September was eighth warmest in US
September 2007 was the eighth warmest on record in the lower 48 states and the fifth warmest globally, according to NOAA's National Climatic Data Center. In its September report, released today, the agency details the climate extremes recorded last month. Among them:
September was warm enough to set 1,000 new high temperature records across the U.S. The average temperature was 2.1 degrees F above the long-term averages for the month.
Thirty-eight of the lower 48 states were warmer than average. None was cooler.
It was the 12th-warmest September on record in Alaska, 2.6 degrees above the 1971-2000 mean. Nome was frost-free from June through September. Dry weather on the North Slope contributed to a 250,000-acre wildfire, the largest ever there.
Drought parched the Southeast. It affected 78 percent of the region, including 25 percent that was in "exceptional" drought, the most severe category. Nationwide, drought spread across 46 percent of the country.
To read the full report, click here.
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