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What was the coldest day in 2000?
The coldest temperature of the year 2000 occurred on the last day of the year when the mercury dipped to 18 degrees on December 31, the coldest December temperature in Tallahassee since 1989. The last time it got colder than 18 degrees was back in February 1996.
What are the hottest years in history?
Since the 1980s, each decade has been warmer than the previous one. This is expected to continue. The warmest seven years have all been since 2015, with 2016, 2019 and 2020 constituting the top three. An exceptionally strong El Niño event occurred in 2016, which contributed to record global average warming.
What was the temperature in December 2015?
The December mean temperature over the contiguous U.S. of 38.6 degrees Fahrenheit topped the previous record warm December of 37.7 degrees set in 1939, according to NOAA/NCEI’s State of the Climate report. December 2015 was 6 degrees warmer than the 20th-century average.
Was December 2015 the warmest on record?
The December mean temperature over the contiguous U.S. of 38.6 degrees Fahrenheit topped the previous record warm December of 37.7 degrees set in 1939, according to NOAA/NCEI’s State of the Climate report. December 2015 was 6 degrees warmer than the 20th-century average. Temperature records for the Lower 48 as a whole date back to 1895.
How warm was Australia in December 2015?
Australia ended 2015 on a warm note, with its sixth highest December temperature in the country’s 106-year period of record, at 1.04°C (1.87°F) higher than the 1961–1990 national average.
What was the wettest December on record in 2015?
It was also the nation’s wettest December on record in 2015. When combining all precipitation data in the Lower 48 States, December 2015’s precipitation – 3.93 inches – ranked slightly above the previous record of 3.76 inches set in 1982, during another strong El Niño.