The US just had its hottest summer on record, beating the Dust Bowl era

AI-generated image credit: Magnific. Article by Andrew Freedman. CNN – September 9, 2026.

The United States just had its hottest summer in 132 years of recordkeeping, soundly beating the summer of 1936 — during the Dust Bowl era — as well as the summer of 2021, according to data released Wednesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Previously, those two years had tied for the hottest summer. The Dust Bowl summer of 1936 has long been regarded as the benchmark of hottest summers in the US, but has now been equaled or eclipsed twice in the past five years thanks to the influence of human-caused climate change. […]

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