GREG LACOUR, The Charolotte Observer
This morning was downright cool in the Charlotte region — cool enough to break a record that had stood for more than a century.The temperature at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport was 56 at about 5:30 a.m., breaking the July 2 record of 58, set in 1885. The normal low for this time of year is 70.
It’ll warm up quickly today, though. Temperatures today are expected to peak at 90 degrees, according to the National Weather Service. But it’ll still feel pleasant because of humidity levels between 20 and 25 percent, said NWS meteorologist Doug Outlaw.
Conditions will be cool again overnight, with the low descending to 59, one degree warmer than the record for July 3, set in 1932. And the Fourth of July is expected to be warm and dry, with a high of 92 and “a very, very minimal chance” of rain, Outlaw said.
Forecasters don’t expect any rain until Saturday afternoon, when they call for a 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms.
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awwww shucks…
http://nflfaninengland.wordpress.com/ your blog is more popular than mine – howabout I get some of your traffic ! hehehehehehehe
Anybody else been watching ozone maps of the US over the past two months? I have. And we are losing ozone (remember, cosmic rays eat up ozone). I wonder if that means colder cold and hotter hot. Without our blanket in the sky, it stands to reason that while we are tipped away from the Sun, the cold is colder because we can’t keep the warm in. As we tip towards the Sun, hot will be hotter because we can’t keep the hot Sun out. Scenario: We will freeze our little private parts off at night and during the winter from September to June. But once thawed out, come July through August, our crops will burn in the hot Sun.
Be Jeez! us, let it happen! Anthony has created a solid respectable place. Thanks, and Jeez welcome to a quality place on the internet.
The same hysterical human dynamics such as global warming (in years past) allowed self proclaimed godz the power to sacrifice virgins on mountain tops…
Bless our bloody little hearts its only a tax but offers roughly the same effect.
Dude…chill. I’m only a moderator.
Oh what the hell. Give thanks unto me!
Seems like I coulda fit “Gore yer Ox” in there somewhere.
The ice packs at the north and south poles returned in record size this past winter….which was one of the coldest on record. Global warming is a money-grabbing scam. See http://www.iceagenow.com
According to the icepack’s overall size, the North Pole ice pack has not returned to record size. It did, however, recover from a very low minimum which when measured from minimum to maximum, was a 10% increase compared to other min to max years going back to 1978. It also stayed colder longer so the recovery continued going up. In years past, the minimums were not quite as low and it was not cold enough, long enough, to pack on new ice to any degree that looks like a trend. This past winter season clearly was a different show than previous years.
The South Pole just keeps getting colder.
Is that 56°F before HANSEN (BN) or after HANSEN (AN). If it’s BN, then Hansen hasn’t adjusted the old record low enough, negating the new record.
REPLY: Hansen does not adjust the by date record high/low temps for individual station held by the National Weather Service and NCDC. He’s a trendy guy, sort of like “slope on a rope”.
“Rising sea levels are IMO opinion the most persuasive evidence of a warming climate, although with a substantial lag, perhaps 20 or 30 years.”
The trouble is, Phillip E, there is no documented increase in ocean temperatures and much of the “sea level rise” has been attributed to subsidence of the land, not rising of the sea. We now have some very accurate satellites in orbit that will give us a very good picture of sea level changes … provided those measurements aren’t “adjusted” by agenda driven “scientists”.
Ocean temperatures have been slightly cooling over the past several years. Also, do not confuse temperature at the very surface with the temperature of the water a few feet down. A change of 5mph in the trade winds makes a big difference in the surface temperature while making no difference in the temperature below. So weather impacts the surface. Climate impacts the water below. There is no warming of the oceans and there has been no warming of the atmosphere over the past 10 or 11 years. Some land surface recording stations record higher temperatures but those are influenced more by local land use changes than by climate.
jeeztheadmin (11:58:21) :
See sravana? It’s my username.
oops
[sravana skulks away to hide in embarrassment]
No problem. It was a logical error on your part since you were unaware of my existence~jeez
Ric Werme,
For an even more dramatic example of geologic uplift you can’t do better than this – THE SUMMIT OF MOUNT EVEREST IS MADE OF MARINE LIMESTONE!
Ric Werme (12:38:22) :
[snip my question]
In Ice Age timeframes (say 100,000 years) the major effect is ice, to the tune 300-500 feet IIRC.
In geologic timeframes (say 1000X longer), much greater uplift occurs. In general land is built up by volcanism and sedimentation and worn down by erosion. Wherever you see sandstone and limestone, you’re looking at old sea floor that has been lifted up. The North Rim of the Grand Canyon is sedimentary rock at 8,000 feet above sea level, the South Rim is the same, but 1,000 feet lower. I’ll leave further details to the geologists here. There are many higher sea floors and even some coral beds in southwestern US mountains.
Okay, then what we have here in Central/South Texas is uplift, because the limestone is just below the topsoil (and full of sea-creature fossils). The geography of Texas is pretty interesting – and south of here the coastal plain just slowly subsides until suddenly you’re in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico.
… and yes, to everyone, I do know that ‘skulking’ is not a word – but that’s as good a definition as any to my reaction to my recent jeez revelation.
Speaking of jeez – I’m sorry for jumping all over you, thanks for taking it so well! I mean, Jeez! oops, or I don’t. 😉 I love this place. I’ve learned so much, and to think, I used to believe AlGore. mercy.
Uh, skulking is a perfect acceptable word.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/skulk
Pamela Gray:”Anybody else been watching ozone maps of the US over the past two months? I have. And we are losing ozone (remember, cosmic rays eat up ozone).”
Ozone is unstable and is constantly being created and destroyed by solar radiation. It is NOT a finite blanket that can be eaten away to be forever lost.
From: http://www.junkscience.com/Ozone/ozone_seasonal.html:
“The conceptual “ozone layer” is not some delicate, static and fragile wrapping about the outer atmosphere but rather a dynamic and highly volatile component, both created and destroyed by solar radiation. Ozone creation is a continuous process, so we can not “run out” of stratospheric ozone. The more ozone (O3) is destroyed, the more free oxygen radicals (O1) are available to bind with free oxygen (O2) to create ozone (O3), the same applies with free oxygen (O2). “
After looking at the article I’m glad I live in Portland Oregon. Normal lows this time of the year are 55F and when the daily highs climb into the 100’s the low in the morning STILL is no higher than the low sixties.
Ozone can and does become depleted in a natural cycle. I know it is not fragile. Did I say that? Did I fricken say it would be forever lost? Gawd I hate it when people assume. Makes an ass outa me and you. Okay. Very tired. Very grumpy. I will shut up.
crosspatch, I should have qualified that statement. How about,
“Rising sea levels would be IMO the most persuasive evidence of a warming climate, although with a substantial lag of perhaps 20 or 30 years, if it were occuring.”
Up until recently, I did think sea levels were rising (and hence oceans in their totality warming) although at a relatively constant rate, but as I said above, recent better sea level and ocean temperature data indicate that sea levels aren’t rising or rising much less and oceans aren’t warming.
I am well aware that in many places the land is sinking. In fact I regularly email news outlets that come out with rising sea levels drown Bangladeshi village or Thai temple when these are places where the land is sinking. The BBC is one of the worst for these kinds of deceptive reports.
Interesting paper here which shows that (Indian) ocean levels had a Holocene highstand about 2 metres higher than current ocean levels about 6000 years ago. So either a lot of water is now locked up in the ice caps, or the ocean temps have cooled somewhat (or both) since that time
http://espace.lis.curtin.edu.au/archive/00000370/01/Collinsetal2005_final.pdf
What is this nonsense about melting sea ice not raising sea levels ?
http://nsidc.org/news/press/20050801_floatingice.html
The superficial “science” behind every tenet of Global Warmism is truly sad
OF course sea levels will rise as floating ice melts !!
Hmmm….I stand corrected, but hey according to this if all sea ice in the world melted it would raise the oceans 4 cm. This is not particularly significant in the overall pogies’ ammunition set, so for all practical purposes I would now modify my earlier statement to say that melting sea ice contributes an insignificant amount to sea level rise~jeez
PS. Anthony, I also often do a late night sweep before heading to bed.
Skippy,
Interesting link, but he was referring to freshwater ice from glaciers and not sea ice in the Arctic which is presumably mostly frozen sea. Mind you there may be an element of freshwater ice on top of the frozen sea ice? I wonder if all these parameters are adequately acconted for in the models 🙂
When sea water freezes, the salt is left behind and you end up with “freshwater” ice. The link does indeed refer to sea ice, but the effect is not particularly significant.~jeez
Huh. No post about the top-5 warmest Junes in several I-95 cities, but a post about a one-day record after Charlotte had just come off of a very warm June. Interesting.
REPLY: I’m sorry, Fred, but I didn’t see that story, if you have a link, post it.
Your complaint reminds me of the ones I used to get at the TV station such as “how come you didn’t report that it got up to/down to xx degrees in [small town] ? And I’d ask: “Where was the temperature measured at?” and often the reply would be something like “my house” to which I’d reply “There is no weather service reporting station in your town, so how would I know to report that unless someone called in to tell me?” “Congrats, you are the first”.
Likewise this blog relies heavily on reader tips, plus my own research. So, if you are expecting an all seeing eye, I’m sorry to disappoint. – Anthony
http://www.climate-skeptic.com/2008/07/extrapolating-f.html?cid=121131108#comment-121131108
Pam,
“The South Pole just keeps getting colder.”
Boy I’ll say!
http://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/antarctica%20environment/weather.htm
One thing about Charlotte, NC is that it’s near the center of a rather severe drought area. The low moisture levels there will encourage low nite-time temps, especially in relatively cool Canadian air after a cold-front passes.
W. Virginia had record early frosts in August in the blistering hot & dry summer of 1936.