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The highest temperature in Seattle's recorded history for May 6 is 79°, until today that is -- today it was 87° in Seattle.
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[ScienceRocks]

86f yesterday for Newport, Oregon. Damn it was hot!!!! This just goes to show you that it's the jet stream with a big ridge over the west and a trough over the east.

Simple as that!!!

 

[RollingThunder]

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The highest temperature in Seattle's recorded history for May 6 is 79°, until today that is -- today it was 87° in Seattle.
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I came across some information relevant to a discussion of this weather pattern that North America is experiencing this year. In a debate on another thread with some of the denier cultists who were trying to push the tired old denier propaganda meme about how any low temperatures in one place for a while must 'prove' that warming has stopped and we'll soon be in another ice age (very slight hyperbole), I found the appropriate scientific explanations of what's going on now. I live in northern California and temperatures here have already, over a week ago, gotten up into the nineties. Anyway, I thought you might want to see more about the scientific understanding of the reasons for these unusual bi-coastal weather patterns that have produced this very un seasonal high of 87° in Seattle, of all places, and that are so different from last year's countrywide scourging spring heat waves. Here's some excerpts from two different articles that give a pretty clear picture of what's going on. The maps are really helpful in seeing how the heat is distributed across the whole continent. It's worth following the links and reading the full articles too.


March 2013 Falls Well Short of Last Year's Records
Accuweather
By Anthony Sagliani, Meteorologist
April 03, 2013
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...remember it was only a year ago when record warmth had already snapped the landscape to life. Record temperatures began around the middle of March 2012 and continued for much of the month. According to the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), by the time all was said and done, more than 7,500 record highs were broken across the U.S. March 2012 went down, not only as the warmest March on record for many cities and towns throughout the eastern and central part of the country, but also as the warmest March for the entire United States. Over the last 30 days, a persistent chill over many of the same locations for March 2013 has led to more than 2,600 record cold temperatures. To put some of these numbers into better perspective, consider Chicago, Ill. For March 2012, the highest temperature the city had was an astounding 87 degrees. This March, the highest temperature was a meager 59 degrees. The March 2012 temperature average for Chicago was 53.5 degrees, or 15.6 degrees above normal. This year, the average temperature was only 32.6 degrees, or 5.3 degrees below normal. In New York City, March 2012 brought temperatures as high as 78 degrees, but this year the temperature failed to crack 60 degrees. The driving mechanism for this March flip-flop was the jet stream, a thin river of air miles high that directs the path of not only weather systems, but temperatures as well. During March 2012, the jet stream buckled so far north into Canada that it took on more of a summer pattern than winter. Constant southerly winds allowed tremendous warmth to build into areas that even touched the Arctic circle.

On the flip side, March 2013 had the jet stream dip well to the south, running more along the Gulf of Mexico than anywhere else. This is more like a December or January weather pattern, so we ended up stuck with that kind of chill for much of the month.

Scientists link frozen spring to dramatic Arctic sea ice loss
Melting sea ice, exposing huge parts of the ocean to the atmosphere, explains extreme weather both hot and cold
The Guardian
John Vidal, environment editor
Monday 25 March 2013
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Climate scientists have linked the massive snowstorms and bitter spring weather now being experienced across Britain and large parts of Europe and North America to the dramatic loss of Arctic sea ice. Both the extent and the volume of the sea ice that forms and melts each year in the Arctic Ocean fell to an historic low last autumn, and satellite records published on Monday by the National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colorado, show the ice extent is close to the minimum recorded for this time of year. "The sea ice is going rapidly. It's 80% less than it was just 30 years ago. There has been a dramatic loss. This is a symptom of global warming and it contributes to enhanced warming of the Arctic," said Jennifer Francis, research professor with the Rutgers Institute of Coastal and Marine Science. According to Francis and a growing body of other researchers, the Arctic ice loss adds heat to the ocean and atmosphere which shifts the position of the jet stream – the high-altitude river of air that steers storm systems and governs most weather in northern hemisphere. "This is what is affecting the jet stream and leading to the extreme weather we are seeing in mid-latitudes," she said. "It allows the cold air from the Arctic to plunge much further south. The pattern can be slow to change because the [southern] wave of the jet stream is getting bigger. It's now at a near record position, so whatever weather you have now is going to stick around," she said.

 

[Old Rocks]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtRvcXUIyZg]Weather and Climate Summit - Day 5, Jennifer Francis - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Old Rocks]

Polar Sea Ice Cap and Snow - Cryosphere Today

 

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[RollingThunder]

Are you the new king of empty, vacuous posts? Or just another vacuous denier cult troll? Or both, maybe?

 

[TakeAStepBack]

Observation has deviated from the models, fella. The models are wrong. Back to the drawing board on your favorite social engineering scare tactic. better luck next time.

 

[kwc57]

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The highest temperature in Seattle's recorded history for May 6 is 79°, until today that is -- today it was 87° in Seattle.
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So........how do you explain this in Oklahoma on May 2nd?

Snow officially measured in Tulsa today | Tulsa World

Snow officially measured in Tulsa today

By JERRY WOFFORD World Staff Writer on May 2, 2013, at 2:58 PM

Tulsa officially had its latest snowfall of spring on record today.

National Weather Officials confirmed a trace amount of snow fell in a mix with rain Thursday, enough to register as a trace amount.

The trace amount will be the first snowfall in May and the latest snow by weeks since records began more than a century ago.

Joe Sellers, meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Tulsa, said meteorologists reported a rain/snow mix around 2 p.m. It was too warm at the surface and the snow was too light to accumulate, but it was enough to register as a trace, he said.

“This would be the latest ever recorded in Tulsa,” Sellers said.

The previously latest snow of the season was April 18, 1953. It was also a trace amount of snow........................

 

[Katzndogz]

Polar ice caps are melting so fast, that in just a few years, the polar caps might be completely ice free.

On Mars that is.

Mars Melt Hints at Solar, Not Human, Cause for Warming, Scientist Says

Simultaneous warming on Earth and Mars suggests that our planet's recent climate changes have a natural—and not a human-induced—cause, according to one scientist's controversial theory.

Earth is currently experiencing rapid warming, which the vast majority of climate scientists says is due to humans pumping huge amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

Mars, too, appears to be enjoying more mild and balmy temperatures.

In 2005 data from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor and Odyssey missions revealed that the carbon dioxide "ice caps" near Mars's south pole had been diminishing for three summers in a row.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

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The highest temperature in Seattle's recorded history for May 6 is 79°, until today that is -- today it was 87° in Seattle.
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Look up the word weather.

Snow Can't Stop the Mowing Mayor | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sports, and Weather | Local News

 

[Oddball]

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The highest temperature in Seattle's recorded history for May 6 is 79°, until today that is -- today it was 87° in Seattle.
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Wait a minute...I thought weather and climate were different.

 

[Jimmy_Jam]

Hah! You're all wrong. The warming trend is being caused by gay marriage.

 

[SSDD]

Glaciers melting back almost 2000 miles is proof enough that the earth has warmed since the end of the last ice age. Your mission is not to prove that the temperatures have warmed since the ice age...your mission is to prove that man and his CO2 emissions are responsible. Good luck with that as not even the smallest bit of actual evidence of such a thing exists.

 

[ScienceRocks]

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The highest temperature in Seattle's recorded history for May 6 is 79°, until today that is -- today it was 87° in Seattle.
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Look up the word weather.

Snow Can't Stop the Mowing Mayor | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sports, and Weather | Local News

extremes as the planet is out of balance is the word you should look up. lol

 

[Oddball]

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The highest temperature in Seattle's recorded history for May 6 is 79°, until today that is -- today it was 87° in Seattle.
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Look up the word weather.

Snow Can't Stop the Mowing Mayor | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sports, and Weather | Local News

extremes as the planet is out of balance is the word you should look up. lol

Translation: No matter what happens, it's proof of Goebbels warming.

 

[tjvh]

It was 86 in Seattle... All is lost.

 

[tjvh]

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The highest temperature in Seattle's recorded history for May 6 is 79°, until today that is -- today it was 87° in Seattle.
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It's called the jet stream idiot... It actually moves from time to time.

 

[RollingThunder]

Observation has deviated from the models, fella. The models are wrong. Back to the drawing board on your favorite social engineering scare tactic. better luck next time.

Parroting the latest denier cult myths like the retarded little troll that you're.

 

[Oddball]

Observation has deviated from the models, fella. The models are wrong. Back to the drawing board on your favorite social engineering scare tactic. better luck next time.

Parroting the latest denier cult myths like the retarded little troll that you're.

Oh, shaddap and get back to your smoothing.