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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“Usually SoCal and South Texas at least have some warmth.”
Before warming up slightly today in San Antonio, we had 48 hours where the temperature did not get above freezing. Been here 30+ years and don’t remember
that occurring before.
Last night some moisture from the Gulf mixed with the low temps, and sections of South Texas got freezing rain and/or snow.
Does San Antonio UHI show up in these radar screen captures?
http://i55.tinypix.com/2im1d.jpg
Nope. Sure doesn’t.
Try this: http://i55.tinypix.com/2irn1d.jpg
WTFUWT?
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2irn1d&s=7
So, this is how an ice age starts?
And, for the record, we have light snow indicated on the KFWS WSR-88D moving south into the county to my north as it ‘rotates’ about a center in Oklahoma …
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Here in NW Arkansas, we had a record high on Saturday in the mid 70s. A blizzard on Tuesday, Record low around -5 on Wednesday night into Thursday morning. And today on Friday, they were calling for a dusting to 1 inch of snow, instead we got 5.5 inches.
And of course they dont salt or plow the roads…so all the roads are SOLID ice…. im from Michigan, and im terrified of driving here even with an inch of snow, 3 days after the main blizzard, and the MAIN roads, even the interstate was snow covered, to grooved ice…and now we have another half foot about on top of it…..oh..and snow on Sunday….and another major storm looks like Wednesday still too early to figure out that one though…
This really sucks, ive missed 4 days of work already cause of this crap.
It will be interesting to see how any years of continuing increased cold that the CO2 Global Warming Believers will say, “Weather isn’t Climate!!!”. How many years of cold and at what point do these believers begin to question the Global Warming Theory?
Wonder what those temperature anomalies will look like when they’re smoothed with GISS’s 1200km filter? Of course anything more than 5 standard deviations from the norm are removed, first 8-{
King of Cool
Piers Corbyn said he didn’t take the westerly into account well enough for January. Do you know anyone who is better than 85%? Please tell me about them if you do.
jrwakefield says:
February 4, 2011 at 4:57 pm
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?
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We tried metric system in the 70’s. We didn’t like it. It’s over.
Nothing unusual about this winter’s cold, except that cold air has poured into areas where it is rarely cold (New Mexico, Texas, Mexico). Although this winter has averaged slightly below the latest 30-year “normal” in Minnesota, it is still warmer than all of the past 30-year normals, and in the Twin Cities the number of sub-zero nights is less than half of the long-term average.
The arctic has been very warm this winter, along with Siberia. A below-normal winter has not been seen in the arctic since the mid-1990s. Weird.
By the way, carbon dioxide traps heat.
I enjoyed this article about how the snow & cold in Dallas are impacting the Super Bowl!
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-04/american-southwest-have-extra-flights-for-super-bowl-correct-.html
I was looking at some weather news for my town over at weather dot com, and stumbled into the blogs by thier expert meteorologists. Found a recent posting by Stu Ostro that discussed some problems in computer based weather modelling.
What surprised me was not that there were bad results, but rather they clearly admitted major problems in computer modelling even something as simple as predicting weather 2 weeks away. Now enlarge this to predicting Climate using the same flawed models.
I understand that this is not news here, but maybe they are begining to acknowledge that it’s time to go clothes shopping, not merely because its cold, but that they dont have any on. The First Step to correcting a problem is admitting that you have a problem. Call it a sign that some of these folks are entering the 12 step program to kicking the AGW habit.
One quote is here, but you gotta read the whole thing, and they give some graphs and links there.
“….Now detailed forecast graphics and data are available out to 10-16 days (and easily accessible to anyone with a computer and an Internet connection). That can be both a blessing and a curse. It has brought tremendous advances in the ability to give people a heads-up about high-impact weather events relatively far into the future, but also can lead to an unrealistic expectation of certainty and precision very far in advance; and it can even create a viral frenzy over every possible storm, some of which reach their full potential or even “overachieve,” while others end up “underachieving” or not ever even happening at all. Those models’ realistic-looking visualizations can lead to an illusion of accuracy and predictability…”
Al Gore should consult the UEA supercomputer (aka GIGGLES the Supercomputer) for a fresh 3 month forecast.
Rumor has it, last time they asked GIGGLES, it said “Take my wife, please!”
jrwakefield says:
February 4, 2011 at 4:57 pm
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?
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This is why carpenters from Ontario can’t get a job in BC; they think a 2X4 is a 50.8 X101.6.
I’m not sure what time of day these were recorded but Saskatoon got up to +3C = 37F today [with occasional light rain]. So we beat Atlanta. Sorry Georgians, but that kind of makes me giggle.
Even in Canada
Gordon in Minnesota
If carbon dioxide traps heat, could you explain to me why no engineers have ever developed a system wherein ‘pure’ CO2 is pumped through something like a solar array, thereby trapping and amplifying solar energy?
Think of all the energy we could generate from this harmful waste product…the trapped heat could be used to drive steam turbines and generators – wow!
My god…why has no one thought of this before…Carbon Dioxide Traps Heat….so let’s use it to do just that, let’s use its heat amplification/trapping ability, which is so SIGNIFICANT that at 400pm it can warm an entire ATMOSPHERE – so imagine its heat trapping capacity, pure and at atmospheric pressure…it must be awesome!
And there’s no shortage of carbon dioxide…it’s like the ultimate in recycling, the more CO2 we trap the more energy we generate…my god this is wonderful…CO2 saves the day!
Hurray!
Uhmm.
It’s always Marcia, Marcia says:
February 4, 2011 at 6:35 pm
King of Cool
Piers Corbyn said he didn’t take the westerly into account well enough for January. Do you know anyone who is better than 85%? Please tell me about them if you do.
I am sceptical about this claimed 85% success rate. I followed Corbyn’s forecasts for a while and I reckon he was right arounfd 60% of the time.
The fact is we (in central england) haven’t seen so much as a single snowflake fall since a week before chistmas.
[Reply – it’s not the snow most of us will remember, but the extreme and prolonged cold – a week before Christmas, temperatures in Central England were lucky to get above freezing during the day and the thaw really only set in three days after Christmas. ~jove, mod]
“Oh, that’s Fahrenheit…”
Fahrenheit is actually better for everyday personal use. It gives finer gradations in temperature. Celsius is too crude and the gaps between marks too large. Celsius is like trying to thread a needle with mittens.
Brrrr! Feb. 2011
Here is an inside view of a Chicago transit bus! Amazing!
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/02/03/article-1353073-0D0534CC000005DC-273_964x638_popup.jpg
BBC were today headlining new of freezing weather in Mexico:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-12370717
Temps down to -18 C (0 F), coldest period for 40 years.
“There have been cold temperatures in the past, but nothing that has lasted for so many days. It’s been 40 years since the city has seen an emergency like this,” city’s civil protection chief Efren Matamoros told Reuters news agency. (Quoted from BBC article.)
John Finn says:
February 5, 2011 at 3:55 am
[Reply – it’s not the snow most of us will remember, but the extreme and prolonged cold – a week before Christmas, temperatures in Central England were lucky to get above freezing during the day and the thaw really only set in three days after Christmas. ~jove, mod]
Quite – but Corbyn had predicted much of the same for january. This clearly never happened. In the last fwew days we’ve had daytime temperatures into double figures (Celsius). February is also part of winter. This winter will probably end up “colder than normal” but it doesn’t look like being the record breaker that was being suggested a while back.
I thought the map was just colored purple at first. Yikes!