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January was USA's 4th-warmest on record
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/story/2012-02-07/warm-january-climate-report/52999508/1January was USA's 4th-warmest on record
By Doyle Rice, USA TODAYUpdated 17h ago Comments 35 Reprints & PermissionsThe warmth last month wasn't a mirage: January 2012 was the USA's 4th-warmest January on record, federal climate scientists announced on Tuesday.
The national average temperature in January was 36.3 degrees F, which is 5.5 degrees F above the long-term average and the warmest since 2006, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Climatic Data Center. The other warmer Januarys were in 1990 and 1953.
The data is based on records dating back to 1895.
Nine states — Arizona, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Wyoming — had January temperatures ranking among their ten warmest. Florida and Washington were the only states in the lower 48 with temperatures near average, and no state was cooler than average.
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