Do your best Brian Williams impression: “American. Heatwave.” Image: USDAgov
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Heat Waves
109° Cairo, IL (old record 106° on 8/9/1930)
108° Paducah, KY (ties same on 7/17/1942
106° Chattanooga, TN (ties same on 7/28/1952)
105° Raleigh, NC (ties same on 8/21/2007 and 8/18/1988)
105° Greenville, SC (old record 104° 8/10/2007 although 106° was recorded by the Signal Service in July 1887)
104° Charlotte, NC (ties same on 8/9 and 10/2007 and 9/6/1954)As Colorado State Climatologist Nolan Doesken told the Coloradoan, 2012, with its driest-on-record spring, is extraordinary. "You sit there and say, well if this is the warmest and driest for that time period, what can we blame that on?" he said. At the start of the decade, he points out, the UN’s International Panel on Climate Change predicted that global warming would produce early snowmelt and drier conditions across the Southwest, tying that to more frequent and larger wildfires across the region.
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