Hello down there

[Dave Grubb]

Moven on up.

The 2024 northern summer saw the highest global temperatures on record, beating 2023's high and making this year likely Earth's hottest ever recorded, the EU's climate monitor said Friday.

The data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service followed a season of heatwaves around the world that scientists said were intensified by human-driven climate change.

Extreme weather struck around the globe -- with some 1,300 dead during extreme heat at the hajj in Mecca, intense heat testing India's economy and electric system, and wildfire raging in parts of the western United States.

"During the past three months of 2024, the globe has experienced the hottest June and August, the hottest day on record, and the hottest boreal summer on record," Samantha Burgess, deputy director of Copernicus, said in a report.

"This string of record temperatures is increasing the likelihood of 2024 being the hottest year on record."

No worries---this is just a natural cycle------isn't it?

[UTAH]

I'm curious if Bo is feeling the heat this season. Phoenix/Scottsdale, where a sister lives, just set a new record for having 100F days for 100 days straight (but it's a dry heat).

Hunter

[FredK]

Amount of rain this way just east of Phoenix, is what you would get after rinsing a cup out and watching the last few drops drip out. So far I feel lucky with one of the few wells in the area that can get water for the few trees in the front yard.