Hot Weather in a Warming Climate - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com
The recent stretch of days topping 100 degrees in Washington was horrific, but hardly notable. I asked Andrew Freedman, of the Washington Post’s Capital Weather Gang blog and Climate Central, if he could round up 100-degree data for the city. In that roasting inaugural year of global warming news, 1988, there were 7 such days. In 1930, there were 11 (and far less air conditioning!).
Looking at the data in various ways, there is no real trend. I asked Claudia Tebaldi, a climate scientist at Cimate Central, to muse on the numbers in the context of long-term warming:I agree that the data we looked at this morning does not support any claim of a trend...
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