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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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Ron Christie says:
January 7, 2014 at 7:08 pm
“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!”
I hate to say I watched this video. Why didn’t CBC get a reputable meteorologist to comment like Anthony Watts or John Coleman?
So M. Mann infers that this an unprecedented (climate change) jet stream wiggle? What about when these all time state records were set? Was that because of climate change also? Probably had to do with a jet stream wiggle – Check the dates:
State Record Low Date Location
Alabama −27 °F / −33 °C January 30, 1966 New Market
Arkansas −29 °F / −34 °C February 13, 1905 Gravette
Florida −2 °F / −19 °C February 13, 1899 Tallahassee
Georgia −17 °F / −27 °C January 27, 1940 Northern Floyd County
Louisiana −16 °F / −27 °C February 13, 1899 Minden
Mississippi−19 °F / −28 °C January 30, 1966 Corinth
South Carolina−22°F/−30°C January 21, 1985 Hogback Mountain
Texas −23 °F / −31 °C February 8, 1933 Seminole
It’s winter.
I’m starting to feel bad that I’m in Palm Springs. My poor fellow Canadians.
While the US is shivering in record cold, the BoM here in Australia is predicting, based on computer models, record heat at Emu Creek and other Western Australian locations over the next few days.
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/remote-emu-creek-may-be-set-for-50degree-scorcher-20140108-30gmd.html
As the article states, the nearest automatic weather station to Emu Creek is at an airport. Peter Hannam is an extreme supporter of AGW. We won’t have too long to wait Peter.
48.6C at Onslow Airport in Western Australia. Hottest ever for WA was next door at Mardie Station in 1998, 50.6C …
I see there is a lot of comment in the US press about a “1 in 20 year event”.
For people outside the US like me, it would be useful to know how for back the ?instrumental weather records go back, so we can judge the actual magnitude of the event. Seems more like a 1 in 200 year event in some places.
Help anyone?
Philip says:
January 7, 2014 at 12:08 pm
Steve from Rockwood: No there is not a lot of ice in the arctic. its currently running at less than last year (take a look at the ice page under Reference Pages in the menu at the top).
It’s not quite as simple as that. Ice extent is maller but ice area is larger than last year. So there is actually more ice, but concentrated in a smaller area. Probably this is because warm weather and southerly winds in the northeast Atlantic have been concentrating the ice. Ice extent is currently at 95 % of the 1979-2008 average (in the Antarctic it is at 135%!)
Greg Goodman,
In the very unlikely event that you had air warm enough for liquid water droplets to form above a surface temp of -2F, the droplets would freeze long before hitting the ground resulting in hail/sleet not rain.
I have lived in or around Atlanta for all but about 2 of my 71 years. Yes this is a cold snap although I have seen worse. The interesting fact for me is that while in most (almost all) years we have several 100F days in the summer. We had none last summer.
http://www.thegatesnotes.com/Books/Personal/The-Bet?WT.mc_id=12_13_2013_TheBet
The recent very cold temperatures in North America provide a preview of how a colder climate affects people. More people die.
Excess winter mortality rates increase and the poor suffer the most.
Fortunately in North America we have cheap natural gas due to shale fracking.
In Europe the enviro-extremists have been fighting shale fracking and natural gas is many times more expensive.
For those who have trouble converting Fahrenheit to Celsius (or other units of distance, temperature, volume, time, speed, mass, power, density, pressure, energy etc), here is a free and easy to use conversion program: http://joshmadison.com/convert-for-windows/
The cold is coming to Europe next week. Me hopes for the same record cold as the US had.
The UK newspapers were having fun with the article “Hell Freezes” over, a small US town with that name is apparently frozen.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/5363077/hell-has-actually-frozen-over.html
Jimbo’s links etc… and other similar are what really counts here. Steven Goddard has saved thousands of fraudelant adjusments contradictory statements etc materials which can be used to completely and efficiently counter the warmistas
Hard freeze in the northern parts of Florida this morning. Crestview Florida hit -7.5C. Freezing rain around Gainesville.
Fear not. A January thaw is coming this weekend, lasting about four days. Whether unusually cold or unusually warm though, it’s just weather of course.
Wouldn’t want to be walking round Disney in a temperature of 43 degrees..! (I assume that’s Fahrenheit). I have actually been there in January – and it WAS pretty damn cold…
All that cold sucked down from North pole.
Expect to hear about “the lowest mid winter ice extent ever” as there will be less heat at the margin for a while. I wish there were put and call options on JAXA sea ice.
… more heat
BBC reports that North American cold records tumble.
I see that co2 is now the main climate driver, especially during the winter.
Ron Christie says:
January 7, 2014 at 7:08 pm
“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!”
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Aside from the completely BS claims made by Mann in the video, the newscaster (Susan Bonner,) called Michael Mann a “co- winner of the Nobel Prize” and he didn’t correct her. That should tell anyone all they need to know about Mann’s credibility. If anyone in the MSM calls him on the Nobel BS, then he’ll just say it slipped his mind,. or something.
How do recent temperature extremes constitute proof that our climate is not changing? I’m not saying it’s conclusive or even good evidence for climate change or global warming, but it certainly does not support the opposing view.
This is obviously a politically charged issue, but I am hoping someone will have some kind of rational argument to give me on this point.
As you may have guessed, my beliefs do align with those of the so-called AGWs, but I am first and foremost a scientist (though not a climate scientist), and I am trying to keep an open mind, as difficult as that can be at times. I hope the fact that I am reading some of the articles on this site is evidence of this.
Is ‘Death Valley’ suffering from the cold spell?
Gigabiting (@gigabiting) says:
January 7, 2014 at 10:37 am
One thing the polar vortex has shown us is how woefully unprepared we are for the record cold temperatures we’re experiencing. We’re particularly misinformed when it comes to choosing winter warmup drinks. It seems to defy logic, but a cold beverage can help you hang on to body heat better than a hot one.
Remember that most of the world drinks hot tea in hot weather, and Alaska leads the nation in per capita ice cream consumption. It’s counterintuitive but true—hot drinks cool you down and cold drinks warm you up.
http://gigabiting.com/what-to-drink-in-a-polar-vortex/
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Let me know when it gets cold, so far I’m not impressed but I’ll give you the unprepared, most folks today are not prepared for anything and further they’ll panic over nothing.
Given Total Solar Irradiance (TSI) as the primary driving-force of global temperatures, Sunspot Cycle 24’s extremely sub-par peak likely precedes a 70+ year “dead sun” Grand Solar Minimum similar to that of 1645 – 1715, which depopulated northern Europe by two-thirds in the mid-1690s.
Warmist drivel aside, after some 14,400 years Earth’s current Holocene Interglacial Epoch is 1,500 years overdue to end, delayed only by the exo-planetary Younger Dryas “cold shock” from c. BC 8800 – 7300 [see Prof. James P. Kennett’s report on “Impact Spherules”, May 2013].
Characterized by periodic chill-phases over some 2.6-million years, median Pleistocene Era glaciations last 102,000 years with kilo-year interstadial remissions. Since these result primarily from continental plate-tectonic dispositions –whereby North and South American landmasses disrupt Eastern vs. Western Hemispheric atmospheric/oceanic circulation patterns– geophysicists (not climatologists) can safely say that Planet Earth is likely due for cyclical hominid-endangering Deep Freezes recurring regular-as-clockwork over the next 12 to 14-million years.
Nothing anthropogenic about plate tectonics or Total Solar Irradiance, my little Warmist chickadees.
Over the next few decades, perhaps centuries, as Gaia becomes progressively uninhabitable a la the 17th Century’s classic Maunder Minimum, the only escape will be off-Earth to gigantic modular refugia orbiting about Sol’s “habitable zone” plane-of-the-ecliptic. Hyper-linked cyber-organisms in autonomous, competing analogs of Renaissance city states will be the least of it.