Even though it's freezing today, overall temperatures are on a rising trend and we're experiencing many more hot weather
records than cold.
But due to global warming, they have declined much less than the number of cold records, so that we now observe many more hot
records than cold records.
Not exact matches
Meteorologists with the National Weather Service (NWS) say that there is a 99 % chance that we will start to see a massive
cold front and
record - shattering snowstorms sooner
than ever before.
«It would produce a climate change unknown in
recorded history —
colder than the little ice age,» Robock says, referring to the period between the 14th and 19th centuries when a 1.5 °F drop below today's temperatures caused crop failures, famines, and political unrest in northern Europe.
They can also explain more
than half of the warming
recorded over the Antarctic Peninsula, because «anomalously strong westerlies should act to decrease the incidence of
cold air outbreaks from the south and lead to increased warm advection from the Southern Ocean.»
Weather stations in the U.S. that are having a warmer
than normal,
colder than normal and
record hot year.
Only the Northwest has been consistently
colder than normal since Dec. 1, with several sites in Washington and Oregon having one of their 10
coldest winters on
record through mid-February.
By this measure, a
record cold day was 40 percent more likely
than a
record cold night.
Similar to 2014, some of the Southern Ocean waters off the tip of South America and part of the Atlantic Ocean south of Greenland were much cooler
than average, with one localized area in the Atlantic region
record cold.
The
record low temperatures tell an even more compelling story: it was much more likely for the daytime temperature to be
colder than average
than it was for the nighttime ones.
Extreme heat is one of the hallmarks of global warming; as the average temperature of the planet rises,
record heat becomes much more likely
than record cold.
The State of the Climate November 2015 report noted that in order for 2015 to not become the warmest year in the 136 - year period of
record, the December global temperature would have to be at least 0.81 °C (1.46 °F) below the 20th century average — or 0.24 °C (0.43 °F)
colder than the current
record low December temperature of 1916.
Parts of the northwestern Pacific, the North Atlantic south of Greenland, and regions in the southern oceans near Antarctica were were cooler or much cooler
than average, with no areas of the global oceans
record cold.
A depth
record marked as a delta limited dive may actually be deeper
than the transmitted value while a temperature
record marked as a delta limited decrease may actually be
colder than the transmitted value.
The waters off the southern tip of South America and to the south of Greenland were much
colder than average, with a pocket of
record cold in that region of the Atlantic Ocean.
To the south, Pahrump, Nevada, was cooler
than normal with an average 46.8 F (8.2 C), 5 F (2.7 C) below normal and 8th
coldest November since
records began in 1914.
As the animation below shows, the last time the world experienced a
record -
coldest year was in 1909, more
than 100 years ago.
Yet, the little - seen movie had far less heat surrounding it
than, say, The Post, which got the Best Picture nomination and a
record 21st nomination for co-star Meryl Streep, but left Tom Hanks in the
cold.
Fast Lane is a
recording from 1986, myself 17 years old, an electro - punk piece inspired by
cold war angst and nausea at political indifference with the now more
than ever poignant line «we take the fast lane into the dark».
For Victor's argument to have any merit, the last part of 2016 (Sept - Dec) would have to be
colder than any year Sept - Dec since 2000 and require a drop in TLT from the July figure far greater
than any such drop on
record to date.
But we're getting many more hot
records than we're getting
cold records.
If the trend is warming I'd expect fewer
record - setting
cold spells, but that would be more
than offset by the rising frequency of
record heat waves.
It looks to be as
cold as, or even
colder,
than 2007, which experienced one of the steepest cooling trends in any single year ever
recorded.
The same meridional blocking pattern hit North America this March, keeping the East at
record high temperatures and the West
colder than normal such that it snowed in Northern California and also rained much more
than normal.
In the contiguous 48 states there were slightly more
cold records than heat
records in the 1960s and 1970s, but from January 1, 2000 to now there have been over twice as many heat
records as
cold records.
For example, with global warming, we might predict that
record hot events will be more likely
than record cold events.
In fact, the only thing that could prevent a
record would be a
colder than average summer — especially early summer.
(04/22/2013) While the month of March saw
colder -
than - average temperatures across a wide - swath of the northern hemisphere — including the U.S., southern Canada, Europe, and northern Asia — globally, it was the tenth warmest March on
record in the last 134 years, putting it in the top 7 percent.
Despite billions of pounds in investment and subsidies, Britain's wind - turbine fleet was producing a feeble 2.43 per cent of its own capacity — and little more
than 0.2 per cent of the nation's electricity in the
coldest month since
records began.
I can only go by the observations and crop
records rather
than models, and whilst there was undoubtedly a
cold period in the 1200's it then recovered for a very long period
Southern sea ice is increasing «Antarctic sea ice set a new
record in October 2007, as photographs distributed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration showed penguins and other
cold - weather creatures able to stand farther north on Southern Hemisphere sea ice
than has ever been
recorded.
Because hurricane caused flooding was more prevalent during the Little Ice Age when Atlantic temperatures averaged 1 to 2 degrees F
colder than today researchers concluded, «The frequent occurrence of major hurricanes in the western Long Island
record suggests that other climate phenomena, such as atmospheric circulation, may have been favorable for intense hurricane development despite lower sea surface temperatures.»
the southern hemisphere skyrocketing toward what could be a
record high, given gcm forecasts for a
cold winter there (and by the way, they have the global temps falling even
colder than they did last winter for our winter.)
In the first 6 months of 2013 the UKMO Central England Temperature
record was a full 1.9 deg C
colder than the average for the previous 12 years.
Some daily
record lows were set for the month of December, and in a few places temperatures were
colder than they have been at any point in several years.
Whether it's a killer winter in South America, increased snow cover globally,
record Arctic sea ice recovery, recovering glaciers in the Alps,
record high sea ice extent in Antarctica, extreme
cold in southeast Europe, or 5 consecutive
colder than normal European winters, just to name a few, the ominous signs of global cooling are compounding rapidly.
June 2016: Snow in Hawaii again,
record June snow in Barrow Alaska, Vostok Antartica sets
cold record less
than -80 * C; June snow in Mexico very RARE, June frost all over upstate New York, June 10 Heavy snow in Novodvinsk (RARE) and Tiksi Russia, June snow in Ukrain RARE.
The temperature rise was much greater up to 1739
than with the hockey stick, but it ended in 1740 with one of the
coldest winters in the entire 350 year instrumental temperature
record.
Will the «
coldest on
record» Superbowl temperatures (conditions created by the climate engineers) help to cover up the
record warm temperatures at the North Pole (which are expected to be as much as 40 degrees higher
than those at the game)?
A modest rise from the
coldest era in the entire Holocene would not seem unusual to me, even if I hadn't researched
records back to 1200AD and seen fluctuations greater
than this.
These circled winter temperatures were not
colder than those
recorded since the 1880's.
And that it's been 358 months since the planet had a cooler -
than - average month, and more
than 100 years since we last had a
record -
cold month.
Having said that there were around forty years at the start of the 18th century that seem broadly comparable to the modern day according to observational and crop
records with very warm summers although still
colder than now winters on the whole Tonyb
Finland-gate NASA GISS shows
record high temps for Finland in March 2010 when it was actually
colder than -LSB-...]
Finland-gate (Climate Audit) NASA GISS shows
record high temps for Finland in March 2010 when it was actually
colder than -LSB-...]
The only ocean area with
record cold temperatures was east of the Drake Passage near the Antarctic Peninsula, an area that has been much cooler
than average since late 2013.
Finland is poised to have the
coldest summer on
record in the more
than half a century tracked by the Finnish Meteorological Institute.
In retrospect, our overall outlook of setting a new
record minimum based on the vast amount of FY ice should have been tempered by the fact that the FY ice over the pole should be thicker since it was the first ice to grow last fall and the north pole is also
colder than the Eurasian and Alaskan coasts, and during summer this ice is subject to less incident sunlight.
The «
cold»
records — still included — would cause the average to be lower
than the average without them so after the collapse when the
records are no longer included «warming» would be obvious.
It also means heat
records are more likely to be set
than cold records.