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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“”” Christine Shearer (13:40:35) :
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. “””
Careful there Christine before you bust a blood vessel. On a typical midsummer day in New York, you can measure temperatures across the earth ranging from highs of up to at least +140 F (+60C) and down to almost -130 F (-90C), so that an extreme range of 270 F degrees, all measurable somewhere on earth. Well maybe +50 to -70 C is more common; so are those everyday values extreme enough for you; and you are wailing about maybe a half deg F “climate change” in the last 150 years.
By the way; there are real live people living in all the places that have those temperature extremes; so please stop trying to make mountains out of molehills.
I for one would have a world that is warmer,more abundant,and safer for children.
A cold,dark and limited one is not….
Christine Shearer:
That was AWESOME! I rarely see a post hit so many of the troll points in so few words!
It’s for the chiiiiiiildrennnnnn!!!!!! And it’s obvious and self evident, too. Yep. And we can’t argue. And we’re cynical.
Comedy Gold!
“Christine Shearer (13:40:35) :
Global warming is about CLIMATE CHANGE – extreme highs and lows are the yin and yang of pumping too much CO2 into the atmosphere.”
Yes, Grasshopper, but which is the Yin and which the Yang? When you have answered this riddle you will have taken another step on your journey to mastery.
To help you i have prepared this primer from an ancient text called Wikipedia:
“Yin is black, female, receptive, yielding, negative, and nurturing. It is associated with night, valleys, rivers, streams, water, metal, and earth. Yang is white, male, active, dominating, positive, and initiating/creating. Yang is associated with day, mountains, hills, fire, wood, and air.”
Now, are the high temperature records Yin or are they Yang? And the lows? Please try to keep your answer to less than fifty words.
Thanking you in advance for the attention and for the children.
Worshipful Master Mike
I’m not a scientist. Here is my guess of reasoning:
during the spring time, the warm air tends to spread northward. The cold air still there and resists the warm air.
This year, the cold air is stronger than usual, that’s why we had cold spring.
usually, the warm air will push further north and make the cold air warmer. but this time, the warm air faces more resistance from the cold air and even gets compressed.
so we see the higher pressure- higher temperature in some area. Finally, the warm air will give up. then the cold air will come in. We will have another cool down days.
Why this happened in S. CA? Maybe, there is a reason, but I don’t know it. Someone may answer this question easily.
Global warming is about CLIMATE CHANGE – extreme highs and lows are the yin and yang of pumping too much CO2 into the atmosphere.
Where was the ying & yang in 1933?
Dust bowls are weather, but today the highs & lows are climate.
Yeah.
Remember that graph Anthony had that showed the late 1800’s bumped up, the middle depressed, and the late 1990’s jacked up? Well, you have to cut off the first half of the 20th Century records, otherwise it is highly embarassing to see that there were records in the Teens, 20’s and 30’s that have stood tall. Well beyond the current Massive Global Runaway Climate Torch.
Trust me, it’s not going to be a whole lot longer and we won’t be talking about AGW, we’ll be talking about who knew what when, and why weren’t we told.
The smart ones are coming forward and stepping away from the agenda.
The smart ones are always those who focus on the forest, and don’t get caught up in the trees.
“97% of climatologists support AGW”
Sounds suspiciously like the “truth in advertising”.
4 out of 5 doctors who reccomend X for their patients prefer Y.
3 of those 4 didn’t have a preference, telling thier patients it doesn’t matter which product you use, Y or Z, So, they did in fact reccomend Y, but they also reccomended Z.
The “Truth in Advertising” meets XX out of 97 climatologisst who only support AGW as opposed to YY out of 97 who don’t support any forcings.
And that’s how we get 97%.
Assuming (* caveat emptor) that 3% support negative forcings, then the opposite might be 3% who truly support AGW.
Until you know those outlier values, there is no truth.
@layne (08:04:56) :
“[…] (The Mann constant.. which, Tho too complicated to explain, varies wildly as needed to suit your message)”
Love it! A variable constant, too complicated for us mortals, is VERY convenient, eh?
Back to the, ”weather is not climate story.”….From the mall bookstore, “Climate is the full range of weather conditions experienced in a particular place over several decades or longer, including daily and seasonal changes.”….THE SCIENCE BOOK, National Geographic, c2008, p. 118
In America, the equivalent to the BBC is NPR. In the car I caught a portion of “On Point,” an afternoon talk show rebroadcast on our local station in the evening. This edition was devoted to an Earthday-eve assessment of the chances of getting a ‘Green’ agenda adopted by government. The panelists were an ‘environmental activist’ named Bill something and a couple of ladies who I think were reporters.
As with most of the media, the assumption was that the Alarmist message was gospel truth. But I was struck by the degree to which obviously absurd claims simply went unchallenged, by these apparently intelligent and articulate people. E.g., this Bill fellow asserted that “the best scientists” held that CO2 over 350 ppm was ruinous for the planet, and since we were already beyond that, the crisis was upon us.
Not once, during the 20 minutes or so that I listened, did anyone call to challenge this or any other assertion. I was yelling at the radio, “CO2 has been an order of magnitude higher, with good effects—more plants!” But the callers all just bemoaned the difficulty of persuading Congress to pass Cap-and-Trade. To which the panelists responded that it was the “traditional energy interests,” i.e. the oil and coal industries, that were the obstacle, preventing us from moving to “clean” energy, like wind and solar.
Now the folks that listen to NPR are an elite of sorts (at least they think of themselves that way), and doubtless their numbers include more people in government and education than listeners to other stations. What concerns me is that for these folks there is no debate. The panelists might be aware that some hold serious scientific objections to the AGW hypothesis, but I suspect that the callers had no clue. “Climate change” for them is just a fact, a problem that government has to solve.
If scientific Realists are going to make any headway against this genteel ignorance, we are going to have to find a way to turn the discussion on its head, in a way that the NPR-listening elites, who listen only to each other, can’t ignore—to challenge their “conventional wisdom.” Otherwise, the only chance is for continuing cold and continuing recession to dampen their hopes for government to “take action against climate change.”
/Mr Lynn
Being more definitive about “climate”….1….”generally 30 years” Brittanica Concise Encyclopedia….2….”usually based on thirty years of records.” Geographical Dictionary….3….”The World Meteorological Organization recognizes a 30 year averaging time as a standard.” Weather Underground.
E.M.Smith 16:41:35
I used to be amused by the advertising that claimed their margarine was made from poly-unsaturated fats. Well, what did they do to turn those unsaturated oils to solids? They saturated them. Sure, saturated fats, made from poly-unsaturated oils. I’m a little surprised the FDA couldn’t do anything about that.
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Beautiful location for that Santa Ana Station. Not possible to have contamination there.
Not surprising. The FDA can’t seem to do anything about the plethora of over-the-counter patent medications marketed under the guise of ‘food supplements’, despite their outrageous and totally untested claims as remedies for all manner of ailments and conditions.
Completely OT, of course, but another example of government science totally hamstrung by non-objective criteria.
/Mr Lynn
It’s weather. Yawn.
And geez, how about that Arctic ice? That would be not weather that made that.
Mike Bryant (02:24:58) : “…You will also be given one of the new Government-approved thermometers which will agree much more closely with the government approved weather reports…”
Mike! Hush! Don’t go giving Big Al any ideas.
” John F. Hultquist (22:00:02) : ….for Tues, Wed, and Thur of this week….. CA is set for a 20 degree drop in T-max over the same period. ”
We won’t see it. We’re all going to be dead from global warming by then.
E.M.Smith
…furlongs per fortnight…
Pure genius!! I salute you sir!
E M Smith et al. You KNOW that metric will win out. You KNOW that you will have to start using Celsius in time. Resistance is futile, and you will be dragged.
Britannic. No, I’ve not ventured into the North Sea(!). But then actually getting the oil out is an ‘industry’, and not part of the scientific community. I’ve not ventured into the world of dieting either – where I gather people are still measured in stones and pounds. Apart from the US and Belize, the world uses Celsius. The US (and their partners Belize) WILL be using it too. Betcha.
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>>Numerology? Or did those Ancient Greeks & British Druids know >>something? Is the ‘foot’ perhaps a bit more rational than mythology >>asserts?
Rather than tracing the foot back to Earth measurements, you should rather trace the Imperial Measurements back to Pi. It is a base 22 system (22:7 the fractional equivalent of Pi)
Mile = 1760 yds
divide 8 = 220 or furlong (note the number 22)
divide 10 = 22 or chain (cricket pitch)
divide 4 = rod (5 1/2 yds)
How else do you derive a 5 1/2 unit of measure ? – it is a quarter of the 22 Pi numerator (22:7).
That’s why it ties in with the GP, for that too was constructed around Pi.
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i think global warming is all over the world and i think the problem starts on us. it’s a sign that ozone layer is now destroying because of our own faults.
Jasmine. No it isn’t – you’re wrong on both counts. I’m guessing you’re young and that you’ve been told this by people who know no better.
Global warming stopped being called ‘global warming’ because the globe isn’t warming everywhere – far from it. Many of the stations that recorded temperature are no longer doing so. Coincidentally, these stations tended to record cooler temperatures.
As for the ozone layer, it is beginning to look unlikely that we had much, if anything, to do with it. Time will tell.
“We” are the cause of some of the Earth’s problems, yes, but much of it is natural. Despite our release of CO2 the world doesn’t appear to be warming in response. http://landshape.org/enm/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/Slide1.png Don’t listen to what people tell you (including me), go and look for yourself. You’ll be very surprised.
E.M.Smith (16:41:35) :
Yeah, I would give more chance to my grandmother’s type medicine than some untested drugs that are now being given to people.
My grandmother had a cure for infected tonsils, it was to rise and gargle with lamp-oil. You just had to be careful not to swallow it. The perfumed type was awful but it worked. I still have my tonsils.
At home we follow as much as we can a Mediterranen food guidline. We eat fish every week, meat, just butter and olive oil, plenty of red wine, salad at every meal, tomatoes, etc. We use fluoride-free toothpaste and refuse the topical treatment (our dentist and oran hygenist are amazed that we have no cavities, they always ask questions about fluoride but still give it to the other people). We rarely buy processed foods.
We have excellent health and our kids are never sick enough to skip school, the cold usually last very shortly.
Hi Anthony,
My message yesterday needs some explanation, so here goes. My original message is in parenthesis.
“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 (I mean AMO) in the Atlantic and La Nina (positive PDO) in the Pacific having also started recently, I wondered are these two things related.
With the hypothess that Ocean Occilations are driven by Solar Activity are these three things related?”
Basically 1913 was the year that the sun was in the last recent deep minimum; similar to the solar minimum we are currently in.
1914 and 1916 were years when high temperatures were recorded in California – similar to the high temperatures recorded there in April 2009.
What is interesting is that the positive PDO also affects The Jet Stream.
If you look at the Wikipedia entry on the Jet Stream at – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_stream
you will see that whilst there is a positive PDO (Look at the La Nina chart in the article) the Jet Stream arches around California which explains the high temperatures there.
This is also what the Jet Stream looks like at the current time – see:-http://squall.sfsu.edu/crws/jetstream.html
If the positive PDO drives the Jet Stream to behave as it currently does, does this therefore explain the high temps in California. Clearly a similar thing could have happened in the 1914/1916 period when similar high temperatures occurred in California.
Doesn’t this indicate a correlation between Solar minimum, positive PDO and the change in the Jet Stream and therefore why we are getting such highs in California at the moment? (and such lows and snow elswhere).
Therefore these anomalies cannot be attributable to AGW as the doomsayers keep uttering.
The Jet Stream is interesting at the moment. The northern jet stream has shifted North in Northern latitudes and the southern Jet Stream has moved south in the Southern hemisphere. The Jet Streams are located where tropical Hadley Cells meet polar Ferrel Cells creating arid zones. As the Jet Streams move toward the poles, the arid zones also move, bringing arid conditions with them. This has contributed to worrying droughts in southern Australia at the present time and to a drier southern Europe. See the National Geographic – April 2009 article.
The Great Dust Bowl in the 1930’s was also probably a consequence of the Jet Stream move – see the Wikipedia article.
Just a thought.
The Monterey NWS proclaims “Earrrrrrrrrrliest high heat everrrrrrrrrr!”
I say “latest Halcyon Days event everrrrrrrrrrrrr!”