A new record: low maximum temperature beats the old one by 15 degrees!
From the NWS in Las Vegas:
RECORD EVENT REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
1000 AM PDT MON AUG 4 2014
...RECORD LOW MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE BROKEN IN DEATH VALLEY YESTERDAY...
THE HIGH TEMPERATURE IN DEATH VALLEY REACHED 89 DEGREES YESTERDAY
AUGUST 3. THIS BROKE THE PREVIOUS RECORD OF 104 DEGREES SET IN 1945.
THIS WAS ALSO ONLY THE 7TH TIME SINCE 1911 THAT HIGH TEMPERATURES IN
AUGUST REMAINED IN THE 80S.
THE ABOVE INFORMATION IS PRELIMINARY AND IS SUBJECT TO A FINAL
REVIEW AND CERTIFICATION BY THE NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER.
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Very hot weather: “We’re all going to die!” Very cold weather: “There’s a difference between climate & weather, moron!” – Pat Sajak
Ok, I’ll explain again: cold, snowy winters do not disprove global warming, but warm winters do prove it. Got it? – Pat Sajak
I presume this was at the real station, not the bogus one set up solely for the purpose of finally getting a higher high in Death Valley & the US in order to “prove” CACA correct.
Note the last sentence. “The above information is preliminary and is subject to final review…..by national climactic center”
So screw the local national weather service.
Big brother makes the final call
F***sticks not approving of that record.
Subject to review? Are they waiting for instant replay?
I feel an “adjustment” coming on.
/sarc
After the ‘necessary adjustments’ it turns out that it was actually the hottest evaaaaaaah. Worse than we thought!
Steven Goddard reminds us that this September we will see the first anniversary of an ice free Arctic.
An upper level low with numerous waves has been bringing clouds and significant rain, all the way back to S.California yesterday.
You can see 24 hour rainfall totals by going to this link and hitting “precipitation”
http://water.weather.gov/precip/
To zoom in closer, press your cursor on the spot you want to see.
It’s currently 72 F in Vegas, with heavy rain.
It was 104 there at 9 PM when I arrived last month.
I can see Death Valley from my “Man Cave” window. Well, I can see Telescope Peak which looks down into Death Valley. Here in Ridgecrest/China Lake, CA(northern Mojave Desert), it was very cool and drizzley yesterday, Aug. 3rd. My max min thermometer registered only 76F!(max) Very unlike July/Aug. weather. This has been one of the coolest Julys that I can remember. I’ve lived here since 1956 at age 6.
I agree. Sounds like that temperature needs to be adjusted and homogenized.
I’ve lived in the Cincinnati, OH area for most all of my 40+ years. This has been the coolest summer I can recall. We’ve had only a couple of days that reached 90 and none have gotten close to 100. Typically from late June through early August the temps will regularly reach the mid to upper 90’s often for days or weeks at a time. It is not at all unusual to have a day or two over 100. I work outdoors at night so to me the even more unusual thing has been the overnight lows. We’ve had many nights in the 50’s, several in the low 50’s. I’ve had to wear a sweatshirt for much of July which I’ve never done before. Purely anecdotal of course but this Summer has been cool. The grass has stayed green even. To paraphrase Kent Brockman “If this is the price we pay for Global Warming, you’ll forgive me if I keep my old Pontiac”
16.5% of the large state of NSW in Australia set coldest August Min temp records a few days ago…Adelaide in South Australia also set coldest August Min record for 126 years of data a few days ago…….Still large frost every morning in almost all of SE Australia.
is WUWT denying “climate”??? the alarmist side is getting uglier by the minute:
4 July: Guardian: World’s top PR companies rule out working with climate deniers
Ten firms say they will not represent clients that deny man-made climate change or seek to block emisson-reducing regulations
Suzanne Goldenberg and Nishad Karim
Public relations firms have played a critical role over the years in framing the debate on climate change and its solutions – as well as the extensive disinformation campaigns launched to block those initiatives.
Now a number of the top 25 global PR firms have told the Guardian they will not represent clients who deny man-made climate change, or take campaigns seeking to block regulations limiting carbon pollution. Companies include WPP, Waggener Edstrom (WE) Worldwide, Weber Shandwick, Text100, and Finn Partners.
“We would not knowingly partner with a client who denies the existence of climate change,” said Rhian Rotz, spokesman for WE,,.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/aug/04/worlds-top-pr-companies-rule-out-working-with-climate-deniers
Another record cold temperature is set and by a huge margin. Is there ANYTHING global warming can’t do?
If this measurement is at Furnace Creek, and I suspect it is, this is interesting. Having surveyed and Death Valley (including near Badwater) and visited many times, heat is the operative word. But elevation changes can really make a differences (Scotty’s versus Furnace, for example).
..surveyed in…
It has not been put through the adjustment algorithms yet.
Interesting, almost the same scenario of our past three summers in Australia. Summers that were observationally cool to inhabitants, and rather comfortable considering our experience of past sizzling summers in the drought era years!
But all we got from our Bureau of Meteorology was screaming headlines claiming hottest ever temperatures, record breaking temperatures, which was puzzling, until curious individuals looked into the, “how the heck did they arrive at that?” Easy it seems, start off with adjustments to downgrade past high temperature records, get rid of awkward sites, all done with some stealth behind the scenes, plant the ACORN of deception and liberally coat it with bulldust in the hope that the resulting “green tree of deception” will fool the media as they laze in its shade on a warm day, then of course, help the deception by concocting a method using average temperatures to take the extreme heat of Australian deserts and smear this all over the continent!
Oh and of course play down any extreme cold weather, even if it is inconveniently extremely cold at the moment, call that a blocking event or some such even weird if need be.
All the while hoping that your invented algorithm that now takes over the task of the temperature wreckers who physically altered the LIG thermometer historical account, will keep automatically adjusting modern temperatures ever upwards to ape the mythical hockey stick!
I guess you have to watch closely to see the thimble and pea move in that illusionary world. Watch your Death valley High temperatures move out across America to confirm it must on average be hotter than ever!
Australia again…….
“Canberra has recorded its coldest August night in two decades, with the mercury dropping below -7 degrees Celsius.
The nation’s capital has also recorded its coldest morning in three years.
“We last had a -8C back in July 2011, but we got down to -7.6C at 6:54am,” Sean Carson from the Bureau of Meteorology told .
“Your beer would be warmer in the fridge than being outside.”
Across the capital, residents awoke to discover frozen bird baths, ice-encrusted lawns and cars in cold storage.
One Canberran was greeted by her frost-laden pet alpaca.
Canberra’s winter got off to a mild start in June, while July brought nights that were colder than average, dropping below -5C.
A chance to ‘rug up’ and check on your neighbours
The chilly conditions prompted a health warning.
Doctor David Caldicott from Calvary Hospital said low temperatures could prove dangerous for some people by dropping their core temperature.
“There are some people who are more susceptible to that,” he said.
“The elderly can get profoundly unwell and their resuscitation as it often comes to it can be quite difficult.
“If you have asthma, that can actually be fairly significantly aggravated by cold weather.
“This is a great opportunity to catch up with your neighbours, knock on the door and make sure they’re okay.”
Dr Caldicott said babies were also at risk of heat loss.
“If you can put lots of layers on little babies, rug them up as if you’re taking them to the North Pole; put hats on, make sure there’s almost no exposed skin,” he said.”
– ABC
© ABC 2014
Mike Maguire says:(August 4, 2014 at 3:58 pm) “An upper level low with numerous waves has been bringing clouds […]“.
holts7 says: (August 4, 2014 at 4:29 pm) “16.5% of the large state of NSW in Australia set coldest August Min temp records a few days ago…Adelaide in South Australia also set coldest August Min record for 126 years of data a few days ago…….“.
The low Australian overnight temperatures seem to be from the high-pressure systems coming across at a higher latitude (further S) than usual. Northern NSW and Tasmania, which are north and south respectively of the current high pressure systems, had higher overnight temperatures. This weather system higher latitude is something that seems to be associated with El Nino, though we don’t definitely have an El Nino yet. Could the US temperatures also be associated with the weather systems (in the Death Valley case, clouds) coming across at a different latitude to usual?
Steven Goddard pretty decisively demonstrated on his blog last week that the NCDC is adjusting the USHCN temp raw to final adjusted temp data with its v2 algorithm that almost precisely tracks the Keeling curve since about 1960.
So despite this Death Valley record low , I am sure we will hear soon that the July and August temps in the US were the hottest ever recorded. And NCDC will have the adjusted temp dataset to prove it.
I have some trouble with the record, at least to my first pass look at things.
I thought the Death Valley station was that rattle-trap station relocated to capture high temperatures, but I asked http://weather.gov to take me to Death Valley, CA and it brought me to a USCRN station nearby. Okay, at least it’s nice to see them offering CRN data!
The link to the “past 3 days” took me to http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/getobext.php?wfo=vef&sid=ISWC1&num=72&raw=0 and picking out hour data for yesterday I got:
Time Temp. Dew RH Wind Precip Precip Quality Point Speed 5 min 1 hour Control (PDT) (f) (f) (%) (mph) (in) (in) 03 Aug 12:00 am PDT 99 49 19 G05 0.00 OK 03 Aug 1:00 am PDT 98 50 20 G07 0.00 OK 03 Aug 2:00 am PDT 98 50 20 G05 0.00 OK 03 Aug 3:00 am PDT 95 56 27 G27 0.00 OK 03 Aug 4:00 am PDT 93 59 32 G23 0.00 OK 03 Aug 5:00 am PDT 90 57 33 G20 0.00 OK 03 Aug 6:00 am PDT 86 64 48 G18 0.00 OK 03 Aug 7:00 am PDT 84 65 53 G19 0.00 OK 03 Aug 8:00 am PDT 86 62 46 G15 0.00 OK 03 Aug 9:00 am PDT 87 65 48 G10 0.00 OK 03 Aug 10:00 am PDT 85 63 47 G09 0.00 OK 03 Aug 11:00 am PDT 85 61 45 G10 0.00 OK 03 Aug 12:00 pm PDT 81 65 59 G05 0.00 0.01 OK 03 Aug 1:00 pm PDT 78 69 75 G06 0.00 0.05 OK 03 Aug 2:00 pm PDT 78 68 71 G11 0.00 0.03 OK 03 Aug 3:00 pm PDT 79 68 68 G11 0.01 0.03 OK 03 Aug 4:00 pm PDT 80 65 61 G07 0.00 OK 03 Aug 5:00 pm PDT 78 70 77 G07 0.00 OK 03 Aug 6:00 pm PDT 79 69 70 G05 0.00 OK 03 Aug 7:00 pm PDT 79 69 71 G04 0.00 OK 03 Aug 8:00 pm PDT 79 70 74 G05 0.00 OK 03 Aug 9:00 pm PDT 80 71 74 G05 0.00 OK 03 Aug 10:00 pm PDT 79 72 80 G04 0.00 OK 03 Aug 11:00 pm PDT 79 72 79 G06 0.00 OK 04 Aug 12:00 am PDT 80 72 76 G04 0.00 OKSo, we can make a strong case that the high temp for yesterday was 99F.
Is the Time of Observation not 0000, even for CRN sites? If we
continue on:
So, perhaps this will wind up as a spectacular example of Time of Observation impacting the the raw weather data….
REPLY: No, sorry you are way off here. The station of record is next to the Death Valley visitors center. The CRN station is a few miles away. The only reason you go it is that the web page mission for NWS is to provide “current conditions” and that is the only hourly reporting station they can use. – Anthony
NCDC—– All of our algorithms are working as directed. All future summers will be hotter. That is not ice on the pond, merely a piece of plastic. Nothing to see here. Move on—–
Has anyone consulted with Mann? He probably has tree ring data from inner Death Valley confirming it was hotter than ever over the last 1000 years…