NOAA February 2014 Divisional Anomaly Map. Some Divisions were -11F colder than normal (1901-2000 mean)
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USA NOAA Feb 2014 – 37th Coldest
According to the NOAA February 2014 was 37th coldest February out of 120. 83 were warmer.
1954 and 1930 were the two warmest February’s.
Remember How Climate Change Was Going To Kill Off Snow? North American Snow 3rd Highest. Ever.
“In only two years — 1969 and 1978 — was there more snow on the ground in North America in early March than there is now.
As of Tuesday, North America is covered by the third-highest amount of snow this late in the season since records began in 1966, according to NOAA’s U.S. National Ice Center.
Only 1969 and 1978 had more snow cover at this point in the year, according to Sean Helfrich of NOAA’s National Ice Center.”
http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2014/03/05/north-america-snow-cover/6089667/
NOAA USA January – 67 January’s Were Warmer
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.
XKCD and Global Warming and St Louis
XKCD is a funny geeky comic that I read quite regularly. The blog Inconvenient Skeptic has a good post about being annoyed with a recent XKCD strip that mocks people for using the recent cold days to “disprove” global warming.
Go ahead, read the blog posting (if you are still interested) and comic and then return here.
I was ticked at XKCD for the obvious reason. The mainstream media always loves to blame global warming for any warm spell but never uses cold spells to mock the concept of global warming. I guess when XKCD followed along I was disappointed.
However, beyond that point I was interested in the St Louis data linked by the blog post here. I was immediately interested in the heatwave data in this Excel spreadsheet. I’ll just show the top twenty rows.
Notice 2012 didn’t make the top of any highlighted lists. It came close. But 1954, 1963 and 1936 had more days greater than 90F. 1936 topped consecutive days above 90F.
And 1936, 1934 and 1954 topped the list of days over 100F. And 1936 was the year with most consecutive days above 100F.
And the red circled years are the Least number of days above 90F and 100F. Notice there are recent years without any 100F days at all.
And while I didn’t highlight it, notice that in 1954 22 days were above 100F. Only 18 were in Jun/Jul/Aug. The other 4 were int the spring or fall. Now thats hot.
So much for recent “warming”. St Louis had more extreme heat in the past. Even 2012 did not set new records.
Decembers in USA – Real Global Warming is 12F Up from 1909 to 1939
A couple of days ago I did a post about December 2013 being the 21st coldest in USA history.
Do you want to know what real global warming looks like?
12 degrees Fahrenheit increase from 1909 to 1939.
2.04°F Below Normal – NOAA USA December 2013 – 98 Decembers Were Warmer
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.
NOAA USA – Why is February Such A Key Month?
From 1895 to 1998 the Contiguous USA warmed at a very small rate of .78F per century. The NOAA graph is here.
The interesting thing is that 34% of the warming occurred in the month of February. January even had a slight cooling trend.
From 1998 to 2013, the USA cooled at a rate of -3.33F per century. February was responsible for 66% of the cooling.
Any ideas? Is it an NOAA artifact or something else? It seems strange that CO2 would prefer February for 100 years and then forsake it. 🙂
Graphs for each month/period below. (The percentages do not add up properly because some months were going in opposite direction of overall trend, but they give an idea of the magnitude)
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70 Novembers Were Warmer Than November 2013 in the USA Lower 48
According to the NOAA November 2013 was 49th warmest out of 119. The following 70 Novembers were warmer:
1899,1900,1901,1902,1904,1905,1908,1909,1912,1913,1914,1915,1917,1921,1922,1923,1924,1927,1928
and 1931,1933,1934,1939,1941,1942,1944,1945,1946,1948,1949,1953,1954,1958,1960,1962,1963,1964,1965,1966,1967,1969
and 1971,1973,1974,1975,1977,1980,1981,1983,1984,1987,1988,1989,1990,1994,1995,1998,1999,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,2011,2012
Only 4 states were “Above Normal”. Tennessee, for example, was over 3F below the 1901-2000 average and was 15th warmest out of 119.
USCRN TMax/Tmin/Tmean October 2013 – Russia is Warming at 225F / Century?
The USCRN is the US Climate Research Network. I had not looked at the data in a little while. So I was confused by the state code of SA.
Well, it turned out that the NOAA has added a station in Tiksi, Russia. Which has been warming (Tmax) at 225F/century over the last 3 Octobers.
The USCRN has no stations in Connecticut or Delaware or New Jersey, but it now has one in Russia. Bizarre.
Anyway, the data is not that old, but here is the USCRN Tmax, Tmean and Tmin trends for October for most of the states in the USA and Tiksi.
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Tmax
Tmean
Tmin
sunshine hours 
