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Re: Weird Weather and anecdotal stories about climate change
« Reply #700 on: May 30, 2015, 01:21:55 PM »
This has been a month of extreme weather around the world -- and a stuck jet stream may be to blame.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Even for a world getting used to wild weather, May seems stuck on strange.

Torrential downpours in Texas that have whiplashed the region from drought to flooding. A heat wave that has killed more than 1,800 people in India. Record 91-degree readings in Alaska, of all places. A pair of top-of-the-scale typhoons in the Northwest Pacific. And a drought taking hold in the East.
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As bad as the Texas flooding has been, the heat wave in India has been far worse — in fact, the world's fifth-deadliest since 1900, with reports of the 100-degree-plus heat even buckling roads. And it's a consequence of the stuck jet stream, according to Francis and Weather Underground meteorology director Jeff Masters.
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A stuck jet stream, with a bit of a split, explains the extremes in Texas, India, Alaska and the U.S. East, but not the typhoons, Francis says.

Other possible factors contributing to May's wild weather: the periodic warming of the central Pacific known as El Nino, climate change and natural variability, scientists say.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/20b4c60765004e77a2d8e48eebb9862f/has-been-month-extreme-weather-around-world
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Re: Weird Weather and anecdotal stories about climate change
« Reply #701 on: May 31, 2015, 04:21:57 PM »
Texas has set an all time record for rain in the month of May. So how much rain did they actually get?

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« Reply #702 on: May 31, 2015, 04:22:36 PM »
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@billmckibben: Indian heatwave toll passes 2200 http://t.co/UILUfVk0gn
TX rain this month enough to cover whole state 8" deep http://t.co/NtmginCjrh
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« Reply #703 on: May 31, 2015, 06:26:35 PM »
That last measure on the above post is worth pondering. Enough rain fell in Texas during the month of May to provide adequate clean drinking water for the entire planet for the next 30 years!!!!!!

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« Reply #704 on: May 31, 2015, 10:44:49 PM »
That last measure on the above post is worth pondering. Enough rain fell in Texas during the month of May to provide adequate clean drinking water for the entire planet for the next 30 years!!!!!!

I admit this gave me pause for a moment. But as I understand it, the problem of drinking water is not lack of the resource, but the energy required to get it were it needs to be (or to desalinate it from seawater). I am sure the Amazon river has more water than what's missing in Sao Paolo.

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« Reply #705 on: May 31, 2015, 11:23:41 PM »
Colorado is a state that tends not to mention "climate change."  But this is about as close as one can get without doing so.

Frequency of natural disasters in Pikes Peak region means new normal for communities
http://gazette.com/frequency-of-natural-disasters-in-pikes-peak-region-means-new-normal-for-communities/article/1552832
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Re: Weird Weather and anecdotal stories about climate change
« Reply #706 on: June 03, 2015, 04:15:37 AM »
Mounds of hail accumulating in a storm today.  Umbrella not much help. :o

Hail Storm in Gatlinburg, TN June 2nd 2015
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tk7JSiFR9lU&feature=youtu.be
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« Reply #707 on: June 03, 2015, 02:35:48 PM »
India's minister of earth sciences: "It is climate change."

India’s Heat Wave Now The 5th Deadliest In World History
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Let us not fool ourselves that there is no connection between the unusual number of deaths from the ongoing heat wave and the certainty of another failed monsoon,” Harsh Vardhan said, according to Reuters. “It’s not just an unusually hot summer, it is climate change.”
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/06/02/3665123/india-heat-wave-5th-deadliest/
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« Reply #709 on: June 08, 2015, 09:34:38 PM »
India's 2nd Deadliest Heat Wave in History Ends as the Monsoon Arrives
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=3011#
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« Reply #710 on: June 09, 2015, 05:19:14 PM »
You're About to See an Incredibly Rare Cloud, and It's Proof the Climate Is Changing
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In a few weeks, you may get to see evidence the atmosphere is changing -- if you’re lucky.
That’s when noctilucent clouds, the world’s highest, peak in number and show up in the night sky just after sunset as electric-blue swirls in the mesosphere, the coldest place on the planet.
Usually visible only in the polar regions, the clouds now sometimes appear as far south as 40 degrees latitude in the Northern Hemisphere, according to Cora Randall, a professor at the University of Colorado’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics in Boulder. That’s because the mesosphere, which nears the edge of space, is changing, possibly “due to a change in climate,” he said. “We believe that these clouds are a really sensitive indicator.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-09/at-space-s-edge-swirls-of-blue-show-atmosphere-changing
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« Reply #711 on: June 09, 2015, 09:41:27 PM »
The astronauts on the ISS have been tweeting photos of the noctolucent clouds.

See https://twitter.com/AstroTerry and https://twitter.com/StationCDRKelly  on June 8 and https://twitter.com/AstroSamantha on June 7



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Re: Weird Weather and anecdotal stories about climate change
« Reply #712 on: June 14, 2015, 12:35:03 PM »
 Tigers, lions, bears, wolves and other animals escape from a zoo in Tibisi, Georgia, after flooding:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-33125879

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Re: Weird Weather and anecdotal stories about climate change
« Reply #713 on: June 17, 2015, 07:32:00 PM »
Ground that is warm and water-logged (say, after flooding) can re-energize storms like moving over a warm ocean.

Brown Oceans Fuel Tropical Systems Over Land
Meteorologist Ari Sarsalari explains why brown oceans are fueling tropical systems over land.
http://video.statesman.com/Brown-Oceans-Fuel-Tropical-Systems-Over-Land-29238928
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Re: Weird Weather and anecdotal stories about climate change
« Reply #714 on: June 17, 2015, 09:24:40 PM »
Colorado Springs:  Record-busting rainfall will go away, but effects linger.
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After drowning a century-old Colorado Springs record Monday, the never-ending parade of storm clouds has given the waterlogged Pikes Peak region more precipitation in the past five months than it usually gets in a year.
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The water table is so high in Colorado Springs that groundwater has turned into new springs, popping up underneath roads, Farkas said.
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Already this year, Colorado Springs has exceeded its annual average for precipitation. The airport recorded 17.31 inches of water by Tuesday, more than an inch above the city's annual average, which is roughly 16 inches of precipitation, according to Brian Bledsoe, chief meteorologist for Gazette news partner KKTV. More could come.

The ground is so full of moisture in the Pikes Peak region that heat coming through the area is essentially recycling rainstorms day after day, according to Bledsoe.
http://gazette.com/be-patient-record-busting-rainfall-will-go-away-but-effects-linger/article/1553849
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« Reply #715 on: June 20, 2015, 07:24:41 PM »
Brutal Heat Wave Gripping Southeast Will Last Another Week, I'm So Sorry
http://thevane.gawker.com/brutal-heat-wave-gripping-southeast-will-last-another-w-1712365576
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« Reply #716 on: June 22, 2015, 05:07:15 PM »
https://www.skepticalscience.com/Trenberth-links-sandy-extreme-weather-to-climate-change.html

   
New study links global warming to Hurricane Sandy and other extreme weather events
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« Reply #717 on: June 23, 2015, 08:41:24 PM »
Pakistan Heat Wave Kills Hundreds: Victims 'Dying On the Streets'
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/pakistan-heat-wave-kills-hundreds-victims-dying-streets-n380201
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« Reply #718 on: June 24, 2015, 02:30:29 PM »
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« Reply #719 on: June 24, 2015, 10:49:06 PM »
Meanwhile, Chicago is under a flash flood watch as the pattern of heavy rains that has been in place over the upper Midwest for the past several weeks continues. The firmly entrenched high pressure system over the Southeastern US is responsible.

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« Reply #720 on: June 28, 2015, 07:21:25 PM »
Western [U.S.] Heat Wave Enters History Books; At Least Six June Records Already Broken; All-Time Records Threatened (FORECAST)
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A torrid heat wave has shifted into high gear and has already broken at least seven June record highs in the Northwest. Additional June or even all-time high-temperature records will be in jeopardy across parts of the Great Basin and Northwest for the rest of the month. Furthermore, the extreme heat is likely to last well into early July and may end up breaking records for longevity as well.
http://www.weather.com/forecast/regional/news/record-west-heat-wave-northwest-great-basin-latejun2015
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« Reply #721 on: June 29, 2015, 01:37:10 AM »
The U.S. Got More Rain This May Than Any Other Month On Record
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NOAA also noted another record in its report Monday: Alaska had the hottest May statewide average temperature last month in 91 years of record-keeping. The temperature — 44.9°F — was 7.1°F above average. “The warmth in Alaska was widespread with several cities were record warm, including Barrow and Juneau,” NOAA noted.
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/06/08/3667277/may-wettest-month-on-record/
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« Reply #722 on: June 30, 2015, 04:28:59 PM »
Long-Lasting Heat Wave Bound for Europe; June Records Smashed in Spain
http://www.wunderground.com/news/europe-heat-wave-record-highs-june-july-2015
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« Reply #723 on: July 01, 2015, 06:11:18 PM »
Very prominently, the hottest day ever recorded at Wimbledon. From Twitter:

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Met Office ‏@metoffice 1 hour ago https://twitter.com/metoffice/status/616258545626009600

#Wimbledon has had its hottest day ever. Kew Gardens (nearest observation site) has recorded a temperature of 35.7 °C

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« Reply #724 on: July 02, 2015, 02:23:36 AM »
The European heat wave has just started and is already breaking records.  France is making daily phone calls to hundreds of thousands of especially vulnerable people.
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In London, the Guardian was forced to briefly pause its heat wave live blog to switch to backup servers “because our main ones have overheated.” Nationwide, the speed of British trains was reduced to prevent the rails from buckling under the heat.
French Toast: Temperatures Surge as Historic Heat Wave Hits Western Europe
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/07/01/europe_heat_wave_paris_france_and_london_england_approach_all_time_high.html
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« Reply #725 on: July 02, 2015, 11:24:01 AM »
Admittedly I'm not real familiar with this, but seems like it's worth posting here, and something to be concerned about.

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UW researcher helping pinpoint massive harmful algal bloom

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The bloom that began earlier this year and shut down several shellfish fisheries along the West Coast has grown into the largest and most severe in at least a decade.

UW research analyst Anthony Odell left June 15 from Newport, Oregon, aboard the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s research vessel Bell M. Shimada. He is part of a NOAA-led team of harmful algae experts who are surveying the extent of the patch and searching for “hot spots” — swirling eddies where previous research from the UW and NOAA shows the algae can grow and become toxic to marine animals and humans.

“The current bloom of Pseudo-nitzschia spp., the diatom responsible for domoic acid and amnesic shellfish poisoning, appears to be the biggest spatially we have ever observed,” Odell said. “It has also lasted for an incredibly long time — months, instead of the usual week or two.”

Odell is the coastal sampling coordinator at the UW’s Olympic Natural Resources Center in Forks, Washington, part of the UW College of the Environment. From his base in Hoquiam, Odell samples shellfish, phytoplankton and water quality, and responds to toxic algae bloom events along Washington’s outer coast.

Now he is doing toxin sampling on the three-week first leg of the NOAA voyage, from San Diego to San Francisco. Three more legs will continue through mid-September, surveying up to the north end of Vancouver Island.
http://www.washington.edu/news/2015/06/25/uw-researcher-helping-pinpoint-massive-harmful-algal-bloom/
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« Reply #726 on: July 05, 2015, 03:05:19 AM »
United Nations Issues First-Ever Guidelines on How to Survive a Heat Wave
http://www.newsweek.com/united-nations-issues-first-ever-guidelines-how-survive-heatwave-349733
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« Reply #727 on: July 05, 2015, 04:14:09 AM »
[State of] Washington's wildfire season gets off to an early, unprecedented start
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-washington-wildfires-20150704-story.html#page=1
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« Reply #728 on: July 09, 2015, 01:42:00 AM »
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« Reply #729 on: July 09, 2015, 06:36:24 PM »
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« Reply #730 on: July 09, 2015, 06:53:20 PM »
Up to Five Tropical Cyclones At Once Possible in the Pacific Ocean: How Rare Is That?
http://www.weather.com/storms/typhoon/news/five-tropical-cyclones-pacific-july2015
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« Reply #731 on: July 14, 2015, 03:07:20 PM »
I posted this elsewhere on the ASIF...but will cross post here as well.  This regards an "explosion" on a beach in the northeast US.  Not sure if anyone else thought that it MIGHT have been a SMALL SCALE "explosion" of methane gas that caused the explosion.

I'm NOT jumping to any conclusions....just a thought that briefly went through my miniscule brain.  Here is the article...

https://gma.yahoo.com/rhode-island-beach-blast-last-thing-victim-remembers-135908995--abc-news-topstories.html#
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« Reply #732 on: July 14, 2015, 04:42:51 PM »
I posted this elsewhere on the ASIF...but will cross post here as well.  This regards an "explosion" on a beach in the northeast US.  Not sure if anyone else thought that it MIGHT have been a SMALL SCALE "explosion" of methane gas that caused the explosion.

If so, then it would be from a leaking pipeline.  Seeing as it was just after July 4th, I would think it was someone's idea of a big firework that didn't quite work out.  Another theory would be an old military munition that somehow got into the area.  Lastly, a convoluted murder plot.
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« Reply #733 on: July 14, 2015, 08:45:34 PM »
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@billmckibben: Hey! 2015 on record pace for most tropical storms to date Atlantic and Pacific! Go 2015! http://t.co/ePktpnvDKA http://t.co/8ViQCMJETy
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...this is the first year on record with so many named systems to date for the Atlantic, Central Pacific and Eastern Pacific combined: a total of 11 as of Monday, July 13, with the previous record of 10 occuring in 2012.
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=3042
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« Reply #734 on: July 15, 2015, 08:13:39 AM »
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@billmckibben: Hey! 2015 on record pace for most tropical storms to date Atlantic and Pacific! Go 2015! http://t.co/ePktpnvDKA http://t.co/8ViQCMJETy
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...this is the first year on record with so many named systems to date for the Atlantic, Central Pacific and Eastern Pacific combined: a total of 11 as of Monday, July 13, with the previous record of 10 occuring in 2012.
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=3042

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« Reply #735 on: July 17, 2015, 05:11:59 AM »
Welcome to climate change.

http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/more-longlived-squall-lines-to/50284928

This stationary high has been planted over the Southeastern U.S. for most of the summer. It brought the huge floods to Texas and now it has been raining in Chicago for the better part of the month.

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« Reply #737 on: July 18, 2015, 01:54:14 PM »
The Hawaii snow will make a GREAT story for Joe Bastardi.  Maybe he can whip up some more lies....and maybe a little phoshopping.  He's pretty good at that.

No doubt....he will leave off this little tidbit from the article:

"In the summer, average high temperatures at the summit are around 40 degrees, and average lows are around 25 degrees."

Last time I checked....in my physical world....it snows when it is 35 degrees....10 degrees warmer than the average summer low.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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« Reply #738 on: July 18, 2015, 03:18:32 PM »
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"In the summer, average high temperatures at the summit are around 40 degrees, and average lows are around 25 degrees."

Last time I checked....in my physical world....it snows when it is 35 degrees....10 degrees warmer than the average summer low.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Yeah I was reading that article and thinking wtf?

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« Reply #739 on: July 18, 2015, 05:57:06 PM »
I've been in falling snow in the northern hemisphere every month of the year.  (May: several 0-6" snows in northern N.Mex. @ 7,000 '; June: 12" & 18" in SW Colorado mountains @ 10,500'; July: European Alps; August: Circle City, Alaska; September: NM again)  It would have been cool to be a-top Mauna Kea, though!
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« Reply #740 on: July 18, 2015, 06:05:01 PM »
I've been to the top of Mauna Loa in July for a meteor shower watching event. Nearly froze to death even with the warmest clothing and wind gear we brought. Isn't physics (and high altitude) amazing :P

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« Reply #741 on: July 18, 2015, 06:22:32 PM »
But did you enjoy the metior shower?
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« Reply #742 on: July 18, 2015, 09:33:54 PM »
Yes and also the views through telescopes set up by local astronomy club folks.  They had them setup to see things like the m62 globular cluster - a first for me.

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« Reply #743 on: July 22, 2015, 01:29:34 AM »
What the Weekend Rains Did to Southern California—and What a Real Hurricane Could Do

By: By: Bob Henson , 3:07 PM GMT on July 21, 2015 - Wunderground

Full Post: http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=3050

Figure 1. Emergency crews respond after a pickup truck crashed into the collapse of an elevated section of Interstate 10 on Sunday, July 19, 2015, in Desert Center, Calif. The bridge, which carries the eastbound interstate about 15 feet above a normally dry wash, snapped and ended up in the flooding water below, the California Highway Patrol said, blocking all traffic headed toward Arizona. Image credit: Chief Geoff Pemberton/CAL FIRE/Riverside County Fire, via AP.

This is weird!

If some one had asked me a few weeks ago for places in Southern California that needed infrastructure improvements in preparation for threats of Climate Change, it would not have been a remote bridge on Interstate-10 in the barren desert near the Arizona border.  I've driven across that bridge no less than 20 times in my life.  Fortunately no lives were lost, however, the long range impact will be felt for a long while.  That stretch of highway is a vital  transportation link between Phoenix and Los Angeles.  I've driven that stretch in temperatures approaching 120o(F), without the benefit of air conditioning.  I'd hate to think of doing on the back road detours.

One of the most amazing factoids of bob Henson's post is the two-day rainfall in San Diego that was a remnant of TS Dolores:

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San Diego’s Lindbergh Field measured a whopping 1.69” on Saturday and Sunday—more rain than in any other July in San Diego records that go back to 1850 (the runner-up was 1.29” in July 1865). Midsummer is typically bone-dry in San Diego, with June through August racking up a combined average of just 0.14”. Amazingly, the past weekend produced more rain in San Diego than the previous 100 Julys combined (1915 – 2014).
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« Reply #744 on: July 22, 2015, 10:33:44 AM »
What the Weekend Rains Did to Southern California—and What a Real Hurricane Could Do

By: By: Bob Henson , 3:07 PM GMT on July 21, 2015 - Wunderground

Full Post: http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=3050

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San Diego’s Lindbergh Field measured a whopping 1.69” on Saturday and Sunday—more rain than in any other July in San Diego records that go back to 1850 (the runner-up was 1.29” in July 1865). Midsummer is typically bone-dry in San Diego, with June through August racking up a combined average of just 0.14”. Amazingly, the past weekend produced more rain in San Diego than the previous 100 Julys combined (1915 – 2014).

sorry, i'm confused, all that happened because of an inch of rain?  or is that a foot of rain?  hurricànes and tropical storms are capable of producing a foot of rain in a day, so from context i feel like it should be a foot, but i'm used to the convention where ' indicates a foot and " indicates an inch.... but i know thats a rather unofficial convention and people here post from all over the world so i could be wrong.

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« Reply #745 on: July 22, 2015, 02:30:32 PM »



sorry, i'm confused, all that happened because of an inch of rain?  or is that a foot of rain?  hurricànes and tropical storms are capable of producing a foot of rain in a day, so from context i feel like it should be a foot, but i'm used to the convention where ' indicates a foot and " indicates an inch.... but i know thats a rather unofficial convention and people here post from all over the world so i could be wrong.


Sorry for the confusions.  There are two parts to this story.

The area of the eastern desert where the bridge was washed away received over 7" (inches) in a very short period of time.  This was enough to destroy the bridge.

In Sand Diego, they only received 1.69" (inches).  However, that was enough to set the dramatic record.
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« Reply #746 on: July 22, 2015, 02:43:48 PM »
anotheramethyst,
You are correct: ' = foot,  " = inch, here.  Southern California is essentially a desert.  In a rare, heavy rain, water runs off the hard-packed earth, accumulates in what are normally "dry gulches" and become destructive torrents and mud slides.

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14 Dead, More Than 6,000 Hospitalized In Japan Heat Wave
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The Japan Meteorological Agency said three locations in northern Japan with weather data as far back as 1976 set all-time record highs Wednesday. Two were in Iwate Prefecture and one in Yamagata Prefecture, and all three reported highs between 97 and 99 degrees Fahrenheit. Weather.com senior meteorologist Nick Wiltgen said average high temperatures in July are in the lower 80s in this region.
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Scorched earth: U.S. wildfires near record level
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Wildfires have burned a phenomenal 5.5 million acres across the U.S. so far this year, an area equal to the size of New Jersey.

This is the second-highest total in at least the past 25 years, according to data from the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise. Only 2011, which saw 5.8 million acres charred as of July 23 of that year, had more. On average, at this point in the year, 3.5 million acres would have burned.
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California's fire season also got off to an early start this year. The Golden State's fire season usually begins in late summer and goes into the fall, but several fires were reported even in the winter months, according to CAL FIRE. There have been more than 3,600 fires in California so far this year, almost 1,300 more than usual.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2015/07/23/scorched-earth-us-wildfires-near-record-level/30579279/
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Canada:  The bad news for Western drought: 'monster' hot El Nino on the way.
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Canada's Prairies have just experienced their driest winter and spring in 68 years of record keeping. "So they were behind the eight-ball before the summer season ever came," says Phillips.

That, coupled with a record low snow pack in North America, and few of the traditional June rains needed to grow crops, has had a cumulative effect that's hit some producers harder than others.

Says Phillips: "For ranchers it's pretty much game over."

The tinder dry land has kept pastures for grazing cattle from turning green and producing feed, forcing cattle ranchers to sell down their herds or ship the animals around looking for alternative feed sources.

Meantime, B.C. has seen more than 1,300 wildfires since April, and the height of fire season doesn't usually begin until August. And, just this week, Metro Vancouver was forced to impose extraordinary stage-three water restrictions,something it hasn't done since 2003, one of the last big, bad summers on record.

Merely restricting water use, though, is little comfort on the parched Prairies, where scattered, late July rains have come too late to help many farmers and ranchers salvage the season.

"Our cereal fields, our oats, our wheat, our barley essentially baked in the field," says Garett Broadbent, agricultural services director for Alberta's Leduc County, just south of Edmonton.

The municipality voted unanimously this week to declare a local state of agricultural disaster as soil moisture and crop conditions continue to decline to the worst levels in half a century.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/the-bad-news-for-western-drought-monster-hot-el-nino-on-the-way-1.3162146
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