Sunday July 20th… Dear diary… It’s T minus one day before the eclipse. The main emphasis for this blog has been forecasting excessive heat along the path of the eclipse. First though, here is a visibility forecast from Michael Palmer because knowing where and how much cloud cover and smoke will affect viewing is really […]
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Summer Heat Diary… August 14-16, 2017
Wednesday August 16th, 2017… Dear diary. Heat is slowly building across the South, but conditions are pretty much par for the course for middle August. I’ve noticed a few heat advisories have been posted (in orange) today: Typically this time of the year some of the worst heat can be found across the Southeast Atlantic […]
Summer Heat Diary… August 12-13, 2017
Sunday August 13th… Dear diary. The only heat advisories for today are in coastal areas of Texas: As stated on Saturday there should be some areas of fairly typical, but dangerous, heat across portions of the South this week. I’m not willing to arbitrarily designate what will happen a “heat wave,” though. This fairly looking […]
World of Thermo… Story 22… Kilimanjaro
Story 22. Kilimanjaro By the middle of 1996 Thermo’s keen instruments were already noticing that a warming trend had recommenced across the planet as he was flying around collecting data, which was disturbing to Dr. Carson and many of his colleagues. Data […]
Summer Heat Diary… August 10-11, 2017
Friday June 11th… Dear diary. Today should be the last day of heat wave #5. Yeah! Smoke has plagued the Pacific Northwest in association with the heat wave this entire month. Here is a recent satellite image from NWS Boise: Many stations are reporting unhealthy air. Southwest flow tomorrow should remove much of this smoke. […]
Summer Heat Diary… August 8-9, 2017
Wednesday August 9th… Dear diary. Today’s main topic is the smoky pollution in association with the current heat wave in the Pacific Northwest. I’ve see smoke advisories (in grey) posted for a while now: The heat remains a problem too noting the purple and orange colored advisories. Here is one of the many media stories […]
Summer Heat Diary… August 5-7, 2017
Monday August 7th… Dear diary. Since there won’t be many locations across the U.S. with dangerous heat, I’m going to give a brief meteorology lesson expounding more on the Hudson Bay low and the North Atlantic Oscillation and their ramifications for U.S. weather. Let’s look at the current weather pattern. This chart is valid for […]
World of Thermo… Story 21…Tree Ring Circus
Story 21. Tree Ring Circus “Come on Fluffy, I know its dry, but you can hold out a little longer over the desert. We need to get these bristlecone pine core specimens back to Dr. Cape in Tucson before dark,” panted Puffy. Fluffy said, “I’m fine but sweating in this heat. Come on Puffy, don’t […]
Summer Heat Diary… August 3-4, 2017
Friday Evening Updates… Dear diary. Most of this afternoon I have been processing NCEI data that updated through 8/2/17. Indeed, July 2017 came in at a ratio of approximately 4-1 of record daily high maxes to daily low minimums, and July was the 32nd consecutive month since November 2014 of more daily high records than […]
Summer Heat Diary… August 1-2, 2017
Wednesday Evening Updates… Dear diary. Here are today’s national maxes: Let’s concentrate only on what occurred in the western coastal states. Daily records were set from central California northward through Washington and Oregon. Maxes did not top out at all-time levels in Medford and Portland OR but came close. Here is a breakdown of some […]