More from the “weather is not climate” department in the “hottest year so far ever”.
Our previous article on this here, illustrated the scope of the event in human terms, but we didn’t have a map to show extent of the cold air mass. One was needed given the revelation that the cold had crossed the equator from the South, a rather rare event.
Now we have a map that illustrates the magnitude, see below. Thanks to Joe D’Aleo of ICECAP.
Image of surface temperatures departure from normal for July 17, 2010 for South America, from NOAA NCEP:
NOAA being an American government operation, the scale is in °F
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Collecting actual regional variations is the essence of good data. Can I also suggest the compilation of a list of Growing degree Days sites. These are typically vineyards, vege growers, farmers and other commercial types, who need to explain to buyers how the variations in GDD have influenced their products. An example from SH – NZ : the Blenheim (in the north of the South Island) data series at http://www.wineresearch.org.nz/docs/BlenheimGDD.pdf
Is it compensating for the week prior?
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=44664
The headline in Correio do Estado for domingo, 18 de julho de 2010 07:07
says “Morte de bovinos deve passar de 2 mil”
http://www.correiodoestado.com.br/?conteudo=destaque_detalhe&destaque_id=15152
mil is Portuguese for thousand not million
So the headline tells us that
“Cattle deaths exceed two thousand”.
b_nichol says:
July 21, 2010 at 9:05 am
Cold mid-winter day in parts of S. America.
Got it.
Transparent propaganda. Can’t even call it sophistry.
The hot weather in the Northeast USA was normal summer weather.
Peter Sørensen says:
July 21, 2010 at 12:01 pm
Danish media are running a story about dead penguins washed ashore in Brazil because of cold water…..
Some people are making up convoluted reasoning to say global warming killed those penguins.What else could you expect though.
Gail Combs says:
July 21, 2010 at 3:16 pm
Gee, that’s a surprise, Gail. I thought the warming was on the East Coast, as we here on the West Coast thought winter would never end. Ditto for Colorado.
If that’s warming, I’d hate to see the cold stuff too.
Gary Pearse says:
July 21, 2010 at 12:18 pm
With such a large land mass multi-degrees below normal and half the US, Russia, China, Canada and Africa below normal, where is all the heat that is making for a record hot globe?
Wrong station sitting, temperature adjustments, and dropping of cold stations make warming:
Joseph D’Aleo describes it in video:
Presumably the cold reaching the equator now (rather than the NH winter) is a function of the earth’s maximum distance from the sun? When we are closer in NH winter, we have the sun at an angle, but stronger so it quickly tempers any cold air that gets close to the equator.
“Cattle deaths exceed two thousand”.
Thank goodness my Portuguese is bad.
I was worried there for a minute that Brazilian Steakhouses were the next thing on the endangered species list.
That would be bad.
rbateman says:
July 21, 2010 at 5:19 pm
Gail Combs says:
July 21, 2010 at 3:16 pm
Gee, that’s a surprise, Gail. I thought the warming was on the East Coast, as we here on the West Coast thought winter would never end. Ditto for Colorado.
If that’s warming, I’d hate to see the cold stuff too.
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Gail I take it you are in the western NC, up in the highlands?
Because points east and northeast have been firecracker hot (and good ole’ summertime drought dry).
Also, I know its all relative to where you live, but this past winter, temperature-wise, was not harsh, the farther north and east you go [remember the stubborn, towering height anomaly over the NE US and NE Canada].
The mature stage of the warm AMO has seen to that.
That ain’t to say the world ain’t cooling as a whole…
But we don’t feel it so far in the heavily populated Mid-Atlantic and NorthEast.
10 PM and dry, hard ground yielding no cooling outside with a temperature of 86 degrees with 71% humidity.
The robins only feed right now in the yards of those who water to keep it green.
There were oppressive dewpoints, precipitable waters of over 2 inches, steep lapse rates and high CAPE values today [you could see the milky moisture in the air] but, once again, no disturbance to trigger that instability so no thunderstorms.
Argggghhhh.
Summertime….and the livin’ is mopey….lol
Chris
Norfolk, VA, USA
Checking Phoenix Sky Harbor unadjusted temps at GISS, this years rank (1 is coldest) by quarter (starts in Dec) for the past 31 years (1980)
DJF = 13th out of 31
MAM = 7th out of 31
Thought i started tanning a little later than usual this year.
and June =15 out of 31
Checking Phoenix Sky Harbor *ADJUSTED* temps at GISS, this years rank (1 is coldest) by quarter (starts in Dec) for the past 31 years (1980)
DJF = 5th out of 31
MAM = 2nd out of 31
June =12 out of 31
Sorry for the multiple posts, should have combined.
Wouldn’t it be grand if all we had to do was take this image of surface temperature departure from normal for July 17, 2010 for South America, and overlay it onto North America and change the date to January 17, 2011? I’ll bet someone at NOAA has already tried. Schucks! Double Schucks! Ya jus’ can’t win!
This evening (July 22) the Belgian/Flemish television mentioned the heat wave in the region of Yakutsk, Siberia. But not a single word about the intense COLD wave in South America. Always that biased information!
Since Eastern Europe/Russia were mentioned in this and the previous piece on Aysen and the blizzard, northeastern Poland has had several hot days (nothing too extreme except when it’s muggy), there have also been record deluges of rain, near-tornado-type phenomena and you could see your breath during the midday in June. In other words, the weather has been extremely unsettled, oscillating between extremes of cold and fairly hot, on a daily basis. Probably something like the deserts of Peru or the no-man’s-land claimed by both China and India, except with heavy precipitation but only in flood-like bursts. In all likelihood there will be more flooding and more cold snaps before “summer” ends. inb4 anecdotal etc.
(I saw the NOAA map earlier at another site when looking into the Aysen story, but I am not giving it much credence because of the contours of the cold air mass and the reports of record cold from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa as well as Antarctica. This seems hemispheric to me.)
From the weather is not climate bureau.
Engelberg Switzerland, Today 23 July 2010
Temp 5°C
Weather Heavy snow
Skiers out in force
and MOST of Northern Hemisphere is having extremely hot summer. Russia hit a record on the 22th. Heat waves where I am in Bulgaria too. Why are you so obsessed with South America?
The heat waves in the temperate zones of the northern hemisphere are not all that unusual. I can remember a few very nasty ones in the northern plains states where I lived as a child/young adult where it was well over 100f daily for weeks. I can also remember winters where it did not get above 0f for three months and where it snowed so much that we literally had to tunnel out of the house. Big deal-stuff like that occurs with enough regularity as to not be totally unexpected or deemed unique.
It also seems that most of the posters screeching about this heat wave have forgotten that last winter was extremely snowy and cold for many of the same places now affected by the heat wave.
What is unusual for this situation is to have such cold temperatures at the equator, as someone pointed out it would be like having Jakarta or Singapore having freezing temperatures.. This is what the original post was about and it is a rather unique event.
If you are trying to mislead people you are doing a hell of a job.
Next time try to show at least whole picture.
http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/7254/mrazjuznaamerikajul10.gif
“and MOST of Northern Hemisphere is having extremely hot summer. Russia hit a record on the 22th. Heat waves where I am in Bulgaria too. Why are you so obsessed with South America?”
Perhaps because heat waves in Russia/Siberia are not that rare, while the great cold wave in South America is really exceptional.
Moreover, if you only mention heat waves and say nothing about cold waves, you give a biased picture of the situation.
Well posted ‘Truthlover’
It stands to reason that if you get a mass of cold air move northwards from the antartic, that cold air has to be replaced by an air mass from elsewhere.
Just like in the northern hemishere last December – when Europe got the cold air, Canada and Alaska was basking in 10C above the seasonal average. Overall there is a net warming but let’s keep pretending its not true.
I laugh at half the posting here. The material here makes an excellent basis for Anthropoligy in the future.
Most of us are still at stage 1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%BCbler-Ross_model
Paul Millsom says:
“I laugh at half the posting [sic] here. The material here makes an excellent basis for Anthropoligy [sic] in the future. Most of us are still at stage 1”
By “us” you mean the clique of corrupt scientists and their sycophants who can not believe that people are actually starting to question them now. No doubt you can’t believe it’s really happening after all the years when “trust us” was enough.
I’m already on my second bowl of popcorn. ☺
What we have been witnessing across South America in the Southern Hemisphere this winter is a period of phenomenally cold weather no doubt due to the unusual movement of air masses such as we had last winter in parts of the Northern Hemisphere.
This is not attributable to anthropogenic global warming [AGW] or CO2 levels. Carbon Dioxide remains a trace gas in the atmosphere, present in very low quantities.
The panic and alarm created by certain elements of the scientific community and quite a few politicians around the globe is not in any way justified or useful. These type of weather phenomena are worthy of close study and analysis, no reputable scientist would jump to a sudden conclusion without proven facts and comparisons being made.
I regret to say that I have little faith in most of the present claims being made about climate change and global warming. Since the end of the last ice age 10,000 years ago and the arrival of the big thaw, Earth’s climate has been changing in regular cycles.
What we should be doing is researching these cycles and identifying the nature of the cause. Man’s presence and the CO2 emission levels since the Industrial Revolution cannot be used to justify climate change since these cycles have been happening for a far longer period of time.
The scientific study must continue and a lid kept on false claims for political purposes.