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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What are the global warming idiots going to do now?
What about the 99.99999999% of “climate scientists” that say my lawnmower is warming Mother Earth?
I guess the .000000001% was correct – man-made global warming is just Liberal BS……..
http://snowcore.uwaterloo.ca/snowtweets/vis/
Interesting snow pack logging via twitter
Smoking Frog, see Are Record Temperatures Abnormal? and Why the US East Coast Heatwave was not Unusual nor the Number of Record Temperatures Unprecedented.
Snow in Cairo!!!
I’m sorry folks, I just CAN’T imagine this scene being played with piping hot cups of Cadbury’s cocoa.
But it certainly would be worth waiting for.
William McClenney December 13, 2013 at 6:56 pm
Perhaps this will assuage your data-gaps:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/01/05/on-%E2%80%9Ctrap-speed-acc-and-the-snr/
Not unless the assuagement is in the comments. I haven’t read the comments. The blog post itself isn’t even relevant. The fact that temperatures can change abruptly tells us nothing about how likely or unlikely it is set any given number of records in a single week. Do I really have to explain this?
CORRECTION of Smoking Frog Dec 13 at 11:55 PM
“… is set any given number …” should be “… is to set any given number …”
IN July 2012, there was an article here about the Russians predicting a trend toward colder temps that was to last 200 years or so… In the discussion that followed two commenters went back and forth on whether the trend toward cooler weather would start that July or July 2013. It looks to me as if the guy for July 2012 was correct. And Yes it is colder here, but cold here is 30 degrees F. I am pleased to watch all the ice and snow passing north of us.
No no no, I thought that the science was settled!!! This can’t be!!! Better tell AlGore…
But, but it was warm down ole Dixie, was not it? Let’s skip the rest and keep being focused on that region for a while…
Interesting to read the comments on the LA Times. Any attempt to make a reasoned comment (as opposed to a “fun” throw away remark) seems to be met with the response – “you are a moron/stupid/doofus etc – you are a right wing conservative who cannot understand the difference between weather and climate and certainly can’t add up or do science.” All too typical a comment from those who will not engage their brains and critically examine the evidence in front of them.
But taking the difference between weather and climate – how is this defined? I’ve seen climate defined as average weather over time but this is too woolly. We seem to have a situation where every weather event can or cannot be attributed to agw. Is there a simple metric that a doofus like me could understand?? In my ignorance I thought measuring temperature would be sensible but apparently not.
Global warming hysteria, obamacare, and welfare/foodstamps/disability payments for lazy frauds–all pointing to an eventual REVERSAL of liberalism in the country and a REVERSAL of fortunes for the hucksters profiting from all ot them. [snip . . no, just no . . mod]
@TB
Well, in Madrid, Spain for example, yes it’s about 10 (C) degrees (50 F) at noon, but it is freezing in the early morning, around -4 (C) (24 F)… And that is below average, because freezing temperatures is not normal in Madrid. So even that it seems ‘relatively warm’ for Europe, it is even there still below average… 4 years ago we were having drinks outside at a terrace in december. In the evening you would have a stunning 20 (C) degrees plus (70 F).
And look at the middle east, that blob of cold weather near Egypt/Israel is extremely cold. So no, there is no spot, even in Europe, where the temperature at the moment is above average.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Look, I’m sorry, this is not the film “The Day after Tomorrow” (in which there is ZERO physics applied BTW)
We have basic physics to consider here – conservation of energy.
The whole NH (or SH) – cannot turn markedly either warmer than or colder than the average (for the time of year).
Hemispheric radiative balance ensures that along with the central heating system of the Oceans.
Look at this again: http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/ecmwf.php?ech=0&mode=100&map=1&archive=0
Are you saying that there is more blue than red there? – they should be about even but may not be as this is just a 2D snapshot of a 3D domain.
Also note that these are temp anomalies at ~5000ft and so in winter there will be boundary layer inversions in places that make surface temps colder than ave.
marcjf says:
December 14, 2013 at 1:16 am
>snip>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
See my posts in this thread to see how “Climate” is defined in terms of calculating a long term temperature trend in GCM’s.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/12/10/on-the-futility-of-long-range-numerical-climate-prediction/#comment-1500839
To you and I it is the weather we would expect at the place we go to on holiday.
But scientifically this is actually weather – the noise overlying the signal of climate.
Climate is not continually acting weather. As weather merely is the heat engine of the Earth acting to frantically get itself into thermodynamic balance twixt a overall source of solar heat at the equator up to about 45 deg N/S and the overall sinks from there to the Poles.
What climate is, is the variation in the changes in the energy the Earth’s heat engine has available to create the “weather” as it attempts to get to thermodynamic balance.
In the past (and now of course but it’s too slow to be a factor at human even generational time scales) is orbital changes. Then there are solar variations. Albedo changes (ice/snow fields giving SW reflection). Aerosols/volcanic activity …. And then we have GHG’s in the atmosphere.
When it comes to attributing a particular weather event to AGW then it’s a matter of statistics. How often has it happened before. Imagine it as say a saw-blade. The teeth represent the “weather” and the blade the “climate”. When tilted you are adding a bias (climate) – now warming. Over time you can tell that the “teeth” successively climb higher but it takes time to spot it and in reality the teeth are not all the same length.
Re-stating from 2002:
We knew decades ago that global warming alarmism was wrong. We confidently stated in 2002:
[PEGG, reprinted in edited form at their request by several other professional journals , the Globe and Mail and la Presse in translation, by Baliunas, Patterson and MacRae]
http://www.apegga.org/Members/Publications/peggs/WEB11_02/kyoto_pt.htm
On global warming:
“Climate science does not support the theory of catastrophic human-made global warming – the alleged warming crisis does not exist.”
On green energy:
“The ultimate agenda of pro-Kyoto advocates is to eliminate fossil fuels, but this would result in a catastrophic shortfall in global energy supply – the wasteful, inefficient energy solutions proposed by Kyoto advocates simply cannot replace fossil fuels.”
I suggest that our two above statements are now demonstrably true, within reasonable probabilities.
I also wrote in an article in the Calgary Herald published on September 1, 2002, based on a phone conversation with Paleoclimatologist Dr. Tim Patterson:
On global cooling:
“If (as I believe) solar activity is the main driver of surface temperature rather than CO2, we should begin the next cooling period by 2020 to 2030.”
I expect that global cooling will be a reality by 2020, and may have already started. The Watermelons have already begun their retreat from global warming hysteria, and have moved on to “climate change” alarmism and “sustainability”, their new mantras to achieve greater political power.
In fact, these disreputable people have discredited true environmentalism with their false alarm. There remain real environmental issues that need to be addressed. Catastrophic humanmade global warming is NOT one of them.
Repeating from 2002:
“Climate science does not support the theory of catastrophic human-made global warming – the alleged warming crisis does not exist.”
Regards to all, Allan
This Global Warming is terrible! Gore was right after all. I’m sweating . . . err . . . freezing my balls off!
Oh Al, fat Al – what say you? I don’t think he cares. He’s too busy preaching to the mind numb and flying around the world in his G VI.
rogerknights says:
December 13, 2013 at 11:40 am
littlepeaks says:
December 13, 2013 at 9:19 am
Here in Colorado, the meteorologists are predicting a another wave of extreme cold next weekend, right before Christmas.
Let’s hope it’ll kill off most of those bark beetles.
Given that the Pine bark beetle is a result of man’s desire to limit fire in the mountains, me thinks the only way to clear the forest of the beetles and damaged trees is in fact – Fire.
Too much damage over to large of an area.
marcjf
Someone had a good analogy: weather is like a baseball batter at the plate; climate is his batting average. Climate is statistical, weather is actual events. Weather drives climate, not the other way around.
Everyone knows that Global Warming makes things COLDER…….IF we had GLOBAL COOLING, we would be seeing RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES, because eveyone knows when you put something in the freezer, it gets warmer…..right DEMOCRAT LIARS?
Global warming scam, yet another violation of our rights. The gov’t constantly violates our rights.
They violate the 1st Amendment by caging protesters and banning books like “America Deceived II”.
They violate the 4th and 5th Amendment by allowing TSA to grope you.
They violate the entire Constitution by starting undeclared wars.
Impeach Obama.
Last link of “America Deceived II” before it is completely banned:
http://www.amazon.com/America-Deceived-II-Possession-interrogation/dp/1450257437
Why has the Left changed (global warming) to (climate change)? Hmm…?
Simple. In their quest to destroy the U.S. Economy so they can usher in their warped idea of a “progressive utopia,” they guessed wrong about what the climate was doing and now have to reverse gears (pretty hard on the transmission).
The global warming freaks had a 50/50 chance that the earth would become warmer over the most recent period of time and got it wrong. Now they’re stacking the deck and calling it climate change as if the climate isn’t suppose to change from year to year. Just the democrats trying to steal more money from the American worker through taxation.
I was listening to a report on the radio…I think FOX of all places and the reporter stated that, ‘while cold, this current outbreak was not setting many records’ or something to that extent. I am a meteorologist and just about threw the radio in the bathtub. What the H E double toothpick were they looking at?
It is Bush’s fault for not fighting carbon sooner. Had Bush implemented the carbon tax we would not be in predicament of both carbon pollution and a high national debt. If we could only get behind ObamaCare that would solve most of our problems. Plus make all the people in the US without visas legal so we could broaden the tax base. Oh, I forgot what about reducing the interest deduction for those earning over the social security wage base and increasing the national tax on fuel by 15 cents. Or maybe add a flat tax on top of the income taxes. There are fees, raise fees by 50%, do not need anyone the approve raising fees. Most importantly we must redistribute income to those who really need it by just scraping off a couple of per cent from the most wealthy. If all these had of been accomplished in the first few years of the Obama administration we would not be in the mess we are in now and we would not be the United State of America.