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…
“I assume you’ll also ask Joe Romm why he never covers record lows, only record highs. – Anthony”
What truly astounds me is how often you offer this line of response completely oblivious to how it makes you look … I’m dead serious about this, Anthony – it does not reflect well on you … at all.
Hey Amino — LOOOVED that graph. And I thought you might like these — they are very colorful — lots of red and brown. They show areas LOTS bigger than the US and some of them have really groovy lines showing ‘alarming’ loss of sea ice (Wow – how can that be? — Dorothy says it is really cold in Kansas).
Enjoy:
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2011/images/201001-201012-temp.gif
http://iup.physik.uni-bremen.de:8084/amsr/ice_ext_n.png
http://www.coaps.fsu.edu/~maue/extreme/gfs/current/nh_raw_temp_000.png
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_stddev_timeseries.png
http://ice-glaces.ec.gc.ca/prods/WIS57DPTCT/20110207180000_WIS57DPTCT_0005577008.gif
http://www.skepticalscience.com//images/ipcc_ar4_model_vs_obs.gif
http://blogs.agu.org/wildwildscience/files/2011/01/Screen-shot-2011-01-28-at-02.48.09.jpg
Meanwhile…
Gee yet another sceptic example of “a cold day in Oklahoma is proof that Global Warming has stopped” but this time with a cherry-picked example of Arctic ice. The following graphs will give you a better understanding of the BIG picture up north. Strangely enough the US navy was involved in both of these graphs as well — from the Polar Ice Center .
http://www.skepticalscience.com/images/Arctic_sea_ice_anomaly.gif
or this
http://www.skepticalscience.com/pics/gleick_arctic_sea_ice.gif
A little background:
These example show a comparison of PIOMAS-derived ice volume anomalies with anomalies measured by the NASA ICEsat Satellite. PIOMAS has been EXTENSIVELY VALIDATED through comparisons with observations from US-Navy submarines, moorings, and satellites.
And for any of you who are really interested in learning some science:
PIOMAS References
Zhang, J., and D.A. Rothrock: Modeling global sea ice with a thickness and enthalpy distribution model in generalized curvilinear coordinates, Mon. Wea. Rev., 131(5), 681–697, 2003. (pdf file)
Lindsay, R. W. and J. Zhang, Assimilation of ice concentration in an ice-ocean model, J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech., 23, 742–749, 2006.(pdf file)
Zhang, J., R. Lindsay, M. Steele, and A. Schweiger, 2008: What drove the dramatic retreat of arctic sea ice during summer 2007?, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L08502, doi:10.1029/2008GL034005. (pdf file)
Zhang, J., M. Steele, R. Lindsay, A. Schweiger, and J. Morison, 2008: Ensemble 1-Year predictions of Arctic sea ice for the spring and summer of 2008, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L08502, doi:10.1029/2008GL033244. (pdf file)
Lindsay, R. W., J. Zhang, A. J. Schweiger, and M. A. Steele, 2008: Seasonal predictions of ice extent in the Arctic Ocean, J. Geophys. Res., 113, C02023, doi:10.1029/2007JC004259. (pdf file)
Lindsay, R. W., J. Zhang, A. J. Schweiger, and M. A. Steele, and H. Stern, 2009: Arctic sea ice retreat in 2007 follows thinning trend. J. Clim., 22, 165-176, doi: 10.1175/2008JCLI2521. (pdf file)
Schweiger, A. J., J. Zhang, R. W. Lindsay, and M. Steele, 2008: Did unusually sunny skies help drive the record sea ice minimum of 2007? Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L10503, doi:10.1029/2008GL033463. (pdf_file)
Kwok, R., G. F. Cunningham, M. Wensnahan, I. Rigor, H. J. Zwally, and D. Yi, 2009: Thinning and volume loss of the Arctic Ocean sea ice cover: 2003-2008. J. Geophys. Res., 114.
Zhang, J. and _M. Steele_, 2007. The effect of vertical mixing on the Atlantic Water layer circulation in the Arctic Ocean, /J. Geophys. Res.,112, /C04S04, doi:10.1029/2006JC003732 (pdf_file)
drewski,
That’s some fine cherry-picking. It’s the same mindset that produces scary maps of our normal climate.
And I have to laugh every time I see a computer model claim like the one from your Alarmist Pseudo-science echo chamber. They never seem to post this empirical falsification of the “AGW Fingerprint” model that all the spittle flecked arm-wavers confidently predicted would prove CAGW. As we see, the “AGW Fingerprint” has been thoroughly debunked.
Oh well, back to the alarmist drawing board.
Smokey: “That’s some fine cherry-picking. It’s the same mindset that produces scary maps of our normal climate.”
You guys show me me a small town in OK on January 29 and I show you the northern hemisphere for the whole month. Then you guys show me Arctic ice on December 30 2008 and I show you ice records going back decades. AND YOU CALL ME THE CHERRY PICKER??!!
drewski,
Respond to my comment – not to something else. That’s called a “strawman” argument, and it logically fails.
I was commenting on your “Skeptical” Pseudo-science links. They’re all cherry-picked. Just like the alarming red maps I linked to; they’re cherry-picked deception, too. It’s all just a bunch of alarmist anti-science; PNS if you like.
If it wasn’t for pseudo-science, logical fallacies, projection and cherry-picking, the alarmist contingent wouldn’t have anything to say.
Try to show us any putative global harm due specifically to CO2. That is what the entire debate is about. The fact that the null hypothesis shows that there has been no global damage due to the rise in a harmless, beneficial trace gas simply debunks all the CAGW nonsense the alarmist crowd believes in.