I started tracking this 2 days ago.
I had noted before off-hand that the record temperature unimaginably was 108 degrees (F) at the location where official records are observed.
What I did not note about it until two days ago was the precise date of the two occurrences of that all time high temperature in Spokane.
I doubt the temperature will reach that point on Sunday but I decided to make this note because of the mainstream media news article touting the fact that most mainstream weather forecasting app's are calling for 108 degrees Fahrenheit for Sunday.
The Weather Channel's forecast page for my location in Spokane Valley still calls for 108 degrees on Sunday. They have varied it over the past few days but it often lists as 108 degrees.
I also noted that is the day of this year when the sun sets at the latest time of day. Sunset on the 28th is listed as 8:52 PM. Sunset on the 29th is 8:51 PM and the days slowly get shorter, presumably because I didn't check each one, from then on until December.
Man, how I used to love the summer's back in the Seattle metro area. My apartment in Redmond had underground parking and I could leave the top down on my Jeep Wrangler all summer long and drive around like that. Different story out here in the eastern edge of the state. The sun is a lot more brutal. There's no marine air layer filtering the sun and making the temp's milder. That was why I wanted to live out here. To train in this tougher climate for my next Ironman triathlon success. Which never came. And I doubt ever will.
I was also looking at the records for June 1922. That is the year when the average temperature is closest to what I expect this month to work out to. That year the average high temperature is listed at 9.7 degrees (F) above average. Presumable that's a 30 year running average so I don't know really how that compares with this modern age. However the extreme range for the month of June is in the 7 degree (F) range for only a few occurrences going back to the year 1881. This month of June 2015 is already 7.6 degrees above average and that is only after 23 days. The heat wave is supposed to begin in earnest by tomorrow and weather.com shows temperatures mostly at 99 degrees and above for the 15 day period. If that forecast is accurate then my estimate is that the average temperature will be at least 10 degrees (F) above average for the month of June in 2015. As I noted, the extreme range I could find was for June 1922 at 9.7 degrees above average. A few months the winter beginning in 1922 had some brutal cold periods and the snowfall of 53 inches was about 10 inches above what they list now as average. In December 1922 they had 31 inches of that total. I think about this because I moved here from a mild climate and wonder how bad the roads, well, the sidewalks, will get when a normal winter returns, which I don't think I've seen yet. Definitely wasn't last winter. Last winter was just about, with some exceptions, just about the same as I remember from the mild weather of the Seattle suburbs. And the meteorologists I read say that the records for one month don't necessarily indicate the future for the later months but I think about the patterns in terms of what is possible. The records indicate they really got slammed here in December 2008 and as best I can tell none of the weather forecasters knew that was going to happen until just a short period before the heavy snowfall began. I think about how the exceptionally warm waters off the coast right now is a perfect source for a winter storm. I'm no meteorologist but that seems to me to increase the potential for a storm that cripples this region again at some point in the winter. I remember December 2008 and sitting on the rooftop of the Vermont right there next to the bay in downtown Seattle and thinking we got a lot of snow. But that was just a few inches. Out here about 300 miles to the east they got pummeled with over 2 feet of snow in 2 days. I remember walking around downtown Seattle and I don't think the snow was more than ankle deep. My first winter out here I was really disappointed at how the city sidewalks were not shoveled and those turned into sheets of ice. And then it melts and the cars splash the melted water all over the sidewalk making walking around very unpleasant.
Lately I have been thinking that the woman I see in my dreams while asleep is Mother Nature.
You know, I see those reporters on television reporting about those so-called People of Faith and I think to myself: People of Weak Character.
Mainstream religion in the world is about the natural cowardice of the human race.
People that are scared of the dark and need to crutch to lean on, to borrow from an expression I heard before.
My belief is, through no credible source of information I can point to, that human beings were created on this planet.
But they weren't God.
My belief is that those superior beings caused the creation of mainstream religion as a means of culling the herd, so to speak.
The weak minded, like little children who still believe in Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy, are natural cowards.
They are cowardly and like a drowning man clawing and beating his fists on the other survivors regardless of their survival will trample over any one standing in their way just to get in one more frantic gasp of air.
So they will accept any kind of half-ass notion that the majority says is right.
My belief is that mainstream religion was created for that very reason.
The reason is that humanity was known to remain primitive creatures and those primitive creatures will not read here the truth.
The truth is there is something more out there but most of you are about as imaginative as chimpanzees. That is how you live and that is the furthest you will ever go in this existence.
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2015/jun/25/latest-weekend-forecast-lowers-triple-digit-sizzle/
The Spokesman-Review
June 25, 2015 in City, Idaho, Region
Latest weekend forecast lowers triple-digit sizzle
Mike Prager The Spokesman-Review
The latest weather forecast is turning down the sizzle this weekend, but only by a degree or two.
Sunday could still see highs of 102 to 104 degrees across the Spokane and Coeur d’Alene area, the National Weather Service said Wednesday afternoon.
That official forecast predicted a high of 99 on Saturday, 103 on Sunday and 97 on Monday, which was 1 to 2 degrees lower than the morning forecast.
At the same time, a heat advisory was issued Wednesday evening for the Columbia Basin, the Palouse and other areas to the south and west for highs up to 107.
National Weather Service forecasters said the outlook is still uncertain because clouds may arrive to shield the sun.
“That can shave off 5 degrees,” said forecaster Paul Bos.
The weather service forecast may tell a different tale than your cellphone. Forecasts from some commercial weather service companies have shown Sunday temperatures as high as 108.
Hundreds of companies take raw data from the weather service and create forecasts to sell to media, businesses, government agencies and websites. Those forecasts are frequently different than the ones made by local weather service bureaus because of the varying techniques they use to interpret the raw data.
Even so, a reading of 103 degrees in Spokane is somewhat unusual. The last time it occurred was in 2007, and prior to that, in 1998.
The all-time record of 108 degrees was reached twice – on Aug. 4, 1961 and July 26, 1928. Records date back to 1881.
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From 8/4/1961 ( Barack Obama ) To 9/6/2003 ( premiere US film "First Aid for Choking" ) is 15373 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 12/5/2007 is 15373 days
From 12/8/2003 ( premiere US TV miniseries "Battlestar Galactica" ) To 12/5/2007 is 1458 days
1458 = 729 + 729
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/1/1967 ( premiere US film "Cool Hand Luke" ) is 729 days
From 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate Columbia South Carolina ) To 12/5/2007 is 6108 days
6108 = 3054 + 3054
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 3/14/1974 ( Grace Park ) is 3054 days
From 7/6/1957 ( premiere US film "What's Opera, Doc?" ) To 12/5/2007 is 18414 days
18414 = 9207 + 9207
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 ) is 9207 days
From 7/6/1957 ( premiere US film "What's Opera, Doc?" ) To 12/5/2007 is 18414 days
18414 = 9207 + 9207
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/17/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Persian Gulf War begins as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 9207 days
From 5/30/1952 ( premiere US film "Apache Country" ) To 7/2/1994 ( the crash of US Airways Flight 1016 in Charlotte North Carolina ) is 15373 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 12/5/2007 is 15373 days
From 3/26/1989 ( premiere US TV series "Quantum Leap" ) To 12/5/2007 is 6828 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/13/1984 ( premiere US film "The Last Starfighter" ) is 6828 days
[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2014/03/one-thing-leads-to-another.html ]
http://www.seattle.gov/news/detail.asp?ID=7983&Dept=40
City of Seattle
Gregory J. Nickels, Mayor
NEWS ADVISORY
SUBJECT: Opera to breathe new life into Mercer Arena
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
12/5/2007
Opera to breathe new life into Mercer Arena
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: - posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 5:33 PM Pacific Time Seattle USA Sunday 03 March 2013 - http://hvom.blogspot.com/2013/03/us-and-them.html
From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 3:36 PM
To: 'Chad Trammell'
Subject: RE: Chief of Staff
What I was writing about was how the Ironman corporation had a competition that was for president's of corporations and I wrote to Ballmer telling him about how I was trying to finish and Ironman triathlon and I wondered if he would compete for Microsoft in that Ironman event for corporate presidents.
That was when I wrote about how I had to drop out of Ironman Coeur d'Alene because the heat had been extreme that day and I specifically used the phrase that I couldn't "handle the heat."
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 03 March 2013 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 2:24 PM Tuesday, October 07, 2008
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming
Terraforming
The terraforming (literally, "Earth-shaping") of a planet, moon, or other body is the hypothetical process of deliberately modifying its atmosphere, temperature, surface topography or ecology to be similar to those of Earth to make it habitable by humans.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_the_outer_Solar_System
Colonization of the outer Solar System
Some of the moons of the outer planets of the solar system are large enough to be suitable places for colonization. Many of the larger moons contain water ice, liquid water, and organic compounds that might be useful for sustaining human life. Colonies in the outer solar system could also serve as centers for long term investigation of the planet and the other moons. In particular, robotic devices could be controlled by humans without the very long time delays needed to communicate with Earth. There have also been proposals to place robotic aerostats in the upper atmospheres of the gas giant planets for exploration and possibly mining of helium-3, which could have a very high value per unit mass as a thermonuclear fuel.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 07 October 2008 excerpt ends]
https://robertscribbler.wordpress.com/2015/06/23/hot-blob-2-takes-aim-at-sea-ice-abnormally-warm-waters-invading-the-arctic-through-bering-and-chukchi-seas/
robertscribbler
Hot Blob #2 Takes Aim at Sea Ice — Abnormally Warm Waters Invading the Arctic Through Bering and Chukchi
A lot of attention has been paid to a ‘Blob’ of unusual warmth at the ocean surface in the Northeastern Pacific. And for good reason, for that Blob of human-warmed water has had wide-ranging negative impacts on both weather and sea life. Now there’s a second hot Blob forming in the Bering and Chukchi seas. One that may also have some rather significant effects as the summer of 2015 continues.
Abnormally Warm Waters Running Toward the Sea Ice
Hot Blob #2 is a vast stretch of warm water covering the Bering and Chukchi seas between Alaska and Kamchatka (Neven, in his most recent sea ice summary, touched on this building warm water zone here). It encompasses surface waters in an usually frigid region that now feature temperatures ranging from 3 to 5.5 degrees Celsius above normal. Covering an area roughly 800 miles in diameter, this pool of outlandishly warm ocean waters is being fed by currents running up from the south and by heat bleeding off Alaskan and Siberian land masses. In this case, land masses that are also experiencing record heat.
Impacts Already Visible Up the Coast
This year, waters in the Strait are extraordinarily warm — measuring 5.4 degrees above normal surface water temperatures. A plug of 5 C + above average water entering the Chukchi, Bering, Beaufort and East Siberian seas at a time when solar insolation is hitting peak intensity and during a period when nearby Arctic regions like Alaska are experiencing some of their hottest temperatures ever recorded. These waters, at temperatures in the range of 7-8 degrees Celsius, are warm enough to rapidly melt any ice they contact. And they’re flooding directly toward the ice pack.
1971 film "The Omega Man" DVD:
Matthias: We were warned of judgment.
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 01:55 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Thursday 25 June 2015
