Guardian Surprised It’s Hot In Texas!
By Paul Homewood
Texas is trapped under a “heat dome” that is expected to bring more record highs and strain the power grid. As the heatwave expands through parts of Kansas, Oklahoma and all the way across the Gulf coast, tens of millions are facing excessive heat warnings.
Houston, the largest city in Texas, hit a high of 100F (38C) today, and officials are expecting daily high temperatures in Austin to remain above 100F for the next several days.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/27/texas-heatwave-temperatures-latest-weather-dome
The temperature reached 99F at Houston’s airport this week, but such temperatures are commonplace there:
http://climod2.nrcc.cornell.edu/
Houston is of course massively affected by UHI. Danevang is a tiny community 115km south of Houston, and temperatures there reached 99F during the week. But temperatures get over 100F there most years. Clearly the heat was at its most intense between the start of the record in 1896 and the 1960s:
This is yet another example of the media’s conspiracy to catastrophise regular summer weather.
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
I dont know why anybody reads the Gruniard because it is all just a load of lies and propaganda to try to bring in their One World Socialist dream .
To confirm their biases I expect. At least with The Mail other than for covid vax and possibly Ukraine, Trump and US election fraud, I don’t think they are lying, just not well informed. It is useful to see what topics are in the mainstream but I would not use them as a good source of information.
As a friend of mine put it “The Guardian, a ranting left wing rag”.
I worked in an Arab country for a couple of years where (apart from a fortnight around Christmas) the midday temperature was always 40C and above – everybody just got on with it.
Of course they do. They just accept the facts of life and that Mother Nature will do whatever she wants. No amount of taxes, regulations and bans are going to change that.
>>everybody just got on with it.
My wife and I flew into Houston in 2015 to partake in a small family reunion at my younger brother’s home. Stepping outdoors from an air-conditioned interior — airplane, car, hotel, etc. — was like, literally, stepping into an oven. The temperature all week was hovering in the high 90s, and everyone just took it as normal.
It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity.
Indeed. To experience it is to understand it.
I had two months of daily 100F+ temperatures in Houston over 20 years ago. Quite normal. As was the fact I had freezing temperatures when I first visited in December just before Christmas.
Temperatures in Northern Texas are below average, while in the South they’re between 0.5 and 1 degree above average. These are daily average temperatures so maybe the days are several degrees above average and the nights are cooler than average, but it’s in no way extreme weather.
http://www.climatereanalyzer.org
The only reason they’re having energy supply problems is their reliance on renewables, particularly solar. Air conditioner usage peaks in the evening when people get home from work and the heat of the day hasn’t dissipated. This is exactly when solar generation starts to decline, probably reaching zero about 7p.m. at that latitude.
It is not uncommon for Houston to have 100 deg F every day in August. I have lived there, son lived there, this was the case on a visit a few years ago.
Texas was originally a hardship posting for the US military, they were paid extra to suffer the heat. I think that says it all.