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climate
the average 24-hour statewide temperature during the summer was 86.8F-more than a degree hotter than oklahoma's 1934 summer of 85.2F Texas state climatologist john Nielsen gammon tried to explained just how widespread and relentless Texas'heat has been: it has been scary hot from one end of Texas to the other -
geography
the geography of Texas in scope. Occupying about 7% of the total water and land area of the U.S., it is the second largest state after Alaska ,and is the southernmost part.
