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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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SasjaL on April 1, 2014 at 3:19 pm
Oooos! The other way around …
I hope this global warming thing kicks in soon!
What would provide more evidence for “extreme weather” than an all-time record? /sarc
Now we know why they emphasize the terms “extreme weather” and “climate change.” Record cold temperatures make “global warming” a tough sell, but they don’t necessarily falsify the idea of a changing climate or an increase in weather extremes. However, I still haven’t heard a convincing argument for how an increase in CO2 can cause record cold.
Last time I checked, the Quad Cities, on the other side of the states, was at #2 in temp, next to 1978-79. Number 1 on show.
So impressive, in light of the heat island that’s developed over the years.
Um, snow. Number one in snow. 🙂
We hear incessantly about the horrors of pleasant weather and rarely about the downside of Arctic weather.
Ice on Lake Michigan proving fatal to waterfowl
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014-03-12/news/chi-ice-on-lake-michigan-proving-fatal-to-waterfowl-20140312_1_waterfowl-scoters-lake-michigan
Yes, while the media talks about a climate report, WUWT does another local weather report.
April 1, 2014 at 2:39 pm
“REPLY: coldest ever for the existence of Chicago. -A”
I can agree with that explanation.
Anyone remember “our children will never see snow”
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/snowfalls-are-now-just-a-thing-of-the-past-724017.html
With more than a ten fold population increase (despite recent decline) since the first readings, UHI should add a couple of degrees to current readings.
Did Gore visit Chicago this year? if so, this could be a case of the Gore effect.
Just another example of why we need to take action against extreme Gore effects.
Leo Geiger says:
April 1, 2014 at 3:41 pm
Yes, while the media talks about a climate report, WUWT does another local weather report.
Yes, record cold winters and record ice levels, all despite record high CO2 levels, and despite a 17-year halt in warming, with signs that we are in fact cooling is “just weather”. Got it.
According to a report this afternoon, the White House announced President Obama has chosen Al Sharpton to be the next Czar of Global Warming. Apparently Sharpton’s climate change tutorials on MSNBC last month impressed the president. http://www.thedailyrash.com/obama-appoints-al-sharpton-global-warming-czar/
This could be worse than Y2K.
I’m in Eastern Canada. We’re still getting snow storms. We have another one on the way. It’s APRIL!!! I don’t remember there ever being this much snow in April. Where is this global warming? It’s not in my area. If you see this elusive global warming, tell it to come my way.
Global warming is like Elvis. People claim to see him/it, but no one can prove it.
If this was weather, then what would you call if it repeats next year or say 3 out of 4 years? Answer: out migration
Reblogged this on OCCUPYMELBOURNE.NET and commented:
Coldest winter in over 100 year but the warmers will still tell you its the hottest ever.
The usual cherry picking of data for 1/1000000th of the world’s surface. There’s something called ‘science’ and it would behoove readers here to read about it first. So far, most everything I’ve seen is “Ready, fire, aim”….
“Global warming is like Elvis. People claim to see him/it, but no one can prove it.”
Global Warming has left the building. 😉
As you would expect, Detroit experienced a similar cold season. The 2nd snowiest ever so far and the 4th coldest Nov-Mar ever.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=dtx&storyid=100198&source=0
The occurrence of one cold and snowy Winter is obviously weather. What I find intriguing is the pattern over the last several decades.
Detroit had numerous mild/low snow Winters in the 1980’s/90’s while the earth experienced global warming and the PDO was positive. 4 of the lowest 20 snow seasons occurred during those 2 decades.
Since the PDO dropped into the negative zone around a decade ago, Detroit has had numerous snowy Winters. In fact, in the top 15, we find that 6 of the snowiest Winters have occurred in just the last 11 years. Which is half of the Winters during that period finishing in the top 15 of the past 130+ years of records.
#2 2013/14 91.7″
#5 2007/8 71.7″
#6 2010/11 69.1″
#10. 2008/9 65.7″
#11. 2004/5 63.8″
#15. 2002/3 60.9″
Does global warming cause more snow?
Well, snow amounts dropped off in the 1980’s/90’s when there was legit global warming. Shouldn’t we have seen snow increase then?
However, snow amounts during the last 11 years are the highest for any such period in Detroit’s recorded history, a time when the global temperature increase has stalled and the PDO, a natural cycle has flipped from positive to negative.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PDO.svg
This suggests that at the very least, the natural cycle shift, as seen in the PDO going from + to – around a decade ago is offsetting all the greenhouse gas warming effect from the CO2 (that has gone up every year during that time). With so much snow during that period it appears that snowy Winters are a result of or working in tandem to produce natural cooling which is completely offsetting the entire greenhouse gas warming effect for the last decade.
Northern Hemisphere snow cover in Winter has increased during the same time frame as Detroit:
http://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/chart_seasonal.php?ui_set=nhland&ui_season=1
Will the warming resume when this natural effect flips again? Maybe, but it’s evidence that for periods of longer than a decade(probably 3 decades considering the past PDO), natural climate change is at least as powerful and at times(50’s-70’s) even more powerful than greenhouse gas warming.
In other words, this is more evidence that the natural cycle(s) have been underestimated which means the human factor has been given too much weight.
Drudge likes you better than the NWS! Congrats on another win.
I feel for you Americans – but imagine my distress, as I cope with the damaging effects of global warming in subtropical Hervey Bay, Australia. One day, if the globe experiences 10 degrees of warming or more, America may suffer the way I do – bathtub warm oceans and bright sunny days, even in winter, lots of beautiful young women running around the beach in skimpy swimwear, BBQs outdoors, because it is too hot to cook inside the house, long evenings drinking beer watching the thunderstorms, whale watching trips to see nature’s great mammals at play, a free waterpark provided by the local utility company, circuses, outdoor events, sports. Its tough I tell you, tough!
Someone must have let Queen Elsa out of her computer animated program.
With Democrat Global Warming, we will all be able to put water into our ovens to make ice cubes!!!!
I mean since like democrats say Global WARMING makes it colder……….
Soon it will be a “Climate Cooling” crisis with Al Gore at the helm. Blaming “Climate Change” for “Climate Cooling” and “Climate Warming” on “Climate Cooling”. Earthquakes creating Climate change or the opposite. Icebergs in the Great Lakes caused by the Gore effect. Snowfall in Equatorial New Guinea caused by “Carbon Cooling”. The ice in my beer cooler melting to fast is the real test of “Global Warming”. Think I will invent a line of Al Gore “Climate Change” beer coolers. The intention is to lessen the effect of “Global Warming” on my beer.