The main purpose of this ongoing blog will be to track planetary extreme, or record temperatures related to climate change. Any reports I see of ETs will be listed below the main topic of the day. I’ll refer to extreme or record temperatures as ETs (not extraterrestrials).😉
Main Topic: Heatwave Gasprom Should Break But U.S. Extreme Heat Is Far from Over This Summer
Dear Diary. The heatwave that I’ve dubbed Gasprom after Russia’s main oil company has had a strangle hold on the West for a few weeks. Here is the state of the current heat dome over the area:
A strong 597+ decameter ridge is over Arizona with an extension of the thing nosing northward into the Dakotas. True to form, the remainder of the most anomalous heat and National Weather Service advisories in association with that heat is over the Southwest and from eastern Montana into the Dakotas. Note the widespread area of wildfire advisories located across the Intermountain West area also:
Gazprom’s heat dome is in the process of collapsing and should be gone over the weekend:
A cool system moving in from the Pacific Northwest should finally bring relief to the Southwest for a few days. What’s left of Gasprom will move from the Dakotas through the Upper Midwest into the Northeast looking at 500 millibar anomaly maps.
But that’s not the end of extreme heat across the U.S. this summer. A new ridge will build over the Southeast and retrograde into the Plains and West as it continues to grow:
Ensembles suggest that this new heat dome will be a pain well into August:
Note the orange and red anomaly colors extending from the Southwest into the Northern Plains.
At the surface we should expect the following results. Ugh!
Of course, at @climateguyw on X I will be posting daily heatwave updates, so stay tuned.
Here are more “ETs” recorded from around the planet the last couple of days, their consequences, and some extreme temperature outlooks, as well as any extreme precipitation reports:
Here is some more June/July 2024 climatology (Prior reports are listed on older daily diary blogs for each calendar day.):
Here is More Climate News from Thursday:
(As usual, this will be a fluid post in which more information gets added during the day as it crosses my radar, crediting all who have put it on-line. Items will be archived on this site for posterity. In most instances click on the pictures of each tweet to see each article. The most noteworthy items will be listed first.)