184 Low Min Records Broken From Aug 1 to Aug 21 according to the NOAA.
Below is a screenshot showing location and the biggest difference between old record and new record.
Note that Stambaugh MI has 91 years of data. And the record was demolished by 11F.
20F as a low on Aug 14. Wow.
1025 Low Max Records Broken From Aug 1 to Aug 21 according to the NOAA.
A “Low Max” means that the maximum temperatures for the day was the lowest it has ever been.
This indicates daytime cooling.
Below is a screenshot showing location and the biggest difference between old record and new record.
Note that Dyer NV has 111 years of data. And the record was smashed by 16F.
This is huge. And logical. Only idiots thought plants prefer freezing to death.
“Not all species flee rising temperatures. As the mercury has inched upward across western North America over the last 40 years, many plant species have moved downhill, toward—not away from—warmer climates, according to the results of a new study.
The finding adds to growing evidence that temperature isn’t the only factor influencing how Earth’s life will respond to climate change.”
Isn’t that last sentence hilarious? “Temperature isn’t the only factor …’ Well DUH! But unfortunately the AGW cult has twisted science so much that many are surprised that plants might like it warmer than colder.
“The results of the analysis were unexpected. More than 60% of plants shifted their distributions downward, toward warmer, lower elevations—despite significant climate warming across the regions under study, the team reported online on 24 July in Global Change Biology. Even more striking, all plants within a region—regardless of species—moved in the same direction.”
What a shocker eh? Given a choice between the cold of the 1970s, plants like it warmer. Who would have thought? …. Only people with a brain thought that!
http://www.thegwpf.org/plants-have-unexpected-response-to-climate-change/
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.12697/abstract
28,504 Low Max Records were set in last 365 days according to the NOAA.
A “Low Max” means that the maximum temperatures for the day was the lowest it has ever been.
This indicates daytime cooling.
Only 13205 High Max records were set. That is over a 2:1 ratio. Brrr.
(h/t IceAgeNow)
According to the NOAA, January was only the 53rd warmest out of 120. That means 67 January’s (out of 120) were warmer.
The lower 48 states were pretty much divided right down the middle. Very cold in the east, warm in the west and normal in the states directly above Texas.
Alabama had its 4th coldest January in 120 years. It was -8.3F colder than normal. Minnesota was the coldest state, averaging 2.3F. Brrr. Only 52.3F colder than Florida.
Here are the maps of average temperature, rank out of 120 (120 = warmest) and temperature anomaly from 1901-2000
Average Temperature in F
Rank out of 120 (120 = warmest and 1 = coldest)
Anomaly in F from 1901 – 2000 average.
The AGW cult likes to talk about “extreme weather” as if that is a new thing and all was nice and calm in the past before that evil CO2 came along. What a load of bull.
Inspired by my own post about 1930 temperatures in Canada and Steven Goddards post about “extreme weather” in Montana in 1936, I thought I should take a quick look at 1936.
Imagine you are in the middle of the worst 10 year heatwave ever in North America — the dust bowl — and along comes February 1936. The data in the graph below are monthly averages based on the 1971-2000 normals Canada uses.
The black dot in the top left hand corner is about 5C of difference above or below the normal for that month.
Of the 184 stations, 3 were above 0. 81 were more than -10C colder than normal. Animated gif of whole year at bottom. Click for bigger.
Stations More Than -15C below normal
| Prov | Stn_Name | Anomaly |
| ALTA | SION | -21.5 |
| ALTA | MEDICINE HAT A | -20.4 |
| ALTA | VIKING | -19.6 |
| ALTA | FORT MACLEOD | -19.4 |
| ALTA | BEAVER MINES | -19.4 |
| ALTA | GLEICHEN | -19.3 |
| ALTA | LETHBRIDGE CDA | -19.3 |
| ALTA | CALMAR | -19 |
| ALTA | CARDSTON | -18.9 |
| SASK | BEECHY | -18.9 |
| SASK | PENNANT | -18.7 |
| ALTA | CALGARY INT’L A | -18.4 |
| ALTA | HIGH RIVER | -18.2 |
| SASK | ANEROID | -18.2 |
| SASK | GRAVELBOURG | -18.2 |
| ALTA | MANYBERRIES CDA | -18 |
| BC | FORT ST JAMES | -17.8 |
| ALTA | OLDS | -17.8 |
| ALTA | PEKISKO | -17.7 |
| ALTA | BROOKS AHRC | -17.5 |
| SASK | TUGASKE | -17.4 |
| SASK | SCOTT CDA | -17.4 |
| SASK | YELLOW GRASS | -17.3 |
| ALTA | BEAVERLODGE CDA | -17.2 |
| SASK | CHAPLIN | -17.2 |
| BC | ATLIN | -17.1 |
| MAN | PIERSON | -17.1 |
| ALTA | LACOMBE CDA | -17 |
| SASK | REGINA A | -16.9 |
| SASK | WASECA | -16.9 |
| YT | MAYO A | -16.7 |
| ALTA | CAMPSIE | -16.7 |
| BC | BALDONNEL | -16.6 |
| ALTA | FAIRVIEW | -16.6 |
| SASK | HARRIS | -16.6 |
| ALTA | RANFURLY | -16.5 |
| SASK | MIDALE | -16.5 |
| SASK | KLINTONEL | -16.5 |
| ALTA | ENTRANCE | -16.4 |
| ALTA | CALDWELL | -16.2 |
| ALTA | ELK POINT | -16 |
| SASK | NOKOMIS | -16 |
| SASK | SASKATOON A | -16 |
| SASK | BIGGAR | -15.7 |
| SASK | DAVIDSON | -15.5 |
| SASK | LUMSDEN | -15.5 |
| MAN | DELORAINE | -15.5 |
| SASK | MUENSTER | -15.4 |
| SASK | INDIAN HEAD CDA | -15.3 |
| SASK | REGINA CDA | -15.2 |
| SASK | PILGER | -15 |
According to the NOAA, December 2013 was only the 21st warmest out of 119. That means 98 Decembers (out of 119) were warmer.
The 5 warmest Decembers were 1939, 1957, 1933, 1941 and 1946.
OMG. 2.04°F Below Normal. We are all going to freeze to death if this keeps happening.
“Authorities reported at least 21 cold-related deaths across the country since Sunday, including seven in Illinois and six in Indiana. At least five people died after collapsing while shoveling snow, while several victims were identified as homeless people who either refused shelter or didn’t make it to a warm haven soon enough.
In Missouri on Monday, a 1-year-old boy was killed when the car he was riding in struck a snow plow, and a 20-year-old woman was killed in a separate crash after her car slid on ice and into the path of a tractor-trailer.
In a phenomenon that forecasters said is actually not all that unusual, all 50 states saw freezing temperatures at some point Tuesday. That included Hawaii, where it was 18 degrees atop Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano.”
Winter temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere are dropping as much as 2.5C / decade over the last 7 years.
Yesterday my post was a look at the northern hemisphere by month over the last 7 years.
Today I am looking at the same time frame, but I am using the gridded HADCRUT4 data for Dec/Jan/Feb only. You will have to click on the image to get the full effect.
There are 7 latitude bands with yellow highlighting. The trend in those is from -.44C/decade to -2.49C/decade. And note the green 0 line. 0 is the 1961-1990 average, Anywhere the graph or trend crosses the green line it is colder than the 1961-1990 average. It was pretty cold in the 60s and 70s.
I wish I didn’t live in the 50th parallel.
Do you live in the Northern Hemisphere.? Did anyone tell you that in the midst of record CO2 levels HADCRUT4 shows massively dropping winter temperatures?
At the bottom of this post is a graph of HADCRUT4 Northern Hemisphere only temperatures for each month for the last 7 years.
Did you know December was cooling at -.9C per decade? By 2100 December could be 8C colder?
Did you know January was cooling at -.73C per decade?
Did you know March was cooling at -.56C per decade?
Did you know February was cooling at -.19C per decade?
Did you know November was cooling at -.2C per decade?
Did you know October was cooling at -.17C per decade?
Did you know April was cooling at -.17C per decade?
I’m glad I have a wood stove.
sunshine hours 
