But the precipitation mostly bypassed the West, where drought was widespread.
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The August 2020 outlook favors hotter-than-average temperatures along both coasts, while tropical moisture is likely to lead to a wetter-than-average August along the East Coast.
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June 2020 broke the streak of each month being warmest or second warmest on record by being only the third-warmest June on record.
The latest monthly summary from the National Centers for Environmental Information also reported that the year-to-date temperature was the eighth warmest in the 126-year record.
July temperatures are favored to be in the warmest third of the recent climate record for much of the U.S. In the drought-stricken Southwest, the odds of well below average precipitation are higher than the odds of an average or wetter-than-average July.
In a study of rainfall over land, these tamed monsters dumped more rain than any other category of Atlantic tropical cyclones, including hurricanes.
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