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Hottest May in History for Texas

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Re: Hottest May in History for Texas

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Post by steve_taylor »

refurb wrote: post #11

Wait this article is from May 12th. It’s not “the hottest May on record”, because May isn’t even over? What the article says is the average high/low of the first 11 days is hotter than the hottest month. Uhhh… statistics don’t work like that? You cant compare a part month to a full month and make that claim because your selectively comparing some days to an average of a whole month.

It's meaningless to compare calendar months at all. They're entirely artificial. It would be more meaningful to compare something like rolling n-day average maximum temperates.

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Post by autoexec »

silisili wrote: post #14
moistly wrote: post #12

I guess the snarkers will always regale us with their snide dismissal, but as someone who has lived in one place for going on a half-century, I witness the change: winters had feet of snow and now have inches. Temperatures drops are harder, temperature highs have gone from 40C to nearly 50, which is insane. Rainfall patterns have changed markedly, and they’re interfacing with snowmelt and now flood events happen like…

I move a lot to different cities, but was able to come to a similar conclusion in central FL in that every house older than 1980 or so had a wood burning fireplace. The thought was so gross to me even seeing them...it rarely got cold enough to even warrant heat. Of course, it was very rare in new builds, and even then usually just the decorative kind.

> t every house older than 1980 or so had a wood burning fireplace. The thought was so gross to me even seeing them

Wait, wood-burning fireplaces are gross? Do you mean aesthetically or conceptually?

I doubt too many in Florida depend on them for heat like they might have in past decades, but can't fireplaces still be enjoyed for what they are? Cozy to sit near, fun to watch/cook over, great for incinerating incriminating documents, etc. As long as the nights/winters get cool enough they're still nice for some things.

Re: Hottest May in History for Texas

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Post by cryptoz »

aaronbrethorst wrote: post #40
alexforster wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

CBS Austin is a Sinclair affiliate.

I'm not saying I'm surprised. I'm just noting the, uh, lack of a full picture of what might be behind the "hottest May in history." Also, for anyone who's not familiar with Sinclair, they're essentially the Fox News of local news broadcasts. https://www.vox.com/2018/4/3/17180020/sinclair-broadcast-gro...

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

(in case someone missed this, it's incredible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZggCipbiHwE)

Re: Hottest May in History for Texas

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Post by rdubs333 »

FollowingTheDao wrote: post #19
Lich wrote: post #9

Wettest May in 40+ years in Western Washington.

Yeah, I picked the worse time to be homeless in Washington. Cold and wet, non stop. Leaving this week cause I can’t take it anymore.

Just got back to town after 2 months primitive in a van in Kansas. It starts to wear on you the lack of facilities this country truly has. Housing crisis is a major issue. 7 million affordable homes short, combined with weather extremes.

Re: Hottest May in History for Texas

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Post by autoexec »

addajones wrote: post #5
TaylorAlexander wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s the thing about history…

Yeah, I didn’t know history started in 1925. Title should be “since 1925.”

The earth was once hot enough that nothing could live on its surface. The sun is just biding its time until it engulfs the planet in fiery destruction again. At a long enough timescale records for heat and (eventually) cold become meaningless, but the overall trends recently doesn't look great. I'd put money on this recent record being broken pretty quickly.

Re: Hottest May in History for Texas

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Post by LanceH »

aaronbrethorst wrote: post #38

Cmd+F "Climate" "Not Found"

And, once again, screaming "climate change" when there is a high begets "counter arguments" when it's cooler. Not every article with a hot point of data is proof and shouldn't be treated as such.

To be very clear before the knee jerk downvoting occurs, climate change is very real and needs to be addressed, scientifically. Don't bail on the mountains of science to make points in a small article about a regional high over a limited time.

Re: Hottest May in History for Texas

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Post by titzer »

LanceH wrote: post #49
aaronbrethorst wrote: post #38

Cmd+F "Climate" "Not Found"

And, once again, screaming "climate change" when there is a high begets "counter arguments" when it's cooler. Not every article with a hot point of data is proof and shouldn't be treated as such. To be very clear before the knee jerk downvoting occurs, climate change is very real and needs to be addressed, scientifically. Don't bail on the mountains of science to make points in a small article about a regional high o…

Temperatures, particularly high temperatures, have a distribution. If enough contributing factors were independent, the high temp would follow a normal distribution, and new records would decrease in frequency over time. This isn't what we are seeing. Records are being broken faster than ever; outliers are increasing. So is the average.

Turns out, yeah, it is climate change. The whole distribution is shifting over.

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