High heat and humidity July 24th

With temperatures already around 90 degrees this morning and with a dewpoint around 75, or better, this will be about as bad as it gets for summer heat today.  Thunderstorms likely, but of the hit or miss variety.

Hot summer forecast and active hurricane season forecast. June 2010 was the warmest June on record, the 3rd month in a row globally.

This summer is proving to be hotter than usual and is expected to continue through the remainder of this season. In fact, warmer than normal weather is expected to last, perhaps until November.

Meanwhile, last winter's El Nino has been replaced by it's opposite.  A La Nina has developed in the Pacific, with now cooler than normal ocean temperatures.  This development does not bode well for this hurricane season.  More than the average number of hurricanes are expected to occur, in the Atlantic basin.


The only available winter forecast for our area, from the NWS, shows no clear trend.  There are equal chances for either warm or cold weather and as for expected rain or snow , there are also equal chances for either above or below average totals.

Careful and precise measurements from Hawaii of CO2 in the atmosphere.

Since 1957, there has been a steady increase in CO2.

Note the annual fluctuation with the change of seasons in the Northern Hemisphere. Click image to enlarge.

These  measurements were begun in the International Geophysical Year in 1957.  A group of nations organized an intensive study of the earth that year.  The monitoring station for CO2 was set up on a dormant volcano in the big island of Hawaii.  The site was chosen for it's ocean location far from industrial air pollution.  Mauna Loa is about 13,000 feet high and the air up there is about as pure as it gets anywhere.

Global Warming since the year 1880

It sure looks like it is getting warmer doesn't it?

Click image to enlarge.

Is it from human activity or a natural cycle?  Or a combination of the two?  Will it continue?

Winter for 2010/2011

A drier winter seems likely since the El Nino has weakened considerably.  More to come later this summer.

4th of July weekend begins a 10 day heatwave.

We already have had 1 hurricane in the Gulf, so the forecasts for an active hurricane season appear to be on track, so far.  According to Weatherunderground, there have been only 11 hurricanes in June, since 1945.

We are in for a hot weather spell which will last through the end of next week.

HAPPY 4th of JULY !