Actually, two new records; one for high one for low. This from earlier:
RECORD EVENT REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
132 AM CDT WED JUL 30 2014
...RECORD HIGH MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE TIED AT HUNTSVILLE...
A RECORD HIGH MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE OF 81 DEGREES WAS TIED AT
HUNTSVILLE ON TUESDAY (7-29-14). THIS TIES THE OLD RECORD OF 81 SET
IN 2006.
Actually, they have the wording backwards, it is supposed to be record low maximum. Obviously 81 degrees is not that warm for July in Alabama. They’ll probably issue a correction later. The NWS predicted the new record low earlier with this graphic:
Now the record has been broken according to the latest data from KHSV:
The temperature at Huntsville International Airport dropped to 57 degrees as of 4:53 a.m. 56 degrees.
The previous record for the date was 60 degrees set back in 1914.
UPDATE: 8AM PDT
The record DID go lower, to 56F, and I’ve updated the post.
RECORD EVENT REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
725 AM CDT WED JUL 30 2014
...NEW RECORD LOW TEMPERATURE AT HUNTSVILLE...
NEW RECORD LOW TEMPERATURE OF 56 DEGREES WAS SET AT HUNTSVILLE. THIS BREAKS
THE OLD RECORD OF 60 BACK IN 1914.
Dr. John Christy writes in with:
A bigger story is the Montgomery low of 59F – tying the all time monthly record low for July set on 20 July 2009 from records that go back to the 1880s.
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for those thinking about “jumbo shrimp” why do we drive on the parkway and park on the driveway?
Hmmm – I misspelled it twice and it’s still wrong. filers -> fires.
Karma:
Atlanta sets a record low on the day the EPA holds hearings there about capping carbon.
According to wunderground, the record high temp for Huntsville on 7/29 was 111 degrees. However since that was in 1930 it was adjusted DOWN to 80 degrees, hence yesterday was a record, AGW is real, and we’re all going to die.
/sarc
Bill Taylor said on July 30, 2014 at 8:41 am:
Must be a regional thing, here in Pennsylvania we drive on the highway and sometimes park on the berm. But I’ve yet to find a lowway. Although I have heard of a midway, it lies somewhere between different towns but I’ve never seen it when driving.
I think someone is playing word games with you. Like when someone is on one of the Interstate Highways like I-80 or I-81 with the temporary perpetual construction or a rare daily accident, then they may indeed exclaim the highway has become a parkway!
My last post was in response to
justaskin says:
July 30, 2014 at 8:26 am
justaskin says:July 30, 2014 at 8:26 am
“And the point is that these low temperatures somehow disprove AGW?”
No that is not “the point”. That would be asinine.
If it were “the point” someone would say “these low temperatures somehow disprove AGW”.
You should try to just ask better questions without framing them with a foolish strawman assumption.
Do you ever ask the same kind of question of alarmists?
“And the point is that these high temperatures somehow prove AGW?”
They more than anyone regularly point to every imaginable observation and suggest it is proof of AGW. Often while also thoroughly distorting the observation, measurement, trend and anything else they can be deceitful with.
Record low temperatures also on the
Gulf Coast. 65 degrees in Mobile, AL
Today was the third time this month we have been within 3 deg of the all time July low… 110 years of records.
justaskin said on July 30, 2014 at 8:26 am:
Do you understand what that map is showing? Temperatures have peaked at the high end, where they’ve been paused. The averages the map uses are taken over many cooler years. We’d have to be quickly sliding into planetary glaciation for that map of “Land & Ocean Temperature Percentiles Jan-Jun 2014” to show predominantly no warmer than average.
Indeed, while they like painting the oceans with “Record Warmest” red, it could well be possible that many of the dark pink “Much Warmer than Average” areas could actually currently be neutral or have a cooling trend and still fall within that grouping.
Meanwhile let’s look at just June:
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/service/global/map-percentile-mntp/201406-201406.gif
North Hemisphere has much Average, Warmer than Average, and Cooler than Average. They have to look to the oceans to find spots of “Record Warmest”, which is fun because the historical ocean data is so sparse it’s basically just educated guesses from modeling. As we were at the peak of modern temperatures, so much Average and below actually indicates cooling.
Here in Pennsylvania, yesterday a TV meteorologist noted spots where the tree leaves are already turning colors, and it does feel more like a start of October than it does an end of July. Better get the fuel oil tanks filled up.
Extreme moderate temperatures? See, it can be spun to cause fear. LOL.
Pierre, airports are built on the periphery of urban areas (see link below). They have their own encroaching heat island affect much like overgrown, poorly maintained rural sites do but on mega-steroids. Instead of window mounted air conditioner exhaust, BBQ flames, patio concrete slab additions and overturned metal boats directing heat into the sensors, the concrete carpet, and back-end, ass-up exhaust of the jets does it.
http://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans/eng/ch4en/conc4en/ch4c5en.html
Looks like the Hudson’s Bay Low is back in place. Another cold Fall and Winter for folks back East but unfortunately it does not portend well regarding Blockosaurus Rex (and hence the drought here in CA).
kadaka,
Thanks for re-posting the link, which I hope will help inform the discussion. I see many land areas with warmer than average temperatures (Europe, East Africa, Middle East, Australia), not just over the oceans. And how do you know that temperatures have “peaked”? We have seen many apparent “pauses” in global surface temperatures over the last century (some lasting multiple decades), yet the oceans continue to warm, ice continues to melt (i.e., sea level is rising), and surface temperatures have always resumed their upward trend. I’m glad you’re enjoying the cool summer in PA, but I hope you can appreciate that one season at one location is not indicative of global patterns.
Anybody know where to find climate records (if any) for HSV area during the LIA? You know, just in case…
dp says:
July 30, 2014 at 8:40 am
Hey, I remember Omak, very fondly, thanks to a store that was open on Sunday, way, way back in 1974. I didn’t come across any “wild filers,” probably too early in the season for them, 🙂 but the temperature was in the mid-upper 80s:
http://wermenh.com/biketour-1974/leg3.html
June 23 8:45 AM
odometer start: 1856.2
… presupposes my rear tire lives through today which may be asking a lot of it. It looks like the ply inside it is torn at one point, causing it to bulge out a little…. This being Sunday makes it a bit hard to buy a new one today.
June 23th, 2:20 PM
odometer: 1901.7
Well, I made it to Omak and stopped at a drug store from some cloth tape which I wrapped around the bad spot. I quickly decided it wasn’t going to work, especially when I tried putting on the rear brake and tore off part of the tape. Fortunately, a woman I talked to pointed me to a discount store that was open where I got a $1.99 Korean tire and some more Kodachrome – 64 film (the first I’ve seen in quite some time). So, it looks like I’m back in business again. About 40 miles to Canada, might as well get going.
I believe I tore the ply in the tire on gravel in the campground the night before. The Korean tire did fine, even with more air in it than rated, and got me to Canada that evening. I replaced it the next day. I found a really cool way to fold a tire in three (i.e. it turns into three loops) without twists, and kept the tire for the rest of the trip. I hadn’t brought a spare tire because I had never had one fail before.
Try the three-fold with a broad rubber band. It’s a little hard to describe, so I won’t. I’ve seen it used in some car windshield sunshades and a foldup kiddie play house.
kadaka (KD Knoebel) says:
July 30, 2014 at 9:53 am
Here in New Hampshire, the security guard at work commented that he thinks things are ahead of schedule (I think some of that is the late spring makes things on time, like Black-Eyed Susans, seem to be early). However, some stressed sumac and aspen have some color, despite the moist summer. Black Locusts are happy, they often shed their leaves early during dry summers.
I generally look forward to mid-August when the humid southwest wind finally breaks for the first time in weeks. Right now it’s 77°F with a dew point of 57°F (25°C/14°C). Pretty good for the periphery of the winter-like Canadian incursions.
A couple days ago a storm brought the air pressure down to 29.36″ (991 mb), it was the lowest air pressure I’ve recorded in July in ten years of records. It has happened in June, but not in August except during Hurricane Irene.
Someone is cheating. Where is Bertha?
http://sirocco.accuweather.com/sat_mosaic_640x480_public/ei/isaehatl.gif
http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/tropical-storm-may-brew-in-atl/31213830
My very experienced horse (life experience that is–he’s 30) has been shedding his summer coat for 2 weeks already. He knows something we don’t know.
@justaskin
With half the world experiencing an almost el nino with a 0.6 degree anomaly, we have record monthly temperatures over months that were in 2 degree anomaly. Yeah, right. The books are being cooked. Can’t imagine your government lying to you? Check out what they’re claiming the inflation number to be.
They disprove Obama’s claim that global warming is happening here and now in River City.
justaskin says:
July 30, 2014 at 10:32 am
See what the NCEP shows. Not exactly comparable. But a good indicator. A lot of cooling in Australia at 2m
http://models.weatherbell.com/climate/ncep_cfsr_t2m_anom_062014.png
Here, near Richmond VA, we experienced 56 degrees yesterday morning, 2 degrees lower than the old record of 58 degrees. I’ve been keeping records here at home (Mechanicsville) for about a year now, and we have had several records set or tied in that time; all are colder than the previous record cold. (Most of my records will not be recorded as such, since I am not at the airport, and the airport, with a healthy UHI, likely did not get down as low as out here, perhaps 10 miles away.)
I am amazed at the misunderstanding of record low maximum (we’ve had some of those here this year also). One day in January, we had a high of 17 degrees and a low of 5, both record cold for the date. The previous coldest high temperature on that date was (I think) 21, and the previous record low for the date was 12. It is a rare winter day in Richmond that fails to reach 20 degrees, but we saw it twice this past winter (another day had a high of 19). So it is perfectly possible to have a record low maximum as well as a record low minimum; in fact, it’s unavoidable if records have been kept.
Ever been to Alabama? It’s a little hard to believe that 81F would be a record high temperature.
How did that garbage from the NWS ever pass even the most basic sanity check? Maybe it was written in cursive script.
Southern winter anecdotal updates:
Numerous interior central and southern Queensland town coldest max and min records were broken during mid-July, 2014. Even the more humid coastal cities broke coldest recorded day and night records this year:
Brisbane records coldest morning in 103 years
July 13, 2014 00:22:52
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-12/brisbane-records-coldest-morning-103-years/5591890
Keep in mind this refers to BOM’s historical ‘data’, which is so manipulated that its reliability, objectivity and representativeness is at least questionable (bit of a shame, that, as not so long ago their historical data was considered credible and objective)
As for the nowcast, a very strong cold front is set to enter four states and is setting up to break the August record lows over the next couple of days. As the preceding winds are being affected by a major low pressure area, siting well south of Oz, for the past few weeks, it’s been pulling down warmer tropical air on its northern side for a few days preceding this antarctic cold front’s SE-erly surge into the eastern states. So we’ve had warm tropical air inflows followed by very cold SW antarctic surges.
The temp variability this winter does not appear to have a higher or lower bias, but the temp range has become more variable with intense winter storm developments in the Southern ocean. The only reason we’re not getting much colder winds (thus far) over Australia has been the co-blocking mid to upper level high, that’s be sitting over central and northern Australia for the last few weeks, in conjunction with a very large and near stationary Southern ocean low pressure zone (which extends from sea level into the upper levels).
The result has been frigid wet and very windy southern ocean polar air coming ashore all week here:
http://www.themercury.com.au/news/tasmania/wild-weather-lashes-tasmanias-northwest-with-roofs-torn-off-and-powerlines-down/story-fnj4f7k1-1227005411438
http://www.examiner.com.au/story/2454484/wild-weather-continues-to-lash-the-north-photos-video/?cs=95
And the current national sat-radar composite shows the resulting large SE surge and blizzard (starting in Alpine areas tonight) followed by frosty antarctic air surges for several days to come:
http://www.bom.gov.au/products/national_radar_sat.loop.shtml
So the pattern that’s emerging (so far) this winter has been pulses of warmth, followed by windy intense cold snaps.
And as you’ve probably guessed the amazingly one-eyed ABC commentariate has been making much of the warm pulses, whilst downplaying the extent and intensity of the associated record-breaking cold snaps that follow.
In other winter-ish news today the Federal Government announced it will buy what it calls a new “multi-purpose icebreaker” to replace the Aurora Australis, in 2019. Presumably this is to expand the capacity to rescue a growing number of stranded ego-maniacal grandstanding warmists stuck in summer blizzards and expanding sea ice, as they try to determine why they don’t pay due regard to natural climatic variability (we may need a couple new breakers if Jo, et al.’s multi-decadal cooling prediction emerges in the interim).