Compare to 98 high temperature records, and 141 high minimum temperature records
Quite an imbalance in weather records this week. Even the AGU fall meeting in San Francisco where the best and brightest global warming scientists were meeting was surrounded by record (such as 25F in San Jose Dec 9th) and near record setting low temperatures, though the irony was lost on many of them.
See the map:
Source: NOAA National Weather Service and HamWeather records center
Low Temp: 606 + Low Max temp 1234 + Snowfall 385 = 2225
In other cold and snowy news, the Egyptian capital of Cairo sees snowfall for the first time in 112 YEARS
Here are some other nearby temperatures for December 9th, the first full day of the AGU Fall Meeting:
:REGIONAL TEMPERATURE AND PRECIPITATION TABLE
:NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA
:430 PM PST MON DEC 09 2013
:
:HIGH AND LOW TEMPERATURES PAST 18 HOURS AS OF 4 PM TODAY.
:PRECIPITATION PAST 24 HOURS. M=MISSING T=TRACE.
.BR SFO 1209 P DH16/TX/TN/PPDRZZ
:
: ID : LOCATION ELEV : HIGH/ LOW / PP24HR /
:
:...NORTH BAY...
KENC1: KENTFIELD 145 : 46 / 25 / 0.00 /
NSHC1: NAPA 35 : 50 / 24 / 0.00 /
APC : NAPA ARPT 33 : 49 / 19 / 0.00 /
SARC1: SAN RAFAEL 120 : 49 / 29 / 0.00 /
STS : SONOMA CNTY ARPT 125 : 35 / 19 / 0.00 /
:
:...SAN FRANCISCO PENINSULA...
HMBC1: HALF MOON BAY 27 : 52 / 34 / 0.00 /
RWCC1: REDWOOD CITY 145 : 52 / 27 / 0.00 /
SFOC1: SAN FRANCISCO 150 : 51 / 36 / 0.00 /
SFO : SAN FRANCISCO ARPT 8 : 52 / 36 / 0.00 /
:
:...EAST BAY...
CWPC1: CONCORD 23 : 48 / 34 / 0.00 /
CCR : CONCORD ARPT 23 : 47 / 28 / 0.00 /
FETC1: FREMONT 38 : M / M / M /
HWD : HAYWARD ARPT 47 : 52 / 28 / 0.00 /
LVK : LIVERMORE ARPT 393 : 48 / 27 / 0.00 /
OAMC1: OAKLAND 30 : 56 / 34 / 0.00 /
OAK : OAKLAND ARPT 86 : 54 / 30 / 0.00 /
RICC1: RICHMOND 20 : 51 / 31 / 0.00 /
:
:...SOUTH BAY AND SANTA CLARA VALLEY...
GILC1: GILROY 194 : 53 / 29 / 0.00 /
NUQ : MOFFETT FIELD 34 : 51 / 29 / 0.00 /
MGNC1: MORGAN HILL 350 : 52 / 27 / 0.00 /
SJC : SAN JOSE ARPT 51 : 51 / 25 / 0.00 /
:
:...MONTEREY BAY AND BIG SUR...
BISC1: BIG SUR STATION 200 : M / M / M /
MTR : MONTEREY NWS 122 : 52 / 29 / 0.00 /
MRY : MONTEREY ARPT 165 : 54 / 28 / 0.00 /
SCRC1: SANTA CRUZ 130 : 57 / 25 / 0.00 /
WVI : WATSONVILLE ARPT 160 : 56 / 25 / 0.00 /
:
:...INTERIOR MONTEREY COUNTY/SAN BENITO COUNTY...
CVVC1: CARMEL VALLEY 480 : 54 / 24 / 0.00 /
HOLC1: HOLLISTER 275 : 53 / 29 / 0.00 /
KICC1: KING CITY 320 : 55 / 19 / 0.00 /
SNSC1: SALINAS 85 : 55 / 26 / 0.00 /
SNS : SALINAS ARPT 84 : 55 / 26 / 0.00 /
.ENDTODAY`S HIGH AND LOW TEMPERATURES.
* = ESTIMATED HIGH TEMPERATURE.
+ = ESTIMATED LOW TEMPERATURE.
# = ESTIMATED HIGH AND LOW TEMPERATURE.
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@ur momisugly Ric Werme says:
December 13, 2013 at 9:46 am
I noticed the same thing about the comments. Make some popcorn and read the comments of this LA Times article on the snow in Cario:
http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-snow-israel-egypt-20131213,0,1691393.story#axzz2nMzV6vMp
Not only is it fun reading, but it highlights (IMO) that the tipping point of public sentiment has been crossed…
I agree with the poster that thinks this Arctic cold blast was early..long lasting low.. Here in Wisconsin were used to cold snaps, but more like in the teens, twentys and thirties for first part of December. Long lasting single digit and sub zero more like January. Mother natures seasonal flow patterns are mucked up, somewhat for the year around here.
Climate Change is Automatic, and it’s been that way for a billion years.
Ice age coming. And I don’t think it is a little one.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/03/16/the-end-holocene-or-how-to-make-out-like-a-madoff-climate-change-insurer/
“77-’78 in SW Virginia was brutal. Even worse in the Ohio Valley.”
Recall those winters fondly, late 70s in New England. Blizzard of ’78 is the “big one” we still talk about. I was young, and full of beans, and in my element. Now I say, “No thank you.”
Cold in the Antarctic as well …
http://dailycaller.com/2013/12/13/aussie-ship-returns-home-after-3-weeks-stuck-in-antarctic-summer-ice/
The cold is obviously cause by heat… lol
I heard this can happen when it’s cold out.
Yeah, it was brutal in ’78 up in Michigan – I remember we had ice that we could skate on well into the spring…
@ur momisugly pokerguy – always like your comments over at Climate, Etc.
Please don’t publish any more stories like this. It makes the Global Warming crowd look even dumber than we thought.
What up wit dat Big Al?
Nice pictures of summer snow in Australia that you would not have seen on our freakishly alarmist ABC.
http://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/snow-falling-in-australia-in-summer-that-is-all/story-e6frflp0-1226775945701
More of that global warming:
http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-snow-israel-egypt-20131213,0,1691393.story#axzz2nMzV6vMp
A friend sent a FB picture of a family of Bedouins in the West Bank outside their makeshift tent dressed only in the lightest of clothes. Clearly for some, warm is better than cold.
Eustace Cranch says:
December 13, 2013 at 10:30 am
Thanks for confirming my suspicions. That is just what I expect. Oh, the pain.
Resourceguy says:
December 13, 2013 at 10:22 am
So the UN says we must redistribute wealth from the developed countries to less developed in the name of global warming. Once the funds are released no doubt it will be hard to track the actual uses of the funds, such as to purchase heaters and heating fuels for the shivering masses.
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Yes, they also need to buy snow shovels.
“Matthew W says:
December 13, 2013 at 10:17 am
Since the science is settled that man made global warming causes hotcoldwetdry, theses records are expected.”
The hocus-pocus science of climate change – ‘Hocostocalwetdry’
(See – ‘abracadabra’)
(sarc)
Dave-0 says:
December 13, 2013 at 12:02 pm
Remember when James Lovelock said “I have a feeling that climate change may be an issue as severe as a war. It may be necessary to put democracy on hold for a while.” I suspect the left will soon find another vehicle with which to separate us from out money and freedom. Candidates currently up for consideration are “income inequality”, “sexist men looking at women” and “open borders.” Take your pick.
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Or women sexually assaulting men? Like this…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/10516155/Female-protester-pictured-kissing-policeman-accused-of-sexual-assault.html
The world turned upside down…
That’s an interesting correlation between the weakest solar cycle in a century and these heavy snowfalls and record freezing temperatures occurring throughout the world, and not just in the northern hemisphere.
Interesting still, there have also been small changes in earths orbital parameters, which are ongoing as a result of a major astronomical event that occurred in 1999.
But I suppose correlation does not imply causation, and then again, sometimes it does. or does it?
Steve from Rockwood says:
December 13, 2013 at 10:10 am
“BTW a first snowfall in Cairo in over 100 years is climate, not weather.”
Well, it only took 10 years for the 1970’s ice age scare to turn into the 1980’s man made global warming scam and another 10 years or so for man made global warming to turn into man made climate change. So I think a sensible bet is to think these so-called experts are full of [self snip] and prepare for global cooling again.
I’m an AGW skeptic, but I’ve never seen a skeptic blog post or article announcing a number of cold-temperature records broken which offers any indication of how common or uncommon it is to see various numbers of broken cold-temperature records, or even commentary on that question. This makes me suspicious, and actually, it makes me feel contempt for such announcements.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/175126
DELICIOUS! Snowing in IRAN too!
You know what happens when HECK freezes over!!!
Smoking Frog says:
December 13, 2013 at 2:10 pm
I’m an AGW skeptic, but I’ve never seen a skeptic blog post or article announcing a number of cold-temperature records broken which offers any indication of how common or uncommon it is to see various numbers of broken cold-temperature records, or even commentary on that question. This makes me suspicious, and actually, it makes me feel contempt for such announcements.
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Resourceguy says:
December 13, 2013 at 10:18 am
“”It’s snowed in Cairo for the first time in 112 years”
Yes, and there were no sun spots at about that time 112 years ago. And as I noticed in viewing a TV documentary of Beethoven he wrote that in the summer of 1794 it was oppressively hot in Vienna and there was no ice supply in the city (from the Alps). I immediately turned off the documentary to go look up sun spots around the time of 1794 and it does show a spike around then before the onset of the Dalton. These things just keep popping up at me, for something that supposedly has no correlation to global temps.”
Indeed. Solar variation, including indirect effect, is the explanation for both the Little Ice Age’s onset and recovery, the pattern in sea level rise rate variation in the past century, and much more (as illustrated in http://img176.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=81829_expanded_overview_122_424lo.jpg for example). As Dergachev et al 2004 noted, the prime indirect effect of it relates to “the main factor affecting the weather and climate during tens of thousand years” (Russian paper translated into English, online at http://rjes.wdcb.ru/v06/tje04163/tje04163.htm ).
As a solar Grand Minimum appears to approach, later this decade and beyond should see substantial cooling. This year is still a local solar cycle maximum, but, after this cycle’s maximum diminishes over the next several years, then really serious cooling can occur. People today haven’t seen anything yet compared to what is coming later, so to speak.
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“still a local solar cycle maximum” (add: albeit an unusually weak one compared to the late 20th century)
Matthew W says:
December 13, 2013 at 2:23 pm
Smoking Frog says:
December 13, 2013 at 2:10 pm
I’m an AGW skeptic, but I’ve never seen a skeptic blog post or article announcing a number of cold-temperature records broken which offers any indication of how common or uncommon it is to see various numbers of broken cold-temperature records, or even commentary on that question. This makes me suspicious, and actually, it makes me feel contempt for such announcements.
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Mathew: Welcome. I’m not sure that there is an argument here as you feel. This post is informational and hopefully will spark comments and debate. Not everything is posted as a pure one sided argument, and most of us here would call this post of the cold snap “Weather” and not proof of anything other than ironic considering the AGU Fall Meeting this week in SF, where they are there to promote a one sided argument. If you’re looking for a one sided argument, this is not the site to find it. We enjoy all sides of a debate in general and seek truth above all. All points of view are respected. Dishonesty or sloppy work is called out. That’s one unique aspect of WUWT, in my opinion. A statement like yours at SKS might get you banned forever.