Moar record warms for US of A. Odds - One in half a million.
Does it Feel Warm in Here to You?
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"The fact that the U.S. has been in a warm pattern for several months is continuing to be the big story," Jake Crouch, who prepares the monthly climate reports for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, told msnbc.com.
"Two things really jump out at me" in this month's State of the Climate report, he added:
June 2011 through May 2012 "broke the record for warmest consecutive 12 months, which we just broke last month" with May 2011 to April 2012. Moreover, each of the last 12 months ranked in the top third of the historical distribution -- the first time that's happened in 117 years of record keeping. "If we assume that each month has an equal chance of having temperatures in the top third," Crouch said, "the odds of this happening are one in 531,441."
Each month of spring (March, April, May) "all ranked as top-ten warm" -- also the first time that's happened.
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