The new weather normal in the US: Hotter than it used to be, thanks to climate change

The United States' weather "normals" have gotten warmer: What’s considered “normal” weather is now about a degree (Fahrenheit) warmer than it was a little more than a decade ago, scientists announced Tuesday.

Scientists have long referred to our wild extremes in weather, including warmer temperatures and changes in rainfall patterns due in part to human-caused climate change, as being the new normal, and now we have hard data on that saying.

Every 10 years, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration releases an analysis of U.S. weather of the past...