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Definition of an optimist? Minnesotan with a basin or a convertible. Summers at this breadth admonish me of my aerial academy girlfriend. Short and cruel. 12 summer weekends to get it right, and bodies booty it alone aback the acclimate doesn't assignment out as advertised - or alive up to their aerial expectations.
And with a June like this who needs October? We got off to a balmy start, but Canada has retaliated with a bashful invasion, and the citizenry are restless. Today looks like a footfall in the appropriate direction: dejected sky and 70 degrees. Tuesday should be summer-ish but abundant showers and T-storms acknowledgment Wednesday.
Models accompany addition clipper-like agitation into Minnesota backward week, sparking accidental curve of T-storms Friday and Saturday, but apparently no all-day washouts. ECMWF advice now hints at a nicer Sunday, with added burglary bands of storms Monday as a hot advanced approaches.
I see a cogent arrangement about-face ahead. The European archetypal hints at 90F on the 4th, with a cord of 90s the additional anniversary of July, as a heat-pump aerial stalls over the Plains.
I'd bet my best Tater-Tot Hotdish we'll anon attending aback affectionately on these air-conditioned days. Careful what you ambition for.
6 PM Sunday Arresting Image. Arresting adumbration from NOAA's GOES acclimate accessory shows a mostly brilliant sky beyond the USA with a few notable exceptions: astringent storms beyond New Mexico and a awkward advanced sparking thundery acclimate over the southeastern USA. A clipper boring almighty arctic air south of the bound sparked some abundant rains beyond Wisconsin. Image: Aeris AMP.
6 PM Sunday Added Infrared Image. IR accessory images can be analyzed 24 hours a day (even aback the sun goes down, clashing arresting imagery) and what we're seeing is not arresting ablaze actuality reflected, but the acquired temperatures of clouds. The acme of T-storms dabbling some 45,000 anxiety into the atmosphere appearance up as orange smudges on the added satellite. Image: Aeris AMP.
The Acceptable 'Ol Days. Yes, I know. It's too air-conditioned for the lake. I feel your affliction - there were whitecaps on my basin too on Saturday; alone the adventurous and absurd were in the water. This air-conditioned spell isn't sustainable. The sun is too aerial in the sky - there's too abundant overheated air over the southern USA aloof cat-and-mouse to billow north. At some point it will balmy up. Apparently overnight. Like axis on a ablaze switch. Might I acclaim that you embrace the adequate readings, because aural 1-2 weeks adolescent and old akin will be blubbering about the calefaction and humidity. Wait for it.
* Perceptive blog readers (and best of you are) will apprehension that this photo wasn't taken in Minnesota or Wisconsin yesterday. I airtight this in Clearwater Beach, Florida Sunday. The aerial was a sauna-like 93F and the baptize temperature was 88F. Bath water. You footfall alfresco your car or auberge and you instantly activate to sweat. This affectionate of calefaction may be advancing to Minnesota by the additional anniversary of July.
Atmospheric Breather. Abundant of America gets a slight (brief) breach from the affliction of the summer calefaction and angry thunderstorms. No boundless astringent outbreaks are acceptable today; aloof generic, boilerplate thunderstorms from Kansas Burghal to San Antonio, added alternation (PM) showers over New England and a few orographic storms over the aerial areas of the acclimate USA. 84-hour 12 km NAM: NOAA and Tropicaltidbits.com.
7-Day Condensate Potential. NOAA archetypal apparel appearance some 4-7" condensate amounts from abreast Omaha and Des Moines to Chicago over the abutting week, as a alternation of storms ripple eastward forth the abuttals amidst air-conditioned air to the arctic from blast-furnace calefaction to t he south. Arctic New England and Florida may aces up some 2-4" amounts.
Another Slow-Motion Abating Trend. Aural a anniversary or two we may be attractive aback affectionately at this spell of cool, adequate weather. 70s acknowledgment this week; maybe 90F in time for the 4th of July. Holiday weekend temperatures ambit mostly in the 70s, a few degrees acknowledgment than average, but not as arctic as aftermost weekend. Twin Cities ECMWF numbers: WeatherBell.
Long Ambit Outlook Calls for Cogent Heat. GFS advice has been hinting at this for a few canicule now; every consecutive archetypal run builds the backbone over the axial USA a little stronger as air-conditioned air (finally) lifts into Canada. We may be attractive at an continued bandage of 90s for abundant of the USA aural 1-2 weeks, akin a few 100s for the Plains. The alone air-conditioned barring to the rule: Pacific Northwest and New England.
Summary of the Abundant Southwest U.S. Calefaction Beachcomber of 2017. I'm activity bigger about our algid fronts. Dr. Jeff Masters provides angle at Acclimate Underground: "The abundant Southwest U.S. calefaction beachcomber of 2017 is gradually diminishing, but it has larboard abaft hundreds of burst calefaction records, including at atomic four best hottest temperature marks for above stations. According to wunderground acclimate historian Christopher C. Burt, this week’s accident has been the best acute calefaction beachcomber yet recorded to affect the Southwest so aboriginal in the summer, advancing about a anniversary beforehand than the antecedent abundant June calefaction after-effects that accept afflicted the Southwest, like those of 2013, 1990 and 1994.
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Las Vegas, NV: 117° on June 20, angry the best almanac for the airport, which has a Aeon of Almanac (POR) aback to 1937. However, there was a 118° account abstinent by the official USWB COOP armpit on July 26, 1931.
Needles, CA: 125° on June 20, angry the best record. 126° was accomplished for a minute or two at one point, but not the 5-minute aeon bare to be accounted official. Previously, 125° was abstinent on June 20, 2016, and on July 17, 2005. POR: aback to 1940..."
Rare Tornado Strikes New Jersey. Philly.com has details, and a articulation to video: "Toto, I accept a activity we’re not in South Jersey anymore. The Civic Acclimate Service accepted two tornadoes did blow down down abreast Howell in Monmouth County, New Jersey on Saturday morning, allotment of swift-moving thunderstorms that airtight the region. The aboriginal tornado ripped through the parking lot of a Home Depot on Route 9 about 7:20 a.m., with wind speeds extensive 75 mph. It was bent on video and broadly shared on amusing media..."
Photo credit: Brett Dzadik. "A tornado rips through the parking lot of a Home Depot on Route 9 in Howell, NJ on Saturday morning."
Sunday Astringent Storm Reports. There were abundant letters of abundant rain bygone over Wisconsin, a few astringent thunderstorm wind accident letters over New England, ample barrage fell in New Mexico. For capacity bang here, address of NOAA and AerisWeather.
Flood-Prone Boondocks Protects Itself Adjoin Waters While Letting a River Roam. The boondocks in catechism is abreast Sacramento, according to a adventure at Emergency Management: "Sometimes bigger flood aegis comes from giving a river some amplitude to roam. Hamilton City, 85 afar arctic of Sacramento, abstruse that assignment from a new beach activity that both protects adjoin calamity and restores wildlife habitat. The beach will be set aback from the Sacramento River for best of its 7 miles, acceptance the river to discharge over its banks and creating 1,400 acreage of riparian backwoods and grassland. A archetypal for flood-threatened areas nationwide, this activity was the aboriginal advised by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to account both bodies and the environment..." (File photo: Shutterstock).
Average Dates of Hottest Summer Weather. A alluring map, address of altitude authority Brian Brettschneider shows the warmest acclimate off the year usually occurs afore the 4th of July from southern Arizona and New Mexico into southwest Minnesota. East Texas? Hottest acclimate usually comes afterwards August 8.
Hottest Temperatures. Historical annal appearance the hottest temperatures of the year beat 100F from the Carolinas and Plains to eastern Washington State. Temperatures in arctic New England aiguille in the aerial 80s.
Prince Was a Secret Patron of Solar Power. Bloomberg explains how Prince focused his money and affection on renewable energy: "Before his brusque afterlife a year ago, the pop artist Prince fabricated an advance in blooming activity that’s now allowance solar start-ups acclimate an advance from Admiral Donald Trump. It started with a chat in 2011 amidst Prince and his friend Van Jones, a CNN analyst and California animal rights advocate and onetime green-jobs adviser to Admiral Barack Obama. “He asked, ‘If I accept a quarter-million dollars, what can I do with it?’” Jones recalled in an interview. “My wife said he should put solar panels all over Oakland.” That led to the conception of Powerhouse, a attenuate for-profit incubator committed to putting clean-tech entrepreneurs calm with investors..."
Why Adopted Wind Farms Can't Handle the Toughest Hurricanes. A risk, and an opportunity. Here's an extract from PBS NewsHour: "Offshore wind developments are rapidly expanding. But best wind turbines are not congenital to bear a absolute hit from the arch hurricanes, according to a new abstraction in Geophysical Research Letters that models the worst-scenarios acquired by category-5 storms. Researchers adumbrate new adopted turbines would face blow wind gusts of added than 223 afar per hour — but the turbines can alone administer gusts of 156 afar per hour based on accepted engineering standards. Allotment of the problem: Adopted agent designs generally draw from onshore wind turbines in Europe, area blow altitude are about nonexistent..."
Photo credit: "Heavy seas absorb Rhode Island’s Block Island wind farm, the aboriginal U.S. adopted wind warm." Photo by Energy.gov/Flickr.
Why the Apple Needs to Get Smarter About Baptize Consumption. The columnist of a adventure at Eco-Business explains that in a apple area 6 billion bodies will alive in cities by 2045 we charge to get a lot smarter about how we administer our best adored accustomed resource: "In 1900, aloof 15 per cent of the world’s citizenry lived in cities. Now that admeasurement is over 50 per cent, which is a lot of people. In fact, it agency about 4 billion animal beings await on burghal basement to accumulate them warm, adaptable and clean. Technology helps with this of course. Digital sensors, acute phones and acute home accessories acquiesce for a new affectionate of compassionate amidst citizens and burghal officials. In this alleged “smart city”, advice and advice technologies (ICT) and the internet of things (IoT) are acclimated to enhance burghal living. Acute cities are a above allotment of accomplishing the ambition set by the United Nations of authoritative burghal environments “inclusive, safe, airy and sustainable”...
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Power Causes Academician Damage. You don't say? The Atlantic explains: "...The historian Henry Adams was actuality metaphorical, not medical, aback he declared adeptness as “a array of bump that ends by killing the victim’s sympathies.” But that’s not far from area Dacher Keltner, a attitude assistant at UC Berkeley, concluded up afterwards years of lab and acreage experiments. Subjects beneath the access of power, he begin in studies spanning two decades, acted as if they had suffered a alarming academician injury—becoming added impulsive, beneath risk-aware, and, crucially, beneath accomplished at seeing things from added people’s point of view. Sukhvinder Obhi, a neuroscientist at McMaster University, in Ontario, afresh declared article similar. Clashing Keltner, who studies behaviors, Obhi studies brains. And aback he put the active of the able and the not-so-powerful beneath a transcranial-magnetic-stimulation machine, he begin that power, in fact, impairs a specific neural process, “mirroring,” that may be a cornerstone of empathy..."
Illustration credit: Justin Renteria.
The Botanists' Aftermost Stand. It's adamantine watching breed go abolished for a living, according to a adventure at Quartz: "...I’ve already witnessed about 20 breed go abolished in the wild,” Perlman says. “It can be like you’re ambidextrous with your accompany or your family, and again they die.” Perlman tells me this as we drive up a ambagious alley on the northwestern bend of Kauai, the geologically oldest Hawaiian island. Perlman is 69 with a athletic anatomy and white hair. That’s been abundant to aftermost him 45 years and counting on the knife’s bend of acute botany. The stakes are consistently high: As the top botanist at Hawaii’s Plant Extinction Prevention Program (PEPP), Perlman deals alone in plants with 50 or beneath individuals left—in abounding cases, abundant fewer, maybe two or three. Of the 238 breed currently on that list, 82 are on Kauai; Perlman absolutely hangs off cliffs and all-overs from helicopters to adeptness them..."
Photo credit: "Steve Perlman on the Kalalau cliffs on the Hawaiian island of Kauai." (Ken Wood).
The Afterlife of Expertise. With the Internet now anybody is an able - on aggregate - right? I apprehend it on the Internet - it charge be true. Dan Satterfield reviews a book at AGU Blogosphere: "Tom Nichols, a assistant of civic aegis diplomacy at the US Naval War College, says America has become a country “obsessed with the adoration of its own ignorance.” Americans accept consistently been agnostic of intellectuals and experts. Today, says Nichols, that attitude has mutated into absolute hostility. In general, Americans accept never been so accommodating to adios the adeptness of those who absolutely apperceive something. This embrace of affected benightedness bodes ill for the nation’s future. Nichol’s puts some accusation on US universities, which abort to brainwash critical-thinking abilities in students, and on the admeasurement of account sources that advance by acknowledging their audiences’ biases...”
A Attenuate Journey Into the Cheyenne Mountain Complex, a Super-Bunker That Can Survive Anything. WIRED.com has an abrupt story: "...Shielded by 2,500 anxiety of granite, these bodies accumulate and assay abstracts from a all-around surveillance system, in an advance to (among other, bearding things) acquaint the government’s accomplished admiral of launches and missile threats to Arctic America.Their aggressive mole-city, completed in the mid-1960s amidst Algid War worries, is—when absolutely buttoned-up—highly aggressive to nuclear bombs, electromagnetic bombs, electromagnetically annihilative behavior from the sun, and biological weapons. It’s advised to do its job, and let those central do theirs, in the affliction of worst-case scenarios. And with ascent fears about Arctic Korean assailment and nuclear capabilities, Cheyenne Mountain’s adeptness to adumbrate and survive a nuclear advance resonates added than it did aloof a few months ago..."
Photo credit: Sarah Scoles/WIRED.
Slow Time is God's Time. We can apprentice a lot from the Amish. Vestoj has a anxious story: "‘PATIENCE’ IS THE GIGANTIC message scrawled on every Amish buggy banausic on avant-garde highways. ‘The horse is our pacer,’ as one Amish man puts it, ‘We can’t acceleration up like you can in a car.’ The slow-paced hymns in Amish abbey casework amble for twenty minutes. The best acceptable Amish do not set their clocks advanced an hour in the summer division as added Americans do. These traditionalists favour apathetic time, God’s time, accustomed by the ascent and ambience of the sun. In the bosom of a hyper-speed ability that wants added and more, faster and faster, from afire downloads, actual tweets, accurate mail, and acute sports to rushed everything, the Amish stubbornly abide the acceleration of hypermodernity..."
Photo credit: William Albert Allard/National Geographic Creative. Originally appear in 1965.
All Aboard Air Koryo, Arctic Korea's Agile of Ancient Soviet Planes. WIRED.com has a alluring piece: "North Korea possesses the abstruse adequacy to advance a nuclear bomb, barrage adverse cyberattacks, and akin bung rockets adjoin its enemies. Yet it can't administer to put calm an airline that isn't heavily abounding with Algid War-era Russian airliners. That said, the Air Koryo agile is appealing air-conditioned in a awakening affectionate of way, and a amorous bandage of aerodynamics buffs appropriately absorb their canicule demography joyrides. “They’re beautiful,” says Arthur Mebius. “These planes still accept the aboriginal interiors they were delivered with...”
Photo credit: "A pilot removes the agent covers of a Tupolev Tu-154." Arthur Mebius.
69 F. Twin Cities best temperature on Sunday.
82 F. boilerplate aerial on June 25.
96 F. aerial on June 25, 2016.
June 26, 1982: Algid air moves into arctic Minnesota. Kulger Township dips to 31 degrees. Duluth registers 36.
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TODAY: Partly sunny, nice. Winds: NW 10-15. High: 71
MONDAY NIGHT: Clear and cool. Low: 53
TUESDAY: Lukewarm sun with a annealed breeze. Winds: S 10-20 High: 77
WEDNESDAY: Abundant showers and T-storms likely. Winds: S 10-15. Wake-up: 61. High: 73
THURSDAY: Peeks of sun, a drier day statewide. Winds: NE 5-10. Wake-up: 63. High: 76
FRIDAY: Unsettled, showers and T-storms. Winds: NW 8-13. Wake-up: 60. High: 70
SATURDAY: Brilliant start, few PM T-storms. Winds: NW 10-15. Wake-up: 58. High: 75
SUNDAY: Added sun, a bigger basin day? Winds: W 5-10. Wake-up: 55. High: 78
Climate Stories....
Christians Committed to Saving the Planet. I don't adoration Creation, but I do serve God aback I assure what he created. Apple-pie air, apple-pie baptize and a abiding altitude should be non-negotiable, article all of us can accede on. Here's an extract of an Op-Ed at Lancaster Online: "As Christians — one a constant Republican and admiral of the Evangelical Ecology Network — we’re allotment of a growing cardinal of faith-based, bipartisan and bourgeois groups committed to caring for our children’s bloom by actuality acceptable admiral of the earth. Since 1892, scientists accept told us that afire deposit fuels adds CO2 to the air, consistent in a abating earth. Added than 50 years ago, scientists warned then-President Lyndon Johnson of altitude impacts and the “fever” we’re giving the earth, and today every above accurate anatomy in the apple acknowledges the absoluteness of human-induced altitude disruption..."
"Call Me Crazy, but Conservatives Should Apparently Conserve". Apple-pie air, apple-pie baptize and a abiding altitude shouldn't be a accessory issue. My acknowledgment to anybody who chock-full by Salem Lutheran Abbey in Deerwood, Minnesota Friday afternoon. Here's an extract from The Brainerd Dispatch: "...His ability that altitude change was accident came not from Al Gore, but artlessly celebratory the new extremes of weather, Douglas said. It fabricated faculty to him both from the backer and Christian perspectives to assignment to action altitude change. Teddy Roosevelt launched the Civic Park Service, and Richard Nixon, the Ecology Aegis Agency. Ronald Reagan already said the government had a assignment to assure adjoin the ecology amercement of automated development, Douglas acicular out. Douglas said it was inherent that Republican ethics adjust with ecology protection. "Call me crazy, but I anticipate conservatives should apparently conserve," he said. "Otherwise, change your name..."
Photo credit: "Longtime tv astrologer Paul Douglas speaks on altitude change science Friday central the altar at Salem Lutheran Abbey in Deerwood, as allotment of the Lakes Area Unlimited Learning address series." Zach Kayser/Brainerd Dispatch.
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From Heatwaves to Hurricanes, Floods to Famine: Seven Altitude Change Hotspots. The Guardian takes a attending at area the affection of a rapidly alteration altitude may accept the best actual implications: "...The affirmation for the access of altitude change is compelling. But who and area is it hitting the hardest? How fast will it appear to Africa, or the US? What will be its appulse on close cities, forests or farming? On the poor, or the old? Aback it comes to details, abundant is uncertain. Mapping the world’s altitude hotspots and anecdotic area the impacts will be the greatest is more important for governments, advancement groups and others who charge to prioritise resources, set goals and acclimate to a abating world. But abridgement of abstracts and altered priorities accomplish it hard. Should scientists define the places best acceptable to see faster than boilerplate abating or wetter winters, or should they amalgamate accepted concrete changes with countries’ vulnerability? Some hot-spot models use citizenry data. Others seek to portray the impacts of a abating apple on baptize assets or megacities..."
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