From the “weather is not climate” department.
By Steven Goddard
I noticed something interesting in the NCEP forecast for the coming week. Temperatures are predicted to be below normal across a 7,000 mile swath of the Americas. That is more than one fourth of the way around the earth. Below is a composite image of generated from three of the NCEP maps.
Looks like another cold soccer Saturday, across the entire US. Of course there are other places on the Earth that will have above normal temperatures, but this seemed noteworthy for the dual hemispheric scope, even it is just “weather”.
Here’s the USA forecast to May 6th. Note that much of the West will be well below normal with neutral to slightly above normal in the East:
And South America:
Source: NCEP forecast page.
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Please no grousing about the USA being in °F and South America being in °C. That’s the way NCEP provides the maps. – Anthony
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Should be noted that the US NCEP map has changed since early this morning, when it showed below normal for the entire US.
try this one if you are looking for more warmer places. They seem to be few and far between. These forecast are NCEP Europe into winter this year.
It should be noted that above normal temps in the first part of April triggered the warmistas to claim a total smackdown.
Weather is certainly climate. If weather weren’t around, we wouldn’t have a climate system!
Here in Calgary it started raining during the night, but during the morning it changed to snow. I just had to brush a few inches off my car to get lunch. On Saturday night we got about 6 inches of slush.
One of our biggest dumps of snow on record was March 17, 1998… it seems that once el Nino falters we get slammed. Thankfully, this has shut down the doomsayers who have been screaming “drought” just because we had a few weeks of relatively calm weather.
Why do I get the feeling that the blueness of these individual maps won’t bring down the all-knowing “anomaly” number for the month?
The longer arctic sea ice beats 2003 the better.
I hate a really hot summer, but so far I am enjoying a nice semi-mild spring following that brutal winter we just had here in the east…
Where’s the heat! We’ve lost the heat! It must have gone even deeper into the ocean! Kevin T – FIND THAT HEAT!
Here in the desert southwest of the US the weather (climate?) is just gorgeous.
Shouldn’t there be a bright red anomaly wherever Al Gore or James Hansen is?
Al Gore Spoke. Isn’t it Obvious?
People ask why we pay attention to Al Gore. When Al Gore speaks, Gaia listens!!!
(too bad she doesn’t like him very much)
yep. i am located at that dark blue spot in california.
getting tired of the snow 🙁
one or two snowstorms in april is normal and tolerable, but this is getting old. it’s california for crying out loud!
this one came in with hurricane strength winds, which broke up the ice on two of our lakes, finally, a month late. but we have two more lakes still frozen!
http://peterhodges.org/april2010.26.jpg
I know that Texas has been cooler than is normal. The plants in my garden have been growing more slowly. It might be a good thing that I decided to change the tomato plants to raised beds so the soil will be warmer.
No wonder they have been in such a rush to try to get cap and trade passed. They aren’t just racing against the clock, they are racing against a dropping thermometer.
I have been looking at The COLA maps probably daily for the last 3 years. For the last year nearly every day the map has looked colder for yes.. both NA and SA at the same time. I posted about the cold SA nearly 3 years ago its still the same. Europe looks like getting cold again
http://wxmaps.org/pix/temp4.html
BTW the above COLA data does not concur with AMSU as it did the last time it was cold in 2008 for example, something is not right… Of course I am a skeptic so I will cherry pick LOL
Is the CRU that provided the monthly climate averages the same CRU that has had such issues over their data? Just asking.
Below the US, the real geographical southern hemisphere it is the PACIFIC sea. It is a current delusion to think South America is southwards the US. The South American WEST coast longitude it is the same as New York= 75°W. Capisce?
More interesting news:
Locals Believe Iceland’s Katla Volcano Will Erupt In Five Days, And They Could Be Correct – Updated
http://justanothercoverup.com/?p=1519
http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/Katla2009/stodvaplott.html
Winter seems to be holding on a long while here in SoCal. Cold and mid 50s this week with +60mph winds. This is Feb/March weather.
I know, weather =/= climate but my electric bill is loving the cool weather.
When all is said and done, this will be the warmest April on record. Count on it.
Anthony said “Please no grousing about the USA being in °F and South America being in °C. That’s the way NCEP provides the maps. – Anthony” but actually they aren’t that far apart. The range on the Fahrenheit scale is +/- 20 while that on the Celsius scale is +/- 10. Since one F is 1.8 C, a direct conversion from C to F would show the C scale as +/- 18 degrees, close to the current magnitude. In other words, no need to grouse as the color scheme for the two maps is quite comparable.
It’s been darn cold in the Reno – Tahoe area for the entirety of 2011. I guess that’s a new meaning for “keep Tahoe blue.” That’s why I am amazed that alarmists will hollar out without chagrin that last March was the hottest month in the history of the planet Earth (I paraphrase) .
Cold asks for reclusion and thinking whether Warm for going out and diversion. This is why our Climate Big Brothers go from tropical island to tropical island all the time, though they prefer some cold “delikatessen”as caviar and free and friendly companions.
13 days of spotless sun. interesting correlation.
Well,
But what about the World? Are there more reds or blues?
See the picture:
http://pp.blast.pl/wuwt/global.forecast/ssw_01.png
“Compiled” with Opera browser (http://pp.blast.pl/articles/opera_friend.html)
Regards
REPLY: Nice job, looks like you had no trouble at all zooming those web pages to fit.
looks like you had no trouble at all zooming those web pages to fit.
That’s why I like Opera a lot! 🙂
Regards
Hi, Regarding conversion from degrees F to degrees C or vice versa: http://www.convert-me.com/en/convert/temperature