you voted for, HELL is real. Even if you flip-flop and vote for Romney, he too believes in the hellfire doctrine taught by the 3rd. century Catholic church.
Our leaders know more than you do, @banasy.
@pastor You don't have to be smart to be President. All you gotta do is fool a little over half the of the people some of the time.
@PPauline: Our leaders also know more than you do, too. Stick to your fire and brimstone scary plasce, OK?
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and make a thousand-dollar bet that you have never vote, right, "Pastor"?
And we should stay the h*ll off of Mars until we show we can take care of this place.
I'll take Obama and Romney's word on HELL before I take a libary workers word.
Not to mention the word of virtually every christianist leader on earth.
Being a clerk at the library is nothing to be ashamed about, Bethy, and I will take a informed voter inn the matter of politics over an anonymous mechanic's tool handler any day.
Oooooooh....such contempt from the waitess at our local TA Truckstop Beth Lange. Yes, I know who you are.
It's spelled L I B R A R Y. Don't visit often, do you?
It's not those who get the votes. It is those who count the votes.
I guess I'll take the word of an informed voter over the word of a mechanic's tool boy anyday.
No, she is a "waitress" at a truck stop, banasy.
And stole my name, too! I think Beth is a hermaphadite that can't decide, LMAO!
Get a clue yourself and quit stealing my name!
Taken a staw poll, huh?
Where?
The third grade class?
What is a T/A truck stop? Don't tell me if it's dirty and needs to be hidden from children. Children under the age of 18 do comment here, obviously.
It means Truckstops of America, you would know from working there, wouldn't you?
Hey! I work there.
I do, too!
~Blees,
Hope
Oh. T of A. Got it. Thank you.
End global warming! (don't burn in hell)
Now he is pretending to be female. I don't think he has to pretend very hard. The global warming is a result of this over-pompus windbag. Mostly why it's here in America!
No. My mommy doesn't let me go to the libary. There are too many homeless people that hang out there all day. Mommy is afraid one of them will touch me. (why we don't go to church too)
Daddy says they are asposed to be looking for work instead of looking for freebies, and that all the people who go to the libary to hand-out food do it for show and tell anyway.
You need to stop spreading bs around as if it's well...bs. You lie, You lie, and when you lie some more, Philip. Do the people of Yahoo know that you steal screen names to use here like you have stolen screen names from here to use there? Yes, folks, that's what he does. He lies and steals.
I think your mommy and daddy are telling you falsehoods. They must be confused with a homeless shelter and foodbanks. Libraries are not like that. I feel sorry for you. Are you abused? Seek help. Libraries are designated "Safe Places." One of the very nice people who work there can help you.
Protoman has left the building. Again!!!
Ha ha. You aren't the real Protoman.
Sweetie, just how old are you?
I just went back and read a whole lot of these comments. A very large percentage of you are hollering about "global warming", and how it's going to destroy everything if we don't do something about it.
Okay, here's my question to you. Just what are "you" personally going to do about it ? I hear you all say it's real and it's going to get us. But words are cheap. Instead of running around in circles and wringing your hands in worry, why don't don't you take the initiative and come up with some answers. No, you rather play chicken little and try to put everybody in a "The end is nigh" frame of mind.
Don't bother coming back at me with the "Well why don't "you" do something about it. It won't work. I'm not the one hitting the panic button.
There isn't anything anyone can do at this point. Just sit back and enjoy the ride.