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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
$$
KJB
Source: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=lot&storyid=101458&source=0
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“Chico says:
April 1, 2014 at 9:42 pm
I watered my cactus outside today in Houston, it was 79.”
That’s an old cactus … mine rarely get past 5! ;¬)
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We keep being told that weather is not climate by the greens and CAGW-ologists – How come the Oxford English Dictionary gets it so wrong?
climate
n noun
1 the general weather conditions prevailing in an area over a long period.
2 a prevailing trend or public attitude: the current economic climate.
DERIVATIVES
climatic adjective
climatical adjective
climatically adverb
ORIGIN
Middle English (orig. denoting a zone of the earth between two lines of latitude, later a region considered with ref. to its atmospheric conditions): from Old French climat or late Latin clima, climat-, from Greek klima ‘slope, zone’.
But out lying A$$ Liar of the Century is shutting down coal burning power plants. My electric bill has doubled since he started that madness. Of course he doesn’t have to worry about his electric bill, the texpayers pay it, as well as [paying for his bi-weekly vacations.
Glad I’m not the only one wondering why the pilot was taking photos from economy class! If he was a passenger, why would the caption call him the “pilot”? Wouldn’t he simply be “passenger”? Or if he is actually an off-duty pilot, why is he in economy?
Well….At least the murder rate fell a little. But it wont be long before….BANG BANG BANG!!
BRRR! Global….warming….is….BRRR!!!…true!…..We ….BRRR!!….must tax….BRRR!!…all….carbon!!
Calling Al Gore! Calling Al Gore! Sockpuppet has fainted from frost bite! Calling Al Gore….
“You can’t argue with the science”
-Barack Obama at the Copenhagen global warming summit
What a pathetic excuse for a human being he is….
For the states close to the Canadian border , this was a record cold winter. Overall, for United States it was the 34 the coldest since 1895. It looks like 2014/2015 winter may be milder with a possible weak El Nino on the horizon. However the long term out look could be colder winters like we had 1895-1920 and again 1954-1979 as the ocean cycles swing into their cool mode . This has already been happening since 1998 . The winter temperatures have been declining now for 16 years at about 1.78F/ decade according to NCDC/NOAA, CLIMATE AT A GLANCE data.. Matter of fact 8 out 12 months are also cooling . Winters , spring and fall are cooling while summer is still warming . So we better get used to cooler temperatures as they may be around for several decades to come.
Maybe the author could obtain a comment from colossal Fraud and prominent demoRAT-COMMUNIST party member, algore
Not sure if winter is over yet in Minnesota. Northern Minnesota picked up 16-18″ of new snow earlier this week and the Twin Cities are supposed to get a foot of snow tomorrow. If April keeps going the way it has started we could see the coldest and snowiest April on record.
Here in Iowa when it got into the low 20s we thought we were experiencing a heat wave. Just think how cold it would have been where it not for Global Warming.
While, in So Cal, we’ve had the warmest winter in decades.
Geezz…I just might have to turn the AC on again today. 🙂
There is a possibility that the US/North America, Siberia/USSR, Greenland and Europe will experience the first signs of global cooling, because if cooling sets in from the weak sun, and also the negative PDO, the land areas of the northern hemisphere might be expected to experience cooling first. The southern hemisphere has too much water, which retains heat longer. Greenland is already cooling apparently since the mid?-late 20th century, so this is a good sign.
It;s good for skeptics because most of the research and blogosphere goes on in the US/Canada and western Europe, so this is fortuitous, you could call it another Gore effect-one of the first places to experience significant global cooling might be Gore’s home country. Interesting to watch in the next 20 years, I reckon temperature might cool for the next few decades. Here’s hoping anyway.
I guess those temperatures that are used when calculating record temperatures are not adjusted for UHI? In that case the temperatures thsi winter may be a bit higer due to UHI.
With the exception of the WEST , every part of United States is showing winter temperatre trend getting colder for the last 17 winters
RATES OF WINTER COOLING FOR THE LAST 17 WINTERS 1998-2014 TREND PER US CLIMATE REGIONS [PER NCDC/NOAA CLIMATE AT A GLANCE data]
OHIO VALLEY (CENTRAL) -2.5 F/decade
UPPER MIDWEST (EAST NORTH CENTRAL) -4.3
NORTH EAST -1.2
NORTH WEST -0.8
SOUTH -1.6
SOUTH EAST -0.5
SOUTH WEST -1.3
WEST +0.1
WEST NORTH CENTRAL(NORTHERN ROCKIES & PLA. -3.3
Note :SOUTH AND NORTH DAKOTA – 4.7 and – 4.5 F/decade
IILLINOIS -3.3F/decade
Avg March temp at a UHI-affected station in Hagerstown, MD was 36.5F — 5.5F below avg. Several daily low records were set:
http://i4weather.net/mar14.txt
Good point Herkimer. Maybe you could add the numbers for the last 17 Summers as that would be interesting also.
Well we know it was a cold winter for Chicagoans as well as those in the northeast. I figured Matt Drudge wouldn’t come up with weather patterns for the whole world though. If he did he’d realize that most of the world enjoyed an unusually warm winter. Time to wake up, Matt. The world is getting warmer, not colder.
As the old saying goes . . . . “When Hell Freezes Over”
“The Earth has a Fever” – Al Gore
Global warming, yet another violation of our rights. The gov’t constantly violates our rights.
They violate the 1st Amendment by caging protesters and banning books like “America Deceived II”.
They violate the 4th and 5th Amendment by allowing TSA to grope you.
They violate the entire Constitution by starting undeclared wars.
Impeach Obama.
Last link of “America Deceived II” before it is completely banned:
http://www.amazon.com/America-Deceived-II-Possession-interrogation/dp/1450257437
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TonyG says:
As the old saying goes . . . . “When Hell Freezes Over”
As the “TonyG” who has been posting here for 4+ years, I didn’t say this. I’ve already changed my handle once because someone else started using it. Time to do so again?
As a survivor of this brutal winter in the Chicago area, I would like to publicly thank all the workers in the oil and natural gas fields in North Dakota. I know they earned, much more than they were paid these last 4 months. But it has allowed many families throughout the northern tier of the US, to maintain a warm place, to get through, these record setting cold months.
I thank you for your hard work, and endurance during difficult times, and hope the weather is more bearable, during the rest of this year.
More geoengineering. natural weather does not exist anymore.
Maybe you Chicago Liberal idiots can get Al Gore and Barak Hussein Soetero Bounel Obama Jr. to blow some of their hot air over the city and warm it up a bit.
(No offense, there’s plenty of liberal idiots where I live too – and it’s friggin cold here as well)