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 […]
Month: August 2017
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 […]