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54F and clear. Nice night.

Then maybe we can be done with it.

Arg! You showed me!

So you don't ever want it to get nice?

Down to 44, 10 degrees warmer than this time yesterday. I'll bet on a low around 28. Good night weenies, keep up the arguing, yall are saving the word with each wishcast and wasted hour spent arguing! About as heroic as Jesse fighting the fires in the native palm tree forests!

Pathetic. 95% of the people in the town on welfare are illegals! Such a nice addition to our country.

Enough of me being salty for one day. Euro looks decent.

1700's: the search for caloric. 1800's: the search for luminiferous ether. today: the search for dark matter. Confused physicists have a track record of concocting imaginary forms of matter into existence when they don’t understand something. The Earth is in a part of the universe (galaxy edge area) that according to dark matter proponents should be unusually rich in dark matter. Yet not so much as one speck of this dark matter has ever been detected, despite billions being spent on attempts to detect it. The most logical explanation is that dark matter does not exist and the current standard model’s gravitation equations are simply incorrect in that they do not properly model the behavior of gravity at very large distances. At least that is my current belief, and if dark matter is actually detected and/or can actually be used to make successful predictions of the existence of currently unknown phenomena, I will revise my belief accordingly.

00Z ECMWF is very wet from Sunday-Tuesday. Would lock in a wetter than normal June by the 4th day of the month.

Cool!

Hyperbole is not the answer here. No one said heatwaves don't kill. They do, especially extreme ones like 2021. That doesn't change the fact that the study cited was sus, and logically attributing 3 weeks of excess deaths arbitrarily doesn't add up.

Yeah, my point was simply that severe season is historically still very active for the next month here.

Well that was many hours ago of course! I wasn't really paying attention to the radar... but the rain did stop and the sun peaked out a few times at my mom's house but it was raining lightly again by time we left. I was probably being a little too optimistic in the moment assuming the main front had passed though.

Wow no sun peaking out down on the water front. We did have a couple of brief periods where there was no precip, but it was at least drizzling pretty much all day. We did have a couple of periods of moderate rain, I caught a picture of this gal waiting out one of the heavier bands of rain. She definitely had the right idea.

No one said heat doesn't contribute to deaths. Sometimes directly. It's just that the media will stretch the reality as far as they can for maximum shock value.

Looks like a new inversion is forming as it's slower to move inland tonight.

If heatwaves are known to exacerbate deaths, then how come it's unreasonable to attribute those deaths? I guess heatwaves don't do anything at all since it doesn't fit this forum's "acceptable" form of death, which I'm guessing is literal combustion. I guess Covid didn't do anything either since it was loaded with co-morbidities. And Smallpox. And the Black Plague. And Cancer. And Obesity. And almost anything that kills anyone since life is complicated and almost no one dies of just one thing.

The discussion was clearly focused around tornadoes.... Significant tornadoes in eastern CO are still pretty rare since the dryline typically will set up in western KS. CO as a state has only had 27 tornadoes of EF3 or higher since 1950, or about one every 2-3 years. That number would probably be a little higher with a higher population density out there in the plains, but the point remains that the severity of the tornado season nationally isn't really determined a whole lot by the high based severe storms that get going every summer closer to the Rockies.

I have heard that violence gets worse during heat, idk if it’s true, even so it’s not the cause.

Very true. That is sort of silly of Phil. And just climo would be nice at this point. I am not a big heat wave fan... diminishing returns and all with being uncomfortable and eventually producing smoke. But it happens.

That's fair. And hopefully you can see the fairness in our responses to that ridiculous article.

I’m getting portable AC tomorrow. I better get some use out of it

Seems you've arrived to my original point meant for Phil, which was that rooting for whatever weather you want actually isn't a bad thing, and that it doesn't really imply you want the associated downstream consequences that kill people. That's why I haven't really chastised you for rooting for warmth recently

If you want to play this game.. then you are personally culpable for cheering for this every winter! Reality is that nature is cruel.

And even worse, it's over a 3 week period...did a 3 day heat spike keep causing additional accidents and violence weeks later? Laughable.