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First reports coming out if Puerto Rico aren't good. Mayor of San Juan is saying the Puerto Rico they knew is gone. Some places will have to have their electric and other infrastructure completely rebuilt from scratch. May mean months without electricity for tons of people. Pretty much the whole island is without power currently.

90 degrees at kickoff in Green Bay today for their game against Cincinnati. Broke the record for hottest Packers game by 6 degrees. Average high is 66 on September 24.

Ah yes, hurricanes in Ireland is normal right?

On NPR, the BBC guy mentioned a patron stumbling out of a bar and needing the assistance of the cabbie to get in the cab, due to the wind.

Didn't sound too out of the ordinary to me...

This will have to be the hottest October on record in Tucson. We're on track to only have about 5 days below 90 the whole month (average highs drop below 90 by about Oct 5th). Most days have hit the 95-98 range with nightly lows being very high as well. Consistently 10 to 15 above average. We've been the hottest in relation to average of any part of America for the last year or two. It's 82 degrees at 1045 pm in mid October for chrissakes.

Sucks that this is the new normal.

scumdevils86 wrote:This will have to be the hottest October on record in Tucson. We're on track to only have about 5 days below 90 the whole month (average highs drop below 90 by about Oct 5th). Most days have hit the 95-98 range with nightly lows being very high as well. Consistently 10 to 15 above average. We've been the hottest in relation to average of any part of America for the last year or two. It's 82 degrees at 1045 pm in mid October for chrissakes.

Sucks that this is the new normal.

Not looking good for the next few months either...

Its going to be 100 today and tomorrow in LA where they are starting the “Fall” Classic.

Will be 75 in a week there though. 98 or 99 in Tucson today. Thankfully will be down to the mid and upper 80s by the end of the week.

Up the coast too, and no cooling in my office outside of a fan.




My dad in Tucson sent me this:

Fall canceled for Arizona
Posted: Oct 22, 2017 5:55 PM
Updated: Oct 22, 2017 5:55 PM
Written By John PatrickCONNECT


TUCSON - Record setting heat is on the way to Tucson for the start of the workweek.

A strong ridge of high pressure will set up over the west coast in the coming days driving temperatures a good 10-15 degrees above average. The forecast high of 96 degrees on Monday will break the previous record for an October 23rd, which was 94 degrees set back in 1933.

Tucson will likely hit 95 degrees again on Tuesday making it one of the latest occurrences ever for the Old Pueblo to reach that number. The latest 95 degree day to occur was actually just last year on October 27th, 2016.

Temperatures in the 90s stick around through at least Thursday before the 80s return heading into next weekend.

going to be 100 degrees today -- i may check into The Island

Been at the top of that mountain a couple of times. Once when it was snowing in July.

Yet another first for Tucson I'm sure.

https://weather.com/weather/tenday/l/USAZ0247:1:US" target="_blank

We are on track to not have a single day of sub 80 degree high temperatures in Tucson before November 15th. That is insane.

Based on all the NOAA models and future forecasts I'm basically convinced we are just not going to get anything resembling a normal "winter" for Tucson this year. I don't know if we ever will again with the rapid realization that the climate is changing faster than anyone thought.

It will be pushing 90 still next week. Our highs and lows have been consistently 10-15 degrees above average and it is just not cooling off in a normal pattern. We might have a month or two (Dec/Jan) of temps in the upper 70s and lows in the 40s/50s. Other than that, no winter. No freezes. No chunks of days with highs in the 40s/50s like Tucson usually sees at least once. Those days might just be gone for good.

Then back to the 80s/90s in February/March.

What's this wet stuff sprinkling down from the sky?

scumdevils86 wrote:Based on all the NOAA models and future forecasts I'm basically convinced we are just not going to get anything resembling a normal "winter" for Tucson this year. I don't know if we ever will again with the rapid realization that the climate is changing faster than anyone thought.

Jefe wrote:

scumdevils86 wrote:Based on all the NOAA models and future forecasts I'm basically convinced we are just not going to get anything resembling a normal "winter" for Tucson this year. I don't know if we ever will again with the rapid realization that the climate is changing faster than anyone thought.

I know you don't believe in science or read any academic material but keep laughing

Still no sign of the 70s any time soon.

beating the same drum here but...forecast says upper 80s on thanksgiving now. it'll never end.

92 on Sunday coming up

i was in Phx for thxgiving and it was unbearable -- i could not believe how hot it was the entire time, WED-SUN

Toasty times in Tucson
Among the locations where heat records for so late in the year were toppled over the weekend were San Jose, CA (80°F on Saturday), Cheyenne, WY (71°F on Sunday—the latest 70°F on record in data going back to 1872), and Casper, WY (67°F on Sunday). Tucson, AZ, had its hottest day so late in the season with 88°F on Saturday, and then bested itself with 92°F on Sunday. The Sunday reading in Tucson was just 2°F shy of the city’s all-time November record—an especially impressive feat given that we’re near the end of an autumn month, when the mildest readings typically arrive sooner rather than later. Tucson notched daily record highs on all four days of the holiday weekend (Thurs-Sun), and it’s racked up a total 21 record highs for the year thus far. “With a period of record starting in 1894, having almost 7% of all days this year attaining record warmth is quite unusual,” said WU weather historian Christopher Burt.

97cats wrote:i was in Phx for thxgiving and it was unbearable -- i could not believe how hot it was the entire time, WED-SUN

I was in Prescott and it was in the 80's day. I only packed sweaters thinking I was heading to a Mountain weekend get away. Combined with the Bahamas disaster, the Territorial Cup, and sweating in sweaters I was pretty miserable all weekend.

we might be free and clear of the 80s by December 5th!

http://tucson.com/news/local/november-w ... aign=share" target="_blank

Thanks to a steady stream of 80-degree days and a couple of highs in the 90s, this was Tucson’s warmest November on record, according to the National Weather Service.

“We sounded like broken records talking about broken records,” said Ken Drozd, a NWS meteorologist.

This is a typical La Niña year — cooler-than-normal ocean temperatures drove the jet stream north — locking in dry and hot weather for the entire southwestern United States, while bringing colder, wetter weather to the Northwest.

November’s average temperature in Tucson of 69.2 degrees was 3.5 degrees higher than the last heat record for November, set in 2007. The 30-year normal average November temperature between 1981-2010, the standard yardstick for meteorologists, is almost 10 degrees colder.

60mph winds took my Arizona flag.

R.I.P.

It's actually wintery in Tucson today for the first time. Mostly cloudy and 60 currently.

LA is on fire

37 tomorrow night here. Mt Lemmon got snow yesterday afternoon

Actually is a freeze watch in town tomorrow night now. May be the only one we have before Christmas.

SoCal just smirks at the AZ weather posters.

It’s a White Christmas.

Chicat wrote:It’s a White Christmas.

I bet Richard Spencer is happy about that.

Cold, sunny, and white

Heading to Toos tomorrow for our annual family reunion. No need to bring any long pants.

Was pretty cold on Thursday Friday and Saturday, but what's normally the coldest week of the year in Tucson (Christmas to New year's day) will be nearly spring like.

azgreg wrote:

Chicat wrote:It’s a White Christmas.

I bet Richard Spencer is happy about that.

He can come shovel my driveway.

About 15 degrees above average (80 degrees) this Thurs/Fri

Walking the dog in 5 below zero weather this morning was a particularly shitty way to ring in the new year.

Yea we had like 10 days of Tucson winter now it's back up to being 15+ degrees above average. 75-83 every day last week and this.