102 degrees, then 104, now 105: Omaha hits record high (GLOBAL WARMING?)

[Omaha Steve]

What is the temp where you are?

By Kelsey Stewart

By 2 p.m. Thursday, Omaha had set a new hot-weather record, which then was bested a couple of times.

At 2, the temperature had reached 102 degrees, topping the previous high of 100 degrees set in 1918, said Brett Albright, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Valley.

Just after 3 p.m., the weather service tweeted that the temperature in Omaha had hit 104 degrees.

By 4 p.m., Albright said, Omaha was at 105.

FULL story: https://omaha.com/news/local/102-degrees-then-104-now-105-omaha-hits-record-high/article_f4d0cd80-cfa2-11eb-a344-8388d0414bf3.html#tracking-source=home-top-story-1

[MissB]

1. We are outside the heat wave zone

It’s currently 81, heading for 82 on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon. Next week we hit 99 for one day but that’s not terribly unusual. We do have a warm streak coming for the next week or so mostly in the mid to upper 80s. It’ll be great for the garden.

I have lots of trees (huge firs) that provide a great deal of shade so we are always about 10 degrees cooler than the city.

We’ve had years where it’ll rain until the 4th of July. This isn’t one of those years.

I feel for all the folks roasting.

[Tree Lady]

2. We are spending long weekend in northern CA in mountains

Suppose to be over 100 every day starting tomorrow.

Not looking forward to it because we were going to hike, now just go out few hours in morning. We will have toddler and dog with us and heat bugs me older I get.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. It's 75 outside my spot

This is what happens when drought sets in. It makes it easier for the ground to heat up and radiate that heat whereas if there was still some surface moisture left in the ground, the heating energy would be spent evaporating that off (keeping the temperature from skyrocketing - at least temporarily).

I am wondering if Claudette does form, some of that moisture from it will ride up into some of the dry areas (although it will drown so much of the same areas in the SE that have been just inundated in rain).

[in2herbs]

4. It's 4:30 pm north of Scottsdale AZ and 112 degrees. Tomorrow is forecast to be 1 degree cooler! nt

[DrToast]

5. That's weather

Evidence of climate change is found in temperatures over long periods of time, not one particular week.

It’s hot here in Las Vegas, but it’s not an all-time high. So does that mean there isn’t global warming happening? Of course not.

[Elessar Zappa]

6. But the amount of heat records

being broken is clearly evidence of global warming. Yes, some places are the same or cooler but most places have been getting progressively hotter.

[Rustyeye77]

7. Save the heat for winter.

[totodeinhere]

8. I finally got around to installing central air conditioning in my house last year.

It is so much more comfortable now that I do not have to sweat hot weather.