Doyle Rice, USA TODAY
After a series of sweltering summers, the USA caught a small break this year with its “coolest” summer since 2009, the National Climatic Data Center reported Thursday.
However, the nation as a whole was still 1 degree Fahrenheit warmer than the long-term average and experienced its 15th-warmest summer on record. Eight states in the West and four states in the Northeast had one of their 10 hottest summers on record, the climate center noted.
