God indeed has a sense of humor. From Weather Underground:
Here’s the actual METAR data, showing 10°C (50.0°F):
According to the Mexican National Meteorological Service, the record low temp for December is 12°C (53.6F) see table here: Cancun_climate (PDF)
According to this page lowest for December is 52°F (11°C)
http://www.cancun-discounts.com/cancun-weather.htm
Either way, 50°F is a new record for December low temperature, and it couldn’t happen at a more inconvenient time for the Cancun COP16 climate conference.
h/t to Ross Hays
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New record high in Denver, Colorado yesterday. But that doesn’t fit with you folks’ climate ideas so I guess it doesn’t count.
Your comment seems a bit OT for this post. OTOH, on Dec 13, Anthony wrote:
…and showed a map which indeed showed several record highs in CO.
Paul,
I guess you’re new here.
Try posting that there are dozens of record lows at realclimate, and wait for your comment to appear. Don’t hold your breath.
BTW, here are average December temps from 1928. No need to panic.
One cold set of storms don’t make a climate. The desert southwest has been posting record highs for over a decade. So far this fall, Denver has had the driest and warmest Nov and so far, Dec, that many can remember. The first snowfall was one month later than usual. Weather patterns are changing. This is a FACT as evidenced by the record highs and lows being recorded all over the world.
Paul – “One cold set of storms don’t make a climate“. True. But what happens in Denver doesn’t make a climate either. If you want to claim that “Weather patterns are changing” is a “FACT“, it would be very helpful and save us all a lot of time if you could first substantiate it. Please can you check back through all available data (not a selected period or place) and demonstrate that the “record highs and lows being recorded all over the world” are historically unusual. You might also be asked by some here to explain in what way weather patterns are indeed something to do with climate, but I’ll accept that in the current context.
Paul,
Mike Jonas has thrown down the gauntlet by invoking the climate null hypothesis: show us how the current climate exceeds the parameters of the climate during the Holocene.
As a matter of fact, today’s climate [and temperature] is extremely benign. There is nothing unusual happening. That being the case, all the hyperbole about climate catastrophe amounts to nothing but baseless arm-waving. Money is the motive for the scare, as everyone can see from the profligate consumption of the self-serving do-gooders descending on Cancun, Copenhagen and Bali.
You really should stop digging, Paul.
And I hope you understand that what you’re doing is is simply expressing your opinion. That’s fine, but keep in mind that WUWT is the internet’s “best science” site, and you would be much more credible if you backed your opinion with something we can get our teeth into. Something falsifiable. Something testable.
The AGW hypothesis is failing because there’s no “there” there. You can’t quantify the extent – if any – that “carbon” causes temperature change. The lack of the scientific method is replaced by a fictitious “consensus.” That’s not science, it is only a belief system.