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Hello all and have been hanging in Az. Temps 90-110 (pending if I’m in the valley or not) but always breezy which really helps. monsoon season held up because of the ridge down here so nothing exciting going on weather wise. I’m just enjoying friends and also out exploring. looks likes it’s been gorgeous back home as well according to my nest cams. Pink Coral Sand Dunes and Buckskin Gulch

35F at Hibbing,MN this morning. New record--

June 2018 was almost 10F warmer here than this June so not a very good match outside of the Pnw. Also look at these temp ranges in Southern Cal yesterday!

It’s going to snow next week!

Took a quick look and it seems this was most likely the first heat wave on record to pull off a 98 degree maxima with thicknesses failing to exceed 575dm at any point. Efficient.

Lots of clouds and mountain rain in BC today.

This morning's op Euro is a big improvement, lifting the storm train farther north. I hope it's not just a one-run wonder.

Farmers in parts of the Canadian prairies are in a tough spot currently. Crop failures are already occurring.

Scattered thunderstorms here this morning, maybe a quarter inch on average so far for the area with some more rain coming upstream. Models regularly overdoing the storm totals with these MCSs but I guess its fine as long as its coolish. Plenty of rain chances over the next week!

We are looking at a nice little stretch of below normal temps for at least the next few days with highs mostly in the 70s, perhaps a couple low 80s later this weekend. It's felt really refreshing already with Sioux Falls bottoming out a fairly chilly 48 degrees this morning. Nice change from the much warmer than normal temps we've been experiencing ad nauseam this season.

Anyone with window seats got quite a treat heading into LAX last night. Near the end of the video when the plane is nearing touchdown is a thing of beauty. happy birthday America!

Honestly it's a wonder we survived those early 2000s summers at all.

Ended up with an 86/60 day here. Down to 81 now, feels pretty tolerable out compared to the last few evenings. Should be in the mid 50s by tomorrow morning which will feel great Nice to see the 90+ stretch end for PDX as well. Always good to mix it up a little and have an underachieving high temp.

Neighborhood cat resting on our front porch from the heat, looks tired. Yesterday it was 92 for a high, just hit 91 here before a vicinity rumbler came into the area.

October will probably be chilly this fall.

I think we lucked out on this heatwave if we escape with a max of 91 at Sea-Tac and only one, maybe two days at 90+. Plus the lack of a strong thermal trough is a huge win with all of the fires and fireworks everywhere. If the easterlies were cranking it could have been a real disaster.

Another 90F burger for EUG

A baby?

Many prayers

We paid for those 3 warm days with basically 2 straight weeks of highs in the 60s in Seattle.

I got vaxxed and was fine. It’s the Arbys that will kill you. Americans are so dumb sometimes.

Yeah, I am sure the next few years will be full of variability, like always. I would be surprised if we don't see a true regional arctic outbreak in the next couple of winters, if not then it may just never happen again.

It could be awhile before we see another bonafide La Niña event. All of the post-WWII 3+ year -ENSO/Niña cycles did not see another La Niña for at least 4 years. 1954-57: 7 years (1964/65, moderate). 1974-76: 8 years (1983/84, weak). 1999-02: 4 years (2005/06, weak). And none of those subsequent La Niñas were overly potent. Weak/moderate in each case. Actually, both 1983/84 and 2005/06 barely met the criteria, so those wait times could be extended to 9yrs and 6yrs, respectively, by that criteria.

Yes... ECMWF shows marine layer until noon and a high only in the mid 70s on Monday. Then back to sunny and warmer. But not too warm. Goldilocks weather.

I think the marine air must have reached here. Only 70 in Shelton right now.

Just 71 here at 1 pm. Nine degrees behind yesterday.

It’s a dry heat, so it isn’t that bad. Don’t have to shovel sunshine!!!

Looking big.

Spending the week in Phoenix next week…. Might be a little warm

In terms of area burned. This wildfire season in BC is now 3rd worst.

That’s because it is! Underneath it all. Intraseasonally-enhanced W-Pac convection has it feeling like 2018 in the PNW *for now* (very different out here & in other regions) but that is not the LP/background state this year, where-as it was in 2018. So where-as that W-Pac/P7 type pattern amplified in July/August 2018, the opposite will (probably) happen this year. The differences between 2023 and 2018 are substantial, and that should become increasingly apparent as July rolls on. Also, MJO analog composites have been projecting a heatwave in early/mid July for months, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. I’ve been talking about it for awhile.

Me driving to work this morning in the jeep with no roof and doors and its 43F outside.

When it’s 88/73 at 930AM

Cool 50’s this morning with light rain amounts early this morning. More tonight and tomorrow. Talked to a farmer this morning that hasn’t had to irrigate yet, and won’t have to for the foreseeable future. This is extremely rare in this part of the state as we get into July.

Hibbing,MN as of 3am local time this 6th of July-- has tied it's min record temp for the date of 37F. Wouldn't be surprising to see some low spots like around Embarrass / Tower area have some patchy frost. KHIB 060753Z AUTO 31004KT 6SM BR CLR 03/03 A3009 RMK AO2 SLP196 T00280028 2.8C = 37F Nice to see the WIND CHILL of 33F!!!!

No deck party tonight. Gonna be one on the promenade tomorrow. I made sure to bring my gloFX glasses. I wanna go to the nightclub but it would be a problem for me and I would definitely get into entertaining trouble

A viral left-wing Twitter account may have been fake all along

Actually found a decent analog, late June 2000. That one might have edged it out but it was pretty gal darn similar.

Summer really opened up on Long Island

Yeah that’s an interesting point. All the important intraseasonal scale variables were/are aligned for a heatwave pattern, but the outcome is pretty “meh” south of the border. Be careful with how you interpret that graphic. Because it is a 100-day mean, it won’t pick up week to week pattern variability. I.E: That is a 3+ month time period reflected on that graphic. Which why it’s often referred to as the “background” or “low frequency” state.

I dabble.

Some D3 in Wisconsin now

Is there a shot that Massimo has never gotten? Gotten as in just taken from other people and reposted it for clout and internet points.

NIce pattern change for a bit. Heat looks to rebuild towards the last 2 weeks in July. Could be a sizzler.

How? Forcing them to snort a line?

Haven’t you guys ever done drugs at your parents’ place? It’s pretty common in America.

I know it should be obvious, but why do people keep forgetting that Sulfur Dioxide creates acid rain?

There's time for that to change. 2015 had a long stretch of very dry conditions from mid May to late July, but then several wet to very wet systems interspersed through the rest of the warm season.

Only a trace, it was sickening to watch it just collapse as it entered my county.