Huffington Magazine Issue 57 | Page 15

˚ 118 A CENTURY OF US CLIMATE CHANGE: 110 ˚ 43 TX 63˚ ˚ ˚ 48˚ 60˚ ˚ 45 59 ˚ 53˚ 52˚ 43˚ 49˚ 49˚ NC ND 104˚ 111˚ 119˚ OK OH 120˚ 113˚ NY ˚ 122 110˚ NJ 106˚ NH NV NB ˚ 108 NM 110 ˚ CENTRAL SOUTHERN EASTERN 111˚ ˚ 60˚ 30 49˚ 51˚ WESTERN RI PN OR 49˚ 40˚ 120˚ 120 45˚ TAP CIRCLES FOR INFO 113˚ TN SD SC 58˚ TURE IN US HISTORY alifornia, 1913 ˚ 120 90 ˚ 34 ˚ 1 17 65˚ ˚ 48 ˚ ! UT 55 48˚ 52˚ 42˚ 43 ˚ VR 63˚ VA ˚ 118 ˚ AVERAGE ANNUAL TEMPERATURE BY REGION WV WA WY WI AL 112˚ 114˚ 115˚ 112˚ HUFFINGTON 07.14.13 121 ˚ 2012: BY THE NUMBERS NINE The average temp. in 2012, one degree above the previous record 55.3 The number of consecutive 12-month periods ending in 2012 that make up the warmest contiguous U.S. record 99.1 MILLION The number of people who experienced 10 or more days of 100+ temperatures 19 The number of states that had their warmest annual period 125˚ 118˚ 356 The number of all-time local record high temperatures broken or tied in the US