From Chris Martz on Twitter/X:
This plot shows the average number of days per year with daily maximum temperatures ≥95°, ≥100° and ≥105° per USHCN station since 1895.
The trend is down.
You will not see this reported anywhere in the press. I guarantee it. The extremes don’t increase at the same rate that the background warming does. Extremes are a reflection of the bounds of natural variability. Trends don’t create extremes.
There is also no such thing as “climate-fueled heat.” That’s media-spun BS. The climate is not a fuel. Local environmental conditions at the time of occurrence are. That’s called “weather.” Stop confusing the two concepts.
There's more at the link.
Here in north Texas, we're currently well into our annual heat endurance contest. In any given week, temperatures at or above 100 degrees Fahrenheit are likely to dominate, and it'll stay that way until sometime in September. (We've only lived here for a decade, yet we've already had one summer where the temperature was over 100 degrees on each of over 100 consecutive days.) According to the news media, this is proof of "global warming". Around here, we call it "summer", because it's been that way for as long as people have lived here, and is likely to remain that way.
Peter
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Around here we measure days where the temperature is at or below zero. Days over a 100 rarely go longer than 7. What we have had a lot of lately is rain with cooler temps. Go figure.
About North Texas...
2023 wasn't as bad as 2011 which wasn't as bad as 1980...
1980 was brutal, 115 degrees some days and I spent the summer on the farm working in the cotton fields. Despite drinking gallons of fluid daily, you were lucky if you urinated more than once or twice during the day.
Interesting note: We had 12 inches of snow in 2010 in the Dallas area.
I cannot wrap my mind around temperatures like that. If it goes over 80º, that's it for me. We do get a bunch of days over 90º around here, but there are usually breaks every few days so it's somewhat tolerable. All winter I think about how wonderful it will be to be outside, working in the garden, dealing with livestock without two winter coats . . . then July and August come and I'm reminded how much I hate hot weather.
We're not huge fans of temperatures well below 0ºF, but we can function; we put on an extra sweater, set another log on the fire and we manage. When it gets hot, functioning isn't a reality.
last year's CTH prediction: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/04/24/only-one-question-remains-as-susan-rice-bidens-shadow-president-leaves-the-white-house/
he be telling the truth...here in north tx it can be unbearable at times...it can be under a 100 but the heat index with the humidity is the real ass kicker...plus, we get 2 severe weather seasons...spring and fall...actually more like oct-april/may...it can get 150 in your car in the summer here...glass will burn you, steering wheel, seats, dash...real ass kicker
Ahh..., the memories of growing up in East Texas with its 4
distinct seasons.
Almost Summer, Summer, Still Summer, and Winter.
Yup, that's weather. I don't love the heat, and neither does my garden, but it's weather, not 'global warming' or 'climate change'. Thankfully we're not in a drought this year. It's been worse.
That said, I stay inside as much as possible when it gets above 100. My body doesn't tolerate extreme temperatures well at all. I'm so grateful for people who invented various cooling devices; our swamp cooler keeps our main floor at a very comfortable 74F even when it hits 103 as it did today.
Here in the sunny bit of northern England we have had precisely ONE hot day this year. I define hot “as required a fan to keep cool”.
At the moment we are experiencing twenty two types of rain, varying from warm drizzle to dangerously heavy. However we almost never go below freezing in winter.
No one believes me when I say the ice age is coming. I'm in Alabama, summer hot, winter cold. Just the way it should be.
Again, environmentalism is a religion where Mother Nature is the God and White people are the Devil.
My father, third generation Texan, moved to Montana in the 1950s, in part, to get away from the weather. We've never been tempted to return.
Eric Berger, the Space City Weather guy, says that the global warming is affecting the lower temperatures more than the upper temperatures of each day.
https://spacecityweather.com/
Me, I think that we cannot measure the upper temperatures or the lower temperatures worth a hoot. We have millions of microclimates across the Earth. The current idiots measuring the global temperatures are calculating those to five significant digits. In my forty plus years of experience as a Engineer, thirty-five years as a licensed Professional Engineer, they may have two significant digits of measurement. And I doubt the second digit is very precise too. Maybe an error bar of +- 1.0 C.
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