Some 36 states
set daily high temperature records last Thursday.
Thirty - six states have
set daily high temperature records last Thursday.
Record -
setting daily high temperatures have become more common than record lows.
Not exact matches
The data
set provides
daily high and low
temperatures, as well as rainfall, the world over.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
From that I don't know what relative effects happen in the nighttime
set, but it seems to me that it would be most extreme then, because as anyone familiar with
high country will confirm, not only are
temperatures cooler in general, but there is a larger
daily variation at
higher altitudes.
Of all the
daily temperature records
set or tied last month, 98 percent of them were record
highs.
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.»
Which is why we have not seen any more local all - time
daily high temperature records
set recently than in past decades.