Paging Seth Borenstein! 9787 new cold and snow records since March 13th
If this were a month of a heatwave across thus USA, like last July, you can bet it would be MSM headlines all over the place and breathless stories from AP’s Seth Borenstein and pronouncements from the Mannian climate cartel about how all this is connected to global warming, er climate change, er climate disruption.
Source here
But nary a peep so far about this cold wave lasting over a month that has generated 9787 records posted by NOAA/NWS.
Conversely, here is the list of high temperatures, and high minimum temperatures.
Source here
The tally to present for the last 6 weeks
High temperature records: 1214
Low temperature records: 3464
High minimum temperature records: 1957
Low maximum temperature records: 4323
Snowfall records: 2000
There is no corresponding anti-snowfall record.
h/t to Robert W. Felix at iceagenow.com
Discover more from Watts Up With That?
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
Box of Rocks says:
April 24, 2013 at 6:34 am
…The last freeze date in North Central Kansas is May 5th.
No it’s not! The Average Last Spring Freeze (28F or Lower) for Salina Kansas is: April 1st.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ict/?n=freeze
It starts out man-made global warming and moves into climate change and finally full circle to CO2 is causing man-made global cooling. Did I miss anything?
Robert says @ur momisugly 1:48
“Climate Mammoths”, then provides a link to the film by Simon Lamb called “Thin Ice”.
Having watched the short trailer where it quotes “Climate Scientists are under attack” (shown against a backdrop of good skeptical views from stars such as his lordship (Christopher Monkton), and also that part of Simon Lamb’s production team includes the UEA’s Phil Jones, I have arrived at this conclusion:
Well of course they’re under attack. They started it.
Hat tip to Fawlty Towers:
GERMAN: “Will you stop talking about the war”
BASIL: “Me? – well you started it”
GERMAN: “We did NOT start it”
BASIL: “Yes you did. You invaded Poland”
Re-tweeted; this is the coldest I’ve seen it this late into April that I can remember … we normally don’t get temps into the 30’s in this part of Texas this time of year …
These cold records are not 1-2 degrees below the old record, but 6-15 degrees below the old record – and right at the start of growing season.
Amarillo was 21 degrees this morning and the old record was 30 degrees.
A lot of people had to scramble to drain irrigation systems.
This cold is pushing back corn planting all across the country as the soil is still very cold.
It also is hurting the winter wheat yield as many fields are in the flower to dough stage and the kernels or flowers are frozen and are then killed. The cold is also affecting livestock as they need energy to keep warm rather than to grow.
Cotwome:
You speak of the “average”
I speak of the latest freeze date.
Maybe apples and oranges.
But with a record low of 27 degree F on the 14th of May, I am hedging my bets and not putting my maters out till the 11th of May this year.
For Salina, KS from Intellicast.com
Daily Averages & Records – °F | °C
Date Average
Low Average
High Record
Low Record
High Average
Precipitation Average
Snow
May 1 48° 71° 32° (1994) 92° (1955) 0.14″ NA
May 2 49° 72° 29° (1961) 93° (1955) 0.14″ NA
May 3 49° 72° 29° (1976) 91° (1959) 0.15″ NA
May 4 49° 72° 36° (1954) 88° (1952) 0.15″ NA
May 5 50° 72° 37° (1957) 90° (1952) 0.15″ NA
May 6 50° 73° 35° (1989) 94° (1955) 0.16″ NA
May 7 50° 73° 38° (1984) 92° (1966) 0.16″ NA
May 8 51° 73° 35° (1984) 93° (1963) 0.16″ NA
May 9 51° 74° 37° (1966) 96° (1963) 0.16″ NA
May 10 51° 74° 36° (1981) 96° (1967) 0.17″ NA
May 11 52° 74° 34° (1981) 98° (2000) 0.17″ NA
May 12 52° 75° 34° (1952) 95° (1956) 0.17″ NA
May 13 52° 75° 32° (1966) 90° (1988) 0.17″ NA
May 14 53° 75° 27° (1953) 92° (2001) 0.17″ NA
Here in Colorado, midway between Boulder and Denver, it has been a remarkable month. 35.5 inches of snowfall (22.3″ in a single storm), a low temperature of 4F on 4/10 and 9F on 4/18. For Denver, it will be one of the top 10 coldest Aprils on record.
This is the coldest spring in Austin Texas since I’ve been here (9 years). Today is in the 40’s. My garden doesn’t know what to do- since I planted my warm-season plants in mid-march like we’re supposed to!
Greg says:
April 24, 2013 at 2:32 am
Watch out if the weather carries on in the US, you may have an influx of german tourists this year. 😉
###
Well, I don’t know about that, but Germans are the only people who tour Phoenix Arizona … in the summer!
A theory that predicts everything is a theory that predicts NOTHING. – principium contradictionis – Aristotle
@JC
One reason that hot and cold records can occur adjacent to each other is that they’re connected. I live in Utah, and in the spring (as well as in the winter, but it’s more pronounced in spring) cold weather systems, like the one that brought record cold and snow last week, are always proceeded by abnormally hot temperatures, because the approach of the low pressure system causes strong south winds. So it’s common (in Utah, at least) to have record-breaking heat one day, and record-breaking cold the very next day. It all depends on the strength, timing and positions of the storms. In other words, plain simple weather can cause high temperature swings of 30-35 degrees F in a single 24 hour period.
LKMiller:
Most of Oregon is still breaking cold records. This week was supposed to be in the 80s, but our highs are still in the 60s. It’s 0838 here at 1700′ in Eastern OR & 33 degrees F.
Anti-snowfall records? LOL
We have set a lot of low records, one high record, and of course a snowfall record in that time period.
No record Anti-snowfall records however.
The polar vortex will be sending another cold finger down through western canada and northern states by early next week. Expect record lows again.
Jimbo says:
April 24, 2013 at 2:53 am
“Exhibit 3
26 August 2006
Spring is arriving earlier each year as a result of climate change, the first “conclusive proof” that global warming is altering the timing of the seasons, scientists announced yesterday……”
I think each of these doomsters should be contacted and asked what their views are these days. Temperatures are probably ~-5 to -10C or so below their balmy beliefs. James Lovelock the inventor of “Gaia” and a former believer in catastrophic warming – including a book on it- recanted:
http://www.climatedepot.com/2012/04/23/alert-gaia-scientist-james-lovelock-reverses-himself-i-was-alarmist-about-climate-change-so-was-gore-the-problem-is-we-dont-know-what-the-climate-is-doing-we-thought-we-knew-20-years-ago/
Do the others have the fortitude and integrity to do the same? I’d like to see their answers. Why not do a survey asking what the main proponents think now. They’ve done surveys of sceptics (well I guess Lewandowski did a virtual survey or some such).
Note in Sea Ice section of WUWT that parts of the arctic have recently gotten colder (NOAA ESRL Arctic temperatures – the link doesn’t work) most of Greenland and central Canadian Arctic are below -30C.
Two good things will come out of this record cold and snow this spring. It should basically wipe out the mountain pine beetle and keep forest fire hazard low in Alberta saving the tax payer a huge chunk of cash that we are so desperate for now. What will happen is the next warm spell will bring out alarmist media reports feed by the forestry bureaucrats crying for public money to maintain the problem at all costs. Secret — there is no problem.
Question: Are the Cryosphere Arctic Sea Ice maps supposed to accurately depict NH snow cover? They have not shown any snow cover of the British Isles this spring, though I keep hearing stories about massive snows.
Just wondering.
Ben
If we wan’t to talk about (short term climate change) long term weather and man made contribution – go watch the PBS series on the dust bowl of the 1930’s with dust storms that carried dust from the Texas Panhandle to cover the whole eastern seaboard of the US and several hundred miles out to sea. It would not have been as bad if farming practices had been different perhaps, but from 1930 to 1935 or so, everyone from Texas to Alberta Canada was affected by lack of rain and unbelievable wind storms. SInce most people were still farming with horses, I doubt it was caused by CO2. If you watch that documentary, you will get a real appreciation for the power of nature. My parents and grandparents lived through that time. What we have now doesn’t even appear to be a blip in comparison but maybe there are other factors.
Dear CO2,
Some “control knob” you’ve turned out to be. You’re acting like a weenie, second-rate green house gas and if you don’t start pulling your weight, you will be replaced by something more insidious.
Warmest regards,
dz
Problem with “climate craziness” or “extreme weather”, it is now admitted that there has been no significante warming for several decades (covered by finding invented warming convenienttly placed where no one can feel it under the ocean). “Extreme weather” can only be caused by “global warming” of the atmosphere. Therefore, we can have hidden heat under the ocean, OR we can have “extreme weather”, we cannot have both.
And that means that the several decades of claims of effects “right now” of “global warming” cannot have been true. Soooo…we are listineing to anything they say…why?
Not to worry, Seth will get his chance at “redemption” as the sun heats the northern hemisphere, I believe the official line will be, “Its warming at an unprecedented rate, just last month it was 16 F below the average, now its at normal temperatures for this season, if this rate of warming continues,we will all fry by next tuesday.”
Borestein is probably a bot.
Larry in Texas says:
April 24, 2013 at 2:52 am
Brrrrr! It’s now April 24, and we have 41 degrees down here in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, with a wind chill that makes it feel like it is 35 degrees. This is not my idea of spring, especially this close to May in Texas. Global warming is MUCH better than global cooling. Lol!
***********************************************
Seconded. Getting pretty tired of this stuff (so are my plants). At this rate I’m concerned that we won’t have much of a summer… and that’s bad news in the electricity business.
The USA is only a small percentage of the Earth……….UNLESS it’s a heatwave – in which case it makes global news headlines as a sure sign of what global warming looks like. 🙂
Just 2 days ago Saskatchewan in Canada saw more signs of early spring.
24th April, and here in NW Europe, we have not a single leaf on any tree. How far if this behind normal – is there a website that records ‘first leaf’ each year??