This is interesting. Midday temps in the USA and Canada:
BTW every one of these temps comes from an airport thermometer.
Since the snark patrol will say “so what, it’s cold” my point is that I produce this map, and I don’t recall seeing this extent of the CONUS colored purple. Usually SoCal and South Texas at least have some warmth. The temperature difference between Miami and Atlanta is also striking.
Of course just a couple of days ago, there were high temperature records set ahead of the arctic outbreak:
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Mom2girls says:
February 4, 2011 at 11:40 am
classic.wunderground.com is still there. I don’t like the redo either.
Of course, just like Coca-Cola. Yep, Classic for me. Thanks. By the way, do you see any rhyme or reason to the change?
After 60 hours or so of below 0 F temps it’s finally OK here in CO Springs, near 40 F I think. Warm enough that we’ll be able to dry the basement out after the pipe burst Wednesday. Several weeks of contractors stomping through are looming, unfortunately.
Mark
Winter in Toronto, or as we Canuckistanis refer to it . . . the Center of the Universe.
Theo: No idea for the change. I was surprised when I reloaded my home page there and got the new one. I’m an old fogie though and don’t like change.
yep, I’m through with Kris Kuyper. He said a low of 32 the other night – when I got up the next morning my porch thermometers both registered mid-20’s and all my porch plants were very badly burned. If I’d known, I would have brought them in, and I would have covered my potatoes, which were also very badly burned.
From now on, I will trust my own bones, which tried to tell me, but I listened to Kuyper! Doh!
Don’t any of you move to Florida.
Here is Andrew Bolts summary on cyclone Yasi and CC history in todays Herald Sun.
Really good stuff to counter the bedwetters.
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/column_yasi_proves_only_that_we_panic_too_fast/
Chinook on in Calgary @8.7 C and looking good. Even Edmonton is at 6 C this afternoon. If this is AGW (like everyone else I too daydream) I suggest we north of the 49th need more, a whole heap more. I guess we will just need to live with the Jet laying a little south of us dragging all that warm air in from the Pacific.
It ends Not by Fire but by Ice
A little south of Calgary Alberta in Medicine Hat we have 6c today. 3 days ago we had
-35c and tomorrow is supposed to be a high of -9c with 20-30cm of snow in the next 36 hours. >sigh< looks like our nice little chinnok was a bit short lived. We have had twice as much snow this year compared to normal for this time of year and the worst part is aside for a couple very short chinooks we haven'' had any melting. Anthing that does melt during the dy just turns to ice overnight. We had our first snow of the season in October and I haven't seen my lawn since.
A more detailed map (maybe include twisterdata.com on your resource page) at http://www.twisterdata.com/index.php?sounding.x=394&sounding.y=104&sndclick=n&prog=forecast&model=GFS&grid=3&model_yyyy=2011&model_mm=02&model_dd=04&model_init_hh=18&fhour=00¶meter=TMPF&level=2&unit=M_ABOVE_GROUND&maximize=n&mode=singlemap&sounding=n&output=image&view=small&archive=false
A quick summary forecast for
* northern tier contiguous USA
* Canada
* Alaska
* most of Greenland
Includes colour-codes for temeperatures at 1800Z (1:00 PM EST) of the following day at… http://text.www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/jet_stream/index_e.html
answer using a hair dryer
Looks like Winnipeg is in for colder than normal temps next week.
I don’t know how to read charts but I enjoy looking at them.
http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/data/analysis/947_50.gif
Tom T says:
February 4, 2011 at 1:43 pm
I’ll second that! The Gulf near my island home just reached 70°F for the first time since December. Running 5 or more degrees colder than I recall in my last ten years here for this date.
Who is collecting that information? I live in the thumb of Michigan and can assure you there has been no RAIN or any facsimile thereof from Jan 28-Feb 4. It’s been colder than a titch’s wit.
Rain? OMG.
Driving up I-95 from Florida to Georgia, it’s like hitting a wall of cold air.
We were hoping for snow here in Houston, but all we got was a nice glazing of ice. Good for tow truck drivers, bad for mosquito larvae. I stocked up on instant hot chocolate, and I’ve got my (CO2 generating) candles ready for the next rolling blackout.
Great editorial in snow bound Massachusetts….
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/op_ed/view.bg?articleid=1314036
“Reliable forecast under the weather” By Michael Graham
‘Meet the global weirdos. They’re the ones telling you that all the snow outside is proof that it’s getting warmer. Only, they don’t call it “warming” anymore. ‘
My in-laws live in suburbs south of Boston… so much snow you can’t throw it high enough at the end of the driveway. They seem to get a break…. rain… but it can’t go anywhere and floods the roads, and THEN the temperature plummets!
Regards,
Bob
Yes. Winter is hard. When will it end?
Well Anthony, you ain’t just whoofin’.
That map is still recording the warm one or two day from south Texas upward into Colorado that occurred about six days ago. Just wait till tommorrow or the next and that map will paint a really different picture!
Trevor: it isn’t melting in the south plains either so no wonder it’s not melting up there in Canada. ☺
Once The Met Office has got at it, the temperatures on the chart will be homogenised, value added, and then you will feel much warmer.
At present in England, it is blowing a real storm and has been for the last two days, this of course is due to globa.climat…….rution, oh heck you fill in the reason.
Neville gave a link to Andrew Bolt. Here are a few of Bolt’s words:
“Wrong, Ross. We have actually seen all this before, and worse. Nothing new here at all, expect this shameless scare-mongering.
But the trouble is that we no longer remember our past, and that’s what the warmists are exploiting: our deep forgetting.
Take Channel 10 host George Negus, who told viewers this week that with an “apocalyptic” cyclone and floods in Queensland, and blizzards in the US, our climate had gone “haywire”.
How easily even Negus, who has reported so much history, can forget.”
Bolt lists several serious natural disasters.
Truer words were never spoken. Climate Apocalypse is the daily drumbeat of the MSM, the Marxists, the Greens who are not Marxists, and the Warmista. This daily drumbeat is a horrid wrong that is being done to Western Civilization.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2006/0205-harder_rain_more_snow.htm
Harder Rain, More Snow
Meteorologists See Future of Increasingly Extreme Weather Events
February 1, 2006 — While raising average global temperatures, climate change could also bring more snow, harder rain, or heat waves, meteorologists say. Computer models based on climate data from nine countries indicate every place on the planet will be hit with extreme weather events, including coastal storms and floods.
King of Cool says:
February 4, 2011 at 11:52 am
Please don’t get me wrong, I am definitely an AGW sceptic but what happened to the forecast of the Corbyn group’s “Europe freezing over and one of the 3 coldest Winters in 100 years?”
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You got a two week reprieve. Check your weather forecast for the next fortnight and get your skis out.
http://www.timeanddate.com/weather/uk/london/ext
Wayne in freezing rain about to go into the deepfreeze with more snow again Alberta, Canada
Wow look at all those hot temperatures!!! Must be global warming!
Oh, that’s Fahrenheit…
When is the US going to join the rest of the world and scientific community?