It’s been a hot year already with Texas heat waves and big wildfires across Canada. I didn’t see another thread discussing the new record, set three different days this week, for rising mercury.
I thought today was the fourth day in a row of “hottest day ever recorded globally”.
Any thread titled “Global High Temperature Broken” better not have a figure in it, because that record is going to be broken 50 more times this year. The old record was in August and things will continue to get hotter until at least Labor Day.
The OP’s link is behind a paywall, BTW.
Given that we’re heading into a solid El Niño for the first time in ~7 years, and that El Niño’s cause warmer overall global weather, we can expect more of the same all summer and into the fall.
Record setting (or top 3) monthly warmth has been happening pretty routinely every month for the last couple of years as the influence of the prior La Nina wanes, CO2 emissions continue unabated, and ocean and atmospheric heat content keeps accumulating. the fresh and still growing El Niño will kick all that into high gear.
This is my favorite climate & hurricane blog. Worth a look at some recent articles.
And here’s the NWS official blog on ENSO itself. Also worth a quick look IMO
Sorry about the paywall but the graph included with the link includes all the needed info, really.
This July 6 article says three but maybe it is four.
The top article in my first cite/site has some pretty good graphs that may cover the same ground sans paywall.
Sorry, but whatever graph is hidden for me.
The news is being pretty well covered elsewhere, though. People are dying and will continue to die.
I meant to say that the graph is on the left side of the box in this Straight Dope thread. You do not need to click the link to see it, although it may or may not easier to enlarge it on a phone. Still, a short excerpt from the article in the first post:
Excerpt from first link
On [July 3rd] the average global air temperature reached a new record. On July 4th the average global air temperature reached a new record. And on July 6th the average global air temperature reached a new record. Three records in a single week may seem alarming [as are] Heatwaves in [Asia] and America… The new record is 17.233°C, more than half a degree warmer than the hottest temperature recorded in 1980….
Try this from my non-paywalled blog cite/site:
I’ve spent the last 3 weeks in Denver. I don’t live there anymore, but I know Denver. Lived there for 15 years.
Pushing 100 degrees which is not that strange for July. But then the next day it barely broke 60 degrees. That was strange.
My home in the mountains got snow. That happens in July, but not very often.
I don’t understand the point of your post. The thread is talking about global, and you’re talking about local.
Global averages are calculated based on local. You have to get the temperature from somewhere. My post was just pointing out that the weather seems rather strange.
Except that the “strangeness” of local weather or microclimate is usually produced by local factors. The kind of strangeness that is relevant to a climate change discussion concerns weather anomalies that are widespread, persistent, or recurring. And some of those can definitely be non-intuitive, like climate change causing severe droughts in some areas while causing floods in others, or the fact that a rapidly warming Arctic can sometimes produce exceptionally cold winters in the mid-latitudes. All of these anomalies are due to the effect of climate change on regional and global atmosphere and ocean circulation systems.
Ah, thanks. I read it as refuting climate change, but that seemed unlikely, so I thought I’d ask.
As many experts have said many times, anthropogenic global warming (“AGW”) will manifest to the layperson mostly as “global weirding”.
A fraction of a degree hotter on average over a month will be imperceptible as a temperature change except to the instruments. But the consequences of that fraction of a degree spread unevenly everywhere and sustained unevenly over months and years will be ginormous. Floods, droughts, July snows, January thaws, tornadoes in unexpected places, hurricanes in unexpected months, etc., etc.
As @enipla almost said, he’s been experiencing global weirding in Denver this week, and a bit at home too. Which weirding is evidence for, not against, AGW.
I’m sure I did not quite explain myself very well. With regard to weather that I have seen for the 62 years on this planet, I’m saying… Well this is really strange.
Of course 62 years is nothing. But it’s enough for me to say huh.
Yup. The elevation at my home is 6000 feet above Denver. So I’m used to seeing weird stuff.
Shit there where tornados reported in Park County Colorado. That’s 9000 feet in elevation. That’s a new one. This has been an odd ‘summer’.
The point about local weirdness is interesting. We had a really hot spell in May. Not insane, but it’s definitely caused some unusual reverberations in the garden: some things are earlier, some are later, and some just didn’t do as well this year. I hope actual farmers are managing better.
I don’t like in the climate where I grew up, so I don’t really have as good a sense of where things “should” be. But then, if I did still live in the eastern portion of San Diego, I probably couldn’t grow things that require water, so there’s that. (Though looking it up, our water restrictions in British Columbia are much tighter than San Diego’s.)
This is certainly what I’ve been experiencing in suburban Chicago in recent years. Temperature and precipitation have become more extreme (at both ends), and when a weather pattern sets up, it often stays locked in for weeks at a time.
So I’m assuming that yesterday wasn’t another record breaker because we didn’t see it in the news?