NOAA monthly weather summaries normally describe the month in terms of their warmness ranking. April is looking like an interesting month, with remarkably consistent cold across the entire US. Much of the center of the country has been 2 to 6 degrees below normal. In parts of the Dakotas, 10 or more degrees below normal.
Perhaps the rest of the month will be much warmer? Not likely, NCEP forecasts continued cold through at least the 20th.
Will this month of severe global warming be described as the “100th warmest?”
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That’s it. I am moving SOUTH!!!!!
Somebody is nuts if they think my region of NNW Ca is warmer. It’s been brutal, with icy winds running down everyones backside. And, just like last year, once those winds appear in the forecast, they last 2-5 times longer than the meteorologist originally predicted. Only this year, they are cold winds.
100th warmest in 100 years.
That about sums it up so far.
Or the ninth warmest this century?
It’s the damn sunspots. They have nothing to do with earth temperature so it shouldn’t matter that we haven’t seen more than a couple in more than a year. You see it’s all related to C02 – and the cause of it all?? Soylent green!
Doesn’t matter what happens. Someone, somewhere will find a record event that’s somehow connected to global — warming, change, whatever.
It’s DEFINITELY been the warmest April this year.
Or the seventh warmest this year?
But Rob you know the good ole governor of the your state [a mighty state which has a higher GDP than many NATIONS of the world]….is still going to blame the fires and drought and everything on Global Warming [as Scwharzzneg… has done].
PDO PDO PDO [and solar enhanced].
When will these people put the science fiction of AGW to rest?? [I like Arnolt overall “I’ll be bok”]
But when the climes of the world start trending toward more extremes in baby, little, or full-on ice-ages [or more realistically, just a deep Dalton-like minimum]…regardless, tendencies toward more extremes is not necessarily a good thing.
Colder, windier, drier, and dustier. Yuck.
I will take temperate “Green”land any day.
May we be prepared….in this 100th warmest April.
Chris
Norfolk, VA, USA
Harry –
The last ten years have been the warmest in the history of the planet, and this year was one of the ten warmest years of the last decade.
What’s the bet that its the warmest April in the next 20 to 30 year cool cycle of the PDO?
What’s the bet that its the warmest April in the next 60 to 80 years (solar minimum in effect???)?
Last spring was a little slow to develop in the growing areas for wine grapes in the State of Washington, that is, east of the Cascade Mountains. Many growers reported a 2 week delay in early vine development. Eventually the grapes caught up and the wine folks, as usual, reported the grapes finished splendidly.
This year so far, and the “through the 20th” map shown, suggest a similar pattern — for a small global cooling will not drive warm and sunny days from the mid-Washington summer.
The report in the fall will be that the grapes did splendidly. The vines are marvelous things and seem to respond to climatic fluctuations nicely. [Well there are limits.] You can find studies – based on models of a warming climate – claiming dire times are ahead for the wine industry. I have yet to see a study based on a cooling climate.
Why is that?
I could be wrong but the Map that shows New jersey slightly warmer than normal does not seem to match the actual observations. But the again what period is the normal based on?
The esteemed Dr. Hansen said that 2009 may be the warmest year ever, so people who think they are cold really should stop complaining.
Without proper peer review, the vast majority of people are not qualified to determine whether or not it is cold outside, or even if the Emperor is clothed.
Maybe OT however, Italian earthquake victims are having to deal with a rash of extreme cold weather, predicted to last for some days, maybe weeks, sadly compouding their problems.
By the time JH & Company finish ‘correcting’ the surface station recordings this will be the 3rd warmest April on record.
According to NWS, 1st 12 days of the month averaged 6F below normal in Central Arkansas. Has been a much cooler and slightly wetter April than normal so far.
This is the warmest April this year!
Steven Goddard,
You are correct. Those people who have frozen to death were probably not scientists at all. They were only trusting those scientists who said that it was getting warmer, so they did not take proper precautions.
Anyway since they were not scientists, and they are dead, they obviously can contribute nothing to this debate. AGW stumbles on!!!
I’m just curious as to when I can shut my heat off. It comes on constantly. Low tonight is 38. Forecasted low tomorrow night is 38. And I live in a true Southern State (1861). Again, I’m sooo glad I put in that new gas furnace. Ah, my heat just kicked on again. Time for bed.
When warm is cold, I can totally agree when they say cold is warm!!!
Steven, you said:
April 1st was 13 days ago!
Maybe you wanted to say April was the coolest in the last decade?
Judging by the conditions and the poor locations of the temperature stations, it is not surprising they are measuring warmer temperatures during these colder than normal months… people have to heat their spaces more, and considering that most furnaces have a very poor efficiency, most of the energy goes outside, which contributes to the global temperature anomaly.
Mike Bryant (22:00:27) :
Steven Goddard,
You are correct. Those people who have frozen to death were probably not scientists at all. They were only trusting those scientists who said that it was getting warmer, so they did not take proper precautions.
Anyway since they were not scientists, and they are dead, they obviously can contribute nothing to this debate. AGW stumbles on!!!
There are only reports of people freezing to death… such reports probably originate from, and are paid for by Big Oil.
I have heard that Climate Models have predicted that the Earth will be 0.2 degrees Celsius warmer this decade – so therefore 2009 and 2010 will definently warm up.
Whoops – forgot that I’m an AGW Sceptic.
Steven,
Sorry, reading again you were referring to this YEAR being among the ten wamest in the decade. I was half asleep. Better go now to bed.
I’ll second the questioning of the yellow (+2F) shading on New Jersey.
It has been uniformly colder than normal, by my observation, in South Jersey.