Jan Null of Golden Gate Weather writes:
Based on hourly weather observations a number of minimum temperature records were either set or tied in the Bay Area this morning.
Today Previous 2/26 record
City Min Temp Min Year
San Rafael 28 32 in 1996
Napa 27 30 in 1945
San Francisco 37 37 in 1962
SF Arpt 36 36 in 1971
Oakland 35 38 in 1987
Oakland Arpt 32 34 in 1962
San Jose 33 33 in 1897
These are unofficial values and some sites could be a degree or so lower when the official minima are collected later today.
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The cold storm did little in the way of snow, and has moved south:
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He has a house SanFran, a house here in Nashville TN, and a ranch in Carthage TN (among others)
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada just set record overnight lows. Several other places in BC set record lows. It might be interesting to look at some summaries for the whole (N. American west) coast. Record snowfall rates in the mountains this winter too.
rbateman says:
February 26, 2011 at 10:21 am
Dave Springer says:
February 26, 2011 at 9:59 am
Good question:
Maybe we could tinker with the models until they output snow in San Francisco. But we still wouldn’t know what amount of co2 change would produce snow in the real world since co2 doesn’t control climate.
I was hoping there would be snow here in the low elevations of the San Francisco area. But nothing, so far. A guy on the radio called it, “The big snow let down”.
🙁
Lance says:
February 26, 2011 at 10:05 am
“phlogiston says: ……I’m visiting Calgary just now, 2 nights ago it reached -30C.
just south of Calgary, i recorded -32.5C that night/morning, we are going to get a blast of warm air now and scream up to close to -5 before we head right back to -20 C again…..but this is just weather thank goodness!”
The best thing about Calgary weather are the chinooks. After a brutal cold snap and one of those comes over the Rockies that sudden warming seems anything but catastrophic. Indeed, the incredible variations in the temperature there should be an example of how resilient things can be. If we took the AGW hyper-sensitivity story seriously, everything would be dead in that region – or in some catatonic state due to climate confusion.
The dunderheads were correct. Global warming DOES cause global cooling. We in the engineering business call that “a self-regulating system” with “negative feedback”. With global average temperature now well below the 20-year average, according to the satellites, I see absolutely no sign of the “positive feedback” on which the AGW computer modelers have rested their case.
crosspatch says:
February 26, 2011 at 10:35 am
“Friend said they experienced a few flakes this morning near Los Altos.”
Hmmm. “flakes.” I’m so tempted to make a predictable joke, but I won’t. Because almost all the people I know from CA aren’t.
Meanwhile, here on the south-central west coast of Florida it is a balmy 78F with clear skies. And no State income tax or high speed rail (yeah!).
… it’s going to be a bit harder to hide this decline…. 😉
All this cold and snow is unprecedented since (fill in the blank).
Even the Alberta capital got some of the Calgary chinook. Must be the weather.
ew-3 says: “Perhaps a dumb question – is there any danger that the crops grown there during winter could be damaged?”
The fruits and nuts in the San Francisco area will be as prevalent as ever.
Well, when the Thames River freezes over above Teddington Lock where they use to hold the Frost Fairs on the ice, THAT WILL BE NEWS and the final nail in the coffin of AGW.
Bruce says:
February 26, 2011 at 9:51 am
“I think you’ll find a lot of records in both Oregon and Washington this morning as well (Portland, OR was 19 degrees this morning, with the previous record being 20 degrees 1962).
Yeah, I was 16 degrees outside of Portland.”
That’s the mad Dhog’s country. How’s this ‘global warming’ suiting you Dhog?
I don’t believe any of these photos. It was staged by Bush and NASA to further their wicked aims.
Oh, wait…Bush is out of office and NASA are in the pockets of the warm-earthers now?
As Roseanne Roseannadanna would say, “Never Mind”.
Amino Acids in Meteorites says:
February 26, 2011 at 11:30 am
“I was hoping there would be snow here in the low elevations of the San Francisco area. But nothing, so far. A guy on the radio called it, “The big snow let down”.”
Of course had it not been for AGW it would have snowed…
Jimmy Haigh says:
February 26, 2011 at 3:30 pm
That’s the mad Dhog’s country. How’s this ‘global warming’ suiting you Dhog?
Oh, I’m sorry. I haven’t seen any warming. See the raw data of the nearest GISS station to my house. http://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/gistemp_station.py?id=425726980010&data_set=1&num_neighbors=1
Doesn’t Gore spend most of his time between trips at his mansion in Montecito? It’s reported that there is still a lot of oil in the Santa Barbara field. A good question would be is there enough for all of his travel?
San Francisco ‘Snow’ not enough to count.
No snow was observed in downtown San Francisco and AccuWeather.com meteorologist Dave Samuhel said the dusting would not count toward official records that show the last measurable snowfall in the area 35 years ago.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41793089/ns/weather/41793089
I will definitely look for another activity.
The question is simple it is snowing ( ) Y …. ( ) N
I think it was Emily Litella who said usually said “Nevermind”, not Roseanne Roseannadanna. But as Chico Escuela said ‘They both be berry berry good to me.”
It’s snowing at my sister’s house in Burbank, California, right now. Enough snow to build a snowman.
So SF wasn’t hit with snow. I think I can guess why. Apparently, AGW causes record low temperature and dry air.
It’s still warm in Sunny / cloudy / rainy Sydney, although Autumn is almost upon us.
Why don’t you folks all come over and visit us?
(We don’t have any global warming here either but I must confess that our good and wise government are about to tax our catbon dioxide emissions right out of our cotton picking socks, if you get my meaning – if so please explain that to me.)
My fingers thought that catbon was more beautiful than carbon – you decide – either is fine with me.
This is a bit off topic, but I don’t know how to get this information to you otherwise. I just got word via Google Alert for Ross Ice Shelf of an emergency. The ice shelf used as their landing strip is separating from Ross Island and everyone is being evacuated as of right now.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/news/world-news/4708428/Emergency-airlift-at-McMurdo-in-strife