2020 A Year Of Crushed Records Across West; Much Of What Didn't Burned Down Burned Up In Heat Waves

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With many more at the link . . .

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On July 10, Alamosa, Colorado, set a temperature record for a daily low (37 degrees Fahrenheit). Later that day, it set another record for the daily high (92 degrees). Phoenix, Arizona, set an all-time record for monthly mean temperature in July (98.3 degrees), only to see that record fall in August (99.1 degrees Fahrenheit). The temperature in the burgeoning city exceeded 100 degrees on 145 days in 2020 — another record.

Westwide in August, 214 monthly and 18 all-time high-temperature records were tied or broken, including in Porthill, Idaho (103 degrees), Mazama, Washington (103 degrees), and Goodwin Peak, Oregon (101 degrees). By the end of October, Phoenix had experienced 197 heat-associated deaths — about five times the yearly average during the early 2000s.

In Death Valley National Park, the mercury hit 130 on August 16, breaking the previous all-time record set in 2013. Across the Western U.S., hundreds of monthly and all-time high-temperature records were broken in August, including in several places in Idaho and Washington, where the mercury climbed above 100 degrees.

Warm temperatures in Alaska caused ice on the Chukchi Sea to melt, leaving record-tying amounts of open sea.

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https://grist.org/climate/from-alaska-to-california-the-climate-is-off-kilter-in-the-west/?platform=hootsuite

[Wellstone ruled]

1. What is really scary is,

here in Vegas,our last measurable Rainfall was April 22 nd, 210+ days without rain and each passing day sets another record. Last year Yuma Arizona,which is considered the Driest City in the US,had more rain than Las Vegas. BTW,Death Valley has had more total Rain than Vegas.

[NickB79]

2. Any bets on where the tens of millions of climate refugees from the Southwest will go?

Oregon, Washington, the Great Lakes region.