Heat wave remains top headline
The heat wave remains the top headline and every article has advice on what to do.
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su 08:36 on 2024-06-19 Permalink
I was thinking this heatwave is a big hullaballoo about a 2 day anomalie until I checked longterm historical norms for our location: https://climate.weather.gc.ca/climate_normals/index_e.html
MarcG 09:22 on 2024-06-19 Permalink
Outdoor air quality is kinda trash, too. Here’s a local organization associated with QPIRG Concordia that distrubutes free masks.
Mark 09:45 on 2024-06-19 Permalink
There are some interesting trends going on in weather reporting. On one hand, we have the media that needs to create buzz for stories and tried to pick up on every possible “exciting” event to draw clicks. On the other hand, the climate is actually changing. but gradual changes don’t generate as much buzz as “deadly heat dome” or “class 3 kill storm” (thanks simpsons for that one). Mind you, it looks like the the changes are not going to be so gradual after all, and we might have a closer correlation between weather and climate sooner than later.
Funny enough, Meteomedia’s site had the following headline on Monday “la prochaine canicule, du jamais vu depuis des décennies”. So I clicked on the article hoping to see the records that we would be breaking (earliest heatwave?) but nothing in the article spoke about what was so special…like no mention why this heatwave would be unlike anything we’ve seen since the 80s or 90s. I guess the weather network doesn’t have to abide by the same journalistic standards as other media?
Kate 15:35 on 2024-06-19 Permalink
The regular media have been making the most of the shock value of projected windchill and humidex values a lot in recent years, too.
Mozai 02:24 on 2024-06-20 Permalink
Mark if you want to see what records are broken, there’s a blessed obsessive person posting to reddit in /r/MontrealWxRecords . “With a forecast humidex of 41, [june 18] could be Montréal’s muggiest spring day in more than 20 years, since Jun 7th, 1999.”
Mark 14:18 on 2024-06-20 Permalink
Thanks yeah I’ve been seeing his posts. What I found surprising was that there wasn’t any mention of any record being broken in the article on the meteomedia site, despite the alarmist title suggesting otherwise. Obviously, this is a really early heatwave. But I guess the media has to compete with social media tactics to draw people in, aka “these 10 common household items are deadly…click here to find out more”…Wondering how much worse it will get with the rapid expansion of AI and likelihood of the “dead internet theory”