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WEATHER HEADLINESAs the nation swelters through its warmest year on record, a new forecast for a broiling summer is raising concern about wildfires and water shortages, especially across parts of the western and southern USA. About three-fourths of the nation, from the Southwest to the Mid-Atlantic, faces elevated odds of above-average temperatures this summer. Summers have trended warm in recent years: The National Climatic Data Center reports that all but two of the summers since 2000 have been warmer than average, including 2011, which was the second-warmest on record. Massive wildfires scorched the southern Plains in 2011. This included Texas' most destructive fire in state history. Drought is already being reported across the Southeast and along much of the Eastern Seaboard from Florida to New Hampshire. Through April, the USA is experiencing its warmest year on record with a national average temperature of 45 degrees, or 5 degrees above the long-term average. As for severe weather, there have been 475 tornadoes in the USA through April, above average but still far below last year's devastating January-April total of 912.
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