Heat wave smashes records around the world — a look at the sizzling temperatures
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From the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) it is now more than 50 Days in a Row Arctic Temperatures Below Normal. This is the entire 80N latitude to the North Pole 90N across the entire top of our planet. Hard to believe its the hottest year ever with these numbers, additionally sea surface temperatures are not showing signs of extreme heat. Difficult to have a hot planet without hot oceans. *** ADAPT 2030 True
Lol, you people should not be left alone for very long.
The time to acknowledge the sky is falling is when you get winter days that are hotter than the summer ones and summer gets days that are colder than the winter ones. . . . .
run, run or you will experience a most horrible death.
The time to acknowledge the sky is falling is when you get winter days that are hotter than the summer ones and summer gets days that are colder than the winter ones. . . . .
run, run or you will experience a most horrible death.
FEELIN' HOT HOT HOT: Heat, humidity across Canada expected to last until end of August
Canadian Press
Published:
August 6, 2018
Updated:
August 6, 2018 3:03 PM EDT
People sit outside a Toronto ice cream parlour to enjoy a cone in the mid-afternoon on Sunday when the temperature was 33C but felt like 41C with the humidity according to Environment Canada. (Jack Boland/Toronto Sun/Postmedia Network)
HALIFAX — This summer is on track to become one of the hottest on record in Atlantic Canada, as stifling heat and humidity levels persist from coast-to-coast, experts say.
“It has just been relentless,” said David Phillips, a senior climatologist with Environment Canada, who added the heat wave is expected to last until the end of August throughout much of Canada.
Rolf Campbell, a weather historian who has gathered over a hundred years’ worth of raw statistics from Environment Canada, said cities in all four Atlantic provinces had both higher average temperatures and maximum temperatures in July than in previous years.
Most are holding long-running streaks of consecutive days with lots of humidity and soaring temperatures.
“I’ve only been doing this for a few years in the Maritimes, but this is by far the largest bunch of record-breaking days I’ve ever seen,” said Campbell, who runs a number of Twitter accounts reporting on historical weather statistics throughout the country.
Halifax has had over two straight weeks of days with a maximum temperature of 25 degrees — shattering the previous record set in 1876 — as well as a 41-day run with a maximum temperature of over 21 degrees, which is the longest streak ever recorded.
On Monday, Charlottetown, P.E.I., marked its 17th consecutive day with a humidex temperature of 30 degrees or higher, the longest streak since 1967.
Saint John, N.B., reached its hottest August day in almost eight years with a temperature of 30.4 degrees on Monday, while St. John’s, N.L., recently had two consecutive days with a maximum temperature of 28 degrees — quite balmy for a province known for a chilly climate.
Heat warnings were issued in nearly every province in Canada on Monday, with some regions expected to hit the low 40s with the humidex.
“It’s rare to have such a persistent heat wave that strikes so much of the country,” said Campbell.
“It’s not abnormal for one province, or even just the Maritimes, to have an unusually warm spell, but for it to be consistent from Toronto all the way to Newfoundland for several weeks? That’s pretty unusual.”
Campbell said more records are bound to be set as the hot, muggy summer continues.
In a phone interview Monday, Phillips said the system that brought the heat to Canada is sometimes known as a “Bermuda high,” where hot, humid air moves into the country from a high-pressure system over Bermuda.
“It’s like a heat pump, it pumps this American air northward,” he said.
Between July 1 and August 5, Phillips said Halifax has had 28 days where the temperature has been hotter than 25 degrees — double the average number of days in that time period over the past 30 years.
During four of those days, temperatures reached 30 degrees, which he said is uncommon for Halifax.
“Halifax can go whole summers without hitting 30,” he said.
Phillips said he was most struck by the persistence of the heat. Typically, when Halifax has a heat wave, things tend to cool down for a couple of days in between hot spells before temperatures reach back up to the high 20s.
This year, the city has been experiencing non-stop heat for over two weeks.
“It’s not just a one-day wonder,” Phillips said. “It’s almost as if the weather has stagnated, it’s stuck in that high-pressure area.”
While it may take some getting used to, this surge of heat could become more common within the next few decades, according to Blair Feltmate, head of the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation at the University of Waterloo.
In an email, he said temperatures across southern Canada are expected to increase by three to four degrees by 2040, with disproportionately higher increases in northern regions. This estimate is relative to the average temperature increase between 1975 and 2000.
“My concern with Atlantic Canada is that historically residents have not been subjected to extreme heat,” wrote Feltmate, who recently chaired a federal advisory panel on climate change.
“We must convince people to prepare for heat waves that have not occurred historically, but that are for sure coming due to climate change.”
He said people should consider building houses with air conditioning, building more cooling centres in communities, and implementing emergency systems to check on vulnerable populations during heat waves.
Halifax recently took a bold step by planting nine palm trees in parks on the Dartmouth side of the Halifax harbour. While the palm varieties are known to be cold-hardy, the jury is still out on whether they can survive winter in a North Atlantic city known as the Warden of the North.
The heat has also helped an agave plant bloom in Halifax’s Public Gardens, after being transplanted this spring from a greenhouse.
http://torontosun.com/news/national...ent-canada-issues-heat-warnings-across-canada
Canadian Press
Published:
August 6, 2018
Updated:
August 6, 2018 3:03 PM EDT
People sit outside a Toronto ice cream parlour to enjoy a cone in the mid-afternoon on Sunday when the temperature was 33C but felt like 41C with the humidity according to Environment Canada. (Jack Boland/Toronto Sun/Postmedia Network)
HALIFAX — This summer is on track to become one of the hottest on record in Atlantic Canada, as stifling heat and humidity levels persist from coast-to-coast, experts say.
“It has just been relentless,” said David Phillips, a senior climatologist with Environment Canada, who added the heat wave is expected to last until the end of August throughout much of Canada.
Rolf Campbell, a weather historian who has gathered over a hundred years’ worth of raw statistics from Environment Canada, said cities in all four Atlantic provinces had both higher average temperatures and maximum temperatures in July than in previous years.
Most are holding long-running streaks of consecutive days with lots of humidity and soaring temperatures.
“I’ve only been doing this for a few years in the Maritimes, but this is by far the largest bunch of record-breaking days I’ve ever seen,” said Campbell, who runs a number of Twitter accounts reporting on historical weather statistics throughout the country.
Halifax has had over two straight weeks of days with a maximum temperature of 25 degrees — shattering the previous record set in 1876 — as well as a 41-day run with a maximum temperature of over 21 degrees, which is the longest streak ever recorded.
On Monday, Charlottetown, P.E.I., marked its 17th consecutive day with a humidex temperature of 30 degrees or higher, the longest streak since 1967.
Saint John, N.B., reached its hottest August day in almost eight years with a temperature of 30.4 degrees on Monday, while St. John’s, N.L., recently had two consecutive days with a maximum temperature of 28 degrees — quite balmy for a province known for a chilly climate.
Heat warnings were issued in nearly every province in Canada on Monday, with some regions expected to hit the low 40s with the humidex.
“It’s rare to have such a persistent heat wave that strikes so much of the country,” said Campbell.
“It’s not abnormal for one province, or even just the Maritimes, to have an unusually warm spell, but for it to be consistent from Toronto all the way to Newfoundland for several weeks? That’s pretty unusual.”
Campbell said more records are bound to be set as the hot, muggy summer continues.
In a phone interview Monday, Phillips said the system that brought the heat to Canada is sometimes known as a “Bermuda high,” where hot, humid air moves into the country from a high-pressure system over Bermuda.
“It’s like a heat pump, it pumps this American air northward,” he said.
Between July 1 and August 5, Phillips said Halifax has had 28 days where the temperature has been hotter than 25 degrees — double the average number of days in that time period over the past 30 years.
During four of those days, temperatures reached 30 degrees, which he said is uncommon for Halifax.
“Halifax can go whole summers without hitting 30,” he said.
Phillips said he was most struck by the persistence of the heat. Typically, when Halifax has a heat wave, things tend to cool down for a couple of days in between hot spells before temperatures reach back up to the high 20s.
This year, the city has been experiencing non-stop heat for over two weeks.
“It’s not just a one-day wonder,” Phillips said. “It’s almost as if the weather has stagnated, it’s stuck in that high-pressure area.”
While it may take some getting used to, this surge of heat could become more common within the next few decades, according to Blair Feltmate, head of the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation at the University of Waterloo.
In an email, he said temperatures across southern Canada are expected to increase by three to four degrees by 2040, with disproportionately higher increases in northern regions. This estimate is relative to the average temperature increase between 1975 and 2000.
“My concern with Atlantic Canada is that historically residents have not been subjected to extreme heat,” wrote Feltmate, who recently chaired a federal advisory panel on climate change.
“We must convince people to prepare for heat waves that have not occurred historically, but that are for sure coming due to climate change.”
He said people should consider building houses with air conditioning, building more cooling centres in communities, and implementing emergency systems to check on vulnerable populations during heat waves.
Halifax recently took a bold step by planting nine palm trees in parks on the Dartmouth side of the Halifax harbour. While the palm varieties are known to be cold-hardy, the jury is still out on whether they can survive winter in a North Atlantic city known as the Warden of the North.
The heat has also helped an agave plant bloom in Halifax’s Public Gardens, after being transplanted this spring from a greenhouse.
http://torontosun.com/news/national...ent-canada-issues-heat-warnings-across-canada
Yeah, well don't get yer nuts in a knot
2018: Record Cold Summer In Russia
In Salekhard, the temperature dropped to a record low of -1°C, breaking the previous record for August 2 of +2.0 °C, set in 1980.
Early frosts in Siberia – IA “Meteonovosti”
On the night of August 2 north of the Tomsk region the temperature dropped to 0 .. + 2°C, and in some cases below freezing.
At Ust-Ozerskaya (Ozersk) station the temperature dropped to -1°C.
Negative air temperature to -1°C was observed in other low places in Western Siberia.
In the next 24 hours, the weather in Siberia will remain cold, 6-7 degrees below normal.
In the north of Taimyr, wet snow is possible.
https://principia-scientific.org/2018-record-cold-summer-in-russia/
Perth weather hits record number of cool summer days
Perth has experienced its longest run of summer days below 35 degrees in more than two decades.
The cool spell has now entered its 31st day, but is set to end on Thursday when the temperature reaches 37 degrees Celsius.
The previous record is from 1994, when the city had 23 days under 35C.
Western Australia has experienced a cooler start to the year, with an average maximum temperature of 30C for January and February.
In scenes that were anything but summery, ex-tropical Cyclone Joyce last month caused heavy showers and cool temperatures across the city, dumping four months of rain in a single day.
Summer temperatures far from sizzling
The Bureau of Meteorology's Glen Cook said Perth has had fewer really hot days this summer, with no days over 40C.
He said the reason was high pressure systems failing to linger in the Great Australian Bight.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-14/perth-record-cool-days-to-end-with-scorcher/9444004
Yeah 'climate change" - "Har! it gots a different temperature in a different places!!!
Another prediction of a bogie man in the closet...maybe...we should pay him to go away!
2018: Record Cold Summer In Russia
In Salekhard, the temperature dropped to a record low of -1°C, breaking the previous record for August 2 of +2.0 °C, set in 1980.
Early frosts in Siberia – IA “Meteonovosti”
On the night of August 2 north of the Tomsk region the temperature dropped to 0 .. + 2°C, and in some cases below freezing.
At Ust-Ozerskaya (Ozersk) station the temperature dropped to -1°C.
Negative air temperature to -1°C was observed in other low places in Western Siberia.
In the next 24 hours, the weather in Siberia will remain cold, 6-7 degrees below normal.
In the north of Taimyr, wet snow is possible.
https://principia-scientific.org/2018-record-cold-summer-in-russia/
Perth weather hits record number of cool summer days
Perth has experienced its longest run of summer days below 35 degrees in more than two decades.
The cool spell has now entered its 31st day, but is set to end on Thursday when the temperature reaches 37 degrees Celsius.
The previous record is from 1994, when the city had 23 days under 35C.
Western Australia has experienced a cooler start to the year, with an average maximum temperature of 30C for January and February.
In scenes that were anything but summery, ex-tropical Cyclone Joyce last month caused heavy showers and cool temperatures across the city, dumping four months of rain in a single day.
Summer temperatures far from sizzling
The Bureau of Meteorology's Glen Cook said Perth has had fewer really hot days this summer, with no days over 40C.
He said the reason was high pressure systems failing to linger in the Great Australian Bight.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-14/perth-record-cool-days-to-end-with-scorcher/9444004
Yeah 'climate change" - "Har! it gots a different temperature in a different places!!!
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36C (for real, not humidicks) in my forecast for a couple day and I couldn't be happier.
While the climate anxiety types panic over heat, I'm thinking to myself "I hope we don't see any frost for the next 5 weeks".
While the climate anxiety types panic over heat, I'm thinking to myself "I hope we don't see any frost for the next 5 weeks".
Roy Jacques of C.K.W.X. fame had it right, he always reported the temp. as "xx on the understandable scale". He saw the folly of Celsius same as I did. R.I.P. Roy.
Anything can make sense if you live with it long enough and people of my vintage were quite comfortable with the old system at time, but thanks to Papa Trudeau we just smashed up $millions of dollars worth of thermometers and it didn't change the climate one bit.
You can't convert in this day and age?
There is a button for that on your screen you know....say...RU stoned?
