Weather.com - Guy Walton, 10/16/12
The lottery pick (or overall National Climatic Data Center Ranking) number for September 2012 came up as 96, the 23rd warmest ranking on record for the lower 48 states for any September since 1895.
A ranking of 1 would have been the coldest possible ranking. The National Climatic Data Center has been ranking months, seasons and years from 1 to 118 since 1895 with 1 being the coldest possible temperature average ranking and 118 being the warmest possible temperature average.
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