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Post by Babu on Jun 30, 2021 5:48:06 GMT -5
This satellite image was taken at 15.10 local time. The smoke is completely covering Lytton. Red dot is the fire location, and the blue dot is the approximate location of the lytton station.  |
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Post by Strewthless on Jun 30, 2021 6:17:06 GMT -5
What's the most northerly spot in the world to have reached 50C?
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Post by Donar on Jun 30, 2021 6:59:04 GMT -5
What's the most northerly spot in the world to have reached 50C? Erbao Township near Turpan at 42.5 N has reached 50.5 °C according to Wiki. No idea if this is true.
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Post by Beercules on Jun 30, 2021 7:14:47 GMT -5
Can we have a picture from the ground, Babu? Or even a satpic from this century perhaps?
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Post by Babu on Jun 30, 2021 7:37:26 GMT -5
These are hourly images from the Lytton station, facing north-west (dirextly away from the fire). You can clearly see the ground becoming significantly darker compared to the brightness of the sky in the background from around 2pm. Especially on the 5pm image. The 49.6'C high was recorded at 5pm.  |
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Post by Beercules on Jun 30, 2021 7:55:57 GMT -5
Plenty, plenty of blue sky in those pics, that smoke barely rates a mention. Just as I said. Looks like the ground is becoming darker because the sun is very clearly setting behind that hill. And before even that, the sky/ground are not getting darker from 2pm as you say, that's just the effect of the declining elevation of the sun as seen from that high latitude location. You fail.
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Post by Babu on Jun 30, 2021 8:21:39 GMT -5
Plenty, plenty of blue sky in those pics, that smoke barely rates a mention. Just as I said. Looks like the ground is becoming darker because the sun is very clearly setting behind that hill. And before even that, the sky/ground are not getting darker from 2pm as you say, that's just the effect of the declining elevation of the sun as seen from that high latitude location. You fail. Oh really, the sun setting behind a hill at 2pm? How interesting. This is 1pm vs 2pm looking NW and South from the lytton station. Nw:   And South:   Both the camera to the NW and the camera to the south went dark at the same time, which rules out the hypothesis that the darkening would be due to the sun starting to shine into the camera causing an underexposure. |
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Post by Ariete on Jun 30, 2021 8:40:34 GMT -5
Clinton BC temp records this June,
Highest: 41.8C
Lowest: -0.9C
lmao.
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Post by edmountain on Jun 30, 2021 9:27:18 GMT -5
Can we have a picture from the ground, Babu? Or even a satpic from this century perhaps? On that note, just want to grind my axe that the good moderators at CD took down all my photos of BC hot spots because they were "copyrighted" when in fact they were all Creative Commons. Every time I come out of my cave back there I am given a new reason to go back into hibernation. |
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Post by edmountain on Jun 30, 2021 9:49:30 GMT -5
Probably. It's certainly true that 200+ people have died suddenly in BC over a 4 day period. This compares to the usual rate of about 15 per day in BC from sudden cardiac death ( source). Throw in a few other causes of non-cardiac sudden death (pulmonary embolism, stroke, aortic dissection, etc) and the rate might be about 20 per day or 80 for four days. Let's round up to 100 over the 4-day period assuming the rate goes up a bit in the summer. So the rate of sudden death seems to have doubled during the heat wave. But it's just a small sample of 4 days where natural variation can be more prominent so it could theoretically still be coincidence. |
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Post by Benfxmth on Jun 30, 2021 9:51:34 GMT -5
Can we have a picture from the ground, Babu? Or even a satpic from this century perhaps? On that note, just want to grind my axe that the good moderators at CD took down all my photos of BC hot spots because they were "copyrighted" when in fact they were all Creative Commons. Every time I come out of my cave back there I am given a new reason to go back into hibernation. You should think about how to troll Shitty-Data and get banned from that shithole (that is, when you have time)!  |
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Post by Ariete on Jun 30, 2021 10:05:01 GMT -5
As for the Pee En Double Yoo heatwave…not gonna happen. Mark my words.
Analdick Ghayler DESTROYS himself with CODSWALLOP and POPPYCOCK
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Post by Benfxmth on Jun 30, 2021 10:06:00 GMT -5
As for the Pee En Double Yoo heatwave…not gonna happen. Mark my words.
Analdick Ghayler DESTROYS himself with CODSWALLOP and POPPYCOCK
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Post by Marcelo on Jun 30, 2021 10:57:33 GMT -5
Does anyone know the exact location of the station that hit 49.6°C?
Even though the whole event was undoubtedly beyond extraordinary and record breaking, with several >47°C readings, that mark strikes me as a bit too high compared to the immediate surroundings. I see there are two stations in Lytton, named “Lytton climate” and just “Lytton”, with “Lytton climate” having highs significantly higher than “Lytton”, which was on the other hand more on par with the likes of Ashcroft or Lillooet.
Not dismissing Lytton climate’s mark, but I think it deserves further examination regarding to why it got such figures. |
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Post by edmountain on Jun 30, 2021 11:41:18 GMT -5
Does anyone know the exact location of the station that hit 49.6°C? Even though the whole event was undoubtedly beyond extraordinary and record breaking, with several >47°C readings, that mark strikes me as a bit too high compared to the immediate surroundings. I see there are two stations in Lytton, named “Lytton climate” and just “Lytton”, with “Lytton climate” having highs significantly higher than “Lytton”, which was on the other hand more on par with the likes of Ashcroft or Lillooet. Not dismissing Lytton climate’s mark, but I think it deserves further examination regarding to why it got such figures. Yes, it needs objective quality control. Hopefully EC is up to the task. The station in question is the Lytton Climate one as you say. I believe it's this one: goo.gl/maps/qqPEabbovZCbwRjd8Edit: the labeling on Google maps is wrong. Should say CVLY and not CWLY.   |
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Post by edmountain on Jun 30, 2021 11:53:57 GMT -5
Actually, I'm confused. That's the location of the Lytton NavCan station. The coordinates for the Lytton Climate station place it in the middle of nowhere up on a surrounding hill. That doesn't seem right either.I'm so messed up. The pin on the map below is for the Lytton NavCan station (CWLY). The other pin on the maps in the other post are for the Lytton Climate station (CVLY). It doesn't help that the labeling on Google maps used the wrong identifier.  Link to locations of Canadian stations: dd.weather.gc.ca/observations/doc/swob-xml_station_list.csv |
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Post by edmountain on Jun 30, 2021 13:59:19 GMT -5
Some good photos of the Lytton weather station here.
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Post by rpvan on Jun 30, 2021 17:05:19 GMT -5
Tragic side effects of this unprecedented heat wave.
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Post by rpvan on Jun 30, 2021 17:07:57 GMT -5
Temps still in the 40s in the Thompson-Okanagan region today. Two major fires of note - one northwest of Kamloops and one near Lillooet.
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Post by rpvan on Jun 30, 2021 17:10:28 GMT -5
More on valley flooding due to extreme snow melt brought on by the heatwave:
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