Some 36 states set
daily high temperature records last Thursday.
Thirty - six states have set
daily high temperature records last Thursday.
Which is why we have not seen any more local all - time
daily high temperature records set recently than in past decades.
I took a look at
the daily high temperature records (like in your newspaper, where it reports that «the record high for January 22» nd is 12 degrees C, set in 1947») and the decades in which those records were set.
During the June 18 - to - 24 period, 731
daily high temperature records and 798 daily warm low temperature records were set or tied in the U.S., compared to 154 record cold daily high temperatures and 131 record cold daily low temperature records, according to the National Climatic Data Center.
During the June 18 to 24 period, 731
daily high temperature records and 798 daily warm low temperature records were set or tied in the U.S., compared to 154 record cold daily high temperatures and 131 record cold daily low temperature records, according to the National Climatic Data Center.
So far in December, the nationwide number of
daily high temperatures records is outpacing the number of daily low temperature records 10 to 1.
Not exact matches
It also
records daily high and low
temperatures.
In South Asia, the
highest daily wet - bulb
temperatures, which include both heat and humidity, have been
recorded around the Persian Gulf and Red Sea, the Indus and Ganges river valleys and eastern China.
The researchers also
recorded the maximum and minimum
daily temperatures, as well as the percentage of
high - level solar radiation.
«If you take the whole U.S., the indications are that there is an increasing frequency of
record high temperatures versus
record daily low
temperatures,» he said.
Since 2015, the number of
daily record high temperature in the U.S. has outnumbered the number of
daily record lows by more than 3 - to - 1.
And in 2016 the number of
daily record high minimum
temperatures outnumbered
record low minimum
temperatures 7 - to - 1.
The all - time
daily average
high temperature record for Lake Superior is 71 °F, which was
recorded in mid-August 2010.
In a long - term trend that demonstrates the effects of a warming climate,
daily record -
high temperatures have recently been outpacing
daily record lows by an average of 2 - to - 1, and this imbalance is expected to grow as the climate continues to warm.
Figure 3: The ratio of
record daily temperature highs to
record daily lows observed at about 1,800 weather stations in the 48 contiguous United States from January 1950 through September 2009.
In a long - term trend that demonstrates the effects of a warming climate,
daily record -
high temperatures have recently been outpacing
daily record - lows by an average of 2 - to - 1, and this imbalance is expected to grow as the climate continues to warm.
Record - setting daily high temperatures have become more common than record
Record - setting
daily high temperatures have become more common than
recordrecord lows.
Trends in
record * low and
record *
high daily maximum
temperatures are generally weaker and more spatially mixed in sign.
If nations continue to increase their emissions of greenhouse gases in a «business - as - usual» scenario, the U.S. ratio of
daily record high to
record low
temperatures would increase to about 20 to 1 by midcentury and 50 to 1 by 2100.
Paul donahue # 155: «Now please explain to me why, over a couple decades, stations are increasingly
recording daily, monthly and even annual
record high temperatures at a rate that now averages three times the rate that
record low
temperatures are set.»
The fact is that local
daily temperature records (
high and low) are often set everyday at various places across the world.
Although temporary warmups are common in the winter here in the plains, the warmth this January was prolonged and many
daily records were set for
highest maximum and minimum
temperatures.
In a long - term trend that demonstrates the effects of a warming climate,
daily record -
high temperatures have recently been outpacing
daily record lows by an average of 2 - to - 1, and this imbalance is expected to grow as the climate continues to warm.
However, there are only 50 states, and this is a number that isn't large enough to give the best statistical results... [a better metric is a] year - by - year numbers of
daily all - time
record high temperatures from a set of 970 weather stations with at least 80 years of
record... There are 365 opportunities in each year (366 in leap years) for each of the 970 stations to set a
record high... Note the several years above 6000 events prior to 1940 and none above 5000 since 1954.
The modeling results indicate that, if nations continue to increase their emissions of greenhouse gases in a «business as usual» scenario, the U.S. ratio of
daily record high to
record low
temperatures would increase to about 20 - to - 1 by mid-century and 50 - to - 1 by 2100.
«As you measure the
high and low
daily temperatures each year, it normally becomes more difficult to break a
record after a number of years.
Daily record high temperatures occurred twice as often as
record lows over the last decade across the continental United States, new research shows.
If
temperatures were not warming, the number of
record daily highs and lows being set each year would be approximately even, the researchers explained in a statement.
For instance, a study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters in 2009, found that
daily record high temperatures occurred twice as often as
record lows over the prior decade across the continental United States.
In the last decade,
daily record high temperatures outnumbered
record lows in the United States two to one, and that ratio is increasing.
Do you know the difference between
record high daily temperature and
record high mean annual
temperature?
For more than a decade, Guy has kept detailed
records on U.S.
daily, monthly, and all - time
record high and low
temperatures across the United States.
The use of these one - second extrema (rather than averaging over one minute) will contribute, however, to more
record high daily maxima
temperatures — this is for sure.
Of all the
daily temperature records set or tied last month, 98 percent of them were
record highs.
U.S.
daily record high temperatures continued to surge into the end of March, with new heat
records overwhelming cold
records by the incredible ratio of 35.3 to 1.
Gerald Meehl, the lead author and a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), explained, «If
temperatures were not warming, the number of
record daily highs and lows being set each year would be approximately even.»
The
Daily Mail (second
highest selling newspaper in the UK) today says: «American «climate change experts» have been exposed for fiddling
temperature records to make it appear the past was colder than it actually was.»
Daily record high temperatures were toppled in many cities on Saturday.
If you are wanting to get the
daily high and low
temperatures so you could report them to the local paper or news outlets, you would collect that info as soon as possible, especially if there is a new
high potential
record.
The true
daily average requires that the
temperature be
recorded at a sufficiently
high sampling rate to avoid aliasing the turbulent fluctuations that are responsible for the actual extrema, which don't occur on the hour as a rule.
Climate stations in eight states in the north central U.S. had
record high January average
daily mean
temperatures.
As of 1/22/2010, Dr. Spencer's
daily update page shows the lower troposphere
temperature tracking at what * appears * to be
record high levels — at least, the trace is tracking above any year since 1999.