Wacky Weather creates history in United States

[Aurelian]

Here in Rhode Island, history has been made by the weather today. We are currently setting the record high for this date at 87° (F), over 20° above average. The weather we are experiencing is average for JULY!

The history making thing is that for the first time ever, Rhode Island is the hottest part of the country by over 10°, beating out Florida, Arizona, Texas, and even Hawaii!

[unregistered user]

Finally, a meteorological topic .

Let's not get used to this warm weather just yet, Roquivo. A cool down at week's end.



In the meantime, fire up those barbecues...

[TakaTiger]

its allmost 90 here today >< must have AC! ><

[Broken]

wow! that's pretty bad Good luck in your new found heat!

[unregistered user]

That's not good, it brings my attention back to Global Warming, which despite what many say is a real phenomenon(sp?). When temperatures in the Eastern United States start beating temperatures around the equator, you have a problem...

[Storm90]

It hit around the 80's here and boy it is hot..>.<

This makes me wonder what the weather is gonna be like in July...0_o

[ChancellorScar]

up here in maine was hot from 0900- about 1300, then it got cool, and around 1600 it rained for 10 minutes. very strange. mmm.

[Sombolia]

Lol.. doesn't sound too major to me 'cause it's pretty much always that temp. here

Not always, but you get my point.

[Aurelian]

Sombolia, take whatever tempurarure it is now, and add 20&deg; to it. THAT is how I feel. :woeisme:

I didn't even wear a shirt today. I am baking! :thirsty: That's the idea, Nala!

[Sombolia]

The temp plus 20 would be about 90, which is pretty much what it is right now at your place

[Alli]

0.o You think YOU are having weird weather? Two days ago it was 80 degrees out here in montana and now suddenly it's about 20 with almost a foot of snow 0.0

[2 Die FR]

California's been getting some weird weather too. We had an extremely wet winter- we got more rain than Seattle Washington this past season, and that's saying something!:horror:
But now things are pretty much back to normal, sunny skies, partly cloudy. Thermometer outside says 75*F, it's been nice all day Gotta love that California sun!

[Alli]

I do, i do. I love visiting Cali every summer

[Xinithian]

Southern California has had the second wettest season ever recorded this year, which I like...

[unregistered user]

haha.... Hot... for me ... everyday hot in malaysia
sometime 40?C
Example: Yesterday 35?C

[unregistered user]

When it rains here in tennessee, it rains, and rains, and rains, and keeps rainging. It seems to never want to stop.. O_O There was one day when it got really bad, thought it was going to flood because the water was above my ankles, it was like walking through a shallow river that day.

[LunarCat]

let me reiterate(sp?) what Ravoc said, GLOBAL WARMING. caused by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

weird weather where i am.....well i guess not really. we always have weird weather here

[Xinithian]

I think that global warming is making a change on or environment, but the main reason for wacky weather still is in the weather cycles, not the global warming.

[unregistered user]

Originally posted by Lunarcat
let me reiterate(sp?) what Ravoc said, GLOBAL WARMING. caused by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

The Earth is kept warm by its atmosphere, which acts rather like a woolly coat - without it, the average surface temperature would be about -18 degrees Centigrade. Heat from the sun passes through the atmosphere, warming it up, and most of it warms the surface of the planet. As the Earth warms up, it emits heat in the form of infra-red radiation - much like a hot pan emits heat even after it's taken away from the cooker.

Some of this heat is trapped by the atmosphere, but the rest escapes into space. The so-called "greenhouse gases" make the atmosphere trap more of this radiation, so it gradually warms up more than it should, like a greenhouse (although a greenhouse actually does this by stopping warm air rising and escaping from it) .

ATTN: West Coast...
Short-term drought concerns have been alleviated in many areas of the Southwest especially southern California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado. Preliminary data show the Southwest had its wettest September-February in 110 years of record keeping. Abundant snowpack in the upper Colorado River Basin is resulting in above-normal inflow to the region's reservoirs.

However, with reservoir storages at 17 percent capacity in Nevada and 29 percent capacity in New Mexico, local water supply problems are still possible.

[unregistered user]

Senior research engineer Tim Samaras and Brad Carter intercepted several tornados east of Dodge City, KS on May 7th, 2002. They successfully deployed probes in the path of the oncoming twister and made In-Situ measurements including barometric pressure, wind speed, direction, temperature, relative humidity, and obtained incredible video of this large tornado.

http://www.swiftwx.com/video/tornadoprobes.wmv