July 21, 2024 was the hottest day ever (updated date)

Read the other day that man is 3% responsible in driving global warming and that it’s a good thing.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/clim...rature-records-testing-key-climate-threshold/


You know that goal of staying within 1.5 degree C? For the month of July we hit 1.5 degree C. That’s what it feels like.

This summer in DFW area is miserable. Many days 105,106 and some higher. It wasn’t that many years ago that although sometimes you have many days in a row over 100, the highest I can remember was 105. Now it’s like that every day and peaked out around here at about 110.

Soent a few weeks in MN, Oregon coast and SF Bay Area in July. It was heaven compared to here. I doubt I’ll ever spend a full summer in TX again.

 

Denton seemed to always be 102 in the dog days of summer. This was early to mid 90s.

 

seems about right. At one point back then perhaps a little later there was something like 21 days over 100. But it rarely got as high as 105. Now it is 105 almost every day.

 

Ooofta . . . having been in northern MN for the last 11 years, I don't want to imagine what that feels like. Today was one of the hottest days of summer and we topped out at 88. It was HOT for us northern folk.

 

Grapevine, TX Weather History | Weather Underground

1998 - which was an El Niño year and the hottest year on record for many years was particularly bad.

I recall some years ago, maybe as long as a decade, in MN it got into the high 90s and in July had the highest dew point in the country. It was pretty miserable. Definitely the exception. I’ve also recalled being up there in the summer and needing heat at night.

 

Where did you read this?

 

I have him blocked but was curious who you were responding to.

I suspect the 3% stems from the fact that most of co2 emitted comes from natural sources, so the claim is human emissions are comparatively small or irrelevant. But that ignores the fact that co2 is also cycled back out of the atmosphere, mainly plants, and naturally what goes in and out is in roughly equilibrium. However, add another 3% and that 3% is all or mostly excess. An incremental 3% would cause a doubling of co2 over 33 years.

 

I see 95 currently (9:30pm central) in Grapevine. That's crazy. Looks like it gets down to 83 later, though, which is better than the typical night in Gainesville. MN can get good and hot, you're right. I live in Duluth, which is at the southern shore of Lake Superior. The lake has wild impact on temp and weather (e.g. lake effect snow). Duluth is all on a hill rolling down to the lake and temps typically vary 7degrees colder or (mostly) warmer by the lake vs. up on the hill. We can also be 10-20 degrees colder than Minneapolis. In a wild anomaly, it's currently 75 in Duluth and 68 in Minneapolis. They must be getting an edge of a cold front.

 

In the world of unintended consequences:

Cleaning up tanker emissions leads to less clouds and ocean warming

https://www.science.org/content/art...st-geoengineering-fueling-record-ocean-warmth

James Hansen says reducing fossil fuel pollution will cause temporary warming effect.

James Hansen Warns of a Short-Term Climate Shock Bringing 2 Degrees of Warming by 2050 - Inside Climate News

 

July 2023, hottest in recorded history

It was bad out here in SoCal. Nearly every day in July peaked at over 100 in the afternoons and I live up in the foothills @ 3.5k elevation where it's usually about 3 - 7 degrees cooler than 10 miles down the hill in the valley.

We've had some heatwaves since moving here but never for an entire month. And there is rarely a cloudy day here in the summer. Only upside was very low humidity and nights here cool down quickly.

Things are back to normalish, peaking in the low to mid 90s now.

 

I’ve always disliked summers in NW Florida so nothing new there. But very few afternoon air mass storms recently. I also read there are record highs in South America, where it’s winter.

Whether it’s global warming or not, I don’t know. I at least think something has been going on with the jet stream lately. And this current high pressure ridge. All of this is over my pay grade to be fair.

Pivotal Weather

https://www.axios.com/2023/08/03/heat-wave-gulf-coast-texas-arizona

‘Winter is disappearing’: South America hit by ‘brutal’ unseasonal heatwave

NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center

 

It's that polar ice melting. That's why you're not getting those air mass storms anymore. That right there ain't nothin' to play with.

 

Texas has really been getting baked. And not in a good way. Hats off to those who have to work outdoors really anywhere in the South/Sun Belt.

 

I think it was Monday or Tuesday, but AccuWeather said the RealFeel was 120° here. Just walking outside puts you in a bad mood. 0/10, would not recommend.

It's overcast today and actual temp is only 84°, ReelFeel of 100°, ReelFeel Shae is 97°. Again, would not recommend.

 

I get in a bad mood every summer/heat wave, but it always seems to take me awhile to connect the dots.

 

You know it’s bad when a dip in the pool is still too hot.
My kids get to play soccer in this stuff.
Fun times.

 

I used to take pride in working construction outside during the summer. I can't imagine doing it anymore. Props to those who do.