A triple-digit high today is no error, said NWS meteorologist Kari Bowen.
“We are expecting those high temperatures for this area today,” she said. “The reason for that is the jet is up north, we have this big ridge of high pressure that’s building in, causing all the air to sink and heat up.”
102 degree heat expected in Fort Collins today, shattering record | The Coloradoan | coloradoan.com
This is just crazy talk, but the fact that air is sinking and heating over Colorado, means that it is rising and cooling somewhere else. I have this bizarre theory that the mass and average barometric pressure of the atmosphere don’t vary much from year to year.
Regardless, 97% of scientists are 99% certain that CO2 causes heatwaves – rather than sinking air.
interesting, but really scary!! The weather is somewhat changing here in hawaii, but not as bad as everywhere else
High pressure; the Venus effect.
The UK’s only occasional respite from the miserable clouds and the damp but it makes for a bum time if you are going paragliding..
It’s barely 93 degrees in Fort Collins right now, at 2 PM.
The thermometer on my bicycle reads 88F