From the “weather is not climate” department. 815 new snowfall records, 304 low temperature, and 403 lowest max temperature records were set this week.
Here’s a summary:
| Record Events for Sun Dec 6, 2009 through Sat Dec 12, 2009 | |
| Total Records: | 2601 |
| Rainfall: | 992 |
| Snowfall: | 815 |
| High Temperatures: | 36 |
| Low Temperatures: | 304 |
| Lowest Max Temperatures: | 403 |
| Highest Min Temperatures: | 51 |
Data from NOAA via the HW map generator
UPDATE: Puzzled by the single odd record high temperature in West Texas of 80F in Sheffield, TX on Dec 9th, I called the NWS office in Midland/Odessa, TX to ask about it today (Monday). The meteorologist on duty was very helpful. While he first throught it may by a typo, perhaps a 3 that got turned into an 8 on a report, a review of the synoptic conditions that day revealed some very strong southerly winds ahead of the Arctic cold front that day. At a pass in the Pecos, winds were clocked at 112mph. Thus it appears that this station go a brief benefit of some very strong warming southerly wind.
I’ve seen this effect happen before. In fact it can result in a record or near record high temperature being achieved on the same day as a record or near record low temperature if the front is moving fast enough and has a strong temperature gradient.
The record high there does not appear to be in error. – Anthony
El Nino induced heavy rains have arrived in So California on schedule. This could mean moderating temps for much of North American this winter season (I don’t think that would be such a bad thing after last week’s cold blast). On the other hand, 2009-2010 Winter for North America could be close to the 1976-1977 Winter. Remember, a fairly strong El Nino occured in 1976; but, the following 2 years saw extreme weather patterns (scorching hot summers and bitterly cold winters). The big difference between 1976 and 2009 was the PDO. The Great Pacific Climate Shift occured in 1976-77.
List of ‘Unsung’ Wildlife Affected by Climate Change Released
When the climate gets colder, what will happen to animals that thrive in warm climates?
Should we buy them coates? Or should we let them migrate?
@Mike D.
“And yet this evening on some godforsaken network, Nina Totenberg claimed this is the warmest decade in recorded history. I wonder how she reconciles 2,600 cold and snow records just last week alone with her pseudo-scientific theology…”
SImple. It could be freezing in the middle of summer now but it was ALWAYS COLDER earlier.
All our earlier weather records seem to have been ‘adjusted’ to ensure that, whatever the temperature, we will always be living in the ‘warmest decade’. I hope that all the published old records are being stored somewhere safe, because they will be destroyed if they do not match current thinking….
CLIMATE TALKS AT COPENHAGEN ARE SUSPENDED – BBC
COPENHAGEN, Dec 14 (Reuters) – The main sessions of U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen were suspended on Monday in a protest led by African nations accusing rich countries of trying to wreck the existing U.N. Kyoto Protocol.
“This is a walk-out over process and form, not a walkout over substance, and that’s regrettable,” Australian Climate Change Minister Penny Wong said of the action.
What worries me is that the ground in the Pac NW is frozen down 3-6 inches, and a warm front is quite likely to raise temps and precip back to above seasonal in 24 to 36 hours. Flooding is likely near the rivers.
@Doug in Seattle Well, this year has been the warmest in the past 365.25 days hasn’t it?
@ur momisugly vukcevic
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8411898.stm
Mugabe is disappointed he will not get more money.
Barry Foster (04:13:29) :
Here’s some – well an awful lot actually 🙂
Another poster here kindly provided the info link.
http://plato-says.blogspot.com/2009/12/global-warming-causes.html
“Environment Canada recorded a frigid -46.1 C”. At first it didn’t really register with me how cold that is. For those of us who mainly speak Fahrenheit that’s minus 50F !!! Yeowee! That makes Michigan look downright tropical.
Pamela Gray (22:38:47) :
“A side note, the rivers in Wallowa County are beginning to freeze so badly that they are rising above flood stage. One house near the river is stuck in a glassy ice yard that extends from the foundation to the fence. I have never seen that before.”
Pamela-I have,-in the late 50’s and 60’s. The 1964 floods were,in part due to
a huge build up of river ice and then debris.Back in the “warm” 1930’s the old Mill pond at lower Perry (on 1-84 a couple of miles from La Grande, froze to the point
of the Grande Ronde river threatening the town of Perry,and most of North La Grande.
My Granpop was on a Dynamite crew that blasted it open-but it was touch and go for a while.I’d love to see how our greenie state would deal with that…
Mark.R (23:10:59) :
well here in chistchurch n.z i still have my heatpump on 2times a week and they say its summer . Today lighting and heavy hail in places air temp now 8.8c.
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The cooler weather in the USA has been attributed to negative Pacific Decadal Oscillation (-PDO). But Russia, New Zealand and Australia are have below normal cooling also. It may be that the solar physicists who are saying prolonged cooling is coming, and not global warming, may be right.
>>Expect another bad year for grapes in Greenland
>>and northern England.
And lots of sour grapes from Copenhagen too !!
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the opposite of NOAA December, January, and February (i.e., winter) forecast is happening.
2 1/2 months left to see if they got it right.
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2009/images/winteroutlook_temp_300.jpg
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http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2009/20091015_winteroutlook.html
List of ‘Unsung’ Wildlife Affected by Climate Change Released
ScienceDaily (Dec. 14, 2009) — The Wildlife Conservation Society has released a list of animals facing new impacts by climate change, some in strange and unexpected ways.
When the climate gets colder, what will happen to animals that thrive in warm climates?
Should we buy them coates? Or should we let them migrate?
As I recall, the saber-tooth tiger was a victim of climate change.
Mother Nature shows a middle finger to the AGW proponents .
“THE BLACKFEET INDIANS PREDICT THE RETURN OF ‘MANY GLACIERS’ TO GLACIER PARK…wide weather ‘extremes’ over the past 2,000 years since the tribe migrated from northeastern Asia to North America…the glaciers have both ‘advanced’ in Glacier National Park and ‘retreated’ literally dozens of times in the past couple of millennia…the glaciers in the park nearly ‘vanished’ 1,000 years ago during an extremely warm period with very little snow. The ‘peak’ of the number and size of the glaciers occurred during the 40-year period from 1710-1750 towards the end of the last ‘Maunder Minimum’…glaciers in Alaska and Norway are already advancing. Glacier Park may one day soon be seeing the return of “MANY GLACIERS,” as the Blackfeet predicted”
http://www.longrangeweather.com/ArticleArchives/BlackfeetIndians.htm
“Does this mean elements of the AGC/AGW crew are silently conceding that the science is not fixed?”
No it just means the’re going to switch to a new crisis, maybe excessively normal climate.
p gosselin 04:19:03 No time to review antarctic report
Me neither but I read their recommendations briefly. Almost all called for more readings,more sites,or more something.All of it meant-We want more grant money!
I hate not being able to trust my government, but I am beginning to have suspicions about everything they put out. Just look at the jobs saved baloney for 1 example. Thank goodness we have a growing number of great non-government sites like this to keep our faith up.
E.M.Smith (00:55:44) :
Gee, the more the “warmers” gather together, the colder it gets
But they can’t tell since they’re in toasty warm limos and $1000.00 a night hotels. They can only see the serfs shivering outside their tinted limo windows as they are on their way to their Gulfstream. It must be curious to them to reconcile global warming with shivering serfs in the snow. 😉
Record snowfalls and record low temperatures. Thankfully our genius government is working to fight global …warming?
Do you ever get the feeling our government is immune to logic?
Barry-
For problems caused by global warming, see:
http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/CDEC3237-E01D-42D1-A0D3-47FF4DD91206/
A search under “numberwatch” leads to all sorts of interesting reading material, for those with time on their hands…..
And a note to the moderators: I got a new computer and didn’t notice that the required “sender” information hadn’t been carried over. When I pressed “Submit”, I got an error message to that effect and MY ENTIRE MESSAGE HAD BEEN ERASED. I had to start over again, which has put me in a bad mood for part of the day. I won’t kick the cat, but I’d like a go at the person who laid ot that part of the website!
IanM
Mr. Alex (02:22:35) :
“photon without a Higgs (22:13:09) :
warmers better start praying for sunspots ;-)”
Prayers answered, two regions on the visible disk, one growing quickly:
Oh, those two pores I almost didn’t see them.
I meant something more like this
That snow is not real…Hide the snow!
fFreddy (03:45:40) :
If any of these record cold temps are at urban sites, and are “the coldest for forty years” , then the natural variability has been enough to overcome forty years of Urban Heat Island effect …
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Good point. It’s worse than we thought.