By Paul Homewood
Texas is trapped under a “heat dome” that is expected to bring more record highs and strain the power grid. As the heatwave expands through parts of Kansas, Oklahoma and all the way across the Gulf coast, tens of millions are facing excessive heat warnings.
Houston, the largest city in Texas, hit a high of 100F (38C) today, and officials are expecting daily high temperatures in Austin to remain above 100F for the next several days.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/27/texas-heatwave-temperatures-latest-weather-dome
The temperature reached 99F at Houston’s airport this week, but such temperatures are commonplace there:
http://climod2.nrcc.cornell.edu/
Houston is of course massively affected by UHI. Danevang is a tiny community 115km south of Houston, and temperatures there reached 99F during the week. But temperatures get over 100F there most years. Clearly the heat was at its most intense between the start of the record in 1896 and the 1960s:
This is yet another example of the media’s conspiracy to catastrophise regular summer weather.
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July 1, 2023 at 06:06AM
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