Tuesday June 20th… Dear diary. Today it is the summer solstice, so we are getting into prime time for dangerous heat across the U.S. Already in June we have seen a week of high heat in the Northeast and are in the midst of a prolonged heatwave in the Southwest. See my prior logs here noting […]
World of Thermo… Story 14… Heatin’ Up
After about 1975 Thermo noticed that the red instrument in the middle of his chest was reading hotter in places on the Earth and at times of the year where previously he thought that it had been much cooler during the first fourteen years of his existence. He was making a lot of pains to […]
Summer 2017 Heat Diary… Log 3… June 14-20
Wednesday June 14th… Dear diary. As surmised yesterday our emphasis on extreme heat will turn to the Southwest where excessive heat watches and warnings have already been posted. You can look at my heat diary for prior days in June here: http://www.guyonclimate.com/2017/06/07/summer-2017-heat-diary-log-two-june-7-14/ As I will continue to emphasize, the first clue to look at for extreme temperatures is […]
May 2017 Most Extreme U.S. Temperatures
With summer heat in full swing I have been blogging away on other issues, but I have not forgotten about our monthly extreme temperature record awards.😊 In previous posts on this site and on Weather Underground I introduced the weather and climate world to the concept of an Extreme Temperature Index. Once more lets apply […]
World of Thermo… Story 13… Gettin’ Colder
By the middle of the 20th century conditions were warming across the planet, perhaps getting so warm, Carbo thought to himself, that the humans would notice. The dust bowl days of the 1930s in the United States were a big change. He thought, “Hmm we must not let these stupid frogs and tadpoles get too […]
Summer 2017 Heat Diary… Log Two… June 7-14
Dear diary, the weather pattern is shifting for the second week of June such that there will be some prolonged heat from the Midwest into the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. As noted from my first diary log for this summer, the 500 Mb anomaly charts point to where high heat may occur during the summer. The […]
Summer 2017 Heat Diary…. Log One…May 28 to June 7
As promised I am starting a summer heat diary for the United States, which will be more technical, meteorologically, than most of my prior posts. Questions from laymen not knowing much about meteorology are most welcome since the jargon used here will be geared more towards my associates with degrees in weather science. My intent […]
Streak Hits 30…A Word About Paris
So, President Trump dumped the Paris Climate Accords yesterday. One of the biggest excuses I hear from American conservative circles is that “It’s all a hoax just to further the liberal agenda.” So is the temperature and specifically record data that I and others have been presenting all made up? For those of us who […]
Building a Better Method to Forecast Dangerous Heat
Up to this point with my posts I have been relaying general information in association with my record temperature research trends using NCEI data. In this post I will attempt to begin to put that research to the test aiding climate scientist’s and meteorologist’s quests for warning the general public of the chances for dangerous […]
Planetary Record Temperature Trends for 2017
I have been using the following NCEI site to do my U.S. record statistics for years. https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/datatools/records Recently I have used the site to investigate record temperature trends in other countries such as Canada and Russia. Not many people know that the site keeps tallies of all records coming in from the entire planet. There […]