Tag Archives: NCDC

  • News / Weather / Weather Blog 201201-201212

    NOAA: 2012 was hottest on record for Contiguous U.S.

    2012 was our warmest, and our second most extreme, year on record.

  • News / Weather / Weather Blog PHOTO: Ken Crouch, Richmond, VA

    WEATHER: 2012 will likely be our warmest on record for Richmond

    Although 2012 will not be the Earth’s hottest year on record, our region is likely poised to have its hottest on the books, including in Richmond.

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    U.S. temperature update: 2012 on track to be hottest year on record

    Contiguous U.S. temperatures for 2012 are surpassing the record-warm 1998 on the homestretch.

  • News / Weather / Weather Blog CarrieLibbyHill

    This year will likely be our hottest on record for the contiguous U.S.

    2012 is currently outpacing the previous warmest years known since record-keeping began in 1880.

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    NOAA: August 2012 global temperature update

    The average global temperature for August 2012 made it the fourth-warmest August since record keeping began in 1880.

  • News / Weather / Weather Blog TueMay8sunrise

    2012 is Richmond’s hottest year-to-date in nearly 70 years

    Virginia continues its hottest year-to-date in 118 years of record-keeping.

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    NOAA: Summer 2012 was third hottest on record

    Only the summers of 2011 and 1936 have had higher summer temperatures for the Lower 48.

  • News / Weather / Weather Blog IMAGE: NOAA Climate Services

    NOAA: July 2012 was the hottest month on record in the contiguous U.S.

    Record hottest 12-month period for the U.S. as well.

  • News / Weather / Weather Blog ArkDrought

    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.

  • News / Weather / Weather Blog Contiguous U.S. Temperature, January-June 1895-2012, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/National Climatic Data Center

    RECORD: United States has the warmest first half of a year on record

    January through June for the contiguous U.S. has the hottest average temperature since record-keeping began in 1895.

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    March cranked up the heat and the records

    The United States recorded the warmest winter on record dating back to 1895, with March breaking 15,000 high temperature records.