I’m back from a week of vacation and am updating the daily almanac…last week we had highs near 90 and low in the 60s. Today we barely made it out of the 60s and we’re heading for the lower 40s tonight.
The winds will abate tomorrow, but it will stay very cool. We are not going to break any records, but it feels like it though, after such a hot summer. The forecast stays cool and quiet at least through the weekend.
Summer Review…
If we look at the mean daily temperature (averaging daily highs with lows) for this past summer, the numbers are staggering. We keep records in Lafayette going back to 1893. July 2005 was the 2nd hottest on record, August was 2nd hottest, and September was the hottest for our 112 year period! Therefore, it can be loosely be concluded that this past summer was hottest on record.
Did the local heat translate to stronger nastier, hurricanes in the Gulf? It didn’t hurt, probably helped, but we are in a period of increased hurricane activity that will likely continue for another decade, period. I don’t subscribe to the theory that it is a part of global warming…and I question many the global warming theories themselves…there’s plenty of validity in current theory, but a lot of politics have mixed in over the last 15-20 years…I’ll stop here!
The nature of science is to question and revise theory in search of the truth…
Rob Perillo