Maximum temperatures averaged the hottest in US history
Like the current February, temperatures in the east were extremely cold
Almost 70% of the US reached 100 degrees, compared to just over 20% last year.
80% of the US was in drought.
The drought in the US during 1934 blew away all records, but it wasn’t just in the US – it was all over the world.
TimesMachine: June 6, 1934 – NYTimes.com
TimesMachine: May 29, 1934 – NYTimes.com
LONDON, June 2, 1934
WORLD DROUGHT
Farmers’ Ruinous Losses
Almost Universal Disaster
Europe Revives Pagan RitesA survey of the threat of a world drought reveals ruinous losses by farmers in many parts of the world. There is an actual shortage of food, with young crops blasted in the ground by the scorching sunshine and thousands of cattle without pasture. The disaster is felt from the Mississippi in the United States, to the Volga, in Russia, from the Yugoslavian valleys to the Western Canadian prairies.
04 Jun 1934 – WORLD DROUGHT Farmers’ Ruinous Losses Almost Uni…
http://news.google.com/newspapers
Almost the entire US was over 100 degrees during June, 1934
http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/062/mwr-062-06-0212.pdf
02 Feb 1935 – DISASTERS OF 1934 REVIEWEL Millions Were Rendere…
If we had a year like 1934 now, climate experts would boldly declare 99.7% certainty that such weather was impossible below 350 PPM CO2.
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