The word decline in this headline is utterly ambiguous.
- Hot and cold tenps lowered
- Hot lowered and cold rose
- Extremes were less significant
- Extremes were more spikey
Then there's the nonsense figure of speech "US climate sees"
Finally, what's significant about 1899?
When a headline invokes a litany of questions that confuse or betray it, you've encountered clickbait noise.
