Comments on: Historic Heat Wave in the US West Next Week https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/06/26/historic-heat-wave-in-the-us-west-next-week/ Thu, 04 Jul 2013 04:37:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Another Week of GW News, June 30, 2013 – A Few Things Ill Considered https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/06/26/historic-heat-wave-in-the-us-west-next-week/#comment-488532 Thu, 04 Jul 2013 04:37:21 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=17076#comment-488532 […] 2013/06/26: GLaden: Historic Heat Wave in the US West Next Week […]

]]> By: CherryBombSim https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/06/26/historic-heat-wave-in-the-us-west-next-week/#comment-488531 Fri, 28 Jun 2013 13:21:55 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=17076#comment-488531 Go, Barstow!

]]> By: D. C. Sessions https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/06/26/historic-heat-wave-in-the-us-west-next-week/#comment-488530 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 21:39:53 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=17076#comment-488530 90F overnight? That would be nice. We normally spend several months without getting that low (Phoenix.)

And for what it’s worth, the record in Phoenix was a bit warmer than that. This week was the anniversary of our record high: 50C, hot enough that the tables for takeoff flap positioning didn’t go high enough and as a result planes were grounded at one of the busiest airports in the country.

Doesn’t look like we’ll be exceeding that one this time around, but there’ll be another June. Or maybe the current weather will keep the summer monsoons east of here a bit longer.

It’s still going to be hot enough (41C at 20:00) that we’ll be turning on the air conditioning early this year despite the comfortably low dew point (1C).

We’ll leave the AC on while we’re out of town for the cats — they like it warmer than we do but I suspect that there are limits.

]]> By: Eric Lund https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/06/26/historic-heat-wave-in-the-us-west-next-week/#comment-488529 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 14:02:44 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=17076#comment-488529 I saw the official NWS advisory on one of the Weather Underground blogs this morning. The amazing part (to me) was that *minimum* temperatures in Las Vegas this weekend are expected to be 90F or higher. It may be a dry heat, but that’s still bloody hot.

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