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Year to date temperatures in the US have been right at the 1895-2011 mean of 48.5 degrees. Fifty years were hotter, including 1934 – which was 2.5 degrees warmer. 1925 was 1.5 degrees warmer, and 1911 was more than one degree warmer than 2011.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/cag3/na.html
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