Friday June 30th… Dear diary. It is the end of June so one third of meteorological summer is in the rear view mirror. Time flies! At the end of June it is time to take stock on record statistics with climate change ramifications. I’ll put out a separate post in early July as a June 2017 climate summary […]
Month: June 2017
Summer 2017 Heat Diary… Log 4… June 20-24
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 […]
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: https://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 […]
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 […]