The endless summer — 2011. It’s been a wild ride with earthquakes, floods, wildfires, drought and heat. It may be that despite all the weather features that grabbed the headlines this past summer, it will be the heat that is remembered for generations to come. And the drought. (Not to mention the dreadful spring season [...]
What do air conditioners, ice cream cones, short shorts, bottles of water, sun block, sprinklers, flip-flops, garden hoses and — of course — sunglasses have in common? Summer for sure, but also they are all high-use items in a heat wave. In other words, if you’re selling those items and a heat wave befalls your [...]
I was listening to the radio a few days ago and the news anchor was talking about rolling blackouts due to the excessive heat in many areas of the country. “Here we go again,” I thought. After all, it’s the first week in August and we’ve seen this before. Seems California and the East Coast [...]
The heat wave in Russia has continued for so long that the world has moved on to other things. However, new today come these comments from Russian officials: “Nothing similar has been observed in the millennium history of the Russian state, which dates back to the acceptance of Christianity by ancient Russia in the late [...]
Last month we blogged about the heat in India and after an unusually warm March, a severe heat wave has hit northern and eastern India with temperatures across many states rising to 104-113F. India has four seasons: winter (January and February), summer (March to May), a monsoon rainy season (June to September), and a post-monsoon [...]
As warm, dry air blows in from the deserts of western Asia, cloud-free days across northern India are warming into the first heat wave of the season. Temperatures over 100F were recorded in many areas yesterday and the next few days look equally warm — if not more so. As noted on satellite imagery below, [...]