The headline in E&E News, WOWT-TV, Scientific American, WorldNewsNetwork, and other media outlets this week, “Unprecedented Heat Wave in Pacific Northwest Driven by Climate Change” couldn’t possibly be more unscientific. With absolutely no analysis, no…
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The Big Heat Post Mortem and the Next Few Days
Reposted from The Cliff Mass Weather Blog It’s over. Throughout the region, all-time temperature records have been broken, if not smashed. Just to name a few: SeaTac hit 108F,…
Even More Extreme: Extraordinary Record Highs Followed by Perhaps the Most Rapid Cooling in Northwest (US) History
The latest model runs, all at very high resolution, show even more profound extremes than previously predicted. And the end of the event will be extraordinary, with temperatures falling by…
Update 3 on Northwest US Heat Wave Predictions
As we get closer to the big heat event, powerful new forecasting tools are becoming available. Tools that provide a higher resolution and more nuanced view of the extreme heatwave…
Update 2 on Northwest US Heat Wave Predictions
Surface temperatures will get above 112F over and near the western slopes of the Cascades. Large portions of western Oregon and Washington away from the water will be above 104F.
Update on Northwest US Heat Wave Predictions
If this forecast verifies virtually every major observing location in the western WA and Oregon interior will achieve their all-time temperature record. And several of these locations have observations that…
The Greatest Heat Wave In (US) Northwest History?
The meteorological community is all abuzz about the forecast this weekend: several of the global models are predicting an extraordinarily unusual heatwave this weekend in the Pacific Northwest.
The burden of heat-related mortality attributable to poor modeling
The methods used in A. M. Vicedo-Cabrera et all 2021 are seriously flawed causing results and conclusion to be invalid.
NOAA Confirm Heatwaves Are Declining In California
I have often published official graphs of individual stations, which show that heatwaves in California were more intense in the past. These run contra to NOAA’s official temperature record shown…
Media hypes new 130°F Death Valley Temperature – but it’s still short of the 134°F all-time record
On Sunday, August 16th the National Weather Service in Las Vegas, Nevada sent out a Tweet highlighting a new maximum daily temperature of 130°F in Death Valley: Predictably, the media jumped on…
HKU marine biologist and international team unveil impacts of heatwave on reef fishes
The University of Hong Kong The marine heatwave of 2016 was one of longest and hottest thermal anomalies recorded on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, influencing multiple species of…
The Gestalt of Heat Waves
guest post by Clyde Spencer Abstract Tmax and Tmin time-series are examined to look for historical, empirical evidence to support the claim that heat waves will become more frequent, of…
Heat Wave Hysteria? The Truth Shall Set You Free
Reposted from WeatherFacts By Chris Martz | July 20, 2019 Follow @ChrisMartzWX We’ve made it to mid-July and we are just now having our first major heat wave of the…
Was the Anchorage all-time temperature record aided by airport growth?
It sure seems that way. Yesterday, NWS Anchorage trumpeted these headlines: Here is the official report. [language removed – I accidentally conflated the all-time record high with daily high -Anthony]…
France’s new ‘hottest recorded temperature ever’ is in question – guess where it was measured?
Ian Duncan writes on Facebook: ‘France has its hottest recorded temperature ever’. But they don’t mention that where it was recorded was next to a concrete drain, and a steel…
How Cold Air Caused a Heatwave
Guest Post from Jim Steele From What’s Natural? Column published in Pacifica Tribune June 26, 2019 I was recently asked if the record June 2019 heat in the San Francisco…
Predicting heat waves? Look half a world away
When thunderstorms brew over the tropics, California heat wave soon to follow University of California – Davis When heavy rain falls over the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia and the…
Science studies say heatwaves were more common in USA during the 1930’s
During the 1930s, when the atmospheric CO2 concentration was about 100 ppm lower than today (310 ppm vs. 410 ppm), United States heat waves were just as if not more…
Record temps up to 100°F expected in SoCal at start of Thanksgiving holiday
From the “cook your turkey on the asphalt while waiting in a traffic jam” department Dr Ryan Maue of Weather.us has this informative forecast: Already in the 80s in Southern…
Hottest 4th of July Records
From: WeatherNation It’s that wonderful time of year, where we all look forward to celebrating our country’s birthday while sweating over a barbeque while the sun beats on our shoulders.…
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