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To: Sdgla who wrote (912805)	1/7/2016 11:21:57 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578294

"I prefer to believe my own eyes" Your eyes don't work well in the dark. Maybe go to a specialist instead of using do-it-yourself colonoscopies. BTW, Iowa had its wettest Dec. ever, too. December 2015 was both the warmest and wettest December on record in the contiguous United States, according to a report released Thursday by NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information. The month capped a year in which every state in the Lower 48 was warmer than average. The December mean temperature over the contiguous U.S. of 38.6 degrees Fahrenheit topped the previous record warm December of 37.7 degrees set in 1939, according to NOAA/NCEI's State of the Climate report. December 2015 was 6 degrees warmer than the 20th-century average. Temperature records for the Lower 48 as a whole date back to 1895. Twenty-nine states, including every state east of the Mississippi River, set record warm Decembers. Only the West featured near-average December temperatures. No state had a cooler-than-average December. States With Record & Near-Record Warm Decembers Twenty-nine states, shaded in red, set their record warmest December in 2015. States shaded in orange were warmer than average, according to NOAA/NCEI. December 2015's 5.96-degree temperature departure from average tied it for 12th among months with the greatest departures above average, according to weather.com senior digital meteorologist, Nick Wiltgen. March 2012 (8.91 degrees warmer than average) occupies the top spot on that list, Wiltgen says. It was also the nation's wettest December on record in 2015. When combining all precipitation data in the Lower 48 States, December 2015's precipitation - 3.93 inches - ranked slightly above the previous record of 3.76 inches set in 1982, during another strong El Niño. (MORE: El Niño Ties Strongest of Record) Record wet Decembers were set in two Midwest states - Iowa and Wisconsin - and a total of 23 states from New England to Florida to the West Coast were much wetter than average, ranking among the top 10 percent of the 121 Decembers on record. States With Record & Near-Record Wet Decembers Two states, shaded in darkest green, set their record wettest December in 2015. States shaded in light green were wetter than average, according to NOAA/NCEI. December's warmth contributed to the second warmest year on record in the contiguous U.S. in 2015. The nation's yearly temperature of 54.4 degrees was second only to a 55.3-degree yearly temperature in 2012. NCEI says this is the 19th straight year the Lower 48's annual temperature was warmer than average. weather.com