From the “weather is not climate department. Oh the weather outside is frightful….
Prisoners used to shovel snow-bound US capitol
Here’s the roundup of cold and snow records for the past 7 days. While there is a handful of new high temp records, it is clear where the bulk of the statistics is. Note the new record lows in Florida.
Here’s a few other recent news stories:
Maryland Reports 4 Cold Weather Deaths
Cold weather kills scores in India
Dublin airport suspends flights after heavy snowfall, cold weather
Once in generation cold snap forecast for North Carolina
Record low blows into Siouxland
Recent global cool-down challenges validity of climate change models
National Weather Highlight for 12 / 29 / 09: Record snow falls in Dallas / Fort Worth area
Recent global cool-down challenges validity of climate change models
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Hu McCulloch (06:48:58) :
New Hampshire had record high temps and record snowfalls.
The record highs were pretty unimpressive, like 43°F and were on the 27th and 28th.
The snowfall records make be really wonder just what sorts of weather stations are being used. They certainly don’t use just the standard sites at towns and airports, but one record snowfall came from Hudson NH, reporting 0.3″ on the 28th, the old record being “-9.9″ in 9999.” Presumably that means the Hudson site had never recorded snow on the 28th, something that means the Hudson site has not been around for a long time!
Another snowfall record from Wentworth was 3.2″, breaking the old one of 2″ in 1946.
Hmm, I don’t see that Wentworth or Hudson at http://www.weather.gov/climate/xmacis.php?wfo=gyx but I do see “Glencliff 2 (273415)” site. They’re close to Wentworth and set a new snowfall record of 5″, old was 2″ in 1981. That may be the Glencliff Home for the Elderly.
There is a NWS COOP observer for Glencliff listed in http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/inventory/coop27.html , but nothing for Hudson or Wentworth.
So, just where does that data come from and why should I believe it?
News results for North Kivu – Nyamulagira volcano
http://monuc.unmissions.org/Default.aspx?tabid=932&ctl=Details&mid=2070&ItemID=7098
Nothing on how bad it is, yet. This in addition to a comet grazing the sun at spaceweather.com
I think somebody has moved the Canadian border about a thousand miles south.
Remember, Merkel and and Brown has agrre to adjust the temperature within 2 degrees! Or was it within 1.5 ?
With promonent people like this in high offices, we have nothing to worry about.
Oh, my respect to the leaders of the West has no limits.
ralph (01:01:51) : “But could this magnetic disturbance (or calming) also influence the track of the upper jetstreams in any way? If so, we could discover the link between sunspot activity and climate.”
I suspect this is a possibility that needs additional research.
So, instead of specialists discounting the Sun’s variable output, they should be investigating the different possibilities how this variability effects the
Earth’s climate.
Beware of any expert that dismissively rejects solar variability.
Chances are that their ideas are frozen in prior assumptions.
That’s not good Science.
James F. Evans (15:46:42) : The next battle, in the field of science, will be in the astrophysical field, between the “dominican friars” of the holy church of the Big Bang (aka: The flintstones universe) vs. the plasma universe….
Jack in Oregon (10:17:11) :
In the Weather is local department… we just had a storm blow through. Gusts of 95 MPH were recorded with 2-4 inches of rain. Whats interesting is in Oregon that is weather, in the Eastern US, its a Hurricane.
Jack My wife’s cousin was married to a fellow from Cape Cod.They were dining in a little place in Wellfleet.There was a minimal Hurricane headed their way (I believe,in about ’95) She was from Port Orford.(I and my wife lived there too-at paradise
point about 3mi from Cape Blanco) The Waiter, concerned about the storm ar alarmed at 75 mph. Cousin said:”75 mph? only 75 mph?” Where are YOU from lady?” Replied the waiter..
That said, I fear the West Coast will have a late winter-Mid January -Feb.We will have a cold snap as bad as the east coast-simular weather in the 70’s..
JonesII (16:30:56)
You are on the mark.
With the highs and lows so close in some cases, wouldn’t that would seem to put the lie to their smoothing scam?
Government officials should request the presence of dioxide dissenters at those meetings, to get a balanced view.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2010-01/03/content_12746367.htm
If you have oil and the West wants to keep the Chinese out of your fields they invade you. If you have food and the West wants(needs)it they will …. no!! they wouldn’t. would they???
regards
Agri products could be the GO in 2010. :-0
The GFS has been pretty good lately in its less than 6-day prognostications.
And it is hinting at an “anafront” snowfall for the southeastern US which is exceedingly RARE.
The last time this occurred was about 25 years ago on Superbowl Sunday (1985).
This particular cold outbreak will not be as severe probably, but the idea of a “front behind a front” is rather significant.
Where’s the warm advection now???
It has been drowned in the cold.
Quite an amazing feat when you have one of the greatest HEAT generators on the planet to your south and southwest…..the Gulf of Mexico and its token “stream.”
Interesting times.
Chris
Norfolk, VA, USA
One Record Cold Report:
http://www.wunderground.com/US/ND/027.html
Statement as of 12:21 am CST on January 3, 2010
… Record low maximum temperature set at Grand Forks Airport…
At mark Andrews international Airport in Grand Forks… a record low
maximum temperature of 17 degrees below zero was set for Jan 2. This breaks the previous record of 13 degrees below zero set in 1968.
jorgekafkazar (15:03:11) : I think somebody has moved the Canadian border about a thousand miles south.
We love to share. ☺
Clive
Coaldale, Alberta, Canada
nevket240 (01:53:19): What will transpire should this cold become longer term. What will happen to the US & European crops??
Here in southern Alberta, in 2009, we had a horrid “spring” with snow late in April, delayed plantings and a cold summer. (The sweet corn crop was in doubt for a while.) There are tens of thousands of sugar beets grown near me. Harvest started in late September, and then the crop got hammered in October with record cold, some were harvested in November when we had a nice warm spell, but in the end there was a huge 30 percent loss … not even harvested. Our spud crop was way down as well.
When you are on the northern fringes of cultivated production, it takes little to mess things up. When I was an aggie student in the sixties we were told that the expansion of cultivated farming into northern Alberta in the past century was because it had been warm and that the current (1960s) cooling trend did not bode well for a lot of farming and (as it cooled) there would probably be a shift in the North from wheat to crops like barley and pasture.
We got a reprieve for 30 decades. Now what, eh?
Clive
“We got a reprieve for 30 decades. ” Oops. I meant three decades.
A further note on the recent NWS records — that HAMweather site is quite the useful resource. 🙂
Look at the days in mid-October for a staggering view of the number and distribution of new record minimum high temps — an average of 450 record minimum highs *per day* for a 10-day period, Oct. 10-19. Then scan over the individual marks. The difference is often not just a little lower, but a *lot* lower — as much as 10 degrees.
Record temperatures highlight the behavior in the tails of the distribution. One might expect, as the climate warms (moving the median up), that it would become much harder to reach record lows than record highs (or record-low highs vs. record-high lows), because even a small shift in the center of the distribution changes the integrals of the tails (the probability of deviating by more than some fixed level, like the previous record) rather dramatically.
The month of November reflected this pattern. On only one day (Nov. 18) did the low-side records exceed the high-side records. But both October and November show remarkable imbalance toward cooling, strikingly toward record-low maxima.
The December UAH numbers aren’t out yet, but I will be very surprised if the anomaly doesn’t drop significantly for the month…
Ric Werme (13:41:02) :
Jack in Oregon (10:17:11) :
I lived in SW Washington for a decade and got caught on the interstate bridge in some scary gusts in those “hurricanes”, but the are, as Ric said, extratropical and not real hurricanes. On the other hand, there are some polar lows that look just like hurricanes–relatively warm core and all.
U.S. does its part for global warming: click
While on the subject of temperature records, I’ve been seeing this site hyped up recently.
http://www.climatewizard.org/
The default view on the home page shows a scary orange map of future temperature predictions/scenarios/projections/thumb-in-the-air-WAGs, but more interesting is if you pick the “last 50 years” radial button for the US. Unless my eyes deceive me, it looks like there are many parts of the Rockies that have experienced a temperature rise in the last 50 years (actually 1951-2006) of ~ 3 def F (~0.06 F/year).
I’d be interested if anyone has some mapping software that allows overlaying of a political map of the US with the “Climate Wizard” map so that we can match station data with the colors. As best as I can figure, some of the dark red splotches correspond to southeast Idaho/eastern Utah. Here are some representative stations in that region (USHCN data).
Malad City ID
Hazelton ID
Logan UT
Moab UT
From eye-balling the charts, of these four, the most warming was for Malad City and Moab for which I went to the trouble of calculating OLS trends (0.042 and 0.046 F/year respectively).
Anyone know where the 0.06-plus F/yr stations might be?
Heavy snow shuts down roads, hits flights in Beijing – January 3, 2010 –
Seems China is also having its fair share of snow. A lot of Japan is white and lake Baikal seems to be frozen along with other central Asian lakes
http://www.natice.noaa.gov/pub/ims_gif/DATA/cursnow_asiaeurope.gif
I only hope I can survive until Spring truly arrives. It is ONLY Jan. 3rd, and already we have been badly punished, with only more bad things to come. Can’t even see a light at the end of the tunnel. My god, 90 days can go so incredibly slowly. I am used to only 3 seasons here in central Texas. It sure is devastating when we get 4. I don’t know where I realistically could move, to avoid this curse. This is bad…… and Wednesday 1/4 through at least Sunday 1/10, is only gonna be worse. Life sucks right now. There is no good, and never will be any good come from winter. I truly hate it
John M:
Beware of Malad City. NOAA acknowledges 3 locations for this station. The first was across the road (to the east of the local airport). This was moved in September of 96 to very rural site over a mile to the south. The temperature record shows a decided upward step at this date. MMS shows another move in Feb of 08, but very close to the previous location. I have taken pictures of these sites; you can see them on the surfacestations gallery. The station has since been moved again, although MMS does not report this; their “current” coordinates are incorrect. It is now located at the airport, right next to the tarmac itself. These pictures are also in the gallery. Notice that the MMS location tab shows no location from June 96 to Feb 08.
John S
Oops. That should be June 06 to Feb 08.
More deaths in India in the last 24 hours from cold weather
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1240319/As-Britain-told-expect-snow-10-days-rest-world-coping-Arctic-weather.html