Weather Chat Thread

Amazingly we managed to get to 37.8C! Almost 4C higher than forecast. I can’t really complain after that but the only annoying thing is that we got no thunderstorms afterwards 😡 forecast looks good for next week, back in the 30s and potentially another 34C+ day next Friday. About time after this shit July 😁

What kind of ice cream is this?

Ariete Babu so 20 is possible above the arctic circle in Sweden and Finland. Thanks.

I didn't see any stations above 20 in Alaska on NOWData and the former Fort Yukon station also was short. The highest was 66-67F.

There was once a time when WarmerZone used to acknowledge controversial historical data, like in this article (dated 2009):

www.weatherzone.com.au/news/longer-november-heatwave-130-years-ago/13156

Naughty, naughty!

 

At least 12 stations hit 30'C today, with the warmest being Mariestad at 31.9'C

Today at 15.00, Ronneby in Southern Sweden recorded a dew point of 22.2'C with a temperature reading of 29.3'C. high above 30'C possibly.

This post inspired me to look at the ratio of 90s to 85s. The more days that aren’t stuck in the high 80s, especially 88-89, the better.

So I looked at the days since 2010 that hit each threshold and calculated the percent of t be days hitting 85 that hit 90. I’m only including May-September since 90 is impossible in March and exceptionally rare in April and October.

*=2020 is as of 9/1

Year      85+      90+     Percent >90
2010     32          7           22%
2011     24          9           38%
2012     38         14          37%
2013     27          9           33%
2014     19          3           16%
2015     28          5           18%
2016     55         27          49%
2017     26          6           23%
2018     43         22          51%
2019     31          6           19%
2020*   42         10          24%

Notice how 2020 has the lowest percent hitting 90 of all the recent hot summers and is more in line with the average summers than the hot ones.

2016 and 2018 also made most of their hot days count unlike this year.

Now if you break it down by individual very hot months:

Month          85+    90+    Percent >90
July 2011     15        7          47%
July 2012     16        8          50%
July 2016     18        9          50%
Aug 2016     17       10         59%
July 2018     16       11         69%
July 2020     18        8          44%

Despite being hotter than all of these months except August 2016, this July was near the bottom for 90s and once again had the lowest percent.

So I’m summary, it is not my imagination, anger or decency bias that this year has had an annoying number of upper 80s, not many of which hit 90.