CBS News says Rio de Janeiro was 111F on February 17, 2025. The actual temperature was 95F, which was the hottest temperature of the month.
Rio de Janeiro recorded its hottest day in at least a decade when temperatures on Monday reached 44 degrees Celsius (111 degrees Fahrenheit) — about 145 degrees warmer than Bismarck, North Dakota — as residents flocked to the ocean to try to cool off.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Weather Calendar | Weather Underground
h/t Bob G
Let’s hope that DOGE gets around to putting a dose of salts through NOAA, NASA, NYT, CBS and all the other lying bastards pushing the phoney global warming narrative. Fact is, we are heading into a solar minimum from now until 2053, in which Little Ice Age conditions will prevail, causing the deaths of millions from starvation. See Tom Nelson’s podcast with Prof. Valentina Zharkova. As Zharkova says, the LAST thing we will be worried about in the next twenty-five years will be global warming.
why thank you Tony. But why do I qualify for a hat trick? I only scored two goals today. lol. Hey, im from Minnesota, HT here means hat trick (three goals scored) not hat tip. lol. and why two goals? here’s why… not only did I correct CBS on their Rio de Janeiro bs, I also corrected our local University professor of meteorology Bob Weiseman, on the same day and he emailed me a thank you. Bob W. is a sweet guy who has an impressive climate page, easily found online just Google St Cloud Minnesota University Weiseman, detailing our local climate history, he calls it his ultimate climate page….but he has bought into the CO2 blarney. anyway, Prof Bob W. reported that Cook Minnesota reported 40 below zero this morning. I pointed out to him that the surrounding stations were 20° warmer than the Cook, mn station, which had been reporting faulty data all day long. he thanked me for the correction. wow, who knew that experts make mistakes. Proves he is a better man than Michael Mann, who won’t confess to his… mistakes… (propaganda pays well when Democrats are running the show). as for Rio de Janeiro, don’t go there. the climate won’t kill you but the hooligans might.
What does North Dakota have to do with Rio? Most of us realize that it is summer in the southern hemisphere and winter in the northern hemisphere; and prime hardwater fishing season in Bob’s neighborhood.
Nothing.
The thing is to impress with either big words or,as here,big numbers.
The text starts with 44 degrees CELSIUS , then converts it to Fahrenheit in brackets,
and then goes on with 145 degrees without telling people wether it’s Celsius or Fahrenheit,missleading the reader by creating the impression that it is Celsius as the Fahrenheit are isolated in brackets.
In Celsius the difference would probably be about half the degrees,
but 145 sounds so much better than 80 degrees difference.
And the funniest thing is.
This logic can be used both ways,
as a 145 degrees difference would also be proof that the coming ice age is real
using North Dakota as argument.
Don’t forget to drill a big hole first and you’ll be good to go when hardwater fishing!
Clearly, someone struggled at CBS News to get the cold blast in the US to actually mean global warming is happening. They should get the Pulitzer for propaganda, and it is apparent that Kamala lost only because they weren’t running her campaign. So a thinking person might ask, what is the typical spread between of the highest Southern Hemisphere versus the lowest Northern Hemisphere at this time of the year? And if you want, you can limit that by latitude. Is this reported differential even extreme? And if so, why. The Northern Hemisphere is largely colder than normal. Rio had the hottest day of the month, or the decade, depending on which is correct, but neither is outside the normal cyclical temperature pattern. So the extreme, if it is, was a result from cold in the North, not heat in the south. The report is cute, but not helpful. As children, we used to receive our “Daily Reader” (or Weekly?) once a week. I remember them explaining things really well, such that 3rd graders could understand. Maybe it is time for the news networks to emulate that model.
Another southern hemisphere perspective: this week is usually our warmest (as opposed to hottest) being the peak of high summer, and the best time of year to celebrate a birthday (thank you! thank you!).
Usually it’s about 28C, sunny, warm & humid where I am: however for the 3rd year in a row, cold fronts are roaring up from Antarctica, causing SNOW SHOWERS to dust the Southern Alps with a coating of ‘impossible’ snow, along with well-below usual temperatures for the South Island accompanied by hail, thunder, gale-force winds and heavy rain – not exactly beach weather.
No doubt the egg-spurts will perform some amazing feats of gymnastic skill and declare ‘February Hottest Evaaah!’, despite people being rugged-up in their winter clothes and cursing the boffins of bafoonery. Maybe next year it’ll be hot – meh, maybe not.
I just took a look at the 10-day forecast for Christchurch New Zealand. Brrr. and you call that summer? lol
The article originated at Reuters and various networks around the world are so lazy they simply feed it through without and fact checking.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-18/rio-de-janeiro-records-hottest-day-in-decade/104950136
There’s the same article with the same “Hottest Day Evahhhh!” storyline. No reference link to who took that measurement and by what method. Might have been a thermometer sitting on the sand in the sun. No mention of any official weather station ID.
Last year the same beach clocked 62.3?.
https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2024/3/18/photos-record-heat-index-of-62-3c-scorches-rio-de-janeiro
Did you know that, in Australia, it’s illegal to have the hot water in your bathroom come out at 62.3? … because no human could be trusted with water that hot.
You can download data from here.
https://www.sistema-alerta-rio.com.br/download/dados-meteorologicos/
The Feb 2025 peak for Guaratiba is 43.8°C on 17th near noon.
That’s where the measurement comes from … you would need someone local to go and take a look at what they are using to measure this.
your link didn’t work. here is a source for Guarabito, Rio De Janeiro and it says on the 17th the high was 95. https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/@7537690/historic
That’s the data from the airport. Check a map … https://www.cartograf.fr/img/rio_de_janeiro/carte_rio_de_janeiro_nom_quartiers.jpg
Airport is number 104 on that map (West side of the bay), whereas Guaratiba is 151 (near the bottom). The Sistema Alerta Rio have their own, separate, network of temperature sensors. I’m guessing they aren’t part of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and don’t have station ID numbers. At least, I couldn’t find any.
Time and Date dot com don’t make it real obvious where they are collecting data either, but in the fine print, pretty sure you are looking at the Airport there.