Across the globe in recent decades, there has been a reduction in the number of cold extremes, such as very cold nights, and a widespread reduction in the number of frost days in mid-latitude regions.1 In the United States, there have been fewer
unusually cold days.
In fact,
unusually cold days can play a key role in the climate debate, as illustrated by the headline, «Gore to warn of «global warming» on New York City's coldest day in decades!»
A recent study out of Columbia University delved further into the weather's influence on perceptions, and confirmed that people are far less likely to say they're concerned about climate change — or even that they believe it's happening — on
unusually cold days.
For example, in recent decades most of North America has been experiencing more unusually hot days and nights, fewer
unusually cold days and nights, and fewer frost days.
Not exact matches
We are going to be getting some
unusually cold weather the next few
days too, lows in the 30s in March in Florida?!
Though the weather has been
unusually nice here, it was the perfect choice for those wet,
cold days.
It's been
unusually cold the last few
days.
During our first
day here a
cold front moved in, bringing
unusually cold temperatures.
Moreover, while we've seen some
cold weather in the eastern half of the North America (see the pattern for New Year's
Day below), the western half of North America has been
unusually warm.
One
day, or week or even month of
unusually cold weather doesn't mean climate change isn't happening.
Over 5,000 Russians have suffered from hypothermia or frostbite while the country has seen 20
days of
unusually cold weather when temperatures fell 13 °F to 25 °F below normal and Moscow on Feb. 13 endured temperatures of -4 °F.
Some recognizes that there is a TOBS issue with the max on
day B on the same
day as an
unusually cold min.
Although most of the media headlines in recent
days have focused on Europe's
unusually cold weather in a jolly tone, the concern is that this is not so much a reassuring return to winters as normal, but rather a displacement of what ought to be happening farther north.