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Posted: 6:48 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2012

July shatters thousands of heat records across the US

August may prove to be just as historic

National Weather Service - Tulsa for 8/01/12
National Weather Service - Tulsa for 8/01/12

By Staff

Tulsa, Okla. —

Weather historians are quickly crunching the numbers from the month of July, which just ended last night at midnight.

Here’s what we know so far about the heat of last month – an astounding 4,313 record high temperatures were set across the country for the month of July.

An absurd 171 records were the all-time highest temperatures ever observed. There were a huge number of nighttime temperature records set, too, with a sweaty 3,545 record warmest nights over the course of the month.

And with today’s 114-degree forecast high, August may prove just as historic.

 
 
 

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