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http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/summer-2012-in-running-for-hot/68155
Summer 2012 In Running for Hottest Summer on Record
By Alex Sosnowski, Expert Senior Meteorologist
July 22, 2012; 8:26 PM
The summer of 2012 is in the running for one of the top three hottest summers in the past 60 years in the United States and southern Canada.
Steven A. Root, Certified Consulting Meteorologist and President and CEO of WeatherBank, Inc. has been examining hourly and daily temperatures in 59 hub cities dating back to Jan. 1, 1950.
WeatherBank is an AccuWeather, Inc. long-range forecasting and data partner.
Root computes the cooling degree days (CDD) for each city, each day of the year. Cooling degree days are the number of degrees that a day’s average temperature is above 65 degrees. The period from May 15 to Sept. 15 is considered to be the air conditioning/cooling season for the U.S. and Canada.
Root is estimating this summer to finish up with 59,484 CDDs based on what has happened thus far and what is projected.
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