From the “weather is not climate department”….whether it is cold or snow, long lived records keep falling, and recently in large numbers.
Today, new “minimum high” records fell in a traditionally warm southwest state.
Flagstaff, and Prescott, Williams, and Winslow Arizona all significantly bested the old records set on this date. Here’s the outlook map from the NWS Flagstaff:
And here is the NWS record event report:
FGZ RECORD EVENT REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF, AZ 713 PM MST WED OCT 28 2009 ...RECORD LOW HIGH TEMPERATURES FOR NORTHERN ARIZONA ON OCT 28 2009... CITY (PERIOD OF RECORD) NEW LOW HIGH PREVIOUS RECORD/YEAR FLAGSTAFF (1898 - 2009) 32 35 IN 1996 FORT VALLEY (1909 - 2009) 31 32 IN 1972 GRAND CANYON NP S RIM (1966 - 2009) 36 37 IN 1989 GREER (1905 - 2009) 27 35 IN 1991 HEBER RS (1950 - 2009) 31 36 IN 1976 PAGE (1958 - 2009) 42 48 IN 1996 PHANTOM RANCH (1966 - 2009) 48 58 IN 2000 PRESCOTT (1898 - 2009) 38 46 IN 1996 WILLIAMS (1897 - 2009) 30 39 IN 1996 WINSLOW (1893 - 2009) 43 47 IN 1991 ...RECORD LOW TEMPERATURES FOR NORTHERN ARIZONA ON OCT 28 2009... CITY (PERIOD OF RECORD) NEW LOW PREVIOUS RECORD/YEAR NAVAJO NM (1939 - 2009) 16 19 IN 1970 PHANTOM RANCH (1966 - 2009) 41 41 (TIED) IN 1970 THESE RECORDS ARE PRELIMINARY PENDING OFFICIAL REPORTS.
h/t to Gene Nemetz, now send in the trolls
But weather is not climate, right?
Back in mid Dec 1998, the year of peak global warmth, it snowed in Phoenix.
Is it time to short on the price of Snow Ploughs and Shovels yet?
I’m here, in PHX not Mpls.
This morning the outside digital temp gauge said 44.7 F.
Checked Mpls, 50 F, checked my Brother in Chicago, 54 F.
What gives, I’m freezing my tush off in PHX? Only way I’ll survive tonight is
in the 104 F…OUTDOOR HOT TUB! (Which, is fueled by OIL and NUCLEAR..)
“h/t to Gene Nemetz, now send in the trolls”
Yesterday and today were jacket weather in Tucson which usually waits tills November. Also, for Pam’s info, the ground squirrels went into hibernation about a week ago, I reckon.
Northern Colorado is having the coldest October on record, and we are buried under feet of snow.
I have always liked this record high graph for the US, and I continue to wonder if anyone has put together a record low (or record low high) graph, on an inverted vertical scale, so that this graph and the lows graph can be shown together. It could be interesting.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b5jZxTCSlm0/SXDqGqEl6GI/AAAAAAAACdk/ndOqfFgogd8/s1600-h/Extreme+High+Temperature+Records+By+State+By+Month+-+January+2009+Update.JPG
Interstate I-70 from near Denver to Kansas is closed because of snow.
Independence Pass near Aspen is closed for the season, a week early.
http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_13668871
Brrr…. Bearizona.
It’s that plunging cold coming out of the North.
Frank (17:32:56) :
Weather is not exactly Climate.
In Arizona, tonight, it’s salt rubbed into wounds.
Meanwhile, in DC, scowling faces make excuses for holding the economy under ice water to drown.
now send in the trolls
They might stay under the bridge. They seem to not like snow.
I think they should turn the record cold upside down since it does not matter… LOL
I wrote the following to Tom Toles of the Washington Post the following note:
“You could have just as easily done a cartoon that had Jim Hansen sanding in a foot of snow wearing a Holloween in Denver saying “this is consistent with the model predictions”. ‘
I think given the intensity and location of the storm, its as if Autumn got dressed up as old man winter and crashed the UCAR Holloween Party.
An important influence on SSTs, and through SSTs, OHC, is winter cooling of the N Atlantic and N. Pacific by cold air masses moving eastward from the continents. The colder these air masses are, the more SSTs are lowered.
This effect is easily the largest atmospheric effect on SSTs.
Consequently, we should start to see SSTs decline in the coming months and OHC declines shortly afterward.
This morning in South Colorado (San Juan mountains north of Los Alamos) it was -15 degrees Celsius (5 degrees Fahrenheit). The temperature remained below freezing point all day, despite the occasional sunshine, and now, after sunset, is dropping fast again.
We are running two stoves, wood stove and pellet stove, simultaneously, to keep warm. The backhoe wouldn’t start this morning, frozen, it was necessary to jump start it from the pickup truck after splashing some hot water on cylinders. Some end of October for the American Southwest!
How long can it be before the sheeple start asking questions?
DaveE.
How long can it be before the sheeple start asking questions? DaveE
It bleats me.
gtrip (17:34:19) :
“Back in mid Dec 1998, the year of peak global warmth, it snowed in Phoenix.”
I have lived in Phoenix since 1988. I remember that snow. It didn’t just drop a few snow flakes either. it stayed on the ground for hours. kids were out building muddy snowmen. for hours! in the middle of the day too.
not the first time it has snowed here. happens about once every ten years it seems.
826 counted in, 5658 counted out.
10:55 am JST, Friday 30 October.
Climate is just peer- reviewed weather. Only warm weather is peer-reviewed!
@ur momisugly Don B (17:45:10) :
Thanks for the link!
DaveE (18:12:19) :
How long can it be before the sheeple start asking questions?
Back2Bat (18:27:48) :
It bleats me.
If it gets really ba-ad, maybe then the sheeple will ask what the flock it’s all about.
You bunch of pansies! October in my area is running 7.5F below the 30 year mean. That requires a whole lot more cold days than just a few.
North Dakota by the way…where if Boxer/Kerry is passed our elec bills will rise around 1,000 per year. Yep….good stuff.
rbateman (17:54:31) :
Frank (17:32:56) :
Weather is not exactly Climate.
Record cold and snow now, again, shouldn’t be happening now in global warming—yes global warming—as Seth Borenstein has made certain we call it.
Thank you for that Seth Borenstein!
Yup its certainly cold here in Flagstaff.. Feels more like January weather at the moment. Its been a very dry year so far though, I’m interested in seeing how our winter precipitation will pan out. The last 8 years or so have been quite dry compared to historical averages.
(Hopefully my 4×4 was a good investment lol)