damn you, al gore

I keep waiting for the crazy heat to end, but it just gets worse. If you'll note the screenshot of today's weather history, you'll see that we exceeded the previous record by 12 degrees Fahrenheit. The previous record was only 10 degrees above the average, thus the standard deviation for July 22 max temperature was no more than 10. Most likely, the standard deviation was somewhere midway between the average and the record. If it was 7 or less, then today's heat was three standard deviations away from average! That's a little alarming. Especially since the hottest month is still ahead.