Record daily high and low temperatures happen now and then at a give weather station. In a normal, stable climate the number of record highs and record lows should be about even. But with human-caused global warming, record highs are expected to be more common than record lows. And they are.
Climate Nexus has this handy dandy widget to track record highs and record lows over the previous year.
Click to see the 1950s, when global warming was not as severe at it is today. Then look at the 1990s when things were starting to take off. Then look at the last year.
Here is NCAR's Gerry Meehl…
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