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
photon without a Higgs (06:28:28) : …they have a hidden sense of humor as:
http://www.noaanews…..=NO ACCURATE NEWS…☺
vukcevic (05:37:13) :
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.
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What you just said Penny: “Blah, blah, blah, blah…”
I think you are all missing the point. We need to study the transferability of the Gore Effect. It would seem to me that when a group of warmers reaches critical mass, regardless of the location, immediate cooling is felt world wide. Initially only Al Gore himself had the ability to cast a localized chill but this now seems to have spread to his acolytes. If my hypothesis is correct then the obvious solution to warming is for us all to the church of Al Gore and the immaculate warming and start meeting often and in large numbers. Please send lots of money so that I can study this in depth.
Please note I already have several mathematical models to modify the data to reflect the correct result.
ralph (06:27:29) :
>>Expect another bad year for grapes in Greenland
>>and northern England.
And lots of sour grapes from Copenhagen too !!
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Funny!!
And don’t forget ralph, it’s Copenhägen, not Copenhāgen. Only serfs say Copenhāgen.
OT, but the latest news from Hokemkookenhagen is that developing nations, a total of 135 countries including China and India are boycotting talks today. They don’t want the Kyoto protocol scuppered, which they fear is what is happening. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i9TuMrvrknh-ZXwqmZ2N-48kff3wD9CJ56880
As long as they fight, we’re safe.
Copenhägen, like Häagen-Dazs ice cream.
I had an email from somebody in Calgary today; having asked how they were enjoying their current ‘global warming’ over there. ‘Very cold’, ‘snow’, ‘-29’, apparently. It was bad enough in early October when we were there. It is a lot colder in Edmonton, even according to the BBC Ceefax weather reports.
As a lay person, in science terms, I originally began questioning AGW info when I began questioning the standardisation of siting, equipment, maintainence, etc in the collection of earth data after my curiosity was piqued by the contents of the released/hacked/stolen emails from CRU. So far, I have been frequently horrified by what is supposed to be ‘data-recording stations’ in the Pacific regions at least, and my suspicions of the morality of the CRU scientists and their associates has deepened more than a little. Perhaps the CRU’s data going off-line is a simple cock-up (their programming skills seemed rudimentary at best) but it certainly adds to my doubts.
On another note, the African delegates in Cop. have shown their hand – they obviously saw Cop as another opportunity for a big finacial top-up.
To the people of Edmonton, Calgary and Winnipeg.
Turn off your heating. You are killing the planet !
Sheffield Texas your thermometer is broke.
As I write this it is now (09:30 local) -42C at the Edmonton I’ntl Airport, a little South of town. The downtown airport is -32 so expect a correction to the I’ntl from the powers that be soon for the rural cold island effect.
I will stand with the GHCN and use my single data point in Florida to say the temperature for the entire United States is way above average.
It will be interesting to see how cold or unchanging the weather needs to be for people to stop believing, “it’s hotter every year, it’s hotter every year, it’s hotter every year.” If you repeat it enough, maybe you believe it?
Barry Foster (04:13:29) :
I listen to BBC radio on my way to work every morning. This morning I was listening to a report about increased tiger attacks, and I just wondered (as you do) if they were going to link it to climate change – just for laughs. Within 30 seconds of me thinking that they did!
The report on the BBC website says:
“Climate change is causing accelerated sea level rise and an increase in the salinity of the southern Sundarbans,” says Professor Pranabes Sanyal of Jadavpur University in Calcutta.
“That in turn is causing the migration of the tigers from the southern islands towards the north, close to the human habitation. That’s why we have this man-animal confrontation – and the confrontation is increasing.”
Which bit of that assessment do you dispute, and why? Can you be sure it’s not true?
photon without a Higgs (06:22:24) :
It may be that the solar physicists who are saying prolonged cooling is coming, and not global warming, may be right.
Interesting. Can you cite said solar physicists?
News flash. The opportunities for banana plantations and orange groves for Kansas and Missouri have been set back 100 years.
Of course the warmists will say thei was not only predicted but worse than predicted.
Where specifically did they post mid December predictions last summer?
If the Pine beetle survives this in the rockies, that means their blaiming consevatives on pollution and pine beetles is also down the tubes.
David Segesta (06:48:43) :
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?
Yes you have record low temperatures, but you have twice as many record high temperatures –
http://www.ucar.edu/news/releases/2009/maxmin.jsp#
Logically, doesn’t this suggest that the government is right?
Anthony,
The link provided above in one of the other comments is useful:
http://mapcenter.hamweather.com/records/7day/us.html?c=maxtemp,mintemp,lowmax,highmin,snow
especially if you go to the tables for each type of record.
I was looking at The Weather Channel’s data for various cities a couple days ago, however, and saw several records in Colorado that are not shown in hamweather.com’s list. One of those was a low of -12 F in Fort Collins, CO on December 9 where the previous record was 2 F. (I would post the screenshot if I knew how.) That’s totally shattering the record.
Perhaps the stations used by the Weather Channel are not part of the NWS system reported on by hamweather.com. In any case a study of new record temperatures in time (and also vs. how old the previous ones were) could be very telling. A further comparison of any of any temperature data (and records) from stations outside of NWS/NOAA/GHCN/CRU etc. might also be very telling.
photon without a Higgs (07:21:25) :
“Copenhägen, like Häagen-Dazs ice cream”
Please don’t wander too far into America’s lack of language understanding.
København would be the right name.
ø being pronounced with as an “oe” sound not “oo”.
Either way ä is pronounced “ae” not “aa” in Scandinavian languages.
Häagen-Dazs being purely an American name contraption has nothing to do with northern European langauages.
Well don’t try and read anything into those dots. Anyone with a keen eye can see that that array od dots is at odds with the Sampling Theorem.
So a nice picture; but not useful; for reconstruction.
Icarus. I was making a point that everything seems to be the fault of climate change. Which bit of that didn’t you understand?
>> Icarus (09:15:18) :
Yes you have record low temperatures, but you have twice as many record high temperatures –
http://www.ucar.edu/news/releases/2009/maxmin.jsp#
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Since that was the work of NOAA scientists, it was no doubt after they added in this:
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/climate/research/ushcn/ts.ushcn_anom25_diffs_urb-raw_pg.gif
Funny how the graph you cited follows roughly the same form.
Barry Foster (09:39:17) :
Icarus. I was making a point that everything seems to be the fault of climate change. Which bit of that didn’t you understand?
I understand your point, but climate change is inevitably affecting many natural systems, so isn’t that just what you would expect?
There is an ice road between Bayfield Wisconsin and Madeline Island on Lake superior. I suspect it will open a few months early. And the warmists are worried about a Northwest Pasasage.
Icarus (08:48:09) :
Icarus (09:15:18) :
Aw, aren’t we a little touchy today? Here’s the problem with the tiger assertion. When there is a man-animal confrontation involving predator animals, there is a simple solution. Shoot the animal. Why is that solution not employed with these tigers? But hey, I can’t even tell which islands are encountering such a dire dilemma in its tiger population because of rising seas from global warming, although I will venture a guess as to what is wrong with the article. It cites rising seas without actually showing sea rise in that area.
Logically, it does not suggest anything. See, there was a mass of cold records in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. There is a certain range associated with the climate of NA, so I wouldn’t expect that trend to continue onward unless the maximum end of the range and the minimum end of the range were exhibiting a trend downwards. Also, where would one find the data for that study to replicate the results?