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 […]
Streak Hits 30…A Word About Paris
So, President Trump dumped the Paris Climate Accords yesterday. One of the biggest excuses I hear from American conservative circles is that “It’s all a hoax just to further the liberal agenda.” So is the temperature and specifically record data that I and others have been presenting all made up? For those of us who […]
Building a Better Method to Forecast Dangerous Heat
Up to this point with my posts I have been relaying general information in association with my record temperature research trends using NCEI data. In this post I will attempt to begin to put that research to the test aiding climate scientist’s and meteorologist’s quests for warning the general public of the chances for dangerous […]
Planetary Record Temperature Trends for 2017
I have been using the following NCEI site to do my U.S. record statistics for years. https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/datatools/records Recently I have used the site to investigate record temperature trends in other countries such as Canada and Russia. Not many people know that the site keeps tallies of all records coming in from the entire planet. There […]
Forecasting a Hot? Summer
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 companies, those doing a lot of outdoor work, and even health professionals had a good heads up on weather […]
From Russia With Records (Part 2)
Between the time I posted part one of my findings on Russia record trends and now, bombshell after bombshell of scandalous news in association with the Trump administration has been printed in every major newspaper. I had to laugh out loud seeing what Time Magazine put on their cover this week. So, it is apropeaux, with a wink and a nod, that we should continue to look at Russian record temperature […]
From Russia With Records (Part One)
After cataloging counts of daily records in the National Center for Environmental Information’s database for Canada, I began looking to see what country should be next on my list to research. For reference, here is what I came up with for Canada: https://guyonclimate.com/2017/04/28/canadian-record-trends/ I am getting all of my data from: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/datatools/records In order to get […]
April 2017 Most Extreme U.S. Temperatures
In previous posts on this site and on Weather Underground I introduced the weather and climate world to the concept of an Extreme Temperature Index. Lets apply the current index algorithm to reports from April 2017 in the National Center for Environmental Information’s surface records site and see what the most extreme event and location was. […]
April 2017 Was Warm…. No Fooling…. Streak at 29
In my last piece I statistically broke down how warm the United States had gotten over the last five years in association with “the streak”. The streak is defined as the record number of consecutive months that daily record highs have outnumbered daily record lows from the National Center for Environmental Information database, which has now reached […]