Today in climate change: 101 degrees in Santa Ana beats old record by 22 degrees

[Newsjock]

Source: Los Angeles Times

The calendar says November, the Thanksgiving turkeys are on order and Christmas carols are popping up in TV commercials. And triple-digit temperatures outside?

The National Weather Service said temperatures Wednesday reached record highs throughout Southern California, including some readings that topped the 100-degree mark.

The temperature reached a record 101 degrees in Santa Ana about 2 p.m. -- 22 degrees higher than the previous record of 79 degrees, which was set last year. The normal high on Nov. 3 for Santa Ana is 72 degrees.

In Long Beach, the thermometer reached the 100-degree mark shortly after 2 p.m., trumping the previous record of 94 degrees set in 1994.

Read more: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/11/record-temperatures-southern-california-.html

[kath]

1. WHOA! - to beat the previous record by 22 degrees? How the heck often does that happen?

sheesh.

[rufus dog]

2. Strange day in SoCal

When you get home and the kids ask to turn the AC on.

[Trajan]

3. California can do this ...

We had heat waves in December when I was a kid .... It's not unprecedented ...

Now .... 75 Degrees in Astoria Oregon, at the mouth of the Columbia River where it meets the Pacific Ocean .... in November ....

Now THAT is unprecedented ....

[Raksha]

6. Was it 75 degrees in Astoria today?

It's true that we have heat waves in November and December here in SoCal, but I was kind of surprised when I had to turn on the air conditioner today (I'm in San Bernardino). It was chilly and rainy last week, and I thought fall had finally arrived. Thought I was done with air conditioning for a while. But over the past few days it's been getting progressively hotter, and I wouldn't be surprised if it was over 100 here too.

What's really frightening is 22 degrees higher than the previous record in SoCal...AND 75 degrees in Astoria on the same day. That's starting to sound like some serious climate change.

[Trajan]

13. It's wonderfully warm in Portland as well ...

75 in the suburbs .... Very nice ... Everybody is loving it ....

I used to live in Riverside .... We had a 5T AC, and it cost a mint to run it ....

[Ex Lurker]

7. I have a relative who lives near Seattle. For most of last winter their temperatures were

warmer than what we had on the Gulf Coast.

[RandomThoughts]

4. BBQ winter weather !!

Ashley Tisdale - Crank It Up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnSbpPXlmvo


Its a beer thing :)

[Ex Lurker]

5. I know climate change is a serious issue. not making light of it

but if 101 degrees in November is going to be a regular thing, I might just move to Santa Ana. Hate cold weather.

[Abq_Sarah]

8. It shaping up to be a strong La Niña winter

It's going to be really screwy this year.

[sohndrsmith]

9. As a climate change proponent, I don't think any singular outlier readings

are useful...

do you?

[Systematic Chaos]

10. Apparently not, because the OP made no mention of it when he posted the article.

May I ask why you feel it's so important to bring up the issue?

[sohndrsmith]

11. perhaps I misspoke... hm.....

[sohndrsmith]

12. May I ask why you feel my comments are unacceptable? And why?

-- hey - if they are, more power to you... but I would like to know what your specific sources are. My reason for making my first comment is because so many idiots deny climate change *because* of singular/outlying climate readings for one given day or week or month - something those who understand climate change as being ... ridiculous.

so there it is... and there you go... that's why I guess I find it important. I feel like my words should be read while those reading it are hearing what I say in the voice of Ringo Starr....

Well there you go, then...

[Systematic Chaos]

14. I agree with you about the outliers and all.

But maybe your comment would have been put to better use had somebody jumped into the thread, yammering on about the whole outlier thing first.

Anywho, I think we're both on the same page, but our approaches may differ. I didn't mean to seem rude or overbearing, but I do post on another forum where people dress up denier drivel with tons of crap like "well you know, global warming may in fact be real, but it's important to examine both sides...." with their every link to some more bullshit from the Mises Institute or the Heritage Foundation, or that fuckstick Christopher Monckton. It gets old, and I'm to the point now where when I see that I move straight in for the kill. Zero tolerance.

Again, sorry to be so brusque.

[4lbs]

15. 85 degrees today in San Diego.... in November.

Normal temperatures this time of year for the region is in the low 70s.

[4lbs]

16. 92 degrees today, Thursday, in San Diego.

Yowza.

[FreeState]

17. 100 at the San Diego Airport... shattering record

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/nov/04/temperatures-heading-back-90s/?sciquest

Temperature hits 100 in San Diego, shattering record

A heat wave that was forecast to begin fading today actually grew stronger as temperatures at Lindbergh Field in San Diego soared to 100 degrees, or 28 degrees above normal. The airport hit the century mark just after 2 p.m., about the time that 18 mph dry offshore winds gusted across Lindbergh. The reading breaks the previous high for Nov. 4 of 97 degrees, a reading set in 1976.

Lindbergh last hit 100 degrees on Sept. 25, 1989.

"Typically, our offshore flows come more out of the east-northeast, or northeast," said Jamie Moker, a National Weather Service forecaster. "This time, the strongest pressure gradient was almost exactly due east. That allowed the heat to push all the way to the coast, which was hotter than the inland valleys."

The high reading isn't an anomaly; the heat also has hit 101 in Cardiff and hit 100 in National City. The heat is being produced by high pressure and dry offshore winds that are reaching the coast.