{"id":19687,"date":"2012-10-15T13:50:09","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T18:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=19687"},"modified":"2012-10-15T14:05:57","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T19:05:57","slug":"state-of-the-climate-warmest-period-on-record-for-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/10\/15\/state-of-the-climate-warmest-period-on-record-for-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"State of the Climate: Warmest Period on Record for the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19688\" class=\"module image aligncenter mceTemp mceIEcenter\" style=\"width: 620px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/10\/15\/state-of-the-climate-warmest-period-on-record-for-the-u-s\/attachment\/201209\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19688\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19688\" title=\"201209\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/10\/201209-620x291.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/10\/201209-620x291.gif 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/10\/201209-300x140.gif 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/10\/201209.gif 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Map by NOAA<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>From January to September the U.S. had the warmest first nine months of the year in its history, according to the latest &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncdc.noaa.gov\/sotc\/global\/2012\/9\">State of the Climate<\/a>&#8216; report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). And there have been numerous other anomalies in the climate as of late, the report says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The average combined global land and ocean surface temperature for September 2012 tied with 2005 as the warmest September on record, at 0.67\u00b0C (1.21\u00b0F) above the 20<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0century average of 15.6\u00b0C (60.1\u00b0F),&#8221; the report says. The records go back to 1880.<\/p>\n<p>There are some other happenings in the earth&#8217;s climate that may interest you, like the fact that Japan saw record warmth, while the U.K was cooler than normal. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncdc.noaa.gov\/sotc\/global\/2012\/9\">read about them all over at the NOAA<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Map by NOAA From January to September the U.S. had the warmest first nine months of the year in its history, according to the latest &#8216;State of the Climate&#8216; report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). And there have been numerous other anomalies in the climate as of late, the report says. &#8220;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":19688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58],"tags":[61,110],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19696,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19687\/revisions\/19696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}