Monthly Archives: July 2013

The current heat wave over California, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico has temperatures hitting triple digits, with little relief at night. Hot weather is also baking the rest of the far West, including Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and parts of Utah … Continue reading →

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRkFDcX_72c] h/t to Kirk Meyers

The official temperature at Death Valley was 128F yesterday. The National Weather Service’s mercury thermometer had indicated 128 degrees at 4 p.m. Sunday, matching the record for the hottest June day anywhere in the U.S. More than 200 yards away, … Continue reading →

The hottest week of summer is here, and the temperature is -23C on the Greenland ice sheet.   summit:status:webcam Instead of NASA’s fake meltdown, what we are actually seeing is new ice burying the research station.

People keep moving into Ponderosa Pine forest, and most refuse to keep an adequate firebreak (1oo yards) around their house. Then they expect someone to rescue them when fires do occur, as they have done every 10-20 years for the … Continue reading →

We have often noticed that in the tabular statements of those compilers of weather records who write to the Times, useful and welcome as their communications are, every season is sure to be “extraordinary,” almost every month one of the driest … Continue reading →

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Drudge forecast 135 for Death Valley, and it made it to about 123. 7-Day Forecast for Latitude 36.45°N and Longitude 116.87°W (Elev. -183 ft)

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