Say what you will about global warming, the past summer has been hotter than most summers. Indeed, the month of July was the hottest month on record for the continental United States, according to the ...

July 2012 featured many notable extreme weather events from around the world. It was the warmest single month on record for the continental U.S., beating out the infamous July of 1936 by a slim margin ...

If you’re between the ages of 12 and 86 and you’ve lived here in West Michigan, the hottest weather you’ve ever experienced was during the heat wave of July 2012. High Temperatures from July 1 through ...

Only two songs from the Top 5 of last month's Top 40 Country Songs list made the July 2012 version. That goes to show how quickly a new song can gain and lose favor with country music fans. The ...

Virginia had the hottest July ever; many other states were near their maximum, making the country’s overall July its hottest. We just ended the warmest 12-month period ever recorded. Grist thanks its ...

Astrophotographer Cory Poole caught Jupiter, Venus and the crescent moon over Redding, CA, on the morning of July 15, 2012. Veteran night sky photographer Giuseppe Petricca of Pisa, Italy, snapped ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory says that during July 2012, "In the southern sky you'll see the constellations Sagittarius and Scorpius separated by the core of our Milky Way galaxy." NASA's Jet ...

During the 1930s, a series of epic heat waves gripped the U.S., drying up the soil in an unprecedented drought that brought about the great Dust Bowl. The most intense heat hit during July 1936, which ...

Year-to-date temperature, by month, for 2012 (red), compared to the other 117 years on record for the contiguous U.S., with the five ultimately warmest years (orange) and five ultimately coolest years ...