Warm weather in March burns up records… but scientists aren’t celebrating as they fear clearer signs of global warming
By ASSOCIATED PRESS PUBLISHED: 00:59 EST, 9 April 2012 | UPDATED: 04:51 EST, 9 April 2012
It’s been so warm in the United States this year- especially in March- that national records weren’t just broken, they were deep-fried. Temperatures in the lower 48 states were 8.6 degrees above normal for March and 6 degrees higher than average for the first three months of the year, which far exceeds the old records. The magnitude of how unusual the year has been in the U.S. has alarmed some meteorologists who have warned about global warming.
Complete unmitigated BS. Even after upwards adjustments – March, 2012 was barely warmer than March, 1910 in the lower 48. If you remove the adjustments, 1910 was just as warm. If you include Alaska, 1910 was much warmer.
CONTIGUOUS UNITED STATES Climate Summary
As far as global temperatures go, 2012 has been below the 30 year mean.
Wood for Trees: Interactive Graphs
Now, back to the US. Temperatures in the mid-Atlantic are forecast to drop well below freezing later this week. Climate scientists will suddenly lose interest in the US, and move on to somewhere else which is anomalously warm – just like they did in Europe 2003, Moscow 2010, and Texas 2011.
This is all about keeping the funding stream alive. It has nothing to do with science, climate or weather.
What about Canada? Don’t you have to include that, as well, to get a sense for the entire continental landmass? Does Canada have a climate center where they track temps like the NCDC? Seems like just lumping the lower 48 and Alaska together doesn’t really make much sense … just sayin’
Well, Canada is a large place, it doesn’t have a unified climate. Here in East Ontario, we had a warm winter – very nice, thank you very much. Other places had usual cold and snow. And it probably rained a lot in Vancouver, I don’t know.
In March, at least 7,775 weather stations across the nation broke daily high temperature records and another 7,517 broke records for night-time heat. Combined, that’s more high temperature records broken in one month than ever before. Normally, March averages 42.5 degrees across the country. This year, the average was 51.1 degrees Fahrenheit in the US — 8.6 degrees above the 20th century average, which is closer to the average for April. Only one other time — in January 2006 — was the country as a whole that much hotter than normal for an entire month.
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, March wasn’t the only month that had meteorologists and climate scientists reaching for the record books — the first three months of 2012 were 6 degrees higher than average in the lower 48 states braking the previous January-March record by a whopping 1.4 degrees.
I wish to hell all this was going on where I am (in the British Isles). So far it’s been a mostly cold year.