Summer of Record Breaking Weather

The June-August 2007 summer season ended with a long-lasting heatwave that set more than 2,000 new daily high temperature records.....

....the second warmest August and the sixth warmest summer on record for the contiguous U.S......

The global surface temperature was seventh warmest on record for the June-August period.

More than 30 all-time high temperature records were tied or broken in the U.S....

This was the warmest August in the 113-year record for West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, Florida and Utah.

Texas had its wettest summer on record and Oklahoma its fourth wettest.

In the Southeast, this was the driest summer since records began in 1895 for North Carolina and the second driest for Tennessee.

Part of the Midwest received record precipitation in August.... was two to three times normal for the month in a wide band across the central Midwest, and major flooding occurred in parts of a region that stretched from southeastern Minnesota to central Ohio.

Iowa had its wettest August on record.

June was the wettest ever recorded in the UK.

-----Other record breaking events of this year-----

Australia is experiencing the worst drought on record.

Southwest US and Southeast US states experiencing worst drought in 100 years.

In May a tornado over two miles wide wiped a town in Kansas off the map.

For the first time ever, two hurricanes made landfall in the Atlantic as cat. 5s......and less than two weeks apart.

This year Canada is experiencing record breaking wild fire season because of record breaking drought during winter months.

The first ever hurricane to hit Iran.

Texas had 14 inches of rain within a 24 hour period, and this was in the middle of a 20 day period of storms that hovered over the area causing massive flooding.

And lets not forget snow in South Africa.

Jan. 2007 was Warmest January in Netherlands in 300 years.

Jan. 2007 was the world's hottest January on record.

March Temperatures Second Warmest on Record for U.S.

Global April Surface Temperature Third Warmest on Record.

Winter 2007 tied with 1998 as the warmest January-May period.

2007, The global average temperature was the second warmest on record for the January-June six-month period.

11 of the 12 warmest years globally were the past 11 years and 2007 looks to be equal to past 11 years.

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Reference:

NOAA Website, 9/12/07
http://www.publicaffairs.noaa.gov/releases2007/sep07/noaa07-049.html