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
Last night’s snow melted off enough today to make up the snowed out soccer game from last Saturday. It was a balmy 48F, with steady 25MPH winds this afternoon.
They keep promising global warming – and just are not delivering. No wonder the AG upset with Mann.
This is what Colorado looks like in Springtime:
http://www.nps.gov/webcams-romo/kawuneeche_valley.jpg
MarkB says: Here in Boston, the TV weatherman just said that this will be one of the warmest Marches ever, even with the current below-average temps.
Exactly! That’ how “climate science” works, doncha know! All the temps can be below-average, but it still ends up “one of the warmest”. Ever. ALWAY “ever”. Even when it’s 10 degrees below normal and was tropical during the carboniferous, it’s still the “warmest EVER”…
It’s the computer models that “fix up” those errant temperatures and bring them back to their senses. Can’t have reality messing up a perfectly good narrative, after all.
The pettiness of this sort of post just makes AGW skeptics look bad.
I see that the “sign inversion” problem the Warmers have with cold / warm has also pervaded into the language centers of the brain too… Maybe it’s a virus… Let’s try a ‘sign inversion’ test:
‘The importance of this sort of post just makes AGW skeptics look good.’
Yeah, that works fine. Yup, a sign inversion problem…
How does “Climaticus Inverticus” sound as a name for this illness?
/sarcoff>
Looks like Alberta is getting some inverted global warming – oops – climate change
http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/hi/news/newsid_8654000/8654132.stm
(or is it just weather?)