Is it hot out there or is it just me?
It’s just you (the northern hemisphere) we are freezing our butts down here.
It seems to be a horrid week across large chunks of the northern hemisphere from what I’ve seen in me weather/climate feeds. Europe saw our March records and said “hold my beer”.
But I’ve been trying to tell myself to enjoy it while I can. After all, what’s record shattering in 2026 is going to be “average” in 2036.
I looked up various places in the southern hemisphere, and while Australia seems pleasant, boy, Chile and Argentina are definitely in the winter temps, snow even. I always think of Australia and NZ as semi tropical or Mediterranean, at least the southern areas. Further North in Aus, I know it is probably completely tropical. I never think of big snows and ice storms with either Aus or NZ, but I am willing to be informed if I am wrong.
Meanwhile here in the real near-tropics it’s 91F/33C w dewpoint 76F/24C = 77% RH. Fairly pleasant if you’re not trying to do physical labor in it.
Meanwhile, in my air conditioned house, I’m watching the guys from the natural gas company out working in my yard, in this weather. I feel very badly for them.
87f and Cloudy thus far in west Michigan with a slight breeze, still under an extreme heat warning.
House feels good inside,shades down, air con at 75f ( could be higher lostbthat battle) window fans blowing out on N side of house. No need for dehumidifier yet.
got a good rain yesterday yard looks lush.
Major week-long heat wave just starting here in southern Ontario, predicted highs of about 35°C (about 95 American Ferrets) and up to 37°C in some areas. Environment Canada has issued an “orange alert” heat warning, which is midway up in the hierarchy of yellow, orange, and red weather warnings.
One thing I heard on the news today is that it’s not just the temperature at any given time that affects health, it’s the unrelenting heat day after day. Vulnerable people like the elderly or those with medical conditions who don’t have access to cooling are always at risk in these situations.
I’ve noticed that the temperature anomaly in far north Canada and Siberia has been huge over the past couple of weeks. At climatepulse at https://pulse.climate.copernicus.eu/ it’s like 10C higher than average for enormous swathes of the countries. I didn’t think it was that bad until I saw the large map since I didn’t see it breaking daily records in any individual city, but I doubt that former heatwaves were so widespread.
Also from that webpage, we are within .3C or so of the highest daily average world temperature ever. I suspect that we would have hit a daily global high if we excluded the past 10 years.
I’ve seen an uptick in warnings for cumulatively heat stress as well. Particularly bad if it doesn’t cool off overnight to allow the body to “reset”. Part of why it’s frustrating when people are just focused on the absolute max temp for the heatwave overall and then dismiss it because they experienced worse “that one time”.
Well, just to piss everyone off it was between 40 and 50F for the last 3 days with 3" of rain at our house, 2’ of snow in the mountains, and 7.5" of water at a weather station 10 miles north of here…
I’m glad I don’t live there. Uggh.
I spent some hours at the beach this afternoon and am now in my damp swim shorts & shirt at a nearby outdoor bar & Italian eatery prepping for FIFA. Air is warm & comforting, breeze is light, sky is bright.
So much better than wearing a parka & mud boots.
YMMV, etc. I’m happy you’re happy.
We are at very very low fire danger, and it’s green as can be. Mid 60s today. Lovely.
Exactly, and that’s what the news and weather people have been talking about here, a lot, the past two days.
The dew point sets an absolute limit of how cool it can get overnight, and when it’s super-humid like it is now – dew point in the mid-to-upper 70s – that means it’ll get no cooler than that, and our overnight lows won’t get much below 80 until Friday.
Meanwhile, the Pacific is still brewing up a truly historic El Niño. If you’ll recall from earlier in the thread, NOAA had to expand the y-axis on their graphs not once, but twice as the models kept shifting towards ever stronger predictions.
They’ve had to update it again for the third time(!) as the median of the ensemble is now crossing an absolutely stupefying 4C later this year 
Thought about this conversation as this popped into my feed this afternoon:
https://www.npr.org/2026/07/02/nx-s1-5879113/heat-wave-nighttime-climate-change
Definitely a topic on people’s minds.
The South Island of New Zealand can definitely get a decent chunk of snow on occasion, especially up on the mountains; I mean, there’s a pretty big ski industry there. There are historical accounts of really dangerous winter snow in areas where, from what I’ve heard from friends living there, it’s now rare to get more than a decorative sprinkling. North Island is closer to Mediterranean, especially the Northern bit.
Australia is big; you can get some winter snow on bits in the South and Tasmania (and up some mountains), but the North is absolutely tropical.
102° in NYC today!! And it’ll be the same tomorrow.
Which is likely going to ramp up permafrost melting, which will release large amounts of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, which will accelerate climate change…
For the past few days it’s felt like a return to normalcy for Florida since we’ve been having regular afternoon thundershowers, which used to be a staple of summer 4 decades or so ago but have gotten rarer lately. Hopefully it will do something to combat the ongoing drought which is thankfully minor compared to some other places in the US.
In wider news, the global sea temperature is now the hottest it’s ever been in recorded history for this time of year. Also, looking at my previous link there is a water tab, and for the global water temperature record, from what I can tell, from the period 2023 through the present, the ocean has constantly remained hotter than the previous yearly average high despite seasonal fluctuations, except for a brief moment in fall of 2024. From eyeballing the anomaly chart it looks like the water temperature has consistently been more than .4C above the former average the entire past 4 years, which is huge.