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Date
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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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Clearly these temperatures are due to instrument bias of unknown origin. For this, we need to call upon the learned James Hansen. Under his carful attention, I’m certasin they can make corrections to the datasets for said biases of unknown origin and show the continued warming…
Gene L (09:08:30) He’s becoming an object of ridicule, hasn’t he, poor guy. I really believe that Hansen started out with good intentions, to save the world, but somewhere along the way he’s gone off the path of objective science, and is leading us to Hell.
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Quote “This is purely anecdotal but I think southeastern Michigan had a warmer than average summer.”
You clearly must live in some other SE Michigan than I. We couldn’t plant flowers, nor had leaves on the trees till late in the season. Only had the AC on twice. It was the summer that never happened. Same as four years ago.
A quick google search finds very warm temps in the US in October
A quick look at the revised October GISS map shows the lower 48 as well below average. And for GISS, “average” is 1951 – 1980. (I’ve even seen comment that this may be a US conspiracy to prove they are not responsible for GW in order to dodge Kyoto!)
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.
Well, yeah. That’s the point, isn’t it? PDO flipped warm in 1976. It turned cold after the El Nino ending in 2007. And look at the other five warm/cool multidecadal cycles. They went from cold to warm from 1977 to 2001. Now it looks as if the AO also has done a turn and the NAO may be about to follow suit. Draw it all back further to the 1920s. Do we see a pattern here?
There are underlying factors, I am sure: “recovery” from the end of the LIA (c. 1840), an increase in solar activity and now a huge drop. And yes, human influence, including land use and soot (and even a teeny bit of direct CO2, but without feedback loops).