Records for the “polar vortex” outbreak show a big disparity between warm and cold records. There were 655 cold records in the past week compared to 101 warm records, a ratio of 6.5 to 1. Cold temperature records have been set from the Canadian border down to the Gulf coast of Louisiana.
See the map:
Here is the breakdown:
| Record Events Summary for The Past Week | |
|---|---|
| Total Records: | 1476 |
| Rainfall: | 190 |
| Snowfall: | 530 |
| High Temp: | 83 |
| Low Temp: | 346 |
| Low Max Temp: | 309 |
| High Min Temp: | 18 |
Source: http://wx.hamweather.com/maps/climate/records/1week/us.html
Low Max: 309 + Low Temp: 346 = 655
High Min 18 + High Temp 83 =101
655/101= 6.48
While this isn’t anything except proof of a cold weather event, remember this come summertime when warmists tout a similar, but opposite disparity of records during a heat wave as “proof” of something else.
(Note: This post was updated to correct a swap of warm/cold terms in the first paragraph, and the math for the ratio was added about 1 hour after this post was originally published. -Anthony)
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Did the people who experienced the warm temp records, who live in those locations think, ‘Oh, of course this is caused by Global Warming!’
The rainfall records are highly questionable…err false…at least for central Kansas. We have not had any rainfall in Wichita for quite some time, all of our precipitation has been snow.
Andres Valencia says:
January 8, 2014 at 10:33 am
When talking about CAGW, it all baloney. Then perhaps when we talk about their latest catastrophes we could say, “it’s much more würst than we thought”.
(Think of the homophone, at least in the USA, of baloney, bologna).
Rob aka Flatlander says:
January 8, 2014 at 9:42 am
The fact that we continue to set records at both ends of the spectrum in my opinion only means we have not collected enough data yet. New Stations (recent) also mean new records. And as shown by the recent release of satellite data the overall average has not moved (outside of margin of error) in 34 years.
I was thinking this exact thing. For example, we set a snowfall record in Wichita on January 1st with just under an inch of snow (considered extreme weather in the religion of CAGW?). This may imply that much of the weather record data is still full of reasonably average and uneventful weather.
Brewster says:
January 8, 2014 at 11:28 am
“–the event failed to set any monthly or all-time record low minimum temperature records at airports and cooperative observing stations monitored by NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center.”
Clearly you didn’t get the memo on why.
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So would I but it might be tough to find records that haven’t already been “adjusted”.
Many more warm records than cold ones is proof of global warming but many more cold records than warm ones is just weather. I’m starting to catch on.
Please help me understand how your article can scientifically sit alongside the following from Bloomberg as the link to “Artic Temperatures” in the original seems to be credible.
Bright white ice reflects energy back into space; dark blue water absorbs it. Arctic temperatures are about 2 degrees Celsius warmer there than they were in the mid-1960s. (The average temperature increase for the Earth’s atmosphere overall is about 0.7 degree C, since 1900.)
(The average temperature increase for the Earth’s atmosphere overall is about 0.7 degree C, since 1900.)
@Pox on your house….
So?
Why are the temps in the South Pole dropping?
Apoxonbothyourhouses says: @ur momisugly January 8, 2014 at 2:26 pm
Please help me understand how your article can scientifically sit….
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You are in luck an engineer about a week ago explained this in a comment.
I am going to reproduce it because I think it is a critical bit of information.
You can also look at the implications of the Bipolar Seesaw in this paper: Can we predict the duration of an interglacial? and do not miss The Antithesis
Apoxonbothyourhouses says: “Bright white ice reflects energy back into space; dark blue water absorbs it. Arctic temperatures are about 2 degrees Celsius warmer there than they were in the mid-1960s.”
(1) For much of the year, Arctic temperatures remain well below freezing.
(2) Summertime decrease in Arctic ice happens in four ways:
(a) sublimation via low humidity
(b) removal to warmer waters by wind and currents
(c) melting from beneath by warmer water
(d) melting via sunlight on soot-contaminated surfaces
(3) The albedo of ice overlaps that of water at high zenith angles.
(4) Ice acts an insulator and reduces major T⁴ loss of heat from the ocean to space.
(5) Ocean albedo, a function of wind, temperature, humidity, current, surface tension, plankton content, and viscosity is poorly handled by the models.
(6) Old ice has a correspondingly low albedo, as in (d), above.
When studying the 5,500 old Ortzi (the Iceman) He had been buried in a glazier in the European Alps. But that year a volcanic eruption covered the mountains with brown ash, so the sun was not reflected as normal. (Not climate change!) This created a glacier melt and Ortzi was found, it didn’t last long of course as new snow covered the dusty film eventually, but it shows how the glaciers can be affected by volcanic eruptions miles away from ash fall.
This was a week chosen for reporting high ratio of cold records to warm records. I would like to look at record-setting occurrences of 1-10 years, and consider recent installment of official airport thermometers being disproportionately in hinterland areas.
I would not go for records – but for decade-plus averages for official thermometers that have been in existence since before WWII and where growth of urban effects has not been significant.
…Just wait…
The 10-day ECMWF has EXTREME amplitude. PNA++
Looks like something similar to the winter of 1976/77.
Gail Combs says: January 8, 2014 at 4:09 pm
Thanks for the repost of RACook’s and the two links, I missed the Antithesis three years ago.
Here is the animated 180 hr NH Jet stream forecast: http://www.stormsurfing.com/stormuser2/images/dods/glob_250.swf
Steve Keohane says…
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I like to keep reminding people there is an alternative view. With luck Dr. Svaalgard is correct and we stay just above the Solar TSI glacial inception point. There is plenty of evidence that says we are near that edge and no one knows exactly where the edges is. (Is it 416 Wm2 of Sirocko & Seelos or is it 474Wm−2 ofTzedakis et al.)
The one thing that is certain is that a global warming “tipping point” is completely laughable given the present near end interglacial TSI.