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Hotter Than Ever Northern Hemisphere Summer 2018


This piece linked below from the Washington Post has some great graphs and gifs that show all the hot spots in the northern hemisphere this summer.

I sure know that every summer now for the last few years it is much hotter than it used to be when I first moved here some 20+ years ago.

Back then I could have gotten by without air conditioning and there were some summers I never used it or perhaps less than 5 times a year.

I remember once when I did want to use it, it wasn't working and when I got an air conditioning technician to come round he told me that the problem was related to the fact that I wasn't using it often enough. He told me that even if it's not hot you need to run it sometimes. So that's how infrequently I was using it.

But not anymore. The last 3 or 4 years I am running my air conditioning quite consistently. Not every day, but for weeks at a time I have it running during periods when the temperature is reaching highs in the low-to-mid 30 degrees Celsius day after day.

Anyhow, take a look at the great graphics in this piece, Red hot planet: This summer’s punishing and historic heat in 7 maps and charts.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2018/08/17/red-hot-planet-this-summers-punishing-and-historic-heat-in-7-maps-and-charts/

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