In the continental USA, there were 137 high temperature type records versus 857 low temperature type records this past week , a 6-1 difference. Last week there were 1154 low temperature type records putting the two week total for October at 2011. There were also 24 new snowfall records set this week in the upper plains.
Once again, if this had been summer, and the numbers reversed, you’d see Seth Borenstein writing articles for AP telling us this is ‘what global warming looks like’. So far not a peep out of Seth on this cold wave and what it is supposed to mean.
(Added) Here’s all the October lows plotted by week 1 and week 2 and composited on the US map:
Here’s just the lows for the past week plotted on the map:
And here are the total record numbers for this week:
Total number of high temperature type records: 39+98= 137
Total number of low temperature type records: 345+512= 857
| Record Events for Mon Oct 8, 2012 through Sat Oct 13, 2012 | |
| Total Records: | 1221 |
| Rainfall: | 229 |
| Snowfall: | 12 |
| High Temperatures: | 33 |
| Low Temperatures: | 345 |
| Lowest Max Temperatures: | 512 |
| Highest Min Temperatures: | 90 |
And here are all the temperature records since last Monday plus snowfall records on the map:
Source: NOAA data via HW Records Center here
No doubt the warmists will be telling us all that this is to be expected because of AGW. You can’t win! If it is cold it is because of AGW, if it is hot it is because of AGW.
Sunny and showery day here in NE England, NE wind, temperature is 8 celsius at 14:00. All of course due to AGW. If AGW was a person he/she would be paranoid!
anthony, there are two pics illustrating this piece, #2 relating to temperature, which you would
understand better than me. however, i do question Graham Lloyd’s declaration that we have experienced “an extraordinary run of extreme weather conditions”:
13 Oct: Australian: Graham Lloyd: Spring break just the weather, as usual
WILD storms and unseasonal snow that have lashed southeastern Australia this week mask a bigger shift in the nation’s weather pattern – back to normal.
The Bureau of Meteorology has downgraded its forecast for a possible El Nino weather system that would signal a return to the drier-than-normal conditions that wreaked havoc for much of the past decade.
If, as expected, the weather system returns to normal — neither El Nino nor the rain-bringing La Nina — it will break an extraordinary run of extreme weather conditions…
GALLERY: Snow in springtime …
The big-picture weather patterns have nothing to do with the wild storm events that dumped up to 18cm of snow on the NSW southern tablelands and on South Australia this week…
The weather pattern has been dramatic, but not particularly unusual.
Ms (Senior bureau meteorologist Julie) Evans said the spring snow conditions were last recorded in 2008. “We do tend to get these cold outbreaks this time of year,” she said.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/spring-break-just-the-weather-as-usual/story-e6frg6nf-1226494747547
13 Oct: ABC: (incl. 2 VIDEOS, PLUS GALLERY) Snow causes havoc across eastern Australia
About 470 properties in the Blue Mountains will remain without electricity overnight after a day of wild winds, rain and snow.
At its height, snowfalls of 15 centimetres and wind damage cut roads and rail access to the upper Blue Mountains for more than six hours.
The Bureau of Meteorology says snow falls have occurred right along the Great Dividing Range and as far north as Queensland’s Granite Belt.
The wild weather also affected Sydney’s metropolitan area, with Sydney Ferries suspending services between Manly and Circular Quay due to big swells…
Endeavour Energy reconnected more than 2,000 properties to power on Friday afternoon, but hundreds of outlying properties between Mount Victoria and Medlow Bath and in the Megalong Valley will not get power back until Saturday.
With temperatures predicted to get down to 3 degrees Celsius overnight, the company has urged people in areas where the power is out to check on neighbours who live alone.
Blackheath resident Noelene Turner says she is staying in bed to keep warm…
But bureau forecaster Ewen Mitchell says while the snowfall is unusual, it is not unheard of at this time of year.
“I don’t think there’s been hugely heavy falls. [It’s been] fairly widespread,” he said.
“It’s certainly not record breaking in terms that it’s happened before.”…
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-10-12/snow-falling-across-eastern-australia/4308904?section=vic
Does it now mean that we won’t be barbecued in our beds overnight but instead be turned into popsicles. I will now have to trade my new bathers and sunblock for thermal underwear. This is becoming expensive.
andrewmhardinga says(October 14, 2012 at 6:00 am)
If AGW was a person he/she would be paranoid!
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Bipolar might be the more appropriate term.
Especially as Borenstein says nothing about the Antarctic, as well as ignoring record cold spells.
A hard freeze like yesterday morning, Oct 13, is early even for this frost hollow. Any plant that is frost-sensitive was turned to blackish mush.
Yep, greater variability, consistent with model projections. This is exactly what Global
warming… uh …climate changeweirding looks like. (/sarc)AGW is old news. It is Climate Change that is the problem. Every fall human CO2 emissions cause the climate to change. In the Northern hemisphere is gets cold, in the southern hemisphere it gets hot. Every spring human CO2 causes it to change again in the reverse direction. This disrupts climate, thus it is called Climate Disruption. This process has been going on for as long as there have been humans on the planet, thus humans are the cause. We know this to be true because the US government has spent $100 billion paying scientists to say it is true.
Yeah, Seth is busy writing about how AGW melts ice in the Arctic and increases ice in The Antarctic. And floes the size of Berlin (341 sq mi, ten times the size of Manhattan) are breaking off Antarctic glaciers. Turn out the lights. When a guy like this can continue to find an audience the communal intellect is nearly nil.
Interesting how on the last map there are red dots surrounded by light blue ones. Is it because those stations have accuracy problems?
It’s even been snowing recently in parts of ‘tropical’ Australia. If it were a heat wave you can bet your bottom Dollar it will pointed to as a sure sign of global warming.
On a related note didn’t Michael Mann say something like the media would be highly irresponsible not to link the recent US heatwave to global warming? If so then where is Michael Mann now urging the media to report this record cold appearance as a ‘sign’ of global cooling, especially when you link it with the Met Offices release about the warming standstill?
It’s just the weather and not the climate. I do wish Warmists would speak in the same way.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-10-12/snow-falling-across-eastern-australia/4308904?section=vic
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-19932805
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/10/13/report-global-warming-stopped-16-years-ago/
http://mediamatters.org/research/2012/08/15/tv-media-ignore-climate-change-in-coverage-of-r/189366
We pick on warmers when they cite examples from small regions or short time periods as evidence for or against long term trends. Best not to do it ourselves, then.
Of course it’s due to Global Warming. There’s nothing Global Warming can’t do.
Too hot? Global Warming!
Too cold? Global Warming!
Too wet? Global Warming!
Too dry? Global Warming!
Ice melting in summer? Global Warming!
Blizzards in winter? Global Warming!
Tornadoes in spring? Global Warming!
Hurricanes in summer? Global Warming!
Christmas on December 25th? Global Warming!
David Thomas Bronzich, great point. Like the one in North Carolina…there was a record high temp there, but nowhere else near it? Yet surrounded by a few states record low max temps?
It looks quite fishy.
Re: David Bronzich.
There is a cool bias in these maps in that when a station has both a high record and a low record, it is the low record that shows. My guess is that the records are printed in the left to right order of the legend. So that low temperatures overprint on the high records.
It is easy to follow the link to see for yourself. If you do it now and click on only the highs, you see many High Min records in West Central Texas and the panhandle. Click on the Lows and many of those Texas High Min dots change to Low purples.
” So far not a peep out of Seth on this cold wave and what it is supposed to mean. ”
Has anybody asked Seth his opinion?
Maybe he is unaware of what is taking place …
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/only partial sarc
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Correction to 8:03. It ultimately is a warm bias. Obviously the drawing order is not left to right in the legend. Lows are plotted after High Min. Highs are plotted after High Mins. (as can be seen today at Big Bend Texas).
So it appears the points are plotted right to left in the legend. In which case the Highs will over print the all other points ( warm bias ), Low temps will over print all but the Highs. In the one today, there is a High on the central coast of South Carolina that overprints a Low Max Temp.
Frankly, I think this is a bug. Over printing is the easy thing to do, but the proper thing is to use another color when two or more categories are seen at the same station, especially if it is a mix of cool and warm records.
David,
Frequently, cold snaps are preceded by strong southerly wind patterns, and in the South, this usually means warm moist Gulf air.
These record lows, just lack the proper upward adjustments.
nothing to see here, now move along
David Thomas Bronzich says:
October 14, 2012 at 7:02 am
Interesting how on the last map there are red dots surrounded by light blue ones. Is it because those stations have accuracy problems?
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interesting observation. for example, look up around Seattle. We have record highs and lows all overlapped within a week. there must have been a massive die off in plants and animals around Seattle, unable to cope with this extreme climate disruption. it must have made the st helen’s volcano look like child’s play. no doubt the area has been declared a national disaster, with emergency funding in the billions rolling in to care for the casualties. after all, the ipcc tells us just a 2C warming in climate will spell disaster for the world. imagine what a daily 10C shift at seattle has done. Oh, poor seattle.
“Here’s all the October lows”
Typo…
REPLY: No, it’s not. – Anthony
How about this piece of news the UK Met Office has tried to slip under the radar? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2217286/Global-warming-stopped-16-years-ago-reveals-Met-Office-report-quietly-released–chart-prove-it.html?ITO=1490
Oh, and the same paper reports that Antarctica has grown more ice this year than at any time since monitoring began in 1979. I wonder why we haven’t seen any of it plastered across the media? OK, the Daily Mail is a bit of a Right Wing rag, but their reporters have picked up something the BBC (Moonbat) and the Guardian have avoided …
Oh, the response to the Antarctic ice extent is interesting – “It’s because of Global Warming” …
Raw temperature data, Anthony! Ve vill adjust zem, ja, und zen ve vill haff 857 new *high* temperatures, und 137 new *low* temperatures. And the original raw temperatures will be gone forevermore, ja.
I really don’t think I should post this here but Climate Central has moved beyond ludicrous into the hysterical and Romm-like wholesale public deceit.
http://www.climatecentral.org/blogs/welcome-rain-but-also-severe-storms-expected-this-weekend-15111
Welcome Rains Are Forecast, But So Are Severe Storms
The distance these deceiving buffoons go to prop up the narrative is behavior history will not look kind upon.
Is this really the game you want to play, Anthony?
“In the continental USA, there were 137 high temperature type records versus 857 low temperature type records this past week , a 6-1 difference.”
In the continental USA, there were 1432 high temperature type records versus 121 low temperature type records ON MARCH 20,2012 , a 12-1 difference.
“Last week there were 1154 low temperature type records …”
The previous day (March 19, 2012), there were 1217 high type records …
There are four INDIVIDUAL DAYS last March that EACH have more “high type records” than the WEEKLY 1154 “low type records” you are hyping. (With ratios ranging from 7-1 to 25-1)
October has recorded just over 2,000 “low type records” for the first two weeks. Let me know if we get another 12,000 “low type records” this month. Yep, October would need around 6,000 “low type records” for each of the next couple weeks to match last March’s mark for “high type records”.
“Once again, if this had been summer, and the numbers reversed, you’d see Seth Borenstein writing articles for AP telling us this is ‘what global warming looks like’. So far not a peep out of Seth on this cold wave and what it is supposed to mean.”
Once again, this cold spell is way less intense than the warm spell in March, and probably less intense than many of the weekly warm spells throughout the year, but I don’t have time to do all that research for you. I do remember that June had ~ 3,000 record highs (and presumably about twice that number of “high type records”), so October is still well short of that number, too.
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So, YES! this IS what global warming would look like — occasional small small excursions below normal temps, with more frequent, larger excursions above normal temps.