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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@Mr. Lynn (06:43:59) : The researcher’s name is Tim Patterson
See here for some other links http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Patterson
I thought his research was remarkable. Only problem I have is the identification of solar cycles was arm-wavy…in the sense that he waved his arms over some kind of chart of “wavelets” which are difficult to discern in that video and declared that these were solar cycles.
Ian McQueen: Thanks for pointing out the feedback link at the bottom of their screen. I sent them some comments too. I was polite BTW.
Here is one paragraph of their BS:
Climate change is a daily threat for millions of people around the world. Extreme weather conditions are intensifying because of global warming. As a result, women and families are losing their crops to drought, their homes to floods and their families to disease.
The IPCC has just announced that if Global Warming continues on its present course, that within five years Hillary Clinton will be ice-free.
“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?”
Doctors are like government-funded-global-warming-scientists, they are not all there to necessarily cure you, considering they get paid for every visit and for certain medication they prescribe… just like the dentists that don’t tell you the truth about the real impact of fluoride on your health… they don’t want to get sued for their past lies/ignorance.
But that is beside the point… there are more than 3% of incompetent doctors out there.
Mike Bryant (13:21:15) :
The IPCC has just announced that if Global Warming continues on its present course, that within five years Hillary Clinton will be ice-free.
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LOL, that’s Hillaryous!!! I thought her face thawed a long time ago!!!
Hi Anthony,
I happened to notice a few similar dates in the two articles on WUWT. 1913 in the Solar ISN article and 1914 and 1916 in the record high temperatures in California article. Perhaps they are related.
I watched a good BBC 4 Weather programme about The Jet Stream recently (perhaps you could get into this for us), and noted that the Jet Stream has shifted Northwards in recent years. With NADO in the Atlantic and La Nina in the Pacific having also started recently, I wondered are these two things related. With the hypothess that Ocean Occilations are driven by the Solar Activity are these three things related?
Regards,
Aidan
London
Global warming is about CLIMATE CHANGE – extreme highs and lows are the yin and yang of pumping too much CO2 into the atmosphere. You cannot argue that greenhouse gases capture heat, melt glaciers, and disrupt seasonal weather patterns, so instead you poke little holes into an otherwise very obvious and alarming trend. Get over your cynical denial, it’s time to do something, for your childrens’ and grandchildrens’ sake if not your own.
Ah, Christine, who told you all that? Wanna buy a bridge in Brooklyn? When the seas rise, you’ll make a fortune in tolls….
Of course its time to do something, and so we are: working to prevent you from making a bigger fool of yourself then you already have. For the children!
For THE CHILDREN!!!
Yes, please think of the children! click
John F. Hultquist (23:18:27) ::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.
It would also, like variable width fonts, have a constantly changing value. Each year, the numbers for any given absolute temperature would be made slightly larger, thus assuring that the message is clear. This year water freezes at 2 degrees higher than last year!!! Global Warming means DOOOOMM!!!!
Barry Foster (00:45:50) : I want to know why you Americans are still using Farenheit! It’s so last-century.
We like the greater precision…
Dave Middleton (04:14:34) : Weather’s a funny thing…You can have record high temp’s in cold PDO’s and you can have record lows in warm PDO’s. Average global temperatures only oscillate a few tenth’s of a degree C with each phase. The cumulative effect leads to more hot days in the warm PDO and more cold days in the cold PDO.
Somewhere I saw a count of the records set in some time period (year? decade?) it was something like 100,000 to 200,000 lows / highs. The bottom line is simple: ALL the records we keep setting in both directions simply demonstrate that we don’t have enough data history to have a clue about what is normal. When we’re setting a new record only with excursions out to the six sigma range of the time scale; then we have enough data to know something…
E.M.Smith (14:48:41) :
When we’re setting a new record only with excursions out to the six sigma range of the time scale; then we have enough data to know something…
Uh, 6 sigma would refer to the magnitude of the record w.r.t. the mean of the measurement (not time), which doesn’t mean much if the temperature record exhibits chaotic behavior. In other words, if the temperature record is chaotic, there is no mean, nor sigma, and thus, no six-sigma. 🙂
Mark
“Get over your cynical denial, it’s time to do something, for your childrens’ and grandchildrens’ sake if not your own.”
That’s exactly what most people are here for. To end the destructive AGW agenda and save the country/world for our childrens’ future. Plus of course to get the message out that it’s going to get very cold, very soon.
Christine Shearer (13:40:35) :
As you probably do yourself, I could clearly say that all of us here care for the environment and the earth.
Like you, we all recycle and make sure we don’t spill harmful chemicals all over. Like you, we probably all care about what we injest and are against GM foods. Like you, we care for our children. But unlike you, we don’t accept to label CO2 as a dangerous gas when in fact it is necessary for all life on earth, including yours and that of your children.
Sorry Ms. Shearer, but the “do it for the children” malarky is further evidence of the alarmists refusal to answer those dozens of holes that hard data and science have poked into the AGW model. Personally, I beieve the science and data have invalidated the AGW theory, or at least render it “unproven”, but that opinion is subject to reasonable debate. You want to do something for the children? Don’t tax and spend the country into poverty, thereby stealing away from future generations the resources they will need to cope with climate change that may be the result of natural fluctuations which therefore can’t be avoided, and other conditions which do need immediate resources. Do you personally want to do something? shut down your computer and stop using coal fire produced electrons to send ridculous e-mails.
Cheers.
Barry Foster (04:43:24) : Celcius is used by the science community, that’s why – and we’re talking science when we’re talking weather (well, some of us). All the ‘customs’ you list have nothing to do with science. For reasons of science, the US should fully adopt Celcius and the metric system of measurement. […]
So you see, you can retain your quaint customs – but not in science.
Bull Pucky! You sir, do not “own” science. It does not matter one whit which scale one uses and plenty of perfectly good science has been done, is being done, and will be done in F. The notion that everything must be homogenized is just being self centered.
(And yes, I’m comfortable in both)
BTW, I find the greater precision of the F scale to be of significant value for thing like photographic development where temperatures need to be tightly controlled. Yes, the C thermometer makers could put a wider scale on, but they don’t. So the F thermometer works better for those kinds of things.
Why do we have to drag you Americans kicking and screaming into the 21st century? Again, Pierre, tongue in cheek.
Those who forget their history are doomed to repeat it…
We are in the 21 st century, we also are comfortable with our past. Please take your ethnocentrism and chomp down hard (with tongue in cheek, of course…)
Now what I really want is a speedometer for my car that measures in furlongs per fortnight (once used on a particularly boring physics test after computing the answer in the units the instructor desired, but having time left and nothing else to do was converted to a more “convenient” unit…)
FWIW, the European / Scientific tendency to change perfectly clear units into things that honor some guy or other but hide their physical truth is just nuts. It turns more kids off to science than anything else. Why have Hz when cycles/second TELLS you what it is? Compare a “Pascal” to a “pound per square inch”. There is no clue what a “Pascal” is… which is probably why my tires (OOPS! tyres – your ‘quaint custom’…) have kg/cm2 on them.
So I, for one, will be happy to use feet (that have a history going back to before recorded history, being nearly identical to the Minoan foot… and having nothing to do with human feet) pounds per square inch and yes, F for decades to come. Though from time to time I will use Centigrade (a name that tells you something…) for some uses (my car, for example, is calibrated in C ).
And NOAA ought to retain F so as to retain the integrity of the data series (which seems to me to be a valid scientific reason – unless of course you want to recalibrate every single site for the change of equipment…)
Something I posted a while ago, but is worth repeating:
Sidebar: Chasing the Greek Foot
Somewhere along the line I was trying to find out how they properly located things on the planet, that led to geo – metrology, that lead to the fact that the Greeks and Egyptians had a measure named a ‘foot’ (pous) that is almost the same as the English foot. (Within a couple of mm 304.8 for the Engish, 304 mm for the Minoan, 308.4 for the Attic, 300 for the Egyptian and Phoenician, etc.)
This lead me to the factoid that if you take the earth’s equatorial circumference in ‘feet’ (English) as 131479724.6 (from the wiki metric number, converted) and divide it by 360 x 1000 (call it minutes x seconds or call it 360 degrees) you get: 365.2214573
Gee, that looks familiar, I think… Dividing by ‘tropical year days’ of 365.2422 gives 99.994% agreement. Hmmmm….
Numerology? Or did those Ancient Greeks & British Druids know something? Is the ‘foot’ perhaps a bit more rational than mythology asserts?
One can only hope that the Met can achieve 99.994% accuracy and that GISS can learn what those digits after the ‘point’ are all about… (“Never let your precision exceed your accuracy”…) and maybe that we can be as good at science as they were 4000+ years ago…
(BTW, I can tell you how to derive the “foot” using a bit of string, two sticks, and the night sky… but maybe you ought to work it out for yourself… Hints: 1) Make a time standard using a celestial object transiting the two sticks. 2) Make a pendulum tuned to the time standard. 3) Measure the pendulum… You now have a very scientific time standard and distance standard that can be recreated by anyone anywhere. Think about it…)
Global warming or Climate change is an excuse to reduce the United States to third world status. Yes the commies masquerading as Democrats really hate you that much. Really, really.
I am of the opinion that it is unwise to make too hasty a judgement regarding Prof Lockwood. For a start, who else could have published a paper on climate change in the Proceedings of the Royal Society recognising the sun’s probable influence in early and mid C20th warming, even causing them to moderate their website significantly afterwards. And what about this one of his-
http://www.wdc.rl.ac.uk/wdcc1/papers/nature.html
He clearly has a formidable knowledge of solar research, publishes prolifically and recognises that much remains to be analysed from ongoing space mission data like Ulysses. I incline to think when and if he persuades himself, from analysing new data, that solar energy is after all the primary driver, he will firmly state so.
Re solar decrease since 1985:
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:1985/offset:-0.1/plot/pmod/from:1985/offset:-1365.25/scale:0.2/trend/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:1985/offset:-.2/trend/plot/pmod/from:1985/offset:-1365.25/scale:0.2
TSI is satellite measured solar irradiance – no aerosols, clouds, CO2, Gore hot air involved. Satellite record goes back to 1978, so you can change start from 1985 to 1975 to get the full dataset, or cherrypick whatever start (and end) dates suit you.
Re “97% of climatologists support AGW” (or variant statements thereof) comes from a paper published by Doran and Zimmerman at University of Illinois at Chicago
paper is tigger.uic.edu/~pdoran/012009_Doran_final.pdf
Brian Dodge,
Thanks for that link. The second of two questions asked is about as scientific as astrology:
“2. Do you think human activity is a significant contributing factor in changing mean global temperatures?”
Why is that a bogus question? Because the word “significant” is so subjective that it is meaningless. It can be ‘significant’ to someone if their morning paper isn’t delivered on time. And they never quantify what change in temperatures they mean. Is it 0.5° F? 0.01° F? They don’t say. Therefore, the answer is different for everyone. Yet they purport to be scientific about it, as if they’d know science if it bit ’em on the ankle. That paper doesn’t hold water, and the publisher and referees should be ashamed of themselves.
To correctly judge the “consensus,” the question should have been asked with much more objective parameters. For example:
“Do you think that a 50% increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration will lead to a climate tipping point, causing runaway global warming?”
Ask that question, and I’d bet the percentage of scientists answering in the affirmative could be counted on the poll-taker’s fingers.
Ray (13:36:15) :
“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?”
Doctors are like government-funded-global-warming-scientists, they are not all there to necessarily cure you, […] they don’t want to get sued for their past lies/ignorance.
Notice too that for about 30 years they ranted that everyone ought to be eating margarine “for heart health”… and it’s about 1/3 trans fat … and trans fat has now been shown to be the absolutely worst fat for cardiac health. The silence from the medical community on the issue has been deafening…
The Indians, IMHO, have it right. The key to longevity is Ghee (clarified butter). Exactly the thing the ‘doctors’ have said to avoid. FWIW, my father would eat only butter, thinking margarine tasted like BLEEP. At the autopsy, they discovered his circulatory system was doing great… (smoking, however, did not treat his lungs well…) One of my good friends ate only margarine due to a family history of heart problems. After his stent went in at about 50, I clued him in to butter vs margarine. He easily passes his cardiac and blood tests now…
So to directly answer the question: No, I would not do what the doctor said until I had completely researched it myself…
(Fond memory of old country Doc painting my skin with mercurochrome … what’s a little mercury among friends… heck, they used to feed it to folk with syphilis… though I missed the day they did the bulk tonsil removal at school. I had more sore throats with less bronchitis and lung problems, but that’s what tonsils are for, to give the immune system a ‘heads up’ so it doesn’t progress to things like pneumonia – that have much higher rates for folks without tonsils… There is a very long list of this kind of thing, if you look for it.)
Barry Foster (04:43:24)
You clearly have not ventured into the UK North Sea offshore sector where most operators still drill wells in feet, record temps in degF, pressures in psi, sonic velocities in microseconds per foot, mud weights in pounds per gallon, calculate volumes in barrels, acre-feet or cu ft, etc., and use drill bits pipe and casing in standard imperial sizes.
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