questionmark Posted January 12, 2013 #1 Share Posted January 12, 2013 To say that 2012 was hot is an understatement. The average temperature in the contiguous U.S. last year was 55.3 degrees Fahrenheit, 3.2 degrees hotter than the 20th century average and 1 degree hotter than the previous record. One degree may not sound sound like much, but the chart above, by NOAA's National Climatic Data Center, shows just what a big deal it really is. Each line displays year-to-date temperature anomalies, going back to 1895. Significant deviations from the average temperature are rare; a small fraction of a degree separates each year. Just 0.2 degree separates the previous record average temperature holder -- 54.3 degrees in 1998 -- from the one before that, 1934. Last year’s departure from the normal temperature exceeded the previous record's by 29 percent. It’s as if a baseball player smashed Barry Bonds’s juiced-up 73 home-run record with 102 homers in a single season. It’s as if Exxon Mobil’s $45.2 billion profit in 2008 were surpassed by a company raking in $63.3 billion. If last year’s weather were edible, it would make habanero peppers taste mild. read more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+and-then Posted January 12, 2013 #2 Share Posted January 12, 2013 I suffer in the summer where I live. Temps typically in the upper 30's C and very high humidity. Last year was rare here though. It actually was hot without being miserable. 2011 was the killer summer on the US Gulf Coast. I hope this summer is as seasonal as last...keeping fingers crossed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Commander Travis Posted January 12, 2013 #3 Share Posted January 12, 2013 Wasn't just Hot? It certainly wasn't Hot round this way. :-/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A rather obscure Bassoon Posted January 12, 2013 #4 Share Posted January 12, 2013 It was one long very hot summer here in Northern Ontario,the winters are getting shorter and Milder.It should be around minus 20 but today it is plus 6. http://thecelestialconvergence.blogspot.ca/2013/01/monumental-earth-changes-great-lakes.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simbi Laveau Posted January 12, 2013 #5 Share Posted January 12, 2013 It was ridiculous on the east coast . It still is . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashotep Posted January 13, 2013 #6 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Last summer here was really hot and miserable but it wasn't humid like it should of been and we had fires because of it. Not like Colorado did though. Last winter was warm too but the year before I was wearing long sleeves until June which isn't normal either plus every time we had a storm it would hail and there were more tornadoes than usual. Plus it rained so much it was flooding all the time. I think other parts of the country were having about average temps just not us. What are we going to do if the ice keeps melting dumping fresh water into the ocean and the gulf stream stops or slow down a lot? It could get worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raptor Witness Posted January 17, 2013 #7 Share Posted January 17, 2013 (edited) Arguably, not a bad forecast ... 07 December 2011 - Post 18To the Lord of the Earth, who stands before all living things: Now, send your flaming sword to the West, where it was seen in the sky before my birth, and lay it upon the ground. As it melts the land, make Manifest Destiny a memory, to be replaced with a new hope, where the word "security" is meaningless. Edited January 17, 2013 by Raptor Witness Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Wearer of Hats Posted January 17, 2013 #8 Share Posted January 17, 2013 In Oz (aka Satan's Oven) last year was fairly mild, temperature wise. This year's hot though, hotter then it's gotten for a while (and hotter for longer, normally we have a really hot day and then some relief, it's been a scorcher for a week now). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug1029 Posted January 17, 2013 #9 Share Posted January 17, 2013 2012 was actually in ninth place in the list of all-time hottest years. That's from the NCDC website. http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/tabledata_v3/GLB.Ts+dSST.txt Doug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffey Posted January 17, 2013 #10 Share Posted January 17, 2013 Here it seems colder this winter than last yer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keithisco Posted January 17, 2013 #11 Share Posted January 17, 2013 2012 was actually in ninth place in the list of all-time hottest years. That's from the NCDC website. http://data.giss.nas...GLB.Ts dSST.txt Doug But all of the top 10 are in this century. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug1029 Posted January 17, 2013 #12 Share Posted January 17, 2013 But all of the top 10 are in this century. 1998 is in fourth place. Doug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professor Buzzkill Posted January 18, 2013 #13 Share Posted January 18, 2013 Last year we didn't even get a summer here. This year we have got 30oC+ for a few weeks. Its back down to the low 20's which is good. But obviously weather is not climate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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