If You Thought 2012 Was Hot, Just Wait a Few Years
It’s already March, but the country is still recovering from last year’s extreme weather and climate events. As the hottest year on record in the U.S., 2012 brought intense drought across the Midwest and Great Plains, record wildfires in the West, and Hurricane Sandy’s path of destruction to the East Coast.
But if you thought 2012 was hot, just wait a few years. Within the coming decades, years like 2012 may become simply “average.” And if we keep emitting CO2 at the current rate, it won’t be long before years like 2012 feel cold.
If You Thought 2012 Was Hot, Just Wait a Few Years | Climate Central
US temperatures are below normal in 2013, NOAA jacked 2012 temperatures up by 1.5 degrees, the number of wildfires was the lowest since 2005, and the US is experiencing the longest period without a major hurricane strike since the Civil War.
Steven, Perhaps the link below worthy of a post?
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/southern-company-sets-winter-peak-demand-record-again-third-record-in-seven-days-tops-summer-peak-demand-81159202.html
There is no way it was at or above normal in the Southeast this year. Demand for heat was at an all time high. NOAA/GHCN/GISS used to have the decency to wait to fudge the numbers.
The date on that news release is January 11, 2010.
http://pressrelated.com/press-release-southern-company-sets-winter-peak-demand-record-again-third-record-in-seven-days-tops-summer-peak-d.html