77.6 degrees average temperature in lower 48

The average temperature across the Lower 48 was 77.6 degrees Fahrenheit, 3.3 degrees above the 20th-century average, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration reported. That edged out the previous high mark, set in 1936, by two-tenths of a degree, NOAA said.

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U.S. Average Temperature map tops 1936 record

If this is true then the U.S. in July was only about 1.6 degrees hotter than the average temperature of the north pole at one time in Earth's past. Though at that time dinosaurs likely were alive and it was before the meteor from the Asteroid Belt hit in the Gulf of Mexico which killed most of the larger dinosaurs over the next few years after that, it is still something for us to think about that our average temperature this July in the Lower 48 states was about the same average temperature once at the North Pole.