Some major U.S. are on track to be part of a record cold April.
“Some cities in the east are experiencing temperatures a full 10 to 15 degrees F colder than normal, says meteorologist Jaclyn Whittal. Those cities include Buffalo, Chicago and Detroit.
Those in the northern tier of the U.S. either graciously accept winter with open arms or drag their feet the entire way. So, for those who would willingly trade in the snow for sand, it’s been a rough season that has been painfully etched into our memories after the ice storm that rolled through the Great Lakes just weeks ago.
For some communities, April won’t just be memorable… it will might just go down in history. How? Well there are so many fascinating statistics to swoon over that we dug up! While doing some number crunching for Detroit Metropolitan International Airport, it wasn’t an eye opener that April has been about 10 F below seasonal norms. The normal monthly average daytime high is 59.1 F, we only got 49.7 as an average. Another stat that won’t come as a surprise is the lack of warmth — we have yet to crack 70ºF more than once this April in Detroit, Chicago and Buffalo!
Taking the final forecast days of April into consideration, we’re currently seeing a slight warm up that could help the averages take a slight bump up. Of course we will have to wait until the end of the month to officially declare it as ‘the coldest April on record’ as some minor fluctuations in the forecast will occur.
The overall weather pattern that we can blame is the jet stream that keeps taking a ride well to the south ushering cold Canadian air to the U.S. In fact, it’s been cold enough that we saw ice pellets accumulating in the middle of the month for the Southern Great Lakes.
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Don’t you worry about a thing.
The adjustocrats at NASA’s GISS, under the calm and cool leadership of Gavin Schmidt will have those cities in ‘hottest April ever’ status before Mother’s day.
I guarantee it.
Oh where, oh where did the GLOBAL CLIMATE Change go? Oh where oh where can it be!!!!!!!
And those outside of cities have delayed their tomato planting by at least two weeks from the average.
Climate data going back 400,000 years (from ice cores) is quite worrying. I have seen the graph. We have been living in a time of very high temperatures. Such periods have happened repeatedly over thousands of years. But following such warming intervals earth temperatures fall precipitously for VERY long periods of time.
It is such cooling, and not warming, which presents mankind with the greatest jeopardy. The global warming fanatics are truly fools. And by pointing us all away from the real danger they do everyone great harm.
Global warming- HAH!
We need an emoji for “I don’t give a damn” “Let’s run fast to the future remove all obstacles. Be as wealthy and powerful as possible consuming resources as fast as possible. Because the ability to run away is the only proven salvation from disaster besides yielding the best life, and quality of life for all. With a sun in my pocket I can create Polders off the Kennedy compound and other Celebrities’ beaches, praying for the seas to rise, creating farmland and jobs. Wealth being national power and influence and quality of life, this ends all wars for resources, save for pride and Jim Jones. And those that know what is best for all of us.
And on top of this, one could guess Chicago and Buffalo and prb’ly any other major cities are grossly UHI affected.
I went to NASA’s EOSDIS site, which gives “slices” of satellite shots of the Earth. It’s an interesting thing to pull the platen at the bottom of the screen to a date like April 18, 2018 and see clearly that snow still covers most of Wisconsin, all of Minnesota, most of Michigan and a goodly part of New England and New York. You’ll have to pull the “map” to the right to find North America. As of 4/26/18, there is still snow cover in large parts of Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota, as well as new England. I’d say this has a lot to do with our current cold WEATHER, but I hope it oozes away. The tops of the tallest trees are showing fatter buds this morning. And the fat calico cat I’ve been feeding on my front steps has a thick, thick coat that is warm on the sunny side, but quite cold on the shadow side.
https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/?p=geographic&l=VIIRS_SNPP_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor(hidden),MODIS_Aqua_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor(hidden),MODIS_Terra_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor,Reference_Labels(hidden),Reference_Features(hidden),Coastlines&t=2018-04-22-T00%3
I don’t know if that will work, but you can try the first line to the ? and something should come up.
Hi Sara,
In order to successfully post long complicated links on WordPress the URL needs to be embedded inside a special href syntax.
WorldView 22Apr2018
There are some WordPress blogs that allow you to build and preview your text prior to posting.
Here is an animated WorldView map centred on the the Great Lakes region for 18 April from 2000 to 2018
It looks like there was a good spring in 2010.
Coldest April on record.
Is that before or after the adjustments that cooled the past?
MarkW, just imagine that it is after the adjustments that cooled the past. That would make it even colder. We will see how this plays out for the Summer and next Winter. Of course it would take a decade of such cold winters for the CAGW crowd to even begin to admit that their model guesses are wrong.
Nah, they’d simply ‘adjust’ the past again to make it even colder than today.
I am not a naysayer here……but how are we jumping to the coldest April in history for these cities and the graphics on show records from 1981? I assume there are records for these areas at least back into the 1800s?
I think dey are using an arbitrary 30 year period.
I would prefer using the period from when we started good records, but then it would be hard to show cooling.
Gums…
Re-read the title, it says “recorded history”.
That is my point. Recorded history goes much earlier than 1981.
There is nothing in the article that even implies that this record only goes back to 1981.
Delingpole: Earth in ‘Greatest Two-Year Cooling Event in a Century’ Shock
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/04/26/delingpole-earth-in-greatest-two-year-cooling-event-in-a-century-shock/
Dido.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/04/26/delingpole-earth-in-greatest-two-year-cooling-event-in-a-century-shock/
Oh dear, what could be changing the planet’s climate?
It is almost time for some real science.
It is an observational fact that there is correlation between mid-ocean seismic activity and EL Nino events and global warming.
There was a 200% average increase in mid-ocean seismic activity for the entire period 1996 to 2015 as compared to the period 1979 to 1996. (see figure 2 in the attached study).
As noted in the study, the mid-ocean seismic activity has very recently abruptly dropped.
https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access/have-global-temperatures-reached-a-tipping-point-2573-458X-1000149.pdf
https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access/shifting-plates-shifting-poles-shifting-paradigms-2573-458X-1000130.pdf
Two years ago was the peak of a really big El Nino. Merely returning to the temperature that was prevelant just before the El Nino would result in two years with lots of cooling.
Maybe, but the AMO and sun have a say in this too.
I didn’t want to pile on.
The die is cast. We are entering a grand minimum which will bring temperatures back to the end of the mini ice age. The 4 weeks of extra growing season will be gone and over a billion may starve. Only liberalism takes the wonderful gift of inter glacial prosperity and weeps about it.
If we are lucky, it will just be a 50 year cool down. If not, a mini ice age or worse a 100,000 year ice age. Cold is the new norm for Earth for millons of years and ALL of humanity’s progress happened after we could stop just surviving and move on to our full potential. Scary indeed!
Thomas Billings –
Our axial tilt isn’t at one of its extremes.
Our orbit is near its ’roundest’ shape.
Precession has us closest to the sun only a few weeks after the December solstice. This might have a modifying influence because there’s less land in the southern hemisphere.
An ice age would require how many years of solar magnetic minimums? We don’t know, but that would be interesting to estimate (long into the future) from historical cooling data, if possible.
Making predictions on climate change based on relatively recent weather analysis is like making a landfall prediction of a distant hurricane based on minute wobbles in its track. Changes in climate temperature are as natural, up and down, as regional droughts and excessive rainfall. A season of excessive rainfall does not portend a future swamp or temporary dry conditions a future desert. That said, LTA’s do provide evidence of change so we must keep our headlights on high beam and shrug off the occasional cold winter or scorching summer — unless it becomes very routine — and that’s only a trigger for more analysis not conjecture.
The die is cast. We are entering a grand minimum which will bring temperatures back to the end of the mini ice age. The 4 weeks of extra growing season will be gone and over a billion may starve. Only liberalism takes the wonderful gift of inter glacial prosperity and weeps about it.
If we are lucky, it will just be a 50 year cool down. If not, a mini ice age or worse a 100,000 year ice age. Cold is the new norm for Earth for millons of years and ALL of humanity’s progress happened after we could stop just surviving and move on to our full potential. Scary indeed!
Lighten up, Francis. You can still go skiiing in Chile. They will welcome you.
Here in Indianapolis, we are tracking toward the eighth coldest April ever, 6.1 degrees below average.
We definitely turned a corner in December. After a 32-month warm period, every month except February has been below normal.
What?? That’s impossible! My AlGore Pocket Almanac is calling for 112 today, with 3 more coastal cities swallowed up by rising sea levels.
What? That’s impossible! My AlGore Pocket Almanac says its been 112 all month, with three more coastal cities swallowed up by rising sea levels.
Here’s a link to Agweb’s latest report on percentages of acres planted, up to April 22, 2018. The Southwest seems to be ahead of the game, but the Midwest and Plains seem to be a bit behind.
https://www.agweb.com/corn-planting-map/
At least Al Gore can jet off to a warmer climate if it gets too cold.
+10
Oh for a P-38!
Thanks!
Ha! A Stinger would work just fine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIM-92_Stinger
When stationed at Ft. Devens, MA back in the 80s we had a terrible problem with private pilots ignoring the restricted airspace over the post. (Restricted to 10,000′) Every time one would pass over we would have to cease fire on the range. The A-holes would follow our jump aircraft around waiting to get a view of us jumping onto Turner Drop Zone and we would have to stand there while the Air Force pilot of our aircraft called in to get them to leave us alone. You wanna see a bunch of pissed off SF soldiers? Just make them stand chuted up and hooked up with full combat equipment while the jump aircraft makes multiple unnecessary race tracks because some private pilot wants to impress his girl friend. They would even try that stuff at night!
We were sorely tempted to shoot one down figuring that would end the BS because nothing was ever done about those repeated violations from what we could learn. They even had that fat drunken manslaughtering Sen. Ted Kennedy in to brief him and nothing changed. There were several good reasons to close that post during the downsizings and I’m glad they did.
Ice pellets? Pshaw. Twin Cities had a foot an a half of snow in a fully fledged blizzard a week ago. (or was that two? Time……)
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/04/26/delingpole-earth-in-greatest-two-year-cooling-event-in-a-century-shock/ Have not read all of thjs post so I hope this is not repetitive.
so I guess the GEOENGINEERING/CHEMTRAILS secret project of Climate Modification is working. Isn’t that the moral to this story?
Thank GAWD for Global Warming or it would be even worse, no? 🙂
Everyone knows that warming causes cooling.
DO SOMETHING AL! Darn this global warming.