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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
![image_full1[1]](http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/image_full11.gif)
To those commenting on the record rain event in Detroit. I am not familiar with this particular product and so can’t explain why its indicated but there was no record rainfall event in Detroit the past week.
The warmest reading in Detroit during that period was 32 F on January 4th. Rain can fall at that temperature and freezing rain can occur at temperatures much colder than 32 F but that is not what happened in Detroit. There was a record snow event on January 4, 2014 when 10.2 inches of snow was recorded. See Climate report below for January 5, 2014 and SNOWFALL YESTERDAY.
You can also note the month to date precip as 1.36 and month to date snowfall as 21.0 inches. All of this precip fell as snow in Detroit.
..THE DETROIT MI CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR JANUARY 5 2014…
CLIMATE NORMAL PERIOD 1981 TO 2010
CLIMATE RECORD PERIOD 1874 TO 2014
WEATHER ITEM OBSERVED TIME RECORD YEAR NORMAL DEPARTURE LAST
VALUE (LST) VALUE VALUE FROM YEAR
NORMAL
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TEMPERATURE (F)
YESTERDAY
MAXIMUM 32 146 PM 59 1997 32 0 34
MINIMUM 20 1159 PM -10 1999 20 0 14
AVERAGE 26 26 0 24
PRECIPITATION (IN)
YESTERDAY 0.90 0.91 1955 0.07 0.83 0.03
MONTH TO DATE 1.36 0.36 1.00 0.03
SINCE DEC 1 3.78 2.82 0.96 2.67
SINCE JAN 1 1.36 0.36 1.00 0.03
SNOWFALL (IN)
YESTERDAY 10.2 R 4.6 2005 0.4 9.8 0.5
MONTH TO DATE 21.0 2.0 19.0 0.5
SINCE DEC 1 36.5 11.6 24.9 11.1
SINCE JUL 1 37.7 13.2 24.5 11.5
SNOW DEPTH 8
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Soooo…are Al’s polar bear numbers decreasing because it’s so cold polar bears aren’t going out to meet other polar bears or is Al wrong because it’s so cold polar bears aren’t going out after they’ve already met other polar bears?
Sounds like this calls for another research grant!
Does Dr. Monseigneur Gavin Schmidt still believe in warmer winters as a result of carbon dioxide?
Climate change is real, it is happening before our very eyes. Change you can believe in.
OK, posting the Detroit Climate summary for January 5, 2014 did not come out so well.
You can get it yourself at this link:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/climate/index.php?wfo=dtx
Go to Detroit and archived data and that date(and the rest of the week too)
It’s -27 deg C (-17 deg F) in Tisdale, SK as of 5:25PM. And the report says, “It’s cold outside. Still.”
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/weather/canada/saskatchewan/tisdale
That makes all Tisdales say, “Brrrr!”
Remember, boys and girls, as the Weather Channel just reminded everyone, this is just weather as the global situation is still above normal and trending upward. BTW they forgot to mention the lack of said upward trend for the past 17 years.
Alan Watt, Climate Denialist Level 7 says:
January 7, 2014 at 1:14 pm
“But the Coast Guard icebreakers on the Great Lakes have been busy this year”.
ABC News ran a (mostly) good piece about the cold from both an economic perspective as well as the impact on people. They had some good footage of icebreaking in the Saint Mary’s River near my hometown of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. I say it was mostly good because near the end, they brought out the obligatory climate “scientist” (or wannabe scientist) who claimed the cold weather is due to melting ice in the arctic.
As driveby journalists, they really can’t help themselves…
Q: When did modern science lose it’s credibility with the public?
A: When it substituted accurate scientific terminology with speaking in metaphors.
The common occurrence of “Global Warming” became a metaphor for “Man-Made Global Warming”.
The common occurrence of “Climate Change” became a metaphor for “Man-Made Climate change”.
I don’t believe this conscious choice of truncated spoken and written words to describe a scientific idea was done out of laziness. Rather, I think it is done out of a conscious will to brainwash and deceive the general public into believing that climate is their fault and must take the blame for all weather events. If the scientific speaking in metaphors was not done on purpose for psychological reasons then why do it? Scientists commonly use acronyms and could have used MMGW or MMCC to more accurately describe exactly what it is they’re talking about concerning climatology.
As long as the scientific community continues to speak in metaphors concerning climate change, I’ll continue to hold them in low esteem.
Thanks Anthony. Good article.
At IntelliWeather my favorite map is http://www.intelliweather.net/imagery/intelliweather/templine_nat_640x480_img.htm (National Temperatures with Isopleths – Updated once every hour. – Large Animation)
But http://coolwx.com/usstats/data/temp.png (Hourly United States Weather Statistics: Temperature (°F)) is very good too. Robert Hart also has /pres.png and /cloud.png
For those interested in Great Lakes ice cover, the map is at http://coastwatch.glerl.noaa.gov/cwdata/lct/glsea.png
Anthony or mods; maybe you could put up that map on the “Live Weather Roll”, at least for winter.
Tomorrow, in the (still) bitterly cold, as I get out to begin shoveling out at least a half foot of powdery snow, I’ll have to remind myself that in only 3 days from then we’ll have temps above normal, in the mid-40’s and rain … and Sunday will be even better … no rain, just sun … unfortunately, we still face ~3 months of snow.
The planetary wave induced SSW that initiated the artic vortex this time was triggered by solar events several days prior to the vortex induced cold waves. This Xflare day will probably kick off another series of similar events.
poor saskatoon, always coldest. although winnipeg usually gives it a run for that crown every year. saskatoon is a great place by the way, booming actually.
And for all you people in Canada and the USA, here’s the forecast for Brisbane.
http://www.bom.gov.au/qld/forecasts/brisbane.shtml
Look at that! Most of the week the temp will be below 30, and there might be a shower or two.
You are not the only ones who are suffering.
I come from the land of the ice and snow,
from the freezing wind where it’s ten below
(Immigrant Song)
Greetings from Michigan
lsvalgaard says:
January 7, 2014 at 10:19 am
Stephen Rasey says:
January 7, 2014 at 10:18 am
@lsvalgaard: It is a 1 week view. The rain records could have come while it was still warm.
Thanks. That little detail escaped me.
That, too, would be a record. ; – )
Okay, where is Al Gore? http://tinyurl.com/FrozenAl
Meanwhile here in SoCal it’s temperatures in the mid 70’s. However, it’s dry enough that the trees try to go after the dogs.
Must be global warming.
Martin Hovland says:
January 7, 2014 at 10:23 am
Where’s the centigrade maps?
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centigrade (ˈsɛntɪˌɡreɪd)
adj
1. (Units) a former name for Celsius
n
2. (Units) a unit of angle equal to one hundredth of a grade
Usage: Although still used in meteorology, centigrade, when indicating the Celsius scale of temperature, is now usually avoided because of its possible confusion with the hundredth part of a grade
FYI, a certain Michael Mann has commented on cbc.ca news:
http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/Technology/ID/2428739814/
They say the best defense is a good offense, but really!
Walter Dnes says:
January 7, 2014 at 4:39 pm
Actually, there is far more information/options for the Great Lakes available at:
http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/res/glcfs/
This all looks like the kind of winter weather I grew up with in Wisconsin (1960 – 1980). Seriously.
I was back in WI this year during the week of Thanksgiving. The low of the week was 6F and the high was 31F. Although the local mill ponds were frozen over sufficiently to be safe for ice fishing, skating, and hockey, there were no kids out on them. I guess it’s hard to skate and text at the same time…..
Big Green Lake (270 feet max. depth, Green Lake county, WI) seldom freezes over before January – maybe 1 year in 25 or so. It froze over on Dec 28 this year. It’s shaping up to be a real ‘old fashioned winter’ in the northern tier of the US and Canada.
7 Jan: Metro.US: City breaks 118-year-old record as New Yorkers endure freezing weather and below-zero wind chills
Temperatures dropped to a low of 4 degrees in the city, according to the National Weather Service.
The previous record for Jan. 7 was set in 1896, when temperatures reached 6 degrees.
In Central Park, that record was broken before 7 a.m., when temperatures reached 5 degrees and continued to drop.
Wind chills reached minus 17 degrees just before 9 a.m…
http://www.metro.us/newyork/news/local/2014/01/07/new-york-city-record-cold-weather/
7 Jan:NBC Chicago: Record-Breaking Cold Grips Chicago
-15 recorded at O’Hare at 7 a.m. breaks record Jan. 6 low set in 1894 and 1988
By 8:30 a.m., the official Chicago temperature had dipped another degree, to -16…
With the wind chill factored in, Monday’s temperatures were in the -40 to -50 degree range and even lower across the Fox Valley…
http://www.nbcchicago.com/weather/stories/Dangerous-Cold-Temps-Chicago-238467651.html