Late June 2012 Heatwave Thread (temperatures, storm, city, degree)
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I saw the writing on the wall years ago and decided that I had to move much further north to escape the brutality of summer heat in the southern 1/2 to 2/3 of the country these days. These heat waves are becoming much more common with a duration that is far longer. It's the new normal and it isn't going to be pretty.
Consider yourself lucky - I'm a "move north wannabe" at the moment. But you're right in that the summers are increasingly brutal, with longer, more intense heatwaves, and that the northern states will be the place to be in the future. But I've got my sights set on Upstate New York, and I'll be moving up there if I die trying...lol.
101 here at the moment - tying the all-time record for the month of June. 4 more degrees to go to tie the all-time record high for the ATL. Will we make it?
I bet you that weather only happens at Pittsburgh International Airport during the hourly updates, and that there is no weather in between those updates. The Weather Channel said at both 1:45PM and 2:45PM that the temperature at Pittsburgh International Airport was 97 degrees, but when the National Weather Service has done their hourly updates, it's been 95 degrees both hours. Watch them say that it hasn't gotten any hotter than 95 today, and claim that today was not the hottest day there since July 15, 1995. (Or, watch them claim that it only got to 96, which would tie it with July 22, 2011.) Never mind that just a mile down the road from the airport, a weather station has observed 100 degrees twice today; it's only gotten to 95.
First thing that came to my mind was... "Global Warming Stat Errors" now this location will show this spike in temp unless they fix it.... or do you think its actual?
Definitely hot here in Atlanta. But dewpoints really aren't that high. I've felt days in the low 90s just as bad as this. Those days I start sweating as soon as I walk outside. Not so today.
Not triple-digit heat, but June 29, 2012 is officially the hottest day in Pittsburgh since it reached 100 degrees on July 15, 1995.
Athens, GA at least tied the record for the month of June, coincidentally set on this day in, I want to say 1954? The temperature reached 107 degrees today.
A RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 105 DEGREES WAS SET AT FLORENCE SC TODAY.
THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 101 SET IN 1998.
A RECORD LOW TEMPERATURE OF 58 DEGREES WAS SET AT NORTH MYRTLE BEACH SC YESTERDAY. THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 63 SET IN 1955.
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