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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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As usual, the Left will ignore th reality of our weather because it does not fit in with their ‘full speed ahead to save Earth’s climate’ mentality. Which, of course, is the tool they need to regulate and tax us to do as they want. Claiming the superior moral high ground because THEY are going to save the planet by exerting their will over us. Really they don’t care about the climate, it’s all about the taxation and regulation.
Clearly abnormal cooling due to global warming. The debate is over.
Jethro says:
Thanks Jethro–I know this is being done..and you’re right, the honor is gone.
Now if we could figure out what is going haywire with the satellites… that we keep coming in above the norm. The planet is cooling–and has been…
Will Stewart Yes we do cherry pick, I would say though snow in Cairo first time in 117 years might tell you something. Maybe it not quite as warm as were being told. Funny from what I can see most of the warming is occurring where people do not live maybe someone needs to chop down that cherry tree.
I can see from the comments that Teabillies know zero about science. Global warming can cause literally any kind of weather. These extremes were predicted by all the climate models. It’s settled science. The debate is over.
Was this based on raw temperature data? We all know that you can’t just measure the temperature you have to adjust it to get the real picture. Wait til NOAA does their final analysis, I’m sure that you can kiss this record goodbye. It might be in the top ten coldest winters but no way it will stay number one!
But of course, this was caused by “Global Warming”. The Libtards will never give up on their idea of man-made global warming/climate change. If they did, then they’d have to give up their dream of a massive wealth redistribution scheme.
I went through the 77-78 blizzards in Ohio with the -30degree lows and -45 wind chills. By the late 80s I moved to Florida and didn’t look back. I can take 2 degrees of “Climate Change” but not 100 degrees of winter…
can see from the comments that GOPunks know zero about science. Global warming can cause literally any kind of weather. These extremes were predicted by all the climate models. It’s settled science. The debate is over.
It’s probably Dubya Bush”s fault
I watered my cactus outside today in Houston, it was 79.
Ok, it was a cold winter. Does that mean anything against the nice weather we had last year?
Enough with all of this “coldest on record” crap. It has been this cold before, it will be this cold again.
I suggest Chicagoans burn the extra ballots that are reserved for dead people and illegal aliens. That ought to warm things up considerably.
Snow in the middle east is not unusual, don’t they read their tale of the Nativity. It snows in Israel, Syria, Lebanon, Cyprus, but generally not in Egypt. One of my former school friends living In Israel, said one day. Snow one day and hot the next. Never know what to wear. Even snows in Australia. But where I live it we have deeper snow that doesn’t disappear in a day, we are in the pooh. As we are on a plateau or tablelands, the roads to and from are likely to be covered in ice.
We have power failures. Generally this only happens for a few days. So we use candles and BBQ’s or buy our food cooked from gas from take aways. But we miss TV. Luckily it doesn’t happen often. But water pumps for rain water do freeze.
It was a glorious winter in Chicago! I missed the -20ºF run we had in the late 1970’s-80’s, so this past winter was like welcoming an old friend back to the neighborhood.
The windshield on our new Honda CRV cracked from the cold. Impressive.
As far as global warming, well….Shaka, when the walls fell is about all I can say to that.
Pilot Hank Cain must have long arms and legs. That picture is from row 24 starboard on a 737.
REPLY: He might have been a passenger or flying deadhead. The article didn’t say – Anthony
Entering a likely 70-year “dead sun” Grand Solar Minimum similar to that of 1645 – 1715, cycles of ever-diminishing wavelength, higher frequency, project that AD 2010 – 2029 (twenty years) will succeed the thirty-year warm-phase from 1980 – 2009, which in turn followed forty years of relative chill from c. 1940 – 1979.
Given the previous fifty-year rebound (1890 -1939) from Earth’s 500-year Little Ice Age (LIA), it seems that short-term climatic pulses will soon shake Earth’s global thermostat to pieces, after 2030 chaotically switching off-and-on through AD 2100.
Since –due to the 1,500-year Younger Dryas “cold shock” that ended c. BC 7300– our current Holocene Interglacial Epoch would normally have ended about AD 450, coincident with the fading Roman Warm, odds favor a resurgent Pleistocene Ice Time lasting a median 102,000 years. Should technological advances not suffice to move approximately 6-billion souls off-planet from c. 2050, Earth’s hominid population will have shrunk 90% a century or two from now.
If this warming keeps up im going to freeze my [trimmed] off.
If this global warming keeps up im going to freeze my snowballs off.
It’s racist to oppose Fubarak Obathhouse’s global warming words. This pocket of resistance must be rolled up. I’ll get president Jarrett and Eric Holder right on it.
SCUTE – ” Scute says:
April 1, 2014 at 3:23 pm
Why do all weather service announcements and tables resemble a badly-typed WWII secret service memo?”
Thank you!! I got a good early morning laugh out of that. So TRUE!
God is punishing them for voting for that idiot, twice…
Who said h3ll was hot??
The real news here is that a blogger created a method for determining the existence (or non-existence) of a decades long trend of a body 190,000,000 sq miles, by looking at 4 months of data from an area 11,000 sq miles. Congratulations sir.