The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced on Wednesday that the summer of 2026 was the hottest on record in the United States. According to the agency, the average temperature for the meteorological summer reached 74.4 degrees, which is 3 degrees above the historical average.
Additionally, August set its own high mark with an average temperature of 75.6 degrees. Both the overall summer average and the August figure represent the warmest temperatures recorded for those periods in the dataset.
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