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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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Bruce Cobb says: Yes, record cold winters….with signs that we are in fact cooling is “just weather”. Got it.
Don’t listen to me. Listen to WUWT and Roy Spencer when there were record high temperatures in March 2012 in parts of North America:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/04/16/usas-record-warm-march-not-caused-by-global-warming/
…avoid linking a weather pattern…
…attributing much to “randomness”…
The U.S. is a pretty small place (about 2% of the Earth)…
…we are talking about “weather”, not “climate change”.
That means that our unusual warmth is matched by unusual coolness someplace else.
…here we see evidence that our March warmth was simply a chance fluctuation in weather patterns.
For a little broader context:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=83371
There certainly was cold weather in Chicago this winter, though, and quite a few other places in the U.S. and Canada. No doubt about that.
I made an error in the block quotes formatting. If it wasn’t clear, this final sentence was mine, not NASA’s.
“There certainly was cold weather in Chicago this winter, though, and quite a few other places in the U.S. and Canada. No doubt about that.”
Global warming – climate change – the terms have been used interchangeably for years. I guess you didn’t see the 2004 movie “The Day After Tomorrow,” which featured climate change/global warming as a plot point. Burning carbon fuels doesn’t make CO2. Nope. CO2 doesn’t cause a greenhouse effect. It’s all about those greedy scientists vs. those high integrity utility companies and heavy industries. Uh, sure, that makes perfect sense (walks away rolling eyes).
The Alarmists are going to trumpet the idea that the cold weather in the US this winter is an example of extreme weather produced by climate change. (There, I think I got all the boiler plate words right.)
All of us know that it was just weather. Mother Nature is once again showing us what she can do. She likes to do that.
If they would take a moment for thought, Alarmists would realize that their mantra of “extreme weather” makes no sense because, after all, it is just weather and not climate.
Dat be rassiss and sheeet! Alb Gore be needs mo money so he can fix all this weather sheeet!
What divine irony that the PRESIDENT from CHICAGO insists that “global warming” is settled science and that anyone who doesn’t believe it is a “denier” or “flat earther”. He is so full of himself and so wrong.
Who really gives a [trimmed] about how cold it was? Are you people that bored? What’s it gonna be tomorrow?
Once upon a time, a long long long long long time ago, there was an “ICE AGE”. There was a “climate change” and things got warmer in some places; colder in others. Dinosaurs died . . ice melted . . SH lT happens. There were no ‘coal fired generators’ on the planet. There were no lawn-mowers. Al Gore had not been born so there was not as much flatulence.. . . but there was plenty to go around.
Don’t worry about it. The earth warms. . . the earth cools. . . . it has been doing this SH lT for a long long long long time.
That is because the flatulence family has left the area
I like it when the northern Dem voters, that cause so much damage to the economy and nation by empowering corrupt leftist pols, get a serious dose of Karma…I hope they have snow in June.
Didn’t the IPCC say extreme weather events were not caused by climate change? The gentleman who moved to Florida well done, but don’t you get hurricanes there instead. You can’t win eh. I lived in Bermuda and it is so low that early explorers couldn’t find it until they hit reefs.
The weather there was awful. Cold in winter, humid as hell in summer, but the sea was wonderfully clear and warm and the fish so tame. Except for the oil on the beaches. But we were on the edge of the hurricane belt and suffered from one. I went to a Higglerly Piggerly supermarket, and I could not really stand up well against the winds. As the roads were close to the sea, we got waves crashing over the mini minor we owned. Now if sea rises were to affect any island, Bermuda should be effected. Bleedin’ expensive though even for Americans.
Atolls sink and rise. Everyone knows this don’t they. When we were flying to Bermuda, we passed either Hawaii or maybe Tahiti or Fiji, I can’t remember. The captain pointed out an atoll and said it was being encroached by the sea. Storms don’t help either.
Google “Al Gore adductors release second chakra”
Don’t fret too much at the height of the last glacial advance it didn’t get too much further than the great lakes. By the time that happens you will have adequately adapted or moved to Florida?
The coldest winter I ever spent was during the white-hot debate about global warming in Chicago while it endured it’s coldest winter. Actually, that is a lie, I spent this winter in San Diego. I did however catch pneumonia the last winter I spent in Chicago a few years back when it hit like -10… If you haven’t had it, pneumonia is a trip … three days of sweating profusely, as you shiver like a mad man.
Climatologists not invited to the right parties have for the past several years been saying they believe that the world is entering a gradual cooling period which will resemble the little ice age of Napoleon’s time.
[Unbelievably] grueling. I do not like the heat but this has been trying. High of sub zero on more than one occassion.
when the new ice age does hit … feed your bovines beans … Save The Planet!
Will Stewart says:
April 1, 2014 at 5:06 pm
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…
Will, you really need to get up to speed on this subject. Forget about your stupid charges of ‘cherry picking’, and look at the satellite record, which is not only the most accurate temperature record, but it covers the whole globe. It shows that global warming has stopped for the past 17+ years.
You’ve been reading pseudo-science blogs, haven’t you? Stick around here for a while, and learn some real facts.
re: HHnNC says April 1, 2014 at 6:06 pm
Who really gives a [trimmed] about how cold it was? Are you people that bored? What’s it gonna be tomorrow?
Teens and single digits in several states THIS MORNING even; didja know this? As far south as Nebraska (teens; single digits in the Dakotas and Minnesota). Did MSNBC/ABC/SeeBS/CNN or NBC mention this (NO for NBC; I watched them this morning!)
Anything on HuffPo or DKos? How about The Wx Channel? Too ’embarrassing’ to mention for the first of April huh … As a matter of fact, surface map is showing teens in parts of Minnesota and N. Dakota at the moment … ‘fear the chill’ …
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Once again on record is 150 years out of how many million or billion?
The summer of 1988 was brutally hot. I specifically remember WGN’s Tom Skilling stating that Chicago had recorded more 100 degree high temps that summer than they had since the city started keeping records. If you check the “official record” now they list only three days that the temp exceeded 100. So don’t worry about how cold it has been this year. If you check the record in 20 or 30 years you will find that it wasn’t nearly as cold as you remember. The record will be “corrected” for your own good. Probably makes you warmer just thinking about it. I know it makes me pretty hot!
I don’t know where Weather Underground gets their info but I recorded the local reported high and low for every day last year, just in case, and those temps have already been “corrected” on their website.
Where has the honor in science gone?
Who listens to school kids or university students, who are still learning about life and their place in their society and food chain. Minus 10 C is cold, we get it here in Australia, but it warms up during the day. But in comparison to when I was living in UK, Gee, it was cold there without central heating. And it depended on where you lived. Weather patterns vary in UK and Oz.
Richard will remember, when TV first came available in England and we only had the BBC, we ridiculed the weather predictions. I have radar surveillance available here. Storm trackers and the Bureau of Meteorology. It can change in hours. And even if warnings are out for extreme weather, they sometimes pass over our town. Better to be pre-warned I suspect. But recently a typhoon hit a small place not far from where I live. It destroyed a ladies home, that was not built to sustain such winds. But her next door neighbour was OK. There was no warning.
If I have read it correctly the IPCC is generalising and there predictions seem to match more a cooling climate than a warmer one, when precipitation usually increases. Other than in desert areas or inland from the sea. It depends on the size of the land mass and its shape. Australia is two thirds arid.
You can tell which side is lying on global warming, sorry, climate change, or is it called something else now?…global cooling?…Whatever. Anyway, you can tell which side is lying on many issues. The side that is lying is the side that wants to shut everyone else up. It’s what you might call it the lying dictator syndrome. When the liars are sufficiently appeased, you have a dictatorship. You know who I’m talking about.