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US Heatwave and Drought (record stats)

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US Heatwave and Drought (record stats)

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Jeff Masters from Weather Underground recently did a good rundown of the sheer number of records broken with the US heatwave this summer: http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMa ... rynum=1855

The South has also continued its prolonged severe drought conditions with Texas on track to cop its worst drought on record if things don't drastically change soon.

Some highlights:

2,100 daily high maximum temperature records have been set so far in July 2011, and 51% of those were set last week. 4,734 daily high minimum temperature records have been set so far this month, and 55% of those were set last week.

Here's a breakdown of last week's records for the period July 18 through July 24:

High Maximum:
• 1,076 warmest maximum temperature for the date
• 90 warmest maximum temperature for the month of July
• 56 warmest maximum temperature of all time

High Minimum:
• 2,595 warmest minimum temperature for the date
• 207 warmest minimum temperature for the month of July
• 123 warmest minimum temperature of all time
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