New normal in the United States is half a degree hotter than it was 20 years ago
Scientists have long talked about climate change hotter temperatures, changes in rain and snowfall and more extreme weather being the new normal. Data released Tuesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration put hard figures on the cliché.
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Posted: May 04, 2021 2:54 PM ET | Last Updated: May 4
The sun sets behind the Statue of Liberty in New York in 2018 amid record-high temperatures. For the entire U.S., the yearly normal temperature is now 11.8 C based on weather station data from 1991 to 2020, 0.5 C warmer compared with 1971 to 2000.(Andres Kudacki/The Associated Press)
Whatâs ânormalâ US weather? Itâs hotter than ever, NOAA says, and often wetter
By Bob Henson and Jason Samenow The Washington Post,Updated May 4, 2021, 4:10 p.m.
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Drought conditions in early April left the San Luis Reservoir in California depleted.David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
WASHINGTON â The official calculation of what constitutes ânormalâ US climate has been updated â and to virtually nobodyâs surprise, itâs a warmer picture than ever. Itâs also, for much of the nation, wetter.
On Tuesday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released an updated set of climate averages for the contiguous United States based on the 30-year period from 1991 to 2020, including more than 9,000 daily reporting stations. It refers to these averages as âclimate normals,â and updates them once every decade.
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Climate normals are 30-year averages of climatological variables such as temperature and precipitation.
“Almost every place in the U.S. has warmed from the 1981 to 2010 normal to the 1991 to 2020 normal.
The USA s normal is not just hotter, but also wetter in the eastern and central parts of the nation.
The United States weather normals have gotten warmer: What’s considered “normal” weather is now about a degree (Fahrenheit) warmer than it was a little more than a decade ago, scientists announced Tuesday.
Scientists have long referred to our wild extremes in weather, including warmer temperatures and changes in rainfall patterns due in part to human-caused climate change, as being the new normal, and now we have hard data on that saying.
America s new normal temperature is a degree hotter than it was just two decades ago. Scientists have long talked about climate change - hotter temperatures, changes in rain and snowfall and more extreme weather - being the “new normal.” Data released Tuesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration put hard figures on the cliche. The new United States normal is not just hotter, but wetter in the eastern and central parts of the nation and considerably drier in the West than just a decade earlier. Meteorologists calculate climate normals based on 30 years of data to limit the random swings of daily weather. It s a standard set by the World Meteorological Organization. Every 10 years, NOAA updates normal for the country as a whole, states and cities - by year, month and season.