From: NewsOK.com
The coldest temperature ever recorded in Oklahoma was set today.
The Oklahoma Mesonet weather station at Nowata reached minus 31 degrees Fahrenheit actual temperature at 7:40 a.m. today. That will be considered for the official state record.
That mark eclipses the previous all-time record low state temperature of minus 27 degrees, set at at Vinita, Feb. 13, 1905, and Watts, Jan. 18, 1930.
Also, the Mesonet station at Medford recorded a wind chill of minus 47 degrees at 7:45 a.m. setting a Mesonet record.
The Oklahoma Mesonet, which began in 1994, has 120 stations throughout Oklahoma.
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Hey Watts, you just went down! 🙂
Where is the -31F:
“That’s me in the corner. That’s me in the spotlight. I’m Losing my global warming religion…
@ur momisugly Peter Melia
“The river water was about minus 4C”
Are you sure it wasn’t plus 4C?
But the temp record is unreliable… Remember??
And the weather stations, they are located in poor spots… Remember?? We can’t trust any of it….
Bah-dah-bang!!
Hehe
LOL……run away Man Caused Global Warming……..”Oh, no!” as Mr. Bill would say….”I’m melting!!!!”
What you good people don’t realise is that this is just the weather and not the climate UNLESS it’s a record high temp.
/SARC/
slp says:
February 10, 2011 at 10:47 am
First, -31 in either Fahrenheit or Centigrade is really, really cold. Second, Fahrenheit works better for weather since the majority of measurements fall within the range of 0 to 100
Perhaps the title of the article should be:
“Coldest Temperature Ever Recorded in Oklahoma: really, really cold today”.
This alternative title would then cater to everyone’s needs since 31 in either Fahrenheit or Centigrade is “really, really cold” and we all know what really really cold feels like.
Actually, Celsius is much more convenient. Water boils at 100°C and freezes at 0°C. Water is one of the most abundant compounds on earth and an integral part of the water cycle including aspects of weather so it would make sense to use a scale that can be easily related to the properties of water.
Robb876 says:
February 10, 2011 at 12:26 pm
But the temp record is unreliable… Remember??
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Robb, these are raw numbers….
….pre-homogenizer. You know you need a multi-million dollar computer to process them correctly………
Record Lows Higher Due to Global Warming Say Scientists (insert name of MSM birdcage liner here) _____________. And through the looking glass we go to sojourn in climatist wonderland.
Tilo Reber says @ur momisugly February 10, 2011 at 11:35 am:
“I’m hoping that [the cold] kills some of the pine borer beetles up there.”
Apparently, it is not the lack of cold temperatures that is enabling the pine beetles to wreck havoc on Pines. To some extent, the presence of humans and their buildings are helping pine beetles survive over winter; however, the major factor seems to be the suppression of forest fires. I have been to Colorado where the blame is on AGW — the effect of the pine beetles is devastating. I have also been to the Black Hills, where they took steps to thin out the trees. The health of the forest is remarkable, and the pine beetle seems to be in check.
Gee Robb876,
You clearly haven’t looked at the UHI weather stations and their siting. This site appears to make a 2 or even a 1 catagory, unlike the majority of the others.
You see, most of us on this site care about quality data, and thanks to Anthony, most of us can recognize a quality station when we see it.
“”A.D. 1817 —- In 1271 the Danish chronicle states that a strong wind from the north-west carried to Iceland a large quantity of ice, laden with a number of bears….
….and much wood….
The Greenland whalers in the winter of 1816-1817 found that the same thing had taken place on an extraordinary scale. No less than 18,000 sq miles of ice had broken loose from the anchorage of centuries, and came plunging and whirling south and west, filling the bays and creeks of Iceland, wandering even to Labrador and Newfoundland, and disappearing only into the Gulf stream. “”
Obviously there must have been a thriving lumber business in Greenland at one time..
… and it was unprecedented
thanks to Steve Goddard for this: http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2011/02/10/hey-mike-check-these-mwp-tree-rings-from-greenland/#comments
We’re talking ecosystem damage. This is how real evolution / succession happens. We are entering an unexplored domain (at least from the perspective of Civilized Man).
Nature bats last …
It was 71F at the beach in Santa Monica yesterday, took the day off with my bride. I do NOT miss Colorado or Wisconsin winters.
Sorry, lost the [smug] and [/smug] tags surrounding that last post 🙂
Dr. Dave.
Amarillo is WEST of Oklahoma City.
MAtt
We got down to -28 F a couple of weeks ago. That’s cold enough for me!
I thought moisture helped the pine trees drown out the borer beetles. It’s droughts that benefit the beetles, leaving the trees defenseless.
15″ of snow on the Upper Buffalo wilderness area, I missed it!
-35 is NOT the same as M35.
Meanwhile, here in the “inland area of northeast Ohio” (NWS
description of Akron-Canton Airport readings) for the months
Dec 2010 monthly average temp was -6.6 F below “normal”
Jan 2011 monthly average temp was -3.1 F below “normal”
Feb (as of 9th) monthly average temp was -3.3 F below “normal”
…without a single record high or low temperature reading for the
period.
See:
http://www.weather.gov/climate/getclimate.php?wfo=cle
Tonight (Thursday) we may get down to around 10 F with
a toasty 25 F for Friday… again, way below “normal”.
Just the facts, ma’m.
I live just a few miles NE of that -31. I’m not sure how cold it was at my house, but nearest town of over 1000 pop., reported a -23. It had been a long time since I experienced cold like that. The last time I remember weather like this in this area was in the late 70s early 80s, but then I don’t remember it getting this cold.
Would somebody please shut the refrigerator door or something, I’m really tired of this heat generated cold. Or, as some of us would term it, warmcold.
This just blows my mind! I’m a proud former resident of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, and folks, they just ain’t prepared for these types of temps down there! I feel sorry for the residents & livestock both.
Here’s the map to overlay onto the temp readings:
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=wl
-31 F is about as cold as I can remember in St. Cloud, MN! Amazing, I wonder what weather phenomenon caused this dip? Clear, cloudless night, or Alberta Clipper, or…?
Anthony, what’s your explanation?
Sorry, the the link I gave wont’ work unless you’ve
already gone in through:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/
clicked “local” under the “forecasts” on the side bar, then
on the “NWS offices and centers” page under Ohio you
click on the “Cleveland” link.
Substitute whatever city you want for climate information
in your area.
>> John Kehr says:
February 10, 2011 at 10:26 am
The last time a state set an all time temperature record was 16 years ago…
[ryanm: where are you getting your info from? even Wikipedia has a different story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._state_temperature_extremes ] <<
In either case, statistically the 2000's have been low on records. Looking at the wikipedia list, two low records and two high records were set since Jan 1 2000(assuming I read it right). With 100 total records, the oldest in 1893, one would expect about 8 or 9 set in an average decade, not merely four. This adds another nail in the coffin to the claim that the climate is becoming more extreme.
Including the supposedly global-warmed 1990's, 15 records were set, 7 high and 8 low, still below average and with no preponderance of highs.
re: Magnus – don’t count on the crutch of a /sarc tag (lame) to know when someone’s pulling your leg!
and to Magnus – well played, sir! LOL!
Didn’t see this addressed; I address it to jae and of course, the crowd from RC and other similar, related haunts:
Well, where was the ‘heat’ that CO2 traps in the atmosphere last night in OK?
Clear skies, reduced wind … maybe, just maybe it (heat energy, from exposed earth surface features, incl. trees, and man-made objects that weren’t snow covered) was radiated off into ‘space’ significantly unencumbered by any encounters with CO2 molecules?
All cooling be due to IR (EM) radiation, with is proportional to T (temperature) to the 4th power perhaps?
Did you guys have any experiments in place to measure the rate-of-drop with some correlation to CO2 content in the atmosphere?
Those are the kinds of experiments we would need conducted iff any of you guys were serious …
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“For those interested, this is the Nowata Mesonet Station:
http://www.mesonet.org/index.php/sites/site_description/nowa
The Oklahoma Mesonet uses standardized sites that report automatically every few minutes.
OK S.”
Clearly this can’t be an official site. Where is the asphalt and concrete, the burn barrels, the exhaust fans from the ac/heating units, the local jet engine rebuilding facility? Just unacceptable, what are they trying to do, undermine CAGW? /sarc