Year in summary from NOAA: 2010 is one for the record books

[Jason Harris]

Quite a lot of notable summaries here running the gamut from warming, precipitation, tornadoes, to hurricanes:


http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2011/20110112_globalstats.html

 

[Eric Bucsela]

Thanks for posting. Interesting that most of the US averaged warmer than normal (consistent with the multi-year trend), despite the cold and snow in the east early in the year. Also interesting that tornadoes across the northern tier of states were a big component of the large US total of 1302.