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City
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Degrees
Fahrenheit
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Oct 24
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Record low
Montague, CA
Traverse City, MI Breaks old record of 24 set in 1976
Islip, NY 31 tie
Pocatello, ID Ties previous record set in 1949
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26
22
31 tie
18 tie |
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Oct 24
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Record rainfall
Pensacola, FL—3.3”
Columbus, GA—2.00”
Macon, GA—2.51” Breaks old record of 2.00” set in 1919
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| Oct 23 |
Record low temperatures in 10 states!
Rome, OR Breaks old record of 20 set in 1980
Caribou, ME Breaks old record of 21 set in 1982
Winslow, AZ
Traverse City, MI Breaks old record of 24 set in 1976
Grand Junction, CO Breaks old record of 26 set in 1996
Hilo, HI
Childress, TX
Seattle, WA
Bountiful, UT
Burley, ID
Idaho Falls, ID Breaks old record of 18 set in 1958
Challis, ID
Pendleton, OR
Union, OR Breaks previous record of 20 set in 1980
Walla Walla, WA
Thanks to Chuck Clancy for this info
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15
20
21 tie
22
23
64 tie
34 tie
39 tie
28 tie
21 tie
17
17 tie
29 tie
17
32 tie
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Oct 23
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Record snow
A record snowfall of trace was set at Dodge City, KS today. Ties old record set in 2002.
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| Oct 23 |
Wettest October on record in Dodge City, KS
4.97 inches of rain as of today, breaking the previous record of 4.94 inches set in 1997
Wettest October on record in Hastings, NE
6.16 inches of rain as of today, breaking the record of 5.82 inches set 111 years ago in 1897
Wettest October on record in Kearney, NE
9.21 inches or rain as of today, breaking the old record of 6.30 inches set in 1946
Kearney may be headed for the wettest year on record
Total precipitation in Kearny so far this year stands at 35.48 inches. With more than two months remaining in the year, this total accumulation already ranks 2008 as the 5th wettest year ever in Kearney, where the all-time record annual rainfall stands at 40.07 inches.
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| Oct 23 |
Record rainfall
Lincoln, NE— 2.01”
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| Oct 22 |
Record rainfall
Houston, TX—3/70” Breaks old record of 2.40 inches set in 1920
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| Oct 23 |
First snow of the season in Colorado and Nebraska – A vigorous storm pushed southeast and out of the Rockies on Tuesday night, dumping around 20cm (8inches) of snow across parts of Colorado.
Yesterday the storm continued to bring a wintry mix of weather and strong winds across the Central Plains. In O’Neill, Nebraska, snow fell during most of the day.
On Wednesday, Ottawa also saw its first snow of the season. There were also reports of snow across many northeastern states, including parts of New York and Pennsylvania.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world/news/23102008news.shtml |
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| Oct 22 |
Record lows
Marquette, MI
Rome, OR
Traverse City, MI Breaks old record of 26 set in 1955
Alpena, MI
Bryce Canyon, UT
Pocatello, ID
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21 tie
23 tie
22
20 tie
14 tie
18 tie
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| Oct 21 |
Record lows
Hilo, HI
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The evidence that AGW is false keeps piling up!
Well, I gotta go throw some more coal in my furnace!!
It’s clean coal, of course. Wink, wink.
REPLY: Single weather events can’t be said to predict climate, only when multiple sustained trends emerge does it qualify for such a label.- Anthony
Word.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cumbria/7691893.stm
No comment.
Perry
Western Europe has also had a cold Fall. Still, Eastern Europe and Siberia have been quite warm.
This, of course, is all anecdotal.
;O)
Global warming is no longer the issue.
Its Climate Change.
This allows the alarmists to smoothly transition between warming and cooling conditions without having to change their mantra.
” REPLY: Single weather events can’t be said to predict climate, only when multiple sustained trends emerge does it qualify for such a label.- Anthony ”
That fact will not stop these weather events from being used to “prove” global warming, because…
“…Global Warming causes extreme weather events to become more extreme and occur more frequently.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
In fact, it looks like balmy WEATHER for a lot of the globe.
(Scroll down to the third map)
http://wxmaps.org/pix/temp2.html
http://wxmaps.org/pix/temp4.html
http://wxmaps.org/pix/temp11.html
http://wxmaps.org/pix/temp5.html
http://wxmaps.org/pix/temp10.html
http://wxmaps.org/pix/temp8.html
Let’s keep in mind these are only surface air temps – and not ocean temps where the real energy is.
Are some of these records maybe recorded by sloppy surface stations, which Anthony has shown exist in great abundance? Anyone living near these record locations, we’d like to hear what the stations look like.
The records might have to be adjusted downwards.
I live near one of those ‘record lows’. It started early last year, when the overall temps took a plunge. Been a steady decline since then. It seems to coincide with the failure of the SC24 to take off. Of course, it’s locales that see the big change, with other locales somewhat balancing things out. Try telling that to the folks caught smack in the middle of one of the ‘colder’ locales. They would be the same ones that endured it last time, during the Dalton Minimum. We see it as a step-down function. It stepped down and didn’t step back up.
A batch of proper cold is being prepared in the Arctic. High temperatures in Alert, Canada, and various spots in northern Alaska keep falling short of daily predictions by ten degrees or more. Today the best example is Eureka, Canada: Predicted high is -5 Fahrenheit. Actual temp: -22. WHEN the cold spills south, it will get the world’s attention, however briefly.
What could — and should — get the world’s attention more seriously will be if the Denmark Strait is actually freezing between Greenland and Iceland.
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/NEWIMAGES/arctic.seaice.some.001.png
Frustratingly, the site is not updated at this resolution over the weekend. Tune in tomorrow!
If the strait freezes, it would be (a) historic and (b) an indication that this winter may blow people’s minds.
UAH seems to have it just a bit cooler, worldwide, than Oct, 2007, but not much.
Like you said .. it doesnt matter if it gets hotter or colder, Climate change has it covered and they will tell you weather does not a trend make.
deadwood (10:30:50) :
“Global warming is no longer the issue.
Its Climate Change.”
Which is why, to hang them with their own petard, we must always insist upon the first phrase.
(record breaking)Cold in Oz too:
http://news.theage.com.au/national/nsw-cold-snap-over-for-weekend-bureau-20081023-57if.html
Temperatures in Fairbanks, AK have been running 10 degrees or so below normal for several days. They could be on tap for record cold tonite as the forecast is saying “Becoming mostly clear. Lows 15 to 30 below…coldest in valleys”. That average low temp for this date is +8F. So temps in the -20’sF are nearly 30 degrees below normal. Record cold for dates around now are close to -30F. It is interesting to note that the record cold temp for today in Fairbanks happened in 1935 at -28F and the record high temp happened the very next year in 1936 when it got up to +48F. But what interests me most is that temperatures have been running a steady 10 degrees or so below “normal” for several days running.
When that cold air starts pushing down across the Great Lakes in December and January as “Alberta Clippers”, there is going to be some serious cold in the lower 48.
Off topic, sorry.
Can I trust the following graphic?
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/current.area.jpg
It shows 2008 Arctic sea ice just a tick higher than 2007 levels.
But when you look at the photos, 2008 is clearly way over 07.
A quick google search finds very warm temps in the US in October http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/10/13/ddn101308warmweb.html
We know what the cause of the cold temperatures are, http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/PSB/EPS/SST/data/anomnight.10.23.2008.gif
You can see a classic -ive PDO, I notice that the vast majority of the cold temperatures are on the west and would be immediately affected by the -ive PDO.
Also note that there is no sign of a La Nina developing as yet.
Here in the northern Sacramento Valley in Northern California, this October’s been aweful warm (low to mid 80’s so far); sure could use some of that cool and wet !
John D.
This is a little off-topic, but I didn’t know where else to put it.
The Oregon AMS chapter has predicted a “La Nada” winter for the PACNW. Some of the presentaions can be found here:
http://www.ametsoc.org/chapters/oregon/meetings.html
Mark Nelson of KPDX (who presented a “Year in Review”) keeps an entertaining blog here:
http://stormteam12.typepad.com/
To Pierre Gosselin:
The anomaly data in the wxmaps files are a comparison to the centennial average 1901 to 2000. I wonder who has taken the early data e.g. for the inner part of northern Greenland, where a 8 degree centigrade warming is shown (now -20 Celsius instead of -30 Celsius). There must be a lot of interpolation and extrapolation in those centennial averages.
Important is the trend, found by comparison to 2007 and 2006.
This is purely anecdotal but I think southeastern Michigan had a warmer than average summer. October seems colder than average. Its certainly not ice age stuff but chilly enough to make me long for the good old days of global warming.
Mary Hinge:
I believe we will see a slightly colder winter globaly starting already in November.
How can i say that?
Polar temperatures have been quite low until sep-oct.
Reason for the sep-oct warmth in the arctic: The top layers of open waters in the polar area will loose a lot of heat. The ice isolates. But this year we saw an almost intact icesheet until August when a HUUUGE whole appeared very quiclky due to the thin ice. Therefore this year, the heat of top layers of a very big arctic ocean layer was released in a very small time window.
This led to very hot temperatures in the arctic but only for a short while.
Now: The ice has closed. And now we can se wheather forecasts for the huge Siberia that goes very cold in 1´st half of november. This cold also affect eastern and middle europe.
so:
1) The unusual warming of the arctic and Siberia is OVER around NOW. This will affect temperatures from Europe to China.
2) The SOI index has been above 6 for 9 weeks! 8 weeks historically means LA NINA! And the SOI index in the last weeks has even been increasing, no signs of last minute change now.
3) Befores these events mentioned above, we actually have the same temperatures now as we had last year under La Nina..
4)The temperature level in the arctic BEFORE the thin ice collapsed was very low, in fact slightly below normaltemperatures since 1958. So actually this indicates whats waiting for us now that the ice has closed again.
(This “50-year-back-normal” is usually used for the arctic, and the arctic only. Funny, because going back a little longer, in the 1930-40´ies there was much higher temperatures thus included in “normal”…)
So by some good winter clothes… 🙂
Why do people get their nickers in a twist when we talk about weather?!?!?! I love learning and talking about weather. Don’t give a rat’s ass about proving climate one way or the other because I was too young to notice the climate earlier and will be too damned old to care when we can turn our weather talk into an overall climate statement for the 100 year period. I don’t have any motive besides the fact that I just love the topic.
The same is true for the threads on the Sun. Not into proving anything. I just love talking about it.
So stop trying to spoil a perfectly wonderful thread by being a snot.
“But what interests me most is that temperatures have been running a steady 10 degrees or so below “normal” for several days running.”
Boy, a few more years of that, and you might actually have a local trend going.
Looks like the cold weather is about to hit in the UK too…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3254193/First-cold-snap-expected-after-the-weekend.html
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/67815/Britain-faces-arctic-freeze
I agree Pamela.
VERY cold weather predicted over the UK in the next few days. Tuesday night is going to be -1 in the south! This time last year daytime temps were 18 or 19 C.
I predict there will be a huge increase in “snot” this winter…
Jim