If you think it is colder than you remember last year, your’e right. Winter hasn’t officially started yet, it begins on Wednesday, December 21st. But the numbers tell a cold hard fact: as of 7 a.m. EST this morning, Sunday, Dec. 18, the average temperature across the Lower 48 states of the U.S. is colder than any time all last winter.
As this plot of hourly temperatures shows, the average temperature is 16 degrees. F, which is 4 degrees colder than any time last winter. What’s worse, the coldest part of winter is still six weeks away.
(graphic courtesy of Weatherbell.com with h/t to Dr. Roy Spencer)
I can’t wait for Monday, March 20th, 2017, when spring starts.
UPDATE: Feel like doing something good at Christmastime? Read this
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I blame global warming!
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[Shrug] Who cares? Why the trolling, Anthony? The coldest part of Winter in the USofA is six weeks away? How do you know? Aren’t you going to cover the corresponding record high temperature regions of the globe?
What corresponding record high temps?…https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/overlay=temp/orthographic=-270.12,-1.69,302/loc=139.017,-22.968
Cant wait for you guys on the other side of the pond to get the hang of the newfangled Degree Celsuis scale, it would save me having to get out the calculator every time .
but then you probably dont even use real pints and gallons over there either.
Heck, I have trouble converting Celsius to Centigrade.
It’s quite simple, really. Someone at UEA gave me this formula: Take the Celsius temperature, subtract 40, then multiply times 1.8. Now add 72 and divide by 9/5. Viola, degrees Centigrade. Ask nicely, and next week I’ll give you the formula to convert from Rankine to degrees API.
I personally, like the smaller, more precise degree F.
Fahrenheit is the superior scale for humans, even if everyone didn’t carry around a pocket computer that can trivially convert values:
Kelvin: 0 = dead, 100 = dead
Celsius: 0 = cold, 100 = dead
Fahrenheit: 0 = really cold, 100 = really hot
100 F is about core body temperature for a human (note, not oral, for that one is affected by inhaled breath and ingested objects).
This is only weather. When it’s hot – THEN it’s climate.
“Democracy is the homicidal bitching that goes down in every kitchen to determine who will serve and who will eat….”
Leonard Cohen
Steve, I see you’re a poet or at least an appreciator of fine poetry. Paul Simon, Leonard Cohen, I’m sure there must be others. +100
John@EF
The only place where the high temps are of any interest is in the Arctic at the moment. As the warming of the Arctic is causing cold air to flood southwards. Care to guess what change it could cause to the climate if it became a long term trend.
@taxed
December 18, 2016 at 3:36 pm: To start with, it would pay to remember that the winter pole is a nearly infinite sink. Very low tropopause, no sun, Miscalled ‘warmth’ has c.250K gradient, short trip to the void. Plenty of room there for all the heat we can send….with no return postage.
Yes at this time of year the Arctic will just eat up all the warmth its sent, and then send down a “Arctic blast” as a “thank you”. 🙂
The coldest day will be Jan 20th.
Thereafter will the winter of our discontent be made glorious summer.
Does make you wonder exactly how cold NH winters have to be before the warmists stop calling for – however unworkable – temperature reduction measures. I mean look, the models say the World is frying and never mind that it’s like Martian spring outside, we absolutely must heave petatons of crushed rock into the stratosphere in order to haul temperatures ever lower. The dim is quite without precedent yet endlessly fascinating in a train wreck kind of way.
Now, now, only part of the US is as cold as Mars:
http://ingalls.weathertogether.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2016/12/161217_Highs-1024×517.png
http://ingalls.weathertogether.us/2016/12/17/ten-states-are-colder-than-mars/
You’ll perhaps notice the correlation between “colder than Mars” and Red (fly-over) States? Does anyone wonder why the “Blue” states are on the outskirts of that region? Hmm.
I wonder how many cAGW alarmists have signed up for Mars 1?
U.S average temperature 16°F – colder than any time last winter, and winter hasn’t started yet!
Thanks for that, but near Edmonton it was -26 C here yesterday morning, and I’ve already had all the winter I want to see. That’s about two weeks now of temperatures around -20 C On a better note, it warmed up over night and was -2 C this morning.
I was just looking at national conditions as shown on Intellicast. It is frigid out there for a large part of the nation. I happened to have the interactive map centered on Holcomb Kansas. They set a new record low last night of -19F. That is 18 degrees below their average. …http://www.intellicast.com/Local/Observation.aspx?location=USKS0269
Actually, it is 36°F below the average.
I realized that after posting. I should have said 18 degrees below the previous record low for that day. It was also 2 degrees lower than their all time December record low temp. Very chilly, 20F here where I live is cold enough for me
Feel for you folk in cold norhern climes
Down here in Melbourne Australia today will be 30 c with similar temp for Chriistmas day
Santa sure sweats alot in his heavy gear which is why we leave a bottle of beer out for him and he never fails to polish it off whats more
But not unusual as we average 30 days a summer of 30 c plus with a few up in the 40’s c
Merry Christmas -if we are still allowed to say that
I guess pretty soon we’ll see the millionaire tennis players downunder whining about it being to hot to play!
40 C is our average summer late June, July and August temperature. Now that I live in Mesa Arizona. It beat the 045.5 C I saw in Ray North Dakota in 1983 or 1983, having spent 55 years in Northern Minnesotan North Dakota the last nine years in Mesa has been great, my arthritis feel fine at 40 C not at -22 C when I was back in North Dakota a couple weeks ago to meet my new grandson. I have seen -40 C far too much living in the North, I much prefer +40 c, I will even take 46 C over -50 C any day of the week. We had several days of 46 C last summer.
Where I am, Christmas reached 70F/ 21C. Nice and not unheard of and it was wonderful to not have to turn the heat on. Big cold blast happened after Christmas and it is expected to thaw briefly (again reaching near 70F tomorrow the 2nd) before another cold blast. When these strong clippers come through, it is often quite cold behind them and warm ahead of the next one. They pull real tropical air up ahead of them (thus the 70s) and real arctic air behind them (thus the below average highs in the 30s/40s (1 to 5C). Now don’t get the idea that this means no mosquitos. It does not at all. They just go dormant when cold and active when it gets above 40 to 50 (5 to 10C). To actually kill the locals, it has to get really hot (40C) or really cold (below zero) for an extended period.
Always thought that the Druids had it right, they centered the seasons on the solstices, so Dec 21 is midwinter and June 21 is midsummer.
That way we can enjoy early spring.
There should only be two seasons, summer and winter and they both start and end on the equinoxes.
Record High of 86 degrees today in SW Florida… thanks to the Nuclear Freeze that we were warned about by the same people that have brought us Global Warming… Go Figure!!!
Here in the People’s Republic of NJ, 40 miles S. of the Big Apple, it was 16 on Thursday, 23 on Friday, in the 40s on Saturday and 60 today. It is now 38. All temps in degrees F.
I escaped from the PDRNJ in part because of the cold, which isn’t even really all that cold by northern standards.
But one day I dropped my daughter off at preschool and it was 2 deg F.
At 9 am with full sunshine. Too cold for a guy raised in GA.
Global Warming anyone?
From Palm Beach Florida — Merry Christmas YOU ALL.
Current Temperature in Palm Beach: 80 degrees
Kelvin? It’s worse than we thought 🙁
This is just the kind of weather that causes alarmist to argue that you can’t conflate weather with climate. So remember that next hurricane season.
Looking at the jet stream forecast chart its looking like the Mid-west of USA will be in for a other cold blast just in time for Christmas.
For those of us here in the UK there looks like there maybe a chance of snowfall on Christmas Day. A area of low pressure looks like it will passing over Scotland during Christmas Day. When it passes through the wind will swing around to the NW and North during the night. So there maybe a fair change of some snowfall during Christmas night. lt maybe worth a putting a bet down for having snowfall at Christmas. With Newcastle at 7/2 and Edinburgh at 5/2 looking like the best bets to go for.
That global “warming” will kill a man…. 🙁
We’re in for one of the coldest winters in a century. That’s to be expected in a cooling trend, which is what we are entering despite all the hydrocarbons we have released into the atmosphere.
It’s been shown many times now that the temperature of the Troposphere does not track with the rise and fall of atmospheric CO2 – besides, plants will thrive in response to any increase and buffer it out. There are a number of greenhouse gasses, but water vapor trumps them all – buy your Al Gore atmospheric water vapor condensers now before the rush.
Drudge has picked up on this post.
Bummer! I was going to be the first to announce that! I shall accuse you of copying my homework.
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81 in Miami, no problems here.
The whole Global Warming “crisis” is all emotion. The Alarmist’s claim that anthropogenic CO 2 is the cause because it’s a greenhouse gas. What they never acknowledge is that CO 2 is essential to life and human emission account for less than 4% of total carbon emissions. Also ignored is the fact that water vapor is 99.99% the result of nature and it dominates the greenhouse effect accounting for 95% while total CO2 emissions add 4% to the G.H. Effect. Even if you want to believe CO 2 is the cause of warming, do the math…..Take.4% humans produce into the 4% that CO2 adds to the greenhouse effect and you get 0.16%……..Humans add less than 2/10th of one percent to CO2’s G.H.Effect! Bottom line – we have no control over the climate!!!!.
Is CO2 the cause or the result of warming?
CO2 is the result of warming.
In reality, and contrary to the lies that Al Gore presented in his movie, there is zero evidence that CO2 causes climate warming. CO2 does not lead but *follows* changes in temperatures. This outstanding 4 minute video makes that point about CO2 clear as day:
Eric Simpson
Yes well…. this movie is a laughing stock and it really should be called “the Great Global Warming Comedy Movie.” It is so full of made up facts no one quotes it any more.
Earth’s climate history contradicts the “Carbon is the Cause” theory. During greenhouse warm periods CO 2 levels were much higher than today but it did not prevent the glacial periods that followed. Conversely, during glacial periods the climate warmed despite low levels of CO2.
Well comradegrandmuftihusseinobama can now add solving the global warming crisis to his list of “accomplishments.”
Never mind frost bites, THE PLANET IS ON FIRE!
It has to be cold in the Arctic or it doesn’t count.
Go to “the arctic” and report back.
Only a moron would go to the Arctic in the winter. A fool would go there in the summer. But does it matter how cold it gets in the USA? Climate change is fixated on the Arctic.