NCDC: Climate of 2007 - August in Historical Perspective

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Including Boreal Summer

National Climatic Data Center
12 September 2007

Major Highlights

SIXTH WARMEST SUMMER ON RECORD ENDS WITH RECORD HEAT IN SOUTH
WIDESPREAD DROUGHT CONTINUES IN SOUTHEAST AND WEST
BOREAL SUMMER 7TH WARMEST ON RECORD FOR GLOBE

The June-August summer season ended with a long-lasting heatwave that produced more than 2000 new daily high temperature records across the southern and central U.S., according to scientists at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. The record heat helped make this the second warmest August and the 6th warmest summer on record for the contiguous U.S., based on preliminary data. At the end of August drought affected almost half of the contiguous U.S. The global surface temperature was 7th warmest on record for the June-August period.
U.S. Temperature Highlights for Summer

For summer 2007 (June-August), the average temperature for the continental U.S., based on preliminary data, was 73.8°F (23.2°C), which was 1.7°F (1.0°C) above the 20th century mean and the sixth warmest summer since national records began in 1895.

This was the warmest summer for Utah and Nevada and one of the ten warmest summers on record for 11 other states. Alaska had its fourth warmest summer on record. Only Texas and Oklahoma were cooler than average.

U.S. Temperature Highlights for August

For the contiguous U.S., the average temperature for August was 75.4°F (24.1°C), which was 2.7°F (1.5°C) above the 20th century mean and the 2nd warmest August on record, based on preliminary data.

More:
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2007/aug/aug07.html