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It was the 43rd consecutive year of above-average temperatures. The year was 0.95 °C (1.71 °F) above the 20th century average, and 0.07 °C (0.04 °F) behind 2016, which was the warmest year on record. [1] 2019 fell to the third-warmest year on record when the following year surpassed it. [2]
Global storm activity of 2008 profiles the major worldwide storms, including blizzards, ice storms, and other winter events, from January 1, 2008, to December 31, 2008. A winter storm is an event in which the dominant varieties of precipitation are forms that only occur at cold temperatures, such as snow or sleet , or a rainstorm where ground ...
Storm Prediction Center Extremely Critical Fire Weather Events – 2000–2009 [nb 1] Date Year Region Acres burned Fatalities Outlook Notes May 11: 2000: Arizona, New Mexico [3] 43,000 [nb 2] 0: Cerro Grande Fire [4] May 15: 2000: Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico [5] 43,000 [nb 2] 0: Cerro Grande Fire [4] May 16: 2000
The June 2008 Midwestern United States floods were flooding events which affected portions of the Midwestern United States. After months of heavy precipitation, a number of rivers overflowed their banks for several weeks at a time and broke through levees at numerous locations.
A high risk severe weather event is the greatest threat level issued by the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) for convective weather events in the United States. On the scale from one to five, a high risk is a level five; thus, high risks are issued only when forecasters at the SPC are confident of a major severe weather outbreak.
Victoria, the scene of horrific bushfires the year before, had a far colder summer, with hot weather arriving more than a month later than usual in 2009. [ citation needed ] August 17 saw a dust storm at Laguna Mar Chiquita as a major drought hit Argentina , [ 1 ] and flooding and hailstorms hit southeastern Australia and Queensland in March 2010.
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The following is a list of Connecticut weather records observed at various stations across the state during the last 100 years. Connecticut is a state in the Northeast region of the United States .