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The average temperature for December 2013 to March 2014 period in Chicago was only 22.0°F, 10 degrees below freezing, beating the old record set in the winter of 1903-04. It even beat the harsh winters of 1977/78 which were some of the worst ever.
While stories rage in the media about how global warming is a threat to mankind and nobody will be left untouched by it, the National Weather Service in Chicago issued this statement today.
No, it isn’t an April fools joke.
Here is the statement:
PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL
937 AM CDT TUE APR 1 2014 /1037 AM EDT TUE APR 1 2014/
...COLDEST FOUR MONTH PERIOD ON RECORD IN CHICAGO...
CHICAGO:
THE IMPRESSIVE COLD THIS PAST WINTER CONTINUED DURING
MARCH...WITH A MONTHLY AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF ONLY 31.7 DEGREES
FOR THE MONTH. THIS RANKS AS THE 19TH COLDEST MARCH ON RECORD IN
CHICAGO. HOWEVER...OF EVEN MORE INTEREST IS THE FACT THAT WITH THE
ABNORMALLY COLD MARCH ACROSS THE AREA...THIS MADE THE AVERAGE
TEMPERATURE FOR THE DECEMBER THROUGH MARCH PERIOD IN CHICAGO 22.0
DEGREES...WHICH IS THE COLDEST SUCH PERIOD ON RECORD FOR CHICAGO
DATING BACK TO 1872!
HERE IS A LIST OF THIS YEARS DECEMBER THROUGH MARCH AVERAGE
TEMPERATURE RELATED TO THE OTHER COLDEST SUCH PERIODS ON RECORD
IN CHICAGO:
RANK AVERAGE YEAR
DEC-MAR TEMP
-----------------------------
1. 22.0 2013-14
2. 22.3 1903-04
3. 22.5 1977-78
22.5 1892-93
5. 22.7 1978-79
ROCKFORD:
UNSEASONABLY COLD CONDITIONS ALSO OCCURRED IN ROCKFORD IN MARCH.
THE AVERAGE MONTHLY TEMPERATURE WAS 29.6 DEGREES...WHICH WAS THE
12TH COLDEST MARCH ON RECORD. THE DECEMBER THROUGH MARCH AVERAGE
TEMPERATURE FOR ROCKFORD WAS 18.4 DEGREES. THIS RANKS AS THE 2ND
COLDEST SUCH PERIOD ON RECORD IN ROCKFORD DATING BACK TO 1906.
HERE IS A LIST OF THIS YEARS DECEMBER THROUGH MARCH AVERAGE
TEMPERATURE RELATED TO THE OTHER COLDEST SUCH PERIODS ON RECORD
IN ROCKFORD:
RANK AVERAGE YEAR
DEC-MAR TEMP
-----------------------------
1. 18.2 1977-78
2. 18.4 2013-14
3. 18.5 1978-79
4. 19.1 1911-12
5. 21.0 1981-82
$$
KJB
Source: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=lot&storyid=101458&source=0
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I live less than 60 miles north of Chicago in southeastern Wisconsin.
Can you please stop reminding me how cold this last winter was?
Thanks. 🙂
I DREAM of temperatures getting up to 22 deg F.
This cold is brought to you via AGW. The same force that will keep your children from experiencing snow. The models must be showing the freezing point of water will rise.
Woops. I meant to say ‘the freezing point of water will fall.’
On the notice board outside my office, I have drawing of a man with ear muffs, holding a white flag. Underneath is the captions:
I surrender.
Winter wins.
Please stop.
Calling it the coldest “ever” seems a bit of a reach, although I don’t doubt that it was the coldest 4 months on record.
REPLY: coldest ever for the existence of Chicago. -A
“EVER?” Oh. Good thing you qualified it. For a moment I thought you were going all cold alarmist on us. I mean, hello! Pleistocene! I won’t believe it till I see it as anomalous data or as an inverted hockey stick. Enough with your fancy talk.
Last year it snow in Baghdad, this year in Cairo (first time in over a hundred years.) Yet I am told that the abnormal cold is only in the US and the US does not make the world, after all world is still warming. My though yes it is still warming in the record keeper computers, and it will remain warming in their computers eve if ice sheets descend were yet again descending on Chicago, our Baghdad Bobs called climatologist will still insist that the world is warming. I truly believe they are cooking the books and we are probably in a cooling period. I can only hope the cooling period is brief and the world will continue to do a step change upward say in about twenty years, because I also know that where I spend most of my live only a few thousand years ago there was a sheet of ice covering that part of the world over a mile thick and we are not that many steps downward for that condition to return as the norm.
Ya’ see? That’s why we needed to change form global warming to climate change. if we had stuck with GW, people could measure and prove wrong. If we go with CC, who the heck is going to know what we’re talking about and we can continue to fool some of the people all of the time. If not all of the time, at least long enough to get regulations in place and then we can find a new phantom menace.
If you don’t measure, you can’t manage. If you can’t measure, you can’t manage.
We’re still struggling to get over 40 in Michigan. Yesterday was 59 for a short period. No sign of flowers, but the geese are flying north. A warm Spring is just around the corner.
On record, ok … but before that? If we turn back the clock 12-15000 years, it would be a different story …
[snip -over the top – mod]
Latest ice-out on Lake Winnipesaukee since 1887 quite possible.
Here comes the liberal BS about climate, regional vs global. OH SHUT THE HELL UP!!
Reblogged this on The Next Grand Minimum and commented:
Reminds me of this Ice Age Map: http://iceagenow.info/2011/05/ice-age-maps/
If there was a mile high glacier just 500 meters away from Chicago, the global warming cult would still be screaming about how the world is about to burn up due to global warming. They are in denial of all the science.
Calling Al Gore, Mr. Al Gore…..
Global Warming, RIGHT.
I’ve seen cold years and hot years.
The Earth has seen Ice Ages
and Hot spells (BTW long before industrialization)
The SUN controls Earth’s weather, PERIOD.
So-called “scientists” are voting their paychecks and propagandizing
for the UN globalists.
Liars, and socialist vermin.
All the more impressive given that the UHI effect is likely stronger now than it has ever been.
This was clearly George Bush’s fault…
that`s why i moved to Florida after 45 years of cold Chicago winters.
alan on April 1, 2014 at 3:02 pm
Here’s the mixup about “liberalism” and “socialism” again … (Not the same!) The former is left wing politics and the latter is center-right politics.
Cold? Like ice age cold , like global warming cold?
Time to start burning coal to warm the planet…… Al Gore has gon too far.
UN insists it is warming along with most Dems!
It’s a travesty…..
Why do all weather service announcements and tables resemble a badly-typed WWII secret service memo?