NOAA forecast shows lows into the 30’s and 40’s for much of the norther and western USA will likely continue. Where’s that global warming when we need it?
| Total Records: | 1295 |
| High Temp: | 47 |
| Low Temp: | 451 |
| Low Max Temp: | 671 |
| High Min Temp: | 126 |
Source: http://wx.hamweather.com/maps/climate/records/1week/us.html?cat=maxtemp,mintemp,snow,lowmax,highmin
Here are the forecast lows:
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Source: http://graphical.weather.gov/sectors/conus.php?element=T
I believe with all my heart that man made global warming is a farce. For as long as the earth has existed, there have been cyclical periods of warming & cooling. I live in Memphis, TN, where it has been unbearably hot for many years. This summer has been more like what I remember growing up here. We’ve had lows dipping into the 60’s & highs anywhere from high 70’s to 80’s for many days. We have had temps closer to normal in the mid 90’s, as well. But, after a few days, a cold front comes through bringing us rain & cooler temps. I’ve had my windows open on several days & nights this summer; I can’t remember being able to do that since I was young.
Corvallis Or, Hyslop Weather Station. This station, which is a class one station, has recorded 10 days, above 90 degrees, this July. Doubt today the temperature will reach that mark.
Farmers in the upper Midwest are concerned about the low temps, both night and day, because crops got planted so late this year due to the wet spring. Now the corn, especially, needs hot weather to catch up, although a lot of corn acreage was switched to shorter-maturity corn. Early July helped, but the 10-day forecast is for more unseasonably cool weather, and growers are starting to fear an early frost as well.
Actually, taxpayers that should be concerned too. The farm programs are probably generous enough to bail out most of the growers regardless of their crop outcomes. For example, I know they (we) were paying growers several hundred dollars an acre to leave some ground unplanted when it got too late to plant. An early frost could cost taxpayers a pile of money this year, and those who get a crop will do very, very well.
An early frost would also add an interesting twist to the debate about running 30-40% of the typical corn crop through our vehicles…
@Jeff Allen
The temperatures North of 80 degrees North (i.e. in the Arctic) have been below normal all year, and are about to go below freezing again quite a bit earlier than usual. Check the DMI temperature plot on the Sea Ice Reference page here. Also, Antarctic Sea Ice has been at record levels for over two years running now, and temperatures have been below normal in the vast majority of the Antarctic for quite some time as well, so where, exactly, are these warm circumpolar temperatures that you are referring to???
Of course the heat “went somewhere”… most likely radiated out to space through the ToA. We are in a cooling phase now, and it is going to get stronger.
Problem is, as usual, no amount of evidence of cooling will get the attention of the warmists, and no matter how gold it gets der Fuehrer and Joseph (uh, Gina) McCarthy will forge ahead with their war on coal. (A communist – uh, a coal in every corner!)
Meanwhile, over in the MSM: “Runnnnnnnnnnnnawayyyyyyyyyy grrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeennnnnnhouuuuuuuuuuuse ….. morrrrrrrrrrrreeeee prrrrrrrrroababllllllllllllle thannnnnnnnnnn prrrrrrrrrrrrreviously thouuuuuuuuuuuught!”
Here in the intermountain west we had a number of max. low temps. followed by min. low temps. This was due to a heavy monsoonal flow that kept night time temps up until the rains began, followed by cooling as evaporation took over.
North Texas is experiencing a “nothing special” summer, but it’s lows are really nice, and have been more or less staying under or around 80 at night. That’s unusual for late July, when it’s typically a good five degrees warmer.
No complaints, especially after the preceding years.
Rod Everson says:
July 31, 2013 at 7:54 am
“Farmers in the upper Midwest are concerned about the low temps…”
Farmers will do well to pay more attention to these threads and less to the Global Warming swindle. (probably already do)
Antarctic sea ice extent keeps up its resistance.
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/S_stddev_timeseries.png
Another new thing is heat without humidity in most of the U.S., until it gets outlawed or taxed.
What surprises me is that these record lows beat out the several years of cooler summers following the eruption of Krakatoa. Someone find Jimmy boy and have him roll his climate dice to tell us how likely this is.
In Australia, most States have had a warm July (winter time). So they say. Where I live it has been cold and wet. What that means is that I have it wrong and the weather mob have it ‘right.’ Of course now we have predictions of a blistering summer.
Did this article lead to the daily Mail covering it?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2382147/What-happened-heatwave-More-1-000-American-cities-record-coldest-temperatures.html
Couldn’t get this posted this morning before work so here are the monthly record stats for the full year (Hopefully format will hold)
Month High Temp Low Temp Low Max High Min
Jan 2383 722 1299 3057
Feb 251 395 526 369
Mar 856 1454 1405 817
Apr 716 3544 4206 1602
May 936 1232 877 1210
Jun 1302 204 519 1475
Jul 655 980 1710 1880
Total 7099 8531 10542 10428
“North Texas is experiencing a “nothing special” summer, but it’s lows are really nice, and have been more or less staying under or around 80 at night. ”
I beg to differ. We had record lows and record low highs the week of July 4th and it was in the upper 80s last week for two days with a north wind. Very unusual for North Texas.
I can see it now – warmist spin on the arctic sea ice freezing all the way to 30 degrees north this fall – “there is a record amount of fragile first year ice and smallest percentage on record of multi year ice.” Then when next summer thaws back to only 50 degrees north “record area of ice melt in one season.”
Other than the 1-2 week of warm lows due to humidity- at or just above 70 IMBY southern PA – its been mainly pleasant with some nights down into the 50s. I am just now getting tomatoes to pick – almost a month behind last year. 2013 is running way behind 2012 in avg temp.
Canberra not hottest on record: was equalled in 1924 at Queenbeyan, pretty much the same place.
http://www.warwickhughes.com/blog/