NOAA: US Cold records outnumber warm records 66 to 1 in the last 7 days

And nearly 3 to 1 in the last 30 days, and over 2 to 1 in 2014

From NOAA/NCDC:  U.S. Records Summary

The summaries below list the number of records broken for several recent periods is summarized in this table and updated daily. Due to late-arriving data, the number of recent records is likely underrepresented in all categories, but the ratio of records (warm to cold, for example) should be a fairly strong estimate of a final outcome. There are many more precipitation stations than temperature stations, so the raw number of precipitation records will likely exceed the number of temperature records in most climatic situations.

See the table:

US-hi-lo-records

Source: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/datatools/records

Unfortunately, it seems NOAA’s map visualization of the record is broken.

The tab “View Selected Records” fails to produce any data, no matter what the setting. I’ve sent a note out tot he NCDC webmaster.

 

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March 8, 2014 8:01 am

Climate/Earth worship needs to die a quick death.

Mark T
March 8, 2014 8:03 am

Clearly this is more evidence of global warming, er, well, maybe dumbing.
Mark

RichardLH
March 8, 2014 8:10 am

I have no doubt we are over a local maximum and headed downwards for the next few year so this sort of thing may well repeat again next year. If we actually reach or even exceed these records again next year will be interesting.
http://climatedatablog.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/uah-global.png

March 8, 2014 8:17 am

Ah but climate “scientists” have always known that CAGW causes extreme weather events, hot and cold, wet and dry etc etc. The perfect climate we used to have never had extreme weather.

pokerguy
March 8, 2014 8:20 am

I hate cold weather and despise snow, but we really need a trend breaker….that is globally….to begin to put this thing to bed once and for all. 5 years of significant global cooling might do it…
It’s fun to talk about local cold and tease the easily teas-able warmists with reminders about how snow is supposed to be a rare and exciting event by now…but it’s not going to get us anywhere in a substantive way….

March 8, 2014 8:25 am

The Low Max (record coolest daily high) numbers also deserve notice.
This ought to be a regular, monthly post.

ferdberple
March 8, 2014 8:28 am

Warming is caused by climate. Cooling is caused by weather.

March 8, 2014 8:41 am

330 Snow FALL Daily Records in the last 7 days.
14109 Snow FALL Daily Records in the last 365 days.
for each, there are zero Snow DEPTH daily records. — in March.
That is very surprising. I am trying to figure out how it would be possible.
I suspect a query error.
Aside: Breckenridge snow report:
14 inches of snow in the past 24 hours, 24 inches of snow in past 7 days,
and 353 inches in the season.
301 inches is the season average and March is usually the heaviest snowfall month.

Robert Wykoff
March 8, 2014 8:53 am

And March will still have a positive anomaly.

Ray Hudson
March 8, 2014 9:00 am

I have always maintained that the relationship between “climate” and “weather” is something on the order of:
Climate = INTEGRAL(Weather*dtime)
If this rough relationship is true, then how long before these WEATHER trends being to reflect an honest to goodness change in CLIMATE towards a distinct down-trend in global temperature anomaly?

Alan Robertson
March 8, 2014 9:00 am

Snow has nitrogen content and is sometimes called the poor man’s fertilizer. Last year’s local gardens were delayed by late frosts which persisted over 2 weeks longer than normal. [Let] it snow, but not much longer.

Alan Robertson
March 8, 2014 9:01 am

pimf Let it snow…

March 8, 2014 9:15 am

No, no, no! It is nearly 9,000 to 1 in favor of warm records!! You forgot the records being set at the bottom of the ocean. We can not measure them but our climate models say it is hot as hell down there. Little Mike told me so!

Steve Keohane
March 8, 2014 9:21 am

Stephen Rasey says:March 8, 2014 at 8:41 am
This may or may not be of interest. There is a volunteer network across the US that collects and records precipitation data, including in some cases, total snow depth and Snow Water Equivalent (SWE), the water content of the snow on the ground.
http://www.cocorahs.org/
If you click on view data they have some ways of viewing the data, no apparent way to download it though. They had over 5500 observations reported by noon EST for today.

Catcracking
March 8, 2014 9:42 am

The visualization map cannot be fixed because NASA spent all the government money giving discounted fuel to Google’s owners for their private aircraft.
See how your tax dollars go to big contributors
Wonder why Google contributes to political campaigns?
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/NASA-Admits-to-Selling-Discount-Fuel-to-Google-Execs-248922181.html
“NASA now acknowledges what NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Team first uncovered last year–that the government agency has been effectively giving a price break on jet fuel to a private company.
In a letter to an Iowa senator (PDF), NASA’s associate administrator for legislative and intergovernmental affairs admits the agency was selling jet fuel at below market rates to H2-11, a company owned by the founders of Google.
Senator Chuck Grassley says he received the letter on Thursday although it’s dated Feb. 24. In the letter, NASA’s Seth Statler writes, “in light of the concerns expressed with those agreements, NASA has reviewed its pricing approach and…is now charging a ‘market rate’ for aviation fuel at Ames research center.”
Last September, NBC Bay Area examined seven years of fuel records from 2007 through 2013. According to those records, NASA sold to H2-11 discounted jet fuel that was then used to fly a private 757, a 767 and 5 other luxury aircraft all over the world. H2-11’s principle owners are the same as Google’s: Sergey Brin, Larry Page and Eric Schmidt.
According to the fuel records, H2-11 purchased jet fuel for prices ranging from $2.37 to $3.20 a gallon. At nearby local airports, the exact same jet fuel goes for between $5 and $8.50 per gallon.
According to the inspector general’s report, the discount fuel saved Google’s principals between $3.3 million and $5.3 million since H2-11 was able to purchase the taxpayer subsidized fuel at Ames.
Senator Grassley has been a vocal critic on Capitol Hill of this arrangement between NASA and H2-11. He says, “It’s good news that NASA finally heeded my calls and scrutiny from the media and acknowledged its fuel pricing was wrong. Like all agencies, NASA is responsible for getting the most bang for the taxpayer’s buck.”
An official with H2-11 has always maintained that they were buying the only fuel available to them at NASA Ames. H2-11’s executive director Ken Ambrose says that the company did nothing wrong and that it has paid “full retail for hangar space” at Moffett Field.
Senator Grassley still wants NASA to get back those millions that taxpayers subsidized for the lower cost fuel, but NASA says it’s not possible. In the letter, Statler says “NASA does not have an avenue to pursue payments in excess of its full cost to provide the fuel under the earlier agreements with H2-11, as suggested by the inspector general.”

Village Idiot
March 8, 2014 9:51 am

Weather weirding from the drunk Arctic continues. Record warmth and ice maximum minimums must have some consequences:
http://www.dmi.dk/groenland/arktis/middeltemperaturer/
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/seaice.recent.arctic.png

john robertson
March 8, 2014 10:00 am

These record lows are easily rectifies, using patented Team IPCC ™ methodology, simply adjust the past temperatures lower.
See no more cold, more unprecedented warming.
And all our grandparents were lying, there was no way they grew those cereal crops they lived on.

john robertson
March 8, 2014 10:02 am

reticified

March 8, 2014 10:11 am

The man-made climate changers argument boils down to;
Insane insulting illogical psychobabble baseless opinion.

aeroguy48
March 8, 2014 10:33 am

Global warming, ‘affordable’ health care, NOAA’s website collapsing? Who would have thought that Socialism wasn’t the solution?

Editor
March 8, 2014 10:49 am

Steve Keohane says:
March 8, 2014 at 9:21 am

Stephen Rasey says:March 8, 2014 at 8:41 am
This may or may not be of interest. There is a volunteer network across the US that collects and records precipitation data, including in some cases, total snow depth and Snow Water Equivalent (SWE), the water content of the snow on the ground.
http://www.cocorahs.org/
If you click on view data they have some ways of viewing the data, no apparent way to download it though. They had over 5500 observations reported by noon EST for today.

I’m a CoCoRaHS member (station NH-MR-33), one that reliably tracks snow depth. I don’t know of ways to download data in bulk easily, but there are several organizations who probably do that through contact with the organizers.
It looks like I’ll wind up with the 3rd deepest snow pack in my (non-CoCoRaHS) 15 year record. I doubt there are any single day depth records this year, the season 2007/2008 will be very hard to top. (The blizzard of 1888 is also extremely hard to top in regional long term records.)
I don’t worry much about snowfall, snow depth, or “snow depth days” as a measure of climate change, the data is way too noisy to be useful unless you are looking at large regions or have a century’s worth of data.
See http://wermenh.com/sdd/ for more snow data from some places around New England. One day I might try picking up some CoCoRaHS data. One of the links I have there, http://www.uvm.edu/skivt-l/?Page=.%2Fmansel.php3&dir=. is an interactive snow graphics generator for Mt Mansfield VT with data back to 1954.

JimS
March 8, 2014 12:14 pm

I heard that it was Catastrophic Natural Global Cooling that gave Australia all its heats waves, drought and wild fires last summer. I learned early in life never to argue with logic.

March 8, 2014 12:23 pm

oops…time to smooth that data.

rogerknights
March 8, 2014 12:32 pm

pokerguy says:
March 8, 2014 at 8:20 am
I hate cold weather and despise snow, but we really need a trend breaker….that is globally….to begin to put this thing to bed once and for all. 5 years of significant global cooling might do it…

If 2014 is not one of the top-ten warmest years, that will put a spoke in their wheel that will kil their momentum–and maybe allow the silent majority to get off the stalled bandwagon.

chuck
March 8, 2014 12:50 pm

Keep in mind that when all the cold polar vortex air migrated down to the continental US, warm air had to migrate north to the Arctic. In a week or so, when the Arctic ice reaches it’s maximum, you’ll have to take note that it is well below 2-sigma from the average extent.