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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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October surprise: Northeast snowstorm closes major highways, schools
It seems mother nature is doing a bit of pre-holloween pranking with her own brand of white. Here in New Hampshire, we are mostly on the warm side of this nor’easter.
Last winter we were hammered by near-record snowfall. Many roofs collapsed under the weight, partly due to wet snow and rainfall.
Steve: I’m talking of course about tropospheric temperatures
http://discover.itsc.uah.edu/amsutemps/execute.csh?amsutemps+001
not temperatures at altitudes of about 36 000 feet, where temps should be stable or slightly cooling over time. Mary, you were right.
My total snowfall here in the Catskills was about 18 inches. A VERY unusual storm. And very dangerous as most don’t put on their snow tires until late November.
Steve Berry (03:21:52) :
“Flanagan. I don’t know which planet you’re talking about, but it’s not this one http://discover.itsc.uah.edu/amsutemps/execute.csh?amsutemps+004”
See Flanagan, told you it wouldn’t be too long. Steve, try it at 3,3000 feet or 14,000 feet.
kim (05:21:16) :
“Did you even look at the graph of the NOAA’s CFS ensemble? La Nina from now until mid next year.”…..”Please, don’t be silly.”
Kim, I think your are straning beyond the limits of sillyness to something a little more worrysome. You seem to be clinging on to the increasingly desperate scenario of a big global freeze and are blocking out anything that does not agree with your opinion. The Ocean SST’s, especially to the east of the Pacific, are not condusive to La Nina formation. The Australians and their dynamic models ( I believe the NOAA’s is a static model though I am not 100% sure of this) ALL predict a neutral ENSO at least until the autumn (SH).
I’ll repeat this once again : Given current conditions, trends over the past few months and climate model forecasts, neutral conditions are likely to remain until the end of the year and throughout the southern summer – there is now very little potential for El Niño or La Niña conditions to develop.
Mary Hinge (02:44:58) You are only telling part of the story of Jason and stored heat. There has been a recent drop in sea level, reported from Jason, which suggests thermal contraction of the ocean, in other words, no extra ‘stored heat’. Kevin Trenberth, in a famous slip earlier this year to an NPR journalist suggested that the ‘extra heat’ had been radiated back into space. He’s right, you know, but there goes the last gasp of AGW hot air.
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Mary Hinge (03:17:58) :
“Flanagan (01:45:38) :
“Did anyone notice that the AMSU global temperatures are right now simply the highest ever measured for this time of the year? ”
The majority on this blog won’t believe you, if the data doesn’t show cooling the results must be either faulty, skewed, unbalanced, fraudulent, lies or part of a great AGW conspiracy. I bet some are already thinking this is caused by UHI!!”
Yes…you’re right. It’s very very difficult to overcome a severe lack of credibility.
Two words…”boy” and “wolf”.
So you’re saying that this time…THIS time, after all of the other times that have been proven to be inaccurate/false…that THIS is the time everyone should believe your side?
Jim
Early chill means early skiing! Though I know it’ll be a while before the slope start up in California, though it’s been unually cold here too.
Kevin
Mary Hinge (06:12:51) You really should go look at the NOAA CFS ensemble graph. It has a range of model runs with the mean clearly in La Nina territory through the middle of next year. Gad, I’ll have to go look for the URL for you. Furthermore, Harry van Loon expects a moderate La Nina this winter, deepening next year.
We are cooling, Mary, for how long, even kim doesn’t know. The PDO has flipped to a 30 year cooling phase, and the sun is quiescent. If we are entering a Grand or Lesser Solar Minimum we will cool for anywhere from 20-100 years. Encumbering carbon in such an event will starve and freeze any number of the world’s poor. And the longer the world believes the false CO2=AGW paradigm, the worse it will be for those poor people, and the worse the moral disapprobation for those who clung to an overly simplified conception of climate far past when climate data showed them to be in error. How cold does it have to get before you quit trusting Wikipedia, and join the real world? Yes, real world, rather than your fantastical, inadequately modeled one.
Now I’m not nearly as certain of this scenario of global cooling from natural cycles as you are of your scenario of global warming from CO2, but the temperatures are dropping as CO2 continues to rise. Now, that’s silly.
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Mary (06:12:51) You can find the CFS ensemble graph at comment #154 by David Smith on the ‘Tsonis and Telecommunications’ thread at climateaudit.org
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Mary (06:39:10) Now you’ve gone beyond silliness to projection. You are the one ‘clinging’ to an outdated paradigm of CO2=AGW in the face of declining temperatures.
If the coming cooling is deep and prolonged a partial die-off of the human race in likely, and will be worsened if it comes upon us by surprise as we are deluded into the false belief of global warming from CO2. It will be worse if carbon is artificially encumbered, since the best way to avoid a die-off holocaust will be energy as cheap as possible, which in this day and age means fossil fuels. A die-off of even 5% is 350,000,000 human souls and no matter how protected you feel in your first world incubus, you will not be safe from the repercussions of such a worldwide disaster.
I repeat, how cold does it have to get, and for how long, before you can look at the objective data with other than the jaundiced eye you’ve apparently got from the likes of Connolley’s Wikipedia, and the captive site, RealClimate?
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kim (06:17:29) :
“You are only telling part of the story of Jason and stored heat. There has been a recent drop in sea level, reported from Jason, which suggests thermal contraction of the ocean, in other words, no extra ’stored heat’.”
I would love to see your reference link, latest Jason data has the sea level continuing its upward journey. There was a decrease due to the La Nina last year, pehaps your reference is only up to last February/ March? This shows the latest data point (August) http://climate.jpl.nasa.gov/keyIndicators/index.cfm#
What is VERY clear is the the rate of 3.4mm per year is still continuing. If you can now accept the sea level is still rising perhaps you can accept the idea of stored ocean heat now ( or do you prefer it came from the melting glaciers).
I think you should think more in terms of trends rather than short term events, a good example was your ridiculous idea that this summers melt (the 2nd highest on record) was the start of a new Ice age. This melt is the continuation of a trend of progressively greater melts (aprroximately 11% per decade. http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/
I would suggest you have a wider range of reading matter. Your passion for the subject is good, but wasted in the direction you are going.
Mary Hinge. Dear oh dear! Yes, I tried them all before I posted. The 3,300 ft is consistently below 2007 – just very ocassional peaks. The 14,000 graph is even worse – for you. Bang on the 20-year average up until 2-3 months ago – but still below 2007. But why choose two out of nine? The other seven are all below anyway! Straws and grasping, on your part, me thinks!
Flanagan. What about 25,000 feet? Did you conveniently forget that one? Oh, I think you did. Lucky I’m here to let us all see it then http://discover.itsc.uah.edu/amsutemps/execute.csh?amsutemps+003 Flanagan (and Mary!) Try ticking all the year-boxes and see what happens to the 2008 line. Oh I think you’re in for a shock.
This should click okay http://discover.itsc.uah.edu/amsutemps/execute.csh?amsutemps
Mary (06:12:51) My last comment is also directed to your 06:12:51 comment. By projection, I mean this. You claim I am ‘clinging on to the increasingly desperate scenario of a big global freeze and are blocking out anything that does not agree with your opinion’. It is you who are bitterly clinging to the CO2=AGW paradigm and ignoring dropping temperatures worldwide, a cooling phase PDO, a quiescent sun, and falling sea levels. Now, who’s being desperate?
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well…well
La-Niña a vista!
http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/map/clim/sst_olr/sst_anim.shtml
FM
Had to do this. Couldn’t help it. Some things we write just beg for it.
Mary, that’s funny! “…there is some strange weather out there.”
It’s October. I get up to frost every morning here in the PNW. Funny that. Frost in autumn. How strange. Elsewhere we are having a bit of the Indian Summer. LOL! The north east part of the country is complaining of bitter cold! LMAO!! The ocean is languishing in neutral!!!! ROTFLMAO!!!!! For all we know, we could be facing SNOW soon!!!!!! Now that is STRANGE!
snark off
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88520025
Where is the missing heat?
I have a few ideas, but I’ll keep them to myself.
kim (06:32:51) :
Good grief! For the last word on the ENSO over the next few months follow this link. http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/tropnote/tropnote.shtml
For the dynamic model forecasts go to his link: http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/ahead/ENSO-summary.shtml
Kim, I know you think you mean well, and we all worry about effects on the world’s poor but you are being misguided bigtime. We know that small changes in the composition of the earths atmosphere can have large consequences, even small rises in temperatures can have devestating results due to changes in currents, jet streams etc. The people who will be most affected by these are the very people you are worried about.
I will also put you straight on Wikipedia. If you look at all my posts you will see I have mentioned them only once as a pointer to further reading. I don’t trust Wikipedia totally but they have improved immensely in the last 18 months in all fields and I would always suggest cross referencing their work.
As for the real world, well global temperatures are starting to rise again, the sea level is continuing to rise, oh,and its colder than average in some parts of the world, warmer in others!
The weather here in south Texas is rather crisp this morning, Yesterday tied the crispiness record of 36F which was set in 1957. This morning I had to put on my jacket, er I mean my crisper.
PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FAIRBANKS AK
151 AM AKDT TUE OCT 28 2008
…THE COLD OCTOBER CONTINUES AT FAIRBANKS…
THROUGH YESTERDAY…OCTOBER 27TH…THIS OCTOBER IS THE 4TH
COLDEST ON RECORD AT FAIRBANKS. THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 17.4
DEGREES IS 8.6 DEGREES BELOW THE 30-YEAR AVERAGE. ONLY
1958…1965…AND 1996 WERE COLDER. IN 1958 AND 1996 MILDER
TEMPERATURE WERE OBSERVED DURING THE LAST FEW DAYS OF THE MONTH.
TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW AVERAGE THROUGH
THURSDAY…AND IT IS LIKELY THAT THIS MONTH WILL GO DOWN AS ONE OF
THE TOP 2 OR 3 COLDEST OCTOBERS ON RECORD AT FAIRBANKS. SO FAR
THIS MONTH ONLY TWO DAYS HAVE HAD ABOVE AVERAGE TEMPERATURES.
$$
CB
Flanagan (01:45:38) :
You forgot the minus sign! Up until the last day or two it has been the most negative global temperature at 36,000 ft since records began.
Mary Hinge (03:17:58) :
Mary, it’s interesting how you automatically supported Flanagan without apparently looking at the numbers. You even threw in your standard ad hominem attack
“The majority on this blog won’t believe you, if the data doesn’t show cooling the results must be either faulty, skewed, unbalanced, fraudulent, lies or part of a great AGW conspiracy. I bet some are already thinking this is caused by UHI!!”
How about science instead of political advocacy?
Mike Bryant (07:14:03) Thanks for the link; what a classic. Quite plainly, Kevin Trenberth states that the ‘extra heat’ has been radiated back into space. I wonder just how dumb he thinks his audience is. He’s right, that is where the heat has gone, but it puts the lie to CO2=AGW.
Mary Hinge (06:46:27) Well, that’s a peculiar graph you show with the line not being extended and two pieces of data at the end without the intervening data. Doesn’t that raise your suspicions, or are you just too in the tank?
Mary Hinge (06:46:27) Granted it is a short trend, but this year’s Arctic Melt is changing your trend of progressively greater melts. I suggest you try reading something skeptical rather than swallowing the CO2=AGW paradigm hook, line, and sinker. You are very much a true believer, made manifest by your contempt for skeptics.
Mary Hinge (07:15:54) You still haven’t looked at the NOAA graph of CFS ensemble runs. It is available at David Smith’s comment #154 at the ‘Tsonis and Telecommunications’ thread at climateaudit.org. It shows La Nina conditions likely well into 2009. You might as well start understanding that it is the PDO flipped into a cooling phase that is generating the worldwide global cooling and not just cool weather for the last year, though I know you desperately want to believe the latter.
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Confession of a skeptic:
I just installed a pellet stove. I’ve been told that if everyone in North America converted from fuel oil to wood pellets for heat, it would reduce our C02 emmissions by %8. Never mind the fact that we’d likely have to cut down every tree from coast to coast on the continent to accomplish this….I’m GREEN, baby! 🙂
Jim
I came across this post which I believe is a MUST read for all here at WUWT.
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