Thursday August 2nd… Dear Diary. The main purpose of this ongoing post will be to track United States 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)😊. Here is […]
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Extreme Temperature Diary- July 30, 2018/ Hot Topic: July Record Count Check
Monday July 30th… Dear Diary. The main purpose of this ongoing post will be to track United States 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)😊. Here is […]
Climate Change Depression – Part Two
Climate Change Depression – Part Two On part one of this essay I described a few reasons why depression can creep up on climate scientists and those writing about global warming because the subject is so dark and foreboding. Today I’m simply going to relate what personally cheers me up, brightening my days in between […]
Extreme Temperature Diary- June 1, 2018/ Hot Topic: Summer Forecast
Friday June 1st… Dear Diary. The main purpose of this ongoing post will be to track United States 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)😊. Here is […]
Extreme Temperature Diary-January 20, 2018/ Topic: ENSO Peaks and Valleys…Comparing 2016 with 1998
Saturday January 20th… Dear Diary. The main purpose of this ongoing post will be to track United States extreme or record temperatures related to climate change. I’ll refer to extreme temperatures as ETs (not extraterrestrials)😊. Here is today’s climate change related topic: ENSO Peaks and Valleys… Comparing 2016 with 1998 Segueing from my posts of […]
Winter Heat and Cold Diary December 14-16, 2017 -The Thomas Fire
Saturday December 16th… Dear Diary. Rather than addressing another climate change related topic today I’m going to present more information on the fires in California since winds have once again made the situation much worse last night. Please check local programming if you are located in areas of high fire danger. What I’m presenting should […]
Winter 2017/2018 Forecast
I’m going to quote myself from spring, summer, and fall when I attempted to make seasonal forecasts: “Forecasting for a season is perhaps the most difficult, and as the public knows, most unreliable product put out by any group be it those, for example, from NOAA or people putting together The Old Farmers Almanac. If farmers, power companies, construction […]
October 2017 U.S. Climate and Record Statistics
This will be an open thread for U.S. record temperature and climate statistics, which I will add to once more information crosses my radar. October 2017 was another warmer than average month for the U.S. Here are the ranked temperature averages per state. A ranking of 1 would be the coldest since 1895 and 123 […]
Recipe for a Climate Change Disaster
By now there are numerous articles and posts concerning the ongoing California wildfire disaster, which is the worst in that state’s history. The links to climate change are obvious, but I can add some simple statistics helping to cement claims of attribution. Let’s look at the three steps that led to this tragedy. First there […]
Updated Streak Dissection
Six months ago I began to dig more into National Center for Environmental Information data in relation to the record long “streak” of consecutive months of more daily high records than lows across the U.S. I posted information here: https://guyonclimate.com/2017/04/09/streaking-past-a-tipping-point/ and here: https://guyonclimate.com/2017/04/12/streak-dissection/ As of September 2017 the streak has reached 34 months starting in […]