Bastard says that June was the 15th hottest June during the period 1981-2013. So how does that make it the hottest on record? Was the AC unit broken in the NYT’s newsroom?
The summer of 2012 was among the hottest and driest I remember in my neck of the woods but last summer was cool to average and this summer has been downright cold here. It got down into the 40s here a couple nights ago.
I believe that 1934 was the warmest year since records have been taken and in 1935 the hurricane with the lowest barometric pressure ever recorded struck the upper Florida Keys on Labor day.