Chicago and Milwaukee hit 103°; relief coming by Sunday
It was another day of triple-digit heat across the Midwest Thursday, as the nation continued to bake in the intense heat of the record-breaking summer of 2012. Chicago hit 103° on Thursday, just 2° below the city's all-time hottest temperature of 105°, set on July 24, 1934. The Windy City might have exceeded their all-time heat record, but for the fortuitous formation of a small but intense thunderstorm that hit the airport at 2:45 pm. The storm brought a wind gust of 52 mph to the airport and cooled the temperature by 20°. A wind gust of 92 mph was recorded 4 miles offshore over Lake Michigan. Thursday was the hottest day in Chicago since a 104° reading on July 13, 1995. Milwaukee, WI also hit 103° Thursday, which tied for the 3rd hottest temperature in city history. Madison's 104° was their hottest day since 1988, and also tied for the 3rd warmest temperature ever measured in the city. Madison's all-time high is 107°, set July 14, 1936. St. Louis hit 105°, the eighth consecutive day the city has hit triple digits. This streak is now the 3rd longest such streak in city history; the only longer streaks occurred during the Dust Bowl summer of 1936 (streaks of 13 and 9 days.) The current forecast for St. Louis calls for highs of 107 - 108° Friday and Saturday, which will likely bring the city's streak of 100°+ days to ten by week's end. St. Louis' all-time hottest temperature is 115°, set in 1954.
Figure 1. The severe weather map for Friday, July 6, 2012, showed that advisories for extreme heat (pink colors) were posted for portions of 25 states.
The forecast: record heat Friday and Saturday, then relief
More record-breaking triple-digit heat is expected Friday and Saturday across much of the Midwest and Tennessee Valley, but a cold front will move southwards out of Canada on Saturday and Sunday, putting an end to this phase of the great heat wave of 2012. By early next week, temperatures will be near average for most of the eastern 2/3 of the U.S.
Quiet in the Atlantic
There are no threat areas to discuss in the Atlantic, and none of the reliable computer models are developing a tropical cyclone over the next seven days.
Jeff Masters
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Posted on July 6, 2012
July 6, 2012 – INTERNET - As viruses go, DNS Changer appeared fairly harmless – initiated in 2007, it simply generated fraudulent clicks on adverts, and made its Estonian creators something under £10million. Infected computers accessed the web slightly more slowly, but their users could be forgiven for not even noticing they had a so-called “botnet infection”, let alone realising that they were aiding a criminal gang. In shutting down the virus, however, the FBI opened a can of worms that reveals what one analyst calls “a weakness in the internet’s infrastructure.” Dan Brown, director of security research at web firm Bit9, says that worse still the FBI’s “band-aid approach” mirrors how security as a whole has evolved on the web. “Generally,” he says, “it has preferred band-aids over real solutions.” The problem arises because DNS Changer alters the directory that tells a computer the digital address to which intelligible sitenames refer: so rather than Amazon.co.uk leading you to the online bookshop, it redirects you to a fraudulent site, derives revenue from the invisible click and then passes you on to where you wanted to go. The FBI’s solution was simply to replace the criminal server, to tell people that something was wrong and to keep passing the traffic through. Now, however, it says that it can’t spend endless taxpayers’ money on maintaining that server. When it turns it off on Monday, some 350,000 people will lose their connections, of which around 20,000 live in Britain. “Security was not paid a great deal of attention while the Internet was first forming,” says Brown. “Now, years later, we’re stuck with the bill. It’s long been known what the fix for this particular problem is, but like kids eating vegetables, it’s something we put off as long as possible.” It’s extremely unlikely that this could ever be repeated on the grand scale that would be required to make a major difference to the internet as a whole; but it is possible that the constant cat and mouse game of viruses versus security experts continues to cause a number of small problems that all add up to a decent sized headache. Even Apple has recently dropped the claim that its computers are immune from viruses. But nonetheless, the distributed nature of internet infrastructure lends itself to a secure, resilient network. It’s worth emphasising, too, that those 500,000 affected by DNS Changer represent just a very tiny percentage of the 2 billion currently online. Even so, many of the 350,000 computers currently infected won’t know until Monday. And although preventable by any standard security software, there are still many users who aren’t sufficiently computer savvy to know how to keep themselves safe online. The “DNS Checker Page” allows users to see if they have the virus and to remove it, and has been largely responsible for the fall in the virus’s prevalence. –Telegraph
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I won right?
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edit: oops, contest is over.
how do you win?
Don't forget the little people when you win big, KotG. (I was going to say "13", but I was too late)
well then you best be winning
Hydrus,
It looks like you have had a monster troll testing out a massive strimmer in the garden.
What caused all that mess.
On another note the UK is having yet another months rain in 24 hours with hundreds of flood alerts.
Link
you should call yer cousin..
KEEPEROF DA NUMBERS
That's what my neighborhood looked like after Charley and then came Frances & Jeanne.
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Gettin Moist
Fat Freddy!
Yeah with Jeanne we had winds of 70 to 75mph wind gusts for several hours which wiped out anything that was left standing.
That system has a short life span.
Did you see the mass of lightning strikes at the end of the grafic? Serious juice.
The thing I remember most was the roar of Hurricane Charley as he was coming up I-4. I will never forget that sound as the eyewall approached my area!
This is really cool, you can see the interaction of the lake breeze and a weak thunderstorm to make a strong thunderstorm, you can also see an outflow boundary coming in to my area from the west. I showed my mom and she said,"I dont care" but i knew you guts would appreciate it
pretty short indeed
Looks like the seabreeze collisions we get here in FL.
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