Brutal cold has invaded the upper-Midwest. A record low at International Falls is not an easy thing to break. No problem today (01/21/11), as temps have fallen into the minus 40s F (or C, if you prefer). The cold air pushes eastward and reinforces during the next several days over New England. This is due to winter.
Yea Winter! So this summer when it’s 100F in the NE, which happens pretty frequently in my 40+ years living here, make sure you simply say, “Well, duh, it’s summer!”.
I noticed that the record maximum was 48F set in 1908. Did the GISS team miss that one when adjusting the past?
To Magnus: LOL
Just east of St. Paul, MN in the hole at Lake Demotreville, -26 F.
At the St. Paul border on I94, -19 F. UHI effect is alive and well. A co-worker claims when he watches the temperatures coming to work, the official temperature station at the airport is about the warmest spot, -17 F officially. No wind this morning and a clear sky last night so quite a bit of radiative cooling.
Please sir, I want some more global warming.
It should be a little warmer here in New Hampshire this weekend – low temperatures around -20 F, highs around 5 F. If there’s any wind at all, it will be brutally cold. We also got another shot of snow today. This is one of the snowiest winters in the 15 years I’ve lived here.
This is a good time to have another “blast from the (recent) past”:
Snow Melts, Industry Feels Heat
As average global temperatures rise, America’s $4.5 billion ski industry is taking notice. (NSAA) “If we don’t have snow, our whole economy is dead,” said Isaacs about the resort town of Mammoth Lakes, adding, “Everybody is hurt.”
Anthony and Ryan and Joe (Badstardi via Natsman)), thanks for the heads-up – “this is due to winter”. If we are heading into a mini(?) ice age, this seems to mean historically that one or more governmental regimes are heading for a fall. Maybe the American-global anti-fossil fuel powers (those living off the affluence created by the “fossil-fuel age”), represented by by the CO2-demonizing, anti-scientific MET, NASA, NOAA will be among the first. They seem to be in hysteria-mode. Hope they don’t suck out all the affluence before they go belly up to the cold.
RomanM – many thanks for the link. Despite the cold weather in the UK we have nothing like the extremes suffered by more northerly climes, so I have never witnessed the phenomenon of ice fog, although I did see “diamond dust” one winter in Sweden and that was a truly magical experience: shimmering ice crystals dropping gently from a clear blue sky with the sun reflecting off them.
Fahrenheit and Centigrade are not equivalent – why is it shown the same?
Why are the Fahrenheit and Celcius temperatures shown the same?
Why are the Fahrenheit and Celcius temperatures shown the same?
If you lived in one of the colder spots in the world like I unfortunately do [Winnipeg] you would know at -40 Fahrenheit and Celcius are the same.
xyzlatin do a quick web search for a Fahrenheit to Celsius Converter. -40 is the same.
http://fahrenheittocelsius.com/
When the going gets tough.. the TOUGH get going!
Flew away from MN yesterday to PHX. Plan to “wait out” the meteorlogical cold trough and fly back in Feb.
Yep, nippy here this morning..42. But now 9:30 AM and already 59, heading to 74.
Let’s see that’s almost 100 Degree F. difference.
Max
The Department of Agriculture needs to come out with a NEW Spring Planting Map for 2011. With the Wacky Jet we’ve been having this winter, no bout adoubt it, it’s going to be August before Minnesota, the Dakotas, Montana, Idaho, and Alabama thaw out enough to plan cotton.
Anhydrous ammonia condenses at about -33 C. So if you wanted to experiment with liquid ammonia without special equipment, you could do so outside in Minnesota.
“”””” Baa Humbug says:
January 21, 2011 at 4:11 am
Orr____ This station is not reporting
It’s frozen? “””””
Well that’s because they banned putting incandescent bulbs in those owl boxes to read the dipstick; so you have to use CFLs, and the Mercury in those doesn’t like waking up at -40FC .
Haven’t see I-Falls in the News for many a moon; it used to be front page all the time; well maybe that was back in the latter 1970s; when the coming ice age was fashionable. You need to change your licence plates from “Land of 10,000 lakes” to “Land of 10,000 skating rinks .”
PLEASE SEND GLOBAL WARMING!
Minus 10F this morning at my place in southern Wisconsin (southern being a relative term here). We are freezing our a**es off.
“”””” xyzlatin says:
January 21, 2011 at 6:52 am
Fahrenheit and Centigrade are not equivalent – why is it shown the same? “””””
So you add 40 to get T+40. Then multiply by 5/9 or 9/5 depending on which way you want to go; which gives you:-
(5/9)T + 200/9 or else (9/5)T + 72 depending on which way you want to go, and then you subtract 40 to get:-
(5/9)T – 160/9 or else (9/5)T + 32 depending on which way you want to go.
See how easy that is. Now all you need to know is which way you want to go. I like K which would be 233.15 and never goes negative; so you stay nice and warm.
“”””” Pull My Finger says:
January 21, 2011 at 5:39 am
Temprature is lower than the Dew Point. I’m sure it’s a suspended mist, not percipitation.
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From the report, can anyone explain how mist is sustained at these low temperatures? This is genuine puzzlement, not scepticism. “””””
You must have mist that water turns into ice at zero deg C or 32 deg F or 273.15 K so at -40CF the mist will be ice crystals which are very common in high altitude clouds; you know the ones that warm up the earth (cloud positive feedback); but these ones are at ground level and the low altitude clouds (or mist) cool the earth (cloud negative feedback); which is why the Temperature is -40CF.
Very simple.
Well good old wikedpedia. “ice fog” they say is water droplets that stay liquid at -40 CF if you have nearly 100% humidity.
This one sounds like a repeat of the dry ice snow in Antarctica.
NO ya dummies; it’s ICE which is why they call it ice fog; see how that works !
I would guess (by the stick in the sand method) that you need near 100% relative humidity (dew point Temperature) PLUS some effective condensation nucleation sites; like in a city maybe carbon soot from diesel trucks. Water just hates to condense; well without something to land on like a microbe, or a cosmetic ray ionisation track, or particulate pollutants, aerosoles.
Maybe it’s not such good air to be in at any temperature.
You guys see this completely the wrong way.
Carbon dioxide freezes below -70 F and the Minnesotans are just doing their very best to cool the place down to that level. All the Carbon dioxide will freeze out of the atmosphere and, hey presto, solved Global Warming, saved the Planet.
You have to admire their cunning!
Cold? Yah, sure, you betcha.
<img src="Peter, you haven’t lived until you have had to change a flat tire at -40 in the middle of the ice fog.
Cars zipping past you in and out of the mist. You fumble with the lug bolts with mittens on and your fingers freeze to the metal when them off. I think that that is one of the reasons that we moved. 😉
“biddyb says:
January 21, 2011 at 3:35 am
2010 was the warmest year ever recorded, as confirmed by Met Office”
The following had 1998 and 2010 tied at the end of November, but with the December numbers, 1998 seems to be at 0.52 and 2010 at 0.50. Or am I missing something?
http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadcrut3/diagnostics/global/nh+sh/
Uh oh . . .
What amazes me is people live there. On purpose.
(She said from not-going-get-above-freezing-tomorrow central Virginia.)