Diary entry on climate change
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Friday June 30th… Dear diary. It is the end of June so one third of meteorological summer is in the rear view mirror. Time flies! At the end of June it is time to take stock on record statistics with climate change ramifications. I’ll put out a separate post in early July as a June 2017 climate summary once NCEI statistics are in their records site through 6/30. Through 6/28 we see the following (hopefully now familiar to all those visiting my site) statistics:
2014-2017 DHDL Records
It’s a “slam dunk” that June 2017 will be the record 31st consecutive month of more daily record highs than lows in the NCEI database… I’m referring to this as “The Streak”.
There were two major heat waves that occurred during June that were the biggest part of the nearly 3 to 1 ratio of DHMX to DLMN that we see for this month. We had a heat wave in the Northeast that lasted for a week early in the month then a historic Southwestern heat wave in the second half of June. I count 1,165 DRHMX’s from 6/15-6/26 mainly In association with the western heat wave. I count 388 DRLMN’s set due to the northern Plains and Midwest cool shot from the 18th through the 28th taking into account the majority of the 675 DRL reports.
Of special note their were 23 reports of all-time records during June.
This cooling degree day chart from MDA Weather Services shows how June started and ended “cool” with a hot spell in the middle:
June cooling degree days
Here are June’s average temperatures for the CONUS from MDA weather services:
June averages
It’s no surprise at all to see a warmer than average June for the U.S. due to man induced climate change.
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Diary entry on climate change