Seventh Annual Jazz Fest Global Warming Update

Long story short (and read my past posts from 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, or 2014 for more details), this was the 28th - out of 43 - warmest Jazz Fest. Despite this prediction:




which relied shakily on this source:




The hottest temperature at Jazz Fest was 92 degrees back on May 2, 2002 - see my spreadsheet of data for all the original numbers. So even with the EPA’s maximum predicted increase, we would fall six degrees short of Houck’s fear-mongering.

Here are my updated three tables for this year:






Maybe next year I will try to calculate, at this "rate of warming", the year in which we will have 103 degrees at Jazz Fest.