The summer of 2012 will go down as the third-warmest summer on record for the contiguous United States, according to data released Monday morning by NOAA's National Climatic Data Center.
NCDC's State of the Climate report said the nationally-averaged temperature for the months of June, July and August was 74.4 degrees, or 2.3 degrees above the 20th-century average. This year's summer average was one-tenth of a degree shy of last summer's 74.5, and two-tenths of a degree short of the warmest summer on record back in the Dust Bowl of 1936.
Twenty-three states had average summer temperatures among their ten warmest, with Colorado and Wyoming logging their hottest summers on record with temperatures more than four degrees above average over the three-month period.
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