The site also shows a barchart of California October temperature deviations from 1895. This chart shows it is getting colder, as 10 out of the last 15 years are below the norm. NOAA uses the period 1949 to 2005 as the base period.

You bet your sweet bippie they are asking questions right now.
And how.
This run of record cold was NOT supposed to happen, and neither was the nearly non-existant hurricane season.

Problem is, cold makes people stay penned up in their homes. What do they do for entertainment? Read the bleating Seth Borenstein articles on the AP,

http://www.climatedepot.com/a/2546/Climate-Depot-Serving-as-the-Medias-Ombudsman-Long-sad-history-of-AP-reporter-Seth-Borensteins-woeful-global-warming-reporting

watch the climate alarmists issuing from such unbiased sources as Climate Central, as they pontificate on nightly news,

http://www.climatecentral.org/video/

And listen to Obama and other leaders pump up the base for the coming Copenhagen shoot-out.

Meanwhile, this:

Analysts said the pace of the corn harvest is the slowest since the Department of Agriculture started keeping records in 1985.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125656490009708113.html

There are several factors I believe to support what you say Steve.

Anthony Watts has been researching surface stations for some time. A small percentage of those stations are poorly regulated and many others improperly placed. How accurate those temp stations are could affect anomoly charts.
Another aspect of surface stations is the reorganizing and the replacment of surface stations. A good many surface stations have been moved, i.e. from older airports to newer airports, causing records to be slightly askew.

Another point I’d like to make is while I’m only focusing on extreme weather, possible cooling trends exsist in many places. Northeast U S had a colder than average summer. Illinois had its coldest summer ever. Many plain states and gulf states had cooler weather than expected. During the summer, the west coast states had above average higher temperatures, but is now experiencing some wicked cold weather.

But to get to your point, which is temperatures are acually colder, all one has to do is notice, even with questionable surface station readings, the variance from the norm.. For instance Denvers average snowfall for Oct. is just under 4 in. This October is over a foot of snow. Average Oct. temp in Denver is 54 °. This Oct is under 44°. Its the severity and degree of separation from the norm that is amazing and gets very little track on MSM. And its not just happening in Denver, but many places and spread over months and months. Flucuations from average, around the US, is enormous. The degree of variance is too great to overlook. Its not just temperature, its also rain and snow. Early snow has impacted every state across the northern corridor. From Washington State to Maine. In California, while the state had a above average summer temps., record snowfall and precipitation is taking place.

My conclusion is this: This is but a start to even more cooler weather. Are we prepared?

The United States Historical Climatology Network (USHCN)

Main Page Long-Term Daily and Monthly Climate Records from. Stations Across the Contiguous United States ..

cdiac.ornl.gov/../ushcn.html

No big deal right? Access to USHCN data is on the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center web site. I just find that to be weird. Why isn’t it on the USHCN website. Is the DOE performing cutbacks? Or is this there way to say, “Hey, CO2 is temperature.” Sorry, I’m just feeling a bit sarcastic lately.

(Well enough to know his real name, as do you.)

Her.

If snow and ice is early and colder, it seems to me that would hurt prospects for taxing energy.

Winter forecast. UK Met warm, Acc Weather cold mid and late, chinois very cold winter generally. On verra.

Stay warm in the US

p.s. you’re the DaveE that used to comment a lot on YouTube with gerjanp?

I do sometimes post there, but not with this moniker.

I do know gerjanp quite well too. (Well enough to know his real name, as do you.)

I got sick of the attitude there, (both ‘sides’) so avoid it generally.

DaveE.

No elitism here.