just in case you forgot how hot this year has been. (snow, warm)
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Sure has been cooler, A good portion of the country had cooler then average Aug-Oct....
But no matter happens, it could freeze the rest of the year, this was a hot, hot year. With all the dry air looks like we might keep having interior colder then average temps as we turn into a massive desert. But the cooler fall/winter can't cancel out the hot spring/summer.
"This year" hasn't been hot*. The extreme heat only occurred from January to July. However it averages out, the fact remains that only the first half of the year had extreme heat. The record warmth present in the Jan-Jul chart has taken a beating, and will be beaten down further once the cold November and cold December occur . The abnormal heat peaked in March (with July a close second for obvious reasons), but collapsed in August, and it's been nose-diving since, as evidenced by the cold and all the huge storms that are currently occurring.
If you want a story for the whole year that best sums it up, it wouldn't be just heat, but it would be the flip from extreme heat and drought in the first half to cold and snow in the second half.
*As an analogy, let's take a group of 10 people. 5 of them make $20 000 per year, but 5 of them make $10 million per year. If you average it out the group as a whole would come out as wealthy, but "wealthy" doesn't describe the character of the group. A better description would be "half are wealthy, half are poor". It's the same sort of thing with the weather this year. Sure, it averages out as hot, but hot doesn't describe the character of the year as a whole.
In Seattle we had very unusual warmth throughout the entire month of September, after a very late start to summer. But when Fall hit, it hit! For a while it seemed we basically skipped fall and went straight into winter, but it looks like fall is coming back in after a few more days.
"This year" hasn't been hot*. The extreme heat only occurred from January to July. However it averages out, the fact remains that only the first half of the year had extreme heat. The record warmth present in the Jan-Jul chart has taken a beating, and will be beaten down further once the cold November and cold December occur . The abnormal heat peaked in March (with July a close second for obvious reasons), but collapsed in August, and it's been nose-diving since, as evidenced by the cold and all the huge storms that are currently occurring.
If you want a story for the whole year that best sums it up, it wouldn't be just heat, but it would be the flip from extreme heat and drought in the first half to cold and snow in the second half.
*As an analogy, let's take a group of 10 people. 5 of them make $20 000 per year, but 5 of them make $10 million per year. If you average it out the group as a whole would come out as wealthy, but "wealthy" doesn't describe the character of the group. A better description would be "half are wealthy, half are poor". It's the same sort of thing with the weather this year. Sure, it averages out as hot, but hot doesn't describe the character of the year as a whole.
my point exactly... the extreme heat has been to such a degree, that some abnormal cool weather barely puts a dent in the record.... The extremes and duration of heat far out pace the cooler weather.
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. The abnormal heat peaked in March (with July a close second for obvious reasons), but collapsed in August, and it's been nose-diving since, as evidenced by the cold and all the huge storms that are currently occurring.
It's still hot
