US record lows outpace record highs 127 to 4 this weekend

Am I reading the map incorrectly? It would appear that there were “high minimum temps” in Bismarck, Denver, Raleigh, NY, Portland, Chicago … why would there be HMTs in just those major cities? What about all the non-big-city areas around them? The generalized “low temps” seem to all be sitting out in the middle of nowhere.
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MJM

While we haven’t broken any records where I live, it is definitely cooler than normal in SW Ohio.
I don’t recall the last August (especially mid-month) when I’ve had the windows open, and wearing an extra shirt… and to top it off, the Starlings are already beginning to gather together. Normally, they start flocking in latter half of September.
That’s not a good sign if you’re hoping for a mild winter.

I would hate to live in the Midwest at the moment. Between drought, heat waves, record low temperatures your weather is bouncing around all over the place.

And I’ll bet you won’t hear one word of it in the MSM. Except for “this is consistent with climate change models. The earth is getting warmer”.

Anthony, I’m a bit sceptical of the 26 reported by your source for Big Rapids, MI. It certainly has been colder than normal in central Michigan and not widely commented on but that’s 10-20+ deg lower than the lows reported for other stations in the region on the 18th and well below freezing.
http://www.examiner.com/article/temperatures-dip-into-the-30s-saturday-morning
It just kind of jumped out at me. Even if this one is incorrect it doesn’t change the point of your post: Temps are well below normal over a large part of the country and no one is crying “Climate Change”.

Lies.All lies!!! Haven’t seen or heard anything about this from the LSM (Shirley I don’t need a sarc tag). Anywho,I noticed a lot of those “record” min temps were actually just ties. So shouldn’t the line say ” met or beat” record lows?

First major Canuckian cool-air mass of the season. Right on schedule. Arctic is cooling down too.
Y’all in the US midwest understandably may welcome this, but I lament the decline of summer….

Entropic man says:
August 20, 2012 at 3:57 am
I would hate to live in the Midwest at the moment. Between drought, heat waves, record low temperatures your weather is bouncing around all over the place.
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When the humidity is low the temperatures bounce a lot. Think deserts.
Sleepalot did a comparison of the Brazilian rainforest and the N. African Desert.

For May 2012, Barcelos, Brazil (Lat: 1 South)
Temp: monthly min 20C, monthly max 33C, monthly average 26C
Average humidity 90%
For May 2012, Adrar, Algeria (Lat: 27 North)
Temp: monthly min 9C monthly max 44C, monthly average 30C
Average humidity around 0%

I expanded the thought here

… The effect of the addition of water vapor (~ 4%) is not to raise the temperature but to even the temperature out. The monthly high is 10C lower and the monthly low is ~ 10C higher when the GHG H2O is added to the atmosphere in this example. The average temperature is about 4C lower in Brazil despite the fact that Algeria is further north above the tropic of Cancer. Some of the difference is from the effect of clouds/albedo but the dramatic effect on the temperature extremes is also from the humidity.
I took a rough look at the data from Brazil. Twelve days were sunny. I had to toss the data for two days because it was bogus. The average humidity was 80% for those ten days. The high was 32 with a range of 1.7C and the low was 22.7C with a range of 2.8C. Given the small range in values over the month the data is probably a pretty good estimate for the effects of humidity only. You still get the day-night variation of ~ 10C with a high humidity vs a day-night variation of 35C without and the average temp is STILL going to be lower when the humidity is high.
This data would indicate GHGs have two effects. One is to even out the temperature and the second is to act as a “coolant” at least if the GHG is H2O…

This of course backs up the comment of another who keeps saying temperature alone is the WRONG parameter and we should be including humidity in the calculations too.
Of course the Specific Humidity has been falling since 1948 according to NOAA so the Climastrologists would not want to call attention to that fact. The increase of CO2 is supposed to cause an increase in water vapor so the effect of CO2 can be multiplied by a factor of three to get the 2 to 4 C increase in temperature so widely publicized. Therefore a decrease in water vapor (negative feedback) would suggest that there has been a corresponding decrease in CO2 or at least the effect of the CO2 has been greatly diminished and not multiplied.
Kind of takes the “Catastrophic” out of the news doesn’t it.

This is what global warming looks like!

” Paul Homewood says:
August 20, 2012 at 4:40 am
The whole reporting of record highs is a sham”
This temperature series is a travesty. It’s a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham