![slide_331920_3300262_free[1]](http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/slide_331920_3300262_free1.jpg?quality=83)
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
Discover more from Watts Up With That?
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
Candice, AGW alarmists are getting things wrong and becoming defensive to the point of libelous suggestions by some. ” Global warming causing the increased cold” Where? And where is your data to prove this? How can you compare one continent with another, it’s autumn in Australia. Yet our states do vary in their separate micro-climates. We have a monsoon belt up in Northern Australia. Snow on the higher peaks and quite honestly, there is nothing we can do to reverse weather patterns, just hope it doesn’t get too extreme and another glacial period is on the horizon.
And a few years ago, California did experience snow and late frosts at an unusual time of year.
Here in Australia, when it was November, (our late spring) we had snow all the way up to the Queensland border, and sleet/snow on December 23-24th in New England. We put our fires back on. But American cities have experienced a very cold winter. And it appears to be prolonged. But when it snows in Mexico, or Texas then you should see this as extreme but if it continues, then we will have problems.
Climate is what we expect, but weather is what we get. And weather kills us, with volcanoes, hurricanes, cyclones, tsunamis and earthquakes. And disease.
Oh, Candice, was it true Al Gore was handing out pamphlets at a UFO convention, stating the globe was too cold for aliens to settle here, and when the global warming continued as predicted we earthlings were in danger of some unearthly UFO coming to settle here. LOL Anyway, the AGW and IPCC are losing credibility.
Hmmmmmm.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/18/us-usa-california-drought-idUSBREA2H03720140318
Sorry…..thought this was FOX News: Fair and balanced:)