Downtown Los Angeles scorches with temperatures 110+ F … NWS Current temp at USC
[UPDATE: 2:30 PM Pacific: USC station no longer reporting?- Ryan 2:52 FIXED LINK – Anthony] WUWT: oh little sensor: why did you stop reporting the temperature after 1947 UTC?
[UPDATE: For a look at the USC station see this WUWT post. -Anthony]
Quick flashback 5-days ago: USA Today / AP: California’s ‘invisible summer’ slips away and the obligatory image of the hooded sweatshirt jogger…
LOS ANGELES — No need to root around the closet for sweaters and jackets: Californians never really put them away this year.“The invisible summer, seamless from spring to fall,” said Bill Patzert, a scientist at NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory who studies the role of oceans in the global climate.
In Los Angeles, the last full day of summer passed Tuesday under the gloom of a deep marine layer — the low clouds and fog that put a damper on many beach excursions and made a dip in the surf bracing.
“The ocean never warmed,” Patzert said.
As if on cue, the beginning of fall heralds a brief but impressive heat wave with temperatures well above 100F in locations that saw a below-average, somewhat gloomy summer 2010.
Today: USA Today / AP reports: Scorching heat raises wildfire fears in California
LOS ANGELES (AP) — It’s been a scorching start for fall in California and it only looks to be getting hotter.Summer-like temperatures were expected through Monday, with downtown Los Angeles predicted to reach a high of 107 degrees. That would break a record for the day of 106 degrees that was set in 1963.
Comment ideas: how can these extreme temperatures be related to global warming / climate change and “consistent” with what climate models “have shown/predicted” would happen? Please forget everything about the article 5-days ago and focus on today’s record heat.
From NASA’s Tale of Two Sites, complimenting Anthony’s post above:
“The move from downtown Los Angeles to USC in 1999 has caused a major hiccup in our local climate history,” said Patzert. “Suddenly, Los Angeles became dryer and cooler, and we were denied a record rain year in 2004-2005. The magnitude of change reflected in our study strongly suggests this relocation will bias long-term climatic studies.”
You don’t say?
Before and After (looks like a nice swimming pool could be inside that fancy fence)
Maybe they just found Trenberth’s missing energy…
Yeah, it was 90F at 7:30 this morning as I drove to work… My wife was trying to get my daughter to take a sweater to school with her; I did convince her to give up.
This type of early fall heat wave happens almost every year in the California coastal cities, as the inland valleys and deserts no longer heat up enough to suck in cool ocean air (which makes the wind turbine generators that depend on these thermal winds useless in this type of heat wave).
Possibly “global warming” makes the temperatures now a degree or so hotter than they otherwise would be; I’m sure that urbanization effects drive it up even more. But I don’t see any way you can blame the existence of such a heat wave on “global climate disruption” given their very regular appearance at this time of year in California.
Downtown LA likely to shatter their all-time record high temp today (112 set in 1990). Even more impressive because the station is closer to the ocean now than it used to be I believe.
But…this heat wave doesn’t hold a candle to late Sept 1963 I believe (either 62 or 63)…3 straight days of 100 at both LAX and CQT (Downtown LA). That is NOT easy to do. Even in this powder keg pattern, we were only able to muster 1 day of both of them in the 100s (today).
I’m sure this will get pegged on AGW. Unfortunately, this is just a flip in the EPO, coupled with a Santa Ana. Almost identical pattern to the 1960s heat wave.
“That would break a record for the day of 106 degrees that was set in 1963.”
1963? Wasn’t that during the cooling scare?
What happened with UNISYS ‘ SST? The sea in flames, just preparing to go to Cancun?
http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sst.html
No rain in a month? Low humidity allows this temp increase.
They should have a couple record highs every year.
It’s the wind transporting hot air from the desert planes.
As soon as the wind shifts, the heat is over.
Any speculation or attempt to connect the weather over one summer in one region of the world to AGW is folly, and misses the bigger picture. Neither snow in Florida nor a Russian heat wave nor a cold California can prove or disprove anything about a change in the climate– unless those things occur more and more frequently or less frequently over a longer time period. But it makes for interesting blogging I suppose…
Every year we get fall santanas and every year the press responds like it’s never happened before.
The weather you’re complaining of
While mopping off your brow
Is what you wished for when you had
The kind you wish for now.
–Irene Warsaw
Ryan,
Didn’t you get the memo? Climate models no longer matter. What matters is controlling the argument. It’s ‘global climate disruption’ now. Therefore, no matter what happens, it is consistent with the new terminology, regardless of what the models say.
[ryan: i did get a copy of czar holdren’s new talking points on climate, but alas, i left them beneath my copy of Ecoscience.]
R. de Haan:
You mean from Edwards AFB?
Here are the rules: If it is heat and high temps, it is climate. If it is cool, it is weather, or (more adventurously) the a result of “climate change”. If there is an increase in storm activity, it is climate, if there is an absense of hurricanes, well, gee, what is up with that? Must be global warming too.
(“Global warming” now, officially “climate disruptions”.) You don’t need a climate scientist to know which way the wind blows.
It doesn’t look as though it is coming off the ocean.
http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sst_anom.html
“Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get.”
— Robert A. Heinlein
“how can these extreme temperatures be related to global warming / climate change and “consistent” with what climate models “have shown/predicted” would happen? ”
Well, it’s like this: Trenberth’s missing heat has been hiding just West of LA at the bottom of the ocean. All of a sudden, it has washed onshore and provided this heat wave!
This is nothing unusual. In the summer there is a high about 400 miles off of point conception and a low in the Arizona region. When it gets hot inland the sea air gets pulled into the coastal areas, keeping them cool while the deserts suffer. From September through about April the High and Low can switch places for a few days at a time. Then the hot air from the desert blows into the coast and L.A. gets really hot.
No catastrophy. This is how it works every single year. Southern California has got to have the most simple and predictable climate in the world.
In a word: HYPE.
It’s been cool for a LONG time, but then suddenly there’s a warm spell.
They –the MSM– talked (T-A-L-K-E-D) about the long cool spell, but then SCREAMED the short warm spell.
HYPE.
The very same thing happens here in Washington, on the west side of the Cascades, especially in the Puget Sound area.
Mostly it’s rather balmy here, what with a sound-moderated temperature of 60-70º F.
Sure, it’s rainy, cloudy, and cool much of the time, but so what?
So what?!?!?!
Let the temp get above 80º and the idiot AGW faction goes completely berserk with prognostications of doom and gloom!
OH-MY-GAWD-WE’RE-ALL-GONNA-DIEEEEEEEEE!!!!
Goodness! The local environmental clean-up crews have their work cutout for them after all that foaming at the mouth spills over onto the pavement and sidewalks and creates a biohazard!
Now, THAT is hype which matches the HYPE of which it describes! :o)
“It wasn’t the coolest summer ever, that’s for sure, but in a warming world, it was a little gift from the weather gods,” Patzert said.
Ah, yes, the “weather gods” bring cool weather, which is Good, while Evil man creates the “warming world”, which is Bad.
These Warmist “scientists” are so predictable.
Lets hear it for high pressure that pushes the jet north of Calgary. We are not the lest bit surprised at having chinooks to bring summer like temperatures to our fall. We look forward to them. (and that is climate, i.e. weather you can sometimes count on) With La Niña doing its thing, we know the jet will sag and those balmy arctic winds will soon be on us, again. That is called climate too. (Okay, most people refer to it as winter.)
Ryan, he obviously missed the memo. Climate change makes the climate less predictable. that much we can predict, err..
since regional prediction is in its infancy it makes little sense to even suggest that a regional extreme event ( increase in frequency or severity) is a likely consequence.
at best the models can speak to global metrics over longish periods of time.
Here in central MN we’ve had unseasonalby cool and wet weather in Sept.
Yesterday, on one of the first nice days, I found myself, again explaining the PDO(first characterized in 1996), blocking events, yada yada, as my familiars brought up “Climate Change” and our state unexpectedly leading the nation in tornados this year.
My denialism was hard in the face of AGW, suddenly, through no effort I can recall, it is now presumed against ‘strong evidence and scientific consensus thatClimate Change is real and potentially catastrophic.
Somebody slap a ‘Kick me’ sign on my back?
Up to 113F now. Man that parking lot got hot today.
How about Urban Heat Island Effect? Lots more concrete since the ’60’s
Being an old Airtanker Pilot I do not miss flying during Santa Anas
They can kill crews….
Apart from the fact that they have lots of ad hoc garbage thrown into them, and lots of things missing, the problem with models is that nobody has yet found a way to incorporate the effects related to radiation and those related to thermodynamics in a compatible manner, and these effects tend to produce opposite conclusions. If you spend your time messing with MODTRAN or equivalent you arrive at one opinion. If you focus on convection, lapse rates, latent heats, etc., you arrive at a different one.
In the absence of progress on that front, we are left with an examination of what has actually happened, and as far as we can tell, despite Hansen’s efforts to make it seem otherwise, it hasn’t been much, and certainly nothing alarming.
/dr.bill
This actually goes against climate predictions. According to elementary Gaia theory Gaia is vengeful of humans and should wreak havoc for our evil ways until we start holding hands and hugging trees. This appears to be Gaia showing a sense of humour however. Maybe Gaia has a sibling or a child which is mischievous, that would certainly fit the real world data. We’ll have to go back and re-examine the raw data on Gaia’s actions.