Numbers released today by NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center show that not only has July been abnormally cool in the USA, but so has 2014 in general. For the last 30 days, there have been 574 record highest temperatures in the USA, and 1,726 record lowest. A ratio of 3 to 1, indicating that July was very cool. But, the year so far has also been cool.
So far for the USA year to date, the numbers of record lows outpace the highs two to one.
This year, here have been been 12,644 daily record lowest temperatures versus 6,615 record highest temperatures in the USA, a ratio of 1.91 to 1.0.
For all types of high and low daily records for the year to date, there were 29,372 cold records versus 16,761 warm records, a ratio of 1.75 to 1.0
If all high and low daily record types are considered for the last 365 days, cold still outpaces warm. There are 46,712 cold records versus 36,650 warm records.
The ratios for monthly all time records also see cold records outpacing warm ones.
From the National Climatic Data Center:
The summaries below list the number of records broken for several recent periods is summarized in this table and updated daily. Due to late-arriving data, the number of recent records is likely underrepresented in all categories, but the ratio of records (warm to cold, for example) should be a fairly strong estimate of a final outcome. There are many more precipitation stations than temperature stations, so the raw number of precipitation records will likely exceed the number of temperature records in most climatic situations.
For all time records, cold and warm records are about evenly balanced for 2014, with 28 warm records year-to-date versus 32 cold records.
As mentioned earlier by NCDC recent records (30 days or less) are probably underrepresented.
Source: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/datatools/records
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When global warming starts to make us cold…..that’s when I demand action! Someone….knit me a sweater!!!!
Cooling temperatures are to be expected in a warming world.
(do I really need a /sarc tag?)
Brrrr!
Changy-change is to be expected in a changy world. I may even change this theory if I need to.
For educated people, these CAGW devotees sure can be dumb. Did they not realise the entire gravy train relied on the climate/weather only going up in temp?
go figure,
That was always going to be a sucker bet…
I wonder if emulating the infantile weather as climate indicator of warming advocates is the best longer-term approach. At some point you would hope such superficiality would be more popularly rejected.
Record temperatures are the one thing that NCDC can’t “adjust”, they are absolute and fixed. Either there’s a record high/low on a day, or there isn’t. No homogenization, TOBs, or other adjustments need to be done.
But, but, but … the USA represents only 2% of the surface of the world. Just wait when the final GLOBAL temperatures are released for 2014. It’ll be touted as one of top 10 warmest years since records have been kept. That is what the media will report, and that is what the public will drink in.
Anthony:
NCDC will find a way, I’ll bet. Before this climate business and the perversion of science, who would have believed that temperature records would be “cooked” for propaganda purposes? But now we see that as commonplace.
“Record temperatures are the one thing that NCDC can’t “adjust”, they are absolute and fixed.”
But what agency does keep all the records. For example, what is the record low for this date in Knoxville, TN and who keeps that official record? Or to put it differently, if I wanted to look at record lows for this date across the southeastern U.S. where is that data kept?
they’ll get right on fixing this data, just you wait & see.
There could be a 1 mile thick sheet of ice stretching from the pole to the equator, and it will still be the hottest year evah
Theme song for CAGW, Oh Susanna.
john robertson says:
July 31, 2014 at 4:49 pm
Let’s have a rousing chorus:
It rained all night the day I left
The weather it was dry
The sun so hot, I froze to death
Susanna, don’t you cry.
Boy, talk about bad timing.
Michael Mann writing in an op-ed in our local paper yesterday:
“If it’s seemed warm to you of late, you’d be right. It is warm — in southeastern Pennsylvania, throughout the state and around the world.”
Maybe someone sent him an e-mail saying “We’ve got to make this July cold spell go away.”
Or perhaps his mailbox his full of his “enlightened” supporters pointing out to him that weather is not climate.
Na-a-a-a-h
Four biggest lies told in world today:
1) Liberals care about the poor and minorities
2) The economy is getting better
3) Man is creating global warming
4) Homosexuality is a form of ethnicity and not a behavior
What is the number of monitoring stations from which these data are derived?
The iceman cometh. He doesn’t give a sheet about “carbon”.
Outside of the EPA hearings in Denver yesterday, Gore’s “The Climate Reality Project” was giving out ice cream as part of its “I’m Too Hot” campaign. In real life, it should have been giving out hot chocolate instead, as the morning began in the 50’s and the record low temperature high (62F) set for the date was set.
My sister posted from Denver yesterday that it was definitely sweater and jacket weather.
It has been a pleasant summer.
Whatever it is a carbon tax will fix it.
The good news is the a/c was on twice this summer. Conserving power, sleeping at night and damning the GW crowd. Does it get any better than this?
Climate = THE WEATHER Prevailing in an area……THE WEATHER….Google climate definition…..now where are those Democlowns who keep trying to say climate and THE WEATHER are different????
Democrats are so dim that they have just now figured out that THE WEATHER changes…..
The synonym for Climate is THE WEATHER conditions……..wet weather = wet climate, dry weather = dry climate….THE WEATHER!!!!!!Of course manmade global warming is a lie.
The lying never stops with the whackdoodle alarmists….
It was 48 degrees last night when I was camping in central PA.
Can any global warming alarmist tell me which of the three laws of thermodynamics causes record cold temps IF it is WARMING ALL OVER THE ENTIRE GLOBE?
You alarmists do know what the term GLOBAL means right? I doubt you do, just like none of you knowthat Climate IS THE WEATHER prevailing in an area!