Calif. heat destroys all previous records
By Tom Randall, Bloomberg
The California heat of the past 12 months is like nothing ever seen in records going back to 1895. The 12 months before that were similarly without precedent. And the 12 months before that? A freakishly hot year, too.
What’s happening in California right now is shattering modern temperature measurements — as well as tree-ring records that stretch back more than 1,000 years. It’s no longer just a record-hot month or a record-hot year that California faces.
It’s a stack of broken records leading to the worst drought that’s ever beset the Golden State.