Updated: ‘Hot, wet and wild’ 2016 weather as US has warmest June

WASHINGTON — America’s warm, wild and costly weather broke another record with the hottest June, federal meteorologists say. And if that’s not enough, they calculated that 2016 is flirting with the U.S. record for most billion-dollar weather disasters. The month’s average temperature in the Lower 48 states was 71.8 degrees, 3.3 degrees above normal, surpassing […]