From the “weather is not climate” department. 815 new snowfall records, 304 low temperature, and 403 lowest max temperature records were set this week.
Here’s a summary:
| Record Events for Sun Dec 6, 2009 through Sat Dec 12, 2009 | |
| Total Records: | 2601 |
| Rainfall: | 992 |
| Snowfall: | 815 |
| High Temperatures: | 36 |
| Low Temperatures: | 304 |
| Lowest Max Temperatures: | 403 |
| Highest Min Temperatures: | 51 |
Data from NOAA via the HW map generator
UPDATE: Puzzled by the single odd record high temperature in West Texas of 80F in Sheffield, TX on Dec 9th, I called the NWS office in Midland/Odessa, TX to ask about it today (Monday). The meteorologist on duty was very helpful. While he first throught it may by a typo, perhaps a 3 that got turned into an 8 on a report, a review of the synoptic conditions that day revealed some very strong southerly winds ahead of the Arctic cold front that day. At a pass in the Pecos, winds were clocked at 112mph. Thus it appears that this station go a brief benefit of some very strong warming southerly wind.
I’ve seen this effect happen before. In fact it can result in a record or near record high temperature being achieved on the same day as a record or near record low temperature if the front is moving fast enough and has a strong temperature gradient.
The record high there does not appear to be in error. – Anthony
Hmmmm, kinda reverses the 2-1 high temp to cold temp records argument eh?
Make Love
Not Warmed Graphs
And yet this evening on some godforsaken network, Nina Totenberg claimed this is the warmest decade in recorded history. I wonder how she reconciles 2,600 cold and snow records just last week alone with her pseudo-scientific theology.
OK, All together now,
IT’S JUST WEATHER!!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Give the record cold in the NA record for this year, I am certain that the GISS folks are working overtime fixing the African, Siberian and Asian station records to make sure 2009 is the warmest ever year.
“Weather is not climate”
The WMO certainly makes a fuss about weather, pages 4 and 5 map of the world:
http://www.wmo.int/wcc3/documents/1039_en.pdf
“Some places in Turkey experienced their coldest January nights in nearly 50 years…”
You ain’t seen nothin yet, have a look at good ol Copenhagen LOL
http://wxmaps.org/pix/temp4.html
I live in that little blue dot in NE Ohio: Ashtabula, OH. I have no idea where they’re getting 0.7″ from! (If you drill into the NOAA site, it says the previous record of 0.5″ was broken with 0.7″).
We had 6-8″!!! Schools were closed. See for yourself:
http://www.wkyc.com/news/local/news_article.aspx?storyid=127030&catid=3
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=142874&id=75051066976&l=6b0bf85e02
This, of course, will be translated by James “The Weather Clown” Hansen into the second or third warmest since the year 1. And he will have a graph to prove it. Just like the January that set 3,000 cold records became the warmest in history.
Don’t you know?
It’s now called “Climate Change” not “Global Warming”.
That way, no matter what happens –
Anywhere in the world –
It can be claimed as proof.
No religion has ever had it so good.
Ya, and we are at the head of the cold front with -46C in Edmonton. 10 degrees below the last record! Which was set last year 🙁
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/opinion/blogs/Edmonton+breaks+weather+record/2336460/story.html
Edmonton breaks record by 10 degrees – 13 Dec 09 – “To break a temperature by 10 degrees is very exceptional,” said Environment Canada meteorologist Pierre Lessard. It was colder in Edmonton Sunday than anywhere else in North America.
Sunday also marked the coldest Dec. 13 in Edmonton’s history, said Lessard.
Environment Canada recorded a frigid -46.1 C, or -58.4 C with wind chill, at the Edmonton International Airport at 5 a.m., Lessard said. The old record of -36.1 C was set last year.
h/t Not by Fire but by Ice
Back to the ’70s.
Ya missed me by the thickness of a few degrees. Nobody was amused here, though, as we didn’t set a record. It was bone-chilling cold enough.
I’d like to think that the worst of the cold is over, but this was only early December, and my weather history says flip a coin for heads-no more, tails-
you get another one worse than the 1st one.
Yes, it’s just weather. All of it. 1910’s ice-age scare, 1930’s heat scare, 1970’s ice-age scare, 2000’s AGW scare, and the 2010’s freezer burn scare.
Give the knuckleheads a few more years of this, and they’ll be crying their eyes out over Global Colding.
Even though it’s only weather the Edmonton International Airport beat the previous Dec 13th record by 10℃ hitting a low of -46.1℃. Interestingly the previous record was set in 2008 at -36.1℃. I can hardly wait for winter to start 🙂
And in SE Australia, with a week to go till the solstice (southern hemisphere summer) they managed to get some snow. But that’s just weather, don’t you know.
http://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/a-snowy-dusting-in-victorias-summer/13262
Sleet in Copenhagen on Tuesday and snow on Friday and Saturday. Blast the conference is ending Thursday. But they have changed the forecast thrice in as many days – so lets hope they get snowed under.
http://www.dmi.dk/dmi/index/danmark/regionaludsigten/kbhnsj.htm
And the Northern hemisphere is looking pretty white here:
http://www.natice.noaa.gov/pub/ims_gif/DATA/cursnow.gif
You say its cold, I say its hot.
It does not matter what you say because I have control of the “con” sensus
I saw John Stossel’s Global Warming show on Fox last Thursday. It was very good but I hope he has Anthony on his show sometime soon. I want to see Anthony explain why the NASA/GISS/NOAA temperature data are bogus. As we know, Anthony’s surfacestations.org site reveals that 85% of the stations are not to siting specifications so how on earth can NASA/GISS/NOAA claim their reports are accurate?
If you think about it, the data is so bad now that we just better start over completely, so everyone will really be getting records for a while.
If it’s cold, it’s just weather. If it’s warm it’s an indication of WARMING.
Not having one’s cake and eating it, by any chance?
Would this be a good time to adopt a pet penguin? They’re soooo cute!
I’d adopt a polar bear but my landlord says I can’t keep one here.
Leon Brozyna (21:48:18) :
Yes, it’s just weather. And that means when it’s cold somewhere, it’s often hot somewhere else. Here in Melbourne, just near that mountain top where it snowed, we had our hottest November average, by 6C, which is huge for a monthly average. Beat the record by 2C. And we’re having a hot year. Wednesday’s forecast is 39C.
I just read a funny comment over on Zero Hedge…
Those who say Climategate is nothing should from henceforth be known as “Climategate Deniers.”
Watching the Gemanids in Manitoba, it is super clear — always nice and clear when it is cold like this (-28 atm).
Oh, but please you guys in Edmonton, don’t include wind chill in temperature measurements! I think I hate the wind chill adjustment almost as much as the warming adjustments. Can’t we all just be happy the way we are? : )
The meteors are worth a look if you are rural, clear, northern and night — they originate in Gemini (between Orion and the Big Dipper), but are streaking pretty much anywhere in the sky.
Good Grief! How many guys from Edmonton watch this site?
BTW was it cold or what! I was out at about midnight last night you don’t know bone numbing cold till you’ve felt -40 with out a wind chill!
Here’s the difference between +40C vs -40C. If you are outside in+40C after 15 minutes you are hot sweaty and thirsty, in -40C you’re dead.