Weather.com - 10/9/12
State-by-state temperature rankings for August 2012 (compared to all Augusts since 1895) from NOAA's National Climatic Data Center. Orange shades indicate above-normal temperatures; blue shades, below-normal temperatures. Nevada tied its warmest August on record. (NOAA/NCDC)
The summer of 2012 will go down as the third-warmest summer on record for the contiguous United States, according to data released Monday morning by NOAA's National Climatic Data Center.
NCDC's State of the Climate report said the nationally-averaged temperature for the months of June, July and August was 74.4 degrees, or 2.3 degrees above the 20th-century average. This year's summer average was one-tenth of a degree shy of last summer's 74.5, and two-tenths of a degree short of the warmest summer on record back in the Dust Bowl of 1936.
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