Here is your Seattle spring and summer in a handy graphic created by the FiveThirtyEightScience site:
Basically – we’ve been very hot. Click for larger, scarier view. Graphic created by RANDY OLSON at FiveThirtyEightScience. Follow the link for graphics of other U.S. cities experiencing out-of-normal-range heat.
We’ve been talking about it being hot around here and have more heat on the way … though more within that normal range.
Here’s what the science site says:
These charts (follow the link for more cities) show the record, average high and low (“normal range”), and actual temperatures over the past year for each day in each city. Dots indicate days when there was a new record low (blue) or high (red), even if it was only a tie with a previous year. … Seattle experienced a strangely warm winter, with 12 days since the beginning of December setting a record high.
Is it global warming? Well, University of Washington meteorologist say it’s more the product of a natural or long-occurring cycle and that the climate change signal isn’t really driving it.
Check out this gallery for more on our heat wave …
Jake Ellison can be reached at 206-448-8334 or jakeellison@seattlepi.com. Follow Jake on Twitter at http://twitter.com/Jake_News. Also, swing by and *LIKE* his page on Facebook.
If Google Plus is your thing, check out our science coverage here.
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Here is your Seattle spring and summer in a handy graphic created by the FiveThirtyEightScience site:
Basically – we’ve been very hot. Click for larger, scarier view. Graphic created by RANDY OLSON at FiveThirtyEightScience. Follow the link for graphics of other U.S. cities experiencing out-of-normal-range heat.
We’ve been talking about it being hot around here and have more heat on the way … though more within that normal range.
Here’s what the science site says:
These charts (follow the link for more cities) show the record, average high and low (“normal range”), and actual temperatures over the past year for each day in each city. Dots indicate days when there was a new record low (blue) or high (red), even if it was only a tie with a previous year. … Seattle experienced a strangely warm winter, with 12 days since the beginning of December setting a record high.
Is it global warming? Well, University of Washington meteorologist say it’s more the product of a natural or long-occurring cycle and that the climate change signal isn’t really driving it.
Check out this gallery for more on our heat wave …
Jake Ellison can be reached at 206-448-8334 or jakeellison@seattlepi.com. Follow Jake on Twitter at http://twitter.com/Jake_News. Also, swing by and *LIKE* his page on Facebook.
If Google Plus is your thing, check out our science coverage here.
from The Big Science Blog http://ift.tt/1S9LbZ6
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