As we begin 2014, it will usher in record cold temperatures. Next week looks quite cold as this forecast for Tuesday shows.
Image from Dr. Ryan Maue, WeatherBell
International Falls, MN set a new record with -42ºF.
RECORD EVENT REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN
504 AM CST THU JAN 02 2014
...RECORD LOW TEMPERATURE SET AT INTERNATIONAL FALLS MN...THE TEMPERATURE WAS -42 DEGREES AT 5 AM IN INTERNATIONAL FALLS MN.
THIS TEMPERATURE BREAKS THE OLD RECORD LOW FOR THIS DATE OF -37
DEGREES...WHICH WAS SET IN 2010. THE TEMPERATURE WILL LIKELY FALL
FURTHER THIS MORNING.
The International Falls, MN Airport had a record of 8 days with a temperature of less than -30 F in December. This breaks the old record of 7 days. The coldest temperature was -37 on the morning of the 30th. The high temperature for the month was 34 degrees on the 27th.
Many other cities are feeling the cold blast:
![01_01_2014_MinT_WindChill_Image[1]](http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/01_01_2014_mint_windchill_image1.jpg?quality=83)
Compilation from NWS, Duluth.
More on the way for much of the nation, this map shows the probability of temperatures below -20ºC (-4ºF):
I have a post over on Energy Matters discussing the possible timing of the next ice age which seems potentially relevant. Looks at orbital cycles and Bond cycles / Dansgaard–Oeschger events building on earlier work done by Clive Best. The Ice Man Cometh
It looks like this year’s trend to colder winter weather is part of the trend that started already in 1998 for most parts of Northern Hemisphere . In Canada the cold cranked up an extra notch after 2010. Winters in about 60 % of the country including the Prairies, Northwestern forests, Mackenzie district, Arctic Tundra, Mountains and Fiords have seen winter tempertaures drop by 4.5 to 5C since 2010 and this year, the winter tempertaures will be even colder.
It’s just weather.
(Did you like my warmunist imitation?)
Anybody with 160 meter (ham/amateur radio) capability is invited to join the Weather Net on 1995 kHz (LSB or lower side band mode) at 7:30 PM Central Standard Time … reports of temperature, snowfall, sky condition etc are welcome!
Alternatively, one and all are invited to simply ‘tune in’ at that time! Stations check in from MN, IA down to Texas. Net control first calls a series of stations who have checked in previously followed by a ‘call’ for any newcomers/new stations wishing to check in at about 7:45 PM CST.
What: . . Wx Net
When: . 7:30 PM CST
Where: 1995 kHz LSB
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could the weather be getting cooler instead warmer?
http://blogs.24.com/henryp/2013/04/29/the-climate-is-changing/
Minus 42 F. What a joke. Alaskans are a lot tougher than that. According to the “weather-warehouse.com”, the AVERAGE minimum temperature for Fairbanks, Alaska in 1971 was minus 40.7 F. And I was there every day.
Here in western New Hampshire, we’re getting hammered by snow, cold temps, and wind from the east coast storm. But hey, that’s typical New England winter weather…
By the way, be on the lookout for any reports of deaths caused by the brutally cold temperatures. Our corrupt MSM likes to reports deaths associated with hot weather…I’m curious to see if they do the same for cold weather.
How do we know this data hasn’t been “fiddled” by “Coolists
Probability of -20°C temps is for 850-hPa.
perhaps you should explain this to folks as it’s misleading to folks who dont read the fine print.
Where in the heck is Mr. Gore’s global warming when ya need it? Air temp of 10°F (-12°C) with a wind chill of -8°F (-22°C). And the snow keeps on falling, with a forecast of at least -15°F (-26°C) wind chill tonight.
SARC, BTW.
I’m afraid the color scale on the first image has dun my head in a bit. What’s wrong with a graded blue-to-red or something similar?
Correcting an error in my post above: The average of minus 40.7 F was for January 1971. I admit that I missed a few days at the beginning of that month, but was there for the cold part of the month, which shows two daily lows of -60F, one of -59F and two of -58.
And to think, there’s a whole other country north of there….
Mark Johnson says “Minus 42 F. What a joke. Alaskans are a lot tougher than that.”. There’s always someplace colder. Someplace with more snow, etc. etc. etc.
In fact, the old song goes “When it’s spring time in Alaska, it’s forty below.”
Been there, done that. Going down the highway when it’s so cold your tires are frozen out of round. Bump bump bump.
To paraphrase a popular comic, “I don’t care who you are, that’s cold, right there.”
Steven Mosher says:
Probability of -20°C temps is for 850-hPa.
“perhaps you should explain this to folks as it’s misleading”
Ryan Maue beat you to it, Steven [or, you’re just piling on]. This was already explained @ur momisugly 8:00 am above.
Now, can you explain whether this chart [credit: Ulric Lyons] is misleading? Altitude has nothing to do with it. The temperatures are empirical measurements taken from ice cores. How many ‘hockey stick’ shapes can you count? Ten? Twenty? More? And how is the most recent [very small] Mann hokey stick any different from all the other natural global warming events?
Enquiring minds want to know: where is the “human fingerprint”? Please, show us. Because I can’t see one!
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Eric in Escondido says:
“How do we know this data hasn’t been ‘fiddled’ by ‘Coolists’?”
Answer: take a trip to Minnesota. Then report back… ☺
What’s the difference among friends of approximately 4600 ft (1400 m) (less for height above sea level across the land)?
Meaning: In the standard atmosphere 850 hPA represents approx 4600 ft (1400 m). Realistically, you need to look at the ‘soundings’ (radiosonde pressure vs height) data to determine this height. Maybe the answer is not so simple?
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Doesn’t matter Anthony, in the First week of October we’ll be told that the Northern Hemisphere “warmed” no matter what the temperatures.
Make that the First week of February (not enough coffee).
I’d like to hear Mann’s reaction.
“That can’t be right! Maybe if I read the thermometer upside-down……..”
7°C (45°F) here in Calgary. Wish I wasn’t back at work already…
Caleb says:
January 2, 2014 at 9:22 am
Cleveland could suffer mightily and Pittsburgh is just a few miles down the road.
Ice and Gore …
“Meaning: In the standard atmosphere 850 hPA represents approx 4600 ft (1400 m). Realistically, you need to look at the ‘soundings’ (radiosonde pressure vs height) data to determine this height. Maybe the answer is not so simple?”
Since the product being shown does provide a 2meter output ( see the first panel) the question is why show the 2 meter temperature in one panel and then switch to the 850 hPa in the other,
especially when you know the 850 hPa will be colder.
“Ryan Maue beat you to it, Steven [or, you’re just piling on]. This was already explained @ur momisugly 8:00 am above.”
Sorry the minute I saw the switch from 2 meter data in the first panel to 850 hPa in the last panel I made my comment. I generally don’t read all the comments since most of them will not be probing or questioning, but rather cheerleading.
Imagine if Mann had posted the graphics, leading with temps at 850 hPa and then following up
with temps at 2 meters without clearly calling out the switch.
i will say there is an exception to when I read the comments before posting. That would be when somebody like Goddard posts post on volcanos. Did that happen recently?