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Re: Spring/Summer '20
« Reply #250 on: August 28, 2020, 08:37:14 PM »
Well, here's our weather story for today from this afternoons AFD...

  CLIMATE...Today the Tucson airport recorded the 54th high
  temperature of 105 degrees or hotter this year, breaking the 
  previous record from 1994 for the most in a calendar year.


Not only, last I checked, this is the driest monsoon in recorded history at TUS, as we are now in technical extreme drought. Tropical influence is suppose to greatly increase our rain chances this weekend. This will most likely be our last gasp til the winter rains. Guess we'll see.

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Re: Spring/Summer '20
« Reply #251 on: September 01, 2020, 03:02:21 PM »
So closeth out summer...at least in climatological terms.

How was your 3 months? Warmer than normal? Colder? Drier? Any memorable storms, remembering that Iowa deserves our thoughts still.

Somebody can start a Fall Thread now.

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Re: Spring/Summer '20
« Reply #252 on: September 01, 2020, 05:32:02 PM »
So closeth out summer...at least in climatological terms.

How was your 3 months? Warmer than normal? Colder? Drier?
"Hot" of the press... Pun intended. And I thought last year was bad. ](*,)

https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/twc/climate/monthly/aug20.php

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Re: Spring/Summer '20
« Reply #253 on: September 01, 2020, 08:12:31 PM »
June was typical springtime in Chicago. The temperature range was a low of 52 to a high of 94.
The average high (84.0) was 4.3 degrees above normal. There were 8 days that exceeded 90 degrees, 5 days more than normal. The average low (63.9) was 5.8 degrees above normal.
Total rain was 4.40 inches, .95 inches above normal.

July ended up warmer and drier than average.
The average high (88.3) was 4.2 degrees above normal. There were 12 days that exceeded 90 degrees, 6 days more than normal. Average low (70.2) was 5.2 degrees above normal.
Total rain was 2.55 inches which was 1.15 inches below average.

August followed the lead of July, warmer and drier.
The average high (86.4) was 4.5 degrees above normal. There were 10 days that exceeded 90 degrees, 6 days more than normal. The average low (67.2) was 4.3 degrees above normal. The temperature spread was a low of 56 to 97 degrees.
Total rain for the month was .80 inches (4.10 inches below normal).

We received .11 inches of rain today, but my lawn could still go up in flames from an errant cigarette butt.
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Re: Spring/Summer '20
« Reply #254 on: September 02, 2020, 12:06:57 AM »
It's been hot all summer and wet, too.  The farmers got a lot of hay this year and probably will get one more cutting.

So for here until the end of October it's highs in the 80s with afternoon and evening thunder showers.
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Re: Spring/Summer '20
« Reply #255 on: September 02, 2020, 06:40:08 AM »
Our local weather history illustrates the vagaries of using any individual season, or several seasons, as indicators of 'trends'.

The Omaha/Valley, NE WFO is bemoaning the fact that their precipitation is currently way under their 'Summer Average'.



These graphics also illustrates the extreme localization of weather data.  I think that to draw generalized conclusions from such information is to stretch credulity beyond any reasonable limit.  After 30 years such trends might become significant climatologically.
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Re: Spring/Summer '20
« Reply #256 on: September 03, 2020, 12:37:39 AM »
Not much here, but the southeast quarter of Oklahoma sure got a lot rain over the last 3 days:


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Re: Spring/Summer '20
« Reply #257 on: September 04, 2020, 06:28:58 PM »
Is it Sept. 4th or June 4th? Another record in the books for today as the all time monthly high temp for Sept. goes bye-bye. I briefly touched 112F.
Rain? What's that?

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Re: Spring/Summer '20
« Reply #258 on: September 04, 2020, 07:54:32 PM »
Is it Sept. 4th or June 4th? Another record in the books for today as the all time monthly high temp for Sept. goes bye-bye. I briefly touched 112F.
Rain? What's that?
I saw that you guys are back in the frying pan again.
Cracks me up how they say Labor Day is the end of summer.
Yeah, right.
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Re: Spring/Summer '20
« Reply #259 on: September 04, 2020, 08:23:53 PM »
Is it Sept. 4th or June 4th? Another record in the books for today as the all time monthly high temp for Sept. goes bye-bye. I briefly touched 112F.
Rain? What's that?
I saw that you guys are back in the frying pan again.
Cracks me up how they say Labor Day is the end of summer.
Yeah, right.
This is my 30th summer here and I've watched records be set time and time again (not just officially, but my obs as well). AFAIC, "man-made" global warming is crock, but climatic cyclical changes are not, and we're in one here. Topping on the cake? The monsoon was an epic fail...by far the worse in my time here.

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Re: Spring/Summer '20
« Reply #260 on: September 04, 2020, 10:22:10 PM »
Wild swings in temperature:
Low at my station this morning 41; High today, 88. A respectable 47 degree range.
High temperatures forecast for Sat and Sun, upper 90s to 101.
Tuesday high forecast 50s.

The Great Plains!