Paging Seth Borenstein! 9787 new cold and snow records since March 13th
If this were a month of a heatwave across thus USA, like last July, you can bet it would be MSM headlines all over the place and breathless stories from AP’s Seth Borenstein and pronouncements from the Mannian climate cartel about how all this is connected to global warming, er climate change, er climate disruption.
Source here
But nary a peep so far about this cold wave lasting over a month that has generated 9787 records posted by NOAA/NWS.
Conversely, here is the list of high temperatures, and high minimum temperatures.
Source here
The tally to present for the last 6 weeks
High temperature records: 1214
Low temperature records: 3464
High minimum temperature records: 1957
Low maximum temperature records: 4323
Snowfall records: 2000
There is no corresponding anti-snowfall record.
h/t to Robert W. Felix at iceagenow.com
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|sarc| There is no need to mention it. This weather is not surprising. It is all consistent with the fact of Anthropogenic Globull Warmcolding. |/sarc|
Iceagenow is (at least I hope it is) a wonderful tongue in cheek parody of alarmism. Up on a par with Minnesotans for Global Warming. Congratulations to Felix for having kept it up and kept it fresh for so long.
His most wonderful catastrophist fantasy was something like: what happened to the mammoths is going to happen to us. The idea was that it would suddenly start to snow one day, not a few inches or a few feet but many meters. It would just snow and keep on snowing and in a few days we would all be buried under 100s of meters of snow.
Like the mammoths!
I find looking at these two images a bit weird. It looks as though it is a commonplace that, for example, a record low and a high minimum temp have occurred adjacent to each other.
This has no doubt been covered at WUWT before, but is this in accordance with reality if supposedly happening in many instances, some of which, surely, cannot vary topographically, or in other ways, sufficiently to make sense of this?
Am I misreading this, or does this indicate potential problems in sites/measurements that make the mind boggle?
Snow blindness is a terrible thing. That’s why warmists wear those red rose tinted glasses.
It has occurred to me belatedly that if this is over one month, rather than one day, this does make sense.
From the Scotsman newspaper:
TWO German tourists who arrived in Scotland for a holiday at the end of February have finally left after being stranded in a remote glen by a snow storm for five weeks.
For the past five weeks Mr Suft and Ms Kumschier have stayed at a bed and breakfast in the village, doing odd jobs to pay for their accommodation, as they waited for the road to be cleared.
Last week Perth and Kinross council sent a JCB to dig a channel through the snow and drag the camper van out of the snow drift.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/scottish-news/top-stories/german-tourists-stranded-in-highlands-for-five-weeks-1-2906075
If reality don’t fit, they will not admit.
Now it’s Mother Nature’s turn to mock alarmists.
given the time of year, could the record ‘highs’ be more representative of increased UHI? (certainly for some of the poor sited urban stations) – I am presuming that the record ‘lows’ are acceptable, as to my knowledge folk don’t cool the outside much with human activity! – mind you, if we imagined a really rough weather day, with nobody travelling in private cars/buses,etc due to blocked roads, etc – on those days any UHI contribution from say, traffic, would be lower and could contribute to the recorded ‘lows’?
Urban heat Island effect will give you a lot of high minimums.
@ur momisugly DennisA, Was reading this yesterday at the DM.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2312821/Scotland-Sandstorm-Crop-Barley-ruined-tons-sand-blown-land.html
‘The last bad case was when I was very young in the mid-70s and the mess it left was just incredible.’
I keep seeing this, reference to the 70’s weather – Joe B of the Weather Bell; you’re right again.
And given the frozen condition on this continent so far south, food prices will be going up this year.
As with March and April 2012, so far in March and April 2013 no new ‘all time’ highest maximum or lowest minimum temperature records have been broken in the lower 48 states; though one all time lowest minimum was broken in Hawaii. That’s according to NOAA’s ‘Records look-up’ page: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/extremes/records/all-time/maxt/2012/04/00?sts%5B%5D=US#records_look_up
From the same source, in March and April this year (so far) 40 ‘monthly’ lowest minimum temperature records have been broken, in contrast to 11 monthly highest maximum temperature records broken in the same period. That’s a ratio of about 4/1 lowest/highest monthly records broken in March and April 2013.
In March and April 2012 a total of 511 monthly highest maximum temperatures were broken, against 18 monthly lowest minimum temperatures in the same period. That gives a ratio of about 28/1 highest/lowest monthly records broken in March and April 2012.
The total number of monthly temperature records broken during March and April 2012 is in the order of 7 times higher than the number of monthly temperature records so far broken in March and April 2013. Perhaps this is what marked the March and April 2013 events as more noteworthy to the mainstream media outlets?
It is not just the USA, all of the higher latitudes of N. Hemisphere are affected.
Is this a trend direction change?
The N.H’s composite data set is not long enough to extrapolate to future, however there is a good correlation between the CET record and the N.H’s temperature records .
The 350 year long CET record allows for a sensible extrapolation of the basic components comprising natural trend, as I demonstrate here:
http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/CET-NV.htm
Time will tell, but it appears that the ‘global warming’ peak, at least in the higher latitudes of the N. Hemisphere is over.
Climate Mammoths
http://thiniceclimate.org/
http://youtu.be/t7EAlTcZFwY
If this is true , climate records older than 10.000 years have no importance.
jc highlights an important point when he asks why so many high and low records in close proximity (not withstanding that this is over a month). Temperatures are rock solid when we are talking of beating records by tiny fractions of a degree (either way).
Folks, this is just weather. Climate would be this sort of thing over the past 16 years or so. /sarc
Here in Minnesota, in Duluth, this April is not just the snowiest April they’ve ever had, but has now become the snowiest month period in the entire record there. If you are at all familiar with the weather in Duluth, you will realize that is, if not unprecedented, at least fairly exceptional. There is still a possibility of more snow today and tomorrow, before some warmth finally moves in for the weekend.
Where I live is several hundred miles south of Duluth, but we have had exactly two days where the daily high was above the historical average since 27 Feb. One in March was one degree above average and one day in early April was plus 4 above avg. An additional three days matched the avg. Though not a majority, a strong plurality of the rest of the days in between had highs in the 15-20 degrees below avg. range
vukcevic says:
April 24, 2013 at 1:46 am
“…
Time will tell, but it appears that the ‘global warming’ peak, at least in the higher latitudes of the N. Hemisphere is over.”
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So What- it’s still all your fault and your taxes are going up and your energy usage is going down!
Never forget what they told us was about Spring arriving earlier and earlier.
Exhibit 1
“From the Scotsman newspaper:
TWO German tourists who arrived in Scotland for a holiday at the end of February have finally left after being stranded in a remote glen by a snow storm for five weeks.”
WHAT?! Scotland gets about two weeks of camper van weather per year and it does not happen in the middle of winter.
Not even the Met Office predicted a barbecue winter.
Mind you some Germans enjoy a challenge like that. There’s a motorbike rally called the Elephant Rally which is held in the middle in the middle of the continent on the Czech-German border.
I live on a lake… since this house was built in 1995 we’ve been keeping track of freeze and thaw dates. This year we are already 2 weeks past the majority of thaws, and the ice is still thick and solid. The latest it’s ever been was May 3. Should be interesting to see when we thaw.
Watch out if the weather carries on in the US, you may have an influx of german tourists this year. 😉
jc says:
April 23, 2013 at 11:58 pm
I find looking at these two images a bit weird. It looks as though it is a commonplace that, for example, a record low and a high minimum temp have occurred adjacent to each other.
Don’t forget that these records were set over a number of weeks, so it shouldn’t be unexpected.
I thought that just a little while ago, the fact that max temp records outnumbered min temp records by 3:1 was incontrovertible proof of global warming?
Does it truly matter? Cold and snow is caused by global warming of course. Nothing to see here…