From Joe D’Aleo via email:
It will be remembered for the heat wave and dryness in a large area, but some facts may surprise you.
June actually ended up cooler than the normal in BOS (Boston) (-1.25F) and even NYC (Central Park -0.4F) and southeast despite the heat blast the end of the month (-2.0F in Jacksonville). Dulles despite the late month heat wave was SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL (-0.6F) while DCA nearer the White House and Congress was (+1.1F) and Atlanta despite the all time record was just +0.1F.
In the west, predictably with the cold PDO eastern Pacific, it was another cool start to summer. Seattle ended up -2.6F, Portland -2.4F, Spokane -2.5F.
The preliminary Climate Prediction Center temperature analysis for the month showed the core of the heat was over the central Rockies with +7.6F in Denver. The heat nosed in a few plumes to the east most notable relative to normal over the Great Lakes (Green Bay +5.8F and ORD (Chicago O’Hare) +5F).
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Looking at the CPC map above, you can clearly see this as a regional weather event, one driven by a pattern shift. There’s no “climate change” component to this just as there was not any in the 2010 Russian Heat Wave, where the media also went crazy trying to tie it to “global warming”. Readers may recal last summer, where the same sort of pattern set up in the USA: Blocking highs contribute to unusually hot July in the Great Plains – Anthony
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If I understand this article, what Joe is saying is that just because it’s getting warmer globally it doesn’t mean it’s global warming.
We’re still wearing jacket well into the afternoon and in the evenings/night time here in Portland, OR. Still sleeping under blankets…..
Gerald Machnee said on July 4, 2012 at 9:40 am:
*ahem*
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/07/03/the-kevin-trenberth-seth-borenstein-aided-fact-free-folly-on-the-usa-heat-wave/
Sou, since Joe clearly doesn’t say or even infer in the article that it’s getting warmer globally, we are forced by your own stated condition to conclude that you didn’t understand the article. Try reading it again; it’s short and clearly presented. Maybe your mom can help you with it.
That is the stupid part about the “the face of global warming” articles. This is not global. First, half the planet is in the winter season and it is cold. Of the northern hemisphere, the UK, Europe, and half of North America are colder than ususal. The fact that half of North America is warmer than usual does not equal global warming. Maybe they are confused by the global part.
Did I mention how lovely it was to be in the Bahamas until the end of May and not Canada? I will not see a winter in Canada again. That helps health, it does not hurt it.
Gerald Machnee says:
July 4, 2012 at 9:40 am
Well, several of us regulars have. Check out
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/07/03/the-kevin-trenberth-seth-borenstein-aided-fact-free-folly-on-the-usa-heat-wave/
Note the date – 07/03….
Remember folks, AGW is presupposed – and therefore EVERY weather event in every locale (cold here, hot there, dry in one place, damp in another, more snow in this place, less snow in that) is evidence of human-induced climate change.
If you want to over-generalize, sure, but not really.
Most of the southern corn belt is turning blonde-ish with little tassellings. Lots of barely waist high stalks too. The earliest planted corn did better but the green is getting a bit pale. I just traveled much of it. Am told the bottom of the northern corn belt is much the same.
We need some good soaking rains, and in the next few critical days.
In the UK, June averaged out at just 13.5 deg C. The hottest since 1659 was 1846, at 18.2 C, followed by 1676 at 18 C, followed by 1826 at 17.3, followed by 1822 at 17.1. In the top ten hottest June’s, 1970 just creeps in at 16.4 C. In the hottest 20 June temps, 1940, 1950, 1960 and 2003 get a look in. So June in the UK is 4.7 deg C colder than it was 206 years ago and this is global warming?
Sorry, 166 years, but you get the drift.
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And its been f-f-freezing in NW Europe too. Not to mention the wettest summer on record.
???? What does super-mild mean? In my language (English) it means moderate, slightly warmer than too cool. So “super-moderate”?? Sounds like “extremely average”. “Excessively usual”.
Blekhh.
It’s almost like weather doesn’t equal climate.
Hot & Cold, for sure!
http://www.wunderground.com/global/AA.html