Climate Change(d)?

[Politesse]

Still a bit warm, but we do have a really pleasant breeze this morning. I'm burning some of my old ecology textbooks to celebrate the end of climate change.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

19 cities have broken their all-time high in this heat wave. Again, not the calendar day high, but all-time on record. This include Salt Lake City, Phoenix, and Las Vegas, which while in the same part of the country, aren't right next to each other either.

And this is another event of duration.

Las Vegas broke another record on Wednesday when it experienced its fifth straight day of temperatures of 115 degrees or higher. Prior to this week, Las Vegas had never experienced a temperature that exceeded 117 degrees, but the temperature there has reached or surpassed the 117 mark three times this week alone.

Sin City could also break its record of 10 consecutive days of 110-degree temperatures or higher by the end of this week. The temperature in Las Vegas is forecast to climb to a blistering 118 degrees on Thursday, 115 on Friday, and 112 on Saturday, according to the National Weather Service.

So while some portions of Southern California are pleasant, much more of the Southwest is being torched to levels not seen in 150 years.

 

[Swammerdami]

So while some portions of Southern California are pleasant, much more of the Southwest is being torched to levels not seen in 150 years.

That's just what George Soros and his nanobot vaccines WANT you to believe. If climate change were so powerful, why can't it fry an egg on the Santa Monica pier?

 

[Politesse]

19 cities have broken their all-time high in this heat wave. Again, not the calendar day high, but all-time on record. This include Salt Lake City, Phoenix, and Las Vegas, which while in the same part of the country, aren't right next to each other either.

And this is another event of duration.

Las Vegas broke another record on Wednesday when it experienced its fifth straight day of temperatures of 115 degrees or higher. Prior to this week, Las Vegas had never experienced a temperature that exceeded 117 degrees, but the temperature there has reached or surpassed the 117 mark three times this week alone.

Sin City could also break its record of 10 consecutive days of 110-degree temperatures or higher by the end of this week. The temperature in Las Vegas is forecast to climb to a blistering 118 degrees on Thursday, 115 on Friday, and 112 on Saturday, according to the National Weather Service.

So while some portions of Southern California are pleasant, much more of the Southwest is being torched to levels not seen in 150 years.

My hometown came within one degree, according to my folks.

 

[Elixir]

If climate change were so powerful, why can't it fry an egg on the Santa Monica pier?

It’s against California’s commie lib’rul environmental regulations to fry an egg on Santa Monica pier, that’s why.

 

[TSwizzle]

19 cities have broken their all-time high in this heat wave. Again, not the calendar day high, but all-time on record. This include Salt Lake City, Phoenix, and Las Vegas, which while in the same part of the country, aren't right next to each other either.

Phoenix and Las Vegas are in the middle of a desert, of course it gets hot there. Same with Palm Springs, it's brutal. It's a heatwave.

So while some portions of Southern California are pleasant, much more of the Southwest is being torched to levels not seen in 150 years.

It is a catastrophic 74 degrees today, unusually overcast this morning. Oh the humanity!!

Santa Monica Pier is miraculously still standing, hanging on by a thread.

 

[Politesse]

Phoenix and Las Vegas are in the middle of a desert, of course it gets hot there.

Way to miss the point, wow...

 

[Shadowy Man]

So while some portions of Southern California are pleasant, much more of the Southwest is being torched to levels not seen in 150 years.

If there’s global warming why was it just as warm 150 years ago??1? Rapture-like cult!!1!1

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

19 cities have broken their all-time high in this heat wave. Again, not the calendar day high, but all-time on record. This include Salt Lake City, Phoenix, and Las Vegas, which while in the same part of the country, aren't right next to each other either.

Phoenix and Las Vegas are in the middle of a desert, of course it gets hot there. Same with Palm Springs, it's brutal. It's a heatwave.

Officer: You were going 95 in the 65 zone.
TSwizzle: Officer, I was driving fast, all of these cars are driving fast.
Officer: You were going 30 mph above the speed limit.
TSwizzle: This is a highway. Look at those cars as they pass us. They are all going fast. You can feel it.
Officer: Are you feeling okay?
TSwizzle: I was only going 25 mph in my neighborhood.

eta: damn units

 

[Politesse]

If climate change were so powerful, why can't it fry an egg on the Santa Monica pier?

It’s against California’s commie lib’rul environmental regulations to fry an egg on Santa Monica pier, that’s why.

True. That would be most unsafe. That said, last time I was there I saw a rightwing Christian hate group get viciously glitterbombed by a mob of trans belly dancers in fairy wings. Truly a land of laws and lawlessness.

 

[TSwizzle]

19 cities have broken their all-time high in this heat wave. Again, not the calendar day high, but all-time on record. This include Salt Lake City, Phoenix, and Las Vegas, which while in the same part of the country, aren't right next to each other either.

Phoenix and Las Vegas are in the middle of a desert, of course it gets hot there. Same with Palm Springs, it's brutal. It's a heatwave.

Officer: You were going 95 in the 65 zone.
TSwizzle: Officer, I was driving fast, all of these cars are driving fast.
Officer: You were going 30 mph above the speed limit.
TSwizzle: This is a highway. Look at those cars as they pass us. They are all going fast. You can feel it.
Officer: Are you feeling okay?
TSwizzle: I was only going 25 mpg in my neighborhood.

My car gets more than 25mpg, something like 32mpg.

 

[Shadowy Man]

 

[Loren Pechtel]

19 cities have broken their all-time high in this heat wave. Again, not the calendar day high, but all-time on record. This include Salt Lake City, Phoenix, and Las Vegas, which while in the same part of the country, aren't right next to each other either.

Phoenix and Las Vegas are in the middle of a desert, of course it gets hot there. Same with Palm Springs, it's brutal. It's a heatwave.

No. It's the termination shock from cleaning up ship fuel. Sulfur in the fuel was causing acid rain which was eating things. We quit polluting so much and discovered the hard way that the pollution had been causing cooling.

The extreme heat was a heat wave. The fact that we shattered our previous record by three degrees is warming, not heatwave.

 

[Swammerdami]

Daily Highs at Edwards Air Force Base:

1 July -- 101.5°F ... unusually cool
2 July -- 105.6°F
3 July -- 108.9°F
4 July -- 109.6°F
5 July -- 112.3°F
6 July -- 115.0°F ... warmer than nearby Santa Monica?
7 July -- 114.4°F
8 July -- 114.8°F
9 July -- 111.6°F

Lacking recent temperature reports from our Southern California-based climatologist, I decided to download the numbers from Edwards. The 115.9°F seems to be warmer than anything at the Santa Monica pier, but something else is of concern!

1 July -- 101.5°F
2 July -- 106.2°F
3 July -- 109.0°F
4 July -- 109.6°F
5 July -- 112.5°F
6 July -- 115.0°F
7 July -- 115.5°F
8 July -- 115.9°F
9 July -- 115.9°F
10 July - 113.7°F
11 July - 114.1°F
12 July - 114.1°F
13 July - 110.1°F

As you can see, almost all the temperatures beginning with 2 July are higher than in the earlier report! These are all daily summaries copied directly from the NOAA website.

Although I've shown only Day's Maximum, Day's Minimum is also reported and many of these numbers are now lower! I'm afraid this will be food for conspiracy theorists, but I want to apologize and inquire: What's happening?

The files contain an entire year of data, so I can see that 2 July was the first anomaly -- Jan/Feb/Mar/Apr/May/Jun produced the same data on each of three downloads. There is some algorithm for determining the Daily Hi and Lo; is it possible that that algorithm is run only once a week or so? If anyone wants to research this, the data and some of the explanations are in subfolders below www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub . (Edwards AFB is in 723810-23114-2024.op.gz )

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Weather information is often provisional.

In NE Ohio, we are cooling off for a while to the normal average temperatures we used to have.

 

[robnisch]

Sunday was the hottest day ever recorded on Earth

Sunday was the hottest day ever recorded on Earth, according to the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service. The average global temperature slightly exceeded the record set last July.

www.yahoo.com

17.09 C average global temperature!

But, there was a nice sea breeze in Santa Monica.

 

[bilby]

17.09 C average global temperature!

The average temperature of the globe is rather higher than that; The mantle averages around 1,500K, and the core around 5,000K.

Even the crust (which makes up a tiny fraction of the globe) averages around 500K, though the stuff near the surface is closer to the average temperature of the overlying ocean bottom water (around 275K) or tropospheric air (at a record 290.24K on Sunday).

/pedantry

 

[TSwizzle]

The average global temperature reached 17.09 degrees Celsius, or about 62.76 Fahrenheit, which is just above the record of 17.08 C set on July 6, 2023. “We are now in truly uncharted territory and as the climate keeps warming, we are bound to see new records being broken in future months and years,” Carlo Buontempo, the director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service, said in a statement.

A 0.01 degree jump!!!11!!! oh noes!!!!!111!!!!!!

Could somebody please inform Carlo that we are not in "truly uncharted territory" and the earth has warmed and cooled many, many times. Even before 1940.


It's a beautiful, balmy 74 degrees in Santa Monica today. Oh the humanity!!!


It really is a religion for you lot.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Sunday was the hottest day ever recorded on Earth

Sunday was the hottest day ever recorded on Earth, according to the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service. The average global temperature slightly exceeded the record set last July.

www.yahoo.com

17.09 C average global temperature!

But, there was a nice sea breeze in Santa Monica.

Meh, 17.09 degrees celsius is only about 63 degrees Fahrenheit. That isn't too warm.

or

The scientists are lying to us man! 17.09 degrees is really 290 Kelvin! 290 man! We're all going to die!

 

[robnisch]

Sunday was the hottest day ever recorded on Earth

Sunday was the hottest day ever recorded on Earth, according to the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service. The average global temperature slightly exceeded the record set last July.

www.yahoo.com

17.09 C average global temperature!

But, there was a nice sea breeze in Santa Monica.

Meh, 17.09 degrees celsius is only about 63 degrees Fahrenheit. That isn't too warm.

or

The scientists are lying to us man! 17.09 degrees is really 290 Kelvin! 290 man! We're all going to die!

AVERAGE!