Just some more facts to confuse the poor blighters who deny AGW and climate change. The poor blighters.
According to the Snow & Ice Data Center, a unit of premier US science agency NOAA, “The contiguous United States had its 4th warmest and 3rd wettest September on record.”
According to the information published on its Internet site, the Center reported that “For September, the average contiguous U.S. temperature was 67.8°F, 2.9°F above the 20th century average. Record warm conditions were observed for parts of the Southwest, Southeast, Midwest and Mid-Atlantic with near- to below-average temperatures across parts of the Northwest and Great Plains.
”For the year-to-date, the contiguous U.S. temperature was 57.0°F, 2.0°F above the 20th century average, the eighth warmest January-September on record.
”The September precipitation total for the contiguous U.S. was 3.49 inches, 1.00 inch above average, and marked the third wettest September in the 124-year period of record. Tropical systems fueled record-setting precipitation across parts of the eastern U.S. Hurricane Florence made landfall near Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, bringing torrential rainfall, prolonged storm surge and record flooding to the Carolinas. For the year-to-date, the national precipitation total was 25.20 inches, 2.00 inches above average, the 13th wettest January-September on record.”
NOAA likely will issue details of Earth’s average sea and land surface temperature for September 2018 in the same place this week.
