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This map below updates every hour, and shows city temperatures along with temperature gradients. Can you believe 18F in Atlanta (midday) at the time of this writing? Low temperature records are being shattered in many USA cities with cold records outnumbering warm records almost 5 to 1. This thread will update with weather news as it happens.
Look at all of the cold records:
| Total Records: | 1045 |
| Rainfall: | 127 |
| Snowfall: | 351 |
| High Temp: | 85 |
| Low Temp: | 162 |
| Low Max Temp: | 300 |
| High Min Temp: | 20 |
Cold records total: 462
Warm records total: 105
Source: http://wx.hamweather.com/maps/climate/records/1week/us.html
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Update: here is WeatherBell’s map being used for The Drudge Report. It represents the air temperature at 2 meters above the surface (you may need to manually refresh browser to see it.) Note the United States Avg: value, which is below freezing for the CONUS.
UPDATE2: record breaking cold in Atlanta
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The Americans have stolen Europe’s snow this Winter? GREAT!!!
How is this snow in USA and no snow in Europe going to affect the Public health in USA and in Europe?
How can you have record rainfall in Detroit when the temperature is -2F?
Steven Goddard at Real Science, has two nice quotes in the link below, from Time Magazine (1974 and 2014) where they’ve managed to spin the Polar Vortex into explaining either cooling or warming. These people have no shame, or no common sense. I believe both to be true.
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2014/01/07/time-magazine-goes-both-ways-on-the-polar-vortex/
Remove the Rain and Snow elements for a clearer picture of temps.
@lsvalgaard: It is a 1 week view. The rain records could have come while it was still warm.
It’s so cold it’s MINUS zero, not just your regular zero, in Detroit, Minneapolis and Pittsburgh!
Interesting,
As I mentioned in another thread this morning, the temp here and in Raleigh NC was 9F this morning and the record low was 15 F so we certainly did break the record low and then some.
Stephen Rasey says:
January 7, 2014 at 10:18 am
@lsvalgaard: It is a 1 week view. The rain records could have come while it was still warm.
Thanks. That little detail escaped me.
Funny that Achorage (at 26oF) is warmer than Atlanta…
Where’s the centigrade maps?
Found this editorial From the Washington TImes. A total reversal of the use of “Climate Denialists”. It’s a good thing i waited to read it before I got a drink!
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jan/6/editorial-ideology-in-the-freezer/
Also noticed that temps in the 30 – 40 degree range are now considered “mild” 50’s are down right warm!
According to NOAA, it was 8F at GSP this morning. The previous low for this date was 9F in 1904. No matter how you spin it, single digits are really cold for South Carolina. Happy to find our wood stove kept the house warm over night.
The area is currently experiencing blackouts– probably as people add space heaters to the grid.
No matter what you think about green technology in general, I really appreciate my Nest thermostat, which can tell me that it is currently 61F in the house.
Looks like Detroit is still using COBOL – } (-0 degrees)… Grace Hopper would be proud (albeit freezing….)
One thing the polar vortex has shown us is how woefully unprepared we are for the record cold temperatures we’re experiencing. We’re particularly misinformed when it comes to choosing winter warmup drinks. It seems to defy logic, but a cold beverage can help you hang on to body heat better than a hot one.
Remember that most of the world drinks hot tea in hot weather, and Alaska leads the nation in per capita ice cream consumption. It’s counterintuitive but true—hot drinks cool you down and cold drinks warm you up.
http://gigabiting.com/what-to-drink-in-a-polar-vortex/
Now everyone, click your ruby slippers together and repeat: “There’s no place like warm, there’s now place like warm, there’s no place like warm”.
@jon – I think here in Europe we’ve found the “missing heat”. Good thing, though, with the rapidly
increasing fuel prices, a warm winter will be welcome from a financial standpoint.
Having said that, it’s the pits for peach, apricot, and other fruit growers, as I believe there needs to be a number of winter days below freezing in order for fruit to set…(or whatever they call it…)…
It’s great to see weather and natural variability alive and well. It was beginning to look like climate change was going to smother all. It’s actually Spring in reality land.
Andrew Freeman (Climate central) starts with…
He then goes on to claim that the polar vortex that causes warmer Arctic temperatures and “dangerously cold conditions [that] exist in vast parts of the lower 48 [US states], may be tied to the rapid warming and loss of sea ice in the Arctic due, in part, to manmade climate change”.
So which is it? Are the current cold temperatures not the most significant Arctic outbreak in US history (it’s just weather) or are the dangerously cold conditions “unprecedented” and caused by “global warming”? Because as I read his argument he seems to be suggesting that global warming reduces the extent of these dangerously cold conditions, which would be great, no?
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/polar-vortex-in-u.s.-may-be-valid-example-of-global-warming-16927?ir=Canada
Plus isn’t there a lot of ice in the Arctic right now?
lsvalgaard says:
How can you have record rainfall in Detroit when the temperature is -2F?
How can you have a hail storm in August ? Surface temps to not necessarily match the air temp where precipitation forms and/or falls through.
I’m glad we are burning a lot of fossil fuel to keep people from freezing. What if we were forced to depend on solar cells or wind mills to keep us warm?
lsvalgaard says:
January 7, 2014 at 10:14 am
> How can you have record rainfall in Detroit when the temperature is -2F?
I won’t dig into it far, but “rainfall” to meteorologists often means all precip for the period, including “snow, freezing rain, and sleet after melting the mess.”
The one and two day maps show other rain, see http://wx.hamweather.com/maps/climate/records/2days/us.html?cat=rain,snow, and http://wx.hamweather.com/maps/climate/records/1day/us.html?cat=rain,snow,
BTW, a lot of those stations are minor stations with short histories, I take that site with a fair amount skepticism.
“David says:
January 7, 2014 at 10:20 am
Funny that Achorage (at 26oF) is warmer than Atlanta…”
260K? 🙂 (just kidding, hope it’s not that cold….
Of some note:
The current “Record Lows” are those from 1492 or so to now.
Flint arrow points of the Pecos ones and Inca tools date prior.
Ask the people who live in igloos what they know of the weather prior.
David says:
January 7, 2014 at 10:20 am
It’s only funny if you’re not living in Atlanta.