Tag Archives: Contiguous United States

NOAA: Average temperature of the USA in January at freezing

Posted on February 14, 2013 by

National Summary Information – January 2013 Contiguous U.S. warmer and wetter than average for January Drought persists for central U.S.; above-average January snow cover extent for Lower 48 The average temperature for the contiguous U.S. during January was 32.0°F, 1.6°F … Continue reading →

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A question for Zeke Hausfather

Posted on January 23, 2013 by

Zeke is upset that I made this statement in a story at Fox news: Is history malleable? Can temperature data of the past be molded to fit a purpose? It certainly seems to be the case here, where the temperature … Continue reading →

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Another glitch on the NCDC State of the Climate report

Posted on January 10, 2013 by

Is NOAA Misleading the Public by Including Tropical Cyclones in its 2012 Climate Extremes Index Ranking? by Bob Tisdale IF NOT, THE PRESS AND PUBLIC WILL CERTAINLY GET THE WRONG IDEA The Summary Information of the NOAA State of the Climate … Continue reading →

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NOAA SOTC for December 2012

Posted on January 8, 2013 by

(This post revised to show the final report) Source: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/national/2012/13 In 2012, the contiguous United States (CONUS) average annual temperature of 55.3°F was 3.3°F above the 20th century average, and was the warmest year in the 1895-2012 period of record … Continue reading →

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Announcing the first ever CONUS yearly average temperature from the Climate Reference Network

Posted on January 7, 2013 by

UPDATE: NOAA plans to release SOTC at 1PM EST today. Look for updates soon and a special report on today’s release. The map below will automatically update when we have the new December COOP Tavg value, probably later today. I’ll … Continue reading →

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NCDC’s new USHCN hockey stick trick

Posted on October 13, 2012 by

Yesterday, NCDC released Version 2.5 of the USHCN data set. For those who don’t know, this is the U.S. Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) which NCDC considers a “gold standard” for US temperature measurements. Problem is, the reality of the old … Continue reading →

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New national temperature resource almost ready

Posted on October 12, 2012 by

I had hoped to have this ready in time for heat wave season, as it would have been quite useful in July. Pursuant to my post about July average temperatures being lower with the new Climate Reference Network -vs- the … Continue reading →

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NASA’s James Hansen is just wrong: Proof that there is no increased drought in the USA tied to temperature

Posted on August 12, 2012 by

From the James Hansen is just wrong department comes some inconvenient data, data that Dr. Hansen or anyone in the media could have easily looked up for themselves before writing irresponsible stories like this one: Former Virginia State Climatologist Dr. … Continue reading →

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Not so hot – ocean temperatures around the USA are not anywhere near record levels

Posted on August 10, 2012 by

While there’s wailing and gnashing of teeth over the US CONUS surface temperature being the “hottest ever” a cursory review of the sea surface temperatures in U.S.Coastal waters shows no cause for alarm, as they aren’t even close to record … Continue reading →

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An ‘inconvenient result’ – July 2012 not a record breaker according to data from the new NOAA/NCDC U.S. Climate Reference Network

Posted on August 8, 2012 by

I decided to do myself something that so far NOAA has refused to do: give a CONUS average temperature for the United States from the new ‘state of the art’ United States Climate Reference Network (USCRN). After spending millions of … Continue reading →

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Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. on two recent “game changing” climate papers

Posted on July 31, 2012 by

In case you missed it, on Sunday Dr. Roger Pielke Sr.wrote a statement of support for Watts et al 2012. See: Comments On The Game Changer New Paper “An Area And Distance Weighted Analysis Of The Impacts Of Station Exposure … Continue reading →

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University of Nebraska claims record drought in the USA? Not so fast…

Posted on July 5, 2012 by

From the University of Nebraska-Lincoln  comes a news release about the 12 year old U.S. Drought Monitor dataset, proclaiming “record worst ever” as if this has some relevance in history. Sorry, I have to call BS on this. Take June … Continue reading →

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