Cold start to fall continues, 252 more low temperature records set in the USA this week

More new record lows, lowest max temperature, and snowfall this week. The new low records outnumber the high records. There were an impressive number of Lowest Max Temperature records set also, 1129.

Source Hamweather climate center and NOAA/NWS

Here’s a listing of the record events by category:

Record Events for Sat Oct 17, 2009 through Fri Oct 23, 2009
Total Records:	2682
Rainfall:	812
Snowfall:	72
High Temperatures:	152
Low Temperatures:	252
Lowest Max Temperatures:	1129
Highest Min Temperatures:	265

Here’s a list of the new low temperature records:

State	Location	Date	New Record (°F)	Previous Record (°F)
AL	Alexander City	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	33	34 in 2001
AL	Ashland, 3 miles ENE of	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	31	33 in 1978
AL	Belle Mina, 2 miles N of	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	30	32 in 1955
AL	Belle Mina, 2 miles N of	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	33	33 in 2001
AL	Bessemer, 3 miles WSW of	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	34	35 in 1996
AL	Camp Hill, 2 miles NW of	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	32	32 in 1975
AL	Centreville, 6 miles SW of	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	32	32 in 1989
AL	Dauphin Is #2	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	46	46 in 1989
AL	Dothan Faa Ap	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	37	37 in 1948
AL	Fairhope, 2 miles NE of	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	37	37 in 1948
AL	Fairhope, 2 miles NE of	Tue, 20 Oct 2009	37	37 in 1989
AL	Gadsden	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	35	35 in 1955
AL	Geneva #2	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	35	35 in 1977
AL	Greenville	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	33	35 in 2001
AL	Guntersville	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	37	37 in 1992
AL	Headland	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	38	38 in 1996
AL	Headland	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	38	39 in 1977
AL	Highland Home	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	31	36 in 1967
AL	Huntsville Intl Ap	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	34	35 in 1992
AL	Lafayette, 2 miles W of	Wed, 21 Oct 2009	30	31 in 2006
AL	Mobile Downtown Ap	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	41	41 in 1948
AL	Moulton 2	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	32	35 in 1996
AL	Opelika	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	32	33 in 1978
AL	Sand Mt Substn	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	32	33 in 2001
AL	Thorsby Exp Stn	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	33	37 in 2001
AL	Wetumpka	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	33	33 in 1943
AR	Alicia, 2 miles NNE of	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	34	34 in 1978
AR	Fayetteville Drake Field	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	29	30 in 1996
AR	Fayetteville Faa Ap	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	29	29 in 1959
AR	Hot Springs Mmrl Field	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	36	37 in 1978
AR	Mena	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	33	33 in 1990
AR	Murfreesboro, 1 miles W of	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	34	35 in 1976
AR	North Little Rock Wfo	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	37	41 in 1989
AR	Paragould, 1 miles S of	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	37	37 in 1982
AR	Subiaco	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	34	34 in 1922
CA	Oakland Museum	Tue, 20 Oct 2009	51	51 in 2004
CO	Akron, 1 miles N of	Thu, 22 Oct 2009	22	23 in 2006
CO	John Martin Dam	Wed, 21 Oct 2009	21	22 in 1976
CO	Lake Moraine	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	4	8 in 1916
CO	Lake Moraine	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	2	2 in 1917
CO	Lake Moraine	Sat, 17 Oct 2009	2	9 in 1948
CT	Groton New London Ap	Tue, 20 Oct 2009	30	32 in 2003
FL	Apalachicola Ap	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	43	46 in 1989
FL	Apalachicola Ap	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	43	43 in 1977
FL	Brooksville Chin Hill	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	41	43 in 1927
FL	Clermont, 9 miles S of	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	46	47 in 1977
FL	Clermont, 9 miles S of	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	46	48 in 1977
FL	Crestview Bob Sikes Ap	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	33	37 in 1978
FL	Cross City Airport	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	37	42 in 1954
FL	Devils Garden	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	49	56 in 1964
FL	Devils Garden	Tue, 20 Oct 2009	49	50 in 1997
FL	Ft Lauderdale Intl Ap	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	57	63 in 1977
FL	Ft Lauderdale Intl Ap	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	56	60 in 1977
FL	Ft Myers Page Fld Ap	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	50	54 in 1927
FL	Ft Pierce	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	49	50 in 1927
FL	Gainesville Rgnl Ap	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	41	43 in 1967
FL	High Springs	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	39	40 in 1996
FL	Jacksonville Intl Ap	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	43	43 in 1981
FL	Jasper	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	38	38 in 1955
FL	Key West Intl Ap	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	65	69 in 2000
FL	Key West Nas	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	66	70 in 1967
FL	Kissimmee 2	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	48	48 in 1977
FL	La Belle	Tue, 20 Oct 2009	48	50 in 1955
FL	La Belle	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	48	48 in 1977
FL	Lake City, 2 miles E of	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	39	41 in 1943
FL	Lisbon	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	47	47 in 1977
FL	Live Oak	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	38	38 in 1967
FL	Marianna Caa Ap	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	40	43 in 1954
FL	Marianna Caa Ap	Tue, 20 Oct 2009	41	41 in 1955
FL	Mayo	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	34	34 in 1977
FL	Mayo	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	36	36 in 1977
FL	Melbourne Wfo	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	49	52 in 1977
FL	Miami Intl Ap	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	60	62 in 1977
FL	Miami Intl Ap	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	59	62 in 1955
FL	Naples	Tue, 20 Oct 2009	52	54 in 1955
FL	Naples	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	52	52 in 1977
FL	Oasis Rs	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	57	61 in 1981
FL	Okeechobee	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	48	52 in 1977
FL	Okeechobee	Tue, 20 Oct 2009	49	55 in 1989
FL	Orlando Sanford Airport	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	47	53 in 1977
FL	Orlando Sanford Airport	Sat, 17 Oct 2009	52	53 in 1977
FL	Orlando Sanford Airport	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	50	50 in 1955
FL	Orlando Wso Ap	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	49	54 in 1954
FL	Saint Leo	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	46	47 in 1977
FL	Sarasota	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	51	55 in 1974
FL	St Petersburg Clearwater Intl	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	51	57 in 2001
FL	St Petersburg Clearwater Intl	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	53	57 in 2001
FL	Stuart	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	53	56 in 1955
FL	Tallahassee Wso Ap	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	36	39 in 1992
FL	Tampa Wscmo Ap	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	48	52 in 1977
FL	Usher Twr	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	38	41 in 1967
FL	Vero Beach, 4 miles SE of	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	48	49 in 1977
FL	Vero Beach, 4 miles SE of	Tue, 20 Oct 2009	49	51 in 1989
FL	Vero Beach Intl Ap	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	47	50 in 1977
FL	Vero Beach Intl Ap	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	50	55 in 1955
FL	West Palm Bch Intl Ap	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	54	58 in 1977
FL	West Palm Bch Intl Ap	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	52	57 in 1977
FL	Winter Haven	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	41	47 in 1977
FL	Winter Haven	Tue, 20 Oct 2009	43	47 in 1989
FL	Winter Haven	Sat, 17 Oct 2009	44	47 in 1943
GA	Albany Caa Ap	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	38	39 in 1948
GA	Albany Sw Ga Rgnl Ap	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	38	39 in 1996
GA	Allatoona Dam 2	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	33	35 in 1978
GA	Alma Bacon Co Ap	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	40	40 in 1948
GA	Ashburn, 3 miles ENE of	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	38	39 in 2001
GA	Athens Ben Epps Ap	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	33	34 in 1948
GA	Atlanta Fulton County Ap	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	32	33 in 2001
GA	Augusta Bush Fld Ap	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	34	34 in 1981
GA	Blakely	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	38	38 in 1948
GA	Brunswick	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	43	45 in 1927
GA	Brunswick Mckinnon Ap	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	45	46 in 1989
GA	Cairo, 3 miles NW of	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	37	40 in 1948
GA	Camilla, 3 miles SE of	Tue, 20 Oct 2009	35	35 in 1989
GA	Cartersville	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	30	30 in 1978
GA	Cedartown	Tue, 20 Oct 2009	29	30 in 1996
GA	Cuthbert	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	37	37 in 1907
GA	Cuthbert	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	37	37 in 1948
GA	Cuthbert	Wed, 21 Oct 2009	35	35 in 1989
GA	Dallas, 7 miles NE of	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	31	32 in 2001
GA	Homerville, 5 miles N of	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	36	38 in 2008
GA	Jasper, 1 miles NNW of	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	30	30 in 1948
GA	Louisville, 1 miles E of	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	35	36 in 1930
GA	Macon Middle Ga Ap	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	35	36 in 1996
GA	Moultrie, 2 miles ESE of	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	39	41 in 1967
GA	Nahunta, 6 miles NE of	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	33	37 in 1967
GA	Nahunta, 6 miles NE of	Tue, 20 Oct 2009	33	37 in 1989
GA	Sandersville	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	36	36 in 1976
GA	Sapelo Is	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	45	45 in 1992
GA	Savannah Intl Ap	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	40	42 in 1996
GA	Siloam, 3 miles N of	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	32	33 in 2001
GA	Thomasville, 3 miles NE of	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	39	39 in 1954
GA	U Of Ga Plt Sci	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	34	35 in 1996
GA	Valdosta Regional Ap	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	37	39 in 1948
GA	Warrenton	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	35	35 in 1948
GA	Warrenton	Tue, 20 Oct 2009	32	32 in 1996
GA	Waycross, 4 miles NE of	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	36	36 in 1967
HI	Honolulu Observ 702.2	Sat, 17 Oct 2009	66	66 in 1999
HI	Waimanalo Exp F 795.1	Sat, 17 Oct 2009	66	66 in 1970
IL	Cairo, 3 miles N of	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	32	33 in 1948
IL	Cairo, 3 miles N of	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	32	34 in 1972
IN	Indianapolis Se Side	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	27	28 in 1976
IN	Muncie Ball State Univ	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	26	28 in 1982
KS	Mound Valley, 3 miles WSW of	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	28	29 in 1952
KS	Olathe Johnson Co Industrial A	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	30	30 in 1999
KS	Toronto Lake	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	32	32 in 1976
KY	Jamestown Wwtp	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	29	30 in 2008
KY	London Faa Ap	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	29	30 in 1996
KY	Monticello, 3 miles NE of	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	28	29 in 2001
LA	Galliano	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	47	47 in 1977
LA	Hackberry, 8 miles SSW of	Wed, 21 Oct 2009	40	40 in 1976
MA	Bedford Hanscom Field	Sat, 17 Oct 2009	27	27 in 1945
MA	Hyannis Barnstable Muni Ap	Tue, 20 Oct 2009	30	32 in 1990
MA	Taunton Municipal Ap	Tue, 20 Oct 2009	26	26 in 2003
MA	Vineyard Haven Marthas Vineyar	Tue, 20 Oct 2009	26	27 in 2003
MD	Patuxent River Nas	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	37	37 in 1972
ME	Bangor Ap	Sat, 17 Oct 2009	27	28 in 1980
ME	Brassua Dam	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	19	20 in 1939
ME	Brassua Dam	Sat, 17 Oct 2009	19	20 in 1978
ME	Caribou Wfo	Sat, 17 Oct 2009	22	22 in 2000
ME	Ft Kent	Sat, 17 Oct 2009	19	19 in 2000
ME	Houlton Ap	Sat, 17 Oct 2009	19	19 in 2000
ME	Long Falls Dam	Sat, 17 Oct 2009	18	21 in 1979
ME	Long Falls Dam	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	18	20 in 1978
ME	Millinocket Faa Ap	Sat, 17 Oct 2009	24	26 in 1986
ME	Millinocket Municipal Ap	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	25	26 in 1953
ME	Rumford, 1 miles SSE of	Sat, 17 Oct 2009	21	22 in 1979
MI	Bad Axe	Tue, 20 Oct 2009	23	24 in 1972
MI	Detroit City Ap	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	28	28 in 1952
MI	Detroit City Ap	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	28	28 in 1952
MI	Harbor Beach, 1 miles SSE of	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	26	26 in 1974
MI	Hart	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	23	26 in 1974
MI	Hart	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	23	26 in 1901
MI	Houghton Lk Roscommon	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	18	18 in 1972
MO	Buffalo, 2 miles N of	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	29	30 in 1987
MO	California	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	29	29 in 1999
MO	Cassville Rs	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	29	30 in 2002
MO	Columbia Rgnl Ap	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	30	30 in 1976
MS	Holly Springs, 4 miles N of	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	30	31 in 1996
MS	Independence, 1 miles W of	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	32	33 in 1996
MS	Independence, 1 miles W of	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	32	32 in 2001
MS	Wiggins	Tue, 20 Oct 2009	25	30 in 1964
MS	Woodville, 4 miles ESE of	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	35	38 in 1989
NC	Bent Creek	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	28	28 in 2001
NC	Black Mtn, 2 miles W of	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	27	28 in 2001
NC	Charlotte Douglas Ap	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	30	31 in 1948
NC	Elizabeth City Faa Ap	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	37	38 in 1948
NC	Enka	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	28	28 in 1948
NC	Lincolnton, 4 miles W of	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	28	29 in 2001
NC	Yadkinville, 6 miles E of	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	28	28 in 2001
NE	Mccook Municipal Ap	Sat, 17 Oct 2009	28	28 in 2002
NH	Pinkham Notch	Sat, 17 Oct 2009	21	22 in 1978
NY	Auburn	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	26	26 in 1940
NY	Massena Ap	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	21	21 in 2008
NY	Westhampton Gabreski Ap	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	28	34 in 1999
NY	Westhampton Gabreski Ap	Tue, 20 Oct 2009	28	31 in 2008
OH	Cambridge	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	27	28 in 1992
OH	Lima Wwtp	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	26	26 in 1972
OH	Norwalk Wwtp	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	21	24 in 1939
OH	Sidney, 1 miles S of	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	26	28 in 1982
OH	Warren, 3 miles S of	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	25	25 in 1972
OK	Seminole	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	35	35 in 1999
OK	Tuskahoma	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	35	36 in 1976
PA	Altoona Faa Ap	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	26	26 in 2008
PA	Chalk Hill, 2 miles ENE of	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	25	26 in 2008
PA	Clarion, 3 miles SW of	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	19	24 in 1974
PA	Clarion, 3 miles SW of	Tue, 20 Oct 2009	19	20 in 1972
PA	Erie Wso Ap	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	28	28 in 1974
PA	Huntingdon	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	18	23 in 2008
PA	Johnstown Ap	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	27	27 in 1992
PA	Pittsburgh Allegheny Co Ap	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	27	28 in 1976
SC	Anderson Co Ap	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	33	33 in 1978
SC	Andrews	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	39	40 in 2001
SC	Calhoun Falls	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	33	34 in 1973
SC	Greenville Wb Ap	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	33	33 in 1896
SC	Grnvl Spart Intl Ap	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	32	33 in 1976
SC	Little Mtn	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	32	34 in 1948
SC	Orangeburg 2	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	35	36 in 1973
SC	Pageland	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	34	34 in 1992
SC	Pickens	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	30	32 in 1996
SC	Saluda	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	32	32 in 1976
SD	Cedar Butte, 1 miles NE of	Sat, 17 Oct 2009	17	18 in 1976
TN	Ames Plantation	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	32	32 in 1990
TN	Athens	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	29	31 in 1978
TN	Cleveland Fltr Plt	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	30	31 in 1978
TN	Cookeville	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	30	30 in 1992
TN	Crossville Ap	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	29	30 in 1981
TN	Dayton, 2 miles SE of	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	31	33 in 1978
TN	Erwin, 1 miles W of	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	29	29 in 2001
TN	Knoxville Exp Stn	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	31	31 in 1992
TN	Livingston Radio Wliv	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	29	29 in 2001
TN	Neapolis Exp Stn	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	30	30 in 2001
TN	Sewanee	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	31	32 in 2001
TN	Sewanee	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	33	35 in 1925
TN	Smithville, 2 miles SE of	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	29	30 in 2001
TX	Dumas	Tue, 20 Oct 2009	23	24 in 1989
TX	Dumas	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	24	26 in 1952
TX	Falfurrias	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	47	48 in 1948
TX	Falfurrias	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	47	47 in 1975
TX	Hebbronville	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	48	48 in 2001
TX	Pampa 2	Fri, 23 Oct 2009	29	29 in 1996
TX	Warren, 2 miles S of	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	36	36 in 1967
UT	Mexican Hat	Sat, 17 Oct 2009	26	29 in 1980
VA	Abingdon, 3 miles S of	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	27	28 in 2001
VA	Dale Enterprise	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	25	25 in 1976
VA	Staffordsville, 3 miles ENE of	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	25	27 in 2001
VT	Montpelier Ap	Sat, 17 Oct 2009	20	20 in 1978
VT	Newport	Sat, 17 Oct 2009	19	22 in 1978
VT	Newport	Sun, 18 Oct 2009	20	20 in 1972
WV	Clarksburg Benedum Fld	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	26	27 in 1991
WV	Huntington Swg Pl	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	30	31 in 2001
WV	Huntington Tri	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	29	29 in 1992
WV	Wheeling Ohio County Ap	Mon, 19 Oct 2009	29	29 in 1992

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DennisA

October 23, 2009 11:51 pm

I think the US needs the Science Museum map to warm things up. If you all had one on your wall you could think yourselves warm.

Global Cooling

October 24, 2009 12:55 am

Just waiting for the first warmy to get upset with Anthony for daring to publish a cold weather story. 3….2….1…

John Peter

October 24, 2009 1:18 am

President Obama won’t talk climate change in Copenhagen as per The Times UK:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6888165.ece
Maybe he has seen temperature records such as this one? Looks like Copenhagen will result in a failure to agree a comprehensive CO2 reduction treaty. It would appear to me that countries such as China and India are not convinced that CO2 is the only or even main driver of global warming when it actually takes place in amongst periods of cooling and, therefore, will not agree to mandatory CO2 reductions for their countries. President Obama seems to have got that message. Instead he is going to Oslo 10 Dec. to deliver one of his hallmark speeches.

gtrip

October 24, 2009 1:31 am

Temperature chasing is even losing its appeal here.

Patrick Davis

October 24, 2009 1:39 am

Well, my freinds who went to PA, certainly seem to be getting what they wanted, a cold, and possibly, white Christmas.

gtrip

October 24, 2009 1:51 am

Correction: I should have said that “Temperature chasing is FINALLY losing its appeal here.”
You ought to be monitoring the cloud cover in Michigan…it is so 70ish. The Radar doesn’t show much and the satellite even less….but the surface ob’s show plenty of low cloud cover….a lot of overcast skies….like a mist in the sky.

Stargazer

October 24, 2009 2:06 am

and here
Austria’s Alps recorded the biggest October snowfalls in 25 years
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/news/international/Central_Europe_hit_by_heavy_snow_high_winds.html?siteSect=143&sid=11353748&cKey=1255549977000&ty=ti

bushy

October 24, 2009 3:28 am

Those few high records slap bang in the middle of the cold ones need looking at.

P Stanbrook

October 24, 2009 3:50 am

The lack of co-operation of global temperatures is certainly being noticed more and more. Take a look at this comment piece on the bbc website:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8322513.stm

Ack

October 24, 2009 3:52 am

It has been another pleasant week in Utah, thanks global warming!

rbateman

October 24, 2009 4:52 am

I’m dreaming of a white…Haloween.
Well, maybe. They have snow in the forecast for Oct. 30 in NW Calif. Down to 3,000.
Won’t matter to the kids, though, they stopped Trick or Treating a decade ago.

E.M.Smith

Editor

October 24, 2009 5:03 am

I think we need a new widget. One that shows the location of Al Gore on a map of record lows.. I think he was back east this week? Wonder if it was a bit southernly. Doesn’t he have a family farm somewhere like Tennessee? Or am I thinking of some other rich pol for a family of pols…
I find myself simultaneously thrilled at the record cold, and the “more” that is headed our way; and saddened that this is what it will take to freeze the dingles off the AGW monster.
FWIW, China and India have already announced they are ready to sign on in Copenhagen ONLY on 2 conditions: They can burn all the carbon they want while they “develop”; somebody gives them buckets of money.
That, IMHO, makes it a moribund mallard.
China has also “done deals” with 20 year time horizons for all the Brazilian oil and Canadian / US coal it can lock down. They have / are trying to commit merger on an Australian miner with lots of coal. China has no intention to slow down their massive growth of oil and coal use at all. China has sold 10 million cars domestically by October this year and expect that to ramp up to more than 12 million by year end. China, at least, has great clue and knows how to use it. By the time “the west” realizes that it was a stupid fad and it’s time to get back to fossil fuels, China will have 20 year contracts on the best of it. (I know of one for $200B of Brazillian oil over 20 years.)
You don’t make 12 million cars a year to not use them and not fuel them.
http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/chinese-car-sales-break-sound-barrier/
So you can be absolutely certain that the only way China will sign any “deal” is if it involves them doing whatever they want and the west sending them guilt payments.
Didn’t China have a really bad winter a year or two back? It might be interesting to have a “China Winter Watch” as well. If they are losing a million people or so to a killer ice storm winter, well, you just know they will not be talking up global warming…

Jeff L

October 24, 2009 5:19 am

Note eastern Colorado – record high temps & record snowfall – all in the same week. That’s fun weather!
We had nearly 6″ of snow at our house in the foothills of SW Denver after being in the low 80s the day before.
Looks like more snow tonight, Tuesday night into Wed & Sat night – the common Halloween snowstorm

em butler

October 24, 2009 5:23 am

time for a new catastrophe book about global climates by Holdren and Ehrlich

Caleb

October 24, 2009 5:31 am

If you wonder where all the cold is coming from, check out the DMI Polar Temperature graphic at the side of this site. The cold doesn’t have a chance to build over the pole, and instead comes flooding south. However I imagine the polar vortex will tighten during November, and as the cold recharges up there we’ll get a respite, and a chance to get ready for a winter we won’t forget.
Over at Accuweather Mr. Bastardi has an interesting observation about October being a better indicator of what the forthcoming winter will be like than November is. He has no explanation for why this is true; it is just something he has noticed, going over hundreds of maps from the past. October gives a hint of the pattern that is developing, while November can be “all over the place.”
The severity of the coming winter isn’t so much due to how much colder it is, when you average the temperatures world-wide. After all, we are talking about differences of a quarter-degree or half-degree, in terms of world averages. You can hardly notice such differences on your skin.
Rather it is where the cold is discharged, and how much is discharged. There have been some winters where the arctic vortex remains very tight, and the cold just whirls around and around up by the poles. This may make the ice thicker up there, but it doesn’t impress the public psyche as much as winters when the cold air is discharged constantly southward over major population centers.
If I had a nickel to bet, I’d bet the latter will be the case, this coming winter.

Peter Stroud

October 24, 2009 5:37 am

According to the UK Met Office the temperatures for winter 2009/10 here has only a one in seven chance of being colder than average. This is why I am preparing for a colder than usual season?

Richard M

October 24, 2009 5:52 am

I believe many states in the US Midwest will experience one of the coldest Octobers ever. So far we’ve had ONE day that was well above normal and a handful around normal. The rest have been way below normal with another cold air mass set to cover the area for the rest of the month.
Should see many more records next week.

Trev

October 24, 2009 5:53 am

You may care to publicise this
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/centreright/2009/10/youtubers-hit-back-against-the-climate-change-scaremongers.html

Ron de Haan

October 24, 2009 5:57 am

I’ve just finished a round international news, CNN, CNBC, BBC World, Russia Today, Al Jazeera, Deutsche Welle, TV France, all singing the same Climate Change Tunes, illustrated by a gigantic pile of semi scientific rubbish.
No word about the recent cold records.
Absolutely no balanced reporting whatsoever with only one single exception from BBC World, referring to a small group of protesters against CO2 restrictions as “arrogant deniers” of Climate Change who believe the climate is influenced by natural cycles rather than…..
The climate doctrine is safely in the hands of the UN and our Governments and our Government obviously control all our Media.
Very dangerous, for who controls the Media, controls the people.
The reality is that we already live in show democracies and it will take a revolution to kick out all these socialists and clean up and restore the system.
It is incredible to find out that our political establishments believe that it is “political correct” to rail road the economy in the name of the climate, risk our energy security
and millions of jobs only to exploit a hoax.
One more year of this shit and we can kiss our futures good bye.
They would not even need a signed Copenhagen treaty to achieve their objectives.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/the_debt_death_sprial.html
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/10/real_2009_budget_deficit_17856.html

Henry chance

October 24, 2009 6:03 am

Obama can only campaign in copenhagen. He knows of no cap and tirade legislation.
His line at MIT “the system we have now keeps us from creating new jobs” is an ignorant line. Actually the system we have now continues jobs he want to ruin.

timetochooseagain

October 24, 2009 6:17 am

Correct me if I am wrong, but a cool southeast, is typical of El Nino winters, right?

Ulric Lyons

October 24, 2009 6:24 am

Looking at the records set for the last day or two, http://mapcenter.hamweather.com/records/yesterday/us.html?c=
it is starting to get a little milder, as it is on most continents.
This my solar based forecast for this period:
http://theweatheroutlook.com/twocommunity/forums/p/27850/801120.aspx#801120

Enduser

October 24, 2009 6:31 am

gtrip (01:31:19) :
Temperature chasing is even losing its appeal here.
__________________________________
Maybe i am just easily entertained, but I happen to enjoy the “temperature chasing.”
Gtrip, Has it occurred to you that you are not required to click on or read topics that do not appeal to you?

Carlo

October 24, 2009 6:32 am

This is typical for a strong El Nino event.
🙂

James F. Evans

October 24, 2009 6:48 am

The Sun has had a long run of down time, if I’m not mistaken this will be the third winter under a quiet Sun.
Third time’s the charm.
Who are those voices that claim the Sunspot cycle has nothing to do will climate variation?
They look all wet to me — or all frozen as the case may be…

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