2014 hottest year on record in Calif., Nev.
By Paul Rogers, San Jose Mercury News
Driven by climate change and a persistent ridge of high pressure over the Pacific Ocean that caused California’s drought, 2014 was the state’s hottest year ever recorded.
Temperatures last year averaged 61.5 degrees Fahrenheit in California — 4.1 degrees hotter than the 20th century average, according to a report Thursday by federal scientists.
Three other Western states — Alaska, Arizona and Nevada — also experienced their hottest years since 1895, when modern instruments were first used. And Anchorage, Alaska, didn’t have a single day in 2014 in which the temperature dropped below zero, the first time in 101 years of record keeping.
“We do have a long-term warming trend across the globe, across the U.S. and in California,” said Jake Crouch, a climate scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which released the data. “This really warm year is just an exclamation point on top of a warming trend for that part of the country.”
Ah yes… Record heat for California while Anchorage Alaska did not dip below zero for the first time in recorded history. The bonus; it was another record global heatwave for 2014. This is what high levels of CO2/400ppm will do.
Is that the reason it was -50 on the east coast?
Surely by now Dewitt knows that CLIMATE is about trending a longer term and WEATHER is about a shorter term.
Willful ignorance is a trend too –
Turn off the Faux News guys, it’s embarrassing you now.
Climate change denying morons, how do they manage to even get on the internet? Better question is how do they manage to get elected to Congress!
The reason for my post was to prove that with computer and a search program you can prove or disprove anything you can think up some people need to have there computer taken removed before they hurt themselves
This will be the last year I buy a ski pass – that’s all I know…