Pattern reversal imminent. . .

December to Remember

Yeah I think this has been our warmest December airmass of all time. At least I can find no comparable situation here in SWMT.

Tule fog blessings

I think it's possible we could approach the Dust Bowl temps again one day, but the way I envision it would be if we get a big drought early on in the season that just rolls through summer and wipes out a lot of the crops before they have a chance to grow/mature. I think the key would be to lose that source of evapotranspiration. In the meantime, we've exchanged lower max temps in summer for higher humidity. If you look at dewpoint trends in the Midwest, there is a clear upward trend in recent decades.