68° F tomorrow, Monday, 1PM

[230RN]

Almost STP (standard temperature and pressure), 68° F with the wind falling off the mountains at 44 mph (west) and being heated by the drop to a higher pressure.  Humidity around 35%, no real precipitation for like two weeks, a month.

Almost like summer.  I just hope my nuckleheaded kneighbor doesn't fire up his BBQ grill.  Red fire alert today, probably tomorrow too, but I don't have to check, looking  at those numbers.

The guy has no, zero, null, nada appreciation for the fact that the yard back there is like a firetrap, with weeds, tumbleweeds, newspapers driven against the other side of the chain link fence and dry pine trees. He also flips cigarettes around on the dry grass.  Damned city folk who come out to live in the  country don't realize that when they flip their butts, they don't land on fireproof concrete or asphalt.

Oh, they just announced a fire fire alert on the 7PM news.  Really rare, drawn out to ~4 minutes, must be real bad.

Terry

https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=39.7836&lon=-105.1675&unit=0&lg=english&FcstType=graphical

[HankB]

68 is about what we should be this time of year - but today, we're supposed to hit 88.

[Brad Johnson]

68 is about what we should be this time of year - but today, we're supposed to hit 88.

Same here. Predicted to break the record by a full five degrees.

Brad

[230RN]

Taking a lesson from the global warmenchiks, we can make "scientific" predictions even from a tiny sample.

I refer to the fact that accurate directly measured temperatures from the last, say, 200 years, are extrapolated outrageously to form that infamous "hockey stick" of high temperatures ahead.  Never mind that the last  400,000 years show a fairly regular cycle of climate change, and from that data, it looks like we're at a fairly obvious climate peak and are just as likely to drop into another deep freeze.

Who knows? Call me in 5000 years and I'll let you know.

But since it was 40° yesterday and 50° today, following their logic, by the end of a year the temperature will be 10° x 365 days = 3,650°. Talk about "hockey sticks."

The science is settled.

Terry, 230RN

Edited for housekeeping.

REF: (Vostok ice core data):
https://climateilluminated.com/media/History/Slide4.JPG

The fair regularity of the cycles support its validity.

[Cliffh]

We set a high temp record today, by just barely being higher than the temp on this date in 1917.

It's not unheard of for it to be this warm on this day.

[WLJ]

Let me know when Greenland is green again

[HankB]

Let me know when Greenland is green again

And when they have vineyards in Britain again.

[RocketMan]

Let me know when Greenland is green again

And when they have vineyards in Britain again.

You won't know because we'll all be roasted by global warming by then.

[Jim147]

Hit over 80 here today. Second day of red flag warnings. Supposed to drop to the teens overnight with cold front coming in about two hours. I went and got some propane. No way I'm firing up the wood stove until we get some rain.

[230RN]

Thank you, wherever you are.  It's amazing how ignorant some people are about fire hazards.  Son2 smokes (I quit in 2017) and I trained him how to be careful about smoking while we were running around the forest.  I cringe any time I see someone carelessly flick a cig away. 

Hint:



Somewhere around I have a couple of pen-sized cigarettte snuffers which are metal tubes like a pen in your pocket with snap caps which would hold (and snuff) two cigarettes.  Similar:



I quit when I realized cigarettes were costing me well over 5 grand a year ($6500 in today's punybucks).

'Druther buy ammo with that.

Terry, 230RN

[JTHunter]

St. Louis, MO, hit new records on both Monday & Tuesday - 82 (?) and 86.  The old record for Tuesday, set in 1981 was 79.
Between the 86 Tuesday afternoon and this morning, the temps dropped 57 degrees to 29 degrees with WC in single digits ! 

[230RN]

^
You'd think things would break from such a thermal shock... <grin>