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Post by sigurdur on Oct 12, 2009 15:39:30 GMT
In the Geological center of North America there is 2 inches of snow on the ground. That is only 4 weeks early. Record low high temps. Has been one heck of a ride this year climate wise.
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Post by trbixler on Oct 12, 2009 18:43:08 GMT
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Post by kiwistonewall on Oct 12, 2009 22:27:53 GMT
Updating Map, but at time of posting: Nearly all Montana & Wyoming, about half Nebraska an parts of Nth n& Sth Dakota have snow:
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Post by trbixler on Oct 13, 2009 2:19:29 GMT
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Post by dresi on Oct 13, 2009 13:11:45 GMT
Weather is jumping from one extreme situation to another. Last week we had summer temperatures, almost 30°C. And now, winter is here, snow is coming even to lowlands and it's middle of October. Trees are still green.
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Post by trbixler on Oct 14, 2009 16:18:15 GMT
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Post by william on Oct 14, 2009 18:17:40 GMT
We had a warm September, after a cool summer.
-10C now with 5cm of snow. The leaves are still on trees. (Trees drop their leaves based on less hours of sunlight.)
This type of weather is typical of late November or early December, as opposed to mid-October. Record lows have been set at multi locations in Alberta.
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Post by meemoeuk on Oct 14, 2009 18:27:57 GMT
trbixler, it's good you are posting the record low maxs, and record low mins, but it important to also 'play fair' and post record high maxs and record high mins. For 2 reasons, 1. Most importantly, It gives us a comparison test to see if X number of records is significant. wattsupwiththat did an article on this. 2. It stops the other team from accusing you of bias
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Post by boxman on Oct 14, 2009 18:37:27 GMT
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Post by trbixler on Oct 14, 2009 19:44:32 GMT
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Post by socold on Oct 14, 2009 22:06:28 GMT
trbixler, it's good you are posting the record low maxs, and record low mins, but it important to also 'play fair' and post record high maxs and record high mins. For 2 reasons, 1. Most importantly, It gives us a comparison test to see if X number of records is significant. wattsupwiththat did an article on this. 2. It stops the other team from accusing you of bias the only way to start testing for significance is to analyze the entire record. It looks like every year since 2001 has days in which more than 200 low min records are broken. 2002 and 2007 have days in which over 900 low min records were broken. 2004 and 2005 have days in which over 500 were broken.
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Post by kiwistonewall on Oct 14, 2009 22:18:46 GMT
Corn Advances on Concern Freezing Weather to Curb U.S. Harvest www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601116&sid=a4QEXGt3B9EwWheat inspected for export from the U.S down 35 percent from a year ago. The grain has rallied amid increases in Chicago corn and soybean futures on concern frost may reduce yields in the U.S., the world’s biggest exporter of the three crops.
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Post by sigurdur on Oct 14, 2009 22:29:06 GMT
Actually, what is more interesting than number of records is AREA of records. And that is a huge area of record cold verses record warmth. Not even close.
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Post by pacman on Oct 14, 2009 22:32:09 GMT
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Post by trbixler on Oct 14, 2009 22:49:01 GMT
sigurdur I have also been impressed with the breadth of the records and also the depth. Some of these records are by 10 degrees F. Although typically 2-3 degrees F . I question LAKE MORAINE, CO as it looks like the have flipped C and F or something. Every day is 25-28 degrees a new record cold. May be NOAA got Siberia mixed in from some other month. If I look at www.hamweather.net/local/us/co/lake+moraine/wxn460129.html it does not seem to match but I do not know if it is the same Lake Moraine.
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