{"id":5676,"date":"2016-01-07T10:51:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T15:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=5676"},"modified":"2016-01-07T10:51:02","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T15:51:02","slug":"noaa-record-december-boosted-2015-to-2nd-warmest-year-for-contiguous-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/01\/noaa-record-december-boosted-2015-to-2nd-warmest-year-for-contiguous-us\/","title":{"rendered":"NOAA: Record December boosted 2015 to 2nd warmest year for contiguous US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NOAA reported this morning that the record warmth in December helped make 2016 the second warmest year on record for the lower 48 states, with an average temperature of 54.4 F, compared to the record-setting year of 2012, which was 55.3 F. \u00a0Every state in the Southeast set a new statewide record for December temperature, most by a significant margin.<\/p>\n<p>For the year to date, Florida was the record warmest, South Carolina the 4th warmest, North Carolina and Georgia the 5th warmest, and Alabama the 10th warmest on record (since 1895). \u00a0South Carolina was also the 4th wettest and North Carolina the 5th wettest for the year. \u00a0You can read more about it at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncdc.noaa.gov\/sotc\/summary-info\/national\/20151\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.ncdc.noaa.gov\/sotc\/summary-info\/national\/20151<\/a>2.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/us-2015-temp-ranking.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5677\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5677\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/us-2015-temp-ranking-300x219.gif\" alt=\"us 2015 temp ranking\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/us-2015-temp-ranking-300x219.gif 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/us-2015-temp-ranking-189x138.gif 189w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/us-2015-precip-ranking.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5678\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5678\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/us-2015-precip-ranking-300x219.gif\" alt=\"us 2015 precip ranking\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/us-2015-precip-ranking-300x219.gif 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/us-2015-precip-ranking-189x138.gif 189w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOAA reported this morning that the record warmth in December helped make 2016 the second warmest year on record for the lower 48 states, with an average temperature of 54.4 F, compared to the record-setting year of 2012, which was 55.3 F. \u00a0Every state in the Southeast set a new statewide record for December temperature, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":5677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-summaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5679,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5676\/revisions\/5679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}