Hottest weather of the season likely coming

in the mean time…
…anyone keeping up with the record cold in the Arctic
it’s breaking records
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2013/06/25/another-day-of-record-cold-in-the-arctic/

Send some of it this way please. Holland has been under par since the beginning of the year and next week the forecasts are +/- 15 C, where 25 is normal.

Death Valley is one place where UHI effects are not to be worried about.

Mr Watts, Joe Bastardi mentioned you today on the Cavuto Show about your efforts with NOAA weather stations and needed calibration.

It is all about the ridges now ?, darn it.
I thought it was all MY fault.
Wait…..the ridges are all my fault, right ?
Now I feel appropriately guilty, cool.

OMG….the summer solstice has arrived, and temps are getting warmer? Sure as heck has happened here in northern Alberta.

Neil Jordan (June 25, 2013 at 3:45 pm), thanks for the link. I overlooked it when it was published.

I recollect (I think it was on the late John Daly`s site) that the weather station, i.e. the thermometer, had been moved to a hotter part of Death Valley, somewhere where surrounding mountains more effectively reflect heat onto the weather station. I don’t know whether this is true, but if a new record is reported maybe someone in the know could confirm the change of siting , thus disqualifying the record.

So if it does not reach that record high, that will mean that temperatures are lower or at best similar to those in 1913.
So what is Obama panicking about?

The crew over at the no tricks zone is predicting frost in Germany.

David says:
June 25, 2013 at 3:41 pm
June 26, 1990 – 23 yrs ago tomorrow – Phoenix had its all time high temp of 122° F. In those days, I drove a Black Camaro with no A/C. Good times.
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I was riding a Harley. Seeing asphalt flowing under my tires while stopped at the intersection of McDowell and Beeline, was a bit weird, but not as weird as the Bottlebrush tree that exploded while I was almost under it. It took out a power in my neighborhood; so no evap, and I had just got it working! But as I had gone the past three years without any cooling at all, it was not too bad.

Yes, once again, ABC, CBS, NBC, the major newspapers will crank up the weather is somehow climate, even though we don’t know how ! !

Hansen told me that 1913 was not all that hot, please see adjustments.

My wife follows BBC music on her Kindle, and all the UK has had since the beginning of spring is 12-15C, cloudy with rain showers. Here in the Western Great Lakes we’ve been “normal” for June (slightly below normal for May), with slightly above rainfall. Well, that is until recently. For the last 6 days highs have been around 28-31 Deg C, plenty of rain showers and severe thunderstorms. And it looks like the ridge of High Pressure in the Far West will allow much colder temps to invade the Western Great Lakes Ohio Valley beginning Friday. The highs on Sunday will only be around 22 Deg C. The long range forecast for the 4th of July here is for partly cloudy skies and 20 deg C, or about 8 deg C below normal. Sweater weather for the 4th!!!!

Caleb, it snowed twice on me in Georgetown….SOUTH CAROLINA. Just north of Charleston. Twice while I lived there. And I was only there from 1974-1979. I am positive 1976 was one of those years. Good times.

I was 12 in 1990, and remember the 122 degree day in Phoenix, vividly. My buddies and I swam all day in a friend’s pool, like we always did, and then, at around 4PM, the hottest part of the day, I rode my bike home, like I always did, so that I could beat my parents home. It was hot. That June was really f-ing hot. I lived in PHX for ~25 years and I now live in the PNW. Thank f-ing God! 110+ is unbearable, and I don’t miss it one bit.
Here’s some interesting AZ heat facts:
http://www.abc15.com/dpp/weather/heat_center/Arizona-heat-facts
Seems that it used to be much “hotter” than it is now… However, I do recall they relocated the Sky Harbor weather station (the official PHX temp reading) at some point after 1990, so we’re not really comparing apples to apples. More climate “science” fail.

Portland, Oregon (June 25th 2013) – “The hottest weather of the season is likely on the way …”
We’re four days into the season,and temps are still increasing? SAVE US Obama!

Look at the colour scheme! You know, I reckon if it really DID heat up, say to the top of the scale where it looks green right now, they’d switch the colours around to keep those hot reds and oranges. They just love that psychological message.

I left Phoenix in 99, but visited again. The summertime is when chip sealing took place. I remember the ‘Radio Station for Men’ (whatever its call letters were), leading the effort to save the ‘chip seals’. Unless you’ve summered in Phoenix, you don’t really appreciate the idiocy of ‘dry heat’.

I’m betting on a mild summer. Wishful thinking, I know, but I and my model want to be on record too.

The color scale on that map is so objectionable, I can’t see past the graphic for the underlying message.
How can Greenland at 10-25 deg F have nearly the same color as the 80-85 deg F of Kansas?
And why, why, why is a balmy high of 75 deg F deep red-orange?
a chilly high of 60 deg F a bright yellow !?!?
I can sit still for 30-35 degs as being white as that is a snow/ice/frost color.
Why dark blue at 0-5 deg F and a big change to light grey at -5-0? What is so special about 0 deg F?
The only green on the scale is at a death defying -20 deg F…. Oh, and 130 deg F.
Did someone mix up the RGB cables to the programmers monitor?

Drenching thunderstorms here 10 miles east of Seattle today. Was just complaining to the missus that we’d had our 3 days of summer a couple weeks ago, so whoopie, we get two summers this year! From a Farmer’s Almanac world view, yesterday I finally spread moss killer as the normal late spring sun has not been around much and the moss has been thriving. I already miss global warming.

Over at the NSIDC site the area of arctic sea ice is approx 10% greater than at this time last year and is well within two standard deviations of the 1979/2000 average. Mmmmmm…

Bring it on. Heck-of-alot better than the last 8 months of cold.

Gee, what caused the Death Valley record that already happened? Oh…right…the EPA didn’t exist back then.
Moreover, when I see several thermometers reading above 55 C in Iraq in a month’s time I’ll know that they need to have more stations around to get a better picture of temperatures.

It has been another “Junuary” here in Bend, Oregon. Last week we had enough hail/pellet snow to turn the ground white. Summer would be nice.

It will be interesting to get some temps out of UHIs that are not encircled with asphalt. I predict a +9 degree difference in UHI as apposed to the forested areas west of the Cascade range that predominate the NW. Urban growth equates to more asphalt and smog and airconditioners and expanding UHI which equates to warmer temp readings.

Is this a preemptive ‘forecast’ temperature record like they used in Australia back in March.
See JoNova’s site where the forecast did not come close, but the news reports of the forecast implanted the record in the uninformed.
http://joannenova.com.au/2013/02/how-well-did-that-50-degree-forecast-work-out-for-the-bom/.

It COULD be even colder…
It COULD be raining men …
It COULD be the week D’oh!bama gets indicted for reckless homicide (Benghazi incident)
Hey Janice, Scott Barnes, a former Inglewood, Calif., police officer who used to do dirty deeds for the Republicans is nowhere to be found. Huh, imagine that! Maybe he was in Benghazi…. ‘dirty deeds ‘n their done dirt cheap’. You need something to do.

About time we got some warm weather. This has been the wettest spring that I’ve seen in Kamloops and the weather reminds me of Vancouver (one of the reasons I left the place). Outdoor temperature now is a chilly 62 F. While the rain means I don’t have to irrigate, it certainly makes it unpleasant to go for hikes as what I like about semi deserts is a nice warm day with temperatures in the high 90’s with very low humidity so really all one has to do on a hike is bring sufficient water for evaporative cooling which the body does very efficiently in such environments.
About 5 years ago one of the local papers printed a forecast that in the near future we would have water rationing as the rivers dried up and temperatures rose to unbearable levels (I guess they hadn’t heard about air conditioning). As usual, Gaia with her irrepressible sense of humor, has created just the opposite climatic changes locally and the local rivers have been close to flooding for weeks now.
Unfortunately, the residents of Vancouver and Seattle will likely believe the MSM’s CAGW propaganda as they are subject to significant UHI effects. I lived in downtown Vancouver and it was much hotter there in summers than in supposedly hotter Kamloops; not surprising when one has large expanses of asphalt and concrete buildings with very small numbers of trees and other vegetation to produce evaporative cooling. Combine that with the higher humidity of those cities than one gets in deserts and the summers are quite unpleasant unless one happens to be on the beach or has air conditioning.
Looks like I chose the correct week in July to take some time off as I was almost ready to do what I did when I lived in Vancouver; work straight weeks at a time when it was raining and then take off any day when it was sunny. In Vancouver I could do so as there were days in my office after weeks of rain that I’d have 90% of my scheduled patients not show on the first sunny day. Now I’ll just have to put up with the heat and try to neglect the fact that it’s occurring during summer. I’ll let the coastal moonbats do the worrying about the singular occurrence of a hot summer week; something which was a lot more frequent 15 years ago for those of us who have memories which go back that far and don’t see reality through a CAGW filter.