So how warm has it been recently across the contiguous United States for different monthly periods (1 month through the last 60 months)? Oh dear... 😬

Data from @noaa.gov: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/climate-at-a-glance/national/rankings

@ZLabe Hmm… I need to digest this a bit. I anticipate some heartburn.
@ZLabe aah come on it’s just the color coding that makes it look so bad… take a light pale red and it looks less scary and we can ignore it another decade or two /s 🫩🙄😮