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Contiguous US Hits Record 76.89°F July Average, Surpassing 1936 Dust Bowl Mark
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NOAA reports the contiguous US recorded its hottest month ever in July, averaging 76.89°F and eclipsing the July 1936 Dust Bowl record by an eighth of a degree.
Record nighttime lows drove this milestone, meaning infrastructure that relies on cooler evenings to shed heat gets less recovery time. Every Lower 48 state exceeded the 20th century average by at least 1°F, leaving no regional thermal refuge for distributed systems.
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July averaged 76.89°F across the Lower 48, breaking the July 1936 record by an eighth of a degree with records going back to 1895.
Nighttime lows smashed the previous mark by 0.7°F, a signature of human-caused climate change according to NOAA and peer-reviewed studies.
Every Lower 48 state was at least 1°F warmer than the 20th century average, with the most excessive heat in the Mountain West, Southwest, Northern Plains, and Southeast.
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