{"id":2645,"date":"2015-04-14T09:14:17","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T13:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=2645"},"modified":"2015-04-14T09:14:17","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T13:14:17","slug":"californias-recent-heat-shatters-all-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/04\/californias-recent-heat-shatters-all-records\/","title":{"rendered":"California’s recent heat shatters all records"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the consequences of the continuing drought in California has been the unprecedented string of extremely high temperatures that have occurred in the last few years. \u00a0Normally a portion of the sun’s energy that hits the earth goes to evaporating water from the surface, either from soils or water bodies or indirectly through evapotranspiration from plants.<\/p>\n

But with the recent dry conditions, all of that energy is going into raising the temperature. \u00a0The result of that is a string of three years with temperatures above anything previously seen since official records began in 1895. \u00a0This comes on top of rising temperatures which show up as a long-term trend in the record (see the graph below). \u00a0You can read a Bloomberg story from this past week about it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can create a similar graph for your own area using the NCDC Climate at a Glance tool (minus the fancy black and red coloring which was provided by Bloomberg) at https:\/\/www.ncdc.noaa.gov\/cag<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Source:<\/a>
Source: Bloomberg\/NOAA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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One of the consequences of the continuing drought in California has been the unprecedented string of extremely high temperatures that have occurred in the last few years. \u00a0Normally a portion of the sun’s energy that hits the earth goes to evaporating water from the surface, either from soils or water bodies or indirectly through evapotranspiration […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,9,15,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science","category-climate-summaries","category-drought","category-sources-of-weather-and-climate-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2645"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2684,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions\/2684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}