Posted on 08/12/2021 8:31:55 AM PDT by blam
At the beginning of the week, we told readers the dog days of summer have finally arrived with above-average temperatures for most of the country.
By late Thursday, watch/warning/advisory alerts for dangerous heat extended to nearly 200 million Americans as multiple heat domes scorch the Pacific Northwest, Central states, and East Coast.
“Dangerous heat and humidity in the Northwest, Northeast, and central portions of the CONUS have prompted Excessive Heat Warnings and Heat Advisories. Severe thunderstorms will impact the areas from the Midwest into the Great Lakes through Thursday,” the National Weather Service (NWS) wrote on its website.
“Around 195 million Americans are under a watch/warning/advisory for dangerous heat. Yes, it’s summer, but this type of heat can kill,” the National Weather Service (NWS) warned in a tweet.
Temperature forecasts for the lower 48 states show mean temperatures will peak Friday/Saturday and trend lower through Monday, with another spurt of hot weather slated through Aug. 22.
NYMEX Natgas futures have slumped nearly 4% in the last four sessions as traders begin to price in colder weather next week.
As we’ve shown, average temperatures are peaking for the lower 48 states and should begin to decline after this month.
Meanwhile, hot temps and a megadrought in the US West have fueled 105 large files burning 2.4 million acres in 14 states. The largest fire is Dixie in northern California, burning more than 500,000 acres so far.
Making matters worse, Bloomberg reports a La Niña weather pattern is forecasted to develop during the August-October season and last through the 2021-22 winter.
The La Niña pattern is characterized by unusually low temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean and is linked to floods and drought. Meanwhile, El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) neutral conditions are favored for the remainder of the northern hemisphere summer, the NWS’s Climate Prediction Center (CPC) said in its monthly forecast. There is about a 60% chance of ENSO neutral conditions for the July-September season, and a 70% chance of La Niña from November through January 2022, the CPC said. The ENSO weather pattern is marked by average long-term ocean temperatures, tropical rainfall and atmospheric winds. Last month, the forecaster said there was a 51% chance of ENSO neutral conditions for the August-October season. -Bloomberg
So back-to-back La Niñas could transform US West into a continued tinderbox?
It is summer, it is August, it is hot but not nearly as hot as I have seen it in my nearly 7 decades.
The grass is burned up and we are watering every evening what we want to keep alive. It is the same as every hot summer. Just about every summer is hot.
Years ago I bought an Airstream and promised I would never spend another hot August here in Oklahoma. Instead I would drag the Airstream to the mountains of northern New Mesico and relax on the bank of some mountain born stream. Still have not done that. Still too many things that need my attention in the summer around here. The Airstream still sits ready to go in the barn.
That cooling is due to climate change, you denier...next you'll give me some crazy talk that snow in January isn't caused by man.
Astronomically speaking, the dog days ended last week.
It’s HOT in SUMMER? OH NOES! WHAT WILL WE DO?????!!!!!
Astronomically speaking says you.. I got'a ask, what does that mean??
Hot and cold and mild temps. Nothing different since forever.
70 degrees in Mount Carmel. Thank you very much! $$$$
The Dog days of summer end August 11th, so you told the readers wrong
“Heat Dome” is that another name for SUMMER?
Past, journalists, it is summer, it is usually hot...
I kayak and here in Connecticut I don't remember such a chilly summer. Now that we finally have some normal summer heat all the TV meteorologists are hyping the "Heat Index".
Just came in from my walk. Western MA is baking.
Not the
“Black Plague!”
It’s summer, Virgins is a sauna. Nothing to see here. Move along.
Post pic of the Airstream.
Nope
Well, it’s only going to be 93 degrees, at 27.8 lat and 82.1 lon.
Oh, and it’s going to rain in 3 hrs.
5.56mm
What model Airstream? I am thinking about getting a used one.
27fb. Low profile but wide and pretty looking
Have you found as forum? Lots of good info.
I watch the local news out of Raleigh, NC in the morning. It was 80 at around 6:30 am and going up to a high of 115 today.
Of course that was a heat index number, what ever that is. Then rarely report the actual temperature anymore. I have to use the outdoor thermometer to get that number.
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