records were being broken by 20 and 30 degrees.
This was a black swan event, a once in a thousand year event, the kind that we are starting to see more and more often.
In the absence of melting arctic ice, ocean warming, sea level rise, shrinking ice sheets, changing seasons, migrating animals, ocean acidification, and a decade of similarly extreme events, one might call it a one off and go on. To ignore or pretend this is not significant given the context is pathological.
Some more fun crazy weather stories: Scotland goes from new March temp record to snow in one week. Cripes.
Maurizio, before you say anything, notice I’m just posting “crazy weather!”, I’m not saying anything about it. Though you might want to explain how you’re able to comment on anything to do with climate trends when you’re arguing there’s been “no ‘meaningful’ warming since 1998”. What does ‘meaningful’ mean…? It’s either statistically significant or not, and you’re either using too short a trend to tell that, or you’re not.
A picture is worth a thousand words, indeed.
Where can one find comparative graphs of other winter months?
I believe that adding in the Canadian graphs would also make a big impression.
check here and see if you can pull up winter, have not tried that yet
http://wx.hamweather.com/maps/climate/records/2012/03/us.html
I believe there is already a very good meteorological explanation (by NOAA).
I also believe it would make more sense to show by how much were the record highs broken.
Finally, who said that the USA is only a few percent of the globe? (A: JH)…
records were being broken by 20 and 30 degrees.
This was a black swan event, a once in a thousand year event, the kind that we are starting to see more and more often.
In the absence of melting arctic ice, ocean warming, sea level rise, shrinking ice sheets, changing seasons, migrating animals, ocean acidification, and a decade of similarly extreme events, one might call it a one off and go on. To ignore or pretend this is not significant given the context is pathological.
Over 850 record high temps were broken by 10 degrees or more. Over 1,000 record maximum low temps were broken by 10 degrees or more.
Even more stunning is that 4.4% of ALL POSSIBLE RECORDS for March were either met or broken during 2012.
Some more fun crazy weather stories: Scotland goes from new March temp record to snow in one week. Cripes.
Maurizio, before you say anything, notice I’m just posting “crazy weather!”, I’m not saying anything about it. Though you might want to explain how you’re able to comment on anything to do with climate trends when you’re arguing there’s been “no ‘meaningful’ warming since 1998”. What does ‘meaningful’ mean…? It’s either statistically significant or not, and you’re either using too short a trend to tell that, or you’re not.
La Nina is ending-
lets see where we go from here.