US record lows outpace record highs 127 to 4 this weekend

I suggest making this a weekly feature so we can all see if and how the highs and lows are changing.
But why leave out the High Min and Low Max temps? They are significant too, no?

Record highs followed by record lows? Oh no. Climate disruption! CO2 caused this!

Isn’t that amazing? We have had warm weather in SE Europe for the first couple of weeks of August, and now it is much cooler. Extreme weather, no doubt, for the last 50 to 100 years…. And all the Greek mountains that are scheduled to have wind farms are on fire by some miracle… But we shall be saving on CO2 with the windmills.

September cool front in August in North TX. Does this mean we are 20-25 days into fall now? Starlings were flocked up this morning. Let’s see what the grackles do the new few days. The knocking down of the thermal Southern Plains ridge this early will have real consequences weather-wise the next few weeks. This is uncharted territory.

Interesting that the ‘blanketed’ readings (high lows and low highs) on that map are all in the mountains. Usually that’s where you find the low lows.

Having enjoyed one of the most wonderful, warm summer in ages in Waterloo, this should be the time of year when it is unbearably hot. The CNE is on! (Canadian National Exhibition). I have seen the Shell Tower temperature hit 106 F and that is right at the lakeshore. That was in 1969.
Today, fall is here. Leaves on maple trees turned over the weekend between Waterloo and Stratford. It is getting too cold to wear shorts – my knees are freezing!
How about consulting the traditional climate modelling/predicting system: What percentage of the Woolly Bear caterpillers body is brown this year? They are black-brown-black striped with the middle brown section supposed to foretell the winter: short = hard, long = mild
The statement that ‘climate models forecast’ the current cold weather can’t pass without comment. What a load of BS. Show me a climate model that actually predicts much colder weather around the world. That ‘prediction’ is just CYA bull-speak from warmists who see their gold-plated predictions being trashed by Grandma Nature who has apparently taken a dim view of their alarmist nonsense.
NOAA says (real data) that the specific humidity has been dropping for 60 years. Huh. And CO2 has rise continuuously all that time. Anyone see a spurious correlation here? CO2 dries the apmpsphere, apparently. Certainly a better match than CO2 and increased temperature, right? Given that all GMC’s predict a rise in specific humidity with an increase in CO2, we see another FAIL sign attached to them. (All of them? Wouldn’t want to pre-judge!)
Next we will be hearing from the CAGW camp that we need to reduce the CO2 level of the atmosphere in order to bring temperatures up again. If it continues to get colder, at least we will be able to burn all the Stupid lying around to thaw the pipes.

What do the stats of record highs and lows tell us?
Both AGW proponents and AGW skeptics believe that global temperatures – with a lot of averaging – change with time. AGW-ers believe that we now have unidirectional warming, for ever and ever amen. Skeptics also believe that climate changes, but that at short-medium time scales this change is a roughly sinusoidal oscillation. And we appear to be currently at the top of an oscillation with maximal temperatures for a century or so.
The month-to-month temperature record of course adds a huge amount of noise and up-and-down fluctuation to these slowly moving averages. If you take the sinusoidal oscillation model, then you would always expect more high temperature records when you are at the peak of a temperature oscillation, and more low records when you are in a trough. (The fact that you still get record lows when near a temperature peak shows how wide the short term fluctuation is.)
So there is no problem from the skeptic point of view for there to be currently more record highs than record lows. We are at a peak of natural temperature oscillation so more record highs would be expected than record lows. In a trough the opposite is expected.
So what is the big deal about record highs and lows?

phlogiston says:
August 20, 2012 at 8:39 am
We are at a peak of natural temperature oscillation so more record highs would be expected than record lows.
However when you consider that there has been natural warming since the LIA, the new low records are doubly bad for warmists. See:
http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/akasofu_ipcc.jpg

So the trend of record highs outpacing lows has been intensifying and going on for several years – that’s why it got a lot of attention. A one-time blip of record lows may get a little attention, but nobody is saying there won’t ever be any record lows ever again. You should put this information about record lows into the larger context of trends of record highs versus record lows – then it would be useful information.
As for media coverage, I can assure you that, if we see a real and documented long-term trend toward lower temperatures, record lows, or if someone shows that global warming is NOT happening, it will get all sorts of media attention. Til then, stay cool!