Climate Central: For eight western U.S. states, this has been the warmest year on record through October, according to new temperature data released Friday, and several of those states are likely to continue that record to years end. The Lower 48 as a whole is also trending hot, and could see the year end up among the 10 warmest in more than 120 years of records. I think that it is more likely than not that we will see a Top 10 warm year for the contiguous United States, Jake Crouch, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric...