Roundup of some interesting July weather records

Here’s how it was in New Zealand last month; it’s been a cold wet winter for many, confirmed by NIWA, our national met service:
‘ For the third month on end, temperatures below average have been posted across most of the country, with North Otago leading the way.
The national average temperature of 7.3degC was 0.4degC below the long-term average for July, according to Niwa statistics released today.
North Otago, alpine areas of Canterbury and Westland, and Waiouru all recorded average temperatures between 1.2 and 2.0degC below normal for July, while most other regions experienced temperatures between 0.5 and 1.0degC lower than average.
Canterbury squeezed out the highest temperature, recording 20.8degC on the last day of the month.
The lowest temperature was -11.7degC, recorded in Middlemarch in Central Otago on the 19th.’
Canterbury’s high, by the way, was the Nor-wester Fohn wind, in advance of a fairly beefy depression.

check out US Records for high max, low max and high min, low min,
in the day window click “All”
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/records/index.php
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JW

UHI at Austin’s station of record, Camp Mabry, is considerable.
The meteorologist from the Lower Colorado River Authority, Bob Rose, quoted in the Austin American-Statesman article above, acknowledged how significant UHI is in a personal e-mail to me just a week ago. I asked if he would reconsider his alarmist statements at the time, given the effect on the temperature.
Still waiting to hear from him on that.
Although plenty hot, July at Austin’s Bergstrom International Airport, a rural station (compared to Camp Mabry), was tied for 5th warmest with 1951.
Data here: http://www.srh.noaa.gov/images/ewx/aus/ausmontemp.pdf

Atlanta, GA, southeat USA up at about 950 feet elevation also set a record low temperature in July, with general temp’s low all month in June and July.
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geo (17:36:06) :
Upper midwest has been unseasonably cool almost all summer. I’ve taken to calling summer “a pretty nice spring” this year. Even NOAA admits that.
Meanwhile, NSIDC felt a gleeful need to have a breathless mid-month alert on July 22 about 2009 Arctic ice extant dropping below the 2008 trend line, while neglecting to mention this merely put it on the 2005 trend for this time of year. Well, the next two weeks will be interesting indeed, but the last two days might have the hairs standing up on the back of their neck a little.
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But did you notice that back in March-April-May 2009 — when the AMSRE sea ice extents were at all time record highs ever! — the NSIDC were suspiciously quite and said nothing at all?
When sea ice levels recovered all the way through 2008 from their record low levels in 2007, did you notice they said … “Nothing” either, other than to predict doom and gloom and – for the first time ever – began complaining that “first year ice” was easy to melt.

South Texas could use a nice tropical storm or two. Goes to show that nothing, including a hurricane, is all bad.

Wisconsin has been unseasonably cold this whole summer, which started two to three weeks late. On August 2, at least 20 people who swam in Lake Michigan for a triathalon were treated for hypothermia. Hypothermia in August is unheard of here.
See http://www.cbs58.com/index.php?aid=8608

The South Bend, IN area is about 70 miles as the crow flies from Ft. Wayne and we had a record cool July as well. Our tomatoes are finally starting to ripen.
RECORD EVENT REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
541 AM EDT SAT AUG 1 2009
…ALL TIME RECORD COLDEST JULY AT SOUTH BEND…
THE AVERAGE MONTHLY TEMPERATURE FOR JULY 2009 WAS 68.3 DEGREES. THE
PREVIOUS RECORD COLD JULY WAS 68.5 SET IN 1996.
THE AVERAGE MONTHLY TEMPERATURE WAS 68.3 DEGREES…4.7 DEGREES BELOW
NORMAL.
THE HIGHEST TEMPERATURE WAS 86 DEGREES ON THE 15TH AND THE COOLEST TEMPERATURE WAS 49 ON THE 14TH.
THE LAST TIME THE HIGHEST TEMPERATURE IN JULY WAS JUST 86 DEGREES WAS IN JULY 2000…
ALL OTHER JULY HIGHEST TEMPERATURES ON RECORD HAD A HIGH TEMPERATURES OF AT LEAST 87 DEGREES.
THE AVERAGE HIGH TEMPERATURE THIS MONTH WAS 77.9 DEGREES…
WHICH IS A RECORD FOR THE COOLEST AVERAGE HIGH TEMPERATURE.
THE AVERAGE MONTHLY LOW TEMPERATURE WAS 58.6 DEGREES
AND THIS RANKED AS THE 5TH COOLEST FOR AVERAGE LOW TEMPERATURES.

You guys still don’t understand that the global warming theory is about the long term average temperature, and occasional cool temperatures in regional areas are not inconsistent wit the theory. This whole article misunderstands not only the theory of global warming, but also elementary statistical concepts such as random variables and statistical significance. What a surprise — another source of disputing the global warming theory which is based entirely upon ignorance!!!

Donald Davison (22:37:34) :
You guys still don’t understand that the global warming theory is about the long term average temperature, and occasional cool temperatures in regional areas are not inconsistent wit the theory.
The trouble is that nothing that can happen will ever be considered inconsistent with their theory by the climate alarmists, even the copious amounts of observational evidence that is in contradiction of the predictions of their sacred GCMs. Seen any sign of that equatorial hotspot lately? Check the global mean net radiative flux numbers for the last 25 yrs. Still worried about warming? Note that the Sahara is greening up around the edges. Plant growth is accelerating. Catastrophic weather is flat or declining. Still can’t shake that uneasy feeling? Around here it goes from -30 in the winter to 100+ in the summer pretty much annually, except for this year,and people have been managing to deal with it for quite a while now, so if your willing to suck it up and quit being such a smarta** whiner, you’ll probably be able to deal with whatever the climate decides to do with itself in the coming years.(rant off)

Perhaps this is Donald Davison’s first visit to this site. I’m sure that if he read more of the threads here he would realise that contributors here don’t just sit around complaining about the effect the weather is having on their tomatoes, but also discuss climate in a knowledgeable and rigorously scientific way. So visit more often, Mr Davison – read and learn.
(P.S. – I exclude myself from the bit about being “knowledgeable and rigorously scientific”, by the way.)

QUoting:
“We have had 3-week stretches of 100+ here in San Antonio in August, but nothing like this year in my memory!”
Commenting:
I have heard a lot of people say that. None of them around here seem to recall 1998 when there were temperatures up to 110. Perhaps it is suppresssion of traumatic memories. I have not found this summer to be particularly hot or cool. I’ve lived in Houston for more than half a century.