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August 2022 General Discussion


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Yawn. Latest from MKX:

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With precipitable water values over 2 inches during this time
period, efficient rainfall rates over areas that already saw a lot
of rain last night keep our threat of flash flooding there, but it
looks like it`s getting lower and lower. This system looks like it
will be more progressive than what we were thinking yesterday and
the heaviest rainfall might end up splitting around us.

 

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In what has become a familiar refrain, another scorching summer in northern Ohio. 

Akron is currently tied for 6th place with 2020 for the warmest June 1 - August 7 periods on record. While the top four on this list are all quite old, those years all cooled in late August. So all of the current record hottest summers are exclusively very recent (see table below). If the summer ended today, it would tie for hottest on record with 2020 and 2016. 2018 and 2021 are tied for third hottest on record at two-tenths of a degree below 2020 and 2016. It appears 2022 should follow suit, and end up somewhere in the mix with these recent years.

What's especially interesting and mindboggling is the station thread includes records from the University of Akron, and then present-day Akron Fulton International Airport for a while, before moving to the Akron-Canton Regional Airport in Green Township. If records were still taken at KAKR, a lot of these recent readings would be another 0.5-1F warmer.

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Very similar story in Toledo. If the summer ended today, it would rank as third warmest in between 2021 and 2020. I question the 1995 readings as the temperatures in the era (late 1980s - mid 1990s) were inflated by the HO83 hygrothermometer, which is known to have a substantial warm bias. Still very impressive... looking at top 22 of 150 years, we find 2002, 2005, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022. Just incredible never-ending heat, making the Dust Bowl era look mild. What really makes these readings impressive is Toledo Express airport is in a rather rural setting, situated in the middle of a green belt including the Oak Openings Preserve and Maumee State Forest, with nothing but cornfields and soybeans and scattered towns for hundreds of miles to the west.

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3 hours ago, TheClimateChanger said:

In what has become a familiar refrain, another scorching summer in northern Ohio. 

Akron is currently tied for 6th place with 2020 for the warmest June 1 - August 7 periods on record. While the top four on this list are all quite old, those years all cooled in late August. So all of the current record hottest summers are exclusively very recent (see table below). If the summer ended today, it would tie for hottest on record with 2020 and 2016. 2018 and 2021 are tied for third hottest on record at two-tenths of a degree below 2020 and 2016. It appears 2022 should follow suit, and end up somewhere in the mix with these recent years.

What's especially interesting and mindboggling is the station thread includes records from the University of Akron, and then present-day Akron Fulton International Airport for a while, before moving to the Akron-Canton Regional Airport in Green Township. If records were still taken at KAKR, a lot of these recent readings would be another 0.5-1F warmer.

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Shows how hard it is to put up big monthly temp anomalies in summer.  That June 1-August 7 period is a shade higher than 2 degrees warmer than average at Akron -- which doesn't sound extremely impressive -- yet is tied for 6th warmest.

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Catching up a bit...

Some high temps from this past Sat (Aug 6th) across the area...

95 MDW

95 ORD

94 RFD

94 Ex-Home

It also hit 90 at RFD this past Fri (Aug 5th).

90°+ day tally for the year...

24 - MDW
19 - RFD
19 - Ex-Home
16 - ORD
16 - Current Home

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2 hours ago, Hoosier said:

Shows how hard it is to put up big monthly temp anomalies in summer.  That June 1-August 7 period is a shade higher than 2 degrees warmer than average at Akron -- which doesn't sound extremely impressive -- yet is tied for 6th warmest.

Yes, not nearly as much movement as the wintertime. With that said, they keep redefining what is normal. Based on 1961-1990 normals, June was 67.8, July 71.9, and August 70.3. Now its 69.9 (+2.1F), 73.9 (+2.0F), and 72.3 (+2.0F). So it would have been considered more than 4F above normal as recently as 2000.

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57 minutes ago, TheClimateChanger said:

Yes, not nearly as much movement as the wintertime. With that said, they keep redefining what is normal. Based on 1961-1990 normals, June was 67.8, July 71.9, and August 70.3. Now its 69.9 (+2.1F), 73.9 (+2.0F), and 72.3 (+2.0F). So it would have been considered more than 4F above normal as recently as 2000.

Yeah, I'm using the new 1991-2020 averages.

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20 hours ago, hawkeye_wx said:

The Freeport area is getting clobbered again this morning.  24 hours ago they got 4-8 inches of rain.  This morning the same stations are getting another 3-5".

Meanwhile, much of southern Iowa has received less than an inch over the last 30 days.

We really did get lucky over the past week or so. Far enough southeast to avoid 10-15" of rain, but far enough northeast to avoid expanding drought conditions. Zero complaints here.

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