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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it’s good Canadian weather. The rain is falling straight down. Well, slightly to the side like.
What’s the fuss?
But is causes rental truck excursions on the sidewalks.
This is a little OT — I live across the street from an elementary school. Every morning and afternoon, there is a traffic jam of parents dropping off and picking up their kids. All the other schools in the area are the same way, even though they have school buses. I wonder how many of these parents are greens, and wasting their gasoline, and adding to carbon emissions, needlessly driving their automobiles.
The democrats, the socialist, the liberals and all those brainwashed sheeple will never admit they have been indoctrinated in school to believe in lies, therefore, they will continue to believe the lies no matter how real evidence you submit to them.
Fortunately, some of them, despite having been feed the blue pill all their lives, eventually take the red pill and wake up to the fact that they’ve been lied to.
Nah, it can’t have any correlation with the last cool summer during the solar minimum of 2009.
You can not involve the true facts to the brainwashed media, they are hard wired to believe in the Co2 lies and nothing else. The climate on earth is controlled by the sun and nothing else. CO2, pollution, volcano’s ash, are all temporary insignificant factors in the warming or cooling, climate change is the variable that follows our son variable radiation flux (we rotate around a variable radiation intensity star).
that is beyond stupid.
I wish toothache on a warmest/alarmist. It’s a week before the ‘dentist ‘ comes to his village on a mule with his forceps. If he’s lucky.
You left out herbal medicine. And surgery with no anesthetic. 🙂
Curved vice-grips … cleaned by wiping with a cloth after his last patient.
Global warming is the lied told to cover the truth, which is global cooling. The habitable zone of our star is contracting inward as it cools. There is no “main sequence” for stars. This is also a lie. Stars ignite and consume their fuel in a near linear fashion (with a tapering off at the end). Stars thusly cool in such a fashion. Civilizations evolve farther out (on Mars, in this case) and migrate inward to follow the cooling star.
Desertification is the smoking gun to look towards. What Mars is now, so will Earth become. At one time as people gazed from Mars towards Earth, we looked to them as Venus does to us now, covered in clouds from the enormous amount of water vapor in the atmosphere. Many mistakenly believe that deserts form because temperatures rise. This is patently false. Deserts grow when precipitation decreases, and precipitation decreases when less water is evaporated from the oceans because of less radiation from the sun.
Venus is also not as hot as we’re told. It’s warm, but not 800 degrees warm. More like 150, in that area. Soon, Venusian clouds will begin to part and the surface will begin to see sunlight. That’s when we seed.
Why aren’t we told all of this? Simply put, there’s not enough room on the Arc for all of us. We’ve all heard the 144,000 number that indicates how many get to go to heaven, according to some Christian sects? That’s the most likely number they can fit on the ship (some call this “the Moon”). The rest get left behind to starve while the deserts consume the Earth and is left a barren wasteland incapable of supporting life. If you knew only 144,000 got to go, what would you do?
That’s right. Global war to the scale of neighbor vs neighbor.
and that’s a grizzly bear eating crackers in your kitchen at night. Don’t believe me though. Seek out a second opinion.
Ummm… that stuff you’re swallowing must be rather strong, letmepicyou. You shouldn’t drive until it wears off.
Either you forgot a sarc tag or you are in serious need of an intervention.
How long before Chris whines that I need to add a link to that opinion?
Search “Artificial Ice Nucleation”.
I have been saying it for years… a mini ice age is coming and Al Gore and the Climatarians are a bunch of fools.
Didn’t AGW theory predict cold April weather? I mean, it seems to have predicted everything else.
And Philadelphia has it’s warmest April in 2018. Obviously we all know what Cherry Picking data is, why still do that?
Amount of ice that melts in the Arctic that affects sea level change is not particularly Germaine to the feared results of global warming, because its the quantity of land ice that matters, Here are some accepted facts: 90% of the world’s land ice is contained in Antarctica and most of the rest in Greenland. Two NASA reports on the land ice in Antarctica measured by radar and satellites between 2002 and 2014 concluded a 3% increase. For a net decrease in land ice, Greenland’s ice would have to have had a greater than 26% melt. I am not aware of any data that claims this kind of result. In fact there is some evidence that while there is melting in areas near the waters inland has had an increase in ice thickness.
The current accepted models for global warming and the data were diverging to an extent that a 99% certain hypothesis test on the low side for data indicated that the population means of the predicted data and the observed data were not the same, to deal with this disparity, the modelers instead of questioning the model, change the primary reference data set to rationalize the data. This is not scientific.
Very reputable scientists and meteriorologists postulate that we are entering a cooling cycle because of sun spot activity entering a cyclical low period. There is a positive correlation between the amount of sun spot activity and temperature. To postulate that earth temperature is correlated to the amount of radiation from the sun should be common sense. Whether or not the sun spot activity will remain at a low point for as long as is predicted by some remains to be seen.
You *know* what they’d be saying if this was record heat, don’t you?
NOAA says it is hottest year ever
Here in Chicago, spring is very very late in terms of plants flowering/leafing out. In contrast, one year we had leaf-out by early march. During that early spring I could not detect any negative impact on plants or birds, at least visually. Such a big swing in spring is what global warming should do but there was no crisis.
If it’s the year I am thinking about, here in Michigan maybe 2012, those early buds got froze off the trees in April and we had a bad fruit crop. But the following summer was also the year of the drought in the Midwest, so we didnt have any corn either. Lucky that global trade was still working…
What do you think would happen if you pointed this transmitter skywards????
To interact with the global electric circuit.
NOT. ONE. DAMN. THING.
Your premise is ridiculous, the effective radiated power of such antennae is a microscopic fraction of the total power in the atmosphere from solar energy.
Bogus beliefs like HAARP weather modification from radio transmitters is just plain stupid. Feel free to be as upset as you wish.
Anthony, “Feel free to be as upset as you wish.”
No need to get upset when you know your on the right track.
“We presented experimental results of strong plasma modifications induced by X-mode powerful HF radio waves injected towards the magnetic zenith into the high latitude F region of the ionosphere. The experiments were conducted in 2009–2011 using the EISCAT Heating facility,”
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364682612002490
Part of the summary (In this case Ne stands for Electron Density)
“It was shown that observed Ne enhancements under X-mode HF heating cannot be explained by temperature-dependent reaction rates. Enhanced production of ionization by accelerated electrons is an alternative mechanism for Ne increases induced by an X-mode heating. Fluxes of accelerated electrons can be produced by Langmuir turbulence. Taking into account that an X-mode wave cannot produce the Langmuir waves, we assume that the X-mode may first be converted to the Z- mode, which can induce intense plasma turbulence above the X-mode reflection altitude. In addition to processes involving direct electrostatic conversion of the Z-mode wave, the Z-mode waves can be scattered by AFAIs that, in turn, can also lead to the producing Langmuir turbulence.”
Anthony, I hope you take the time to read up on this modification experiment.
Nope, not going to bother. Waste of time, all of it.
+100
Anthony, Hear’s the results of a ionospheric modification experiment they carried out in 1998.
“N. F. Blagoveshchenskaya, V. A. Kornienko, A. V. Petlenko, A. Brekke, M. T. Rietveld. Geophysical
phenomena during an ionospheric modification experiment at Tromsø, Norway. Annales Geophysicae,
European Geosciences Union, 1998, 16 (10), pp.1212-1225.
Geophysical phenomena during an ionospheric
modification experiment at Tromsø, Norway.
N. F. Blagoveshchenskaya, V. A. Kornienko, A. V. Petlenko, A. Brekke, M. T. Rietveld
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/file/index/docid/316449/filename/angeo-16-1212-1998.pdf
PS I was unaware you were so closed minded about small atmospheric electrical discharge and the connection to weather enhancement
One thing missing in the blog post or the article are the actual temperatures that are presently record.
The last 2 years are the coldest in 4 decades. Funny no one knows about it except the firewood/gas/coal/heating oil industry.
Through 26 April 2018 these are the LCD sites running -10 or more degrees F below normal for April 2018 over the USA48 domain. They are located in Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, Wisconsin, South Dakota, and Nebraska. The full listing of all ~700 sites can be found here in the 2nd table which spans April 2018 month-to-date:
https://atmos.washington.edu/marka/lcd/usa48/tlcd.txt
REGION: United States (lower 48) MONTH: 201804 TAVG and TDPTR: deg F PCP and PDPTR: inches TDPTR and PDPTR: departure from 1981-2010 normal ====================================================== ID ENDDAY TAVG TDPTR PCP PDPTR SITENAME ====================================================== EST 20180426 30.7 -15.2 1.05 -1.74 ESTHERVILLE IA RST 20180426 32.0 -13.8 3.18 0.44 ROCHESTER MN STP 20180426 34.4 -13.6 0.04 -1.39 ST PAUL MN MPX 20180426 32.0 -13.5 2.55 0.02 CHANHASSEN MN RWF 20180426 32.3 -13.3 T -2.29 REDWOOD FALLS MN MCW 20180426 32.6 -13.2 4.00 0.81 MASON CITY IA MIC 20180426 32.7 -13.2 0.01 -2.27 MINNEAPOLIS CRYSTAL MN CCY 20180426 34.6 -12.8 2.37 -0.62 CHARLES_CITY IA DVL 20180426 29.6 -12.7 0.01 -0.76 DEVILS LAKE ND MKT 20180426 32.7 -12.6 T -2.60 MANKATO MN STC 20180426 31.0 -12.5 1.23 -0.93 ST CLOUD MN EAU 20180426 32.6 -12.4 1.59 -0.73 EAU CLAIRE WI MFI 20180426 31.8 -12.3 2.25 0.44 MARSHFIELD WI FCM 20180426 34.1 -12.2 T -2.37 MINNEAPOLIS FLYING CLOUD MN ALO 20180426 35.9 -12.1 1.73 -1.40 WATERLOO IA ATY 20180426 31.1 -11.9 0.87 -0.82 WATERTOWN SD AUW 20180426 31.4 -11.8 3.13 0.83 WAUSAU WI MSP 20180426 34.8 -11.7 2.17 -0.06 TWIN CITIES MN GLR 20180426 29.1 -11.6 2.89 0.73 GAYLORD HON 20180426 34.0 -11.6 2.29 0.33 HURON ISW 20180426 32.6 -11.5 4.40 2.00 WISCONSIN RAPIDS ASOS FAR 20180426 31.9 -11.3 0.37 -0.74 FARGO HECTOR INTL AP ND MHE 20180426 35.6 -11.3 1.56 -0.22 MITCHELL SD FSD 20180426 34.6 -11.0 3.14 0.55 SIOUX FALLS PIR 20180426 35.2 -10.9 1.65 0.15 PIERRE SD RHI 20180426 29.8 -10.9 2.56 0.38 RHINELANDER WI ARX 20180426 34.8 -10.8 3.70 0.83 La Crosse Weather Office WI DBQ 20180426 36.7 -10.7 1.59 -1.53 DUBUQUE IA JMS 20180426 30.9 -10.7 0.04 -0.92 JAMESTOWN ND LSE 20180426 37.0 -10.7 2.96 0.11 LA CROSSE WI OSH 20180426 34.3 -10.7 3.20 0.96 OSHKOSH WI TQE 20180426 39.5 -10.7 0.16 -2.49 TEKAMAH NE MIW 20180426 37.7 -10.6 0.92 -1.86 MARSHALLTOWN IA ABR 20180426 32.9 -10.5 0.97 -0.53 ABERDEEN SD BRL 20180426 42.6 -10.5 0.59 -2.55 BURLINGTON IA MOT 20180426 31.9 -10.5 0.01 -0.91 MINOT ND OFK 20180426 38.4 -10.5 1.32 -0.93 NORFOLK NE PKD 20180426 29.8 -10.5 0.25 -1.27 PARK RAPIDS MN SUX 20180426 38.4 -10.4 1.14 -1.39 SIOUX CITY IA GFK 20180426 30.6 -10.3 0.15 -0.66 GRAND FORKS INTL AP ND DVN 20180426 39.5 -10.2 0.80 -2.02 DAVENPORT IA OVS 20180426 37.0 -10.2 1.67 -1.20 BOSCOBEL_ ODX 20180426 38.0 -10.1 1.21 -0.94 ORD NE HIB 20180426 27.9 -10.0 0.00 M HIBBING INL 20180426 28.4 -10.0 0.28 -0.97 INTERNATIONAL FALLS MSN 20180426 35.7 -10.0 2.12 -0.81 MADISON WII am not a scientist or an expert but I read WUWT for the different views expressed there. The comments above seem to me how civilized debate should be. ‘Koop in VA’ sounds a sensible guy and people argue with him without abuse. If only that were the normal way in which climate change discussions took place.
March and
April and Mach temperatures here are 10 to 12 degrees below average. We live in the outer suburbs of Washington, DC.
Here in my neck of the woods in N Central Indiana near Anderson, IN.
Cloudy
Temp. 46 F (7.77 C) (Forecast high 52 F or 11.11 C)
North wind 14 mph gusting to 20 mph.
Forecast low is for a hard frost tonight 29 F (-1.66 C)
According to the Purdue University data base average temps for Anderson, IN this time of year are:
High 61 F (16.11 C)
Low 42 F (5.55 C)
But of course we have nothing to worry or complain about. It’s just weather. Right?
A stronger Jetstream holding to the south with more storms and cool Temps was predicted and observed in 2009 with the last solar minimum. So we have 2 or 3 more years like this.
Temps here in the Seattle area have been unseasonably low too. But they adjusted them upward with temps from Sea-Tac airport, tarmac and jet exhaust.
Now which party was the one that fought to retain slavery ?
Here’s an old New England saying I just made up: When celebrities talk about “climate change”, it’s time to stack more firewood!