Past three months' hot temperatures set record (click title to entry - thank you)
By NEIL JOHNSON
The Tampa Tribune
Published: August 1, 2010
TAMPA - The past three months have been the hottest May, June and July Tampa has seen in 120 years.
The record actually might go back longer than a dozen decades, but National Weather Service records only go back to 1890.
The average temperature for the past three months was 83.3 degrees. Until this year, the hottest average temperature for May, June and July in Tampa was 82.7 degrees in 1998. The weather service tracks monthly record temperatures by averaging each day's highs and lows....
Heat blamed for U.S. deaths
Published: Aug. 3, 2010 at 10:58 PM
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 3 (UPI) -- A heat wave has enveloped much of the United States and may be responsible for a third death in the Kansas City, Mo., area, city health officials said Tuesday.
Officials with the Kansas City Health Department said a third death in the city, where the temperature reached 98 degrees, was being investigated by the Jackson County medical examiner, the Kansas City Star reported. No further information was available.
The Health Department said Monday it suspected two other deaths were heat-related.
Accuweather.com said it was 118 degrees Fahrenheit in Death Valley, Calif., Tuesday....
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/08/03/Heat-blamed-for-US-deaths/UPI-21911280890736/
1998 was a very warm year and sometimes considered a record setter. It was the case in Flint, Michigan. Not a preference to location, simply a fact.
..1998 ONE OF THE WARMEST YEARS EVER RECORDED IN SOUTHEAST LOWER
MICHIGAN...THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR 1998 WAS ONE OF THE WARMEST ON RECORD
ACROSS SOUTHEAST LOWER MICHIGAN. DETROIT METROPOLITAN AIRPORT HAD
THEIR WARMEST YEAR EVER RECORDED. FLINT BISHOP AIRPORT HAD THEIR
WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD AND IT WAS THE 2ND WARMEST YEAR EVER RECORDED
FOR THE FLINT AREA. FINALLY...TRI-CITIES AIRPORT IN FREELAND HAD
THEIR 2ND WARMEST YEAR EVER RECORDED....
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/dtx/warm1998.php
The point is there was much more 'Earth Surface Humidity' in 1998. What does that mean? About this time of year, the hurricane season took an uptick in 1998. The question is will this year repeat the same pattern and help stablize the triple digit heat?
Hurricane Georges was a Cat 4.
http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/atlantic/1998/index.html
It would be helpful if there were some large hurricanes and with the Macondo well filled the timing might be 'just right.'
It is the Climate Crisis that started in the 1890s. Way to much Greenhouse Gases in the troposphere.
Kindly continue to be vigilant of the heat, it may or may not get better from here depending on the hurricanes that are spawned. A repeat of 1998 would be good now.
