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
The good news it will still be the warmest year on record – as long as you fudge the numbers
In the early 70’s they hyped ‘cooling’. Then it was global warming followed by climate change and now extreme weather variations. Nothing like trying to play football with movable goal posts! The bunch puts the ‘o’ in wacko! It’s getting harder to tolerate them when their prognostications continue to get debunked.
What are we doing people?! I demand that we up the anty with Global warming! Stop driving your little g@y hybrids, and start driving more gas guzzlers! If Global warming is man made then, we need to make more of it before it’s to late! If we don’t get make more then we’re looking at global cooling! And that’s man made too, by not not making enough global warming! It’s simple logic people! Wake up and start polluting it’s too cold outside!
Thank God for global warming!
Global warming (aka climate change) is the religion of the stupid. Sheep, lemmings, and Leftists are easily manipulated.
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I believe the honest scientist’s telling us we’re headed for trouble.
Cold Trouble..!
30 here in Homer Alaska 5PM
I have a new 51″ snowblower for the tractor. I’m ready.
In Honolulu, it’s a balmy 77 degrees on Sunday, 4 PM. Listen to Teddy Novak, he knows what he’s talking about.
Had enough of this loony tune globull warming hoax yet? I think you have.
Here in balmy Minnesota we have a low of -20°F and a high today of -8°F. Obviously, this is all because we are a blue state. The rest of the country should be much warmer.
Karma dude. You’ve been cursed by your neighbors’ hysteria.
Left Northern Minnesota this morning and the temps in a ten-mile radius of our home ranged from minus 27F to minus 38F actual temperature, not wind. We packed the car in those temps and headed for Florida!
21 below zero F Thursday night, without wind chill. One of the coldest nights I’ve seen in the last 20 years. Elevation 5000 ft here north central WY.
Wow! Trump isn’t even in office yet and he’s already changing the weather – Making America Cool Again!
Trump’s Making America Cool Again!
What about the LEFT and their cry about Man-Made Global Warming??? MAN-MADE GLOBAL WARMING is the second largest hoax pulled upon Mankind,…. right behind Barack Obama himself!!! ANYONE believing in this totally fake and made up bullshit, should be put out to pasture ! ! !
Despite all the Goebbels Warming, the weather where I live is almost exactly the same as it was 20 years ago. The only difference is, now I live on the TX Gulf Coast and 20 years ago I lived up on Wrong Island.
If this global warming gets any worse, we’re all going to freeze to death. Oh wait, I forgot. It’s no warmer now than it was in the 1940s.
IF that is so, and I consider that there is quite a bit of evidence suggesting that that might be the case, that is the material point. Since 1940, man has emitted some 95% of all manmade CO2 emissions, all without any measurable increase in temperature. That says a lot about Climate Sensitivity to CO2.
I read a report two months ago by a guy who is a sun spot expert. He was predicting an extremely cold winter this year, especially the ne part of the country. He went on to predict we will have 10 to 13 years of this. Were entering some kind of cycle he said. Lets hope he was wrong. It was 29 below here in se minny last night.
Currently a nice 14F in southeast Michigan, heading to a balmy 1F sunrise. Very thankful for AGW or it would be really cold.
damn global warming, oh wait, they have it covered, they are calling it climate change now, thank goodness, for a minute there I thought they were all just your average run of the mill nutjobs…
We haven’t finished revising the data yet, but trust us: it’s hot, hot, hot!
This is only my 3rd year Dasmarinas, Philippines, But it is definitely colder/cooler than the previous two. The warming alarmist better understand, and quickly, Food/crops, trees, all organic species grow and thrive in warm weather, If we are, as history tells us at the end of a 10,000 +/- year warm period, it will be followed by a 400,000 ice age. I’ll take the heat, most won’t survive the cold. In any case, none of us get of here alive .
Why is “global warming” always so cold?
The global warming folks are awfully quiet…
Satellite data indicates that there has been NO WARMING for the last 21 years!
Of course they’re quiet. They are busy trying to make the weather into the hottest (year/ month/ week/ day/ hour/ minute/ whatever) EVER!!!!! There’s a lot of adjusting being done and it takes concentration and dedication to tease the “truth” out of actual thermometer readings. Or perhaps they are composing news releases saying “it’s not a bad as we thought” (that’s a joke BTW)
It was hot in October 2015, especially in Tasmania and it had little to do with El Nino, apparently.
https://theconversation.com/climate-change-played-a-role-in-australias-hottest-october-and-tasmanias-big-dry-in-2015-70389
“There’s a lot of adjusting being done and it takes concentration and dedication to tease the “truth” out of actual thermometer readings.”
LOL! Good one, Smart Rock!