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wildfire spreads Forest Fire crosses freeway in Bastrop, TX on Sept 4, 2011 Texas Parks and Wildlife

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Texas has hottest June-August
Texas just finished the hottest June through August on record in the U.S the National Weather Service said A
Weather service meteorologist said that Texas' 86.8 average beat out Oklahoma's 85.2 degrees in 1934.
That Dust Bowl year is now third on the list for the three-month span, behind No. 2 Oklahoma's heat wave this June through August (86.5 degrees).
Both states and others in the nation's southern tier have baked in triple-digit heat this summer. Texas had its hottest June on record, the fifth warmest month overall, and July was the warmest month ever Oklahoma's July was the country's highest monthly average temperature ever, at 89.1 degrees Louisiana's heat this June through August puts it in the fourth spot all-time 84.5 degrees The average figures are taken from the entire 24-hour cycle of the day, not just from daily highs The reason for all the hot, dry weather lies thousands of miles away in the Pacific Ocean The La Nina phenomenon is associated with cooler sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific It brings dry conditions to the southern U.S. states
Unfortunately, the forecast shows the likelihood of La Nina re-emerging Texas hasn't just been hot this summer It's in the midst of its worst drought since the 1950s and enduring its driest single year going back to 1895 The heat and lack of rainfall have clobbered agriculture An early estimate shows crop and livestock losses at $5.2 billion That figure was expected to rise The drought and scorching temperatures have burned grazing pasture and rangeland, forcing ranchers to severely cull herds. Ranchers keeping animals are paying high prices for supplemental feed or the cost of transporting their animals to states with grazing land Producers who planted more than 2 million acres of cotton that rely on only rainfall to grow in the world's largest contiguous growing patch around Lubbock abandoned their fields Texas' economy will take a more direct hit Agriculture accounted for $99.1 billion of Texas' $1.1 trillion economy, or 8.6 percent, in 2007, the most recent year data on food and fiber was available from the extension service. Losses in that sector have a ripple effect that's about twice the amount of the actual agricultural loss Grasses vegetation and trees around the state remain tinderbox dry and wildfires have destroyed more than 3.5 million acres since last November, about when the drought started. Just this week, hundreds of homes were destroyed when wildfires raged southeast of Austin Fish and other wildlife are struggling as lakes and rivers are drying up across the state and more than 850 water suppliers have implemented mandatory and voluntary restrictions on usage Two Central Texas springs relied upon for life by eight endangered and threatened species are perilously close to levels that will require an evacuation by federal wildlife officials
wildfire spreads Forest Fire crosses freeway in Bastrop, TX on Sept 4, 2011 Texas Parks and Wildlife
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On the north edge of Bastrop State Park near Austin All but about 100 acres of the 6,000-acre park have been blackened by fire. Firefighters have been battling blazes for 3 days. At this point,
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[Fox250R]

You sure its la nina? I thought it was caused by that stupid fucking fake comet about to hit earth hahaha

[slowpoketony]

everything is drying up here in san antonio. my grass is dead and brown, plus I have 2 trees that are looking very sick. sad times

[govtmonitor]

all right here is the dope man, the earth is heating up but it's not from us, It will wildlly accellerate untill the entire planet is a fireball just like our sun.

[Sahbisun]

It's the ozone...maaan its so hot in Sa Town its got me mad at everybody! We had wild fires here a couple of days ago. The clouds were red, smoke in the air. allergies, headaches,...too damn hot! I took pictures of how badly burnt the tree tops are in my neighborhood from the sun cooking it. What was green is now golden or either dead! This heatwave IMO is bigger than we think....

[Mscookie3131]

Dallas has cooled down, but its still hot. I'm from Detroit originally and this Dallas/Texas stuff aint no joke. It has cooled down, but it was still 90 degrees today. The only good thing is at night it gets down to the 60's and 70's which is a relief compared to the 90's being the night time low.

[zephyrquartz]

The North Pole ice caps are melting so it's cooler in the British Isles and Europe - no summer to speak of has happened there. Texas is close to the equator and therefore it's hotter there anyway. Fires and tsunamis, etc., are all symptoms of 'global warming' - predicted by scientists for a long time now.

[SuperTakeoff]

Manye it done cooled down ALOT ova here in Dallas

[albozzadii]

Man in north europe its cold as a motherfucker..

[WildCUncutTv]

Damn Sho some weirdo type sh*t going on with mutha nature!! #Sh*tIsCrazy