Tuesday October 31st… Dear Diary. Boo! Happy Halloween. Let’s see if there will be any scary climate change warmth going into early November across the U.S. Computer models have done very well forecasting general switches in weather patterns the last few months. Here we see that the mean trough will shift back to the West with above average […]
Heat Diary 2017
A daily track of climate change-related heat trends across the United States during the summer months.
Fall Heat and Cold Diary… October 21-25, 2017
Wednesday October 25th… Dear Diary. Yesterday that heat dome did verify at a record 597+ decameters over California: An equally strong looking upper low settled in over the Midwest. Here’s the catch in the world of climate science. The air mass underneath the upper low was not record cold in nature while that in the Southwest […]
Back Into Hell… More Heat and Fire for California
Published today the 19th this is a must read for the event to come: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18102017/california-wildfires-global-warming-drought-wind-climate-change- Here is a good forecast from MDA Weather Services in association with the upcoming wind event in California: Day after day this week meteorological models have been painting the same picture for California and the Southwest for much of next […]
Fall and Winter Heat Diary October 16-20, 2017
Friday October 20th… Dear diary. It appears that the peak of the California heat wave will be on Tuesday OCT 24th. Just how long will the regime of above average and record setting temperatures last? To answer this forecast question let’s first look at the 500 mb pattern for the peak of the upcoming heat wave […]
Heat Dome Longevity/Possible More Topical Troubles?
Nate and a front has put a dent in the thing, but it just won’t die. Just how long will anomalously warm temperatures last across the eastern U.S? The heat dome will build up to historical levels again across the eastern U.S. this week. Nate can be seen on 500 mb charts as a little […]
Heat Dome Verification and Tropical Ramifications
Ah the saga of the October heat dome continues. Yesterday and today, 10/3 and 10/4/17, are the days I alluded to in “Weird, Warm and Spooky” in which I wrote that I hadn’t seen a heat dome of this magnitude forecast in October in my 35 year career as a meteorologist: https://guyonclimate.com/2017/09/25/warm-weird-and-spooky/ The piece was […]
Dissecting the Heat Dome
In the past week I sent out a tweet that garnered more attention than any of my prior social media transmissions, which I was rather surprised at: https://twitter.com/climateguyw/status/912706196460773376 I was pleased to see a Washington Post article stemming from what I noticed: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/09/28/summers-revenge-part-2-mega-heat-dome-to-build-over-central-and-eastern-u-s-next-week/?sdfsdfdsfds&utm_term=.68f1a40a973a In the tweet I stated and informed Dr. Michael Mann, “If verified at […]
Warm, Weird and Spooky
I ended my “Heat and Flood Diary” posts a couple of weeks ago when the last dangerous heat of the 2017 season subsided and Irma died over the South. On September 1st at the height of the last heat wave San Francisco established an all-time high of 106F. Now there has been an astonishing flip/flop […]
Tropical Cyclone Land Interactions… A Proposal
The worst hurricanes in the Atlantic Basin, so far, have made catastrophic landfalls. Two of them, Irma and Maria, took interesting paths from a research standpoint, that I’ll point out. In the original 1960s Star Trek there was an episode involving a “doomsday” automated planet killer machine that Captain Kirk figured out how to stop […]
Irma Wind and Flood Diary September 10-11, 2017
Tuesday September 12th… Dear diary. Yeah! Our long national nightmare with weather appears to be over since Irma is spinning down, José is forecast to stay away from the U.S., and high heat, smoke, and fires have abated in the West. It will take many months, unfortunately, for residents to recover in Texas and Florida. […]