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 /
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:...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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I know it’s been cold here…12.2* here last week…I don’t know much about weather and climate and all but before the mini ice age-besides the lack of sun spots-wasn’t there a lot of volcanism going on? Isn’t there a lot of volcanoes going off now-constantly? All the ash and gases going into the atmosphere…Some one help me out-it’s not us-it’s nature…Right?
Wow, this must be the largest echo chamber on planet Earth. Enjoy! Echo! Echoooo!
More evidence of CLIMATE CHANGE and the extremes that go with it.
“Extremes” caused by Global Warming? Are you REALLY this cognitively dissonant? Warmer weather? Global Warming. Cooler weather? Global Warming. Wetter weather? Global Warming. Drier weather? Global Warming. You people are simply AMAZING….amazingly obtuse.
Ah smoking frog,
It is you- BBD, your style of writing gives you away my friend.
With intellectual fire power like this –
‘Huffpost super user…’
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Normally winds are predominantly either east or west because of the planet’s spin.
The increase in global temperatures may cause an increase of north-south convection by introducing more energy into the system.
13 DEC 15:17
REPLY FAVE MORE
No wonder we are screwed.
My girlfriend is an AGW (Anthropogenic Goober Warmer)
time to sue al gore
Warmer sea surface temperatures which would be a result of climate change causes an atmospheric event called blocking. Blocking is when the flow of the jet stream is disrupted by high pressure usually over the northern Atlantic and pacific in the northern hemisphere. The CONUS was impacted by two blocking events in the pacific and Atlantic placing a trough of cooler air over most of the CONUS. So, climate change is happening and it alters the whole atmosphere so some places will be warmer than others and some cooler. Also, blocking is probably what is probably the result of cold and snowy conditions in the Mid East.
RicHard December 14, 2013 at 8:54 am
Ah smoking frog, It is you- BBD, your style of writing gives you away my friend.
I don’t know who or what BBD is. Please tell me.
Some of the replies I’ve received are remarkable for their bigotry, and this includes yours. There is nothing wrong with the idea that a given number of cold-temperature records in a single week tells us nothing about how likely or unlikely such an event is, but in case there is something wrong with it, this should be explained.
As to the one or more commenters who told me that the point of announcing 2,000 records was irony, I say that this does not obviate my complaint, because the post sounds as though the writer (Mr. Watts, I guess) considers the record-breaking to be important. I myself find the misuse of high-temperature records by alarmists to be annoying but not worth bothering about except on occasion of such misuse.
As to those who told me that I must be new here, I say no. I’ve been reading this blog several times a week for years, but I have only seldom commented because I only seldom have anything to say which I consider to be worth saying – and this is with knowing more about AGW than some of the commenters.
As to those who think I’m not an AGW skeptic, they are wrong, but I find the yahoo character of many comments (not all, don’t get me wrong) disgusting. If I knew as little about AGW as some of these people seem to, I would never even make a peep.
Very occasionally, I have succumbed to the temptation to argue. The main example would be arguments I had with the commenter Myrrh, whose comments I found so far out to lunch – that I did succumb.
I think that yahoo comments are harmful to AGW skepticism. They’re just the mirror image of the crap that I see on alarmist blogs. I hate to argue with skeptics, because it can be seen as supporting alarmism, but unfortunately it is necessary to attack this mirror-image situation.
Yes, Robn, let’s just ban the element, along with that most DANGEROUS of compounds dihydrogen monoxide; people DROWN in that stuff all time *and* its been falling from the sky as of late and FREEZING on roadway surfaces! This causes accidents and loss of life and productivity!
Sign the petition NOW!
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What must Al Gore be thinking now? How to spin this massive cooling in to a side effect of global warming. If any wacko could do it and have his idiotic sycophants believe it, its him.
Robin Hood, you have to be an unmitigated moron. You’ve got hutzpah for posting such garbage, I’ll give you that, but it’s still intellectually shallow and you’re a typical uninformed liberal.
pokerguy (December 13, 2013 at 12:41 pm) “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.””
Same here. I still don’t mind shoveling a foot, but 2-3 not so much (e.g. Shenandoah Valley winter of 2009-2010).
I think about this: http://www.leif.org/research/Ap-1844-now.png With apologies in advance to Leif for appropriating his chart for some speculation: the cold winters of the 70’s were about a decade after the drop in solar activity. That means around 2020 we will see some even more brutal winters. I am not looking forward to that, but I will be prepared unlike 97% of climate scientists.
Sorry mr watts, delete if necessary, I just have an interest in following writing patterns of certain people.
Mr frog, taking a closer watch I see you posted under the name of dumb scientist, you sure turn up in a lot of areas under different names.
Going out on a long limb did you also post under the name your kids aren’t special on youtube.
Jim,
Anther chemical we might disband is NaCl. I bet ObamaCare could get behind that. No Dihydrogen monoxide nor Sodium Chloride ail our problems we be solved.
TB (December 13, 2013 at 3:19 pm) :The lesson here is that where there is unusual cold – there are also areas of unusual warmth.”
That is true sometimes, but not always. When the polar jet pushes cold air south it might also push some north, but it might not. The average temperature of the earth doesn’t balance. There is no equilibrium anywhere never mind everywhere. When it gets warm. somewhere there is no balancing cold and vice versa.
The lesson here is that the earth can cool off drastically and there’s not much we can do about it.
The earth is warmed only by somewhat feeble sunlight which can be bounced back into space. The alleged increase in storminess also causes an increase in the earth’s net heat loss. Those effects can produce local cold that are not balanced by warmth somewhere else.
Generally true….however, you might remember that the original “computer model” upon which many in the IPCC relied in making their predictions completely FORGOT the increase in albedo that would occur, caused by higher heat evaporating more sea water and thus producing more cloud cover when it was making its “predictions.” Increased albedo would have the effect of COOLING the surface.
TB (December 14, 2013 at 2:58 am) “We have basic physics to consider here – conservation of energy.”
That is absolutely incorrect. The planet cannot conserve energy because it is not a closed system.
I’m wondering why my reply to RicHard has not appeared, even though many other messages have appeared in the meantime.
TB (December 14, 2013 at 3:23 am) “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.”
Climate is simply net heat loss. There is no “balance”, stored heat can be removed in a day or two equivalent to years of global warming from CO2. A decade or two of global warming can be lost in a week or two. Other weather can cause rapid planetary warming. There is a lot of thermal inertia that blunts the extreme swings and various negative feedbacks on the positive and negative side. All weather and feedbacks are local so weather, yet again, will determine exchanges of heat and the future climate.
Oops … formatting faux paus on my part …
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Yes! I know! Chlorine is highly reactive! Imagine if everybody had access to something so reactive (notwithstanding DHS control efforts to the contrary)!
And Sodium! Cited by the American Heart Association as THE cause for high blood pressure and a major risk factor for cardiovascular diseases! One in three Americans is estimated to develop high blood pressure by consuming this silver-white metal!
The Horror!
Coal Fired power plants in China and India are spewing massive amounts of sulfur compounds and very fine particulates into the air, which cause global cooling. Furthermore, there has been an increase in volcanic activity, which also causes global cooling. And, since the sun is now putting out less energy than it has in 100 years it’s no surprise that the earth is cooling down some. However, with continued increase in greenhouse gases over the next 20 or 30 years global warming will eventually overtake the current cooling effect with a vengeance.
There it is again! Global warming is (or will result in) Global Cooling…which will cause Global Warming…but sometime in the far-off future. One can only wonder just HOW someone becomes so delusional.
The scientific understanding of the Sun’s role in climate is imperfect. Many respected scientists say the Sun does not vary enough to be a significant driver of global temperatures. I disagree, although my understanding, and that of the science community as a whole, is less than adequate.
I (we) predicted the commencement of global cooling by 2020-2030 in an article published the Calgary Herald in 2002. That prediction is gaining credibility as solar activity has crashed.
Current Solar Cycle 24 (SC24), predicted as recently as 2006 by NASA to be robust, is a dud, with a projected maximum Smoothed Sunspot Number (SSNmax) of ~65. It is still early in the prediction game, but SC25 is also projected to be very weak, so we will probably experience two consecutive very-weak Solar Cycles in SC24 and SC25.
Here is what we may be able to infer at a macro level about the impact of the Sun on global temperatures:
Very-weak solar activity, as estimated by peak Sunspot Numbers, coincided with two very cold periods called the Maunder Minimum (circa 1700) and the Dalton Minimum (circa 1800).
I have no Sunspot Number data before 1700, but the latter part of the Maunder Minimum had 2 consecutive weak Solar Cycles with SSNmax of 58 in 1705 and 63 in 1717 .
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/stp/space-weather/solar-data/solar-indices/sunspot-numbers/international/tables/
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/stp/solar/image/annual.gif
The coldest period of the Maunder was ~1670 to ~1700 (8.48dC year average Central England Temperatures) but the coldest year was 1740 (6.84C year avg CET).
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/data/download.html
The Dalton Minimum had 2 consecutive weak SC’s with SSNmax of 48 in 1804 and 46 in 1816. Tambora erupted in 1815, one of the two largest volcanic eruptions in the past 2000 years.
Two of the coldest years in the Dalton were 1814 (7.75C year avg CET) and 1816 (7.87C year avg CET). Note the slightly-colder of the two was pre-Tambora.
Now Solar Cycle 24 is a dud with SSNmax estimated at ~65, and very early estimates suggest SC25 will be very low as well – so we probably anticipate two more consecutive very-weak SC’s.
Here is my concern:
IF the Sun does indeed drive temperature, as I suspect, then successive governments in Britain and continental Europe have brewed the perfect storm.
They have crippled their energy systems with excessive reliance on ineffective grid-connected wind power schemes.
I suggest that global cooling probably WILL happen within the next decade or sooner, and Europe will get colder, possibly much colder.
I suggest that Winter deaths will increase in the Europe as cooling progresses.
I suggest that Excess Winter Mortality rates will provide an estimate of this unfolding tragedy.
As always in these matters, I hope to be wrong. These are not numbers, they are real people, who “loved and were loved”.
Best regards to all, Allan MacRae
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world…
– Yeats
Thanks for the replies to my question though it was intended to be rhetorical in a sense.
Seems to me that there has been fluctuations in temperature over the last 100 years (and the history has been massaged) and it is a little warmer than before, but no measurable change for somewhere between 10 and 17 years. No real change in extreme weather events. Arctic ice getting smaller, opposite at the South pole. If you accept CO2 drives climate it will get hotter soon but if you consider things more holistically – it is more likely to get cooler. Which would be actually bad news.
I expect to see more hype, more fixed numbers, more grant-driven faux science, more cries for action and little or no change in the basic situation except it will be a cooler place generally. But when the hidden heat emerges (???) – or say we have a natural warming cycle or El Nino event, the skeptics will have been proved wrong. Or maybe not.
But this is a akin to a religion so belief is everything. We can’t possibly allow the null hypothesis. That would seriously upset some very well meaning folk.
…not to mention upset some evil-intentioned folk…which would be a good thing.
It has been said: “In the ‘land of the blind’ the one-eyed man is king”
Welcome to the ‘sump* (or bilge) of the internet’, the Huff and Puff Po.
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