The Freakish Year in Broken Climate Records ---- State of the climate: Broken

[mackdaddy]

July 17, 2015 — 6:00 AM EDT
The annual State of the Climate report is out, and it’s ugly. Record heat, record sea levels, more hot days and fewer cool nights, surging cyclones, unprecedented pollution, and rapidly diminishing glaciers.

The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issues a report each year compiling the latest data gathered by 413 scientists from around the world. It’s 288 pages, but we’ll save you some time. Here’s a review, in six charts, of some of the climate highlights from 2014.

1. Temperatures set a new record ...
2. Sea levels also surge to a record...
3. Glaciers retreat for the 31st consecutive year...
4. There are more hot days and fewer cool nights...
5. Record greenhouse gases fill the atmosphere...
6. The oceans absorb crazy amounts of heat...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-17/the-freakish-year-in-broken-climate-records

see Bloomberg link for charts and descriptions.

[Capt.Rocky300]

1. Yup. It's 90 degrees in our little seaside town.....

at 7 pm. Forecast hi was for 78. In the past, we would be about 70 at this this time of day. Maybe few degrees cooler. Almost no one has air conditioning. Gonna be a long night.

[gblady]

2. 96 here

On a small island in Puget Sound.

[Capt.Rocky300]

3. It's not supposed to be 90 in the San Juans.

You must be in to the south sound.

[pscot]

4. We hit 95 today

just south of Bush Point. It's supposed to cool down tonight.

[Capt.Rocky300]

5. I hope the forecasters are right this time.....

otherwise it's off to Costco for another fan.

[marym625]

6. 4 and 5 days ago in Chicago

It didn't even hit 70. In July! For two days before that it was hotter than hell.


Yesterday and the day before the heat index was over 100. Where I live, according to weatherbug, it hit 117. I don't have air conditioning. Was horrible!

Chicago always has weird weather, but this is beyond anything I have ever seen

[truebrit71]

8. It has been a bizarre summer so far in Chicago for sure...

....Plus, we know where California's rain went....

[marym625]

9. yep!

And I would be more than happy to give some of it back to them

Luckily, at least southern California had some good rain the last couple of days!

Considering how weird Chicago weather is anyway, this is extreme!

[progree]

7. And are expecting the first half of 2015 to be declared the warmest year on record so far globally

Global Land-Ocean Temperature Index -- 1880 thru June 2015 -- annual mean and 5-year running mean

NOAA/Dr. John Abraham, University of St. Thomas

University of St. Thomas professor of thermal sciences and frequent Climate Cast guest Dr. John Abraham sends word that June’s incoming global temperature numbers continue to put 2015 off the charts as the hottest year on record so far globally.

Stay tuned as numbers from NASA, NOAA and other sources come out in the coming days declaring the first half of 2015 as the warmest year on record so far globally.

http://blogs.mprnews.org/updraft/2015/07/friday-hot-front-2015-hottest-on-record-so-far/