From the “weather is not c..c..cl..climate” department, cold and snow hits hard. Meanwhile, Hot Weather Convinces Media of Climate Change; Cold Weather Ignored.
And it heads far south too. A hard freeze warning has been issued for the Miami and Fort Lauderdale area:
And lest somebody say that this cold event isn’t significant, I’ll let the NWS do the talking here:
Longest Stretch of Cold Weather in 15 to 25 Years Possible This Week
…Longest Stretch of Much Below Normal Temperatures in 15 to 25 Years Possible…
Temperatures are expected to remain much below normal over all of south Florida this week, with the possibility of even colder temperatures this upcoming weekend. For detailed information on expected temperatures, please follow the indicated links for our textual and graphical forecasts. For freeze/wind chill watches and warnings, please check our hazards page.
It is not unheard of to have freezing or near-freezing temperatures in south Florida each winter. In fact, inland areas south and west of Lake Okeechobee experience freezing temperatures at least once a year on average. Over the metro and coastal areas of south Florida, freezing temperatures are less frequent, but even in these areas freezing temperatures have occurred about every 5 to 10 years on average. Temperatures drop to at least 35 about every 1 to 2 years in the Naples area, and about every 2 years in the outlying areas of southeast Florida. For the urban areas of Miami/Fort Lauderdale, temperatures drop to at least 35 degrees about 2 to 3 times a decade, At West Palm Beach, the average is about every 1 to 2 years.
What is more noteworthy about the current cold snap is the duration of the event. Typical south Florida cold snaps last about 2-3 days before winds switch to an easterly direction and blow warmer Atlantic air across the region. However, our current weather pattern is what is referred to as a “blocking pattern”. This means that weather systems that typically move from west to east at fairly regular intervals are instead remaining in place for several days. A strong low pressure system over northern New England and eastern Canada is being “blocked” by a large high pressure system near Greenland. This in turn is creating a stationary high pressure system over the western U.S. and Canada. The result of this blocked flow is an uninterrupted and prolonged flow of air from the Arctic region of Canada southward over the eastern two-thirds of the country, including Florida.
Temperatures have dropped to below 50 degrees for three consecutive mornings over almost all of south Florida, with temperatures dropping to 45 or lower from Collier County east to Palm Beach County and points north. The latest forecast calls for lows to drop below 45 degrees over all of south Florida through Thursday morning. This would give 6 consecutive days of sub-50 and/or 45 degree-or-lower temperatures.
Following are the dates of the last time we had at least 6 consecutive days of low temperatures below 50 degrees in southeast Florida:
Miami and Fort Lauderdale: January 2001
Record is 13 days in Miami (January – February 1940) and 12 days in Fort Lauderdale in January 1956
West Palm Beach: January 2003
Record for West Palm Beach is 12 days set in December 2000-January 2001 and January 1956.
Following are the dates of the last time we had 6 consecutive days of low temperatures of 45 degrees or lower in Naples;
Naples: December 1989
Record for Naples is 8 days in January 1977.
Following are the dates of the last time we had 5 consecutive days of low temperatures of 40 degrees or lower in Moore Haven;
Moore Haven: January 24-28, 2001.
Record for Moore Haven is 9 days from December 31, 2000 to January 8, 2001.
Therefore, it’s been at least 7 years since we’ve had a prolonged stretch of temperatures in the 40s and 30s, with some areas going back as far as 21 years! Taking into account the daily average temperature, it’s possible that we’ll have up to 5 consecutive days of temperatures averaging at least 10-15 degrees below normal. For most of south Florida, the last time we had a stretch that cold was in 1995, with some areas going back to the mid to late 1980s.
Here’s a sampling of headlines around the world:
Temps Plunge to Record as Cold Snap Freezes North, East States
Seoul buried in heaviest snowfall in 70 years
Vermont sets ‘all-time record for one snowstorm’
Iowa temps ‘a solid 30 degrees below normal’
Power goes out at Reagan National outside DC
Seoul buried in heaviest snowfall in 70 years
Peru’s mountain people ‘face extinction because of cold conditions’…
World copes with Arctic weatherWinter Could Be Worst in 25 Years for USA
Britain braced for heaviest snowfall in 50-years
GAS SUPPLIES RUNNING OUT IN UK
Miami shivers from coldest weather in decade
Northern Sweden on the way to 50 degrees below zero
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The AGW apologists explaining away the world wide chill reminds me of a story.
One day a woman discovered her husband in bed with another.
He says, “Are you going to believe me or your lying eyes?”
Slightly OT, these guys are right on top of it.
http://tinyurl.com/ybfeog9
Man made global warming is caused by greedy people.
People are greedy, ergo global warming is true.
A few years ago the MET Police service in London was found “guilty” of institutional racism.
If an investigation were to be carried out the UK MET Service would be found guilty of institutionalised alarmism.
Sorry mean’t to say could be “warmism”. Any suggestions from posters. Please keep the comments as clean as driven snow:-]
Willem De Rode (01:19:51) :
This flow of “cold record” postings is now going on for a month of more. Also the whole of Europe is freezing cold since more than a month. And yet the global temperature is still 0,3°C higher than the average in the reference period. So what is the use of the contineous “cold record” news ? Trying to persuade people that global warming is not as bad as the “official warmist talk” try to make us believe ? Why is that bloody temperature then not dropping below the reference zero-anomaly ?
This graph shows the difference between the raw (real) temperature set and the published temperature set. It is not hard to have the global temperature is still 0,3°C higher than the average in the reference period. when you add 0.5°C to the actual temperature.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/climate/research/ushcn/ts.ushcn_anom25_diffs_urb-raw_pg.gif
Here is the USA temperature with and without adjustments
http://www.climate-movie.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/temperature_adjustments1.gif
Here is how Hansen changed the USA temperature graphs over time:
http://i31.tinypic.com/2149sg0.gif
Here is Lucy’s graphs that puts our current climate temperature in perspective
http://www.greenworldtrust.org.uk/Science/Images/ice-HS/noaa_gisp2_icecore_anim_adj.gif
In the climategate e-mails they talk of Mikes trick to hide the decline. Here are the graphs showing before and after Mile Mann hid the decline
http://i49.tinypic.com/mk8113.jpg
“Why is that bloody temperature then not dropping below the reference zero-anomaly ?”
The answer is simple the temperature will NEVER drop below the reference zero-anomaly as long as people with a political agenda are in charge of the raw data and can manipulate it. That is why the FOIA were stone walled.
An Honest Politician is defined as one who stays bought, it looks like that is now the definition of a government scientist and journalists too.
Oakwood (02:50:47) :
Great ‘Mac’ cartoon from UK’s Daily Mail (global warming in context of current weather). See link, near bottom of page.
One of the best yet – it really sums up the current situation.
Alan the Brit 03:02:17
Yesterday, on the same BBC news channel, the same Mr. Varley answered the interviewer’s question about people disbelieving global warming by saying that this was just the UK, not the world, and that, taking temperatures from all over the globe, things are still warming, that this is the warmest decade ever – “You’d better believe it” . As a Met Office man he must surely have known about the cold conditions in North America, Korea, China, the people digging a train out of a snowdrift in Mongolia, the 100 deaths from cold in Poland, the frozen Vistula river etc. so this certainly ain’t just the UK. They must be desperate if they have to resort to bare-faced lies to defend their position.
The current temperature here in the heart of the Florida Keys is 47 degrees F. That is PDC for the Keys!
Rob Vermeulen (00:54:33) :
“Yes, it is indeed a very good sign that local weather is not global weather, not to say it has not much to do with climate. the global temperatures are much higher than last year and january started quite strong: might be going to set a new record (see channel 5 for tropospheric temps)”
http://discover.itsc.uah.edu/amsutemps/
Reply:
They use Wikipedia, a known propaganda site as a reference, therefore I assume this is sarcasm?
The hypothesis that this is ‘natural variation’ over-shadowing underlying rises in temperature is statistically testable.
If we take say 40yr+ records broken in the last 5 years for both min and max temp then the max temps should always outweigh the mins whatever the variability.
Lubos M did something like this but didn’t, I think, limit it to records from before the claimed warming.
I’m sure a re-analysis with all this extra data would give us “confidence” in the hypothesis. 😀
As the human representative of the National Union of Terrified Snowmen, (NUTS), the snowmen I represent have been melting away in the past few years. The recent cold weather has increased the number of members, but it is a very fluid situation. Many members of the Met Office are honorary members, as they do stirling work fighting for our interests.
Headlines for the Daily Express carry the UK snow chaos story. But the subheading reads: “And they call this global warming.”
Sounds like one MSM paper has thrown down the gauntlet, finally.
Richard Black at the BBC is trying to downplay the cold spell.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/richardblack/
So I thought he needed some help?
I think someone else is being a bit disingenous regarding temperatures in Goose Bay Newfoundland?
Thursday 7 Jan High 0 Low -2
Friday 8 Jan High -1 Low -7
Saturday 9 Jan High -10 Low -13
Sunday 10Jan High -13 Low -21
Monday 11Jan High -20 Low -22
Tuesday 12Jan High -17 Low -28
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/weather/canf0113
For accuracy and fairness maybe the blog shoul be updated?
Do these people think their comments won’y be checked?
If ever you use the word checked or accuracy you cn be sure the typo demon is close at hand:-0
The Weather has thrown down the gauntlet.
The MSM can now have a field-day skewering the proponents of AGW.
They wouldn’t dare. ! ?? Oh, yes they would.
Have a can of Cream of Climate Change today. Sticks to your ribs, windshield, fingers, face, driveway, etc.
Cold enough for ya?
The best part of wakin’ up, is AGW in your cup. Energy sold separately.
In Sweden the current much colder than normal winter is called “Ice age winter” in media, same media that a few weeks ago said the earth was going “burn”.
Forecasts have been given the last week that local temperatures could drop down to -44C in Sweden. All time low in Januar is -49C in sweden I think.
DaveF (04:00:01) :
Now, that is what I call truly desperate. The whole N. Hemisphere is reeling under a cold blast of reality, and yet there are still those rummaging for a hot needle in a frozen haystack.
Weather may not be climate but climate is weather.
Climate is basically average weather in a larger area.
The weather predictions have always been of big importance and talking weather a popular subject. No we have made the weather shamans and their predictions semi gods and loaded tons of money on the weather shamans’ altar to pay our tribute and they do deliver almost daily gruesome predictions of the future.
Someone of the weather shamans in the imminent cold predicted up to 30 years of cold weather but then global warming will kick in again and explode.
The fight to lower the temperature is still on and common people will be subdued with tax and policies so they will find it harder and harder to heat their homes despite maybe 30 years to come of freaking cold climate. How long will people accept this nonsense from the weather shamans?
We are having a terrible go at it in SWFL … We simply aren’t equipped with the proper blood for temperatures now in the 30s near everywhere. It’s 36 outside my window right now … sheesh, even polar brown bears would be happy, we are not.
I suppose it’s caused by global warming, right.
Do my eyes deceive me?
I’m reading 24°F…
in Tampa!
Frost over much of Florida!
A very interesting paper (peer reviwed)
http://tinyurl.com/cz8gkg
The science is “settled” – I don’t think so!
“Britain braced for heaviest snowfall in 50 years”:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/6937854/Britain-braced-for-heaviest-snowfall-in-50-years.html
But the message is not getting into parliament. I was watching Prime Minister’s Questions today (UK Westminster).
One opposition MP declared that warming trends were now declining (there was a blizzard going on outside). Cue a cacophony of jeering and cat-calling from the government benches, and a carping response from Gordon Brown – ‘Deniers!!’.
And yet this is the guy who wants to bring the whole nation to a halt with wind-power!
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twawki (00:54:44) :
“…Next hit will be food availability and prices”
Food availability has been on the agenda for years, even before CAGW. If you dig deep enough you keep tripping over the same players for control of energy and control of food. Players like the UN, World Bank, Club of Rome, Maurice Strong and David Rockefeller.
Here is the history in brief, note that David Rockefeller, who is a co-founder of the secretive Bildeburg group (1954) has his sticky fingers into everything from the World Bank to the Council on Foreign relations to WWF and Greenpeace.
“The “Green Revolution,” the worldwide transformation of agriculture that led to significant increases in agricultural production from 1940 through the 1960s… [was] funded by a consortium of donors led by the Ford and Rockefeller foundations. [goal: sale of Ag Equipment, Ag chemicals and bank loans]
The Green Revolution would later prove to have unwanted ecological impacts, … These unwanted environmental consequences now threaten to reverse many of the yield increases attributed to the Green Revolution in much of North America.” http://www.pewtrusts.org/uploadedFiles/wwwpewtrustsorg/Reports/Industrial_Agriculture/PCIFAP_FINAL.pdf
“This group, called the Committee for Economic Development, was officially established in 1942 as a sister organization to the Council on Foreign Relations…Composed of chief executive officers and chairmen from the federal reserve, the banking industry, private equity firms, insurance companies, railroads, information technology firms, publishing companies, pharmaceutical companies, the oil and automotive industries, meat packing companies, retailers and assisted by university economists “representatives from every sector of the economy with the key exception of farmers themselves ” CED determined that the problem with American agriculture was that there were too many farmers. But the CED had a “solution”: millions of farmers would just have to be eliminated. “
http://www.opednews.com/articles/History-HACCP-and-the-Foo-by-Nicole-Johnson-090906-229.html
Next on the scene is the World Bank and IMF with their SAPs
“Structural Adjustment Policies are economic policies which countries must follow in order to qualify for new World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans…. SAPs often result in deep cuts in programmes like education, health and social care, and the removal of subsidies designed to control the price of basics such as food and milk. So SAPs hurt the poor most, because they depend heavily on these services and subsidies.
SAPs encourage countries to focus on the production and export of primary commodities such as cocoa and coffee to earn foreign exchange. But these commodities have notoriously erratic prices…
In the dozens of countries where the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank have imposed structural adjustment programs (SAPs), the people who have seen deterioration in their standards of living, reduced access to public services, devastated environments, and plummeting employment prospects… “ http://www.whirledbank.org/development/sap.html
The final step is the World Trade Organization Agreement on Agriculture and other treaties such as NAFTA. Immediately apparent were the open border policies that allowed Transnational Corporations to bankrupt subsistence farmers in third world countries in various ways (see References) The second and more complete method used to get rid of independent farmer competition, is through the “harmonization” of national laws with the World Trade Organization/FAO/OIE “recommendations” such as the Guide to Good Farming Practices.
Farmers and gardeners will no longer be allowed the freedom to grow food without dealing with very burdensome regulations, paperwork and fines. Already in Portugal 60% of the farmers have left the land. In 2009 the US Congress introduced six different bills designed to implement “harmonization” with WTO’s burdensome regulations. Once these regulations are in place in first world countries, along with Cap and Trade and similar laws, the control of our energy and food supplies will be complete. Remember once an original bill is passed it is very easy to modify the bill until it does exactly what the transnationals want. The history of the 1913 Federal Reserve Act is a fine example of the method used.
References:
2001 Polish entry into the European Union: EU Chair states intent to remove 1 million Poles from their land The Battle to Save the Polish Countryside: http://www.i-sis.org.uk/savePolishCountryside.php
July 26, 2002: Flaws in WTO’s Agreement on Agriculture: the Agreement on Agriculture fails to account for agri-business’ monopoly over global agricultural trade. http://www.socialfunds.com/news/article.cgi/891.html
2002 – Effect of policies on farmers in USA and Mexico: In Mexico, the price farmers receive for corn has plummeted 45 percent At least 1.5 million farmers have left their land… between 1992 and 2002, the number of agricultural households fell an astounding 75% – from 2.3 million to 575, 000 http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/ftaa/topten.html
FAO is supporting harmonization of seed rules and regulations in Africa and Central Asia http://www.fao.org/ag/portal/archive/detail/en/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=5730&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=1886&cHash=7f04326e35
Farmer suicides in India: among the largest sustained waves of suicides in human history http://alternatives-international.net/article1394.html
http://www.counterpunch.org/sainath02122009.html
The House Banking and Currency Committee 1964 treatise: A Primer on Money http://familyguardian.tax-tactics.com/Subjects/MoneyBanking/Money/patman-primer-on-money.pdf
As has been said before we will have the choice of freezing or starving”