same - now that i own a house, not really thrilled about the prospect of dealing with it. It was different when we were in a big condo building with buried power lines all around us.
Not remotely our region, but folks need to know what is going on in southern South America right now. Temps pushing 40C in the middle of winter at mid-latitude locations, some with elevation (1500+m). Hard to contemplate.
The South American heat wave ongoing is one of the most insane weather/climate events I've ever seen. Temps pushing 40C in the middle of winter at the mid latitudes. WTF.
I think if you took a period of record prior to the year 2000 and looked at Antarctic sea ice anomalies, you'd find they were approximately normally distributed. Of course perhaps now they aren't because there is rapid change going on.
relative to the rest of the country, we have certainly gotten off easy so far. Although it's just kinda following the theme of the year. Nothing extreme... it's just warm.
You're also conflating the raw calculation of std deviation (which is divorced from whether or not the data is normally distributed) vs a recurrence interval (which requires the PDF) - and the latter isn't mentioned in the tweet.
show your work in claiming that antarctic sea ice extent isn't normally distributed. and you can still calculate SD/recurrence probability on non-normal distributions as long as you can construct the PDF.
warm overnight lows continuing to do it - mid-upper 70s are routine now, even outside the cities. We basically have a Central FL climate at the height of summer.