Floods, Fires, and Heat Domes (the climate change thread) (Part 1)

111.38F

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season 7 GIF

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… I wish they’d tell us the wet-bulb temperature

Meteorologists are always measuring it—it’s how they compute RH and dew point—but it’s never in the press release :confused:

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Maybe too scary?

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Kim Stanley Robinson has entered the chat…

Again.

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started termination shock yesterday

Im pretty hopeless since all the hollow promises were made during covid; all I see is denial of the root-problem and greenwashing it.

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and the “event” keeps going;

still well beyond any other year since 1981. that looks really bad.

https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/

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There’s a bit of good news: Peatlands can bounce back. They’re fairly easy to restore by simply re-wetting them, though particularly degraded ones might need a transplant of “donor” moss.

All we need is the political will to do something… Awww, shit…

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A small ray of light in yet another ‘natural’ tragedy caused by climate change:

THREE DAYS in the lake before they were rescued.

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Temperature           90.0°F
Relative humidity     19.6%
Wet-bulb temperature  63.1°F

NBD in July—a bit concerning in early May :hot_face:

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is there an easy formula to calculate wet bulb temperature?
and is that the same as dew point?

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