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?
Phil. (08:34:15) :
The difficulty of linking the solar activity changes to terrestrial temperatures is that the solar activity change is so small, hence the search by some for other related external source such as solar modulation of cosmic rays.
Kinda like computer generated, non-empirical CO2 positive feedback.
Adolfo Giurfa (05:51:43) :
“Wait attentively for The Prophet to appear one of these days with a new set of the most catastrophic slides…Beware, repent of your sins, clean all those black soot footprints you left behind…Kneel down and adore HIM!”
Delicious heresy!
On topic – it was not uncommon for the near two decades I lived in LA, for 80+ degree weather in January! This was the inspiring reason for millions of goading phone calls to friends and relatives the world over. I regularly barbecued on New Years Day. Back then, there was little hysteria – just happy gratitude for our place in the sun.
John F. Hultquist (23:18:27) :
I think they will use the Gormannsen scale for global warming (Gore-Hansen-Mann). In their scale, the increase of temperature is small when it is cold but get’s rapidly exponential when as it gets warmer.
Jack Simmons (03:30:01) :
I don’t need to provide any links. I use the same school of thought as that of Gore and I just pulled that from my a$$ just like he does… and there is no chance you can debate me on this. The debate is over before it ever started. Got it?
Jeff Alberts. Oh that is such a deal! Tell you what, no you keep your imperial measurements and we’ll get rid of royalty anyway. How’s that? Even the Queen knows the score, you know? Why do you think she’s hanging on in there? When he comes, he’ll do for royalty what Nixon did for Presidency.
For those who wanted info on Professor Lockwood http://www.phys.soton.ac.uk/staff/index.php?staff=ml
Here’s the real punchline. This is characteristic of a split jet stream. This is very, very late in the season for a split jet.
There is interesting research regarding persistent split jets and ice ages.
Anthony,
When these temperatures are reported, are they ever adjusted for UHI?
I’m reminded of a recent study of UHI (not to mention siting issues) in Los Angelos which showed a very large UHI effect in that area.
I am one who is most skeptical about the idea of Global Warming. See my blog on “chess” http://kindredspiritks.wordpress.com/2009. I wrote a column called Global Warning noting that current events follow a path that occurred in Europe about 500 years ago. Prior to the mini-ice-age that struck Europe leaving masses starving and or dead, there was a long period of beautiful weather where crops flourished in abundance. Then, suddenly everything went downhill with more and more freezing temperatures, destroyed crops, no crops would grow in the icy landscape. On the eve, there was experienced flooding, heavy winds, rain and snow or sleet to follow where the land could no longer absorb the moisture.
Todate I have 119 columns written usually with a chess theme, being a chess enthusiast and historian.–KindredSpirit’s Kaleidoscope. –Enjoy. Don.
MartinGAtkins (08:34:47) :
I first saw a BBC report on the Breakfast show about the dimming sun, I think it was a couple of years ago. It seemed to me it was just a one-minute “we’re all going to die and it’s all your fault” hysteria top up. It showed a man sitting in front of a computer screen with, if I remember correctly, a solar disc above and a gradually diminishing wiggly plot underneath. You couldn’t see much detail. It did mention the source but I can’t recall which it was.
Jeff Alberts (09:17:38) :
When you get rid of your useless royalty, we’ll switch to celsius. Deal? 😉
Can we keep the non-useless ones?
I am just watching Robert Redford at CNN stating that he is in “Green Territory” for 35 years and he never could understand why the connection between environment and economy was never made, until know.
He is very happy with the measures taken by the Obama Administration.
Obama now is creating the conditions that finally will “Green” the US economy.
The interview continues and the new economy is discussed.
Guess what the backbone of this “Green” economy will be?
Wind mills all over again.
Now to the recent high temperature records in California.
Stephen Skinner (02:34:28) here is right.
If the weather is calm, no wind conditions and clear skies, it heats up (in summer that is). In winter the calm weather is producing record low temperatures as we have seen in Great Brittan this winter.
These are the moments where people rely the most on energy for cooling or warming.
These are the moments wind mills don’t deliver. No wind, no energy.
I am convinced that no person within what is called the “skeptic” community has any objections against any reliable clean energy solutions that would boost our economy and improve our lives.
But nobody benefits if “Green” solutions that don’t deliver are forced upon us and high taxes on reliable energy sources go sky high.
Without any exception the arguments to promote the new green economy are made up by political spin, scientific fraud and manipulation.
This posting is another example of the spin, fraud and manipulation disclosed at this web site and I am grateful for it. The response from the skeptic community is instant and devastating.
We have come a long way since he publication of the hockey stick graph when it took a long time before it was disclosed as a scientific scam.
Obama, who hired the most talented scam artists in history into his administration, has taken a political course that will destroy not only the US but the entire World Economy.
The levels of spending have generated the biggest deficit in history and when it will peak somewhere at the end of this summer, the USA will default.
This default will trigger the collapse of the entire International Monetary System.
So, I wonder how many of those planned wind farms will be build!
The current wave of climate fraud and alarmist media reporting is initiated to support the political process to introduce draconian legislation to control CO2 emissions, the final stage of a master plan to trick the USA into the “Green Trap”
and the rest of the world World during the planned December UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen.
After 100 days in office, the opposition against Obama and his administration is growing. People rally against the bail out and tax policies at “Tea Parties” organized all over the country and as the climate is cooling the number of Americans that believe the AGW hoax is declining rapidly.
As the legislative process in regard to CO2 emission legislation is moving into the US courts it will only take one single harsh winter to break the AGW scam for good.
The question I ask for now is if the world economy will survive long enough to draw the benefits of such a victory.
In the mean time the current solar minimum is neglected by the big media.
Until today. BBC has published an article titled ‘Quiet Sun’ baffling astronomers
see here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8008473.stm
“In the mid-17th Century, a quiet spell – known as the Maunder Minimum – lasted 70 years, and led to a “mini ice-age”.
This has resulted in some people suggesting that a similar cooling might offset the impact of climate change.
According to Prof Mike Lockwood of Southampton University, this view is too simplistic.
“I wish the Sun was coming to our aid but, unfortunately, the data shows that is not the case,” he said.
Prof Lockwood was one of the first researchers to show that the Sun’s activity has been gradually decreasing since 1985, yet overall global temperatures have continued to rise.
“If you look carefully at the observations, it’s pretty clear that the underlying level of the Sun peaked at about 1985 and what we are seeing is a continuation of a downward trend (in solar activity) that’s been going on for a couple of decades.
“If the Sun’s dimming were to have a cooling effect, we’d have seen it by now.”
As I finished reading his comment I thinks about Murphy’s Law.
“Anything that can possibly go wrong, does.”
An American newspaper in Norwalk, Ohio printed this verse in 1841:
I never had a slice of bread,
Particularly large and wide,
That did not fall upon the floor,
And always on the buttered side.
Today, Murphy’s law is challenged to it’s very limits.
I really hope for the sake of mankind that we can prevent the circumstances where dropping a slice of bread could be a topic to be published in a news paper.
Here you find two different views on the current US economic policies.
Both come to the same conclusion.
http://creditcrunchedoutinuk.blogspot.com/2009/04/obama-heads-largest-criminal-enterprise.html
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200905/imf-advice
Monday April 13th when the Arctic blast made it’s way down to So. Cal. my daughter dropped me off at work at 7:45 in Pasadena and the temp was 45F…yesterday at the same time it was 74F. Just typical weird weather in So. Cal. One day it’s cold and foggy the next day it’s 100..it’s not news.
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>>America is going metric.
>>Inch by inch.
America is sticking to the ancient measurement units – that is why there are 1760 yards in a mile and 1760 cubits around the base of the Great Pyramid.
Coincidence? Check out that pyramid on the one dollar bill…
(cue music from the X-Files) 😉
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>>I first saw a BBC report on the Breakfast show about the
>>dimming sun, I think it was a couple of years ago.
Solar dimming is in the atmosphere, not the Sun. It is smoke and other pollutant particles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_dimming
Global dimming has probably served us well, during the recent warming period, but we may have to get rid of the pollutants as we enter the cooling phase, otherwise the brass monkeys will start to complain.
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Anthony, it is good to see the followup on the Santa Ana FD building.
It is still configured that way.
Yes, here in SoCal we did have a mild Santa Ana condition. It was
not strong enough to be called a “Santa Ana Condition” officially, but
the actual hot winds were due to air blowing west, downhill, and
heating up.
To its great credit, and perhaps because I have repeatedly called them
on the issue, the Orange County Register did NOT put on its front page
today “Record Heat in Santa Ana”. Other cities were mentioned, but
not SA. The original reporter for City Heat was Robbins. I have
Robbins boss, Diepenbrock, on speed dial in my cell phone. He seems
to get it. Yeah, it was hot. But there is no valid temperature recording
device in Santa Ana.
All that heat along the left coast probably means the San Andreas is about to open up and swallow it all….
It is climate change not global warming…yes the ice will melt for a while but there will be a major re-freeze once the ocean desalinates. 97% of climatologists say climate change is escalating because man made causes..if 97% of doctors said that your lifestyle will cut dozens of years off your life would you ignore him and continue down that path? It should have never been called global warming…and yes there are natural changes in climate..but we are escalating it with our behavior. It may not affect the older people in this crowd, but because you want to keep your suburban or hummer you are going to insure your children see a drastic change. Look at the evidence..local fluctuations aren’t the problem..its the melting of the fresh water ice into the salt water ocean which drives our weather patterns. Doubt it all you want..but it doesn’t change the fact its happening. I love how people fought over the earth being flat, the sun circling the earth, the earth being the center of the universe, the list goes on and on…but the truth is the truth and sadly I am afraid we will be past the tipping point (if we aren’t already) before the anti-science and anti-nature crowd realize what we are really up against!!
Got the following from a contact in England,( who, incidentally, just lost funding for his climate research because he doesn’t appear to be following the warmist party line) :-
Professor Mike Lockwood, Fellow of the Royal Society.
“Professor Mike Lockwood is distinguished for major advances in understanding the connections between Earth’s ionosphere and magnetosphere and the interplanetary magnetic field. His discovery that open magnetic flux from the Sun is highly correlated with total irradiance had a crucial result for climate change studies. He claims to have proved definitively that solar activity is completely unrelated to recent global warming.”
So now we know!
Lol, I hear ya. Though you’d have to switch to KM instead of Miles as well (that was in the fine print).
mightyquinninwky (11:03:12)
So when are you going to give up your technology lifestyle to save the planet? We’re waiting…
SteveSadlov (09:44:46) :
Here’s the real punchline. This is characteristic of a split jet stream. This is very, very late in the season for a split jet.
There is interesting research regarding persistent split jets and ice ages.
I read Ed Berry’s blog, and without saying that I understand a lot of it (I don’t!), he’s been calling attention to how the atmospheric conditions continue to look like La Nina even though the tropical SST’s are looking ENSO neutral.
As for a split jet and the ice ages, wasn’t that a consequence of the ice sheets. Without those now, I’m not sure what connection to make between a split jet stream and ice ages, especially not a causative one.
mightyquinninwky (11:03:12) :
97% of climatologists say climate change is escalating because man made causes..
I’m curious where this 97% number comes from. The IPCC lead authors, maybe, which is what, 40 total to begin with? Or some poll? The last time I saw anything even remotely reasonable said nothing like “97% of climatologists say climate change is escalating.” Most authors when questioned seem to say “man has an influence” but cannot quantify that influence because their specific niche does not provide a proper basis for such a conclusion.
if 97% of doctors said that your lifestyle will cut dozens of years off your life would you ignore him and continue down that path?
Just a continuation of an argument by authority with the added assumed conclusion that any and all warming must be bad.
It should
All of which makes it clear that your argument is based on an emotional, not a logical or rational premise.
its the melting of the fresh water ice into the salt water ocean which drives our weather patterns.
Um, since the ice in the arctic came from the ocean in the first place, doesn’t that mean the ocean was originally less saline, and melting simply puts it back to the point where it was originally?
I love how people fought over the earth being flat, the sun circling the earth, the earth being the center of the universe, the list goes on and on…
And now we can include arguing about a trace gas causing without any proof.
but the truth is the truth and sadly I am afraid we will be past the tipping point (if we aren’t already) before the anti-science and anti-nature crowd realize what we are really up against!!
Ah, yes, anti-nature. That alone tips your dogmatic hand. Go Gaia, eh?
Mark
jack mosevich wrote (08:34:20) :
Now CARE is using global warming to solicit funds. The crap spewed in the following link is unbelievable:
http://tinyurl.com/dlzu65
Jack, I sent them a comment telling them to pull up their socks. They have a comment space, which I used.
IanM
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>>He claims to have proved definitively that solar activity is
>>completely unrelated to recent global warming.”
In other words, he wants his funding restored.
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mightyquinninwky (11:03:12) :
You are on the wrong side of the truth, you are on the gullible side of Gore’s truth.
Have you done your research? There is more ice now and snow now than during the past 30 years!!! And if you were a little more scientifically litterate you would know that as water freezes the concentration of salts in water increses, thus depressing the water’s melting point. So, there is a natural mechanism to stop the ocean from freezing down completely.
Do this experiment, make a solution of about 3.5 % salt and try to freeze it in your freezer. If you are lucky you will get a bit of ice, but you will also get a saltier solution… else you have a freezer that can go to -25 C or less.
There appears to be two records? One in 1931, and one in 1986. Wattsupwiththat?