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Will 2023 beat 1936? [1]
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Date: 2023-07-18
One of the strange bits of truth cited by climate deniers is that the summer of 1936 in the USA was really hot. They usually generalized this to something like, “we were way warmer in the 1930s than now” (Rush Limbaugh) or that “extreme weather was way worse in the 30s (Judith Currey).”
For those of you who don’t know the summer of 1936 and the summer of 1934, “the dust bowl” were at the time the hottest summers in the contiguous USA by far (they weren’t particularly hot globally.). 1934 was the hottest year in the US till 2000, a record that stood for 66 years. 1934 was the second hottest summer on record till 2011 and 1936 is still tied for number 1 with summer 2021. For June neither year was particularly hot, ranking 14 and 15th for the contiguous United States. For August 1936 ranks 6th and 1934 ranks 28th, but July 1936 is still the hottest July on record, by 0.03 degrees F. So I am wondering, is July 2023 gonna beat it? It’s really hot.
It matters how you choose your data. Since nights have gotten warmer faster than days, the minimum temperatures are much higher than they were back then, but the highs in 1936 are still by far the highest. However, measurements like cooling degree days, put 1936 far down the list of hottest summers. Average temp seems like a fair measurement.
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