It’s not looking good for the coming Halloween. Button up those trick or treaters. Fall, we hardly knew ya. Here’s a roundup of interesting cold weather events in the last week. Check out the forecast graphic at the bottom of this story.
From Bill Steffen, WOOD-TV.
October 22nd. A weather station in Berchtesgaden National Park in Bavaria has recorded the coldest temperature ever in Germany during the month of October. The thermometer dipped to -24.3C or -11.7F. Clear skies, calm winds and fresh snow was the perfect combination for the record chill. The city of Augsburg, Germany has been 9.3 degrees colder than average during the past week. Prague in the Czech Republic is supposed to be in the mid 50s at this time of year. They had 3 days with temperatures stuck in the 30s and even picked up some snow flurries.
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October Cold Snap Sets 82-Year Record
High On Tuesday Was Only 47 Degrees
October in Chicago is usually equal parts balmy T-shirt weather and nippy light jacket temperatures, but if it’s felt more like winter coat weather this year, it’s not your imagination. Chicago has spent the last 17 days with below-average temperatures, and a high of a mere 47 degrees made Tuesday the coldest Oct. 13 in 82 years, CBS 2’s Mary Kay Kleist says.
Comparing temperatures for the first 14 days of October 2008 to this year seems like comparing the tropics to the tundra.
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From Bill Steffen, WOOD-TV. October 14th. The biggest snowstorm in 25 years hit central Europe with amounts up to five feet atop Zugspitze, the highest peak in Germany. In Austria, two day snowfalls of 2-3 feet caused some ski areas to have their earliest-ever opening day. The Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland were hit hard. Up to 20″ of snow fell in the mountains of the Czech Republic. Trees and power lines were toppled, with up to 700,000 customers without power during the unusual cold wave. In southern Poland three people froze to death.
Huge waves destroyed a pier at Sopot in northern Poland. Tens of thousands of Ukrainians were without power after the storm. A major rail line from Switzerland to Austria was blocked by trees felled from the weight of the snow. The Polish government mobilized troops to assist the clean-up.
Temperatures dropped to 11 above zero in southern Poland, extremely cold for this time of year. Back in the U.S., check out the snow on top of Mt. Washington in New Hampshire. Mt. Washington hasn’t been above freezing in nine days. They had over a foot of snowfall in the first two weeks of October and temperatures for the month are more than 7 degrees cooler than average.
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Record-breaking cold this morning, widespread frost
Termperatures are rebounding after what was record-breaking cold morning in Charlotte.
Temperatures fell below the freezing mark for the first time since last winter in Charlotte, and frost was reported across the metro region. A number of National Weather Service official reporting stations had sub-freezing lows.
This morning’s unofficial low at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport was 30 degrees. That is the coldest since March 5, when the low was 29. This morning’s reading broke the old record for the date, 31 degrees, set in 1948.
A low of 28 degrees was record in Albemarle, North Wilkesboro and Rutherfordton. The morning low was 30 degrees in Salisbury and Statesville. It dropped to 32 degrees in Gastonia, Hickory, Monroe and Rock Hill.
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From NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center:
FYI, Link to Mt. Washington snows is redirecting to Accuweather Premium or Professional, not the image. Delete this comment.
Storms are shaping up for CO all week. It is supposed to snow here in CO Springs. My fingers are crossed for a wicked opening day at Copper Mountain in two weeks!
Oh, and Wolf Creek, our southernmost ski resort, is opening next weekend. They normally open around Turkey day, often as late as December.
Mark
Um, that was supposed to read “It is supposed to snow here TODAY in CO Springs.” 🙂
Mark
We will most likely have a record cold October for northern Wyoming.
During the first two weeks, there were two or three days where the HIGH never got above 20 – when the normal high is in the low 60s. That’s 40 degrees below normal. The next week looks to be at least 20 degrees below normal for highs.
My guess is that Buffalo will come in at 8 to 10 degrees BELOW average for the entire month.
That’s some potatoes.
Mother Nature is saying no to eco-communism
Record low at Berchtesgaden National Park.
Mel Brooks would have a field day with this. “Wintertime for Hitler…”?
Record cold is weather, record warm is climate.
Everybody knows that.
The record for where I live is Nov 3, 2003 for the earliest snow. The biggest early snows were in the late 1910’s to the mid 1950’s, and they hung around.
Gives a new meaning to ‘Frost on the Pumpkin”.
Al Gore’s Holy Hologram (09:40:01) :
I’m quite sure that Obama got the forecast, and opted out of the Eco-blizzard set for Copenhagen. That medal must feel like a millstone around his neck right about now.
The Old man North Pacific is having his way with US and he’s the Engineer on the Siberian Express.El Nino cowers in his crib…
The next week or so isn’t looking to bad here after some frigid weather early in the month (below average on many days, but no 40’s), but there is that forecast outbreak of cold temps. that will descend on the western half of the country.
According to NOAA AO index is heavily negative, NAO is currently negative as well.
The recent cold wave killed the sugar beet crop in parts of the USA.
http://www.commodityonline.com/news/Cold-wave-hits-sugar-beets-in-Park-County-22319-3-1.html
Meanwhile, the eco-nuts want to replace gasoline with bio-fuels. Good luck with that when growing seasons are shorter and colder.
http://sowellslawblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/mandatory-bio-fuels-very-bad-idea.html
It’s been reasonably mild in the UK over the last few weeks, though wet and windy recently.
How far back do the Bavarian records go, I wonder?
Here in the Boulder, CO area, our climate changes all the time. My home grown pumpkins were killed by an early frost and then rotted from ensuing warm weather, so I bought a couple from the grocery.
It’s common to have a wickedly cold Halloween. It doesn’t stay that way, however.
Is this the Drudge Report?
I believe in AGW but often visit here to get a dissenting opinion. Citing regional variations in WEATHER patterns does nothing to promote your views and does nothing to assuage my opinion.
REPLY: Well, get over it, its tagged weather, and I spent 25 years reporting weather. I’ll report weather today, tomorrow, and probably have it etched on my tombstone as well. MSM turns on the bullhorns for record warm weather. The least I can do is point out record cold when it happens. – Anthony
Mike Smith (09:41:20) :
Record low at Berchtesgaden National Park.
Mel Brooks would have a field day with this. “Wintertime for Hitler…”?
Germany is trying to making amends for previous misguided movements.
Well, public opinion about man made Global Warming is in a free fall and events like this are a great help.
$10 says we have a +0.6 anomoly for October
I can see what the problem is!
Your weather hasn’t been ‘corrected’.
Just phone up Jim Hansen and ask for the corrected temperature. Then you’ll feel much warmer, and be able to go out in your shirt sleeves….
“That medal must feel like a millstone around his neck right about now.” rbateman
I suspect that was the idea of giving it to him. Shower him with compliments which cost nothing, then ask him to sign away US independence….
It that bulls-eye in NM real or an artifact?
Looking at a map of currently reporting stations, it looks to be centered in a “void” in coverage.
My previous post should have started with “Is that bulls-eye…”.
I bet we will still be told it was a hotter than average October.
Thank heavens.
After 50+ days of over 100F temps here in South Texas this summer, perhaps we’ll actually have winter again this year!
Is there any organisation planning to demonstrate in Copenhagen against spending tax money to fight “global warming”?
Here in toasty Dublin, we had 19.5 degrees Celsius today as measured by the thermometer in my car and I had to strip down to shirt sleeves when I was sweeping up leaves outside.
Weather is not climate and all that, but I thnk we deserver it given the lousy three summers we have just had.