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):
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herkimer says: @ur momisugly January 3, 2014 at 5:36 am
In United States , since 1998, the climate has been changing . Winters and fall are cooling and summer and spring are warming. The net effect is flat annual temperatures with no global warming.
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summer and spring are warming.
I agree with most of what you said but here in North Carolina the spring and summer was down right CHILLY. We had a total of 5 days with highs of 90 and 91F (32C) and only one day of 95F (35C) My white clover never died back this summer but the summer Bermuda grass was finished by the last of September.
WOW!
Jeff McMasters has wiped all the historical data for my town and the surrounding area!
I am getting the same from NASA/GISS – NASA Official: Gavin A. Schmidt
Someone with a suspicious mind would think….
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TB says:
January 2, 2014 at 2:11 pm
There has also been general agreement that Low Solar activity causes same via a “top-down” effect of warming via destruction of O3 via Galactic Ray or UV incidence. This primarily affecting European winters anomalously (LIA and recent low solar activity too).
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You were doing alright until the above. The heat-engine that is weather is driven from the bottom up.
beng says: @ur momisugly January 3, 2014 at 7:20 am
…You were doing alright until the above. The heat-engine that is weather is driven from the bottom up.
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And where does that heat that drives the weather come from? Graph
One thing that should be pointed out regarding the 2m vs 850-hPa “controversy” going on here is that when it gets “THAT COLD” – temperatures well below zero F in much of the CONUS, the temperature at 850-hPa might well be WARMER than the surface temperature at 2m, depending on several factors.
Usually when it gets below zero Fahrenheit, the absolute coldest readings occur in sheltered areas of low elevation at the surface, not 1400m up. When it is that cold, the coldest air sinks.
The forecast is for 1 degree as a low here in Owings Mills, MD next Monday. Granted, that’s a decent summer day for you morons living in the Upper Midwest. But that’s pretty nasty for this area. I don’t think we’ve been close to zero for over a decade.
I remember when I moved out here (from Central California) in 1995. That first winter, we had a big blizzard and one morning when the temp was -1. Quite the shock to my system! But I love seasons, so it has been lots of fun. I can’t stand wind when it’s this cold, but that’s why G-d created the great indoors.
We’ve actually got windchill watches out for the area, which I don’t recall seeing before. It may be a part of the new forecast system they’ve instituted out of the NWS in Sterling.
Regardless of your obviously impaired brain function for living in such inhospitable regions, I hope everyone stays safe and warm. 😉
beng says:
January 3, 2014 at 7:20 am
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TB says:
January 2, 2014 at 2:11 pm
There has also been general agreement that Low Solar activity causes same via a “top-down” effect of warming via destruction of O3 via Galactic Ray or UV incidence. This primarily affecting European winters anomalously (LIA and recent low solar activity too).
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You were doing alright until the above. The heat-engine that is weather is driven from the bottom up.
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beng:
No, I’m correct. The correlation in low sunspots with cold European winters has been know of for decades but it’s only really in the last decade or so that evidence/observation has emerge via satellite data of warming induced at the top of the Stratosphere (most are still induced via bottom up warming BTW – like the one now forecast to occur). I’ve been following NH winters since my retirement 7 years ago and I have monitored it happening via Strat diagnostics.
See below.
From: http://geo.phys.spbu.ru/materials_of_a_conference_2012/STP2012/Veretenenko_%20et_all_Geocosmos2012proceedings.pdf
“The results of this study showed that the evolution of the stratospheric polar vortex plays an important part in the mechanism of solar-climatic links. The vortex strength reveals a roughly 60-year periodicity influencing the large-scale atmospheric circulation and the sign of SA/GCR effects on the development of baric systems at middle and high latitudes. The vortex location is favorable for the mechanisms of solar activity influence on the troposphere circulation involving variations of different agents (GCR intensity, UV fluxes). In the periods of a strong vortex changes of the vortex intensity associated with solar activity phenomena seem to affect temperature contrasts in tropospheric frontal zones and the development of extratropical cyclogenesis.”
Also: http://phys.org/news/2011-10-link-solar-winter-weather-revealed.html
And: http://phys.org/news/2012-05-climatic-effects-solar-minimum.html
“The change and strengthening of the tropospheric wind systems likely is related to stratospheric processes which in turn are affected by the ultraviolet radiation” explains Achim Brauer (GFZ), the initiator of the study. “This complex chain of processes thus acts as a positive feedback mechanism that could explain why assumingly too small variations in solar activity have caused regional climate changes.”
http://phys.org/news/2013-01-solar-variability-terrestrial-climate.html
Several researchers discussed how changes in the upper atmosphere can trickle down to Earth’s surface. There are many “TOP-DOWN” pathways for the sun’s influence. For instance, Charles Jackman of the Goddard Space Flight Center described how nitrogen oxides (NOx) created by solar energetic particles and cosmic rays in the stratosphere could reduce ozone levels by a few percent. Because ozone absorbs UV radiation, less ozone means that more UV rays from the sun would reach Earth’s surface.
Martin, when record cold waves have been affecting South America for the past few years, you were nowhere to parade. In your blissful blindness you do not realize that high pressures agglutinations fed by renewed polar air masses are responsible for both cold snaps during winter and heatwaves during summer. This contrasted weather is hardly a sign of global warming as you would know had you studied paleoclimatology of Africa for instance.
Sunday’s NFL game in Green Bay may have a chance to break the record for the coldest NFL game in history. Hopefully the players, fans, and support staff are careful so there are no cases of frost bit or hyperthermia.
http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/01/green-bay-packers-forecast-coldest-playoff-game-san-francisco-49ers/
And Sunday’s game at Green Bay might be even colder than that.
According to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, the bad forecast for Green Bay’s game against the 49ers got worse. According to AccuWeather, the high will be minus-five degrees, the low will be minus-20 and the wind chill will be … MINUS-51 DEGREES.
No wonder Green Bay was having trouble selling out this game.
The “Ice Bowl” is the coldest game in NFL history, at minus-13 degrees. The coldest game in NFL history in terms of wind chill was the Chargers-Bengals AFC title game in January of 1982, at 59 degrees below zero. This game has a chance to threaten both of those records.
What should we expect trying to play football in the grip of a brutal ice age? There’s a reason for all those domes. I can’t bear to watch athletic millionaires exposing themselves to frostbite, hypothermia, etc.
I can’t wait to watch the Green Bay game tomorrow. From the heat of the Sonoran Desert, that is…
“global warming” doesn’t cause “warming” for everybody….
The overall temperature of the earth (NOT local temperatures) rises. This causes changes in global weather patterns resulting in extreme weather: really hot weather in some places (2013 was the hottest year on record in Australia and they had an incredible amount of desertification and fires because of lack of rain )..
… then in other places they have really heavy rains(check out the weather in England this year!)
…and in other places, like the north east and Minnesota (this year got the longest stretch of cold weather and also the coldest year on record..-49 degrees!!! ..it’s really cold.
So for all you people who think GLOBAL warming means LOCAL warming…..read it once again GLOBAL, as in Earth, as in OVERALL…and plug this formula into your mind:
GLOBAL WARMING = EXTREME WEATHER (COLD, HOT, WET, STORMY, FLOODING, etc, etc.)
The following are 15 year (1998-2013) linear trends of each month of the year for Contiguous US temperatures as calculated by the NCDC/NOAA Climate at a Glance web page
JAN -1.49 F/decade (declining)
FEB -2.64 (declining)
MAR +1.39 (rising)
APR -0, 22 (declining)
MAY -0.58 (declining)
JUN +1.18 (rising)
JUL +0.28 (rising)
AUG +0.03 (flat)
SEPT +0.09 (flat)
OCT -0.58 (declining)
NOV -0.75 (declining)
DEC -0.70 (declining)
Summary
7 months are declining, 2 months are flat, and 3 months are rising
WINTER AND FALL are DECLINING TEMPERATURES
SPRING AND SUMMER are RISING TEMPERATURES [spring is almost flat]
12 MONTHS JAN-DEC -0.16F/decade (flat)
There is no global warming in UNITED STATES. Why are we even talking about Co2 levels, global or hemispheric temperatures? If anything we should be concerned about the impact of falling temperatures in United States on infrastructure, farming, increased tornado risks, heating oil stocks, winter storm damage as the oceans cool further over the next 30 years
What should we expect trying to play football in the grip of a brutal ice age? There’s a reason for all those domes. I can’t bear to watch all those millionaires in danger of frostbite, hypothermia, etc.
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On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 7:21 AM, Watts Up With That? wrote:
> herkimer commented: “The following are 15 year (1998-2013) linear > trends of each month of the year for Contiguous US temperatures as > calculated by the NCDC/NOAA Climate at a Glance web page JAN -1.49 F/decade > (declining) FEB -2.64 (declining) MAR +1.39 (rising) ” >
Mod – Please remove the rbissett777 post above. Thanks.
The “continental USA” includes Alaska. You mean “coterminous”.
con·tig·u·ous
kənˈtigyo͞oəs/
adjective
adjective: contiguous
1.
sharing a common border; touching.
“the 48 contiguous states”
synonyms: adjacent, neighboring, adjoining, bordering, next-door