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There is absolutely nothing to see here, please do NOT stop and read this post, it is much, much better that you return to watching Fox News and ALL will be well

Posted on September 5, 2011 by stacyherbert| 132 Comments

For as long as people have been taking weather measurements in Texas, there has never been a summer hotter than the summer of 2011

For as long as people have been taking weather measurements in Texas, there has never been a summer hotter than the summer of 2011. As wunderground’s weather historian Christopher C. Burt documents in his latest blog post, seventeen major cities in Texas recorded their hottest summer on record in 2011. Most of these stations had records extending back more than 100 years, and several of the records were smashed by an amazing 3.4°F–at Lubbock and at Wichita Falls. Neighboring states also experienced unprecedented heat, with Oklahoma recording America’s hottest month by any state in recorded history during July, and Shreveport, Louisiana breaking its record for hottest month by 3°F in August. Mr. Burt commented to me: ” I do not believe I have ever seen a site with a long period of record, like Shreveport, where records go back to 1874, break its warmest single month on record by an astonishing 3°. This is unheard of. Usually when a site breaks its single month temperature record, we are talking about tenths of a degree, rarely a whole degree, let alone 3 degrees! Hard to believe, frankly.” Texas has also had its worst fire season on record, with over 3.5 million acres burned this year, and it’s driest 1-year period in recorded history.

An Interesting Fact

San Angelo and Lubbock, Texas both recorded their single hottest month on record in June. Then in July those records in turn were broken. And then, in August, their July records were broken! In other words, in over 100 years of records for both cities, their three hottest-single-months were respectively, August, July, and June 2011. I do not believe this has occurred at any American weather station in recorded history.

Many sites, especially in the Southeast, recorded their warmest summer on record in 2010 only to have it broken this past summer in 2011. Given the long periods of record of these sites, this quite an accomplishment.

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Lahoob Alerts! Seven Billion Dollar Weather Disasters for US; ‘Unusual’ Heatwave in Desert Kingdom; & Drought Grows ‘More Dire’ For Texas & Oklahoma

Posted on June 4, 2011 by stacyherbert| 111 Comments

Stacy Summary: Lahoob! Krakoo! You know things are getting funky when a desert kingdom has an ‘unusual’ heatwave.

Joplin tornado the 7th U.S. billion-dollar weather disaster of 2011

2011 Groundhog Day’s blizzard ($1- $4 billion)
April 3 -5 Southeast U.S. severe weather outbreak ($2 billion)
April 8 – 11 severe weather outbreak ($2.25 billion)
April 25 – 28 super tornado outbreak ($3.5 – $6 billion)
Mississippi River flood of 2011 ($9 billion)
Texas drought ($1.2 billion)
Joplin tornado ($1 – $3 billion)

Kuwait suffers unusual heatwave

The country is currently affected by an unusual heat wave, recording high temperature of 51 degrees Celsius in Abdali, expected to continue until Thursday, Kuwait Civil Aviation meteorologist Essa Ramadan said on Thursday.

Ramadan told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) that recorded high temperatures at this time increased by 6 degrees, adding that the current heat wave is called “lahoob”.

He added, breaking the old record for highest temperature recorded during the past 50 years in Kuwait International airport of 50 degrees Celsius.

Drought grows more dire in Texas and Oklahoma

A devastating drought tightened its grip on Texas over the last week with more than half the state now suffering the most extreme level of drought measured by climatologists.

A report released Thursday from a consortium of national climate experts said over the last week, Texas saw the highest levels of drought – rated as “exceptional” – jump from 43.97 percent of the state to 50.65 percent of the state.

Meanwhile, to the north in Oklahoma, another key farming and ranching state, about 30 percent of the state continued to suffer severe and exceptional drought levels.

The drought conditions have ravaged the region, sparking thousands of wildfires, drying up grazing land needed for cattle, and ruining thousands of acres of wheat and other crops.

The biggest expansion of harsh conditions is in west Texas, including the Texas panhandle, said Texas state climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon. The situation will likely get worse before it gets better as summer heat sets in.

“The biggest impact right now is in agriculture,” he said. “It is serious.”

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Fires, Floods and ‘Temporary Lifestyle Changes’

Posted on August 14, 2010 by stacyherbert| 120 Comments

Stacy Summary: Eco-eco holocausting causing lots of ‘temporary lifestyle changing’ these days . . .

Iowans told to adopt ‘temporary lifestyle change’ as they are running out of drinking water after historic flooding
The Economist: How the heatwave in Russia are connected to floods in Pakistan
Informed Comment: 500,000 evacuated from Jacobabad
And, in Pakistan, there isn’t a shortage of clean, drinking water, there is NO clean, drinking water:

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Heatwave could cost Russia 1 percent of GDP

Posted on August 11, 2010 by stacyherbert| 53 Comments

Stacy Summary: Russia’s heatwave costs are expected to total up to $15 billion; shaving 1 percent off GDP

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Moscow, No Respite

Posted on August 7, 2010 by stacyherbert| 63 Comments

Stacy Summary: Russia’s heatwave expected to continue for at least another week.

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Moscow temperatures: “This is a serious abnormality”

Posted on July 25, 2010 by stacyherbert| 180 Comments

Stacy Summary: Just had lunch with a friend who just returned from a visit to Moscow where she said it was unbearably hot. As Paris was also hot, I assumed it was something similar, didn’t realize it was something altogether different in Russia:

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Hundreds Die in Indian Heatwave & in Tropical Storm in Latin America

Posted on June 1, 2010 by stacyherbert| 48 Comments

Stacy Summary: Nothing to see here, just keep moving on.

Hundreds die in hottest summer in India since records began in late 1800′s

The death toll is expected to rise with experts forecasting temperatures approaching 50C (122F) in coming weeks. More than 100 people are reported to have died in the state of Gujarat where the mercury topped at 48.5C last week. At least 90 died in Maharashtra, 35 in Rajasthan and 34 in Bihar.