Wednesday evening update… Dear diary. A mini heat wave is underway in the South, Mid-Atlantic and southern portions of the Midwest. St. Louis was very hot with a max of 103F. Their record high was 110F set in 1954, so during what is climatologically the hottest time of the year, it takes quite the heat […]
Month: July 2017
Summer Heat Diary… July 9-10, 2017
Monday evening July 10th updates… Here are today’s maxes for major reporting stations: The century+ readings that occurred in South Dakota and Nebraska yesterday moved south into Kansas today. I have not seen reports of records, but a few may come from California, which continues to swelter. How about another quick meteorology lesson? We can […]
Summer Heat Diary… July 7-8, 2017
Saturday July 8th… Dear diary. Here are my evening updates. These were today’s national highs: Notice that Salt Lake City in the heart of our western ridge reached 104F. It was oppressive along the coast of southern California where some stations reported dew points above 70: Wow! Downtown Los Angeles broke a record that was […]
June 2017 Record Temperature Count Summary
Ok. That “streak” of consecutive months of more daily record highs than daily record lows for the U.S. is now up to 31 in the National Center for Environmental Information is up to 31. So what other trends in the June 2017 numbers can we spot? When we start breaking down the numbers that trend […]
Summer Heat Diary… Log 6… July 1-7
Thursday July 6th… Dear diary. The upper ridge in association with the western heat wave will have its first peak today. The West may get a brief respite from extreme heat as the ridge weakens allowing some dusty monsoon storms to develop, but the heat will remain dangerous across a broad area as stated yesterday […]