Good afternoon.
Warmer-than-warm this Friday — started this post originally for yesterday afternoon, but got sidesteped by an earthquake, nothing heavy.
After the excitement, the settling-down and figuring-out what to do, I guickly banged out a post about the experience, plus California and earthquakes, in near-real-time, thus, didn’t have the fortitude or drive to get into a sad, earth-shattering subject such as our current weather and climate.

Here we’re back 24-hours later. and the subject is worse. California’s Central Valley is boiling right now, triple-digits near-across the boatd — in my little location it’s 107-degrees, and will remain in triple-digits until about dark, in the 90s until near midnight.
Just outside taking a break with my B&M (Wine-Wood-tip) and the air is way-heavy wth the heat, and a way-warm breeze didn’t help matters.
This my area the next couple of days;

Here is an image depicting the difference from climatology for Sundays record breaking forecast high temperatures. As you can see, we are expecting temps to be 15 to 20 degrees above normal for this time of year. #HeatWave2021 pic.twitter.com/KzX6sPtg1S

— NWS Hanford (@NWSHanford) July 9, 2021

Even if it feels bad and I whine about it, I’m not alone –once again the Western US and Canada are going through another one of those ‘mega-heat wave’ with near-record temperatures this weekend and into next week. Although this hot-patch is not supposed to be as horrifying as the one last weekend, it’ll still be shitty.
Hopefully, not this shitty:

With the Pacific region hitting record-setting temperatures in the last few weeks, a new study from Canada shows the heat waves’ enormous impact on marine life: an estimated 1 billion sea creatures on the coast of Vancouver have died as a result of the heat, a researcher says.

But that number is likely to be much higher, professor Christopher Harley from the University of British Columbia says.
“I’ve been working in the Pacific Northwest for most of the past 25 years and I have not seen anything like this here,” he said.
“This is far more extensive than anything I’ve ever seen.”

Setting a standard, however — via NOAA this morning:

The average June temperature across the contiguous U.S. was 72.6-degrees F (4.2 degrees above average), making it the hottest June in 127 years of record keeping and surpassing the record set in June 2016 by 0.9 of a degree.

Eight states — Arizona, California, Idaho, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Utah — also saw their hottest June on record. Six other states — Connecticut, Maine, Montana, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming — marked their 2nd-hottest June.

The real horror behind all this shit is climate change — a new study published Wednesday notes … ‘daily maximum temperatures (TXx) in the heatwave region, as rare as 1-in-a-1000-years would have been at least 150 times rarer without human-induced climate change.‘

Important research as another grave warning:

Hundreds dead in a historic heat wave. A Canadian village burned to the ground. Water shortages. Animals competing for food.

The culprit? Humans, according to climate change scientists. https://t.co/KsZgsBiuiQ

— CNN (@CNN) July 8, 2021

Details via CNN yesterday:

Every extreme heat event has the fingerprints of climate change on them, the authors wrote, but the unprecedented heat in late June — which set all-time records in Oregon, Washington and British Columbia — was made particularly possible by warming caused by fossil fuel emissions, the analysis concluded.
Though the temperatures were “far outside the range of past observed temperatures,” leaving little to compare to, the scientists determined the late-June heat wave was 150 times more likely because of climate change.

A decade ago, researchers would have been hesitant to point to climate change for any single event. Now, with the aid of high-powered computer models, researchers can use decades of observed temperatures to rapidly determine what role Earth’s warming played.
“Our results provide a strong warning: our rapidly warming climate is bringing us into uncharted territory that has significant consequences for health, well-being, and livelihoods,” the authors wrote.

The late-June heat event “raises serious questions whether we really understand how climate change is making heat waves hotter and more deadly,” said Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, a researcher at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute.

Climate change isn’t just hot temperatures and drought, it’s also other aspects of our environment, like storms and flooding — Tropical Storm Elsa is currently again teaching New York City a lesson in global warming:

Some subway system ya got there. This is the 157th St. 1 line right now. @NYCMayor @BilldeBlasio pic.twitter.com/xyfTAUPPNu

— Paullee ? #TaxTheRich (@PaulleeWR) July 8, 2021

Story at the Guardian this morning:

Commuters having to wade through waist-deep water on subway concourses, rain cascading directly onto train platforms, desperate motorists rescued by police from their inundated cars — the battering New York City has taken from tropical storm Elsa has raised questions as to how well the metropolis is prepared for the ravages of the climate crisis.

Elsa had already hit areas of Florida and Georgia, causing at least one death, before shifting north, where it unleashed a barrage of thunderstorms on Thursday.
The storm is now expected to move towards the Boston area, with about 40 million people from New Jersey to Maine issued flash flooding warnings.

Some of the most dramatic scenes played out in New York City on Thursday afternoon.
Videos taken by commuters showed people struggling through murky floodwater in order to catch the subway at the 157th St station.
“It was filthy water. Completely opaque, a dark gray-green with bits of rubble floating in it,” one local resident said.
“It was real disgusting.”
…
But some scientists pointed out that extreme rainstorms affecting the US north-east, including New York, are consistent with the effects of a climate different from all prior experience.
A major federal government climate assessment in 2018 found rain intensity is increasing due to global heating, warning that the region’s aging infrastructure is “not designed for the projected wider variability of future climate conditions compared to those recorded in the last century”.

Andra Garner, a climate scientist at Rowan University, said that flooding in New York City “has already become more frequent than in the past, and as long as we continue to warm the planet, we can expect more of this, not less”.
Garner’s research has estimated that New York City could be hit by severe floods that reach more than 2.25m (7ft), enough to inundate the first story of a building, every five years within the next decade if planet-heating gases are not radically reduced. Such major floods were expected only once every 25 years in the 1970s.

The ninth anniversary of Superstorm Sandy, perhaps the best-known storm to have caused major flooding as well as power blackouts in New York City, is in October, and Elsa has fueled criticisms that the city is still not properly prepared for flooding that can cause its transportation to grind to a halt.

Meanwhile, another day in the life.
NYC under heavy flooding in “The Day After Tomorrow,” dumb movie with great CGI:

Cold, cold water, vs hot, hot, air…

(Illustration out front found here).