California’s Record Heat Is Like Nothing You’ve Ever Seen... Yet

[steve2470]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-15/california-s-record-heat-is-like-nothing-you-ve-ever-seen-yet.html

If hot thermometers actually exploded like they do in cartoons, there would be a lot of mercury to clean up in California right now.

The California heat this year is like nothing ever seen, with records that go back to 1895. The chart below shows average year-to-date temperatures in the state from January through July for each year. The orange line shows the trend rising 0.2 degrees Fahrenheit per decade.



The sharp spike on the far right of the chart is the unbearable heat of 2014. That’s not just a new record; it’s a chart-busting 1.4 degrees higher than the previous record. It’s an exclamation point at the end of a long declarative sentence.

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[arcane1]

1. I'm tired of sweating, personally.

And I live in a relatively cooler place!

[PasadenaTrudy]

2. It has been humid

this summer, but not that hot. Only up to mid 90s in Pasadena. Sept. I'm sure we'll see 100+.

[Tikki]

3. Must be where you are located...it's been a typical California Central Coastal Summer 70's.

It can get hotter here in September, though.

Tikki

[CreekDog]

25. it's actually been record breaking warm

it doesn't need to be 90+ half of July to break records.

it can simply be 5 degrees warmer each night and day.

and it basically has been.

you just haven't noticed, but it has.

the ocean off central California has been far warmer than normal this summer.

[NutmegYankee]

29. The warmer nights have been a common trend in Global Warming.

The day may get some brutal highs like always, but the nights have not cooling down as much. And that lack of cooling at night is what kills people from stress. I've been lucky on the East Coast to have the cool summer, but this pattern won't remain in place forever.

[Codeine]

4. Yep. Here in the Inland Empire it's been

utterly fucking miserable this year.

[BrotherIvan]

16. You said it

I'm on the Westside and it's been unbearable. It used to only be hot a couple weeks for a heat wave. Now it's just a constant sauna.

[Initech]

22. I live in the Yorba Linda / Anaheim Hills area.

It's been fucking miserable this summer to say the least. I'm just glad the humidity is gone. For now.

[progressoid]

5. The water situation isn't looking so good either.

[IDemo]

6. So what happens when it's tapped out?

Unless I'm missing something, this isn't being given an enormous amount of attention at the federal level, and "water use education" classes at the state level for individuals who sprinkle the gutters. This could well wind up becoming the biggest problem of this decade if it's not addressed.

[CrispyQ]

7. Someone posted this yesterday.

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/08/bottled-water-california-drought

Bottled Water Comes From the Most Drought-Ridden Places in the Country
Popular brands like Aquafina and Dasani source from catastrophically dry parts of the West.
August 11, 2014



snip...

Bottled-water drinkers, we have a problem: There's a good chance that your water comes from California, a state experiencing the third-driest year on record.

The details of where and how bottling companies get their water are often quite murky, but generally speaking, bottled water falls into two categories. The first is "spring water," or groundwater that's collected, according to the EPA, "at the point where water flows naturally to the earth's surface or from a borehole that taps into the underground source." About 55 percent of bottled water in the United States is spring water, including Crystal Geyser and Arrowhead.

The other 45 percent comes from the municipal water supply, meaning that companies, including Aquafina and Dasani, simply treat tap water—the same stuff that comes out of your faucet at home—and bottle it up. (Weird, right?)

I look at the way our species is behaving & I can't fathom the lack of action on so many fronts. My friends all say, "Oh, don't worry, we'll figure it all out." When? And how? Our big brains got us into this mess.

[progressoid]

20. It's a crazy way we do things.

And unsustainable

[OldHippieChick]

11. California already taps into the Colorado River

and Colorado is being fracked unto death. Oil & gas companies are running numerous ads telling us how good fracking is for the environment, but then comes the story out of Wyoming of how much water it takes to frack one well and how that water is then undrinkable. I'm no scientist, but watering lawns and filling swimming pools may soon be a thing of the past in California - followed by the rest of the West.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

8. Yeah,...but when winter comes that means Al Gore is an idiot. Right?

[CreekDog]

26. January is winter

what a genius.

wish people would actually read what they are commenting on before they dismiss it.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

28. How'dja know I was a genius?

[oldandhappy]

9. Was just looking up info on Gold Beach, Oregon.

Lots of rain. Temperate climate.

[Shrike47]

12. Wind blows most of the time. The rain blows kinda sideways. Nice place but remotish.

We're talking a hundred miles to a shopping mall, but it does have a Safeway.

[oldandhappy]

14. Thanks!!!

That means there will be stars. Do they have Wi-Fi?

Do you have any comments on Crescent City?

Thank you!

[belltower]

10. good video here

Here's an excellent summation of material from http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/, that clearly states the timeline for our extinction. It's happening now and will surely be abundantly clear in time for 2016.

[ReRe]

13. Arctic Methane Video

Marking to come back to later. Thank you for sharing, belltower!

[SheilaT]

15. I am currently reading

A Dangerous Place by Marc Reisner, who also wrote Cadillac Desert, a book I've been recommending to everyone since I first read it back in 1986 when it came out. PBS did a multi-part program based on it, which is available on Youtube.

Anyway, A Dangerous Place is a short book, only 181 pages, and starts out with the phenomenal growth of California, the near total lack of water to support even a fraction of the current population, and finishes with an overview of some of the major earthquakes and the continued earthquake danger there. When he carefully describes how virtually every major piece of infrastructure traverses multiple faults, it becomes genuinely scary.

Not to trivialize the weather issue, but there's a lot of other things to also be worried about.

[snooper2]

17. Is that 1.8 degree over 110 years?

Climate Change is real, charts designed by 8 year olds to display it suck

[CreekDog]

30. what's your difficulty?

the chart shows from 1895 to 2014, an increase in the running average of about 2.2 degrees F.

the chart also shows from 1900 to 2010 (110 years) an increase in the running average of about 2.0 degrees F.

what's is your complaint? your reading of the chart was roughly correct.

[taught_me_patience]

18. This summer has felt humid but not that hot

The last month seems to be averaging about 80 in Long Beach, which is a bit below normal. However, it has been more humid than normal, so it feels real hot.

[Reter]

19. Meanwhile in NYC, it's a freezing cold putrid poor excuse for a Summer so far

Can we please have some of your heat?

[Blue_In_AK]

21. I'm visiting family in Del Rey.

It feels hot to me ... but then I'm from Alaska. Anything over 70 feels hot to me.

[AgingAmerican]

23. Every year it will get worse

And drought will get worse too. Meanwhile, the oil industry will escalate destruction of ground water resources.

[Uncle Joe]

24. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, steve.

[jberryhill]

27. wow 2010 degrees!

Good thing we don't use Kelvin - it would be a lot hotter!