Posted on 02/20/2015 8:15:05 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Boston is running out of room to dump snow. Niagara Falls has partially froze. Flint, Mich., has tied its all-time low of minus-25 degrees on Friday.
The New York area had real-feel temperatures of well below zero on Thursday night and into the Friday morning commute.
As for the day’s highs, temperatures on Friday will be 10 degrees to 25 degrees below normal from Maine to Florida.
But overall, it’s been the sixth-warmest winter on record in the U.S. and the warmest since 2012, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Globally, temperatures on land and well as for land and ocean temperatures combined were the second-highest for January since records began in 1880, it said.
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Actually, Boston had to apply for a waiver to dump snow in the harbor, because it would...not kidding...make the ocean saltier.
The Pacific Northwest and Alaska have been unusually warm this year. The Snoqualmie ski area, about 50-60 miles east of Seattle, is almost bare of snow now, three months ahead of schedule.
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1880 was a stupendously cold year, in the “Little Ice Age.”
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All weather is local. Duh!
More unseasonably cold days will bring the average down, and then so much for this stupid claim.
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Yep, that there snow sure is salty; that’s why everyone makes drinking water out of it!
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It’s simple...the western US has been under a dominate ridge for most of the winter whereas the northeast US has been under the influence of a trough. Warmer than normal in the western US and colder than normal in the eastern US. Basic meteorology...
“We’re up to 3 degrees now.”
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You guys are worse off than we are.
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Apples and Oranges temperature measurement.
In order to have accurate temperature measurement, especially when small variances are so important, temps must be taken under precisely the same conditions time after time. This has not been done. It is nearly impossible. What was the formula that the NOAA used to “adjust” when Chicago moved its official temperature measurement from Midway Airport to O’Hare in the last part of the 1900’s? The two have different measurements. Midway, closer to Lake Michigan, has milder temps, O’Hare has more extreme temps. How do they adjust?
Urbanization has a huge effect on temperature measurement. A weather station in a field yields one temp. Put that suburban parking lot near it, or a McDonalds 100 feet away and you have a distorted result. taken as a global measurement, it will grossly exaggerate the actual result to the warm side. Again, what is NOAA’s formula for this?
There are literally thousands of variables to be taken into account, especially over long stretches of time. There is way to much guesswork in the “modeling” that is going on with global temp statistics and measurement. Today there are many places in Africa, Asia and South America where temps are recorded, but in the past, there were few. If you take the same places,and exclude the rest, you have the many effects of urbanization “heat islands” dramatically shifting the measurements upward. How to adequately account for this? Guesswork. They are guessing what the relative temps are. It is not “science.”
If they dump the snow in the reservoirs they won’t be able to decry low water levels and global warming this summer.
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We had some incredibly nasty cold days here in central California in December.
At our ranch in the central Sierra, the week between christmas and new year’s day never got above zero.
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In some tribes January’s full moon is known as “the full cold” moon, and February as the “full hunger” moon. -17 earlier today in east central Ohio.
Our town said it’s a dilemma about where to put the snow. I said throw it in the Schuykill. They said it could pollute the river. I said “When it gets warmer, where the F is it going anyway?” They said that is not under federal regulations. I just stared.
I live in California and also remember that cold spell...sure ran the heater a lot!
Likely there is a weather station in northern Canada (300 miles from the closest human) that has had its temperature data “smoothed” to 100F over the last four months.
So most of the population has had a colder than normal winter whereas most of the acres in the sparsely populated Rocky Mountain and Great Plains states, has had it warmer than normal.
Maybe we ought to allocate electoral votes to the states based on acres, LOL!
Exactly!
Just DO it. Kind'a like the Shoot, Shovel, Shut up scenario.
From what I heard they are dumping it in the ocean, but since the government says its the 6th warmest winter I don’t think there’s snow anywhere, and when my truck thermometer said -17 it had to be mistake, these people will do anything to push this global warming crap.
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