Comments on: NOAA: Summer Temperature Below Average for U.S.

By: global

global — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 03:45:16 +0000

There seems to be dialogue exclusive to regional weather patterns. The issue is GLOBAL climate change. Go here for GLOBAL data http://www.lincolnweather.org/Global-Temperature-Anomalies-2009.html

By: geo

geo — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:02:00 +0000

Oh, and the wife is going on walkabout down the big river thru the south in early October and then back again. I’m picking out some sites for her to consider if she is in range at the right time of day for her travels. Maybe a Missouri one or three. . .

By: geo

geo — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:57:13 +0000

TJA–

Yes, you can submit ground survey pictures to complement a “virtual” survey. I’ve done it myself for Grand Meadow, MN, and it is appreciated.

Anthony promised a new Surface Stations update thread around here one of these days soon. . .

By: Steve Keohane

Steve Keohane — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:37:44 +0000

Bruce (16:32:07) : Since when is the 39th coldest summer “Near Normal”???
You may have discovered what NOAA means by “near normal” on their graphs.
Here on the west slope of the Rockies in Co., I had not one day at 90° for the first time in seven years. The precip. pattern was unusual with a wet June & July, normal is a 10% chance of being under a cloud with rain for those two months on any given day. The local ‘monsoon’ flow never came at the end of July, in fact shut off the 27th after 2″ for the month, a lot for us. Since July 27th, when we would normally have a recovery from the lack of rain all summer, .34″ have fallen in 8 events over the past seven weeks.

By: TJA

TJA — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:28:01 +0000

Geo,
Thanks for that. The Chazy, NY site had been surveyed via Google Earth. Can we submit additional information from an on site survey? I don’t think that you can really survey a site from satellite, especially in rural areas with the resolution not that great. Is there an active thread on this subject anywhere?

By: Geo

Geo — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 17:47:09 +0000

TJA–

The most reliable way to figure out what is unsurveyed at surfacestations is using the gallery’s “advanced” feature to pick individual stations from the “Jump to Album” dropdown (which is organized by state and station name) you are interested in to see if there are pictures loaded for it. If there isn’t, it’s available to be surveyed. . . http://gallery.surfacestations.org/main.php?g2_view=search.SearchScan&g2_form%5BuseDefaultSettings%5D=1&g2_return=%2Fmain.php%3F

By: Tyler

Tyler — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:52:45 +0000

How can it be a near average summer in CT (48th), while it was below average in RI (34), MA (27), and NY (27) immediately surrounding CT?

Chef Ramsey working on those books at NOAA now?

More scary, I hate to think what a below average in Summer will mean after this one.

By: Deborah

Deborah — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:34:06 +0000

E.M.Smith (13:33:39) :

“GIStemp, dumber than a tomato!”

Really? Dumber than Katie Couric? Now that’s really something.

;)

By: TJA

TJA — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:19:32 +0000

Since this is the closest thread live thread I could find to ask this, I have a question about surfacestations. Is there an up to date text listing of sites remaining to be surveyed? On the site, there is a list dated April of 2008. I am specifically looking for sites in the Adirondack region. I know there were a bunch not surveyed in the Adirondack Park region as of last spring.

Out of curiosity, I just went over and looked at the Chazy, NY site. It was disappointing. After driving through miles of open agricultural land, apple orchards and corn, mostly, I get to the site, and it is in the immediate yard of what looked to be a 4000 sq foot house, near an asphalt driveway, and basically withing about 10 to 20ft of the tree line of a mature wood.

I didn’t do the survey because I wasn’t sure that it was one of the sites in the project, and I would have had to ask permission of the homeowner to do the survey. If it is in the project, I will be happy to do so next weekend.

By: Douglas DC

Douglas DC — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:05:59 +0000

Things aren’t all that warm anymore in the Pacific.

http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/data/sst/anomaly/2009/anomnight.9.10.2009.gif

I’d say El Nino’s hovering around the Coasta Rican/ Columbian coast like a camper around a small campfire.Neutral to Nina by December IMHO….

By: RR Kampen

RR Kampen — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:53:53 +0000

Jean Meeus (22:56:20) :

“In early 2007 meteorologist Debontridder, of the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium publicly told that in Belgium there occur more and more heat waves in the course of time. A “heat wave” is defined as 5 or more successive days at which the air temperature reaches 30 deg C. Well, here is the number of heat waves in Belgium during the last three years:

in 2007 : zero
in 2008 : zero
in 2009 : zero

But, of course, we know that weather is not climate…”

Sort of normal again… Holland used to have one heatwave per close to 4 years on average. Thanks to 2007, 2008 and 2009 – no heatwaves – the 21st century now runs exactly one per year.
It must become cooler! Except the summers 2007-09, which were warmer than normal like all summers this century, became progressively warmer.

By: el gordo

el gordo — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 07:12:00 +0000

Gary P

Don’t know the answer to your question, but something unusual is happening. The 2009 southern hemisphere winter has been very warm in Australia and there has been speculation that the high pressure ridge has moved south.

http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/current/statements/scs18a.pdf

The western Pacific seems overly warm, too. Weird.

By: Jean Meeus

Jean Meeus — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 05:56:20 +0000

In early 2007 meteorologist Debontridder, of the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium publicly told that in Belgium there occur more and more heat waves in the course of time. A “heat wave” is defined as 5 or more successive days at which the air temperature reaches 30 deg C. Well, here is the number of heat waves in Belgium during the last three years:

in 2007 : zero
in 2008 : zero
in 2009 : zero

But, of course, we know that weather is not climate…

By: anna v

anna v — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 05:10:18 +0000

Greece has been in a cool swath too. We are getting October weather in September.

Lets see what the future brings. It might be a mild winter like last year and then the yearly average will balance off.

By: pft

pft — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 05:06:02 +0000

Shouldn’t they say 80th warmest?