More from the “weather is not climate department”. Emphasis below mine. And it is having an effect not only on crops but tourism in the Northeast US. – Anthony
Statement as of 4:00 PM EDT on July 9, 2009
record event report … corrected
National Weather Service Gray ME
400 PM EDT Thursday Jul 09 2009
… More record cold weather for Portland Maine…
The temperature at the Portland jetport only reached 58 degrees
yesterday. This set a record for the coldest high temperature on
July 7th. The old record was 59 degrees set in 1961. To put this in
another perspective… the normal low temperature for July 7th is 58
degrees.
The low temperature on Wednesday was 55 degrees. This produced a
range of only 3 degrees between the high and low temperatures which
is a record for the smallest daily range in temperatures on July
7th. The old record was a 4 degree spread set in 1963 and 1995.
The 3 degree daily temperature range yesterday also tied the record
for the smallest daily temperature range for any day in July. The
record was established on July 16th, 1961 and occurred five more
times before this year.
The average temperature yesterday was 57 degrees… which tied 1961
as the coldest average temperature for July 7th.
The high of 58 yesterday tied July 6th of 1956 as the second coldest
high ever recorded at the Portland jetport in July. The coldest high
ever in July was 57 degrees on the 4th of July in 1992.
On the 1st and 2nd of this month Portland only reached 59 degrees
both days… setting records for the coldest high temperature each
day and also tying several other days for the fourth coldest high
ever recorded in July.
Portland has set a record cold high temperature four out of the
first eight days this month. Here is a list of the record cold high
temperatures so far this month…
Date high temp. 2009 old record high and year
July 1st 59 degrees 62 degrees in 1976
July 2nd 59 degrees 63 degrees in 1986
July 7th 60 degrees 64 degrees in 1956
July 8th 58 degrees 59 degrees in 1961
Here is a list of the coldest high temperatures ever recorded in the
month of July at the Portland jetport. Four of the ten coldest
highs occurred in the first eight days of this month…
Rank temperature date
1 57 degrees July 4, 1992
2 58 degrees July 6, 1956
58 degrees July 8, 2009 <===
4 59 degrees July 8, 1961
59 degrees July 16, 1961
59 degrees July 30, 1976
59 degrees July 3, 1987
59 degrees July 1, 2009 <===
59 degrees July 2, 2009 <===
10 60 degrees July 7, 2009 <===
11 61 degrees several dates
The normal high temperature for the month of July is 78.8 degrees.
Along with the cold weather portlanders have also had to deal with
soaking rain this month. There have been three days so far with
around an inch and a half of rain. Rainfall of 1.41 inches fell on
the 2nd, 1.57 inches fell on the 7th and 1.50 inches fell on the 8th.
The 1.41 inches on the 2nd set a record for daily precipitation for
the date… topping the old record of 1.32 inches set in 1983. The
1.57 inches on the 7th was also a record… breaking the old mark for
the date of 1.34 inches set in 1935. The 1.50 inches on the 8th was
far short of the record 3.66 inches that fell on July 8th, 1915.
Temperature records at the Portland jetport began on November 25,
1940 and precipitation records go back to 1871.
&&
Note… corrected date in second table and added normal high for July.
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Isn’t it strange that while the US is having a globally average temperature, all we can read here is about record colds? I mean, there must be record highs also in order ot have a globally zero anomaly for the US, so where are they? Florida, California? Why not mention them?
Slightly OT, but anyway interesting. While the US is still debating over the feasibility of renewable energies, Europe, North Africa and the Middle East are starting a newtork of concentrating solar plants. This industrial project is projected to give Europe a 15% of imported solar energy by 2050, which is exactly the objective (65% European renewable, 15% imported solar, 20% fossil fuels)
http://www.desertec.org/en/
Time to wake up!
REPLY: “Flanagan” – I’m sick and tired of your European whining about what we report or don’t here in America. MSM doesn’t report ANY of this stuff, but will jump all over heat waves and link it to global warming with no justification whatsoever. I report these these because they unusual. The record low in Portland in July is very unusual. Heat wave in Texas, not unusual. Happens every summer.
If you don’t like what I report, visit other blogs, or get your own blog and report whatever you see fit. But please do shut the hell up on this issue. I just have no interest in your critiques nor opinion on the matter, especially from that of an anonymous coward.
Anthony Watts
This could hurt the potatoe crop.
Already see signs of the problem in NY and RI.
I was amazed today to read on BBC news: “Almost 250 children under the age of five have died in a wave of intensely cold weather in Peru.”
and in the same article:
“Experts blame climate change for the early arrival of intense cold which began in March. ”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8146995.stm
It would be amusing if it weren’t for the end result of all the stupidity.
It is like me flipping the light switch, telling you the light is on, then in the next breath I flip the same switch and again tell you the light is on, although you can see clearly for yourself that the light is off.
These people must believe that everybody is as gullible as they are.
June was cold in Michigan. We had four or five days using A/C, which pushed up the average at the end of the month, but quickly dropped. Count the growing heat days and June was way behind. So far July is cooler than June!
Through July 13:
Normal hi: 82
Recorded Mean hi: 73 June: 74
Recorded Hi: 80 June: 91
Normal lo: 59
Actual lo mean: 51.7 June: 52.2
Average calculated daily temp thru Jul 13: 70.5
Actual measured: 62.2 June: 63.1
5 day forecast
Avg. daily mean: 64
Avg. hi: 75
Avg. lo: 53
If this doesn’t turn around next week, this will be among the coldest July recorded in our area. The berries, strawberries, peppers etc. are a bust. Corn is 2-3 weeks behind.
Anyone with pools in Michigan can testify. We missed tying the record low for this day by 1 degree. For July 4 weekend we went North to Tawas and it reached a whopping 69 deg high. Nary a jet ski was seen.
I wonder if Sen. (ma’am) Boxer will add this to her list of dire consequences of unregulated climate change: droughts, floods, fires, loss of species, damage to agriculture, worsening air pollution and more? And more? Ah yes, the catch-all phrase, able to include a year without a summer.
I have another “weather is not climate department” from here, in the Fraser Valley.
It’s been about 10 years that I live in the Fraser Valley and at most we only have about 1 lightning and 1 thunder a year. Last night was different. We had a real lightning and thouder storm. It started around 12h30 am and ended at about 4h30 am. It was really unusual to have such activity here.
Algore is preeching endtimes droughts, fires and calamities in Australia as we speak. My local area has a station that has a 3 degree guarantee. They give money to a charity each time they are off. They over state the daily highs these days, often by 10 to 15 degrees. Cold dry air is heavier than water saturated air. Some of the warmist claims defy physics.
I can vouch for it being cooler than normal here in the NE. In New Hampshire, it has been mostly rainy and cool, with most daytime highs being in the 60 – 70s (usually we have week or two of 80 – 90 deg temps by now — not so this year).
The high in Ottawa Canada today is 17C (62.6F) and we almost always are warmer than the northeast coasters which we would include Maine in. theweathernetwork.com – a Canadian TV weather station gives two week forecast each day and for the last two years, they have almost consistently sloped the curve up to higher temperatures near the end of the forecast period, in the belief or hope that things will return to normal from the below normal coolness. I have emailed them from time to time my own two week forecast staying below normal and have been right more often than they have. Why do these people have “contact us” buttons if they don’t reply. I have a similar query in regarding the World Glacier Monitoring Services latest report being 2005 with 2006-2007 preliminary in. Where is the 2008 report? They must have the data or its gone! Are they waiting for the Copenhagen warm-in to be over before releasing it. I note that the number of advancing glaciers have increased between 2005 and the 2006-2007 preliminary and I suspect that the 2008 is going to show a lot more advances with all the snow that has fallen in the Alps, Andes, NZ ,Australia and elswhere in the last couple of years
Quick! Rip those particulate filters off the coal stacks before it is too late!
Sorry, just practicing.
Weather is not climate weather is not climate weather is not climate
HOWEVER it was 41 degrees before sunrise today at my house in central New York State. Forty-One Degrees. It is July 13, fer crissakes. The forecast for tonight is for lows in the 40s again. We haven’t had temps above 80 degrees (or often even in the 70s) for weeks and the 10-day forecast shows more and more of the same.
I repeat: Weather is not climate weather is not climate weather is not climate . . .
BBC news: “Almost 250 children under the age of five have died in a wave of intensely cold weather in Peru.” and in the same article: “Experts blame climate change for the early arrival of intense cold which began in March. ”
Doublethink at its finest. Welcome to 1984.
Am spending a month in Rhode Island. Does anyone else at similar latitude or farther north perceive mild solar dimming as though from volcanic dust?
I found this to be very interesting.
Atlantic Mutlidecadal Oscillation – The Key Global Climate Indicator = long duration changes Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature which are now going negative. Good correlation with temperature this past century.
http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog/amo_the_key_global_climate_indicator/
I’m tired of this weather we’ve had in SE Texas. I KNOW the rest of the world is getting a chill, but apparently it’s been at the expense of SE Texas which has been hot and dry and all drought-y.
I realize this is speculation based on weather, but is it possible for regional cooling trends to lock in weather patterns more so than warming trends, specifically rain patterns?
Well, another weather is not climate comment. This year in Nashville, TN, I am having a hell of a time keeping my pool warm enough to swim, on those rare days without thunderstorms. And I think it is safe to assume now, that we are done with our droughts here for now. Getting tired of having to pick out the mushrooms from my yard, and if it gets any wetter, I am going to need a canoe to get to work.
July has been cooler here in Ky. so far, they keep saying 90 everyday and it never makes it there. It’s been cloudy several days after lunch. Got the windows open today, it’s very nice here. It should be burning hot this time of the year.
Portland, Oregon hasn’t had a really cold spell or anything except just in the last day or so we had a marine push of what I call “beach mist” that lasted till late afternoon and then gradually increased to a consistent, but light rain (small misty type droplets), usually “beach mist” type mornings dry out, or regular rain follows (bigger droplets).
To me this indicated a low turbulance, low cloud regime off the Oregon coast (a type of fog like cloudiness), and this suggests in my mind’s eye a low energy type of weather pattern.
Weather is not climate, but enough weather starts looking like a trend…
We’ve seen a string of cool weather here in Knoxville, TN as well. As of now, we have yet to even reach the average temperature on any single day in July, which, IIRC by way of a local meteorologist, is a record string of days of below average temperature. We’re supposed to average 87, right now we’re around 84 for the first 2 weeks in July. We also haven’t had a 90 degree day in July yet, which is also very unusual. We have a chance tomorrow and wednesday, but their forecasts have tended to be on the high side lately. But, then, they have forecast several days of low to mid 80s again. This is definitely shaping up to me one of the coolest and wettest summers I can recall. But the flies and mosquitos seem to love it. :/
Barry (09:06:35) :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8146995.stm
“Experts blame climate change for the early arrival of intense cold which began in March.”
What’s next….Experts blame night on lack of light?
This would be funny if weren’t so pathetic!
Guys, how come this website has not had a full article devoted to the ICESat results that were announced last week concerning record thinning of Arctic ice? Here are some sample websites:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,512836,00.html
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/thin-ice-the-norm-in-warming-arctic/
My recollection is that a summary of this website’s articles on polar ice is:
a) Artic ice areal extent DID go way below normal a few years ago, but it has recovered to about normal this year; altho this article contradicts that:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/7/12/751043/-Report-on-Arctic-Sea-Ice:-June-2009
b) Antartic ice areal extent has been growing, and at least if not more than cancels out the shrinking Artic ice (furthermore, because of the position of the sun in the sky when the ice is greatest in extent, Antartic ice has more of an albedo effect, so its greater area leads to more reflection and thus more cooling than Artic ice)
The ICESat results, however, are very interesting because they describe ice thickness, not areal extent, and show a dramatic plunge. Whats up with that? Inquiring minds want to know!
Sorry that this comment is totally off topic, but I am not sure where to suggest it. (I assume that Anthony’s email inbox is crammed full…).
The BBC will just say it’s because of CO2 induced climate change, apparently CO2 can cause anything to happen according to them.
Apparently these ground observations completely contradict the run-up in UAH temps. on channel 5? Is the NOAA satallite data wrong or something? It seems like we shouldn’t be seeing so many cold records if the early 20th century was significantly colder than 2009?
Meanwhile here in Kansas the last heatwave day is tomorrow as the heat gets pushed to the west, we’re not supposed to get to 100 today according to Intellicast, but after a high of 102 tomorrow it’ll drop down into the 80’s and low 90’s the rest of the week, it also looks like Texas will be getting relief too. Also yesterday we got to 103 degrees or so according to the official Airport reading that has recently been showing temps. up to 4 degrees higher than Jabara Airport and McConnel Air Force Base, and it didn’t seem like it quite got up to 100 when I mentally do the bias correction for our little home thermometer during the hottest part of the day.
Gary, I blast the weather network too when I get frustrated with their stuck-in-a-groove ‘climate change’ and ‘warming’ pronouncements. The latest was their thirty year data set for locations in Canada, that is ‘revised every ten years’ showing from 1961 to 1990. Some revision! What are they afraid of showing us?
Cool Green tomato summer here in NE Oregon-we get highs occasionally in the 90’s but we still get rain and lows near the high 30’slow 40’s Actually looking forward to the Four Corners high that may park itself over the west for the week.
eventually we will have some monsoonal moisture but,i cannot wait to have moring coffee on my patio without a sweater on…
New Hampshire corn crop delayed http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=NH+crops+have+some+catching+up+to+do&articleId=62cd6161-26b0-4603-911b-bbefb93cd138
Cold is much worse than warm, any farmer knows that.