Posted on 08/16/2016 11:36:09 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Meteorologist Joe Bastardi says the current heat wave in most parts of the U.S. — which tied the 135-year-old record temperature in Washington, D.C. on Saturday — is “child’s play compared to the 1930s.” […]
“Washington area farmers were certainly not spared in 1930, as intense, prolonged hot spells gripped the region during late July and early August,” according to a 2010 article in the Washington Post. “The official temperature recorded on July 20 was 106°F, which holds the record as the highest temperature ever recorded in Washington.
“Unofficially, 110°F was recorded that same day on Pennsylvania Avenue and 108°F at the National Cathedral,” the article continued. The summer of 1930 also set the record at 11 for number of days where temperatures reached or exceeded 100°F.
“By the end of the summer of 1930, approximately 30 deaths in Washington were blamed on the heat and thousands more had died nationwide,” the Post article said. …
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Sun and mirrors!
It would be interesting to see what the mean average of world temps have been over the centuries.
I suspect as a pilot (I'm correct about that, yes?) you know this as well, since weather forecasts are so often unpredictable and wrong.
It's just so hard to realize the man made causation theory is believed by so many, it's so clearly politicized science.
It's a modern superstition as bad as any in the middle ages.
I always check WX before leaving despite what my dispatcher says. I also read about the Medieval weather crisis in the 14th. century where the cold weather for years destroyed crops.
I am a WX junkie, so much good stuff.
A octogenarian told me that here in North Louisiana, during the drought of about 1896 (spanned here and states north and west) it did not rain from Easter until Christmas.
“Pray for the sun to become less spotty. This will bring us cooler climates.”
You haven’t heard. It has been record unspotted for years. A Russian scientist stated the other day that enjoy this warm summer; we may not get another one for 30 years.
Some weather reporter, when he’d give the record temps, would always talk about “the dirty 30s”
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I remember visiting Laughlin one weekend in the late 90s.
When we arrived at 10 pm there was an electrical storm AND a dust storm going at the same time. THEN it started raining and, oddly, the dust storm did not seem affected. It was 118 degrees.
Eerie.
Is it really ever possible to fry an egg on the sidewalk?<<
The real question is, “do they sizzle?”
It feels worse mainly because today, almost every enclosed space we have is air conditioned. Going from the cool into the outside is a jump of 20 degrees. In the 1930’s, we didn’t have this jump.
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