CDOT closed Loveland Pass west of Denver for a couple hours to plow.
It seems a bit cool all over the USA for a Sunday afternoon in August.
US HOURLY TEMPERATURES AT 19:39 GMT/UTC Sunday
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In Denver, particularly so. Not one, but two new low maximum temp records have been set in Denver on two consecutive days. See the NWS record reports:
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RERBOU
RECORD EVENT REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
800 PM MDT SAT AUG 16 2008
…RECORD LOW MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE SET IN DENVER FOR AUGUST 16TH…
THE HIGH TEMPERATURE AT DENVER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TODAY WAS 58
DEGREES.
THIS 58 DEGREE READING WILL REPLACE THE PREVIOUS LOW MAXIMUM
TEMPERATURE RECORD FOR AUGUST 16TH WHICH WAS 63 DEGREES SET 118
YEARS AGO IN 1890.
KTF
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RERBOU
RECORD EVENT REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
700 PM MDT FRI AUG 15 2008
…RECORD LOW MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE SET IN DENVER FOR AUGUST 15TH…
THE HIGH TEMPERATURE AT DENVER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TODAY WAS 59
DEGREES.
THIS WILL REPLACE THE OLD LOW MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE RECORD FOR AUGUST
15TH WHICH WAS 68 DEGREES SET 128 YEARS AGO 1880.
KTF
Of course just a few days ago, they were talking about consecutive 90 degree days, and the possibility of a even longer new record, but it looks like the cold wet snap prevented that from happening:
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RERBOU
COZ030>051-052300-
PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
336 PM MDT TUE AUG 05 2008
AT 243 THIS AFTERNOON THE TEMPERATURE AT DENVER INTERNATIONAL
AIRPORT REACHED 91 DEGREES. THIS EXTENDS OUR CONSECUTIVE 90 DEGREE
DAY STREAK TO 24. SO FAR IN 2008 41 NINETY DEGREE DAYS HAVE BEEN
TALLIED. 2008 IS JUST 9 DAYS AWAY FROM THE 10TH TOP SEASONAL TOTAL
OF FIFTY 90 DEGREE DAYS SET IN BOTH 1960 AND 1964.
I guess it’s a case of:
“Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get.” – Robert A. Heinlein
Sorry for being OT, but I’ve just heard on the radio another breathless report of the on-coming Tropical Storm to possibly hit Florida.
Whhooooo-ooooh. Scaaaary!!! How about all those hurricanes we were told to beware? There’d better be a lot of hurricanes very quick to meet the
href didn;t work. Here’s the link: http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/outlooks/figure1.gif
Evan Jones (12:00:51) :
The book that guided me from Tom Swift to the bigger world of SF was his “Have Spacesuit, Will Travel.” “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” remains my favorite SF novel, I read it early in my computer programming career. I’d love to see a _good_ movie version. I used to think it would have to wait for a movie set on the moon but between CG effects and some work on the Vomit Comet ala Apollo 13, I think it could be pulled off now. Judy Collins gets the title song.
OT – On Track: Oh yeah, climate, err, weather. Nothing too exciting going on in New Hampshire at the moment. Nice hail storms over the weekend (missed me).
O2 levels are nominal.
Bill in Vigo…
I found it infuriating as well. So infuriating that I couldn’t figure out how to post to a blog! 🙂
This makes me depressed. It seems as if no one understands that there’s a lot of work remaining in the field of climate change. (Outside of here, of course.) Thank goodness for sites like these. I went to graduate school where pro-AGW theory was heavily pushed (at least three authors on that NOAA climate change report could be linked to this school) and begin to believe it after a while. I think I got out just in time!
beaker (11:32:03)
” . . . and I have a concern that discussing weather extrema and climate on the same site, without clear caveats, is perhaps encouraging this. Of course this shouldn’t be neccessary, but in a debate with a high degree of unfortunate polarisation, perhaps it would be pragmatic. . . . .”
Who are you? You go from inaccurate insults to demands for fuddy-duddy politically correct debate. If you wish to dictate my intercourse, get Anthony to make you moderator.
Off topic. I just came from Climate science blog by Roger Pielke. He presented comments by Professor Ben Herman on the CCSP Draft Report. They were quite critical. It is well worth the read.
http://climatesci.org/
Bill Derryberry
REPLY: Bill we had that here days ago. perhpas you missed it?
Ric Werme (17:42:06) :
Hollywood has made a hash of every Heinlein story they’ve tried to do, with the exception of “Destination Moon”.
Starship Troopers was always my favorite Heinlein book and when they made the movie they didn’t even have powered armor! Not to mention what they did to the story.
Have Spacesuit, Will Travel
What a wonderful tale! I still remember the “education” section with great fondness.
Even more OT.
Not to mention what they did to the story.
Didn’t you hear? The director Paul Vanderhoeven hated and despised Heinlein and made public statements to the effect that he would completely pervert the story.
I’ll say this for him: he is a man of his word.
A good contender for the trifecta:
Worst Movie of the Year.
Worst Adaptation of a book.
Worst Movie of All Time.
(But then there’s Dune and I have to think again. )
My favorite Heinlein: A Citizen of the Galaxy. I consider that among the great works of the English language. (And yes, I am a fan of Shakespeare, Melville, Twain, etc., etc.)
Moon is good but I love Stranger, Troopers, and Starman Jones. Puppet Masters (unabridged) is probably the single best invasion of earth book I have ever read. Doorway Into Summer and Double Star are just wonderful.
Steve (19:00:00) :
This makes me depressed. It seems as if no one understands that there’s a lot of work remaining in the field of climate change. (Outside of here, of course.) Thank goodness for sites like these. I went to graduate school where pro-AGW theory was heavily pushed (at least three authors on that NOAA climate change report could be linked to this school) and begin to believe it after a while. I think I got out just in time!
Steve,
That’s a big problem! I graduated from college before the AGW crowd was big so it wasn’t an issue of any sort for me. But I happened to meet Dr. Bryson (late – UW Madison) and he told me that the research dollars in Atmospheric Science were going to the AGW professors, so more professors did AGW research, and taught that line of thinking to their grad students. Now those grad students are teaching. So there is an entire generation of Atmospheric Scientists that are sold, because it was taught as fact. Many off them are not asking the questions they should….. mainly because the AGW research is still being funded.
It all seems dangerous to me, and heavily political. I interviewed (debated) a grad student over a year ago and he was dead set that ISR only fluctuates about 1W/m2 per solar cycle and that signal is very minor and not important to the temperature record…. so solar impacts are negligible. I asked him about longer cycles, magnetic effects, coronal holes… and got a repeat of “the solar impacts are negligible”. He was dodging and had NO idea what I was referring to.
It is not unusual to have some isolated snow in the high country in August. What is unusual is the heavy, winter like coat which covered the northern end of the Front Range yesterday. I took some panoramic pictures from near Ft. Collins yesterday, and they looked more like March than August. .
RE: “Never snowed in Denver in July or August”
What about August ’74? Didn’t the snow level make it down onto the high plains?
If they do make a movie of “The Moon is a Harsh Mistriss”, are they going to keep the scene where he is walking outside on the Moon by the tunnel and has to stop because he runs out of phone cord?
I made this plot of monthly and annual temperatures for Denver from the observed 0600 and 1800 LST temperatures. I also added GISTEMP annual for Denver. The plot is not what I expected. The 2005 temperature is actually slightly below the 1893 temperature, even with the warming effect of the move to DIA. I used 0600 and 1800 temperatures because those were constant back through time, except for the hole in the 1970s, which I’m trying to fill.
In the splice from 93002 (city) to 23062 (Stapleton airport), there is a 14-month overlap. Stapleton was cooler than the city, so you can see the UHI effect. Temperature trended down though at Stapleton from 1932 to 1994.
One of my favorite book quotes came from “Farmer in the Sky”.
Old codger explaining life to the young hero.
The purpose of government is to protect men from each other.
When your government decides that it wants to protect you from yourself, then it’s time to get a new government.
[…] For example one commenter, “beaker” recently wrote this criticism to my story about Denver setting two new record low maximum temperatures on consecutive days, breaking one record that stood for 118 years: “Why is this site so obsessed with short term […]
Can someone answer this NWS question about average temperature?
This is for Denver…
For today, 8/19/08, today’s high 82, low 57, avg is 70 which means 69.5 degrees is rounded UP to 70.
For today’s normal value, high 86, low 57, avg is 71 which means 71.5 is rounded DOWN to 71.
Huh?
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/bou/include/showProduct.php?product=clitoday.txt
Mike Bryant (04:45:37) :
I am from the Government and I am here to help you!
The twelve most frightening words you can hear.