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malaise

(269,062 posts)
Mon Jul 2, 2012, 09:24 AM Jul 2012

The Amazing June Heat Wave of 2012 Part 2: The Midwest and Southeast June 28-30

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/weatherhistorian/comment.html?entrynum=80
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There is no point in listing or even attempting to summarize all of the June monthly records set in the region from Missouri to Maryland and south to Georgia during the June 28-30 period. The 108° in St. Louis on June 28th was perhaps the most significant of those. What was truly astonishing was the number of all-time any month records that were broken or tied.

This is especially extraordinary since they have occurred in June rather than July or August when 95% of the previous all-time heat records have been set for this part of the country (unlike the Southwest where June is often the month that all-time heat extremes are recorded).


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I hope the powercuts in the beltway hit the lobbyists and owned politicians really hard...climate change anyone???
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