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This map below updates every hour, and shows city temperatures along with temperature gradients. Can you believe 18F in Atlanta (midday) at the time of this writing? Low temperature records are being shattered in many USA cities with cold records outnumbering warm records almost 5 to 1. This thread will update with weather news as it happens.
Look at all of the cold records:
| Total Records: | 1045 |
| Rainfall: | 127 |
| Snowfall: | 351 |
| High Temp: | 85 |
| Low Temp: | 162 |
| Low Max Temp: | 300 |
| High Min Temp: | 20 |
Cold records total: 462
Warm records total: 105
Source: http://wx.hamweather.com/maps/climate/records/1week/us.html
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Update: here is WeatherBell’s map being used for The Drudge Report. It represents the air temperature at 2 meters above the surface (you may need to manually refresh browser to see it.) Note the United States Avg: value, which is below freezing for the CONUS.
UPDATE2: record breaking cold in Atlanta
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Philip says:
January 7, 2014 at 12:08 pm
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Phillip, I checked the Arctic page, about 12 million sq km versus 13 for “normal”. So the Arctic is about 30 days behind in its ice build-up. This is enough to cause unprecedented weather?
Berényi Péter says:
January 7, 2014 at 12:40 pm
Lake Michigan does freeze over on occasion (depending on your definition of “freeze over”); it came very close in 1979, and fairly close in 1977 and 1994. Lake Superior less often, but it froze over in 2003 and 2009, or twice in one decade.
See the WUWT Article.
But the Coast Guard icebreakers on the Great Lakes have been busy this year.
Columbus Ohio set a new record low for January 7, -8F.
In 2002 the record low for the date was -6F set in 1942.
In 2012 the record low for the date was -5F set in 1884.
Martin Hovland says:
January 7, 2014 at 10:23 am
Where’s the centigrade maps?
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I found mine in the box where i keep my 15mm wrench.
By the record events map at top of this page, most of the US is experiencing Winter weather, while California is in the throes of Global Warming. Just look at all those record highs!
A bit off topic but The Weather Channel changed the format for “Weather on the 8’s” last November. Since the change I haven’t noticed them mention the record highs and lows for the date. Maybe I’ve just missed them. Has anyone noticed them showing them at times for other areas?
Back in 2007 noticing the record highs didn’t seem to be recent and so didn’t jive with the “Global Warming” hype is what prompted me to start getting the list of records from the (US) NWS in the first place.
Here is another case of SUDDEN STRATOSPHERIC WARMING splitting the polar vortex in two that just happened in January 2013
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/16/1179397/-Sudden-Stratospheric-Warming-Split-the-Polar-Vortex-in-Two#
Here is the GLOBAL SST IN January1985 just when there was another polar vortex breakout like January 2014. Notice the extra warm water off the coast of North America and North Pacific near ALASKA
http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/sst/mean_anom/January.85.anomaly.gif
Here is the GLOBAL SST in December 2013 just before the current polar vortex breakout. Notice the anomalous anticyclone near the coast of Alaska and the Pacific northwest. Could the warm spell over North Asia and the warm spot near Alaska have pumped extra warm air into the Arctic [ positive AO existed in November and December 2013] cause the latest polar vortex break out?
http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/sst/anomaly/2013/anomnight.12.30.2013.gif
Anyone care to engage the desperate warmers defending their secular cult?
http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/johnransom/2014/01/07/warmers-use-magic-to-create-the-illusion-of-science-n1772595
You’ll never convince these guys, but it’s fun to see them twist logic into pretzels talking about things they don’t understand.
Andy says:
January 7, 2014 at 11:28 am
They openly now admit that they’re probably wrong – falling back on the precautionary principle. Did Einstein have a theory of what relativity might be, but probably isn’t? Do they award a Nobel Prize in Probably Not Chemistry?
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The precautionary principle is based on possibility not probability and therefore is not a scientific principle.
Temperatures with wind chill:
http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/national/weather-forecast-map20s
-20 & -40 F weather throughout ND and MT and including IL and IN, etc.
Trucks will need to use additives or #1 diesel.
Paul Coppin says:
January 7, 2014 at 12:47 pm
It may not be the usual type storm most familiar to everyone (cyclonic disturbances), but its consequences are just as devastating. Witness Lake Storm Aphid (yes, they actually name them) from October 2006 (aka the October Surprise Storm) which downed thousands of trees and left 2′ of heavy wet snow on the ground in the bulls eye of the storm (where I live).
In the meantime, it looks like the blizzard warning does in fact remain in effect for Erie County … the on-air meteorologist jumped the gun and goofed in saying it had been cancelled. However, the record cold (tied the old record of -5°F set in 1942) is causing a rapid freezing of Lake Erie and is impacting the lake effect snow band so much that it’s starting to break apart. Much of what might get classed as open water is probably “rotten” ice (a Lake Erie slushee).
Another bad bit of news for the kids is that while they may have a snow day (or two) it won’t do them much good since it’s far too cold to play in it. Mostly it’s the kind of snow a skier would love … a fine powder and lots of it.
This is what happens when the institutional memory (the media and the Meteorologists) of a country has self imposed Alzheimers.
This was NORMAL weather for this country less than 50 years ago. Every. Winter. Duh.
Good grief. I lived in NW Indiana and it got cold as he!!, it snowed a lot and the wind blew it into snow drifts that would be higher than the cars. Go look at some archival photos of the time.
This ain’t rocket science. If a pattern of weather happened once before, then it’s likely to happen again.
But because of a political agenda suddenly no one can remember the ’50’s or ’60’s or ’70’s and even in some areas the early ’80’s last century. Strangely enough this occurred in the exact same area that it’s happening again now. Imagine that.
(I can’t speak for earlier than that but my parents used to tell me about the storms that THEY lived through in the ’20’s, 30’s and ’40’s)
Moderate damage to citrus and palms here on the northern Gulf Coast.
steveta_uk says:
January 7, 2014 at 11:15 am
“According to bbc weather they have no reason to think that the polar vortex has anything to do with this weather. They referenced the Met Office who say the same.”
Aren’t these the same guys who have been wrong for a decade or so? Aren’t they the ones that had the lowest estimate for arctic sea ice extent – 50% or so too low. I think I’m right because Julia Slingo of the Met O. just got the OBE (order of the British Empire) for her seminal work (I didn’t know she was microbiologist sarc/off).
Jim Cripwell. Seville oranges are available in Sainsbury’s, Wigan, U.K. Bought some today. Suspect cost of postage may be prohibitive though.
Impressive the arguments these guys are using these days. See how Richard Alley tries to mislead CNN readers:
“The knowledge that CO2 is a greenhouse gas and it has a warming influence we’ve had for more than a century,” he said. “And the real physics of it were refined by the Air Force after World War II when they were working on sensors for heat-seeking missiles.”
“In some bizarre sense, to deny global warming is to question the ability of the Air Force to put the right sensor on the heat-seeking missile.”
Anyone to comment this incredible argument? It’s so dumb that I doubt that he is a climatologist, at least a serious one…
http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/2014/01/07/is-climate-change-responsible-for-record-cold-in-u-s/?hpt=hp_t2
Not only do we have the only 3 counties in the country with a blizzard warning, but we’ve also got, with temps in the single digits (just rose to 7°F) the only flash flood warning in the country … the winds are such that they pushed so much ice into the ice boom on Lake Erie that it was breached and ice is flowing down the Niagara River and jamming up a few miles from Niagara Falls, raising the river levels for a couple miles upstream.
Current conditions in the country:
http://www.weather.gov/
So far it looks like most activities that were closed today will be closed tomorrow … still way too cold and we’ll all be busy slowly digging out … we should all be back to normal by Thursday.
In the meantime, for only the first time in over a dozen years, the NHL hockey game for tonight in Buffalo has been postponed.
Spartacus says:
January 7, 2014 at 2:48 pm
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The secret to the sensors in US heat-seeking missiles is that they contain CO2?
Who’da’thought?
Is it time for the USA to move over to celsius yet?
Steve Richards,
No. It is time for the world to move to ºF. ☺
It seems as though you could model the earth as a heat pump that balances between heat leaving at the poles(plasma fountain, plasma structures that change) and heat coming in at the equator… We measured record cold at the poles so the earth will cool off..
Simple, huh…..
Doug Huffman says:
January 7, 2014 at 12:31 pm
“Thumb-rule for conversion between degrees Celsius and degrees Fahrenheit:
Fahrenheit to Celsius: Subtract 32 and halve the resulting number.
Celsius to Fahrenheit: Double the number and add 32.”
Except that the boiling point of water is not 90 C {(212-32)/2} nor is it 232 F {(100×2)+ 32} .
It does work for the melting point of water though.
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In the News:
The polar bear stayed inside? No that is a real comment on the weather!
jono1066 says:
January 7, 2014 at 11:59 am
Sorry, but could you please advise
Degrees F or C
I could try and guess, but then I`m not a AGW scientist so would have to learn the skill
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Try this. It’s not a computer model but I think you can trust it. 😎
http://www.onlineconversion.com/