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Here are the details from the NYC National Weather Service Office:
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NOUS41 KOKX 012057
PNSOKX
PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
455 PM EDT WED JUL 1 2009
...UNUSUALLY WET AND COOL JUNE FOR CENTRAL PARK...
FOR SOME PERSPECTIVE...HERE ARE THE TOP TEN COOLEST AND WETTEST
JUNES ON RECORD SINCE 1869 FOR CENTRAL PARK NY:
COOLEST WETTEST
AVG. TEMP. YEAR INCHES PRECIP. YEAR
64.2 1903 10.27 2003
65.2 1881 10.06 2009
65.7 1916 9.78 1903
66.8 1926/1902 9.30 1972
67.2 1958 8.79 1989
67.3 1927 8.55 2006
67.4 1928 7.76 1887
67.5 2009/1897 7.58 1975
67.7 1878 7.13 1938
67.8 1924 7.05 1871
DUE TO THE UNUSUALLY COOL AND WET CONDITIONS IN JUNE...HERE ARE SOME
INTERESTING FACTS TO NOTE:
THIS JUNE IS TIED FOR THE 8TH COOLEST ON RECORD. THE AVERAGE
TEMPERATURE WAS 67.5...3.7 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL...WHICH ALSO
OCCURRED IN 1897.
THIS WAS THE COOLEST JUNE SINCE 1958...WHEN THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE
WAS 67.2 DEGREES.
BELOW AVERAGE TEMPERATURES OCCURRED ON 23 OUT OF 30 DAYS THIS
JUNE...OR 75 PERCENT OF THE MONTH.
CENTRAL PARK HAS NOT HIT 90 DEGREES IN THE MONTH OF JUNE THIS YEAR.
THE LAST TIME THIS OCCURRED WAS BACK IN 1996.
CENTRAL PARK HAS NOT HIT 85 DEGREES IN THE MONTH OF JUNE THIS YEAR.
THE LAST TIME THIS OCCURRED WAS BACK IN 1916. THIS HAS ONLY OCCURRED
2 OTHER TIMES...1903 AND 1886.
THE LAST TIME THAT CENTRAL PARK HIT 90 OR GREATER THIS YEAR WAS IN
APRIL. THE LAST TIME THAT CENTRAL PARK HIT 90 IN APRIL...BUT NOT IN
JUNE WAS BACK IN 1990.
THE LAST TIME THAT CENTRAL PARK HIT 85 OR GREATER THIS YEAR WAS IN
MAY. THE LAST TIME THAT CENTRAL PARK HIT 85 IN MAY...BUT NOT IN JUNE
WAS BACK IN 1903. THE LAST TIME THAT CENTRAL PARK HIT 85 IN
APRIL...BUT NOT IN JUNE WAS ALSO BACK IN 1903.
THE LOWEST TEMPERATURE REACHED IN CENTRAL PARK IN THE MONTH OF JUNE
WAS 50 DEGREES. THE LAST TIME THIS OCCURRED WAS BACK IN 2003.
THE LOW TEMPERATURE DIPPED BELOW 60 DEGREES 11 TIMES IN THE MONTH OF
JUNE. THE LAST TIME THIS OCCURRED WAS IN 2003 WHEN IT OCCURRED 17
TIMES.
IT WAS THE SECOND WETTEST JUNE ON RECORD WITH 10.06 INCHES OF RAIN.
THE WETTEST JUNE ON RECORD IS 2003 WITH 10.27 INCHES.
THERE WERE 19 DAYS THIS JUNE WHERE THERE WAS AT LEAST 0.01 INCHES OF
RAINFALL. THIS HAS NEVER OCCURRED IN CENTRAL PARK.
AT LEAST A TRACE OF RAINFALL WAS REPORTED ON 23 OUT OF 30 DAYS THIS
JUNE.
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I liked the ABC (non)report.
At least they acknowledged the record vs deciding not to say anything
It appears as though Realclimate is hedging in light of the recent cooling.
Guest commentary by Kyle Swanson, “We hypothesize that the established pre-1998 trend is the true forced warming signal, and that the climate system effectively overshot this signal in response to the 1997/98 El Niño. This overshoot is in the process of radiatively dissipating, and the climate will return to its earlier defined, greenhouse gas-forced warming signal. If this hypothesis is correct, the era of consistent record-breaking global mean temperatures will not resume until roughly 2020.”
It has a been pretty cool June here in Ohio, too. Three days at ninety or above, yet the average temp for the month of June was 71.2. The lowest temp was 44. On the 2nd of July, we tied a very old record for lowest high temp.
Randall (20:50:25) :
It appears as though Realclimate is hedging in light of the recent cooling.
Guest commentary by Kyle Swanson, “We hypothesize that the established pre-1998 trend is the true forced warming signal, and that the climate system effectively overshot this signal in response to the 1997/98 El Niño. This overshoot is in the process of radiatively dissipating, and the climate will return to its earlier defined, greenhouse gas-forced warming signal. If this hypothesis is correct, the era of consistent record-breaking global mean temperatures will not resume until roughly 2020.”
Freaking Idiots
Let’s cut to the chase. How about:
On a more sober note, it is humorous that there is the buried assumption that somehow the heat budget of the system has some sort of momentum.
Roughly 2020. What’s going on in 2020?
SC24 will be wrapping it up, heading into the next minimum.
That’s interesting. Seems like they might have jumped the gun a bit. That’s quite the extended outlook.
Nice bit of history, though.
Just a thought but I’ll guess we will start to see a few (and then many, maybe) reports on cognitive dissonance in the next few years. I suppose the pro-AGW folks in the funding agencies and editorial boards may not approve of this so those with professional interest in such studies may want to get their requests for funding submitted soon.
It’s been a really cool July as well here in NYC. I’m pretty sure it has not hit 85 this month either (so far).
We wanted hot tea this morning so we put the pot on the burner yesterday and waited until it got warmer, turned off the burner and by this morning the pot was boiling. Or not.
Are there really competent scientists postulating this sort of thing?
“At least they acknowledged the record vs deciding not to say anything”
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Yabut, did the NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY have permission to post this data from Jimbo? If not they’ll be a few less NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE workers in NEW YORK NY soon. And don’t fret about the low temperatures above, once Jimbo gets finished massaging them it’ll be the third warmest June on record!
I have been watching the temperatures on the west coast of America and it looks to be cooler than normal from LA to SF so far,whats going on and why?
I have visited the west coast a few times and always found the june/july temperatures higher, is it going to affect the growing season?
Wait 2020? did someone forget about the evil tipping point? The polar bears? Out of control warming? The sky is falling .. .. the sky is falling!!! /sarc off.
Randall (20:50:25) :
Ron de Haan (21:29:19) :
jeez (21:32:08) :
pkatt (22:30:36) :
“When it gets warmer it’s global warming. When it gets cooler it’s global warming. When everything is global warming then nothing is global warming.”
~Dennis Miller
Is it just my Firefox browser or would the video not play for others too ?
I expect the AGW zealots can explain what is happening quite irrationally. I fully expect to see something along the lines of:
“Recent exogenous events have suspended, for the short-term, the ever upward climate trend that is the response to man-made CO2. The real concern is that current observations now mask an underlying warming trend. Our modelling shows that the warming trend will return with a vengeance once the current exogenously caused cooling expires; and its worse than we originally expected.”
“We hypothesize that the established pre-1998 trend is the true forced warming signal, and that the climate system effectively overshot this signal in response to the 1997/98 El Niño. This overshoot is in the process of radiatively dissipating, and the climate will return to its earlier defined, greenhouse gas-forced warming signal. If this hypothesis is correct, the era of consistent record-breaking global mean temperatures will not resume until roughly 2020.”
Yes but if it doesn’t start warming again until “roughly” 2020, because of the last 10 yeras temperature decline that will mean “roughly” a rise of only 0.3C in “roughjy” 120 years, which is certainly not enough to get your knickers in a knot over even if it was man made, which of course it’s not.
What do these people expect, perfect climatic stability, unbelievable!
Cold in Australia too, well you’d sort of expect that in winter…but…cold at both ends of the globe??
http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/big-chill-continues-to-grip-the-west-20090713-dio0.html
This is a laugh…a fund raiser “Run for a Safe Climate”. And ‘restore the climate’, like we took a backup somewhere? And I like the protesters t-shirts, “Carbon Really Ain’t Pollution – CRAP”….lol.
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/global-warming/seize-climate-change-challenges-gore-20090713-dhzj.html
Considering UHI effects it seems likely that this was actually the coolest June since records started.
Ups, sorry 3 years temperature decline.
New York is not alone. Knott End on Sea has also failed to live up to high summer temperature expectations despite all of the Met Office’s efforts to the contrary. 😀
There is a cold anomaly hovering over some parts of the US, but other parts are hotter than normal, leading to a globally average temperature. Other parts of the world have been cold, or hot:
http://www.climat-evolution.com/article-33431441.html
(see first figure)
What will be interesting is to follow the situation after the el nino starts. Rightnow, the global anomalies are “exploding”
http://discover.itsc.uah.edu/amsutemps/execute.csh?amsutemps+002
which is in line with the following analysis of a 3-month delay with nino indexes
http://www.climat-evolution.com/article-33586620.html
it’s in French, again, but you can Google-translate or simply appreciate the figures :0)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8146995.stm
I think WUWT should devote a segment to this article. If hundreds of children died from something that could remotely be tied to global warming, do you think we would have heard about it? I imagine we’d have days of emotional stories, pictures, journalists interviewing the families of the dead in the prime-time and the IPCC leadership pounding their fists on their podium saying, “I TOLD YOU SO!” Yet, winter comes three months early and kills hundreds of children and we hear nothing. The GW movement and their media buddies now have blood on their hands as far as I am concerned. I’d have sent a blanket or some $$$ had I known what was happening over there… and there is no doubt it was (and remains) newsworthy.
I think WUWT should give this story a wider audience, as a matter of fact, forget this post and run with it – this deserves much more than being buried in a blog post.
Yeah even the world’s best Weatherologist (and oldest, 275 witout a cryo chamber)
Ugly Dave Nightshow remarked the Rats had come out of their Temperature cooled sewers to have icy pole on a spring day.
NYC has still failed to hit 85 this summer. This is unprecedented.
In 1916, 1903, and 1886, NYC also failed to hit 85 in June…but all of those years quickly warmed up in July. Not yet this year.