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Wild Weather Anniversary: Record-Breaking Summer
By Martha White
June 20, 2016
In New York City, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia declared public beaches open all night for the duration, promising not to arrest anyone. City swimming pools lengthened their hours.
Nearly 1,000 deaths nationwide—76 in New York City—were attributed to the 10-day heat wave, some from heat stroke or lung ailments, others from accidental drownings as nonswimmers desperately attempted to cool off.
Canadian towns and cities also felt the severity of the sun. Ontario alone marked over 500 deaths from the heat.
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Climate Change in Colorado: A Synthesis to Support Water Resources Management and Adaptation
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France’s Fake Record: Weather Agencies Can Alter Datasets, But Can’t Rewrite The Newspapers
When it was made public Friday that France had recorded its “highest-ever temperature”, the media went into a frenzy. But once again we are learning that it’s more fake than fact.
Last Friday the mercury soared to 45.9°C (114.6°F) in Gallargues-le-Montueux in southern France according to French national weather service Météo-France. Media outlets not only blared the news, but sounded the global warming climate crisis alarms. That of course is very hot, but has it happened before?
Indeed once again it turns out that Friday’s “all-time record high” is likely far more fake than real. It is now being exposed that major heat waves with even higher temperatures in fact had occurred in France in August, 1930.
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"In the early 1920s and 1930s, temperatures were high, similar to that of the present, and this affected the glacial melt"
At the time many glaciers underwent a melt similar or even higher than what we have seen in the last ten years. When it became colder again in the 1950s and 1960s, glaciers actually started growing," says Dr. Kurt H. Kjær "
"Results showed that the sea ice extent has been far from stable throughout the last 10,000 years.
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A new perspective on the 1930s mega-heat waves across central United States
Cowan, Tim; Hegerl, Gabi
Abstract
The unprecedented hot and dry conditions that plagued contiguous United States during the 1930s caused widespread devastation for many local communities and severely dented the emerging economy. The heat extremes experienced during the aptly named Dust Bowl decade were not isolated incidences, but part of a tendency towards warm summers over the central United States in the early 1930s, and peaked in the boreal summer 1936. Using high-quality daily maximum and minimum temperature observations from more than 880 Global Historical Climate Network stations across the United States and southern Canada, we assess the record breaking heat waves in the 1930s Dust Bowl decade. A comparison is made to more recent heat waves that have occurred during the latter half of the 20th century (i.e., in a warming world), both averaged over selected years and across decades. We further test the ability of coupled climate models to simulate mega-heat waves (i.e. most extreme events) across the United States in a pre-industrial climate without the impact of any long-term anthropogenic warming. Well-established heat wave metrics based on the temperature percentile threshold exceedances over three or more consecutive days are used to describe variations in the frequency, duration, amplitude and timing of the events. Casual factors such as drought severity/soil moisture deficits in the lead up to the heat waves (interannual), as well as the concurrent synoptic conditions (interdiurnal) and variability in Pacific and Atlantic sea surface temperatures (decadal) are also investigated. Results suggest that while each heat wave summer in the 1930s exhibited quite unique characteristics in terms of their timing, duration, amplitude, and regional clustering, a common factor in the Dust Bowl decade was the high number of consecutive dry seasons, as measured by drought indicators such as the Palmer Drought Severity and Standardised Precipitation indices, that preceded the mega-heat waves. This suggests that land surface feedbacks, resulting from anomalously dry soil prior to summer, amplified the heat extremes triggering the mega-heat waves. Using the model experiments, we assess whether the combined warm phases of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation provide a necessary condition to trigger decade-long droughts that spawn mega-heat waves to cluster across consecutive summers.
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The Great Heat Wave of 1936; Hottest Summer in U.S. on Record
June of 1936 saw unusual heat build initially in two nodes, one centered over the Southeast and another over the Rocky Mountains and western Plains. This differs from the current heat wave that began mostly over Texas and the Deep South.
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Killer heat wave cooked a confession out of St. Paul kidnapper in 1936
A two-week heat wave peaked on July 14, when the daytime temperature reached an unprecedented 108 degrees in the Twin Cities — it remains the highest ever recorded. The heat caused 51 deaths that day in St. Paul alone.
It was so oppressive that notorious criminal Alvin Karpis pleaded guilty to kidnapping St. Paul brewery president William Hamm Jr., preferring to face a possible life sentence instead of enduring a trial in the stifling federal courthouse (now Landmark Center).
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This was the worst heat wave in Toronto history
"Toronto might suffer during today's heat waves, but before the advent of air conditioning, an extended period of 30+ Celsius temperatures could be downright dangerous. Such was the case during the city's worst ever heat wave, which took place between July 8 to 15, 1936."
"In fact, the summer of 1936 was historically hot. Other cities in North America experienced similar fatalities as a result of the unrelenting temperatures, and the economic toll from drought and crop loss.
Before the heat broke, over 225 residents had perished from the punishing weather in Toronto. Fatalities across the country are estimated at 1,180 for the week, while the total heat-related deaths across the continent during the summer of '36 exceeded 5,000."
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The British heatwave of 1936
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The North American Heat Wave of 1936
Reports of dramatic and horrific scenes poured in from around the country. The Midwest had been battling a grasshopper infestation for several years, and as temperatures climbed their broiled, lifeless bodies began dropping from the sky like antennaed hail. In New York City, which hit a record high of 106 degrees, 75 seamstresses at a single factory fell into a collective, heat-induced swoon. In Detroit, one of the steamiest cities, doctors and nurses collapsed while treating patients, overcome by heat and exhaustion, and the morgues were overrun with bodies. By summer’s end, upward of 5,000 Americans and 1,100 Canadians had died from heat-related causes or drowned while trying to cool off in rivers and lakes.
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La Crosse, WI
Weather Forecast Office
Heatwave of July 1936
| Location |
July 5 |
July 6 |
July 7 |
July 8 |
July 9 |
July 10 |
July 11 |
| Decorah, IA |
101°F |
106°F |
104°F |
101°F |
104°F |
103°F |
107°F |
| New Hampton, IA |
106°F |
104°F |
102°F |
100°F |
100°F |
104°F |
104°F |
| Rochester, MN |
92°F |
105°F |
102°F |
99°F |
101°F |
105°F |
104°F |
| Grand Meadow, MN |
93°F |
104°F |
100°F |
97°F |
98°F |
103°F |
102°F |
| Mondovi, WI |
90°F |
M |
100°F |
101°F |
95°F |
92°F |
106°F |
| Richland Center, WI |
93°F |
100°F |
102°F |
100°F |
101°F |
103°F |
105°F |
| Hatfield, WI |
87°F |
95°F |
103°F |
100°F |
102°F |
100°F |
104°F |
| La Crosse, WI |
94°F |
100°F |
104°F |
102°F |
102°F |
100°F |
104°F |
| Lancaster, WI |
98°F |
101°F |
103°F |
100°F |
101°F |
102°F |
105°F |
| Viroqua, WI |
95°F |
100°F |
102°F |
102°F |
99°F |
98°F |
104°F |
| Mather, WI |
88°F |
90°F |
97°F |
101°F |
100°F |
102°F |
101°F |
| Medford, WI |
84°F |
89°F |
100°F |
97°F |
98°F |
94°F |
100°F |
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NOAA Reinstates July 1936 As The Hottest Month On Record
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, criticized for manipulating temperature records to create a warming trend, has now been caught warming the past and cooling the present.
This statement by NOAA was still available on their website when checked by The Daily Caller News Foundation. But when meteorologist and climate blogger Anthony Watts went to check the NOAA data on Sunday he found that the science agency had quietly reinstated July 1936 as the hottest month on record in the U.S.
“Two years ago during the scorching summer of 2012, July 1936 lost its place on the leaderboard and July 2012 became the hottest month on record in the United States,” Watts wrote. “Now, as if by magic, and according to NOAA’s own data, July 1936 is now the hottest month on record again. The past, present, and future all seems to be ‘adjustable’ in NOAA’s world.”
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The Heat Waves Of The 1930’s
A Washington, D.C. heat wave cartoon from July 28, 1930. The heat wave is pictured trying to break a "sitting record," imitating the popular flagpole sitters of the day. The summer of 1930 set the record in Washington for number of days that temperatures reached or exceeded 100°F, at 11 days. The hottest temperature of 106°F occurred on July 20. Pulitzer Prize winner Clifford Berryman drew the cartoon. Source: The book "Washington Weather."
Se this, too
The heat waves of 1934 and 1936 in Mid West and Great Plains are well known. But, perhaps, what is less well appreciated is that record breaking heat waves were both more extensive geographically and were not just confined to these two years.
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1936 North American heat wave
The 1936 North American heat wave was one of the most severe heat waves in the modern history of North America. It took place in the middle of the Great Depression and Dust Bowl of the 1930s and caused catastrophic human suffering and an enormous economic toll. The death toll exceeded 5,000, and huge numbers of crops were destroyed by the heat and lack of moisture. Many state and city record high temperatures set during the 1936 heat wave stood until the summer 2012 North American heat wave.[2][3] The 1936 heat wave followed one of the coldest winters on record.
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