As if 2020 wasn’t already tough enough, data reported by the National Weather Service reveals that this August was the hottest month ever recorded in Tucson, beating the previous record held by … this July.
Both months combined to make this summer Tucson’s hottest in all 125 years of weather records. According to data collected by NWS, this August held a combined average temperature of 92 degrees. This July held a combined average of 91.5 degrees. Before these last two months, the hottest monthly average was in July 2005 at nearly a full degree lower.
The average August temperature over the last 125 years is 84.7 degrees, and the average July temperature for the same range is 86.5. These temperatures are not daily highs, but averages over the entire month—highs and lows.
And while these last two were the hottest months on average, the maximum temperature recorded in Tucson was in June 1990 at 117 degrees.
This article appears in Sep 3-9, 2020.
No mention of anthropogenic climate change?
Global warming sucks.
Global warming & climate change aren’t happening! I know this because the entities that are causing it and their retainers tell me so!
Cause and effect are not scientifically linked. Nature is the biggest factor, but so far you can’t tax and punish nature, so people are the politicians only choice. Increases in asphalt pavement and concrete cause increase temps.
Should we also fear record cold temps and early snowfall?
Yes, you should fear record cold temps and early snowfall, because they’re all part of the same scenario — increasingly more dramatic extremes in weather patterns. That’s why we no longer use the limited “global warming” phrase to describe what’s happening, since that limits in most of the general public’s collective thought patterns what is actually unfolding before us. If you’re a doubter, you don’t have to take the “elitist intellectuals” word for it. Just look at the recent weather data for the last 5-10 years in any spot on the planet. Chances are, you’ll see in most places, record highs AND lows for more than one year (in some cases, as much as 5 of the last 10) . And that’s not counting other all-time historical records in the last 5, such as driest; plus highest numbers and most intense tornadoes and/or hurricanes; most frequent and/or catastrophic flood events; highest number and most intense wildfires; etc., etc. … You can decide for yourself what’s causing it — man-made CO2 emissions or Biblical predictive providential influence. But there’s no denying the events that are actually occurring right in front of our eyes. How many times have you heard someone interviewed on the news (broadcast or print, mainstream or cable/internet) recently saying, “I’ve never seen anything like this before in my whole life.” Anecdotal, yes. Choose your input — scientific data OR man-on-the-street observation. Either way, the result is the same: The weather, and everything associated with it, is changing…whether we like it or not. … To quote a hackneyed old TV ad, “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature.” Peace out.
A much better term is “global climate disruption”. Many natural processes that govern our weather have been completely destabilized by the ongoing radical, dramatic experiment we humans are conducting with our land, atmosphere and oceans.
Warming due to changes in the chemical makeup of the atmosphere caused by a massive flood of human-caused greenhouse gases is not the only effect of this incredibly foolhardy blind experiment. There are also radical changes playing out in the hydrological cycle, ocean currents, jet stream, chemistry of the ocean, land use and vegetative cover, you name it. ALL of these radical changes are causing mayhem of one sort or another, and taken together they are a threat to our continued existence on this planet. That much is incontrovertible, from a science perspective or any other. I’d say “open your eyes”, but I suspect opening your brain to actual facts, rather than fossil fuel industry propaganda, is the real answer.
Trying to pretend that all of these powerful forces that humans have unleashed are a normal part of the natural cycle is akin to pretending that a tree that fell on your house during a hurricane just happened to naturally lose its stability and fall at just that same moment out of pure chance, without any relation to the 130mph winds that actually blew it over.
This blog post does not do it justice. The Apocalyptic Endless Summer of 2020 will go down in history as an exponential leap from anything Tucson has ever experienced before.
Here are some more numbers to put it in perspective.
Monthly average temperature records tend to be separated by tenths of a degree, because you’re averaging daily averages over a 30-day period, which tends to smooth out the extremities in the monthly record.
Not only was July the hottest month ever, beating the previous record by a full degree, but the previous seven hottest months ever are all separated by a total of 0.7 degrees. The departure from the 125-year historical record that we saw in July was an order of magnitude greater than what typically occurs when a record is broken.
And then what happened in August was another, even greater leap. Prior to this year, only one of the top 10 hottest months ever was an August–all the rest occurred in July, which is our hottest month. Not only did this August destroy the dramatically anomalous record that had just been set the previous month, it was nearly TWO full degrees hotter than any other August in our 125-year history.
Some other key stats that highlight the relentless nature of the heat last month:
*We DOUBLED the record for number of daily highs over 105 degrees (12 to 24).
*We DOUBLED the record for number of daily highs over 110 degrees (2 to 4).
*We MORE THAN DOUBLED the record for number of days with lows of 80+ degrees (7 to 16).
Again, nothing even remotely close to this summer’s record-shattering heat has ever occurred in more than a century of Tucson recorded history. And I wonder how many centuries you’d have to go back in time to find anything like it…???
Hey Dog Lover and skinnyman, did y’all run your air conditioners and drive your cars during July and August?
1899 was hotter even with outdated measuring equipment. Some of you read only what you want to believe and that plays right into the hands of huge government. All the fear with no results. Try thinking.
His HDR overprocessed photo is as over-the-top as is his prose.
It is at once myopic and presumptuous to extrapolate what happens in this pimple on the Earth’s surface, Tucson, to the planet in total. A couple of months of high temperatures, in the desert no less, doesn’t mean there is “global warming”, “climate change” or the term du jour for weather.
Even NWS/NOAA has recognized that their data are bogus and have implemented new measurement sites that aren’t, for example, located near the asphalt runway at DMAFB, where NWS gets its data. https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?…
Here’s the new and improved site for Tucson: https://www.atdd.noaa.gov/u-s-crn-groups-m…
Even examining the data for the three carefully built, calibrated and co-located sensors shows on average that one of them reads 0.2 deg C. higher than the other two. And yet the global warming types will offer up 0.2 deg C. increases as “proof” of climate change.
The government for years has “adjusted” it data, allegedly to make it more accurate but have they?
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/06/07/noa…