2007: First or Second Hottest Year on Record So Far

[Hissyspit]

Source: National Climatic Data Center

2007: First or second hottest year on record so far

The NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies data has January-June 2007 just edging out the same period in 1998 for the record. The National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) reported today that 2007 has been “the second warmest on record for January-June year-to-date period,” missing 1998 by only 0.01°C. Either way, it is hot!

Other factoids from the NCDC data:

- For the January-June period, the global surface temperature over land ranked warmest on record, beating 2002 by 0.10°C.

- Much of the West and the South suffered from extreme drought conditions brought about by months of below average precipitation. It was the second driest January-June and driest April-June on record in the Southeast. By the end of June, 65 percent of the region was in drought.





Read more: http://climateprogress.org/2007/07/17/2007-first-or-second-hottest-year-on-record-so-far

[Mnemosyne]

1. Needs a

:kick:

[emmadoggy]

2. Another Kick and a Rec from me.

:-(

[sutz12]

3. Hate to K&R bad news....but......

:kick:

[Nevernose]

4. The Southwest is making all kinds of records.

Las Vegas recently:

Tied with the hottest days on official record, at a 117. Of course, that's measured in the shade, and in one of the cooler, wetter parts of the valley (the airport, which doesn't have all the man-made infrastructure which traps heat). My neighborhood is almost invariably 4 degrees hotter than that, which means my front yard was 121 in the shade, or a 136 in the sun. It gets so hot here that it's too hot to SWIM. It feels like a bathtub, doesn't cool you off, and feels just plain gross. Do you know how hot it is when it's too hot to SWIM?

On Thursday, we beat the record for the longest number high, low temperatures. The coldest it's been here, at the earliest part of day, just before dawn, has been 81 since early June.

Next week, we break the record for the longest stretch without rain. It's been a hundred days without even a tenth of an inch. We're at drought conditions for a desert, a place that is expected to get less than 2 inches of rainfall in a year anyway. It's so hot that our monsoonal moisture doesn't even hit the ground anymore: it's verga, and evaporates by the time it hits mother earth.

You know those people who live above the arctic circle, and have to wear weird eye things on their heads for six months out of the year to keep from going insane? That's what I feel like.

[insanad]

19. Vegas,The Stinking Sweaty Crotch of the SW

I live part time in Vegas as well and I can barely get into my car to run errands. I have cloth seats but even they are so hot that I have to bring a towell just to get in the car. The heat waves off the asphalt and sears the nostrils. I live in the house 24/7 and only go out at 5:30 a.m. to walk my dog and again after the traffic has ebbed to go excersize. Either way, the cabin fever is getting to me and I can't wait till Friday's when I drive like a bat out of hell to get to the mountains and cool off a bit. Even there, it's so dry that most of the plants and trees are drooping or dead and the threat of fire looms large everywhere. I only have to live here three more years and then my husband can retire. I'm thinking of selling everything and moving to Canada or N. Idaho, just to see what green looks like again. Human beings were not meant to live in this gawd awful barren wasteland. I loathe Vegas. Whomever thinks it's an ideal place to live has never tried to grow a garden or lawn in this blast furnace.

[dapper]

5. Technically it is probably hotter ....

but they have been working overtime with the chem-trails... just an observation.

dap

[Sin]

17. And in other news.

Big Foot Strangled the Loch Ness monster in a battle royal the ghost of Elvis was a special guess referee.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

6. The "Wet Cycle" for the southwest is over...

... after 200 years, and Sioux Falls, SD has only recieved .01" of an inch of rain in 24 days.

[Quixote1818]

7. You won't see this on the Drudge Report

They post every fucking tiny snowstorm as "proof" (gag) global warming is a lie. Of course when you add up all the numbers for the year those little snowstorms are just a blip yet they make such a big deal about them.

[cosmik debris]

8. Just for perspective

In central Texas we are having one of the wettest and coolest summers on record.

We have had consistent flooding for several weeks now, and high temps in the 80's that are usually 100+.

[Quixote1818]

9. It's been cool because of the storms.

Had Texas not been hit by so much moisture it would have been hot as hell just like the southwest which had no rain. Anytime you get rain it cools things down.

[cosmik debris]

11. Like I said

one of the wettest and coolest on record.

You seem to be saying that if we were not wet and cool, we would be hot and dry. Is that supposed to be a revelation? Or are you trying to explain the obvious?

[Quixote1818]

12. You missed the whole point of my post.

When rain is not falling it's hotter because rain is falling from the top of the atmosphere sometimes as high as 50,000 feet up where temperatures are 40 below zero. Rain brings those cold temperatures down to the ground. Because Texas has had so much moisture pumped in as you can see from the maps above, the rains have created a cooler climate at the surface. Without the rains Texas would likely had above normal temperatures. The probability of having it be dry and cool is unlikely, you have to have the extra moisture to cool the area off.

[cosmik debris]

14. I was right

You are explaining the obvious. If it wasn't wet and cool, it would be hot and dry.

[Quixote1818]

15. Well then why did you make a big deal about it being cooler in Texas?

You seemed to be suggesting that global warming wasn't effecting Texas and perhaps these stats were blown out of proportion. If you understood that a rainy pattern affected temperatures then you wouldn't have made such a simplistic post. If you don't want a obvious answer then don't make a naive post in the first place.

[cosmik debris]

16. I never believed I would run across a person

who felt compelled to explain that summer rains cool things down. I thought everybody knew that summer rains cool things down.

My post merely commented that parts of Texas are wetter and cooler than normal. You had to go on and on trying to explain that summer rains cool things down. Did you really think that DUers are so freaking stupid that we don't know that summer rains cool things down? sheesh?????

[Quixote1818]

18. Well, sorry your post came across as though you had no clue.

I will give you more credit next time. :eyes:

[cosmik debris]

10. oops, posted in the wrong place

[Lisa]

13. .... and the year is not yet over

Most places (in the northern hemisphere, at least) don't get their monthly max temps until July and August.