Smoke shaving of degrees, while clogging my lungs…

[chuckChuck]

So we are experiencing a record heat event with many temperature records broken in a large area and a persistent drought across much of western north america. When records are broken by large margins it usually means something more than natural variation are at work.

A lot of what has happened no doubt is from natural causes but the impact of human caused climate change is also a factor. How much of a factor I will leave up to the scientists to examine and debate.

[twocentsworth]

Oh double chuck. You must be one young fella, and have lots to learn. I have made several "square bales" (and indication how long I have been around), in temperatures of "100-105 F" (another indication how long I have been around). Some day when you have brought the world to the dream you have now, and we still have these temps you will say WTF.

[jazz]

When records are broken by large margins it usually means something more than natural variation are at work.

Not climate change, ENSO switch in progress.

Nice heavy smoky hazy day today. Cool nice welcome change. Blunting that harsh sunlight makes a huge difference to plants even if they dont get moisture.

[Sheepwheat]

Not climate change, ENSO switch in progress.

Nice heavy smoky hazy day today. Cool nice welcome change. Blunting that harsh sunlight makes a huge difference to plants even if they dont get moisture.

Must have been climate change too then when records were being smashed on the cold side in June?

[samhill]

Too bad Chuck didn’t live through the Dirty Thirties, my Dad could tell him what real dry and heat is.
The more things change etc, etc.

[tweety]

2021 told 1930's - Hold my beer

Temperatures soared in western Canada, with Lytton in British Columbia recording the highest temperature in the country, a staggering 49.6C. The temperature smashed the previous Canadian record of 45C from 1937, as well as the record for the highest temperature recorded north of 50N latitude – which stood at 44.4C in July 1941.

[tweety]

“To break a national heat record by more than 8F over three days … words fail,” tweeted Bob Henson, a meteorologist and freelance journalist.

Claire Martin, a meteorologist for Environment Canada, the country’s weather and climate agency, expressed the same sentiment upon learning the news: “Words fail me.”

It’s hotter than any temperature recorded in the Lower 48 states outside the Desert Southwest. Only four states have seen a higher temperature. It’s even 4 degrees above Las Vegas’s all-time high of 117 and just one degree from Phoenix’s all-time high of 122.

It’s hotter than any temperature observed in Europe or South America, according to world weather records expert Maximiliano Herrera. Only 26 countries on the planet have been as hot or hotter, he wrote.

It is the most extreme high temperature observed north of 45 degrees latitude, according to Herrera.

It was the highest temperature in North America on Tuesday, tied with Death Valley, Calif., notorious for holding the record for the planet’s most extreme heat.

Lytton’s average high temperature at this time of year is a mere 77 degrees, meaning Tuesday’s record high was nearly 45 degrees above normal.

Might want to rethink that "hotter in the 1930's" BS.

[agstar77]

Visibility 1 mile in smoke. It is stifling. Bad for anyone with breathing problem.

[farming101]

Yellow Grass SK set the record high temperature in Canada which was not broken for 84 years. 113 F.
To keep a record for 84 years is amazing!
For Saskatoon in the 11 day stretch from July 14-July 24 the record high temperature of 40C was set in 1919 and tied in 1941. Amazing! That was 80 years ago and it still stands!

Saskatoon
1941 - June cooling degree days was 54.3. 2021 was 50
1941 - July cooling degree days was 114.6. We will need a daily mean temp of 20.78 for the remainder of July to beat that. It might be close.

[jazz]

I love the smoke. Its like a cooling blanket for my canola. Shaved 5deg off the forecast high again today.

[furrowtickler]

The 1800’s hmmmmmm

[Sheepwheat]

The 1800’s hmmmmmm

Twas the bison. There were too many and they caused the climate change of the late 1800’s. Sheesh, where’d you go to school?