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<p>There are 829 US HCN stations which have been continuously active since at least 1920. Fifty percent of their all time record maximums were set during the 1930s. Eighty percent of the records were set before 1960.</p>
<p>This agrees with the EPA graph below.</p>
<blockquote><p><img title="ScreenHunter_116 Jul. 21 17.55" alt="" src="https://stevengoddard.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/screenhunter_116-jul-21-17-55.jpg?w=640" /></p>
<p><a href="http://www.epa.gov/climate/climatechange/pdfs/print_heat-waves.pdf">www.epa.gov/climate/climatechange/pdfs/print_heat-waves.pdf</a></p></blockquote>
<p>NOAA&#8217;s claims that the US is seeing unprecedented heat, are complete nonsense.</p>
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