{"id":279984,"date":"2023-09-22T21:07:57","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T19:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=279984"},"modified":"2023-09-22T21:07:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T19:07:59","slug":"l-a-times-article-falsely-asserts-u-s-had-record-high-summer-temperatures-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=279984","title":{"rendered":"L A Times Article Falsely Asserts U.S. Had \u201cRecord\u201d High Summer Temperatures in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guest essay by Larry Hamlin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The L A Times ran an article addressing the year 2023 Northern Hemisphere summer temperatures<\/a> which falsely claimed that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut in Britain and the United States, global records go back to the mid-1800s, and the two countries\u2019 weather and science agencies are expected to concur that this summer has been a record breaker.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Despite all the climate alarmist politically driven ignorance-based hype about \u201crecord\u201d year summer 2023 temperatures the reality of the year 2023 summer temperatures in the U.S. and other global locations are, in fact, disputed by NOAA\u2019s measured data.         <\/p>\n\n\n\n

NOAA\u2019s year 2023 U.S. temperature data records covering the NOAA defined 3-month summer June through August period actually shows that U.S. 2023 summer temperatures were far below \u201crecord\u201d summer maximum temperature levels regardless of whether one is looking at NOAA\u2019s national, regional, state, county or city summer temperature data.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking first at\u00a0NOAA\u2019s National Contiguous U.S. Maximum Temperature<\/a>\u00a0for year 2023 (shown below) we see a maximum temperature of 85.72 F which represents the 109th highest maximum summer temperature of the 129 maximum summer temperatures identified. There are 20 years in which the Contiguous U.S. Maximum Temperature was higher than in 2023 with the highest ever being in 1936 at 87.92 F.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The year 2023 is not even close to being a \u201crecord\u201d maximum highest summer temperature for the Contiguous U.S.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking next at\u00a0NOAA\u2019s West Regional Time Series<\/a>\u00a0for year 2023 (shown below for the West Region) we see a maximum temperature of 86.6 F which represents the 73rd highest maximum temperature of the 129 maximum summer temperatures identified. There are 56 years in which the West Regional Maximum Temperature was higher than 2023 with the highest ever being in 2021 at 91.2 F.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There are 7 other NOAA Regional Areas which are the Ohio Valley, Upper Midwest, Northeast, Northwest, South, Southeast, Southwest and Northern Rockies Plains of the U.S. with each of these showing that the year 2023 maximum summer temperature is not the \u201crecord\u201d highest with these \u201crecord\u201d highest maximum years being 1936, 1988, 1949, 2021, 2011, 2020 and 1936 respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The year 2023 is not even close to a \u201crecord\u201d maximum highest summer temperature for any of NOAA\u2019s U.S. Regions.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking next at the\u00a0NOAA\u2019s Statewide Time Series Maximum Temperature<\/a>\u00a0for year 2023 (shown below California) we see a maximum temperature of 87.9 F which represents the 77th highest maximum temperature out of the 129 maximum summer temperatures identified. There are 52 years in which California\u2019s Statewide Maximum Temperature was higher than in year 2023 with the highest ever being in 2021 at 91.9 F.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Of the 48 States in the Contiguous U.S. 47 did not see a \u201crecord\u201d maximum highest summer temperature in 2023. Only Louisiana has a \u201crecord\u201d maximum highest summer temperature in year 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

California\u2019s year 2023 summer temperature was not even close to a \u201crecord\u201d maximum summer temperature<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

47 of the 48 Contiguous U.S. States did not have a \u201crecord\u201d maximum summer temperature<\/strong>.      <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking next at\u00a0NOAA\u2019s County Time Series Maximum Temperature<\/a>\u00a0for year 2023 (shown below for Los Angeles County) we see a maximum temperature of 85.0 F which represents the 49th highest out of 129 maximum summer temperatures identified. There are 80 years in which the Los Angeles County Maximum Temperature was higher than in year 2023 with the highest ever being in 2006 at 89.7 F.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There are 58 California counties listed in NOAA\u2019s County Time Series and none these counties had a \u201crecord\u201d maximum highest summer temperature in 2023. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking next at\u00a0NOAA\u2019s City Time Series Maximum Temperature<\/a>\u00a0for year 2023 (shown below for Los Angeles) we see a maximum temperature of 72.8 F which represents the 47th highest summer temperature out of the 79 identified. There are 32 years in which the Los Angeles City Maximum Temperature was higher than in year 2023 with the highest being in 2006 at 76.8 F.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There are 9 California cities (including Death Valley) listed in NOAA\u2019s City Time Series and none of these cities had a \u201crecord\u201d maximum highest summer temperatures in 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NOAA\u2019s temperature data as identified and addressed in the above discussion for year 2023 clearly indicates that the U.S did not have \u201crecord\u201d breaking summer temperatures in year 2023<\/strong> \u2013 not at the national level, not at the nations regional level, not at the nations state level, not at the level of California\u2019s 58 counties, and not at the level of 9 major California cities. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite these outcomes in California and the U.S. climate incompetent alarmist politicians and news media will continue to falsely hype \u201crecord breaking heat\u201d as being present across the nation and its states, regions, counties, and cities based on the grossly and completely invalid misapplication of a global wide temperature averaging outcome that cannot define temperature outcomes at specific global regional, national, country, state, county, or city locals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, given the 2023 summer temperature outcomes of the U.S. addressed above it seems unlikely that the Global Region of North American had \u201crecord\u201d summer temperature outcomes as hyped by the propaganda driven alarmist media. This outcome is further addressed below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alaska highest Maximum Summer Temperatures Peak<\/a>\u00a0was 65.3 F in 2004 with the year 2023 maximum summer temperature being only 60.6 F in 2023\u00a0making it the 85th out of 99 total yearly maximums as shown below<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The highest reported temperature measured in Canada this year was 41.4 C in British Columbia\u2019s South Coast<\/a> on August 14, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canada\u2019s\u00a0highest ever reported temperatures<\/a>\u00a0are shown below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This data clearly supports that Canada did not have \u201crecord\u201d high maximum summer temperatures in year 2023 which is consistent with the same outcome for Alaska whose territories occupy the same Northern Hemisphere global latitudes as Canada.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Given that neither the U.S., Alaska nor Canada had \u201crecord\u201d high maximum summer temperatures in 2023 it seems extremely probable that neither did the entire North America Global Region.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But despite this reality in the inane ignorant based climate alarmist political propaganda world the alarmism hype will continue unabated. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The L A Times ran an article\u00a0addressing the year 2023 Northern Hemisphere summer temperatures\u00a0which falsely claimed that: \u201cBut in Britain and the United States, global records go back to the mid-1800s, and the two countries\u2019 weather and science agencies are expected to concur that this summer has been a record breaker.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":279999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818244,691819743,691820965,691819218,691818397],"class_list":{"0":"post-279984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-climate-alarmist","9":"tag-climate-propaganda","10":"tag-hottest-ever","11":"tag-l-a-times","12":"tag-noaa","14":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/OIG-2023-08-20T200520.540.jpeg?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1aPS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":284140,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=284140","url_meta":{"origin":279984,"position":0},"title":"NYT Claims Record September Temperature Indicates Accelerated Climate Change \u2013 It Doesn\u2019t","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"20\/10\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Just another scare story of climate scientist Zeke Hausfather because a single record warm month of data is not an indication of \u201cevidence that global warming has accelerated.\u201d The post appeared first on ClimateREALISM A guest opinion article in\u00a0The New York Times\u00a0by Zeke Hausfather, Ph.D, titled \u201cI Study Climate Change.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"CO2\"","block_context":{"text":"CO2","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=co2"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/OIG-2023-08-20T200520.540.jpeg?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/OIG-2023-08-20T200520.540.jpeg?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/OIG-2023-08-20T200520.540.jpeg?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/OIG-2023-08-20T200520.540.jpeg?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":283619,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=283619","url_meta":{"origin":279984,"position":1},"title":"Major Climate Alarmist Fail: \u201cThe Hottest Summer Ever\u201d that Never Was","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"17\/10\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"The \u201chottest summer ever\u201d is a failure by climate alarmist and the climate boogeyman media. 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