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That's 48.8 Celsius for the non-americans. Scrolling through the tweets, some people are saying it's likely a short spike in temperature due to foehn winds[0]
by lhorie 5y ago
That's 48.8 Celsius for the non-americans.
Scrolling through the tweets, some people are saying it's likely a short spike in temperature due to foehn winds[0] and that this reading doesn't really mean much due to the source of the reading. Here's an interesting thread nitpicking things apart[1]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foehn_wind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foehn_wind
[1] https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1425424519129407489 https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1425424519129407489
- hef19898 5y agoLike picking a od temperatures in the alps, near a lake, surrounded by mountains on all sides. Cold air sinks down, and gets stored down there. Good for records, bad for general temp monitoring. Doesn't change the fact that these high temps are really bad.
- makomk 5y agoYeah, if the replies to that tweet are to be believed there have been even higher measurements from similar European weather stations under similar circumstances that simply weren't recognized as records due to the measurement issues.
- q1w2 5y agoGlobal warming is about average temperature increases. Individual one-off high temperatures only gives ammunition to climate deniers when they see a record low temperature somewhere in the world. It does more harm than good to raise the climate change alarm for these events, and requires some statistical gymnastics to conclusively tie it to global warming. The real alarms are more than sufficient.
- yokaze 5y ago> Global warming is about average temperature increases. Individual one-off high temperatures only gives ammunition to climate deniers when they see a record low temperature somewhere in the world. That is why it got rebranded to climate change. Yes, it is about the global average temperature, but that is too abstract for people to understand, and exactly gets discussed when "they see a record low temperature somewhere in the world." > Individual one-off high temperatures only gives ammunition to climate deniers when they see a record low temperature somewhere in the world. Everything and anything gives climate change deniers ammunition. I think, it doesn't make sense to try to placate people, which are essentially inaccessible to decades of scientific reports, and more and more news like this one. No need to self-censure here. > It does more harm than good to raise the climate change alarm for these events, and requires some statistical gymnastics to conclusively tie it to global warming You do not have to conclusively tie individual events to global warming. The point here is, that those news come in more and more often. It is something people directly experience. And that is very much a real alarm.
- nec4b 5y ago>>You do not have to conclusively tie individual events to global warming. The point here is, that those news come in more and more often. Do they? Feels more like media frenzy, trying to connect every weather phenomenon to climate change. Every year around IPCC report release there is an uptick of everything weather related being attributed to climate change.
- ninthcat 5y agoClimate change involves more extreme weather events, including anomalous temperatures in both directions. An increase in average temperatures doesn't do as much visible damage as an increase in probability of long-tail events. It is accurate and important to connect statistically extreme weather events to climate change.