Tuesday June 20th… Dear diary. Today it is the summer solstice, so we are getting into prime time for dangerous heat across the U.S. Already in June we have seen a week of high heat in the Northeast and are in the midst of a prolonged heatwave in the Southwest. See my prior logs here noting […]
Heat Diary 2017
A daily track of climate change-related heat trends across the United States during the summer months.
Summer 2017 Heat Diary… Log 3… June 14-20
Wednesday June 14th… Dear diary. As surmised yesterday our emphasis on extreme heat will turn to the Southwest where excessive heat watches and warnings have already been posted. You can look at my heat diary for prior days in June here: https://guyonclimate.com/2017/06/07/summer-2017-heat-diary-log-two-june-7-14/ As I will continue to emphasize, the first clue to look at for extreme temperatures is […]
Summer 2017 Heat Diary… Log Two… June 7-14
Dear diary, the weather pattern is shifting for the second week of June such that there will be some prolonged heat from the Midwest into the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. As noted from my first diary log for this summer, the 500 Mb anomaly charts point to where high heat may occur during the summer. The […]
Summer 2017 Heat Diary…. Log One…May 28 to June 7
As promised I am starting a summer heat diary for the United States, which will be more technical, meteorologically, than most of my prior posts. Questions from laymen not knowing much about meteorology are most welcome since the jargon used here will be geared more towards my associates with degrees in weather science. My intent […]
Post 4. A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words
Lately those wanting to show warming trends have been using simple pictures or pictograms. A pictogram acts like a graph, but in most instances gets a point across faster and more precisely than say a bar chart. The human brain processes colors and pictures more easily than representative symbols. The National Center for Environmental Information has started […]