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?
At my hideout in AZ, the weather has been beautiful for weeks. It’s currently 77 degree at noon, cobalt blue sunny sky’s mixed with white cotton ball clouds.
Somehow we’ll tough it out!
The news likes to call this Virginia weather a “heatwave”. I’m sure it’s to make the people who moved here without doing their research feel better by making them think that hot, humid summer weather isn’t the norm.
Virginia is probably one of the most extreme weather states in the USA. Extremely hot summers and really cold winters. It be 10 in the winter and 100 in the summer, a 90 degree to variance.
Normal hotter than heII august here. I remember hotter ones back in the early 1980s when the Coming Ice Age was still a “thing”.
One August was so hot we did not get A reprieve until mid September. Our power company made it’s “peak” in power production on Sept 5 of that year.
Years ago the news media used the terms “El Nino” and La Niña” to hype the weather and frighten people.
The dog days are when Alpha Canis Majoris — Sirius, the dog star — is too close to the sun to be visible. The heliacal rising of Sirius before sunrise was viewed by the ancient Egyptians as the sign that the annual Nile flood was about to begin. Being the brightest star in the night sky, it was popularly supposed that when Sirius (whose name means “burning”) was especially close to the sun in its annual procession through the zodiac, the dog star’s heat would supplement that of the sun, making the seasonal warmth especially oppressive. In the Nile delta, Sirius begins to be viewable before dawn about August 6. So the dog days are now over, strictly speaking.
I don’t think anyone moves to this state for the weather....
In the Nile delta, Sirius begins to be viewable before dawn about August 6. So the dog days are now over, strictly speaking.
So, now I know.. Thanks for that.. :)
A “heat dome” is August weather with a press agent.
Much cooler than normal in Phoenix, AZ in March-April, July and Aug
You’re welcome.
Of course, where I am, it’s still straight up summer. We’re in the belly of the beast for at least another month. Plus the possibility of hurricanes. I look for the end of summer with at least as much yearning as the Egyptians.
In Florida we have 2 seasons, hot and really HOT!
We actually had a cold front today, it went down to 92*
At 92* and with the humidity it’s feels like 106*.
No matter how much you sweat you never get cool, just sticky.
It was so hot today I saw a tourist burst into flames just walking down the sidewalk 🤗
Not looking! LONG.
AIRSTREAMS ARE MEASURED tongue to tail.
If you go to a 27 my preference would be the 28 which is actually shorter than the 27 by a bit but I think has a better floorplan.
The old 27 or maybe 26 rear bath would be my preference. I think it was called a Traveler. It had twins either side of the hall to the bathroom but they are hard to find in good condition.
I have lots of opinions on AS you could find in my remodel postings in the AS forums.
I'm sick of green, and the flies, gnats, and those blasted cicadas.!! Thou the cicadas are excellent bass bait.. :)
Astronomically speaking, the dog days ended last week.Glad you pointed that out. The "dog star," Sirius, rises in the Egypt mid July, which marks the rise of the Nile. In other cultures the "dog days" begin with July heat and people become "star struck."
Man it’s getting hot hot hot
I said man it’s getting hot hot hot
It’s getting hotter and hotter
And hotter and hotter
It’s a meltdown, it’s a meltdown
It’s a meltdown, it’s a meltdown
It’s a meltdown, it’s a meltdown
I said down down
It’s a meltdown, meltdown, meltdown
It’s a meltdown, it’s a meltdown
That settles it... must be global warming
It sure is, but NOT the kind of warming they want you to believe.
It sure is, but NOT the kind of warming they want you to believe.
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