This updates my post from August 8 about the northwest North America heatwave. For completeness I repeat some of the information in that earlier post here.
I was pretty blown away (and sweating) during 83 degrees (truck thermometer) about 100 miles south of Deadhorse during early August. I’ve been recently commenting to friends that my wardrobe is having to be adjusted and makes me think of the analogy of wardrobe as climate and what you wear on a day is the weather. The climate shift is enough that I’m having to acquire more summer-type clothing. Yikes.
From Norman Wells to Inuvik is a pretty large swath of territory to be roasting under those temps. I am alarmed to be seeing the numbers ratcheting upwards all over the high Arctic.
Once ERA5 is posted through the 9th I'll add a graphic showing the max hourly temperature across this region. Not the same as site-specific high temperatures but that will give a good idea of the spatial extent of the extreme heat.
I was pretty blown away (and sweating) during 83 degrees (truck thermometer) about 100 miles south of Deadhorse during early August. I’ve been recently commenting to friends that my wardrobe is having to be adjusted and makes me think of the analogy of wardrobe as climate and what you wear on a day is the weather. The climate shift is enough that I’m having to acquire more summer-type clothing. Yikes.
From Norman Wells to Inuvik is a pretty large swath of territory to be roasting under those temps. I am alarmed to be seeing the numbers ratcheting upwards all over the high Arctic.
Once ERA5 is posted through the 9th I'll add a graphic showing the max hourly temperature across this region. Not the same as site-specific high temperatures but that will give a good idea of the spatial extent of the extreme heat.
Yes it will and be enormously helpful. Do we have data for the Siberian area from Novaya Zemla east.. or are they sitting on it?
August 16 addition: I've added the maximum 1-hour temperature from ERA5-Land to the post:
https://alaskaclimate.substack.com/p/update-august-2024-arctic-heatwave
Thanks very much!
Yes we do. There's been no disruption to the usual met/climate station data flow from Russia, and of course all covered by reanalysis.
Great!