June 2018 3rd-Warmest In US Record After 2016, 2015; 12 All-Time Recs Set For Highest Daily Low Temp

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Above: Los Fresnos was among the areas in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas inundated by several days of heavy rain on June 18-21, 2018. Image credit: NWS/Brownsville-Rio Grande Valley.

For the third time in four years, the contiguous U.S. saw one of its warmest Junes in more than a century of recordkeeping, as reported by NOAA on Monday. June 2018 came in at third place among all Junes going back to 1895, behind the warmest (2016) and second warmest (2015). June came on the heels of the nation’s warmest May on record, which pushed the May-June period to a record high of its own.

Like butter on hot toast, the warmth in June oozed across most of the 48 states, with the Northeast as the main exception (see Figure 1). It was a top-ten warmest June for Texas as well as the Four Corners states of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah. There were plenty of hot days, but unusually warm nights were the true hallmark of last month. A dozen locations from Arizona to Michigan set or tied all-time records for their warmest low temperature on any date (and more such records were set in the first week of July). Last month’s average daily low was the warmest on record for any June in Iowa, Texas, and New Mexico.


Figure 1. Statewide rankings for average temperature for June 2018, as compared to each June since records began in 1895. Darker shades of red indicate higher rankings for heat, with 1 denoting the coldest month on record and 124 the warmest. Image credit: NOAA/NCEI.

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https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/Third-Hottest-June-US-Records

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1. I really don't get the debate on this subject...

The conversation always turns to a binary when in fact there are 2 separate topics:

1. Is the overall climate changing? If anyone ever answers no to this them tell them to go back to their hole.
2. The real question is "why". And even then it's not a one or other. Without question we have greatly impacted the ability of the earth ti sustain a balance. It's a very delicate ecosystem. But, in all fairness, the earth goes through cycles.

So the real question is how much is us and how much is normal cycles and what can we do about the "us"? Sadly, politics is ruining it for everyone and we will all pay the price, particularly the next couple generations.

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2. Drove over Trail Ridge Road last week

80 degrees at 12000 feet. Hasn’t been even close to freezing at night. Glaciers shrinking fast.

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3. 80F at the pass?

Jesus . . .

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4. Yes 80 at the top

Dipped to 78 a couple of times but that’s it. I never remember it being that warm up there. We were hot. I refused to turn on the car ac..