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Ryan Maue Puts Yesterday’s US EXTREME HEAT in Context
Record hot temp for earth was over a century ago in Death Valley. The record cold was in Antarctica only a few decades ago – COLD wins! Game ovah!
Urban and paved area has greatly expanded since 1936. Plus, we have air conditioning pumping heat outside of buildings.
This was the hottest day of the year in the Front Range of Colorado (98F supposedly) and still I got plenty of yard work done. When I got hot, I came inside and drank some water.
The official record for Salt Lake yesterday posted a daily high reading of 106F. When I checked a relatively well rural station nearby that number was only 98.
UHI Exhibit A: Las Vegas, literally, The Meadows.
My home station in Holladay, UT registered 100. I am typically well below the downtown/airport reading. It is hardly rural here, but less of a concrete jungle than where they report the “record”.
“Plus, we have air conditioning pumping heat outside of buildings.”
That really shouldn’t matter except some stations are near units. Sometimes an ice-cream van parks next to one. Then there are the solar panels spread laid out on the ground just in front, on the sunny side. And don’t forget the jets! And the lawns near stations that once were watered on hot afternoons that are watered at night, if at all, now.
I thought they adjusted the 1930’s away.
They tried.
And are still trying to get rid of the remaining bump.
NWS says for my little spot on the Globe, Columbus Ohio, 14 of the record highs for July were set in the ’30s with 7 of those set in 1936 and 5 set in 1934.
The all time record high was 106*F July 14, 1936.
(I did look at a few other sites that have lowered that all time record. One says it was 102 set in 1954!)
“The heat now is caused by climate change, which is different and more dangerous.”
Is he being sarcastic?
Seems to me, that the higher temps in 1936 WERE MORE dangerous because it caused or made worse the “Dust Bowl” and they didn’t have wide-spread air conditioning and nanny state warnings to stay hydrated.
Yes – an obvious poke at the alarmists.
Does that question need an answer?
Good for you to clarify that ambiguity. WUWT is trying to have it both ways:
Appeasing the “climate change” crowd AND the data-driven science readers. Far more uninformed people will see this as “climate change is a dangerous problem” than recognize the sarcasm which was poorly executed if, indeed, it was sarcasm… .
Careless and imprecise language
(here, WUWT’s completely failing to imply any sarcasm at all)
is no accident.
It is a conscious attempt to confuse and deceive.
George Orwell
Net Result: Promotion of AGW, a.k.a. “climate change.”
********************
Gotta keep the whole AGW thing going if one wants to keep making money off it….🤨
Why is 65°-75°F bright red? Am I going to die from experiencing room temperature conditions?
Black and white maps are more honest.
Scissor,
Ask and ye shall receive.
Needs greyscale adjustment, though.
Geoff S
It is a very poor choice for the color scheme for the temperatures! Yes, a simple grey scale would have been better for this situation.
“Why is 65°-75°F bright red?”
They haven’t figured out to made infrared show up on a weather map.
Hot in summer — a sure sign of the apocalypse.
I’ll worry when I see the pope shitting in the woods.
It’s like the alarmists knew there was an El Nino coming this summer so they had all these “INFERNAL HEAT! THE WORLD IS BURNING! END OF THE WORLD! HOTTEST EVA!” articles all written and ready to prod politicians into hand them more ‘green dollars’ to save the world (on the backs of average citizens, of course).
Meanwhile. the Arctic Sea Ice extent doesn’t seem to be noticing. It’s humming nicely above the 2012 lows.
It’s above the average for the whole decade 2011-20, as were the summer minima in 2021 and 2022. How will alarmists explain it away if this Arctic decade is icier than last decade?
For about 20-25 years the Arctic sea ice (and OMG how will the poor cute POLaR BeARS survive!) was the big indicator of global warming. Then it stopped cooperating with their narrative so it’s irrelevant all of a sudden.
With polar bear populations increasing due to (surprise!) warmer temperatures and sunlight reaching the water causing increased primary productivity, they really need a new furry and charismatic species of megafauna to appeal to bleeding hearts.
Hilarious that now the Carbonari are touting low Antarctic sea ice, whereas from 1979 to 2014, it grew alarmingly. Less sea ice of course is good for penguins and Weddel seals, so what is a CACA advocate to do?
Cold causes heat. It’s simple.
It’s Global Warming when convenient and Climate Change when not for the alarmists/Marxists.
“Global Heating”, according to the Guardian. “Warming” sounds too nice for alarmists. To match the “Ocean Acidification” when it should properly be “Ocean Alkalinity Reduction”
And it’s “Climate Disruption” in the northern hemisphere winter and for floods/hurricanes/tornados. “Change” is too neutral a word.
The language is important if you want to keep the people panicked enough to hand over all their tax $ to green grifters.
How can anyone suggest that the Dust Bowl had no connection to climate change?
Of course it’s connected to climate change, all changes are.
The question is, is it connected to AGW!!
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan | Goodreads
The region was hot and dry at times in the past, and it can get hot and dry now.
Is this climate change.
The land was overplowed in the high plains. Then came hot dry weather. If the land hadn’t been overplowed there wouldn’t have been a Dust Bowl. It had nothing to do with climate change.
Millions of trees were strategially planted throughout the Dust Bowl areas after the 1930’s.
I saw aerial photos in an article not long ago where you could see the outline of the trees planted in belts across many U.S. States.
Maybe the trees are doing some good. We haven’t had a Dust Bowl since.
We haven’t had any more dust bowls since the farmers learned not to plow dry lands like the heavy wet soils of the British Isles and northwestern Europe.
“How can anyone suggest that the Dust Bowl had no connection to climate change?”
Well, we have to know what you mean by “climate change”. Do you mean natural climate change, or climate change caused by humans?
You see the Orwellians have so butchered the language in recent times that it is hard to tell which kind of climate change a person is talking about. The Human-caused Climate Change Orwellians want us all to think there is only one kind of climate change: human-caused, so they leave out the human-caused part and just assume it and they want us to assume it, too.
But we are not going to do that around here. We need more specifics.
My 15 year old daughter mentioned it was the hottest ever. I just told her “Good thing we live in Canada, then.”
Then she went to a friend’s cottage three hours north for a week. She came back yesterday and told me how cold it was. I told her “Good thing it was ‘the hottest ever’ then, or you might have been frozen to death”.
We evolved in east Africa. Warmer temperatures across the globe are a boon to humans everywhere except perhaps right at the equator. I volunteer to help those heat-stricken relocate to northern Canada (where they are safe from the heat for thousands of years) if they are suffering too much. We could use some people up there to watch out for Russians. Judging by population growth numbers, it’s funny how everyone is moving to the “hell-like” Arizona and Texas instead, though.
Meanwhile, we in Canada feel so sorry for those few people enduring the frozen wastelands up near the Arctic that you get a generous tax break if you are unfortunate enough to live in Yukon, the Northwest Territories, or Nunavut.
Actually I find the climate on the Equater in E Africa very pleasant. The rain every afternoon is particularly nice.
It is northern hemisphere mid summer. Always somewhat Hot. Hotter is just variable summer weather. Hottest really depends.
I remember a business visit to Phoenix in the late 1990’s when the afternoon temp was 117F downtown. Almost 30 years later in a much bigger city it supposedly hit 118F. UHI, not climate change.
They just sweep that under the rug. We desperately need a dataset independent of the government. It’s beyond ridiculous.
An independant dataset and uncontaminated weather stations. However it should also be independant of most universities and academic institutions!
When my parents moved from Illinois to Phoenix in 1952(?), my recollection is that the day we arrived in early-July it was 118 deg F. However, it was a dry heat and tolerable, unlike today with all the golf courses and misters everywhere.
Men just happen to like golf.
Lots of Ms.’s do, too. 😉
Glad you wrote that, Scissor. My first, quick (very quick), thought: “Huh. Clyde’s kinda ticked off at the men out there golfing…….. Oh! Heh.”
“Here’s the map for July 16, 1936. It was 5°F hotter on average across 48 states, but that was due to Dust Bowl.” I don’t see how this is the direction of causation.
Only some of the dates during the Dust Bowl years had trended exceptionally hot as indicated by the 5-year centered mean of the average Tmax of USHCN stations. Look at May 24, for example. All 365 dates of the years 1897-2019 are plotted at the Google Drive folder linked in this comment from 2022.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/13/open-thread-22/#comment-3476060
I wasn’t sure until re-reading Maue’s post and replies again today that he was also mocking the “due to Dust Bowl” claims.
Nor was I. How could one be? The presentation of the information was highly imprecise, careless, writing at best, an intentional attempt to promote AGW/”climate change” at worst.
This “hottest ever” meme is getting ridiculous. CNN commented that it was 98 deg F in the Florida Keys. I’m headed there for a vacation in a couple of weeks, and had checked temperatures, so realized the CNN “we’re spiraling downward in the thermogedden hell on earth and it’s Trumps fault” comment was false. I checked again and the temperatures are 91 to 93 deg F, past, present, and near-term future. Liars. Who’s their audience?
This year is unlikely to be warmer than Super Los Ninos of 2016 and 1998.
Milo:
No, it is extremely likely that this year will exceed the temperatures of 2016 and 1998. They were both “Man-made”, and man has a heavier thumb on the scale this year.
Mann-made!
That is, more dirty tricks!
Gullible readers are the audience.
Indeed. People who want very much to believe, a.k.a., “the liberal base.”
Sadly, there will also be some who were genuinely seeking truth who will be misled… 🙁
I’m flying into London next week and the high is supposed to be in the upper 60’s.
If temperature is your goal in life….there is a place in the Andes Mountains on the equator where the temp is almost always the same every day….it’s at a few thousand feet above sea level…it’s not crowded….yet.
Is that the “cloud forest”?
On July the 5th 1937, at Yellowgrass and Midale, Saskatchewan, a year later, the temperature reached an all time high for Canada of 45°C (113°F). 75km northwest in Saskatoon it reached 44° on the same day, good coroborration.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/saskatchewan-top-ten-weather-1.4184186
The alleged record now is the infamous 121 F. during the June 29, 2021 heat dome at Lytton, BC. Oregon, WA and ID records were not broken, so this is dubious.
“Here’s the map for July 16, 1936. It was 5°F hotter on average across 48 states, but that was due to Dust Bowl. ”
Say what? The Dust Bowl caused a heat wave in 48 states? I doubt it.
The dust bowl era was due to climate change. Farming practices might have made things worse, but not the degrees hotter US.
What is that common sense statement a frequent commenter provides here?
CO2 is not a problem
Warm temperatures are not a problem
more greening of the planet is not a problem
less cold is not a problem……..
something like that.
Climate Change Indicators: Heat Waves
https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-heat-waves
23 of the currently still standing hottest state temperature records were set in the 1930’s. That’s almost half of the hottest temperatures in each state during 1 decade…….around 9 decades ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._state_and_territory_temperature_extremes
There was no air conditioning in the 1930’s!
Yes by 1936 some movie theaters had A/C. And that is what made the afternoon mateines so popular,
The Dawn Of Climate Time | Real Climate Science
That’s a wonderful source, rah.
Thanks!
It was perhaps 7-8 yrs ago I had a chance to listen to a big ag executive giving
a presentation to a large Farm Bureau annual meeting. He was the former
CEO of Cargill but had left that position and took over as head of the risk management
board spot. His talk was about what they perceived to the single biggest risk to
their operation. It was a weather focused talk, and IIRC it was about the storm track
becoming wavy and slowing down. That according to him put the crops into adverse
conditions, which before when the storm track was faster and more in a west to east straight line the crops could handle a few days of whatever was happening but now the systems
were slowing down and the crop failures increased. He then went on to talk about the
increase in temps in the arctic which according to him was what was causing the
change in storm track and crop damage. Anyone here familiar with this view? All this
media talk about heat waves made me think about that talk…would be interested in
any records of this weather situation.
The “storm track” is constantly changing because the jet stream is constantly changing.
Why the jet stream does what it does is still unknown. No connection between CO2 and the jet stream configuration has ever been established. Not even close.
The storm track change the CEO of Cargill was referring to was, and is, only temporary. It doesn’t change from one configuration to another and then stay that way. It constantly changes. So, since that speech, the Cargill CEO’s preferred storm track may have returned. In fact, look at this Nullschool rendition of the world and the jet stream is blowing in the same manner the CEO described “which before when the storm track was faster and more in a west to east straight line the crops could handle a few days of whatever was happening”.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/500hPa/orthographic=-104.12,35.88,403
Thanks, I’ve watched the storm track over the past 3 la nina cycles and
now a reverse to el nino and is has some basics but just has a chaotic
theme to it. I would put the biggest risk this year on the political disruption
in Ukraine before the weather.
The threat to the crops from climate change has been the complete opposite.
Climate change has resulted in the best growing weather conditions for crops and most plants in the last 1,000 years.
The additional CO2 has been making a massive contribution. Not just from its key role in photosynthesis but enriching the air with CO2 causes plants/crops to be more water efficient. They don’t need to open their stomata (underside of leaves) as wide to get CO2 and so they lose less moisture from transpiration. This makes them more water efficient/drought tolerant.
Excellent point. My wild hay crop this year is the best I’ve ever had.
I see fertilizer/energy prices as the biggest worry going forward..
It’s so hot in mid July in the UK right now I nearly switched on the central heating the other night.
And I nearly did too…It is uncharacteristically cold in the UK at the moment, but it is just weather!
And soon all of N. Europe will be joining you. It will be about as much below normal in N. Europe as S. Europe currently is above normal.
Been in Greece, Montenegro and Croatia the past few days … hot 34 – 37C … but all the places I was at have extensive stone paving and block wall radiating heat. All I heard around me was “climate change” BS, it is just weather and is common in the Mediterranean in summer!
Summertime
Deepest Apologies to George Gershwin
Summertime
And the lyin’ is easy
Graphs are jumpin’
And the temps are high
Oh, your grantor is rich
And no one is lookin’
So hush, little snowflake
Don’t you cry
Genius!
Porky and bust!
The model in the image looks a lot like the famous one below. Must be from the same stock photo photographer.