From the “weather is not climate” department, more chilling news from the southern hemisphere. Guest post By Alexandre Aguiar MetSul Weather Center via ICECAP A brutal and historical cold snap…
Category: records
CO2 Optical Illusion
By Steve Goddard People see what they want or expect to see. A great example is in today’s NASA Earth Observatory image of the day article. A heat wave scorched…
A spot check on NOAA's "hottest so far" presser
From the story: The Australian’s overheated time warp misses half of 2010 which had a NOAA press release in it below the fold, Dr. Richard Keen weighs in and does a…
The Australian's overheated time warp misses half of 2010
Crickey! The year ain’t over yet mates. (h/t to Australian reader “Michael”) Heh, you gotta love the headline. Of course when we keep finding climate stations like this one, which…
A Carefree Record High Temperature in Arizona
UPDATE: We have the photo situation under control, Please don’t go to the Carefree Skyranch Airport as they’ve been getting a number of calls and visits. A follow up report…
84 year old lowest daytime high temperature record broken at LAX, 98 year record tied at San Diego, plus a string of records at many other cities
From the “weather is not climate department”, while the east gets a heat wave, southern California sets chilly records in July over several days. Both Los Angeles and San Diego…
Heatwave In Philadelphia
By Steve Goddard New high temperature records have been set for Philadelphia: RECORD EVENT REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 805 AM EDT THU JUL 8 2010 …RECORD TEMPERATURES…
Baltimore/DC NWS provides historical heat wave perspective
I’ve got another post coming up after this one about the record high temperature set in Baltimore today… RECORD EVENT REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC 0547 PM EDT…
Record cold down under
I swear, I had nothing to do with this. Speaking tonight in Canberra, details here. Weather records for Sydney here. From the “weather is not climate department”: Sydney recorded its…
Poudre River Sets A Record
By Steven Goddard From The Declining Spring Snowcover Department Yesterday afternoon, the Cache La Poudre River set its June 12 stream flow record flowing through Fort Collins, Colorado. At 1:30…
Is 2010 Heading For A Record?
By Dr. David Whitehouse, the Global Warming Policy Foundation Today’s Times says, “Nasa analysis showing record global warming undermines the skeptics.” However, a closer look at the information which the…
The Western Snowpack is 137% of normal
From The Declining Spring Snowcover Department Experts tell us that spring snowcover has seen rapid declines in the Northern Hemisphere over the last 20 years. As of today, western US…
October Through March Was the Snowiest On Record In The Northern Hemisphere
By Steve Goddard Guardian Photo The experts at East Anglia and CRU told us in 2000 that : (March, 2000) According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at…
2001-2010 was the Snowiest Decade on Record
Guest post by Steven Goddard Photo above from: NY Daily News: Record Snowfall in New York Now that we have reached the end of the meteorological winter (December-February,) Rutgers University…
BWI snow record rescinded: Another reason why airports aren't the best place to measure climate data
I’ve mentioned problems with airports as climate stations in the past, mostly that they are pockets of UHI that have grown with the 20th century aviation boom. A good example…
There's no business like snow business
Headlines yesterday mentioned yet another new snowfall record: Moscow Covered by More Than Half Meter of Snow, Most Since 1966 Feb. 21 (Bloomberg) — Moscow’s streets were covered by 53…
Bringing Skillful Observation Back To Science
Guest post by Steve Goddard Archimedes had his eureka moment while sitting in the bathtub. Newton made a great discovery sitting under an apple tree. Szilárd discovered nuclear fission while…
Why Is Winter Snow Extent Interesting?
Guest post by Steven Goddard Several people keep asking why am I focused on winter snow extent. This seems fairly obvious, but I will review here: Snow falls in the…
Northern Hemisphere Snow Extent Second Highest on Record
Guest post by Steven Goddard According to Rutgers University Global Snow Lab, last week’s Northern Hemisphere winter snow extent was the second highest on record, at 52,166,840 km2. This was only…
49 states with snow, 1180 new snowfall records set in the USA this past week – is February Headed For Record Snowfall?
AP’s Seth Borenstein is running a story titled “49 states dusted with snow; Hawaii’s the holdout“. As shown in the map below, every state in the Continental US has snow…
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