Correction: The original graph on the Y axis said C for Celsius. The correct unit is F for Fahrenheit. All mentions of F are correct. Graph has been corrected.
Did you know January in Washington State is cooling at 23F/Century according to the NOAA? O that December is cooling at -18F/Century?
September though is warming like crazy. 8 out of the 12 months are cooling. I’d call February flat -0 .8F / century is pretty negligible.
Here is the last 15 years broken down by month.
According to the NOAA, October 2013 was the 37th coldest since 1895. 1963 was the warmest.
Is it unusual for there to be a cold October since … say … 1998? Nope.
They are spread all the way from 4th warmest in 2007 to the 4th coldest in 2009.
| year | Oct | Oct Rank (1 = Coldest / 119 = Warmest) |
| 2007 | 56.78 | 116 |
| 2003 | 56.57 | 113 |
| 2010 | 56.21 | 106 |
| 2004 | 55.55 | 101 |
| 2005 | 55.48 | 99 |
| 1998 | 55.24 | 91 |
| 2011 | 55.18 | 89 |
| 2000 | 55.17 | 87 |
| 1999 | 54.59 | 70 |
| 2001 | 54.39 | 64 |
| 2008 | 53.95 | 49 |
| 2012 | 53.91 | 45 |
| 2013 | 53.58 | 37 |
| 2006 | 52.69 | 24 |
| 2002 | 51.85 | 14 |
| 2009 | 50.61 | 4 |
October 2013 in the USA was the 37th coldest since 1895 according to the NOAA.
The following map has the ranking by state. If there was a 119 (there was not) it would have been the warmest. 1 would have been the coldest.
As you can see, the whole western USA was well below normal. The center and the south were pretty average. And when the NOAA says average, they mean 50 or 60 Octobers were warmer.
For example, Oregon had the 11th coldest October. Which means 108 Octobers were warmer.
According to the NOAA, October 2013 was the 37th coldest since 1895. It was -0.61°F colder than the 1901-2000 average.
The warmest October was 1963 when it was 5.21F warmer than the 1901-2000 average. That means October 2013 was 5.83F colder than 1963!
These Octobers were warmer: 1897,1899,1900,1901,1902,1903,1904,1907,1910,1914,1915,1918
and 1920,1921,1922,1924,1926,1927,1928,1929,1931,1933,1934,1935,1937,1938,1939
and 1940,1941,1942,1943,1944,1945,1947,1949,1950,1951,1953,1954,1955,1956,1958,1960,1961,1962,1963,1964,1965,1967,1968
and 1971,1973,1974,1975,1977,1978,1979,1983,1984,1985,1986,1988,1989,1990,1991,1992,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999
and 2000,2001,2003,2004,2005,2007,2008,2010,2011,2012.
The NOAA says September 2013 was the 6th warmest September in the USA.
2013 was behind 1998, 1931, 1933 , 2005 , 1990 and just edged out 1939 and 1922.
According to the NOAA August 2013 was the 92nd warmest out of 119. That means only 28 were warmer.
These are the 28: 1901,1913,1934,1936,1937,1938,1943,1947,1955,1958,1959,1969,1970,1983,1984,1988,1995,1998,2000,2001,2003,2005,2006,2007,2010,2011,2012
It was cool in the east though. The numbers below are the rank out of 119.
So North Carolina (for example) was 13th warmest out of 119. Which means 107 Augusts in NC were warmer.
With all the claims about 2012 being the worst drought in USA history (total joke), I thought I would mention that July 2013 was the 5th wettest July ever according to the NOAA.
Only 1950, 1958, 1992 and 1915 were wetter. July 2013 was .71 inches above the 1901 – 2000 average. July 1930 was the driest.
The 1895 to 2013 trend for precipitation in July is 0. Flat. No trend at all. Perfectly average.
Year To Date precipitation for 2013 is 23rd wettest. 1.54″ above the long term average.
Even with all the manipulation of NOAA data to cool the past and warm the present, there were 29 July’s warmer than July 2013 in the USA according to the NOAA.
These July’s were warmer than July 2013.
1901,1917,1921,1930,1931,1933,1934,1935,1936,1937,1939,1954,1955,1964,1966,1977,1980,1988,1998,1999,2001,2002,2003,2005,2006,2007,2010,2011,2012
1936 was the 2nd warmest. 1934 was the 4th warmest. And 1901 was the 6th warmest. According to the NOAA. I suspect 1936 was really the warmest, but NOAA data says otherwise today.
The USA population (along with UHI) has risen from 128 million in 1936 to 319 million.
What a brutal Spring. in the USA according to the NOAA.
Look at all those single digit rankings. Rank: (1 = Coldest and 119 = Warmest)
3rd coldest Spring out of 119 in Minnesota.
4th coldest in North and South Dakota. 5th coldest in Arkansas.
This should not be possible if AGW was real.
| State | Spring_2013 | Spring Rank | Coldest Spring | Coldest Spring F |
| Minnesota | 35.9 | 3 | 1950 | 34.43 |
| North Dakota | 33.83 | 4 | 1899 | 31.33 |
| South Carolina | 59.3 | 4 | 1960 | 58.87 |
| Arkansas | 57.33 | 5 | 1960 | 56.47 |
| Alabama | 60.1 | 6 | 1960 | 59.07 |
| Georgia | 60.67 | 6 | 1960 | 59.77 |
| Mississippi | 60.53 | 6 | 1960 | 59.97 |
| Iowa | 43.87 | 7 | 1960 | 42.83 |
| Louisiana | 63.7 | 7 | 1931 | 61.9 |
| Missouri | 51.17 | 7 | 1960 | 49.77 |
| North Carolina | 55.93 | 7 | 1960 | 54.9 |
| Tennessee | 54.9 | 8 | 1960 | 52.93 |
| South Dakota | 40.23 | 9 | 1950 | 37.6 |
| Wisconsin | 38.8 | 9 | 1950 | 37.3 |
| Oklahoma | 56.27 | 11 | 1924 | 54.3 |
| Kansas | 50.5 | 12 | 1924 | 48.3 |
| Florida | 68.1 | 13 | 1931 | 66.4 |
| Kentucky | 52.8 | 14 | 1960 | 50.53 |
| Nebraska | 44.9 | 16 | 1917 | 42.97 |
| Illinois | 49.17 | 19 | 1960 | 46.6 |
| Virginia | 53.03 | 34 | 1960 | 51.03 |
| West Virginia | 49.87 | 34 | 1960 | 46.8 |
| Michigan | 40.97 | 39 | 1950 | 37.6 |
| Michigan | 40.97 | 39 | 1940 | 37.6 |
| Indiana | 50.03 | 40 | 1960 | 46.53 |
| Texas | 64.2 | 40 | 1931 | 60.13 |
| Colorado | 42.73 | 42 | 1917 | 37.23 |
| Montana | 40.57 | 45 | 1917 | 35.5 |
| Maryland | 51.77 | 50 | 1940 | 48.63 |
| Wyoming | 39.67 | 57 | 1917 | 32.37 |
| Ohio | 49.5 | 58 | 1926 | 45.07 |
| Pennsylvania | 47.47 | 62 | 1984 | 43.57 |
| New Jersey | 50.3 | 63 | 1940 | 46.27 |
| Connecticut | 47.1 | 71 | 1967 | 42.13 |
| New York | 43.83 | 75 | 1926 | 38.57 |
| Delaware | 53.33 | 76 | 1940 | 48.63 |
| Utah | 47.8 | 76 | 1917 | 39.47 |
| Massachusetts | 46.17 | 77 | 1967 | 40.97 |
| Washington | 48.07 | 82 | 1955 | 41.5 |
| Oregon | 47.4 | 83 | 1917 | 42 |
| Idaho | 43.97 | 85 | 1917 | 36.17 |
| Rhode Island | 47.5 | 85 | 1917 | 40.97 |
| New Mexico | 53.47 | 92 | 1917 | 47.53 |
| Maine | 40.83 | 93 | 1926 | 33.7 |
| Vermont | 42.67 | 94 | 1926 | 34.03 |
| Nevada | 49.93 | 97 | 1917 | 41.17 |
| New Hampshire | 43.43 | 98 | 1926 | 35.4 |
| Arizona | 60.87 | 108 | 1917 | 52.4 |
| California | 60.13 | 113 | 1917 | 52.37 |
After looking at the national ranking (23rd coldest) it is time to look at the State data:
In the last 119 Aprils, it was the coldest April ever in North Dakota. 2nd coldest ever in South Dakota. 3rd coldest ever in Minnesota, 4th coldest ever in Nebraska, 7th coldest ever in Oklahoma, 8th coldest ever in Wisconsin.
North Dakota was 18.5F colder than the warmest April (which occurred in 1915).
26 out of 48 states had an April ranked below 60. Which means they were ranked in the bottom half of the 119 Aprils measured by the NOAA.
Only one state (California) had an April in the top 20.
| State | Apr 2013 Avg F | Apr Rank (1=Coldest) | Coldest Apr | Coldest Apr F |
| North Dakota | 31 | 1 | 2013 | 31 |
| South Dakota | 36.7 | 2 | 1920 | 35.6 |
| Minnesota | 33.9 | 3 | 1950 | 32.5 |
| Nebraska | 42.3 | 4 | 1920 | 38.9 |
| Oklahoma | 54.6 | 5 | 1983 | 53.2 |
| Kansas | 48.3 | 7 | 1983 | 46.9 |
| Wisconsin | 37.6 | 8 | 1950 | 35.2 |
| Montana | 37.7 | 11 | 1975 | 33.7 |
| Wyoming | 35.8 | 12 | 1920 | 32.2 |
| Iowa | 43.7 | 13 | 1907 | 40.1 |
| Michigan | 39.1 | 16 | 1907 | 35 |
| Arkansas | 58.4 | 18 | 1907 | 54.1 |
| Missouri | 51.8 | 19 | 1907 | 47.6 |
| Texas | 63.1 | 20 | 1997 | 59.7 |
| Colorado | 40.4 | 21 | 1920 | 34.3 |
| Louisiana | 64.5 | 23 | 1983 | 61.4 |
| Illinois | 49.8 | 29 | 1907 | 43.2 |
| Mississippi | 62.2 | 35 | 1983 | 58.4 |
| Tennessee | 56.9 | 42 | 1907 | 50.6 |
| Utah | 45.6 | 44 | 1975 | 39.9 |
| Alabama | 62.1 | 48 | 1901 | 57.4 |
| Washington | 46.7 | 50 | 1955 | 41.5 |
| Idaho | 42.5 | 52 | 1975 | 36.5 |
| Indiana | 50.7 | 53 | 1907 | 42.2 |
| Kentucky | 54.9 | 53 | 1907 | 46.9 |
| Georgia | 63.1 | 57 | 1901 | 57.4 |
| New York | 43.5 | 59 | 1943 | 36.8 |
| Maine | 39.3 | 60 | 1926 | 33.2 |
| South Carolina | 62.1 | 60 | 1901 | 55.1 |
| Oregon | 46.3 | 61 | 1975 | 40.1 |
| Oregon | 46.3 | 61 | 1967 | 40.1 |
| North Carolina | 58.5 | 63 | 1907 | 51 |
| Vermont | 41.9 | 66 | 1926 | 33.3 |
| Connecticut | 47 | 68 | 1943 | 40 |
| New Mexico | 52.3 | 68 | 1973 | 45.8 |
| Ohio | 50.4 | 71 | 1907 | 41.3 |
| Massachusetts | 46.2 | 75 | 1943 | 40.3 |
| Rhode Island | 47.1 | 79 | 1907 | 40.9 |
| Nevada | 48.5 | 80 | 1967 | 38.6 |
| Pennsylvania | 49 | 80 | 1943 | 41.6 |
| Maryland | 53.7 | 82 | 1907 | 45.9 |
| New Jersey | 51.5 | 83 | 1907 | 44.5 |
| West Virginia | 52.9 | 83 | 1907 | 44.4 |
| New Hampshire | 43.3 | 87 | 1926 | 34.6 |
| Arizona | 59.7 | 89 | 1975 | 50.6 |
| Virginia | 56.2 | 89 | 1907 | 47.1 |
| Delaware | 54.5 | 90 | 1907 | 46.4 |
| Florida | 71.4 | 97 | 1987 | 65.1 |
| Florida | 71.4 | 97 | 1901 | 65.1 |
| California | 59.9 | 108 | 1967 | 46.5 |
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