Nightly News   |  May 08, 2012

Record warmth in 26 states

The lower 48 states experienced their third-warmest April on record and the January through April period ended being the warmest on record in the U.S. NBC’s Brian Williams reports.

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BRIAN WILLIAMS, anchor: Government weather experts are out with the numbers tonight for April, confirming what a lot of us already knew. It was warm. It was the third warmest on record for the lower 48, with warmer than average temperatures engulfing most of the country. The January through April period this year was the warmest on record for the US, with 26 states seeing their warmest start to the year since records have been kept. On average, the temperature was more than five degrees above normal.