More from the “weather is not climate department”. Emphasis below mine. And it is having an effect not only on crops but tourism in the Northeast US. – Anthony
Statement as of 4:00 PM EDT on July 9, 2009
record event report … corrected
National Weather Service Gray ME
400 PM EDT Thursday Jul 09 2009
… More record cold weather for Portland Maine…
The temperature at the Portland jetport only reached 58 degrees
yesterday. This set a record for the coldest high temperature on
July 7th. The old record was 59 degrees set in 1961. To put this in
another perspective… the normal low temperature for July 7th is 58
degrees.
The low temperature on Wednesday was 55 degrees. This produced a
range of only 3 degrees between the high and low temperatures which
is a record for the smallest daily range in temperatures on July
7th. The old record was a 4 degree spread set in 1963 and 1995.
The 3 degree daily temperature range yesterday also tied the record
for the smallest daily temperature range for any day in July. The
record was established on July 16th, 1961 and occurred five more
times before this year.
The average temperature yesterday was 57 degrees… which tied 1961
as the coldest average temperature for July 7th.
The high of 58 yesterday tied July 6th of 1956 as the second coldest
high ever recorded at the Portland jetport in July. The coldest high
ever in July was 57 degrees on the 4th of July in 1992.
On the 1st and 2nd of this month Portland only reached 59 degrees
both days… setting records for the coldest high temperature each
day and also tying several other days for the fourth coldest high
ever recorded in July.
Portland has set a record cold high temperature four out of the
first eight days this month. Here is a list of the record cold high
temperatures so far this month…
Date high temp. 2009 old record high and year
July 1st 59 degrees 62 degrees in 1976
July 2nd 59 degrees 63 degrees in 1986
July 7th 60 degrees 64 degrees in 1956
July 8th 58 degrees 59 degrees in 1961
Here is a list of the coldest high temperatures ever recorded in the
month of July at the Portland jetport. Four of the ten coldest
highs occurred in the first eight days of this month…
Rank temperature date
1 57 degrees July 4, 1992
2 58 degrees July 6, 1956
58 degrees July 8, 2009 <===
4 59 degrees July 8, 1961
59 degrees July 16, 1961
59 degrees July 30, 1976
59 degrees July 3, 1987
59 degrees July 1, 2009 <===
59 degrees July 2, 2009 <===
10 60 degrees July 7, 2009 <===
11 61 degrees several dates
The normal high temperature for the month of July is 78.8 degrees.
Along with the cold weather portlanders have also had to deal with
soaking rain this month. There have been three days so far with
around an inch and a half of rain. Rainfall of 1.41 inches fell on
the 2nd, 1.57 inches fell on the 7th and 1.50 inches fell on the 8th.
The 1.41 inches on the 2nd set a record for daily precipitation for
the date… topping the old record of 1.32 inches set in 1983. The
1.57 inches on the 7th was also a record… breaking the old mark for
the date of 1.34 inches set in 1935. The 1.50 inches on the 8th was
far short of the record 3.66 inches that fell on July 8th, 1915.
Temperature records at the Portland jetport began on November 25,
1940 and precipitation records go back to 1871.
&&
Note… corrected date in second table and added normal high for July.
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coaldust (23:19:59) “the sampling of temperature is not periodic since the min/max temperatures occur at different times on different days” / “Trying to compute the average by averaging the extremes is preposterous.”
You might want to check on some of the “conventions” used.
“It seems like any weather map that keeps the same color scheme year round is going to be rather blue in the winter and rather red in the summer, ”
So humor me Zeke, what was your point?
NOAA has a response specifically for Watts:
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/about/response-v2.pdf
Was this already addressed? If not I think a post dedicated to their response would be appropriate.
There have been at least 3 cold periods when both AMO and PDO were both negative or cool for a more sustained period
1856-1864
1916 -1922 [and 1909-1911]
1964-1976
Global cold records were set during these very cold periods . We did have sample of this during the first 5 months of this year. AMO has gone back to positive in June .We have had 15 years of warm AMO so a decline of AMO to negative or cool is likely to return together with the cooling of the global climate to follow. The weather of the 1960-1970’s is likely the pattern of the next 2-3 decades
“If you don’t like dissenting ideas, state it from the start. ”
Nobody likes dissenting ideas. The question is whether those ideas are tolerated or not. In my humble opinion, Anthony is much better about letting dissenters be heard than prominent warmists, the most obvious example being Realclimate.
Has Anthony ever flat out deleted one of your posts?
Hi all,
As a meteorologist, I’m not at all surprised by the reports of ongoing hot weather in Texas and Mississippi while ongoing cold is in New England. Just sounds like a blocking pattern has set up. These can persist for quite a while. It will keep the warm ridge over the central US and the cool, wet trough over the eastern US.
However, at the moment, it does seem that the cool weather has been gaining an edge the past couple of years. Will make the next several very interesting.
Best Regards to all,
Paul