Another hot day on O’Town. While reading the depressing headlines I came across this in The Guardian:

New data has revealed extraordinary rates of global heating in the Arctic, up to seven times faster than the global average.

The heating is occurring in the North Barents Sea, a region where fast rising temperatures are suspected to trigger increases in extreme weather in North America, Europe and Asia. The researchers said the heating in this region was an “early warning” of what could happen across the rest of the Arctic.

The new figures show annual average temperatures in the area are rising across the year by up to 2.7C a decade, with particularly high rises in the months of autumn of up to 4C a decade. This makes the North Barents Sea and its islands the fastest warming place known on Earth.

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/15/new-data-reveals-extraordinary-global-heating-in-the-arctic

There’s so much more happening. Russia has a methane leak at a mine that’s dumping 90 tons of methane/hour into the atmosphere. Will Russia do anything about it? Not while it’s pushing its illegal invasion of Ukraine. (link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/15/methane-leak-at-russian-mine-could-be-largest-ever-discovered )

Today’s weather:

• Morning low at 5:30 am was 79° F
• Today’s high at 5:00 pm was 96° F
• Humidity was 65%
• No rain
• Cloudy/hazy conditions

Correction to yesterday’s conditions: we actually had a 1/2 inch of rainfall at or a little after 9 pm.