Editor’s Note: The mainstream media has posted dozens if not hundreds of stories touting claims that a record breaking heatwave is hammering parts of the United States so far this summer, which the media links to climate change, see, for example stories from Reuters, Forbes, the Los Angeles Times, and USA Today. Climate Realism has previously debunked this latest round of record setting heat wave claims, here and here. This article from Larry Hamlin, originally published at WUWT, Delves into the details of the claims when ClimateRealism summarized June in their monthly fact check report.
Guest essay by Larry Hamlin
A recent ClimateRealism Fact-Check for June 2024 article addressed the climate science data unsupported claims by climate alarmist media that hyped phony temperature “records” (shown below) have occurred in June across the U.S. which the article establishes as being completely false.
NOAA has updated its Contiguous U.S. climate temperature anomaly and absolute temperature measurement data results through June 2024 with these results showing that the temperatures experienced this June were not “record” high outcomes as falsely portrayed by the climate alarmist media’s phony political campaign hype.
NOAA‘s June 2024 Contiguous U.S. USCRN maximum temperature anomaly data (shown below) clearly indicates that not only is there no established trend of increasing maximum temperature anomalies during the period starting in 2005 but also the June 2024 anomaly value (2.84 degrees F highlighted in red) is below the prior highest June value of 3.91 degrees F in 2021 as well as far below the highest anomaly value ever recorded during this period of 7.72 degrees F that occurred in March 2012.
NOAA’s Contiguous U.S. maximum absolute temperature measured data for the month of June for the period 1895 through June 2024 (shown below) establishes that June 2024 (84.61degrees F highlighted in red) value is only the 6th highest measured June value with the highest June value occurring in June 1933 of 85.91 degrees F (as shown in the table).
Furthermore, NOAA’s Contiguous U.S maximum absolute temperatures measured for all months between 1895 and June 2024 (shown below) establishes that the June 2024 maximum measured absolute temperature is only the 1,340th highest measured temperature (84.61 degrees F shown in red) out of a total of 1540 measured maximum temperatures with the highest being July 1936 at 90.81 degrees F (as shown in the table).
Looking at NOAA’s California month of June maximum temperature data (shown below) from 1895 to June 2024 we see that the June 2024 high is only the 5th highest measured maximum temperature (88.8 degrees F shown in red) compared to the highest maximum temperature of 89.8 degrees F in June of 2021 (shown in the table).
Additionally, NOAA’s maximum measured temperature data for all 58 counties in California establishes that the June 2024 outcomes did not represent the maximum June temperatures for any of these 58 counties.
Furthermore, NOAA’s measured data for June 2024 for all 48 Contiguous U.S. states establishes that the June 2024 maximum measured temperatures were not the highest measured June temperatures for any of these 48 states with that also being true for the state of Alaska as well.
Also, NOAA’s June 2024 temperature data for all 9 of its U.S. climate regions (shown below) establishes that none of these regions experienced a “record” high June month in year 2024.
Looking at NOAA’s measured California maximum temperatures for all months from 1895 through 2024 (shown below) we find that the June 2024 value (88.8 degrees F shown in red) is only the 1382nd highest out of a total of 1554 total maximum temperatures with the highest ever measured in July 1931 at 95.6 degrees F as shown in the table.
Additionally, NOAA’s June 2024 updated data establishes that record high June temperatures did not occur in the cities of Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco or Sacramento and that record all time high temperatures did not occur for any of NOAA’s 9 tracked California cities during June 2024.
The climate alarmist media falsely hyped many dozens of phony “record” high June 2024 temperature stories across the country while NOAA’s official U.S. national, regional and state measured temperature data clearly established that these “record” claims are completely phony and represent dishonest and climate science incompetent media driven climate alarmist political propaganda.
