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Related: About this forumRecord Heat Floods America With Temperatures 40 Degrees Above Normal
http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/760102/record_heat_floods_america_with_temperatures_40_degrees_above_normal/Fueled by billions of tons of greenhouse pollution, a surge of record warmth has flooded the United States, shattering records from southern California to North Dakota. Temperatures have reached up to 40 degrees above early January averages in North Dakota, the Weather Channel reports. Cities are seeing late-April temperatures at the start of January Minot, ND hit 61 degrees, Aberdeen, SD hit 63 degrees, and Williston, ND hit 58 degrees, all-time record highs for the month of January.
Daily record highs have been set in Des Moines, Iowa (65 degrees), Rapid City, S.D. (73 degrees), International Falls, Minn. (46 degrees), St. Louis, Mo. (66 degrees) and Fargo, N.D. (55 degrees), to name a few locations. Although the record warmth subsides on Friday for the Plains, the mild air mass will bully its way eastward. Were talking temperatures in cities such as Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Chicago, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Detroit and Cincinnati enjoying highs on the order of 10-to-20 degrees above average. High temperatures around 5-to-15 degrees above average will make it all the way to the East Coast including New York City, Washington, D.C. and Charlotte, N.C.
There has never been a 60 degree temperature recorded during the first week of January in Minnesotas modern climate record. Southwestern Minnesota reached the lower 60s.
In Southern California, decades-old records were snapped with 80- and even 90-degree weather, sending surfers to the beaches. Long Beach hit 88 degrees, UCLA hit 89 degrees, San Diego hit 83 degrees, and San Gabriel reached 91.
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Record Heat Floods America With Temperatures 40 Degrees Above Normal (Original Post)
xchrom
Jan 2012
OP
I hope I'm the fuck out of Vegas before the 130 degree summer temps hit.
Systematic Chaos
Jan 2012
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Systematic Chaos
(8,601 posts)1. I hope I'm the fuck out of Vegas before the 130 degree summer temps hit.
"Official" all-time record at the airport right now is 119. Lower-elevated areas of town have been recorded as high as 124. I think it's only a matter of time now.
Dover
(19,788 posts)2. Time to do like the birds and migrate.....n/t
AlecBGreen
(3,874 posts)3. current conditions
NMDemDist2
(49,313 posts)5. and we're freezing our patooties off here in the southwest n/t