The U.S. reported the hottest December on record with an average temperature of 39.3 degrees, 6.7 degrees higher than the average temperature.
The United States saw abnormally high temperatures and extreme weather events in 2021 as the nation experienced its warmest December in history and several cities reported last year as their hottest year yet.
The country also saw a series of bizarre weather disasters last year. Portland reported temperatures reaching 116 degrees after an extreme heatwave hit the Pacific Northwest. That was the second highest number of billion-dollar weather disasters — which are adjusted for inflation with records going back to 1980— and third costliest.
Changes in where people live and housing vulnerability were factors, Smith said,"but the 800-pound gorilla in the room is, of course, climate change, because that's accelerating all of these trends in regards to disaster potential for damage." "What was dismaying was that emissions bounced back even faster than the economy as a whole," said Rhodium Group partner Kate Larsen, a co-author of the emissions report, which was based on daily and weekly government data.
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