Triple digits and not a hurricane in sight. Tropical storm, but, no real heat transfer.

I told you so.

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 Bonnie occurred that year lasting from Aug. 19 - 31.  The season began with a tropical storm by the name of Alex.  Upto Bonnie though the hurricane season was virtually absent.  Following Bonnie, there were twelve more storm, all but one had central pressures below 1000 millibars.
 
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.

...and then there was the memorable tour of Africa in 1997 (Click long link below - thank you)

I hope First Lady Obama and First Daughter Sasha are making many friends.
















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I have a challenge to First Lady Obama when she returns home with Sasha.

How is the ADULT population of the USA ever going to be healthier and thinner with such a large volume of Scooters in the country.

The scooters are everywhere, even the grocery store.  The grocery store provides the scooters.

It just seems to me these folks need physical therapy and exercise as a requirement to having a scooter.

BP continues to exhibit the poorest management decisions conceivable. They need to be banned from USA leases of any kind.

BP is nearly as 'daffed' as the Louisiana leadership.

There is a moritorium of offshore deepwater exploration.  The Gulf Coast of the USA has been devastated by BP's negligence and we have no idea when and IF it will ever recover.

The Gulf of Mexico Loop Current is still receiving oil and dispersant from the Macondo well with unknown consequences. 

The Investigation into the disaster won't be complete until January 2011.  There is a $20 billion trust fund to the disaster's VICTIMS with the potential of more if the fund provies inadequate over the decades and BP wants to drill at the very same location where there is a cap that has leaked and exhibits methane ice on the exterior of the seal.

NO !!!!!

With such claims by BP to 'drill again' into the same high methane content vat with a compromised well already in the area and oil seeps from other wells nearby, BP has exhibited the poorest judgement it could ever have drawn.

NO !!!!!!

Absolutely NOT !

BP needs to be banned from any leases anywhere in the USA.  Legislation needs to be drawn up providing this protection for the country.  BP is a national security risk.


...In a briefing with reporters (click title to entry - thank you) meant to symbolise BP's return to business-as-usual in the Gulf, the chief operating officer, Doug Suttles, said the company may not give up all claims on the Macondo well, which leaked five million barrels of oil into the Gulf.
"There's lots of oil and gas here," Suttles said. "We're going to have to think about what to do with that at some point."
BP's former chief executive, Tony Hayward, told Congress in June that there were 50 million recoverable barrels of oil in the reservoir.
The company faces tens of billions of dollars of damages from the spill....