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Drought, La Nina Produce Record Heat in 2012

2013-01-09 15:42:00| National Hog Farmer

Source: Associated Press   America set an off-the-charts heat record in 2012, according to an Associated Press report. A brutal combination of a widespread drought and a mostly absent winter pushed the average annual U.S. temperature last year up to 55.32 degrees Fahrenheit, the government announced Tuesday. That's a full degree warmer than the old record set in 1998. Breaking temperature records by an entire degree is unprecedented, scientists say. Normally, records are broken by a tenth of a degree or so. read more

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