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Albuquerque has reached a tipping point!

On the other hand, nature’s heat regulator, thunderstorms, is kicking in today over NM:

h/t to Dr. Richard Keen

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Tenuc
July 16, 2010 4:21 pm

I think it might just be a typo?

REPLY:
Of course it is, a funny one. -Anthony

Dr. Dave
July 16, 2010 4:25 pm

I live in Santa Fe. An hour or so ago we got a typical summer monsoon rain shower that cooled everything down from the low 90s to the mid 70s in about 30 minutes. In my view this has been a rather cool summer. A couple weeks ago I had to wear a sweatshirt in the house to stay warm.
We get some hot, dry summers and some cool wet summers. This one seems to be just a little cooler than normal. One summer I took a vacation to Michigan in July and felt like was in a sauna the whole time. I came back and felt chilled (but I had a great garden that year).

July 16, 2010 4:26 pm

Ric Werme says:
July 16, 2010 at 3:42 pm
“……..On NH’s main commercial TV station, the AM news reported “Victim in fatal car crash improves.” There were two “victims”, they weren’t talking about the dead one.
(Both passengers, both hanging out of windows while 21 year old driver who never had a license crashes into utility pole.)”
Natural selection at work.

Tommy
July 16, 2010 4:51 pm

This could be an omen. Remember that Dec 21, 2012 will happen on a Friday!

Mac the Knife
July 16, 2010 4:56 pm

I believe I’ve reached a ‘tipping point’ as well, at 4:50pm this Friday! Me thinks it’s time to head down to the beach, crack open a cool Killian’s Red lager, with a Dewars scotch on the side, and just contemplate my toes and the entropy of naval lint! Suggest Y’all do similarly….. and Thanks for the Grin! I’ll put on my SPF 1000, just to be safe!
Tippy Canoe and Mac the Knife Too!
};>)

July 16, 2010 5:02 pm

Might check the placement of their MMTS.
Punks set the Stevenson screen on fire again.
That’s more than UHI can explain.
Maybe GISS homogenized with Roswell.
Sandia was calibrating their new EMP simulator.
Yes, but we’re more concerned with the anomaly than the absolute temperature.

PJB
July 16, 2010 5:10 pm

According to the wonks at the debate, we just need to be like Mars to be cool….so let’s remove all of our atmosphere EXCEPT the CO2 and we will be cool as a cucumber.
(Except NM on Friday where the cucumbers will be blanched.)

Douglas Dc
July 16, 2010 5:12 pm

Take a look at the Polar temps via DMI:
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/meant80n.uk.php
That’s not warm to me….

jaymam
July 16, 2010 5:16 pm

Layne Blanchard
Surely you are not suggesting that they should ignore inconvenient data? That’s called cherry-picking!

July 16, 2010 5:22 pm

Quite possibly it’s Alamagordo and area 51 going into nuclear meltdown.
I needed a good laugh.
I’m taking a break from my database class and I needed a good laugh.

DonS
July 16, 2010 6:01 pm

Total moronity

Gary Hladik
July 16, 2010 6:15 pm

Lots of laughs in this thread. My favorites are the Lucifer/Friday one and hottest July in 4 billion years.
My entry:
Dr Mann admits his prediction is controversial, but he insists the science is sound: “We used a new and even more robust statistical algorithm on our tree ring data, and the results went through the roof. You see, there’s this one tree near Albuquerque…”

Z
July 16, 2010 6:41 pm

It’s caused by poor siting yet again. Never, ever, put a thermometer on the end of a lightning strike, or you will get poor quality results.

Theo Goodwin
July 16, 2010 6:50 pm

This is UHI again. You might not know, but Albuquerque is an artist’s community’s artist community. A massive number of hot artists arrive there every summer. The heat is from naked bodies. 🙂

Tom in Florida
July 16, 2010 7:25 pm

The Venus Effect.

July 16, 2010 7:33 pm

They gave you a great opportunity to hide the ascent. 🙂

CRS, Dr.P.H.
July 16, 2010 8:37 pm

hmmm….the surface temperature on Venus is 896 F, so the only thing this can possibly mean is that HANSEN WAS RIGHT!!!
http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/2008/AGUBjerknes_20081217.pdf
See page 22, “The Venus Syndrome”!!

DCC
July 16, 2010 9:24 pm

“I just want to know how has a camera ready and sitting on the end-table in order to snap a quick photo of their TV…. That’s a great combination of planning AND skill for sure.”
TiVo is a big help, too.

July 16, 2010 10:17 pm

There have been a number of wildfires in the Southwest this year, but not as many as in past extreme years. The onset of the monsoons is a welcome respite and drenching of current fires. Lightning with ample rain is not the dangerous wildfire igniter that dry lightning is.
For a great (near) real-time lightning map, I recommend the Vaisala Lightning Explorer which uses data from the National Lightning Detection Network.
http://thunderstorm.vaisala.com/explorer.html
“NLDN consists of over 100 remote, ground-based sensing stations located across the United States that instantaneously detect the electromagnetic signals given off when lightning strikes the earth’s surface. … These remote sensors send the raw data via a satellite-based communications network to the Network Control Center operated by Vaisala Inc. in Tucson, Arizona. Within seconds of a lightning strike, the NCC’s central analyzers process information on the location, time, polarity, and amplitude of each strike. The lightning information is then communicated to users across the country.”
http://gcmd.nasa.gov/records/GCMD_NLDN.html

Ed Murphy
July 17, 2010 2:00 am
Jack Simmons
July 17, 2010 2:55 am

Hell is freezing over and the heat had to be hidden somewhere.

Atomic Hairdryer
July 17, 2010 5:24 am

Drunken dendrochronologist drills hole in patio heater. Discovers new temperature record.
Also opportunity for enhancing weather graphics and automation. The lightning does look a little longer in the Friday graphic, but really needs to be replaced with something more appropriate like a heat ray, or GISS logo.
And.. if you lot would adopt a sensible temperature scale like celsius, this would be less likely to occur. Then, if you needed more than 3 digits, please refer to the senior meteorologist to unlock it, or slap some sense into you.

July 17, 2010 5:58 am

The Earth’s crust is a lot thinner under Albuquerque on Fridays, so it’s closer to those millions of degrees down there…

Pascvaks
July 17, 2010 7:12 am

AH HA, NOW we know where NOAA gets all that funny data!!

paulc
July 17, 2010 7:53 am

Great Fun!! I love the remarks.