From the Alaska Dispatch and the weather is not climate unless it’s 100 degrees outside department comes this report:
Could this be the coldest July in history for Anchorage?
According to the National Weather Service, Anchorage, Alaska is experiencing record cold temperatures this month. Usually July is Anchorage’s hottest month, but it’s been warmer the last few days in Barrow, 800 miles to the north on Alaska’s Arctic coast, than it has been in the state’s largest city.
The Weather Service posted this graphic today on Facebook, along with narrative:
From the NWS Facebook page:
Who’s colder today: Anchorage or Barrow, Alaska?
By Alaska’s summer standards, it’s been cool in South-Central Alaska this month and especially this week. (By lower 48 standards, it’s flat out cold). It’s been so cool in Anchorage that for the past two days (July 11 and 12) high temperatures have been colder than Barrow, the 9th northermost city in the world, which is more than 700 miles to the north of Alaska’s largest city.
On July 11, Anchorage had a high temperature of 56º. July 12 topped out at 54º. Both days set records for the lowest maximum temperature. And for all of July thus far, no day at the Anchorage Forecast office has seen a daily high at or above the average (65-66º). [Climate log: http://bit.ly/N6aIAZ]
Moreover, July is normally the warmest month of the year on average in Anchorage. This July is the coldest on record (so far) by more than 1.5º with an average monthly temperature of 52.7º. The coolest July on record occurred in 1920 with an average monthly temperature of 54.4º.
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Don’t worry, Anchorage’s missing heat must be hiding in the pipeline. Request money to take readings there.
Coldest July in Anchorage. Roasting heat in parts of the continental US and Europe. And: “Britain on course for wettest ever July as more downpours forecast”, says the Telegraph:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/9398090/Britain-on-course-for-wettest-ever-July-as-more-downpours-forecast.html
Sounds like what Piers Corbyn was warning us about a couple of weeks ago! It should be a fun Olympic Games in London if this lot holds up. This is an ‘interesting’ summer indeed.
We have obviously reached a tipping point, another 5 years and it will be too late…
I mean nobody will buy the AGW crap anymore. They need another guilt trip idea FAST!!
Jeez, you’ve broken my dream.
Last night I was dreaming it was so cold this July that snow had fallen again… crops could not grow … well the weather here in the UK has been solid rain, rain, rain, and more rain for weeks.
Richard111 says:
July 13, 2012 at 9:55 pm
Something strange going on. Last night the BBC reported birds that normally migrate in the autumn are arriving in the UK now. In mid July! The report said the birds were mainly from Iceland.
That’s a major wound in the side of AGW, since many greenies became warmists after seeing bird migration patterns shifting…
… but will anyone ever ‘fess up to have been taken for a ride, or to have shouted without checking the science??
Jimbo says:
July 13, 2012 at 11:46 pm
By the way is the UK drought (caused by global warming) over yet? You can’t win against any religion.
Oficially finished last week. We can water our flooded gardens with hosepipes now!
Lucy Skywalker says:
July 14, 2012 at 1:55 am
Jeez, you’ve broken my dream.
Last night I was dreaming it was so cold this July that snow had fallen again… crops could not grow … well the weather here in the UK has been solid rain, rain, rain, and more rain for weeks.
There was a frost in Scotland last week!
Lucy Skywalker says:
July 14, 2012 at 1:59 am
Richard111 says:
July 13, 2012 at 9:55 pm
Something strange going on. Last night the BBC reported birds that normally migrate in the autumn are arriving in the UK now. In mid July! The report said the birds were mainly from Iceland.
That’s a major wound in the side of AGW, since many greenies became warmists after seeing bird migration patterns shifting…
… but will anyone ever ‘fess up to have been taken for a ride, or to have shouted without checking the science??
Yes, this Wildfowl & Wetland Trust site (see link below) is 10 miles up the road from me on the west cost of Wales (west coast of the UK). They are reporting migratory birds arrival in numbers now in July that would normally not be seen here for another several weeks.
http://www.wwt.org.uk/news/all-news/2012/07/news/news-llanelli/bad-weather-continues-to-affect-birds/
“Interesting” times ahead I think….
WelshSkeptic
Is there a wee bit of translation software out there that auto converts deg C to deg F ?
As non scientists and non proffesionals us skeptics could baffle all the technical people in Europe and elsewhere around the world by using a wierd temperature interval to describe events.
sarc off
‘Jimbo says:
July 13, 2012 at 11:46 pm
We were told that the UK was to expect a drier than normal spring. What we got was lots of rain. Now the Guardian et al are trying to explain how global warming climate change could explain the cold wet summer so far.
The findings make it much more likely that we will soon – within the next few years – be able to discern whether the extremely wet and cold summer and spring so far experienced in the UK this year are attributable to human causes rather than luck, according to the researchers.http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jul/10/extreme-weather-manmade-climate-change?newsfeed=true
By the way is the UK drought (caused by global warming) over yet? You can’t win against any religion.’
Jimbo – the drought was officially declared over when all the remaining water authorities lifted their hosepipe bans on 9th July. The Environment Agency has said that, short of a long, prolionged hot and dry spell for the remainder of the summer, the risk of drought returning is small.
We have restored groundwater levels in the summer, which is apparently very unusual, save in some areas of sandstone which traditionally take much longer to replenish after rainfall, river levels are high and reservoirs mostly full. Our 12 month rainfall levels are around average, although the past 3 months have been 250% of average.
We are officially back to normal and would appreciate some dry and sunny weather in August and September.
Joseph Bastardi says:
July 13, 2012 at 6:41 pm
God help us if solar cycle theories are correct
Dont worry we can grow tomatos faster with this equipment.
http://www.bullybeef.co.uk/co2_control_equipment.htm
My prediction is this: sea ice around Alaska will remain high in years to come courtesy of the PDO going negative. Sea Ice around Svalbard, Western Greenland and the Northwest of Russia will remain low until 2020, when the AMO flipping will slowly see that start to increase.
Sea ice minima will bumble along the bottom this decade and start to rise significantly in the 2020s, radically if SC25 is radically weaker than SC24 as some predict. Glaciers will continue to advance in Alaska.
Rising CO2 levels will help equatorial forests to regrow slowly which will be either aided or prevented by the policies of ranchers, governments and corporations. Rainfall will continue to increase in the southern Sahel.
Governments will start to consider which regions of the earth are best suited to making up any shortfalls in staple crop harvests in Canada, the Northern USA, Ukraine, Russia etc. They will be monitoring the northern extremities of the Sahara, parts of the Southern USA and Mid-West etc etc and planning for migrations southward as high latitude climates become temporarily inconsistent with sustainable agriculture.
The world will not end, but humanity will have to adapt.
It might be a good idea to think about how to do that rather than having intellectual wanking competitions about ‘climate change’.
“Steven Mosher says:
July 13, 2012 at 10:57 pm
No doubt the ice will be fine then.
sarc off”
http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/brutal-bering-sea-ice-blocking-arctic-supply-ships
“Brutal Bering Sea ice blocking Arctic supply ships”
I might have to disagree a little bit with Mr.Bastardi, I think, despite the cold PDO, the next 5-7 years and their corresponding winters will still be relatively cold, at least colder than what we have experienced the last 15-20 years in warmer PDO. However, if he’s comparing the next 5-7 years to the decades that follow, I certainly agree, especially considering that we get both the PDO and AMO to cool and the solar cycles to plummet to levels similar to the Dalton and perhaps the Maunder minimum, could get very interesting. I’m fairly confident though, that we won’t see any significant warming over this time, because the large scale climate factors are pointing towards a cooling, and it has absolutely nothing to do with CO2.
And while we are at it:
Here in Germany, Central Europe, temps are 10 degrees Centigrade below average for this time of the year for the third week in a row and it’s raining cats and dogs all the time, occasionally interrupted by short, but strong thunderstorms, only.
But, I know: Weather is not Climate, unless Al Goredom says so…
Wagathon says:
July 13, 2012 at 7:14 pm
Achtung Granate
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LOL!
John F. Hultquist says:
July 13, 2012 at 11:48 pm
Terry Jackson says:
July 13, 2012 at 9:06 pm
The King salmon (Chinook) is the lowest ever recorded.
See PDO. One phase (the current one) seems to coincide with increased runs from Oregon north to southern B.C. and decreases in Alaskan rivers. The other phase produces opposite results. Recent news articles chronicle this phenomenon. If you can explain why you can win a prize.
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Okay, here’s my application for the prize:
a. “increased runs from Oregon north to southern B.C.” = Blocking High repositioned by southerly relocated Jetstream directs wetter-than-average winds to the coast from Oregon north to southern B.C., thus substantially increasing precipitation –
and
b. “decreases in Alaskan rivers” = less snowmelt over Summer due to reduced temps leaves more residual snow in the Alaskan Range, equalling a reduced water-supply for Alaskan Rivers, while the Alaskan Glaciers will grow simultaneously –
And vice versa.
How did I fare?
The Puget Sound region has been a solid 3F below normal all spring and into the summer. We were under a cold gray trough basically the entire month of June. Our glaciers will advance for the second year in a row. They advanced last year due to a ridiculously cold spring. Artist’s Point at Mt. Baker, a big parking lot with a big view, never opened last year due to snow. This year the glaciers will continue their advance due to very high snowfall and low insolation during the longest days.
We are told, here in the UK, that our current unsummer weather is due to the southerly position of the jet stream. Would this be the case for other areas such as Alaska? And if so when the jet stream moves north will we be back to “global warming”?
Anthea
62 in Barrow. Wow. Thats unreal.
Current Arctic ice is a little paradoxical. Its thicker on the side near Greenland and east Canada where temperatures are record high, and apparently very thin on the North pacific side where temperatures are very low.
With all the major climate datasets in the hands of AGW activists, I wonder if they will continue to report year-on-year Arctic ice decline until icebergs start showing up in Manhatten and the Thames estuary.
News from the real world shows unusually heavy sea ice in the north Pacific:
http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/brutal-bering-sea-ice-blocking-arctic-supply-ships
http://iceagenow.info/2012/07/sea-ice-delays-shell-alaska-drilling/
And disruption to bird migratory pattern in the UK which isnt due to warming
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-18779775
Again in the real world. the tongue of cool water continues to extend off the Peruvian coast westward, south of the equator, such that the Nino index supposedly rising toward el Nino has just dipped. I still think that the ENSO nonlinear oscillator is finely balanced and could tip one way or the other, and that a triple-dip La Nina is still a strong possibility.
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_update/sstanim.gif
See here
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/07/12/moncktons-reply-to-eos-on-climate-denial/#comment-1032454
We must keep in mind though all of this is very interesting. But keep in mind as one of the previous comments stressed “weather is not climate.” The fact that it is very cold in Alaska cannot be pointed to as proof of climate change in either direction. To do so is to be just as foolhardy as those saying the heat waves in much of the rest of North America is tied to global warming. And I agree the present cold phase of the PDO is likely involved in the cold Achorage temperatures. Rod Chilton.
Joseph Bastardi says:
July 13, 2012 at 6:41 pm
Welcome to the cold PDO get used to it……..God help us if solar cycle theories are correct.
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Mr. Bastardi, With the current cold cycle of the PDO and an inactive sun, we should be returning to the ave global temperatures of the 60’s and 70’s? And the arctic sea ice will return? And the NH snow cover anomaly will recover? And Greenland land ice will stop melting? And the ocean heat content will start decreasing? And the sea level rise will level out and then decrease? Good luck with that one. When I see the arctic sea ice recovering (as you predicted over a year ago), I will start putting faith in your predictions.
“…By Alaska’s summer standards, it’s been cool in South-Central Alaska this month and especially this week. (By lower 48 standards, it’s flat out cold). It’s been so cool in Anchorage that for the past two days (July 11 and 12) high temperatures have been colder than Barrow, the 9th northernmost city in the world, which is more than 700 miles to the north of Alaska’s largest city…”
This story was written BEFORE it went through the Mann-o-matic – the corrected version will be picked up worldwide.
“…It’s been so hot in Barrow (the 9th northernmost city in the world), that for the past two days (July 11 and 12) high temperatures have been warmer than Anchorage, which is more than 700 miles to the SOUTH…”
See, it all depends on your perspective. If all you’re expecting to see is hotter than normal, you’ll find it. Just pick the right cities.