"It's snowing! In Winter! Where's the global warming!?" - Sean Hannity
How hot was the month of July in 2011? So hot that just by plotting the location of each daily heat record that was broken, a nearly complete image of the contiguous United States is visible. Almost 9,000 daily records were broken or tied last month, including 2,755 highest maximum temperatures and 6,171 highest minimum temperatures (i.e., nighttime records).
The above image plots the number of daytime heat records broken in red, and the number of nighttime heat records broken in yellow.
As you can see, calls from Governor Rick Perry to pray for rain have done very little to stem the tide of desertification in the state of Texas.
Welcome to the new normal.
via NOAA - Ya' know, the organization the Republicans want to de-fund.