NYC fails to reach 85°F in June – first time since 1916

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Here are the details from the NYC National Weather Service Office:

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NOUS41 KOKX 012057

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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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DonK31
July 14, 2009 1:20 am

The fact that even warmists admit that there will be a lull in warming must mean that there are forcings, or even chaos, that are not accounted for within their models. What are those assumptions that were missed?…and will the models be updated to allow for those missing forcings?

Highlander
July 14, 2009 1:30 am

This is what I have to say about the ‘Realclimate’ gobbledygook:
——————
“Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.”
~ John Adams ~
——————

July 14, 2009 1:33 am

I think this is still just cold PDO and neutral AMO. When AMO switches cold and weak 243th sun cycle starts to perform, temps will go downhill even steeper.

the_Butcher
July 14, 2009 2:09 am

Kristinn (23:03:49) :
“…and its worse than we originally expected.”
hahahaha that was too funny!

rbateman
July 14, 2009 2:38 am

I knew I had heard that year 2020 quoted somewhere, found it:
From a transcript of the hearing to confirm Holdren,
Holdren actually reaffirmed that he
still believes one billion people may
die within the next 11 years from a
climate-related drought:
Vitter: So you would stick to that
statement?
Holdren: I don’t think it’s likely. I
think we should invest effort
– considerable effort – to
reduce the likelihood
further.
Vitter: So you would stick to the
statement that it could
happen?
Holdren: It could happen, and …
Vitter: One billion by 2020?
Holdren: It could.

rbateman
July 14, 2009 2:43 am

Sorry, Flanagan, but no record highs in California, except for a malfuntioning sensor here or there. Unless one throws out 50 years or more of weather records, one will not get new highs. On average, this year is cooler than last, which was cooler than the year before. Above average doesn’t get you a record. It gets you above average temps.

Lindsay H
July 14, 2009 3:00 am

anyone willing to make a prediction for temps in six months time ?
will the Norhern hemisphere winter of 09/10 be colder than the last one /Warmer /or about the same
Place your bets !!

Jorge Pereira
July 14, 2009 3:04 am

The summer here in Portugal has been cool, temperatures below the usual 30’s Cº. They usually stay in the mid to high 20’s Cº. The Portuguese Weather Office compares present temperatures with a 1971-2001 period, which makes it hard to compare with the last years. However, it doesn’t take a genius to tell that last winter was much colder than usual and that this summer still hasn’t arrived in full force like it does.

Hans Erren
July 14, 2009 3:14 am

29.4 °C

Peter
July 14, 2009 3:17 am

Flanagan (00:25:57) : “What will be interesting is to follow the situation after the el nino starts. Rightnow, the global anomalies are “exploding””
Exploding?!? 1/2 of one degree Farenheit now constitutes an “explosion”. Get out of your parent’s basement and get a life.

July 14, 2009 3:19 am

Kristinn (23:03:49)
I reckon you’d get a job in ‘climate science’ any day as you obviously have it sussed!
Seriously, I don’t ever remember seeing so many stories of cold weather in the NH summer before. I don’t ever remember hearing much about cold SH winter weather either.

Tim
July 14, 2009 3:45 am

Check out latest dip in AO-index.
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/daily_ao_index/month_ao_index.shtml
Folks living in northern Europe better hope AO starts climbing before winter…

Skeptic Tank
July 14, 2009 3:45 am

As we like to say, here in Noo Yawk …
“WEAH”S DA GLOBAL WAWMIN’?!!

Allan M
July 14, 2009 4:14 am

RexAlan (23:07:49) :
“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.”
What do these people expect, perfect climatic stability, unbelievable!

Now what could be more “flat earth” than believing in perfect stability.
It seems Gavin Schmmmmmmmidt is British-born. Please, please, please, etc., don’t send him back when youv’e finished with him.
===
UK Sceptic (00:24:41) :
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. 😀

Wow! The gnat must certainly have relieved itself in the jungles of Borneo for something interesting to happen in Knott End! Why did they ever have the ferry to Fleetwood?

July 14, 2009 4:34 am

Kristinn (23:03:49) :
Furthermore, Kristinn, I’m sure Gavin et al’s models foresaw this 10 year cooling period which we have now had but that it’s not cooling as fast as they expected so in reality global warming is still happening even faster than they feared.

Michael Newton
July 14, 2009 4:53 am

Randall (20:50:25) : 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.”
This sounds like an admission that the famed hockey stick is wrong?

TJA
July 14, 2009 5:10 am

OK, under the heading of weather is not climate, I won’t rehash the cool summer stuff, but. This morning I saw a flock of about 20 or 30 migratory ducks. These are not the kind of ducks we usually see around here except in spring and fall. At first I assumed they were commerants, but they didn’t look right for that. I thought it might be a mother duck with ducklings from a distance, then I got closer and realized it was a flock of adult ducks, of a species that doesn’t summer here, in a fall behavior pattern.

maz2
July 14, 2009 5:21 am

Meanwhile, in the Great White North, not so far from NYC, as we speak on the qwerty this comes up:
Summer is not cancelled says AGW modeller/forecaster.
The perfect models of the modern major AGW modellers.
>>> “”When I look at the models for mid-July to mid-August, I see no significant area showing colder than normal, I see only normal and warmer than normal,” he said. “There’s no guarantee with it, but at least the models are suggesting that we haven’t cancelled summer — we’ve delayed it.”
Translation:
>>> AGW is in the pipeline; it’s coming ’cause global warming causes global cooling, er global cooling causes ….. modellers to freeze up.
…-
“Be patient with summer, says climatologist
Cooler than normal in most parts of country
July is only half-over and already Canadians are grumbling about cold temperatures and miserable weather –but a Canadian weather guru maintains it’s too soon to write off 2009 as the year that summer forgot.
Most of Canada — with the exception of B. C., Yukon and some parts of Atlantic Canada — are experiencing colder than normal temperatures this summer. Environment Canada climatologist David Phillips says recent outbursts of extreme weather might actually indicate a turning of the tide.”
http://www.nationalpost.com/most-popular/story.html?id=1785341

Flanagan
July 14, 2009 5:58 am

Peter: what did you expect? 50 degrees more? I think it must be the highest (or maybe the 2nd highest) global anomaly ever measured by UAH for this day.

the_Butcher
July 14, 2009 6:56 am

maz2 (05:21:42) :
>>> “”When I look at the models for mid-July to mid-August, I see no significant area showing colder than normal, I see only normal and warmer than normal,” he said. “There’s no guarantee with it, but at least the models are suggesting that we haven’t canceled summer — we’ve delayed it.”
——————————–
I wonder who’s keeping that modeler’s wife happy, cause I’m sure the models will tell him NOT TO because of the dangerous CO that they will produce doing the act.

Bruce Cobb
July 14, 2009 7:19 am

Flanagan: There is a cold anomaly hovering over some parts of the US…
Really? Where? Should we be afraid?
Rightnow, the global anomalies are “exploding”
So, first they hover, then they explode. This does sound serious. Better alert the media.

Steven Hill
July 14, 2009 7:56 am

Gore said this would happen, the oceans are boiling in another part of the world, can you show us that data? Hum, it’s seems to be missing, we will find it or maybe the data needs to be changed to fit the models.
LOL

pyromancer76
July 14, 2009 8:02 am

As many WUWT have been urging, it is not the cold or the warm at the heart of our existence today, it is the falsity that human-origin CO2 or incorrectly labeled Greenhouse Gases (get rid of that term and people’s confusion would lessen) has much of anything to do with climate change, or CO2 with pollution.
I think we should relax about our Sun, the bringer of warmth to Earth. Every hundred years or so (~Gleissberg), for the last few hundred years, it cycles down. Leif Svalgaard has pointed to 1912-13 as being similar to today — so far. Also take a look at the early 1800s. I counted the months in all three periods with less than 4 and less than 2 sunpots. 1807-1813 less than 4, 44 months; less than 2, 37 months. 1911-1914 less than 4, 25 months; less than 2, 12 months: 2007-xxxx less than 4, 20 months, less than 2, 10 months. We have had no months at 0 sunspots — yet, I think. In the 19th C there were 3; in the 18th C, 26. Also, we do not know exactly how a lower number of sunspots affects temperature/climate.
If I am correct in my other internet readings, Leif finds somewhat significant cycling on 108 years — don’t know how far back he goes. Basil finds some significance at 104 years.
I am still interested in Ann V’s question — what are the conditions that enabled to emerge from the “Little Ice Age”.
Re Real Climate’s K Swanson claiming that after this cooling, we will return to the dirty warming deeds of CO2 (Randall 20:25), remember the 1930s. How long was that after 1911-1914? The main issues seem to be the essential nature of CO2 and what makes for a “warm period”. How long might this one continue? Can we help it along in any way?

Dusty
July 14, 2009 8:17 am

Western NY has not been much better. Temps in the Rochester area for July are running 6.2F below mean so far and they’re reporting the possibility of a record low tonight, the current record being 48F.

July 14, 2009 8:18 am

AllanM
I’ll have you know that Knott End is an illicit hotbed of whist drives and domino rallies.
Excitement happens when the ferry actually runs – usually when the Pilling Pig flies…
Heh heh