Hot and Dry
Southern California and The Southwest are toast.
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Heat records keep getting smashed. "The globe smashed more heat records last month, including Earth's hottest August and summer, federal meteorologists said Thursday. May, June and August all set global heat records this year. Meteorologists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the average world temperature in August was 61.36 degrees Fahrenheit (16.35 degrees Celsius), breaking a record set in 1998. Scientists at NASA, who calculate global temperature a tad differently, also found August as the hottest on record....It was the warmest meteorological summer - June, July and August - on record for the globe, again beating out 1998." Seth Borenstein in the Associated Press.
Charts: 2014 is on track to be the hottest year on record. Andrea Thompson in Climate Central.
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