Is the summer heat in Arizona, Texas and Florida different than before? (climate, hot)
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The heat this summer in states like Arizona, Texas and Florida seems to be a longer duration extreme heat than I can recall in the past. Some examples:
1. Kingsville Texas, they have been running heat indexes from 115-125 degrees for a month now. Last 3 days: 121, 122 and 123. Last 3 years in the nearby Corpus Christi NWS office they have issued one excessive heat warning per year the past 3 years. This year they have had 24 already. A excessive heat warning there is when the heat index hits 115 for at least 2 hours.
2. Phoenix, Arizona. Soon to break its all time record in 110 degree days in a row of 18. Likely to surpass more than 20 days.
3. Florida. The waters around Key West have reached 97 degrees. Much of Florida 90-93 degrees.
Just some examples. These are areas that of course have very hot summers. But this seems extraordinary to me.
You can literally answer this yourself. Do some research for god's sake ! And by research, I don't mean reading some BS media release-- I mean opening the RAW climate data and coming to your own conclusion as to what those data actually show. Of course, this is much easier with the Australian Bureau (which I often undertake, with the amount of disinformation in their media releases...)
Sure climates change always have always will. Watch out for sun spot activity and solar flares. Heard of the carrington event? Read if not. You won’t hear much about sun spot activity in the media but no shock there.
We had a pleasant June, well, as pleasant as one can expect in Phoenix. The average temperature for the month shows a departure of -1.9 F from the historical norm.
July, on the other hand, has been quite ugly. Every day so far has been hotter than the historical norm, with the average departure for the month so far being +5.2 F.
Sure climates change always have always will. Watch out for sun spot activity and solar flares. Heard of the carrington event? Read if not. You won’t hear much about sun spot activity in the media but no shock there.
See plenty of spots with my scopes. But that has nothing to do with a west flow that my area stays in all summer since the 1980's. At least we get 5 to 12 days a year with a east flow but not anymore as the weather has changed for good and it will get drier as the years go by and hotter.
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