From The Guardian:
France, Spain and other western European nations braced for a sweltering weekend that is set to break records and sparked concern about forest fires and the effects of climate change.
Temperatures already nudged over 40C (104F) in parts of France on Friday.
The weather on Saturday will represent a peak of a June heatwave that is in line with warnings from scientists that such phenomena will now hit earlier than usual because of climate change.
Temperatures are due to relent slightly from Sunday, with thunderstorms forecast in parts of France and elsewhere in Europe.
But French state weather forecaster Meteo France said June temperature records had already been beaten in 11 areas on Friday and could reach as high as 42C in some areas on Saturday.
In Spain, forest fires burned nearly 9,000 hectares (22,240 acres) of land in the north-west Sierra de la Culebra region on Friday, forcing about 200 people from their homes, regional authorities said.
Today’s Orlando weather:
- Morning low at 6:00 am was 80° F
- Today’s high at 2:00 pm was 95° F
- Humidity was 50%
- No rain
- Mostly hazy conditions
Today’s weather was peculiar. This was supposed to be a big rain day, with all three iOS apps I have on my iPhone (Apple Weather, Dark Sky, and Hello Weather) forecasting rain starting at 2 pm. The problem with that forecast is it was wrong, at least in my neighborhood. The skies grew cloudy, then overcast, and I could hear the occasional bit of thunder in the far distance, but we never got any rain. I even had apps saying we were getting rain, yet when I went outside to look, it was dry. The temperature (thankfully!) did drop, by ten degrees by 5 pm.
I’m to the point where I’m purchasing components to build several small weather stations for my back yard, tied to a central station in the house with LoRa, so I can have greater accuracy with local weather forecasting. I’ve come quite a way with MicroPython and ESP-IDF on Espressif boards, pushed there in part because I can’t purchase any Raspberry Pies from anyone. I’ve discovered that I can write sophisticated applications in Python or C++ for those boards, which are much smaller than a Raspberry Pi and consume a lot less power. Those boards, and specifically, those chips on those boards, are still available. I’m really disappointed in the Raspberry Pi Foundation. The Foundation’s original “promise” to be there for the experimenter is garbage.
Radarwitch
Up here we have seen no Summer so far: temperatures remain cool with highs in the 60s at most, and it rained again last night. This sounds ‘safe’ unless you remember that was how 2017 started, before it switched over to hot and dry and ignited large areas of the province the first week in July. It is the extremes which caused trouble in weather as in politics. Most people have no understanding of either, and don’t comprehend that things are not wholly either good or bad; crops don’t grow without both sunshine and rain, in the right amounts at the right times. The attitude of not listening to people learned in their field will be the downfall of civilization.
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