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2026-07-10 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by Lord Garth 2026-07-10 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [2729 views ] Top

1 Projections for Sturgis, SD 8/7-16:

Temp HOT
Beer COLD
Tempers high
Whiskey reigns
Infrequent showers

Recommend body paint sunblock.

Posted by Skidmark 2026-07-10 04:02|| 2026-07-10 04:02|| Front Page Top

2 France's heatwave 'desert': River is reduced to giant sandbank as Western Europe suffers record-breaking temperatures

Posted by Skidmark 2026-07-10 06:09|| 2026-07-10 06:09|| Front Page Top

3 As part of Panic! at the Summer, one of my feeds put up a map of the continental US presenting high temperatures. Everywhere was triple digits. What they buried, is that it wasn't current temperature, but recorded high. But it was presented, at the glance, as current temperature.

Hate the media more.

Posted by swksvolFF 2026-07-10 10:37|| 2026-07-10 10:37|| Front Page Top

4 Tracking Western Europe's heatwave

Posted by Skidmark 2026-07-10 11:10|| 2026-07-10 11:10|| Front Page Top

5 Bah. Big deal! In Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, high temperatures exceeded 100 °F (38 °C) a total of 69 times, including a record 42 consecutive days from June 23 to August 3,[4] of which 28 days were above 105, and five days above 110.
Wiki - 1980 US Heat Wave
I was living in St. Louis at the time - 105 or so.

Posted by Bobby 2026-07-10 13:29|| 2026-07-10 13:29|| Front Page Top

6 [AI]
wichita falls tx, 100 days over 100 degrees

**Wichita Falls, Texas** holds the state record for the most days with temperatures at or above 100 degrees in a single year. In **2011**, the city reached **100 days** of 100-degree heat, breaking its previous record of **79 days** set in **1980**.

This record was driven by an epic drought and extreme heat, with the first 100-degree day occurring on **April 6, 2011**, and a streak of **52 consecutive days** over 100 degrees from late June to mid-August. As of mid-2026, no other Texas city has surpassed this annual milestone of triple-digit days.

Posted by Skidmark 2026-07-10 17:46|| 2026-07-10 17:46|| Front Page Top

7 How meaningful are those numbers beyond the general idea of summer heat? Meteorologist Anthony Watts has been tracking this stuff for a couple of decades, including collecting photographic and other evidence about the improper placement of most of the temperature measuring stations across the U.S. that prompted the NOAA to do a formal review.

Watts Up With That intro page for an overview of what is currently known.

Posted by trailing wife 2026-07-10 20:30|| 2026-07-10 20:30|| Front Page Top

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