New scary (but bogus) weather term from the left-leaning media: “heat storm” comes from the Star Wars movie, but doesn’t happen on Earth
Climate Depot has this story today:
The Los Angeles Times employed a new phrase designed to gin up climate fear among the public — the rise of the “heat storm.” LA Times staff writer Sammy Roth, used a term associated with the fictional Star Wars film series three times in his article titled “Boiling Point.” See: LA Times: Boiling Point: Climate change is wreaking havoc on the power grid in ways you never knew
LA Times Staff Writer Sammy Roth – ( sammy.roth@latimes.com )
Roth reported, that “the state experienced hotter days and higher overall peak electricity demand during a July 2006 heat storm that did not lead to rolling blackouts.” In addition, Roth also cited the Sustainability officer for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power as using the “heat storm” phrase as well.
The term “heat storm” is a relatively new term in the climate debate. Wikipedia defines a ‘heat storm’ this way: “A heat storm is a Californian term for an extended heat wave. Heat storms occur when the temperature reaches 100 °F (37.8 °C) for three or more consecutive days over a wide area (tens of thousands of square miles).”
Star Wars & ‘Heat Storms’
The term “heat storm” also derives from the Star Wars movie series. The website Starwars.fandom.com defines the fictional term “heat storm” as a “natural occurrence” that raged across the fictional planet Ryloth in the Star Wars film series.
“Heat storms consisted of furious cyclonic winds reaching speeds of up to 500 kilometers per hour and temperatures upwards of 300 degrees Celsius” and “If anyone was caught in one, they would be incinerated.”
This sounds horrible for Californians! According to the Los Angeles Times, these (fictional) “heat storms” are now impacting California. The LA Times did not explain when people would be “incinerated” by these fictional Star Wars-inspired “heat storms.”
From Anthony:
Other than Star Wars, I have never heard the term applied in my over 30 years forecasting in California until today.
Wikipedia says (under the heat wave definition)
“A heat storm is a Californian term for an extended heat wave. Heat storms occur when the temperature reaches 100 °F (37.8 °C) for three or more consecutive days over a wide area (tens of thousands of square miles).”
I don’t know where this “definition” came from, and the Wikipedia article has no basis or citation/reference for it. Further, Googling the term brings up a brand of space heaters, and no actual usage of the term related to weather in the first two pages.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22heat+storm%22&rlz=1C1GIGM_enUS835US835&oq=%22heat+storm%22
I did find one reference, and it appears this may be the very first use of the term:
Reading that article, suggests the term “heat storm” came from the imagination of the article writer. NOAA does not list the term “heat storm” in their official glossary.
https://w1.weather.gov/glossary/index.php?word=heat+storm
It’s a ridiculous made-up term, because “storm” implies something active and moving. Heat waves just sit there. They are stagnant air by their very nature. There’s even data and a map for it:
Stagnation When Heat Waves Exist – Summer, 1950-2007
NOAA DOES define “heat wave” as:
| Heat Wave A period of abnormally and uncomfortably hot and unusually humid weather. Typically a heat wave lasts two or more days. |
This renaming is just another way the left leaning media wants us to be afraid of normal weather patterns by making it into something that sounds scarier than “heat wave”.
Don’t buy it, it’s bogus, aka “fake weather” akin to “fake news”.
Add it to Bomb Cyclone (a big storm) polar vortex(a Siberian high, been like forever).
In sales these are called $100 words, you need $100 words to really sell the shiza out of something.
Clowns all
And didn’t the clown admit it was hotter back in 2006 and no grid problems or blackouts?
Does he grasp that he just tore green energy a new one?
Shutter a few Gigawatts of local power production in exchange for shunting it in from other states via high tension power lines through dry scrub brush country prone to Diablo winds…
… no, God isn’t setting them on fire for trying to legalize pedophilia. They are doing it to themselves.
Well, the UK had half of its entire October rainfall average on just one day this year, October 3rd. And we have had 20 years of similar events, which we did not have last century.
similar events across Europe -e.g Greece’s second hurricane in a decade.
Clearly we are are all doomed and the sky is falling … time to end it all Griff.
Again, ignorant little griff cannot tell the difference between WEATHER and climate…
No trend in rainfall ANYWHERE in the UK, ..
And ABSOLUTELY NO EVIDENCE that the WEATHER event of slightly variable rainfal (happened before, will happen again) ..
….. has ANYTHING to do with anything humans have done..
Still waiting for answers, and everyone is watching you squirm like a worm. 🙂
1… Do you have any empirical scientific evidence for warming by atmospheric CO2?
2… In what ways has the global climate changed in the last 50 years , that can be SCIENTIFICALLY proven to be of human causation?
Here is actual data as graphs showing some properties of heat waves of durations 4, 5 and 6 consecutive days, with the Y-axis showing the average Tmax over that term. The 20 “hottest” heat waves over the recorded site history are shown. Stations were the 6 State capital cities of Australia,are shown (Brisbane, Sydney, Melbournbe, Hobart, Adekaide, Perth.) Half of the graohs show raw, unadjusted temperatures from the BOM Bureau of Meteorology daily data files at CDO for Climate Data Online. The other half of the graphs show the early version 1 of the homogenised, adjusted, gender-fluid, inclusive BOM data set named ACORN-SAT, that for most sites starts in 1910.
I have other data for 3-day and 10-day duration heat waves, but the topic gets rather boring as you churn out graph after graph that the BOM should have done with its billions of budget $$$ and its supercomputer versus my ancient PC.
Main findings? Mostly, with some exceptions, heat waved so defined are not getting any hotter, longer or more frequent at these sites, which were chosen for long hiostorical record length and because some 80% of the Australia population lives in them.
http://www.geoffstuff.com/graphs_sydmelb_heatwaves.pdf
The social message is that there is a real danger that trendy woke global warming affected emergency planners (of which there are severa in key positions) are now planning matters like water bomber aircraft disposition, locations of fire-fighting staff as the summer approaches, hospital preparations to cope with heat stroke victims, electricity supplies to combat city blackouts when summer air conditioners are turned on – that sort of thing – with fictional ideas about the nature of our heat waves when actual data exist but are not studied adequately.
Here are a couple of sentences from a friend to the Commissioners of Australia’s latest inquiry into fires, this one for the 2019-20 burns in SE Australia. Quote:
“There is no empirical evidence that the degree of hazard has
increased due to warming of the climate. Instead there is increasing evidence that
automation, changes in instruments and the way data are processed is causing artificial
warming of the Bureau of Meteorology’s temperature and sea-level records. Projections that
the climate will warm and that sea levels will rise are not supported by objective analysis of
climate and sea level datasets available in the public domain.” (End of Quote. There is much more.)
Geoff S
Heat storms are the product of racist white supremacists – it is known and scientifically proven. /SARC
LAT readers won’t know the difference.
I would have thought a ‘heat storm’ would come in response to multiple indictments handed down to the perpetrators of the ‘great climate fraud’ and and the “deep state’ coup!
There it is, fake news is fiction as is the Star Wars movie. And the guy should get a hair cut, to improve his appearance and give him a better perspective of weather.
That’s what I was going to say — he looks like something from one of the LA underpasses.
The “HEAT” in heat storm stands for Hollywood Evades All Truth.
More evidence that the progressive left has lost it’s moral compass.
Maybe it rolled under the couch and that’s where they should look for it.
The mass media’s current case of TDS has seriously put CAGW on the back burner. I’m supprised we don’t hear his opponents ranting about it during this election cycle. Maybe because he can just point to the US’s huge decrease in CO2 emissions during his term.