October 2009 3rd Coldest for US in 115 Years, What about the Upcoming Winter?

Guest post by Joseph D’Aleo AMS fellow, CCM NCDC has compiled the October temperatures and it ended up the 3rd coldest in 115 years. As we have shown it was…

October's significant chill – take your pick on descriptors

October, a time for great pumpkins, but not higher US temperatures this time around. In our last climatic episode from NCDC we had: NOAA: September Temperature Above-Average for the U.S. The…

Arizona gets some interesting new minimum high records

From the “weather is not climate department”….whether it is cold or snow, long lived records keep falling, and recently in large numbers. Today, new “minimum high” records fell in a…

The "cold war" hits home – October in like a lion, out like a fridge

It’s not looking good for the coming Halloween. Button up those trick or treaters. Fall, we hardly knew ya. Here’s a roundup of interesting cold weather events in the last…

Cold start to fall continues, 252 more low temperature records set in the USA this week

More new record lows, lowest max temperature, and snowfall this week. The new low records outnumber the high records. There were an impressive number of Lowest Max Temperature records set…

A cold start to fall: over 4500 new snowfall, low temp, and lowest max temp records set in the USA this last week

The Record Events map depicts the official National Weather Service records recorded for the defined date(s) or time period, which includes record high and low temperatures, record high minimum temperatures,…

Reporter down under: "Don't blame climate change" for "hottest August on record"

Also let us not forget, Australia set a new continent-wide low temperature just a few short months ago Australia records hottest winter on record, summer tipped to be hotter Cathy…