L.A.'s hottest day ever (Al Gore was right?)

Los Angeles Times ^ | 09/28/2010 | Bob Pool and Rong-Gong Lin II

[SeekAndFind]

How hot was it? The National Weather Service's thermometer downtown reached 113 degrees for the first time since records began being kept in 1877 — and then stopped working. The record highs follow a summer of record lows.

It was so hot Monday that it broke the all-time record — and the weatherman's thermometer.

The National Weather Service's thermometer for downtown Los Angeles headed into uncharted territory at 12:15 p.m. Monday, reaching 113 degrees for the first time since records began being kept in 1877.

Shortly after that banner moment, the temperature dipped back to 111, and then climbed back to 112. Then at 1 p.m., the thermometer stopped working.

The weather service office in Oxnard rushed an electronics technician 60 miles southeast to the USC campus to repair the thermometer, which is actually a highly sensitive wire connected to electronic equipment. Because of the snafu, officials said it's possible Monday's temperature actually was hotter than 113 — but they might never know.

For meteorologists who cover a region sometimes mocked for its lack of weather, the record was met with great excitement. They figured it would be hot, with the mercury hitting around 108 or 109, but they didn't quite expect that an all-time record would be topped.

Downtown L.A. was not the only place that set records. Long Beach tied an all-time record of 111. Other cities didn't break all-time records but registered new highs for the day. They include Burbank (110), Woodland Hills (111), Oxnard (100), El Cajon (109) and Indio (109).

It wasn't lost on weather aficionados that the record heat came after a summer of record low temperatures.

"Five days ago, we saw some of the lowest daytime temperatures we've seen in 50 years. And today was a once-in-a-century day,"

[raccoonradio]

>>reaching 113 degrees for the first time

“Looks like another perfect day/
I love L.A.! (We love it!)”—Randy Newman

(I am not there right now though, I’m in Beverly—Mass.,
that is. Swimming pools? Movie stars?)

[Yo-Yo]

Whenever it is unusually cold, the Global Warmists always say "there is a difference between Climate and Weather."

Well, back at ya. This is a case of Weather, not Climate.

[WAW]

LA is a concrete box...Life inside a crowded concrete box is generally hot. They get a little high pressure there that stalls the cooling ocean breezes at the end of the season and viola Al Gore is right?

Riiight.

Was he right when they were unseasonably cool all summer too?

Can’t both be right.

[a fool in paradise]

How hot was it? The National Weather Service's thermometer downtown reached 113 degrees for the first time since records began being kept in 1877

And they call the "young Earth" creationists kooks for believing the world is only 6,000 years old.

The global warming kooks believe it is only 123 years old.

"EVER!"

[a fool in paradise]

It was in the 60s in Houston Texas yesterday. Some “heat wave”.

[RC2]

I believe that in the 40’s it was 135 in Southern California. Some one should tell them....IT’S SUMMER.... YOU BUNCH OF IDIOTS. Some times it’s hot, some times it’s cold.

[a fool in paradise]

"PAVE THE PLANET!" Ping

[Iron Munro]

Temperature records, both high and low, are broken with regularity.

Just a few days ago the weather news was about earlier than usual snowfall and dropping temperatures in other states.

Remember the cautions we get from Global Warming advocates regarding a colder than normal season - “Do not confuse a temporary weather anomoly with long term climate change.”

Okay, we won’t.

[exbrit]

And it snowed in Scotland in September http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1315636/First-snowmen-2010-spotted-shivering-Scotland.html

So much for Al’s junk science

[Ev Reeman]

A couple days of hot delayed summer weather in LA does not prove the case for global warming.

[mountainlion]

For Owl Gore to be right San Diego would have to had a record hot year not record cold year.

[Ben Mugged]

The second highest temperature ever recorded in North America was in Santa Barbara Californis during a "sundowner" event. 133 degrees.

"June 17, 1859 - The only 'simoon' ever to occur in the United States is reported by a United States Coast Survey vessel off Goleta. A northwest wind brings scorching temperatures of 133 degrees between 1:00 and 2:00 that afternoon. Birds fall from the sky, crops shrivel and cattle die under the shade of oak trees."

[Joe 6-pack]

Meanwhile, we’ve been having unseasonably cool weather in south LA (Louisiana). It’s been dipping into the 50’s the last few nights.

[SeekAndFind]

If global warming explains everything it explains nothing.

[oldleft]

I work in downtown LA and it was hot, but it was super dry. A co-worker and I jogged around the block when we found out it was the hottest day on record and when we got back to the office we were bone dry.

Now I can tell people I went running on the hottest day in LA.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Now I can tell people I went running on the hottest day in LA.

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I’m surprised you guys did not feel dehydrated after that run...

[TruthConquers]

Oh joy.

And I was in a power outage down here in southern orange county. Total hours with no power, about six. The power finally came on and stayed on about 10:00pm last night.

Ugh!

[Buckeye McFrog]

just giving a few people in Hollyweird a little preview of H-E-double-hockey-sticks...

[Jolla]

Up the Northern California coast is Mendocino, the road out, Hwy 128 has beautiful oaks with spanish moss everywhere, stopped at a store there once and a tourist said, “someone should really clean those trees, they look messy”.