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lol at the climate change brigade. All this hot weather and Lancaster broke one record so far. Saturdays high of 102 broke the old record set in 1934. I blame my grandparents 1934 Ford Expedition for the previous record.

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lol at the climate change brigade. All this hot weather and Lancaster broke one record so far. Saturdays high of 102 broke the old record set in 1934. I blame my grandparents 1934 Ford Expedition for the previous record.

My all time record high of 106F in July 1936 hasn't come close to falling in the past few summers. Closest I came was 100.5F in the July 2010 heat wave (early month). I'd love to see maps for that day in July 1936. Goes to show how difficult it is to surpass 100F, for the majority of the Northeast not located at an airport.

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My all time record high of 106F in July 1936 hasn't come close to falling in the past few summers. Closest I came was 100.5F in the July 2010 heat wave (early month). I'd love to see maps for that day in July 1936. Goes to show how difficult it is to surpass 100F, for the majority of the Northeast not located at an airport.

Difference is their frequency of such anomalies weren't as frequent as now. Looks at all the dust bowl records that crashed down in the Midwest. The core of the heat didn't make it here. We got bits and pieces and not under ideal conditions. And Newark still managed to hit 102 like it's nothing.

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Difference is their frequency of such anomalies weren't as frequent as now. Looks at all the dust bowl records that crashed down in the Midwest. The core of the heat didn't make it here. We got bits and pieces and not under ideal conditions. And Newark still managed to hit 102 like it's nothing.

No argument from me there, in terms of the US. The persistence of the warmth has been nothing short of remarkable over the past year for North America.

However, below is the global temp anomaly map for the period centered on July 4th, when the Central/Eastern US blowtorch was in full force. North America is clearly one of the warmest spots on the globe, as we've been since last autumn 2011.

The global anomaly is very close to normal. The point is - even though the US is on fire, the globe as a whole really isn't right now at least.

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The heavy band in the morning played a big role. Example. Astoria, NY got into heavy banding and got a quick 2.5", while areas just 3-4 miles east got nothing because the heavy band was concentrated. I made Sundog drive from Flushing to Astoria to see the snow because he got zero.

Ehhh...3-4 miles east? Sorry buddy, im 20 miles east of astoria and i saw 2 inches...

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Difference is their frequency of such anomalies weren't as frequent as now. Looks at all the dust bowl records that crashed down in the Midwest. The core of the heat didn't make it here. We got bits and pieces and not under ideal conditions. And Newark still managed to hit 102 like it's nothing.

The dust bowl records were nothing short of remarkable for heat and extremes, especially as far north as North Dakota. Steele, ND, reported a max of 121 on July 6, 1936 and Bismarck an avg. mean for that month of 83.4. Contrast that with minus 38 at Steele on Jan. 22, 1936.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steele,_North_Dakota

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These Are The Years That Followed 2 La Nina Winters

1963 1972 1976 1986 1997 2009

And Snow Totals For NYC

1963- 1964 - 44.7

1972 -1973 - 2.8

1976 -1977 - 24.5

2009 - 2010 - 51.4

4 totally different winters

Obviously these wide ranging amounts indicate that several other factors also determine how much snowfall we can expect

1972-73 was one of the top 3 strongest EL Ninos in history. Nothing really supports that happening right now. All the other three winters were pretty good. 1963-64 was a nice winter. 1976-77 didn't have anything impressive in terms of snow fall, but had super cold to the extent that the Chessy Bay froze over and snow flurries fell in west Florida. 2009-2010 we all know was a very snowy, but not very cold winter, with the heaviest snow from PHL-BWI.

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No argument from me there, in terms of the US. The persistence of the warmth has been nothing short of remarkable over the past year for North America.

However, below is the global temp anomaly map for the period centered on July 4th, when the Central/Eastern US blowtorch was in full force. North America is clearly one of the warmest spots on the globe, as we've been since last autumn 2011.

The global anomaly is very close to normal. The point is - even though the US is on fire, the globe as a whole really isn't right now at least.

34s31fk.jpg

This map was posted a few days ago in this thread and not one of the hysteria brigade commented on it. We typical Americans think everything is focused on us. The fact is no matter what the weather is like, there are those who will blame it all on global warming. The winter on 2009-2010, and all the record snowfall from that winter was blamed by some on global warming. Then last winter and the lack of snow. You guessed it, global warming.

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No argument from me there, in terms of the US. The persistence of the warmth has been nothing short of remarkable over the past year for North America.

However, below is the global temp anomaly map for the period centered on July 4th, when the Central/Eastern US blowtorch was in full force. North America is clearly one of the warmest spots on the globe, as we've been since last autumn 2011.

The global anomaly is very close to normal. The point is - even though the US is on fire, the globe as a whole really isn't right now at least.

34s31fk.jpg

If you can, post the monthly anomaly map for the globe for June. Picking just one date to show that it's really wasn't warm around the world is beyond arbitrary.

Btw, for those that don't know, we don't need to see a total anomaly of several degrees C to be like wow it was hot. The last ice age was only a few degrees cooler than now and look how different the world was then. I think people think we need to see giant jumps in temps and that's simply not the way the climate works at all.

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If you can, post the monthly anomaly map for the globe for June. Picking just one date to show that it's really wasn't warm around the world is beyond arbitrary.

Btw, for those that don't know, we don't need to see a total anomaly of several degrees C to be like wow it was hot. The last ice age was only a few degrees cooler than now and look how different the world was then. I think people think we need to see giant jumps in temps and that's simply not the way the climate works at all.

Yeah, that map is so deceiving, the globe is on fire, its not opinion, its fact.

When the water temp off the coast in the middle of January this year is 65 degrees, people will get it.

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If you can, post the monthly anomaly map for the globe for June. Picking just one date to show that it's really wasn't warm around the world is beyond arbitrary.

Btw, for those that don't know, we don't need to see a total anomaly of several degrees C to be like wow it was hot. The last ice age was only a few degrees cooler than now and look how different the world was then. I think people think we need to see giant jumps in temps and that's simply not the way the climate works at all.

Ok, here's the global anomaly map for May 28th-July 12th. I'm not impressed with any torch globally:

I agree with the assertion that North America has seen a record warm year, but when applying it to the globe, that argument doesn't work.

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What's kind of funny about that map is that it has cold anomalies beginning at -0.5 C in blue, but the warm anomalies beginning at +0.5 C are in gray. If you begin the warm anomalies in yellow (like it should), the map would have a much warmer overall look

Here's the same time period from NOAA:

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Looks like global melting to me.

I think that getting global warmth like this for this past May during a second year Nina just says it all.

http://blog.chron.com/climateabyss/2012/04/about-the-lack-of-warming/

  • The combined global land and ocean average surface temperature for May 2012 was 0.66°C (1.19°F) above the 20th century average of 14.8°C (58.6°F). This is the second warmest May since records began in 1880, behind only 2010.
  • The Northern Hemisphere land and ocean average surface temperature for May 2012 was the all-time warmest May on record, at 0.85°C (1.53°F) above average.
  • The globally-averaged land surface temperature for May 2012 was the all-time warmest May on record, at 1.21°C (2.18°F) above average.

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I think that getting global warmth like this for this past May during a second year Nina just says it all.

http://blog.chron.co...ack-of-warming/

  • The combined global land and ocean average surface temperature for May 2012 was 0.66°C (1.19°F) above the 20th century average of 14.8°C (58.6°F). This is the second warmest May since records began in 1880, behind only 2010.
  • The Northern Hemisphere land and ocean average surface temperature for May 2012 was the all-time warmest May on record, at 0.85°C (1.53°F) above average.
  • The globally-averaged land surface temperature for May 2012 was the all-time warmest May on record, at 1.21°C (2.18°F) above average.

and now with a Nino, its just more fuel to the fire. .

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It is impossible to argue this rationally with anyone. When there's no blocking, the US bakes, and everyone says global warming. If a super block formed, and the US was freezing, but Greenland was warm, they would say, "look, global warming, the ice caps are melting". It's hard to argue when no matter what happens, they claim it's because of global warming.

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I read an article somewhere that said one of the main reasons the globe has warmed could be that there have been more Ninos now than there were years ago.

The heat has to come from somewhere. Even during the Nina bluewave showed we were all still above normal.

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The heat has to come from somewhere. Even during the Nina bluewave showed we were all still above normal.

Bluewave is as middle of the road as they come, so when he puts up a chart like that, I go and buy flood insurance for rising oceans, SPF 2000 for my skin, and put my snow blower and shovel up on ebay before they are obsolute and worthless.

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Bluewave is as middle of the road as they come, so when he puts up a chart like that, I go and buy flood insurance for rising oceans, SPF 2000 for my skin, and put my snow blower and shovel up on ebay before they are obsolute and worthless.

You do realize that 2 out of the past 3 winters were record breaking winters? Snowiest December ever in 2010. Snowiest February ever in 2010. And top 5 annual snowfall ever for several locations.

Also, the past 10 winters has been one of, if not, the snowiest period ever for NYC.

If Global Warming causes our winters to be super and very snowy, then I'm all for it.

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You do realize that 2 out of the past 3 winters were record breaking winters? Snowiest December ever in 2010. Snowiest February ever in 2010. And top 5 annual snowfall ever for several locations.

Also, the past 10 winters has been one of, if not, the snowiest period ever for NYC.

If Global Warming causes our winters to be super and very snowy, then I'm all for it.

irrelevant. We didn't have 80 degree waters off the coast of cape cod those two years. Sometime last year everything turned and now it's all messed up.

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