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.
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I am more interested in a truckload of coal. Do you have any of that for sale?
Oh uh! This are not working out for the global warmin hoaxers. Haaaaahaaaa
Well some still think all the Climate Change cult should be required to do their work outside with no man made heating or cooling equipment !
Sort of get the feel of it!
Too
All the farmers and ranchers out in each morning chopping ice for cows, horses, sheep and goats etal have skinin the game via the frost bite!
Blurt
Here from the Drudge link as a test
If it’s any consolation to you guys in the northern hemisphere our summer in the Southern Hemisphere is mild so far .
Will someone for the love of humanity please start burning coal !
This, of course, is just weather, but that said, it has been an El Nino year so it may not be surprising that weather patterns are not usual.
In Southern Spain, the entire year has been cold. I have regularly checked the Windows 10 weather App, and for about 85% of the time it has been about 2 to 3 degrees cooler than the average for any given time of year.
My swimming pool usually reaches about 34 to 35 degC in July, but this year is struggled around 30 to 31 degC. On a few days it reached 32 deg C, but not higher than that. the pool containing a large volume of water is a very good indicator of the average temperatures.
Today is quite typical of the year. The forecast is for a high of 12degC, and the average high for 19th December is listed as 15degC. So about 3 degC cooler than usual.
Generally the year has been quite dry, but the past month has been very wet. Hopefully, the reservoirs will now be full and there will not be water shortages next year.
It might have been the warmest year in the instrument record (not that I accept that we can accurately assess this to 0.1 degC let alone 0.01degC), but if so, this has been over the oceans. Over the land in the Northern Hemisphere where we live, I am sceptical that it has been the warmest year on record (instrument record period). I have yet to speak to anyone who considers the year to have been unusually hot.
it has been mainly over the oceans thanks to the blob we had and the el nino.
Land only data shows a different story: see hadcrut 4 data here on WFT
land only data on all sets shows even a slight cooling from 2007 to 2015 before it bumped up by the 2015-2016 el nino.
note that i talk here about land only data, the global data shows another story:
Weather changes, duh. There have been ice ages and hot ages before any industry existed. The lure of grant money, taxation and control makes the parasite politicians and accomplices in the academic community push Climate Change narratives that scares the fearful little nimrods out of their minds. Absurd.
Wouldn’t it be nice to shut down Al Gore’s heating for a week in his mansion?
Although my ancestors survived the end 1800’s mini ice age in the arctic circle region, the global warming now here in North-Eastern France hurts my bones.
The Gore effect in action. 😉
Quite chilly for autumn, but buck up. Winter is usually colder.
ManBearPig!!!!!
It is Trump’s fault of course. He asked his BFF Putin to crank up the old Russian weather machines so they would make mock of Al’s and Leo’s global warming money making scam.
The cold I do not mind. It is the ICE! And I had to drive to NoVA in it this weekend! Apparently there are still a lot of drivers that do not know to stay off the road.
NoVA = Not Moving.
You people down there are funny. If we styed off the roads every time there was ice, we would be stuck at home for 4 months every year. I was in Baltimore 3 years ago during a snow storm. I think people need to learn how to drive in snow and on ice. The drivers had no idea. In fact the whole city shut down. It was ridiculous.
Dallas, tx 0830 -7 C.
Its still sauna weather at NIOAA HQ
It was cold up here for weeks in the Great white north, -30C, but then a DiCaprio blew in, (Chinook) and now we’re pushing +3C.
Since the meteorological winter starts at Dec 1st in the Northern Hemisphere it actually is winter now. Comparing the temperature on Dec 18th 2016 with last winter, which was the warmest winter (D,J,F) since 1900 for the lower 48, doesn’t really tell us much, other than weather fluctuates from year to year. Over the last few days i’ve seen a high of 26, followed by 33, then 57, now back to 32!
and this is why its cold:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/dec/19/arctic-ice-melt-already-affecting-weather-patterns-where-you-live-right-now
Is it colder across the Northern hemisphere, or are some areas milder while other are colder? What is the overall temperature?
I note the temperature in the Arctic remains stubbornly high.
No, this is why it is cold…https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/overlay=temp/orthographic=138.30,86.49,302/loc=-43.277,72.451
Sure thing, Skankhunt42, next up is The Day After Tomorrow ….
I love the fact that the heat is responsible for the cold. The reason why there has been a loss of ice in the Arctic is due, entirely, to ocean currents bringing warm water north. Hmmmm, 4,000 years ago there was no ice in the Arctic and the polar bears survived quite nicely. Just remember, now that the oceans are cooling, dramatically, we will see the Arctic ice mass increase to the usual maximum in March next year. Time to wait and see.
And also please remember that 90% of the glacial ice mass on the planet, Antarctica, did grow from 1990-2003 by 82 billion tonnes per year. Does anyone have an update to that data, I do not like to quote information that is bordering on being 14 years old and would like to get an update – thanks!
Al gore needs to stop traveling across this country. Global warming is making my dog freeze his balls off.
Try to stay warm. Here in Calgary, we finally broke out of a 2 week long deep freeze (highs below -20°C (-4°f)). Today we are sitting at just above 0°C (32°f). It is forecasted to cool off a little again before Christmas.
it [the global cooling] is worse than I thought
lakes possibly to freeze over again
[do you keep good records of that?]
“I can’t wait for Monday, March 20th, 2017, when spring starts’
I have some bad news there.
Natural climate change might cause some shift in the seasons
looking at the sun, we are now in 1930… only 2 years away from the dust bowl drought
but it was hot in the summers during those years until 1939
and dry
very dry
Don’t rely on that sort of logic very much! The US already had a repeat of February 1934 in February 2015, thank you warm blob. Those two month were amazingly similar.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/03/08/1934-2015-a-tale-of-two-februaries/
climate change? it called season, some years are warmer, some are colder. It is a normal cycle
There were some black ice related commuting challenges this AM here in California. It’s a bit early for that sort of thing.
Well, anecdotal evidence from temperate Portland OR, has been going on three weeks of winter storms, earlier than I’ve ever seen before.
And you would not believe how blindsided the local authorities are – we literally had seven-hour commutes to travel ten miles or less. No salt on the road, ‘cuz it’s not ‘eco-friendly’.
And get this, as snow and freezing rain shut down the city, before they scurried on home at ten in the morning, the Portland city council passed a fossil fuel ban.
‘Portlandia’ isn’t even farce anymore.