U-M Experts Available to Discuss Warmest Year in U.S. History
Thursday, December 20, 2012 - 14:00
in Earth & Climate
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said this month that 2012 "appears virtually certain" to surpass 1998 as the warmest year on record in the contiguous United States. December 2012 temperatures would need to be more than a degree Fahrenheit below the coldest December (1983) for 2012 to miss setting the record, according to NOAA.