"Here in the States, this is what Sept 21 has been like over the years:"
I guess that's why they don't call it Sept 21st Here in The States Warming.
Here's what it's been like in the country in the rest of the days leading up to now.
The U.S. as a nation set a record for the hottest nighttime temperatures on average this summer, Arndt said.
Tallahassee, Florida, for example, went 74 consecutive days where the nighttime temperature didn't dip below 72.
From May 1 to Sept. 12, nearly 15,000 daily records for warmest nighttime lows were set in the United States, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data .
cdispatch.com
The year-to-date (January-August) contiguous U.S. average temperature was 56.7°F, 2.8°F above average, ranking as the 3rd warmest.
ncdc.noaa.gov
And here's for the entire planet, the ball that puts the globe into global warming.
August Extends an Exceptional String of Record-Warm Global Months
By: Jeff Masters and Bob Henson , 9:24 PM GMT on September 20, 2016
August 2016 was Earth's warmest August since record keeping began in 1880, said NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) on Tuesday. In the NOAA database, August 2016 came in 0.92°C (1.66°F) warmer than the 20th-century average for August, beating the previous record for August, set in 2015, by 0.05°C. NASA also reported the warmest August in its database, as well as a tie with July 2016 for the warmest absolute temperature recorded in any month. Because most of the world’s land area is in the Northern Hemisphere, absolute global temperatures are warmest in northern summer--about 3-4°C (5-7°F) higher than in northern winter. This is why monthly global anomalies (departures from the monthly average) are commonly used to assess the relative warmth or coolness of a given month.
The August temperature across global land and ocean surfaces was 1.66°F above the 20th century average of 60.1°F. This was the highest for August in the 1880–2016 record, surpassing the previous record set in 2015 by 0.09°F. August 2016 was the highest monthly temperature departure since April 2016 and tied with September 2015 as the eighth highest monthly temperature departure among all months (1,640) on record. Overall, 14 of the 15 highest monthly temperature departures in the record have occurred since February 2015, with January 2007 also among the 15 highest monthly temperature departures.
The year-to-date temperature across global land and ocean surfaces was 1.82°F above the 20th century average of 57.3°F. This was the highest for January–August in the 1880–2016 record, surpassing the previous record set in 2015 by 0.29°F.
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