Meteorologist Tim Buckley of WFMY-TV writes on Facebook:
All 50 states have low temperatures BELOW freezing tonight. (Monday night)
Yes, even Hawaii. Tall mountain peaks there regularly get below freezing, and even get snow.
This typically happens a few times during winter, but is very rare this early in the season.
Pretty neat!
The low temperature forecast for tonight shows the cold continuing nationally, with perhaps a second night of below freezing temperatures in all 50 states:
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There are already patches of ice forming on Lake Superior. If you live east of the Mississippi than you better have a fireplace or generator.
I think some of you folk need to attend John Cook’s free course, Making Sense of Climate Science Denial.
Apparently it’s a free course and you can find appropriate details, and commentary, at http://joannenova.com.au/2014/11/study-namecalling-at-queensland-university/
Howler! I get your dry’zbone humor, mate.
So he cannot even give it away.
What’s that sound?
It sounds like teeth gnashing… it is!
It is the global warmers gnashing their teeth!
The map above shows a low of 7 deg for Wichita, KS. . This morning at 7 AM I viewed the current (Now) temperature and it indicated 5 deg on the accuWeather web site. However, the monthly map shows a low of 16 deg for yesterday (Nov 17).
http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/wichita-ks/67202/november-weather/348426?monyr=11/1/2014
When I contacted them to notify them of the typo they replied a few minutes later with:
“When you are viewing forecast temperatures on Accuweather.com, the low temperature typically occurs in the overnight hours. This may cause “Today’s” low to actually appear in the early morning hours of the following day in the hourly forecast.”
I then replied and ask them why they still show yesterdays low at 16 deg and have not heard back from them. This isn’t the first time they’ve made errors which almost always errors on the warm side.
So accuweather is an oxymoron then?
…more like just a wish…
Of my three options for weather forecasts and data for my location, Yaak, MT, Accuweather is ALWAYS the warmest.
When I was your age I used to walk up hill to and from school 3 miles each day in 3 feet of snow 20 degrees below zero. solar vortex….what a bunch of wimps.
Actually a group of us have been out the last few weeks clearing and chipping acres of buckthorn and snags as a restoration project in our local state park…..I’d rather have it cool out but not just above zero f for working out side.
Although I’m hoping for good x-country night skiing again this year 🙂 Winter is a beautiful season if you know how to get out and enjoy it and if nature cooperates with consistent snow…
Luxury. When I was young, I had to walk up a 10 mile hill to school, then walk up a 10 mile hill to get home again, all in 6 feet of snow, whilst carrying my brother on my back. It was so cold in -40 deg c that our breath used to freeze and become a solid cloud behind us that we had to drag along.
You’re lucky. When I was young, we lived in a shoebox at the bottom of a lake and every night our Dad would come home and split us in half with an axe.
Luxury. I had to run up a 15 mile hill to school, bare feet wrapped in barbed wire for traction, carrying a lit woodstove on my back. At the end of the day the stove would have gone out and I had to carry it uphill back to the house, on the run of course before it froze solid. Carried a brother AND a sister, and all their frozen breath clouds plus the extra drag caused by their pleurisy germs…
I miss Monty Python.
Stuart, try exhaling before pulling the trigger.
Ha! We used to have to carry the wood burner and all the fuel for a week, swim across a lake with the burner on a piece of string between our teeth. When we got to the school, the teacher would make us tea – from the school cess pit. There were 93 of us to a single desk. We didn’t have pencils, we had to use ear wax. There was no lunch, and we had to do P.E. on the side of a snow-covered mountain. But we were happy. Now, if you told that to kids today, they wouldn’t believe you.
When ah were a lad we were so poor we had a fork in the sugar bowl and had to chew inner-tubes for nourishment and ah dad used to send us to bed with a good beating for supper every night.
We were tough tho and put up with it but the one thing that really depressed me was we also had toilet paper on the washing line….
That poor we were….
Stuart;
You had a stove?!?! Ga’wn, brag about your riches, All we could afford was the rust, though ma did her best to try to knit one out of discarded bits of steel wool.
Our monthly treat was to walk 50kms barefoot through a howling snowstorm across shards of ice to a supermarket where we went to the delicatessen to stand in front of the cooked chickens to warm our hands. Ah those were the days. Happy memories.
piffle! Ah bet ya’ll neva scratched yo name in da frost on the INSIDE of yo bedroom winda!!! An dats a fact Jack!
For Pamela
Of course I have. If you put this string ‘ jack_frost window ‘ into a search, say Bing using the images tab – it will bring back memories.
Pamela,
You had a window?!?!
Oh wait. We had a window. First thing dad put up when he was building the house. Sadly, he died before he could put up the walls or the roof, but we were really proud of that window. Heh… I forgot. That window was a lemon and was stuck open.
WOW we live by a lake and see some sort of thing like this as well on a miniature scale . my problem is that few people realize you guys live on the shores of SEAS and not Lakes! But none the less a new screen saver if you do not mind!!!
sorry wrong spot. BUT to add here, I worked on a skill hill at one time in the early 70’s and we had so much ice and snow inside our dormitory we did not have to go out and ski ! ( frankly that is the truth!) but we went out anyway the skibunnies were way to cute and vulnerable we just had to keep them warm and safe.
Here in Germany we had a very warm October and November isn’t bad, too.
But why? Listen, you U.S. guys: We Germans have increased CO2 output the last two years bc. of the famous ENERGIEWENDE. The U.S. have decreased CO2 bc. of Shale gas.
What to do? Possibly re-start the gasoline guzzlers?
Nicht tun! Viel trinken von Bier und Essen Würstchen mit Senf. Ja!!
Could not resist.
Johannes, Do not be concerned. China and India will be producing plenty of CO2 over the next several decades.
There is no sign of a shortage in the foreseeable future.
I am a tad concerned though. What will happen in the US if Obama manages to close or restrict a whole heap of coal-fired power stations and you get this sort of weather more regularly?
Solar and wind will provide zero power in the current weather conditions.
btw, Currently in Newcastle Australia, a tad overcast, and 20°C 🙂
Go for the coal.
That answers it. Germany is warmer, more CO2 in the local air and that is why the US is colder, less CO2 in the local air.
Johannes Herbst,
“Here in Germany” is a specific location. The debate is over global warming — which stopped many years ago, despite the steady rise in CO2. Since CO2 is a well mixed gas in the atmosphere, the fact that Germany is producing more of it doesn’t matter. It quickly evens out.
Also, your non sequitur: “What to do?…” assumes that more CO2 is bad. But all evidence indicates that more CO2 is a net benefit to the biosphere. There is no indication that CO2 causes any global harm at all, so we must conclude that CO2 is ‘harmless’, no?
Once you get the ‘green’ anti-CO2 propaganda out of your mind, you see the reality: more CO2 is good, not bad. The “carbon” scare is a false alarm. CO2 is harmless, and it is beneficial. More is better, at both current and projected concentrations.
I think you missed an implied /sarc; on that comment about German CO2 output keeping them warm….
He pitched it but you missed it.
So this winter is shaping up to be a rerun of the last one. North America hogging all the cold leaving west Europe with only wind and rain. My kids will be disappointed with another snowless winter.
Maybe Bardarbunga will come through with a White Christmas for you?
– Be careful what you ask for.
I think you’re on the right track with “hogging the cold”. The polar cold air that descends on North America can’t very well go to Europe at the same time, so it stands to reason that one should have a mild winter when the other freezes.
“a mild winter
What happened to fall? Did I miss it?
Global warming bites. We need global cooling so things can warm up.
St Gore must be really clocking up the air miles in his private jet.
I think there have been some of the funniest comments I think I’ve ever seen on here today.
What get’s me about Globble Warming is that in Australia, when I was young (lol), it could go from a bit ‘bloody’ hot during the day to a bit ‘bloody’ cold at night.
So I have a question for all you Northern Hemisphere folk, is it a 3 dog night or 4 or more?
No -fixed — this early in the season you need to pack all the dogs you can into one big pile — later on as your body adapts to the cold — this will just be a single terrier or a couple fo Chihuahuas
If you need 4 dogs your dogs are too small.
6 Cat night.
Maybe Gore is having flashbacks of that US margarine TV commercial awhile back… “IT’S NOT NICE TO FOOL WITH MOTHER NATURE!!!”
I count 39 states that have some snow today Nov 18th:
http://www.natice.noaa.gov/pub/ims/ims_gif/DATA/cursnow_usa.gif
That green spot in Montana must have been blown bare ….
A hot spring?
What are those yellow areas in the North?
Just in case… … “Don’t eat the yellow snow.”
Just out of curiosity, what are the 11 that you did not count? (the resolution makes an accurate count for me impossible).
I appreciate the misplaced enthusiasm of a one Tim Buckley.
“Yes, even Hawaii. Tall mountain peaks there regularly get below freezing, and even get snow.”
Freezing temperatures on Hawaiian mountain peeks is not nearly as impressive as freezing temperatures in Florida well south of the pan handle.
If CONUS is that cold, how bad is it in Alaska?
I chuckle at you who seem forever to conflate regional weather with global climate …
What? Like the people at the G20 surge in Brisbane with one hot day and carrying on like fruit loops about ‘global’ warming?
splurge
Paddy,
“Regional weather” is something understandable. “Global climate” – not so much.
Well the good news is that given the alarmists jumped on any extreme , but not usual , weather event has ‘proof’ of AGW , you got plenty to laugh about.
Its not just regional, the whole of Canada is pretty cold as well. Not one area could be considered even remotely warm.
This is why the AGW message is not getting accross to people.
Real people live in the real world, not in computer models, and real people are experiencing the cold and thereby becoming increasingly sceptical of the AGW meme.
CaligulaJones says: November 18, 2014 at 12:01 pm Heading for Maui in a few days. Glad I’m not flying out of Buffalo…and I’m not going anywhere near 10,000 feet above sea level when I get there!
Forecast is six feet of warming for Buffalo. Better get out NOW.
If i’ve said it once I’ve said it a thousand times. Nothing says warming like cooling.
🙂
Wait! What about the other 9. He said he visited 57 and had two to go so that makes 59. He wasn’t mistaken was he? Surely the Presidential Candidate knows how many there are. Oh. He hasn’t told you about he others yet … 😉
The other nine are Islamic
You beat me to it.
The other states of the US are now: Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Iran, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Egypt.
LOL 😉
R
Told you so, two weeks ago….
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/10/30/new-paper-links-warming-since-1950-to-enso-and-cloud-cover-variations/#comment-1777980
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This winter in the Northern Hemisphere is predicted to be quite cold in North America (Eastern and Central), Western Europe and very cold all across Russia.
I am concerned about a significant increase in excess winter mortality rates. Cold winters tend to kill off the elderly – I hope to not be one of them.
Told you so, 12 years ago…
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/10/11/agricultural-losses-in-2014-due-to-cold-temperatures/#comment-1759748
I wrote this twelve years ago in an article published Sept 1, 2002 in the Calgary Herald:
“There is even strong evidence that human activity is not causing serious global warming.”
“If solar activity is the main driver of surface temperature rather than CO2 [as I believe], we should begin the next cooling period by 2020 to 2030.”
In 2002, SC24 was projected to be robust and we now know it is a dud. If anything, global cooling will happen sooner and perhaps has already started.
Bundle up this winter – looks like another cold one like last year, especially in Central and Eastern North America.
Regards to all, stay safe and warm, Allan
Arctic Circulation Index. It’s been around a long time. When the jet stream is pretty zonal, the planet warms. When the Jetstream goes “meridional” (read janky), the planet cools. Not surprising. Basic Klyashtorin.
Of course this is statistics and we have no clue which is the cart or horse…
@ur momisugly Pam 8;14 re Danny Kay, LMAO, Thanks Pam I think we all needed that bit of real Humor!
Allan M:
12 years ago…”If anything, global cooling will happen sooner and perhaps has already started”
Errr…No, not yet – we’re still waiting for what, currently, is a slowdown to morph into the prophesied and feared ‘Great Cooling’.
Tip: Global Means, well, global, not USA. Some regions of the planet (if not the planet) may see a record warm year
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2014/10/20/after-record-warm-september-2014-is-on-track-to-warmest-year-noaa-says/
I doubt this VI – NOAA is no longer a source of authority on this subject.
You might be aware that last year and again this year, both the National Weather Service in the USA and Environment Canada predicted a warmer-than-average winter. They were totally wrong last year, and appear to be making the same error again this year.
Regards, Allan