U.S. drought of 2012 ranks among the worst droughts on record
The Dust Bowl of the 1930s and droughts of the 1950s remain the worst in the contiguous U.S.
The Dust Bowl of the 1930s and droughts of the 1950s remain the worst in the contiguous U.S.
Warming has not been uniform for each individual state.
Preliminary global April temperature data for the lower troposphere makes it the fifth warmest April in the 33-year satellite climate record.
January to April was the warmest in 118 years of record-keeping in the Contiguous U.S.