Rate the climate year: Salton Sea SS1; 2022
Mar 12, 2023 14:50:09 GMT -5
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Post by Benfxmth on Mar 12, 2023 14:50:09 GMT -5
I think we may have a king of high heat index values for the CONUS, that's rarely talked about...
An experimental buoy station was set up by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2006 in the Salton Sea—while average temps may not seem that impressive, at the height of summer it sees high dewpoints, peaking at 82-86°F at some point every year, heat indices can reach 125-140°F range with ease. Some years see especially extreme temp/dewpoint combos; the afternoon of August 15, 2020 had a temp of 103°F combined with a dewpoint of 86°F, making for a heat index of 139°F!:
I, however, chose to make a weatherbox for 2022 for it as seen above (data after December 9 has a period of missing data and I used the closest station—Mecca Fire Station for precip data, which is a few miles away). How would you guys rate it?
Source/pics of the setup:
saltonsea.jpl.nasa.gov
www.weather.gov/wrh/timeseries?site=JPL05
An experimental buoy station was set up by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2006 in the Salton Sea—while average temps may not seem that impressive, at the height of summer it sees high dewpoints, peaking at 82-86°F at some point every year, heat indices can reach 125-140°F range with ease. Some years see especially extreme temp/dewpoint combos; the afternoon of August 15, 2020 had a temp of 103°F combined with a dewpoint of 86°F, making for a heat index of 139°F!:
I, however, chose to make a weatherbox for 2022 for it as seen above (data after December 9 has a period of missing data and I used the closest station—Mecca Fire Station for precip data, which is a few miles away). How would you guys rate it?
Source/pics of the setup:
saltonsea.jpl.nasa.gov
www.weather.gov/wrh/timeseries?site=JPL05
