Goodbye 1936, Hello 2026!
July 2026: Hottest US Month Ever.
The climate skeptic talking point of 1936 has been dethroned. NASA says July 2026 is now the hottest month on record in the US, by a small margin, due to El Niño on top of long term warming. 1936 was an incredibly hot summer - many city all-time records were set and still exist from that year. But Zoom Out and there are two key points:
1. The heat was very concentrated mainly in the Dust Bowl and adjacent regions. That’s 1% of Earth’s surface.
2. In 1936 the Earth had both extreme heat and cold, but July 2026 has anomalous heat virtually EVERYWHERE. That’s the difference: it’s now warm EVERYWHERE, and it will only get warmer from here.
