Having grown up in the midwest not too far from there, having no 90 degree days yet for the entire summer is admitedly unusual. Here is a running window of the last 3 days of temperature data from Rockford. So far 84 degrees F has been the warmest since this report has been issued. – Anthony
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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO/ROMEOVILLE IL
517 PM CDT SAT AUG 16 2008
…ROCKFORD STILL WAITING FOR SUMMER…
ANY LECTURES ON GLOBAL WARMING IN ROCKFORD WILL GATHER LITTLE
ATTENDENCE THIS SUMMER. SO FAR…HIGH TEMPERATURES HAVE BEEN CAPPED
FROM ENTERING THE 90S.
NONE OF THEM ARE IN SIGHT THROUGH NEXT WEEK EITHER. THE LONGEST THAT
ROCKFORD HAS EVER GONE WITHOUT A 90 DEGREE TEMPERATURE WAS AUGUST
15TH…OCCURRING IN THE YEAR 2000.
SINCE ROCKFORD FAILED TO REACH 90 DEGREES YESTERDAY…WE ARE ALREADY
EXPERIENCING A RECORD EVENT AND AWAITING THE NEW DATE OF RECORD.
ROCKFORD HAS NEVER GONE THROUGH A SUMMER WITHOUT A 90 DEGREE
TEMPERATURE. METEOROLOGICAL SUMMER ENDS THE LAST DAY OF THIS MONTH.
WITH THE DAYS SHORTENING BY SEVERAL MINUTES EACH DAY…IT IS NOT
PROMISING FOR ROCKFORD TO SEE A 90 DEGREE EVENT PAST THIS SUMMER.
SO IF NO 90 DEGREE TEMPERATURE IS RECORDED AT ROCKFORD IN THE NEXT
TWO WEEKS…ANOTHER RECORD WILL PROBABLY BE SET AS A YEAR WITHOUT A
NINETY.
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Source of statement here
Mud volcanoes require that water gets down to a place where it can be geothermically heated. During the rainy season, these place probably fill with water and are probably dry during the dry season.
I live in the next county over from Rockford, and yes – it has been a very enjoyable summer. It’s been wet, too, as I only turned the sprinkler on for the first time just the other day (8/16/2008).
In northeastern Indiana (Fort Wayne) we’ve had 2 days this summer where the thermometer hit 90 (90 and 91), both back in early June. I can’t remember a year when there were no 90+ degree days in July and August. What’s even more interesting is that forecasts for both temperature and precip. have frequently been wildly off base — often by as much as 10 degrees. Today is a good example. The forecast high for today was 84, but at noon the temperature was 72. I have a pond that is fed by rainfall and the discharge from my open loop geothermal heating/cooling system. The water level is currently at the lowest level in the 10 years we’ve had the pond because of a combination of low rainfall the last month or so, and the fact that there has been no need for AC for most of the summer; hence no geothermal discharge.
Central NJ temps this summer have been mild. My JCP&L electric bill for July 2008 indicates AC usage down 30% from July 2007. Same AC unit, same thermostat settings; no changes (eg insulation) to the home structure. The bad news, heating oil $4+ / gal. and morning temps already in the 40s. Sorry Al Gore, the Dems refusal to increase domestic oil production means I HAVE TO burn a LOT of wood and coal to stay warm this winter. Do liberals ever consider the “unintended consequences” of their policies?
The cold front moving through Seattle and the Pacific Northwest today will lower snow levels in the Cascade Mountains to 6500 feet tomorrow morning. Certainly very early in the season to see peaks with a new dusting…This system will have a measurable impact across Idaho and Montana in the next few days.
“Do liberals ever consider the “unintended consequences” of their policies?”
See e.g. the luxury tax rammed through be Jim Sasser and company around 1990 which drove a number of boat manufacturers into bankruptcy, cost half the workers in the industry their jobs, increased govt spending on welfare and unemployment comp and decreased overall tax collections. Your basic lose, lose, lose, lose proposition. The only winners were foreigners.
Of course, since they were apprised of those possible results, one could argue that the consequences were not unforeseen.
SIMONE “We’re having a typically and infamously crap as usual British Summer this year, although it has been slightly more windy than I recall.”
I understand cause and effort weather better than anyone one….I had the pleasure of visiting your country last year and it was was beautiful and the people were nice as they could be…never rained and the sky was clear and it was warm. Since I have never been there before and from what I was told the weather was the most beautiful in decades..I caused it…so if you would like to get a few of your mates to pony up the plane ticket I will be glad to come back and bring the beautiful weather back….I even have models that will back me up…just like AlGore
Hmm.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1500-year_climate_cycle
Last Bond event began abut 1500 years ago.
The youger dryas is considered a bond event as well.
It’s been hot hot hot HOT here in San Antonio – we’re on track for the hottest summer ever, or so they say. Thank God for the 2 hurricanes (Dolly and… Eduardo?) that came this way, we got some much needed rain + cooler weather.
We usually have strings of days over 100 in August, but in Austin they had some god-awful number of consecutive days. That being said, last summer we didn’t hit 100 at all, which was truly strange.
I’m longing for cooler weather, but if one can go by the past, it should be mid-Sept before it gets below 90 for real (and not because of passing weather systems, like the one we’re experiencing this week).
I live in Austin and my mom came to visit during the ‘heat wave’. She’s British and absolutely loved the heat – she said it was like being in Spain. We walked for miles. This summer was hot but much drier than last – I’ve hardly noticed the heat.
I live in central Illinois and have found the lower temperatures and humidity especially in August to be very unusual. The only recent time that I have noted such temperatures was after Mt. Pinatubo erupted except the temperatures were lower throughout the summer.
The common theme which bonds a lot of the observations both on this post & the one concerning Denver’s hot streak is that circulation patterns in the NH appear to be very stagnent since spring – what ever weather you have have been getting, whether it is hot , cold, wet or dry, (examples of all have been posted) etc, it is likely that you will continue to get it. So the real questions are ” Why is the pattern / NH circulation considerably less dynamic than usual ? ” & ” What’s the implication for near term & long term weather & climate?” I have a few of my own ideas, but I would love to hear what some experts think. Anthony, any thoughts ???
Last night on in New Zealand it was reported “Turoa ski field at Mt Ruapehu has set a record for the most snow ever recorded at a New Zealand ski field.”
Turoa ski field has recorded 4.55 metres of snow, causing the entire mountain to take on a different shape
On the TV news they said it took them a day and a half to find the long pole that is udsed to measure the snow’s depth.
http://www.3news.co.nz/News/WeatherNews/Turoaskifieldreceivesrecordamountofsnow/tabid/422/articleID/67901/Default.aspx?ArticleID=67901
Austin,
Science daily just posted yet another study confirming the 1500 year temp cycle.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080819092017.htm
Of course the author had to make the obligatory (please don’t take my funding) statement about how AGW would ‘overwhelm this 2 million year old cycle, “by a lot”, in his words.
Here, near Frankfurt, Germany, sunshine hours are below 1998-2007 average now,
precipitation nearly double for August average, daily mean temperature decreased about 3° Celsius within the last twenty days, looks alike this August will be no. 11th
warmest out of the Augusts of the last 18 years. My longterm database/model for the
local weather tends to a rather early autumn and a December/Januar with low temperatures we have only every 12 to 20 years. The forests, animals behavior and old peoples say agree with that.
addendum to my (13:55:39)
looks like the three months average, June July August will be 4th coldest of the last 18 years.
KlausB,
I think you mean the 15th warmest…
😉
I heard we hit hit 40F this morning in NYC. Not exactly typical for this time of year, even for a TMin.
Saranac, NY was 36 last night. Not that Saranac isn’t a mountain town that gets ridiculously cold, but still, this is mid August. I doubt it hit 40 in NY though. Saranac is about 7 hours by car from NYC.
Just reported a few minutes ago on the WLEX-18 Evening News…WLEX-18 is in Lexington, Kentucky
“OK…this morning’s low of 58 makes an unbelievable (and perhaps unprecedented) 12 straight day of low temperatures less than 60. Kids this is truly something amazing for August…big time stuff. So through the first 19 days of August, 12 of them have been less than 60. Only 2004 and 1976 had even 10 days in the first 19 to be that cool. For an entire month of August 2004 had 12 days below 60; 1992 had 12; 1976 had 15; 1946 had 16; 1927 had 12. The bottomline is we need 4 more days over the next week and a half to get to the record. But even without that, what an incredible month to enjoy!”
Excepted from Bill Meck’s Weather Blog…
http://208.101.36.42/weather/?p=778
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The Farmer’s Almanac is predicting a cooler than average winter this year.
http://news.mainetoday.com/updates/031815.html
I had posted in another thread that I was watching the ozone to see if it would change when we got hit by some pretty major cosmic rays. Will you should see it now. There is a huge thin area over California. By the time some of you read this, the thin area may disappear. But wow!
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/rt/viewdata.php?product=o3_us
I just posted that the ozone over California has become VERY thin! Included a URL so it ended up in the round file.
Where is Hansen when you neeeeeeeeeeeeed him?? LOL
it’s just more anecdotal evidence to back up the sun controlling the climate more than we do with CO2 emissions.
here in the northwest we just got up to the 90’s this last week… in mid August. And even then it never got as hot as they said it was going to… (record breaking possible day tomorrow! mid 90’s! in reality, it got up to the high 80’s to low 90’s).
This week the next cool front is heading across the northern US (we are at the front end of that here.) We’ve had more lightening storms here this year than I can remember for ANY year I’ve lived here since the early 90’s. Based upon what I know I think this is because the “cooling effect” that the earth’s climate is currently experiencing… the warm air that is coming up from the south is meeting the drastically cooler air from the north and creating some interesting storms.
It also has seemed that Hurricane strength, intensity, and numbers have been lower. This matches up with the oceans cooling off last year and this year. (Hurricane strength is largely derived from the heat in the ocean)
It will be extremely interesting to see just how cold it gets this winter. Can you say record breaking snow falls?