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RL3AO wrote:Sorry, but I don't trust any of these stories.
How can you know the entire polar region is 5 to 8 degrees above average every single year? After a while you start to wonder if the average is right. How can you possibly know what the average temp of the north pole was in 1927? From my understanding, there were few if any weather stations say north of 75N back then.
"tied 2005 as the warmest year in their 131-year instrumental record"
And how many of those years had widespread instruments over the north pole? Temps from satellites started around 1978. That covers the past 32 years. What about the 99 before it?
chris_fit wrote:If I'm not mistaken, 2010 was one of the coldest, if not THE coldest winter on record for most of Florida, yet this map shows we were above average.....
Metalicwx220 wrote:
Thank you! How can they just say something was the warmest on record ? Same situation with somehow they knew there were 2 category 4 hurricanes in 1926 when igor and julia was present.
Macrocane wrote:Metalicwx220 wrote:
Thank you! How can they just say something was the warmest on record ? Same situation with somehow they knew there were 2 category 4 hurricanes in 1926 when igor and julia was present.
Why do you say it's the same situation? so you believe that there were or there were not two simulatneous category 4 hurricanes before 2010?
Metalicwx220 wrote:? WHAT?
How does this winter's cold and snow compare to normal?
The winter of 2010-11 is off to a cold and snowy start. The first half of this winter ranks among the coldest and snowiest starts to any winter on record. The following are preliminary temperature and snowfall stats for Evansville and Paducah:
TEMPERATURES:
At Paducah, the average temperature from December 1 to January 20 was 31.4 degrees. This ranks as the 6th coldest such period on record. Records at Paducah date back to 1937. The coldest such period was 27.6 in 2001, followed by 27.7 in 1977.
At Evansville, the average temperature from December 1 to January 20 was 29.3 degrees. This ranks as the 7th coldest such period on record, tied with 1959. Records at Evansville date back to 1897. The coldest such period was 23.0 in 1918, followed by 24.8 in 1977.
SNOWFALL:
At Paducah, the snowfall so far this season has been 8.6 inches. This ranks as the 8th snowiest such period. The snowiest such period on record was 18.7 inches in 1977-1978. The mean snowfall for an entire winter at Paducah is only 9.6 inches.
At Evansville, the snowfall so far this season has been 12.5 inches. This ranks as the 8th snowiest such period. The snowiest such period on record was 22.3 inches in 2004-2005, and all of that snow fell in the record-setting December 23 storm. The 2nd snowiest such period was 21.9 inches in 1976-77. The mean snowfall for an entire winter at Evansville is only 13.3 inches.
The cold and snow so far this winter does not necessarily mean the remainder of the winter will be the same.
GCANE wrote:On January 12, 2011, NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) announced that 2010 had tied 2005 as the warmest year in their 131-year instrumental record. NOAA also declared 2010 to be tied with 2005.
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Can't make any distinctions on winter, since it is defined as DJF, but yes - it was the coldest December on recordchris_fit wrote:If I'm not mistaken, 2010 was one of the coldest, if not THE coldest winter on record for most of Florida, yet this map shows we were above average.....
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