Nick Wiltgen Updated 11 mins ago weather.com
From a winter with more tornadoes (click title to entry - thank you) than snowstorms to a summer full of triple-digit heat, 2012 has been marked by consistent, widespread, often extreme warmth.
In fact, every month so far this year has brought monthly record-high temperatures to various cities around the country. Senior Meteorologist Guy Walton adds, "There are now more daily record high reports (27,042) for 2012 than for all of 2011 (26,674), and it's only early August."
We take a look back at the "high"-lights of the record warmth we've seen these past eight months....
