Great Lakes 80% Frozen Over

[joshuah]

Winter Leaves 80 Percent Of Great Lakes Covered In Ice

On the one hand it seems to be on pace to break a record. On the other hand it does look like the long-term freeze over rate has been trending down a bit.

 

[Abraham3]

I'd heard several weather reports in the last couple of weeks noting that despite how miserable this winter has seemed for most of the country, it really wasn't notably bad (cold or heavy snow) compared to winters of the last 50 years or so.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

I'd heard several weather reports in the last couple of weeks noting that despite how miserable this winter has seemed for most of the country, it really wasn't notably bad (cold or heavy snow) compared to winters of the last 50 years or so.

several weather reports in the last couple of weeks noting that despite how miserable this winter has seemed for most of the country, it really wasn't notably bad (cold or heavy snow) compared to winters of the last 50 years or so, because of Manmade Global Warming

 

[Jroc]

I'd heard several weather reports in the last couple of weeks noting that despite how miserable this winter has seemed for most of the country, it really wasn't notably bad (cold or heavy snow) compared to winters of the last 50 years or so.

Bullshit..January was the one coldest in history and the most snow ever. this is the worst winter I can ever remember and I lived in the Detroit area all my life

 

[Abraham3]

Deep Freeze Recap: Coldest Temperatures of the Century for Some

http://www.weather.com/news/weather-winter/coldest-arctic-outbreak-1990s-midwest-south-east-20140103

Now that the January 2014 deep freeze is abating, it's time to take stock of its place in history.

The core of the cold came Monday, Jan. 6, and Tuesday, Jan. 7. Subzero temperatures affected a large swath from Montana to New York and as far south as northern Oklahoma and northern Alabama.

Persistent winds pushed wind chills into life-threatening territory, reaching 40 below to 60 below zero across a large swath of the Midwest. The National Weather Service in Wilmington, Ohio, said the wind chills were the coldest observed in central and southwest Ohio since 1994.

Records Broken... and Not Broken

On Tuesday, more than 50 primary weather observation sites (mostly in major cities) recorded record lows for the date.

A few major cities, including Atlanta and Indianapolis, recorded their lowest temperatures since the mid-1990s. A few more cities, including Toledo, Ohio (1 degree Tuesday) and Madison, Wis. (9 degrees below zero Monday) recorded their lowest daytime highs since the 1990s. The slideshow above features a selection of cities that recorded low-temperature benchmarks not seen so far in the 21st century.

The National Weather Service says the summit of Mount Mitchell, N.C., recorded a low of 24 degrees below zero Tuesday morning, the lowest temperature recorded there since Jan. 28, 1986 – the same day cold weather caused the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster at Cape Canaveral, Fla.

However, quite a few major cities in the heart of the cold did not establish low-temperature marks for this century[and by "this century", he means since 2000]. In Birmingham, Ala., and Nashville, Tenn., low temperatures were the coldest since January 2003. New York City set its first daily low temperature record since 1996, but the low of 4 degrees Tuesday morning was not as cold as the 1-degree reading they had Jan. 16, 2004.

Many sites in Ohio, including Cincinnati and Columbus, failed to drop below low temperatures observed in cold snaps during 2009 and 2011.

Minneapolis-St. Paul spent 62 consecutive hours below zero and Chicago spent 37 straight hours in subzero territory, but these streaks failed to make the historical top 10 for either city.

Notably, as of Wednesday afternoon we have not received any reports of all-time or even January monthly record lows anywhere in the U.S. from this arctic outbreak. (At the time of this writing, we are awaiting complete Tuesday data from the National Climatic Data Center.) Two long-term cooperative observation sites in Maine recorded their coldest January daily high temperatures on record, though one of those only tied the previous record.

Contrast this with December 2013, when dozens of all-time December record highs and record-warm daily lows were tied or broken, especially ahead of Winter Storm Gemini Dec. 21-23.

Greg Carbin of the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center told The Weather Channel that according to reanalysis data, Monday, Jan. 6 ranked as the 40th-coldest day on record since 1900 for the continental U.S., with an average temperature of 17.9 degrees for the Lower 48.

According to this data set, Monday was the coldest day of the 21st century thus far nationally, and the coldest since Jan. 12-13, 1997, but pales in comparison to the arctic outbreaks of December 1983 and December 1989, which together take the top four slots on the list.

One reason the January 2014 deep freeze was unable to break many long-term records is its short life span. The coldest air moved into and out of most locations within a 36-hour span, often not lasting enough to keep temperatures anywhere near historic lows for a full 24-hour calendar day.
In addition, the perfect recipe for extremely cold temperatures is a deep snowpack and calm winds. While the gusty winds throughout this cold snap made wind chills very dangerous, they also prevented actual air temperatures from plummeting to their lowest potential. Furthermore, a number of locations from Ohio to the Mid-Atlantic and Deep South had little or no snow cover, either due to lack of snowfall or the sudden warmup and rain that preceded this bout of frigid air in the East.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

So Global Warming isn't warming?

 

[GWV5903]

The world is melting, better move to higher ground...

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Obama lowered the seas, amiright?

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0tuAJkbUWU]Obama Promises The World - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Abraham3]

So Global Warming isn't warming?

Did you not read the article? This has not been an exceptionally cold winter and in fact December set many record high and record high lows.

This is just weather.

 

[Drake_Roberts]

I love global warming.

 

[westwall]

So Global Warming isn't warming?

Did you not read the article? This has not been an exceptionally cold winter and in fact December set many record high and record high lows.

This is just weather.

Let me see 4000 cold records to 1000 warm records. Were it the other way around you would be panting about global warming. Funny how you change with the temps!

 

[Star]

Deep Freeze Recap: Coldest Temperatures of the Century for Some

Deep Freeze Recap: Coldest Temperatures of the Century for Some - weather.com

Now that the January 2014 deep freeze is abating, it's time to take stock of its place in history.

The core of the cold came Monday, Jan. 6, and Tuesday, Jan. 7. Subzero temperatures affected a large swath from Montana to New York and as far south as northern Oklahoma and northern Alabama.

Persistent winds pushed wind chills into life-threatening territory, reaching 40 below to 60 below zero across a large swath of the Midwest. The National Weather Service in Wilmington, Ohio, said the wind chills were the coldest observed in central and southwest Ohio since 1994.

Records Broken... and Not Broken

On Tuesday, more than 50 primary weather observation sites (mostly in major cities) recorded record lows for the date.

A few major cities, including Atlanta and Indianapolis, recorded their lowest temperatures since the mid-1990s. A few more cities, including Toledo, Ohio (1 degree Tuesday) and Madison, Wis. (9 degrees below zero Monday) recorded their lowest daytime highs since the 1990s. The slideshow above features a selection of cities that recorded low-temperature benchmarks not seen so far in the 21st century.

The National Weather Service says the summit of Mount Mitchell, N.C., recorded a low of 24 degrees below zero Tuesday morning, the lowest temperature recorded there since Jan. 28, 1986 – the same day cold weather caused the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster at Cape Canaveral, Fla.

However, quite a few major cities in the heart of the cold did not establish low-temperature marks for this century[and by "this century", he means since 2000]. In Birmingham, Ala., and Nashville, Tenn., low temperatures were the coldest since January 2003. New York City set its first daily low temperature record since 1996, but the low of 4 degrees Tuesday morning was not as cold as the 1-degree reading they had Jan. 16, 2004.

Many sites in Ohio, including Cincinnati and Columbus, failed to drop below low temperatures observed in cold snaps during 2009 and 2011.

Minneapolis-St. Paul spent 62 consecutive hours below zero and Chicago spent 37 straight hours in subzero territory, but these streaks failed to make the historical top 10 for either city.

Notably, as of Wednesday afternoon we have not received any reports of all-time or even January monthly record lows anywhere in the U.S. from this arctic outbreak. (At the time of this writing, we are awaiting complete Tuesday data from the National Climatic Data Center.) Two long-term cooperative observation sites in Maine recorded their coldest January daily high temperatures on record, though one of those only tied the previous record.

Contrast this with December 2013, when dozens of all-time December record highs and record-warm daily lows were tied or broken, especially ahead of Winter Storm Gemini Dec. 21-23.

Greg Carbin of the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center told The Weather Channel that according to reanalysis data, Monday, Jan. 6 ranked as the 40th-coldest day on record since 1900 for the continental U.S., with an average temperature of 17.9 degrees for the Lower 48.

According to this data set, Monday was the coldest day of the 21st century thus far nationally, and the coldest since Jan. 12-13, 1997, but pales in comparison to the arctic outbreaks of December 1983 and December 1989, which together take the top four slots on the list.

One reason the January 2014 deep freeze was unable to break many long-term records is its short life span. The coldest air moved into and out of most locations within a 36-hour span, often not lasting enough to keep temperatures anywhere near historic lows for a full 24-hour calendar day.
In addition, the perfect recipe for extremely cold temperatures is a deep snowpack and calm winds. While the gusty winds throughout this cold snap made wind chills very dangerous, they also prevented actual air temperatures from plummeting to their lowest potential. Furthermore, a number of locations from Ohio to the Mid-Atlantic and Deep South had little or no snow cover, either due to lack of snowfall or the sudden warmup and rain that preceded this bout of frigid air in the East.

Thanks for the informative article, it makes me wonder if all the carbon suckers on this M/B went to schools that taught them not to keep score because it would damage their self-esteem?

.

 

[Politico]

Cool. It hasn't been that high since I was a kid.

 

[Old Rocks]

So Global Warming isn't warming?

Did you not read the article? This has not been an exceptionally cold winter and in fact December set many record high and record high lows.

This is just weather.

Let me see 4000 cold records to 1000 warm records. Were it the other way around you would be panting about global warming. Funny how you change with the temps!

It is called winter, old boy

 

[Jroc]

Did you not read the article? This has not been an exceptionally cold winter and in fact December set many record high and record high lows.

This is just weather.

Let me see 4000 cold records to 1000 warm records. Were it the other way around you would be panting about global warming. Funny how you change with the temps!

It is called winter, old boy

Winter is winter but this one is the worst I can remember. I have a business that is effected by the cold weather and this is the worst ever in the over 20yrs of being in business. You "global Warming nutters are a joke really

 

[skookerasbil]

Heres what the k00ks don't get..........

Reality is 95% perception and a vast majority of the population is sitting around this winter sipping their coffee and staring at their yard frozen stiff with snow for the last 6 weeks. They walk outside and their balls turn blue inside 5 minutes.

Ask yourself......are these people going to be knocking down the doors of their representative demanding action on global warming? Even before this historically cold winter, the answer was a resounding NO!!!

The k00ks like to get all caught up in the science but the American people don't give a fuck about that......they only know what is going on when they walk out of their house in the morning. Trust me.......and this is backed by polls too ( SEE RECENT POST IN SKEPTICS WINNING THREAD )........very few see global warming as a threat in 2014. The k00k religion can try to invent shit all they want but nobody is caring. Only these k00ks think that we are going to see some kind of groundswell of activism from a few internet forums........as if that were leaving a greater impression on people than their balls turning blue.


As Ive said in the past.......the AGW climate crusaders have connect the dots issues. Its in the way they think. Their efforts are akin to slamming their heads against the wall year after year after year and getting the same result. Know what psychiatrists refer to that as? I do. Shit.....there are a handful in this forum who think that their version of global warming is commonly accepted by a huge majority. HOLY FUCK.......real disconcerting to think that some of these people are parents and shit.......

 

[skookerasbil]

Did you not read the article? This has not been an exceptionally cold winter and in fact December set many record high and record high lows.

This is just weather.

Let me see 4000 cold records to 1000 warm records. Were it the other way around you would be panting about global warming. Funny how you change with the temps!

It is called winter, old boy

OK Ray........fair enough. But then don't be posting up bogus summer heat threads in a few months.

Cant have it both ways...........would not be intellectually consistent.

 

[SwimExpert]

it really wasn't notably bad (cold or heavy snow) compared to winters of the last 50 years or so.

By what metric, and why said metric?

 

[westwall]

Did you not read the article? This has not been an exceptionally cold winter and in fact December set many record high and record high lows.

This is just weather.

Let me see 4000 cold records to 1000 warm records. Were it the other way around you would be panting about global warming. Funny how you change with the temps!

It is called winter, old boy

Yes, we know. And when it's summer, we know that too. Funny how you silly people don't.

 

[SwimExpert]

Cant have it both ways.

Yes they can. That's the slut magic of global warming. The warmer it gets, the more ice we get, the less ice we get.