The weather geeks at NOAAA in Asheville say that 2007 was one for the record books in terms of temperature:
The preliminary annual average temperature for 2007 across the lower 48 states will likely be just more than 54 degrees, about 1.5 degrees higher than the 20th century average of 52.8 degrees, said the National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C.
The data establish 2007 as the eighth warmest on record in the continental United States since such information began being kept in 1895.