Much of Texas has been getting something of a break from the history-making, headline-grabbing drought of 2011 in recent months, but the state’s excessive heat marches on.

All in all, temperature data through the end of May seem unlikely to be cited by many climate-change skeptics.

The figures, the NCDC reported, showed Texas had its warmest spring (March through May) on record and its third warmest January-through-May period.

Three Texas cities had their warmest January-through-May periods on record, while eight others on a list of 150 cities with long-term weather stations around the country were close to their warmest stretches for the first five months of a year.