Since we talk about record cold events with regularity here, I thought I’d talk about some record heat events that occurred near me.
Here’s a roundup of some highs:
SXUS76 KSTO 210038 AAA RERSTO RECORD EVENT REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SACRAMENTO, CA 530 PM PDT MON APR 20 2009 ...RECORD HEAT ACROSS INTERIOR NORTHERN CALIFORNIA... A STRONG HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE HAS SETTLED OVER CALIFORNIA. THE HIGH PRESSURE...COMBINED WITH VERY LIGHT WINDS AND ABUNDANT SUNSHINE HAS RESULTED IN ANOTHER DAY OF RECORD BREAKING HIGH TEMPERATURES ACROSS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. TODAYS HIGH OF 96 AT REDDING RECORD BROKE THE RECORD AT BOTH THE AIRPORT AND AT THE OLD REDDING CITY LOCATION. THE OLD CITY RECORD WAS 93...SET IN 1931. THE HIGH AT RED BLUFF AIRPORT REACHED 95...WHICH ECLIPSED THE OLD RECORD HIGH OF 91 SET IN 1950. THE HIGH AT THE SACRAMENTO CITY STATION REACHED 94 DEGREES... BREAKING THE OLD RECORD OF 92 SET IN 1931. THE RECORD AT SACRAMENTO EXECUTIVE AIRPORT REACHED 93...THE OLD RECORD WAS 90 SET IN 1950. A RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 96 DEGREES WAS SET AT STOCKTON CA SUNDAY. THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 90 SET IN 1950. A RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 97 DEGREES WAS SET AT MODESTO CA SUNDAY. THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 92 SET IN 1986. TUESDAY WILL BE ANOTHER WARM DAY WITH NEAR RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES FORECAST. TEMPERATURES BEGIN TO COOL BY MIDWEEK...BY THE WEEKEND TEMPERATURES SHOULD BE NEAR NORMAL.
While note mentioned by the NWS, the weather station I operate for my local Newspaper, The Chico Enterprise-Record set a new record high:
There were a bunch set in Southern California also
A RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 87 DEGREES WAS SET AT LOS ANGELES AIRPORT TODAY. THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 83 SET IN 1986. A RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 94 DEGREES WAS SET DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA TODAY. THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 92 SET IN 1914. A RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 97 DEGREES WAS SET AT LONG BEACH CALIFORNIA TODAY. THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 88 DEGREES SET IN 1986. A RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 96 DEGREES WAS SET AT SAN GABRIEL TODAY. THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 93 DEGREES SET IN 1999. A RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 92 DEGREES WAS SET AT U.C.L.A. TODAY. THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 84 DEGREES SET IN 1999. A RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 96 DEGREES WAS SET AT CAMARILLO TODAY. THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 86 DEGREES SET BACK IN 1958. A RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 96 DEGREES WAS SET AT OXNARD TODAY. THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 86 DEGREES SET IN 1958. A RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 87 DEGREES WAS SET AT SANTA BARBARA AIRPORT TODAY. THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 86 DEGREES SET IN 1958. A RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 94 DEGREES WAS SET AT SANTA MARIA TODAY. THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 91 DEGREES SET IN 1938. A RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 95 DEGREES WAS SET AT PASO ROBLES TODAY. THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 93 DEGREES SET IN 1950.
And here comes the requisite mention of “global warming” from the media, such as this story from the Post Chronicle:
California’s Cities Hit Record Hot Tempertures – Global Warming In Effect?
by Jack Ryan
Maybe it’s global warming but a record storm of heat has hit Californians extremely hard on Sunday. According to reports, a record of 101 degrees in Santa Ana was reached. Originally in 1916 apparently, a 94-degree record had been in place.
According to the AP, “Record heat is forecast statewide again Monday with the National Weather Service posting a heat advisory along the coast from San Francisco Bay south to Big Sur. Thermometers registered record highs Sunday across Southern California.”
Note, the headline typo is NOT mine, click link to see the original. By the way, this is what the Santa Ana weather station looks like. It’s a great place to set records. Story here.
Santa Ana Station looking North. Click for a larger image
And finally, I had to laugh at this headline:
Only in California…maybe the headline writer for the Post Chronicle was there?
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Weaverville, CA
Apr 19, 2009 had a high of 89. The local news reported a record.
I have data from Wearverville Ranger Station that the record was 90 in 1939.
Apr 20, 2009 (today) had a high of 92, breaking the record of 91 set in 1939.
Was 1939 the year of most of my city’s records? No, that would be 1933, and it was a killer.
Just one week ago, we had an Arctic blast that sent shivers down everyone’s spines all the way to Santa Cruz.
By this weekend, we will be back to colder temps, dropping 30 degrees in a couple of days.
Global Warming? No.
Regional Yo-yo? Yes.
Well, we all know that record highs are proof of global warming, but record lows are just weather. It is a very convenient truth, dontcha know…
Hmm how about places like say,Susanville, Porterville ,Mojave,_Bakersfield_?
I’d say Urban Heat Island effect.
Daily or all time? I was enjoying the warm weather in NE Oregon,got some planting done.-Before it frosts again…
Can you please send some of that warmth and sun here to Tokyo? It was 15 degrees Celsius yesterday and maybe 19 degrees today (but cloudy) with rain scheduled for later this evening . . .
Interesting that most of the old record temps are from 50+ years ago – what caused them?
Hmph!
Just in time to set the tone for that most political of events – Earth Day.
Gotta save the planet, don’t cha know?
This looks to be the same pattern for the West Coast that I saw develop last year. The Barometric Highs & Lows reach farther in latitude, and they don’t march across the continent quite as fast as they used to. I just took it to mean that the westerlies are weaker, and the heat must rise to find equilibrium somewhere, so up it goes higer towards the Arctic and the cold decends latitudewise to counter.
Record High Temps & Low Temps mean something if they are part of a consistent parttern, such as was the case in 1933 for the greatest part of the year where I live. Otherwise, we have outliers scattered over many years.
I was not aware that Global Warming occured in the 30’s.
If I can ever get my hands on the daily temps here for all years, there are some things I see but cannot quite pin down.
My Pinot noir vines are loving it. They’re also thinking WTF, who ordered that ?? (the 30 something degrees temperatures last week).
Here’s a trend: expected highs of 83, 64, and 56 for Tues, Wed, and Thur of this week in Ellensburg, Wa. —- 1971-2000 normal is 62.
CA is set for a 20 degree drop in T-max over the same period.
The heat wave is over.
If this Santa Ana “rooftop” weather station image is facing North, does that mean the access door is facing the afternoon sun when opened for reading? Sort of looks like that to me.
Lots of sin going on here.
REPLY: Yes that is right, we noted this but you spotted it all over again. -Anthony
Anthony, I think your work on the poor location selection of these temp stations is catching on. I attended a local seminar a couple weeks ago which was well attended. Anti AGW sentiment was running high.
The more this kind of accurate information is presented the more of it gets diseminated among the general public.
I bet that concrete roof top generates a lot of heat on a calm wind day. Also note the York compressor a few feet away. I would be interested to know how all the other temp stations are positioned throughout the region and how they may be affected by poor positioning and how that may have resulted in giving high regional temps.
You know every time there is some warm weather I cringe because I know the Reverend Al Gore and Saint Suzuki crowds are going to crawl out of the wood work and start screaming global warming. Summers seem to be the worst. Gawd they make me tired.
Temperatures were around 100 here in San Jose, supposed to be down in the 50’s by the weekend. Daily highs were 10 degrees below normal all last week but that didn’t make the paper.
I was in a blizzard in Santa Fe a week ago. Blizzard defined as snow blowing sideways. I guess the global warming has not reached there yet.
I posted this tongue in cheek comment on WUWT: Tom (14:22:26) :
In spite of of the sound scientific reasons – lack of positive feedback in the climate being probaly the most important – nothing seems to stop the political progress of AGW proponents. Well, if you cannot beat them, join them. No, I am not proposing to join the crowd who think that Global Warming is the greatest danger facing mankind. Instead, I want to call attention to what I think the greatest danger facing mankind: Excessive Farting . Too much farting creates a hostile environment and causes global warming. Also you do not have to worry about creating scientific justifications and computer models, because there will not be anybody in favor of excessive farting. The next step for the United Nation to establish the IPFC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Fart Control. I am sure that after sessions and assessment reports they will come to the conclusions that:
a., Excessive Farting ( EF ) is caused by mankind – although bovine contribution is not insignificant.
b., The only sure way to reduce EF is to drastically reduce, or in some cases totally eliminate eating.
I almost feel embarrassed how little time it took for the MSM ( British in this instance ) to follow up.http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2387203.ece
Totally Off Topic, apologies.
Today’s Peninsula Daily News (Port Angeles, WA) had a story of a fellow sailing single from Lake Superior and across the Arctic to Nome. They gave his Web Site.
Here is the story http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20090420/news/304209997 and here is the web site for the fellow http://www.arcticsolosail.com/
The story notes that clear navigation lanes opened in 2007, so now is the time to do it.
This may or may not be interesting to follow over the coming months.
In the mean time, the Nobel Price winner IPCC, along with Al Gore (also a Nobel Price whiner) are pushing very hard the world goverments to abandon the Celsius temperature scale. They had a preference for the Kelvin scale but will accept the Fahrenheit scale because those scales show the temperature with bigger numbers than that of Celsius, and in the case of Kelvin, the numbers are similar as those on Venus on the Celsius scale.
“Let’s face it, the Celsius scale does not carry our message correctly” – Al Gore
At least Santa Ana kept their ‘record’ temperature duration less than that of the Chicago Cubs.
Not only did it set a new record yesterday and today in San Diego, but both days set records by 5 degrees. Today tied the all-time record for hottest day in April ever recorded in San Diego at 98.
It was definitely hot! In fact, it still is way too warm to sleep.
We’re doomed!
OT – the BBC has finally spotted that the sun is going through a quiet phase. It even mentions the Little Ice Age, which must be a little confusing because we all know that there wasn’t one really according to some of their experts and the programmes they put out on climate. They do say that the sun’s slumber will not derail the catastrophic rise in temperatures, however. The weirdest bit is the “sun has been dimming” since 1985.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8008473.stm
Is there any background info regarding dimming of the sun? Leif?
Ray (22:36:33),
The Gorical has already invented things too numerous to mention so why doesn’t he develop the Gore scale? It could have lots of really big scary numbers. He may not be smart enough to do this on his own but some of his handlers could likely do it and make a brightly colored chart he could stand in front of, and show off.
It was “balls” hot today anyway you slice it. I remember we had a similar heat wave last spring, just like this one, lasted for 3 days, kicked my butt, then got back down to normal-below normal pretty quickly. Supposed to be a high of 80 tomorrow, which will be a relief, then will slide down to the low 60’s over the few days.
And yes, the plants love it.
O/T Image of the day by the Ice Team is of “Ann pulling sled over ice rubble” and differs from the one of Pen in the first report in that the surface background appears real. The position of the photographer seems to be on a much higher ridge of rubble. How thick might the ice be under the photographer and did they drill? Arctic is having a heat wave also. It is all the way up to -15 C.
AndrewWH (23:15:40) :
Leif has a reconstruction here:
http://www.leif.org/research/TSI%20(Reconstructions).xls
Scroll down to row 370 for TSI from 1975. Doesn’t seem to relate to the quote you provided, namely “the “sun has been dimming” since 1985.”
It is pretty warm in Oregon too, but a week ago it was 5 degrees at the ski area.
I guess that proves we are in for more extreme events.