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).😉
Dear Diary. While the United States has been dealing with anomalous heat most of this summer, other parts of the planet have, as well. Case in point, eastern Europe. For example:
A heatwave has been festering across Eastern Europe for most of this summer, and it appears looking at models that it will get a lot worse just as the clock starts to tick from meteorological summer into meteorological fall. Next week a strong heat dome will build over the area:
At lower levels of the atmosphere, we see that anomalous heat will spread across most of Europe:
As usual, I will be plugging into this blog any European records from next week in the space below from weather historian Maximiliano Herrera.
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 more new August 2024 climatology (More July 2024 can be found on each prior daily post during August):
Here is More Climate News from Friday:
(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.)