bluewave Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 I wanted to take a look at record daily high and low temperatures across the region since 2000. As we know, the warmth has been really winning out over the cold. It has been easier for stations that don't go further back to the colder climate era to achieve daily lows though they are still greatly surpassed by the number of record warm days. NYC....1869 HI.....LOW 47...4 JFK....1948 121...63 LGA...1948 106...26 EWR...1929 83...15 BDR..1948 106...30 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian5671 Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 urbanization probably helps this out to some degree Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
easternsnowman Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 I wanted to take a look at record daily high and low temperatures across the region since 2000. As we know, the warmth has been really winning out over the cold. It has been easier for stations that don't go further back to the colder climate era to achieve daily lows though they are still greatly surpassed by the number of record warm days. NYC....1869 HI.....LOW 47...4 JFK....1948 121...63 LGA...1948 106...26 EWR...1929 83...15 BDR..1948 106...30 It does seem that most of the cities are running over a degree warmer than even the 1981-2010 averages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ericjcrash Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 urbanization probably helps this out to some degree Totally agree. look at the 95 corridor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluewave Posted February 15, 2012 Author Share Posted February 15, 2012 urbanization probably helps this out to some degree Totally agree. look at the 95 corridor. I think that it's mostly a warmer climate. Take a look at how much of the rest of the US and the globe has seen the same pattern of many more record highs than lows recently. The temperature maps below the local stats that I posted bear this out. Even a less developed place than the NYC Metro like Burlington,VT shows the same pattern. BTV daily record highs and lows since 2000 HI.....LOW 65...10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncle W Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 using February the average max has gone down in the 2000's...The average minimum has gone up... decade....ave max/min...max....min..... 1870's..............................69......-1........ 1880's........55.2......4.5....69......-4........ 1890's........54.6......6.2....68......-6...... 1900's........52.2......6.8....62.......1...... 1910's........55.5......4.8....62......-6...... 1920's........54.3......8.7....64......-2...... 1930's........58.7......7.8....75.....-15..... 1940's........58.1......9.7....73......-8...... 1950's........58.5....10.1....71.......0...... 1960's........56.1......8.4....65......-2...... 1970's........58.7......8.6....70.......0...... 1980's........60.9....13.0....75.......4...... 1990's........62.5....11.0....72.......5...... 2000's........59.7....13.8....68.......8...... 2010's........57.0....15.5....67.....15......not counting this year 1880- 2009..........57.3......8.7....69......-1...... 1980-09.....61.0....12.6....72.......6...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluewave Posted February 15, 2012 Author Share Posted February 15, 2012 using February the average max has gone down in the 2000's...The average minimum has gone up... decade....ave max/min...max....min..... 1870's..............................69......-1........ 1880's........55.2......4.5....69......-4........ 1890's........54.6......6.2....68......-6...... 1900's........52.2......6.8....62.......1...... 1910's........55.5......4.8....62......-6...... 1920's........54.3......8.7....64......-2...... 1930's........58.7......7.8....75.....-15..... 1940's........58.1......9.7....73......-8...... 1950's........58.5....10.1....71.......0...... 1960's........56.1......8.4....65......-2...... 1970's........58.7......8.6....70.......0...... 1980's........60.9....13.0....75.......4...... 1990's........62.5....11.0....72.......5...... 2000's........59.7....13.8....68.......8...... 2010's........57.0....15.5....67.....15......not counting this year 1880- 2009..........57.3......8.7....69......-1...... 1980-09.....61.0....12.6....72.......6...... Most of the winter record highs were in December and January with the record lows coming in January since 2000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncle W Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 Most of the winter record highs were in December and January with the record lows coming in January since 2000. I counted 17 coldest max days since 2000 which I thought was a lot but I counted 61 warmest minimum days since then...Almost 4 times as many... http://threadex.rcc-acis.org/threadex/process_records Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isotherm Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 I think that it's mostly a warmer climate. Take a look at how much of the rest of the US and the globe has seen the same pattern of many more record highs than lows recently. The temperature maps below the local stats that I posted bear this out. Even a less developed place than the NYC Metro like Burlington,VT shows the same pattern. BTV daily record highs and lows since 2000 HI.....LOW 65...10 Agreed. +PDO/+AMO times are warm ones for the Northeast and much of the country. 2003-04 was a needle in a haystack type winter with those record lows. Other than that season, most of our winters haven't been that cold, and the ones that were below average (e.g 09-10, 10-11, etc) were only slightly chillier than normal. It's been difficult to get severe cold in here since 1993-94 (a winter probably partially the result of the volcanic activity and global temp drop). Really it's been since the early 80s that we saw persistent severe cold in the Northeast, other than the couple rogue years 9394, 03-04. We're seeing quite an impressive drop in global temps now;I suspect we'll see more record lows in the coming years (gradually). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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