It was also one of the wettest—and, in some areas, one of the driest.
People stand in cooling mist in front of the Unisphere at Flushing Meadows Corona Park on August 26,The mean U.S. temperature from June through August was 74 degrees—2.6 degrees hotter than the average year—not counting Alaska and Hawaii, according to NOAA.
Nearly one-fifth of the mainland U.S. set new records for high temperatures, including Idaho, Utah, Oregon, Nevada and California, and about one-third of states had one of their five hottest summers on record. The summer of 2021 was the eighth-wettest since records began, although California, Minnesota, North Dakota and Montana had some of their driest summers ever.“They’ve been warning us the extreme weather would get more extreme over the decade, and we’re living it in real time now,” President Joe Biden
Tuesday on a visit to survey storm damage in New York and New Jersey, where last week dozens of people drowned in flash flooding. 47%. That’s how much of the contiguous U.S. was in drought on August 31, according to NOAA.
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