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Offline Elderberry

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USA Today by Doyle Rice 8/8/2018

California just sweltered through its hottest month ever recorded.

Out of the 1,483 months since records began in 1895, when Grover Cleveland was president, July 2018 was the hottest of all, with an average statewide temperature of 79.7 degrees, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration said Wednesday.

This means no lifelong Californian alive has lived through a hotter month.

And notorious hot spot Death Valley led the way, with an average July temperature of 108.1 degrees. This is an all-time high temperature record for any weather station in the world, NOAA said.

The heat was a major player in the deadly fires that have had the state under siege the past few weeks. Monster fires such as the Mendocino Complex Fire, the state's biggest on record, have scorched some 1,171 square miles this year, according to Cal Fire.

More: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/08/08/california-heat-july-state-hottest-month-ever-recorded/934540002/

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I believe it. Every day for two straight months it’s been 95 degrees at 3pm. Every day.

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It is settled science.  Most of California is in one type of desert climate or another. 
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1895...

Zip in geological time...

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It is settled science.  Most of California is in one type of desert climate or another.

And Arizona, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Wyoming, Oregon etc.
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I believe it. Every day for two straight months it’s been 95 degrees at 3pm. Every day.

I thought it was hotter there than here.  It's been 100+ by 3pm here.  But, that's normal.

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I thought it was hotter there than here.  It's been 100+ by 3pm here.  But, that's normal.

A few years ago, didn't (somewhere in)Texas go 100 days of 100+ F or something like this?

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A few years ago, didn't (somewhere in)Texas go 100 days of 100+ F or something like this?

28 years ago
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Funny, I thought even 20 years was not enough to disprove global warming, but one month is?

How about the month of April, nearly the coldest on record here?
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