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
Roger Knights (02:24:05) :
You owe me a new keyboard & monitor mate 😉
DaveE.
Are not records, severe weather events indeed climate indicators? They are part of the picture used by AGWers to portray as evidence of climate change.
“Climate encompasses the statistics of temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, rainfall, atmospheric particle count and numerous other meteorological elements in a given region over long periods of time. Climate can be contrasted to weather, which is the present condition of these same elements over periods up to two weeks.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate
Jerky (13:56:01) :
“If you actually believe AGW is not real, then why are you always trying to confuse the issue by publishing stories about WEATHER and not climate. Do you and your readers not yet know the difference?”
Argue amongst yourselves, AGWers. Perhaps Icarus doesn’t know what he thinks he knows what you think you know.
“Icarus (09:15:18) :
Yes you have record low temperatures, but you have twice as many record high temperatures”
Barry Foster (04:13:29) :
Here is the link you want…
http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm
DaveE.
Jerky (13:56:01) :
If you actually believe AGW is not real, then why are you always trying to confuse the issue by publishing stories about WEATHER and not climate. Do you and your readers not yet know the difference?
REPLY: Despite your policy violation with an invalid email address (nospam@hotmail.com) from an IP in New York City, I’m leaving your post up as an example of cowardly ranting. We get one like this every time I post a cold weather story. I’ve come to enjoy it because the rant is so predictable.
Three things:
1) Note the post tags: weather, records. Climate was not tagged.
2) Note the masthead: “Commentary on puzzling things in life, nature, science, weather, climate change, technology, and recent news by Anthony Watts” Weather is included, always has been, always will be.
3) Note the first sentence “from the weather not climate department”. I include that just for people like yourself.
Thanks for once again demonstrating cowardly, boorish, and predictable behavior. – Anthony Watts
Anthony, I think “y” is the first initial of his last name.
Jerky (13:56:01) :
Anthony, you are too harsh on the lad(dess)!
It’s obvious that (s)he has partaken of the Kool-Aid and was incapable of reading past the headline, this is normal when sense of humour has been surgically removed.
DaveE.
Yesterday in Canada
“Canada freezes as snow storm strands thousands”
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/12/13/2770207.htm
(100 cm snow = just under 3.3 ft.)
I couldn’t find that mentioned in comments, so I’m posting it. Sorry if it turns out to be a duplication.
more of that travesty cooling
“Nick Stokes (04:02:48) :
E.M.Smith (01:25:31) :
How do you know you had the hottest November?
Well, I live here. I’ve lived here a long time. And it was damn hot.
But these guys aren’t using any fancy database. They base it on the local records.”
There was a news story that November 1878 was hotter and the heat wave was twice as long.
John
In the future perhaps one should just ask “Icarus” to go look at the NOAA site for information as according to the NOAA site, they have it all figured out. No need to search further:
“NOAA understands and predicts changes in the Earth’s environment, from the depths of the ocean to the surface of the sun, and conserves and manages our coastal and marine resources.”
Here in Western Washington, they place thermometers at local schools, and call it School Net. I’ve tried to find out some info on device placement standards and such, but none of the local news stations have responded to my feedback requests. I’d be willing to bet they’re placed right next to the school buildings in locations the kids can’t get to, maybe on the roof…
Urban Heat Island must’ve saved Dallas/Fort Worth from a record, because it was COLD last week! Brrrrrrr!!!!!!!
For those of you puzzled about the recent cold spells read this. on ‘The Global Problem of Turbulence Cooling’
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2009/arch09/091211turbulence.htm
(satire) 🙂
The lowest temperature ever recorded on earth was -128.6 F, which is 10 degrees below the temperature at which CO2 turns to a solid. So natural temperatures have actually been low enough to consider CO2 snow. Yet it would be practically impossible to expect CO2 snow at this temperature since the partial pressure of the CO2 would have to be 0.4 atm, which isn’t possible with CO2 currently at 388 ppm. Below 0.4 atm partial pressure, solid CO2 simply sublimates (remains as a gas).
(I do wonder what type of “snowflakes” CO2 would produce if it ever could produce snow… water molecules are bipolar and that undoubtedly contributes to the amazing shapes and variations seen in snowflakes made of that compound… However, CO2 is arranged linearly, because there are no lone pairs (sp hybridization), and so there are no distinct positive and negative ends, since the negatively charged oxygen atoms make up both ends. I’d say CO2 snowflakes would probably be pretty mundane if examined at high magnification.)
I never believed the GW scam but have felt the whole herd of sheep being pushed further and further to the left toward the abyss of socialism, economic disaster, and the eventual destruction of the United States as the pre-eminent economic and world military power. All with an increasing sense of un-ease and fear as it seems that there is an ever increasing number Americans with the wrong-headed notion that America and our way of life is to blame for all of the ills of the world. And we have compounded and hastened our own demise by electing this charlatan Obama and the likes of Nancy Pelosi whose sworn agenda is exactly that!
Global Warming was it seemed a perfect vehicle to accomplish this dark and evil goal as everyone in the elite establisment (especially the media) was fully on board and skeptics were vilified and marginalized. Is Climate Gate going to be a big enough bump in the road to kill the global warming fraud? I have my doubts. The mainstream media is very quiet, Obama is so deeply vested in the movement that his Chicago style politics will quash any real investigations, corrections or punative actions. And perhaps most frightening of all, the EPA is a deeply entrenched, powerful and self-perpetuating super bureaucracy accountable to no one, and their’s is the same agenda as the GW
crowd. More than Climate Gate will be needed to stop the slide.
Now that the COP15 is taking place in Copenhagen I thought a weather forecast from Copenhagen would be of interest. I’m a dane myself and living in Copenhagen. They’re forecasting snow in Denmark and temperatures below zero degrees celsius. According to an article I read on http://www.dmi.dk (danish meteorological institute) friday could be the coldest december day we’ve had in eight years. Temperatures will drop to minus 10-15 degrees celsius. Later in december temperatures can drop even further.
The lowest temperature on average we’ve had in december for the period 1979-2008 is -12,5 degrees celsius, which means we’re looking at a temperature that’s below that thirty-year average.
I think it’s pretty ironic with record cold temperatures in Copenhagen on friday when leaders from around the world are getting ready to sign the paper that will be the result of COP15. I have three thoughts 1) Can the politicians stay warm by talking? 2) How will the protesters do in these temperatures? 3) Will the police consider using the water-cannon on the protesters? Ok, that last one was probably too cruel.
http://www.dmi.dk/eng/index/forecasts/forecast_for_copenhagen.htm
RE: Henry chance (09:09:20) :
News flash. The opportunities for banana plantations and orange groves
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AFAIK – at present, the northerly limit of banana growing is Ventura County, CA (a very isolated plantation in a strange microclimate). The northerly limit for oranges is I believe Tehama County, CA. These have been the limits my whole life (40 plus years). No one is contemplating anything further north at this time.
With all of the Pseudoscience Science going on in the Man Made Global Warming community these days , it seems that even the most sane people can’t get thru to them so Mother Nature will have to tell them . . .
” You Don’t Fool Mother Nature “