Historic record warm weather brings summer to central and eastern U.S.
source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/historic-record-warm-weather-b...
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By Jason SamenowTemperatures more characteristic of June have broken hundreds of temperature records over the last several days and promise to continue into the next week in many areas. In some places, temperatures have been an eye-popping 30-40 degrees above normal, nearing or surpassing the warmest temperatures ever recorded so early in the season.
Since Sunday, an amazing 943 new record highs have been broken or tied across the U.S. compared to just 9 record lows
On Wednesday alone, an incredible 400 new record highs were were broken (307) or tied (93). Record heat spanned from Florida to Montana.
Here’s a selection of new record highs set Wednesday:
Tampa, FL: 87
St. Louis, MO: 86
Topeka, KS: 84
Louisville, KY: 82
Evansville, IN: 82
Chicago, IL: 81
Des Moines, IA: 81
Traverse City, MI: 81
Myrtle Beach, SC: 79
Madison, WI: 78
Atlantic City, NJ: 77
Minneapolis, MN: 73
Green Bay, WI: 73
New York, NY (Kennedy): 72
Duluth, MN: 64
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tverdell
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In ATL its mid eighties
My 18 yo dog is not happy - 1 year ago
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tverdell
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remanns
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much weirdness
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remanns
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Tayllerand
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Solar flares anyone ? weather manipulation probably ?
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Tayllerand
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coolplanet
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Tayllerand:
Thousands of the world's top climate scientists concocted global warming just to make money?
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coolplanet
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tverdell
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Tayllerand:
Again, you don't think that climatologists would possible consider this as the reasoning?
You are basically calling them idiots since you came up with the problem with global warming in one sentence while it takes them years and years of research. But somehow they overlooked this.
I don't think you can sincerely make a case.
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tverdell
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Tayllerand
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coolplanet:
It's called carbon tax, follow the money and ask yourself this question , who gets the benefits ?
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Tayllerand
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tverdell:
Are you familiar with weather manipulation dear Watson? if you don't, then you don't know the facts about the so called global warming aka climate change .Find out who came out with the beautiful idea of the Carbon Tax. You'll be surprised .
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Tayllerand
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tverdell
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Tayllerand:
I love conspiracy theories and I believe in government attempts at weather manipulation, but those attempts are chaotic. The study of GW is a science with peer reviewed work from scientists all Over the world.
I also believe there are evil intentions by some for a carbon tax.
But they are taking advantage of mans inability to be good stewards of the earth. This is why they fight clean energy, so they can control us with centralized energy sources. Clean energy is decentralized off the grid energy. That is where they would begin to loose control, when I can power my car and home without their oil.
We will always need oil, but right now our civilization is absolutely dependent on it. Going to renewable energy means we can at least maintain civilization without relying on big oil. The power is in the hands of a few right now, and renewable energies would change the entire game.
How's that for conspiracy theory.
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tverdell
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gump
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The sun light here in phx az felt like it was burning me yesturday. Last summer my yams failed to grow until late in the fall. Total loss really. Yams love hot full sun and wet roots, usually. Phx area was once the sweetpotatoe capital of the world. They like our caustic soil and endless cloudy days, or used to like them. things change. Republican greed doesnot care about destroying the world i live in. They want us all to " BURN BABY BURN " . Sad trajedy. What a waste.
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gump
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maasanova
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The term "global warming" only means global warming when it doesn't mean "global cooling."
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maasanova
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Ihatethemall
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maasanova:
They cover their ass with "climate change" This way if its to dry....climate change, to wet....climate change, to cold clim.......well you get the idea.
Last winter we were 20 degrees below the norm. CLIMATE CHANGE.
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Ihatethemall
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maasanova
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Ihatethemall:
Futher ass coverage is evident by the recent introduction of the new lexicon of "extreme weather." So now whenever there is bad weather, no matter how normal it is, it is now can covered under the ever growing umbrella of global warming/climate change.
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maasanova
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tverdell
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maasanova:
Do you think you know more than climatologists?
You don't consider for a second that they MIGHT have considered that the weather changes are part of a normal trend?? Or are they all just grade school students passing themselves off as scientists? Rick Santorum and Republicans and the oil companies all just happen to know more.
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tverdell
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maasanova
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tverdell:
"Do you think you know more than climatologists?"
No, but i do know that climatologists, not unlike fashion obsessed teenage girls, are not immune to following certain trends, and are just as easily corrupted as vote hungry politicians, especially when their jobs are at stake or there is research money to be had by towing the politically correct line.
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tverdell
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maasanova:
You are right, this is why you have 2% that have documented ties to oil companies.
So who is corrupt, 98% or the 2%.
I think you know the answer.
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tverdell
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For you folks in more temperate climates who may be unaware, the weather here in Chicago has been well above the averages for most of the winter. Its like it stopped getting cold somewhere around Thanksgiving. Most days have been anywhere from 5-10 degrees above average, culminating in the summer-like conditions we've had this week and more mild weather is projected for most of next week. I've been waking up to 50 degree weather at 6am, 5+ degrees higher than the normal _high_ for this time of year. We've had flowers blooming and trees budding since late February. This part of the country and points north are usually just starting to come out their "ice box" months. Instead, I'm walking around outside Wednesday night around 9:30pm wearing a short sleeve shirt and no jacket with a temperature of 76 degrees, bizarre.
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Being a WI native and living here my whole life, this is a March unlike any other. We set new temperature records the past 2 days with highs of 78! Unreal. Usually it's cool and rainy with some snow left on the ground. Not this year. Today we will have a high of 65, cooler but still way above average for this time of year here. Our average high for March is usually 45....that has been our low!
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Ihatethemall
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Oh my God the sky is falling. Cover your heads chicken littles.
There have been cold springs and warm springs as well as cold and warm winters, summers and falls since the begginning of time. BFD. Just enjoy it while you can. Next year will be a bitch.
Get those tin foil hats out.
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Ihatethemall
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gump
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Ihatethemall:
BFD. Whn you are roasting in a hell you helped create on this earth will you still be saying BFD? Why are you choosing to act as an anchor thrown over a cliff tied to all of humanity. We donot want to go over your cliff into hell . Stop dragging us down with you.
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gump
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Ihatethemall
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gump:
Shit man that me me laugh out loud.
Im not really worried about it. You all are.
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Ihatethemall
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Ihatethemall:
The strong carry the weak, the disciplined carry the unruly, the enlightened carry the ignorant, the concerned carry the apathetic... I'm sure you know the story. There's no call for worry.
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thedirtman
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nikonwilly
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Maybe some early warmth would be nice if this is all climate change meant...wow...some folks are in for a huge surprise as it grows worse.
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Radical_Centrist
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Wild Flowers are in full bloom in the Pasteur down the road.
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Imzadi
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As a 50 year resident of Minneapolis, I am completely flabergasted at this warm spell. Normaly, I would be looking at mounds of snow, not grass and green sprouts.
Today may get up to 80 here!! :-o
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Imzadi
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tverdell
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Consider that no matter how the climate changes, people will never concede that man contributes to climate change. They can always make the point that this is all just a natural cycle.
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tverdell
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JohnA [removed]
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Hooray! I hate hold cold weather. It's time for baseball! Only bad part is now I have to cut my grass.
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cmc101
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I am looking for a lot of praying and prayers not answered
this is not GOD causing the pain
It is just a bunch of greedy humans that want everything before the world ends
the faster it ends they can say . I told you so but there will be no one around to listen - 1 year ago
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coolplanet
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cmc101:
If a tree falls in the forest does anyboby hear?
Not as long as we are prisoners in our little air-conditioned bubbles. - 1 year ago
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cmc101:
The world is going to end soon enough, don't worry. Enjoy it while you can.
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cmc101
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coolplanet:
as many bad storms are coming there is not enough places to hide
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cmc101
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cmc101
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JohnA:
as long as you don't steal my stuff to enjoy, you will have no worry
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cmc101:
It's a deal.
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cmc101
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JohnA:
how can stop those thieves from stealing yours, mine and friendly neighbor stuff without loosing sleep ?
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coolplanet
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How are the deniers going to ignore this?
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coolplanet
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Andover
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coolplanet:
Throw a bunch of ice in their bathtubs...
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Andover:
I think the deniers are praying for one big Miami.
They don't like it when it's cold stepping out of their cars to shop.
It should be 72f all the time. - 1 year ago
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coolplanet
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Andover
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Who knew the heart was on the left side?
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Andover
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jimstoner
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Andover:
It can be on the right side. It is called Dextrocardia Situs Inversus. 1 out of every 10,000 people have this condition.
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Andover
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jimstoner:
I think I've seen that in a kung fu movie.
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jimstoner:
If the heart is 'supposed' to be on the left side does that mean for those whose heart is on the right side they don't have any 'heart' -- that would certainly explain the mean 1%ers :-)!
Pwr 2 the left-hearted peons!
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It was over 70 degrees in Ontario Canada today in the winter season. Almost every person I talked to or overheard was saying "isn't this wonderful". Finally I had enough of their naivety and asked them if their own body was doing something that it shouldn't, how wonderful would you think it was? All I got back was blank stares. I can not imagine the level of stupidity it takes to think that 70 degrees in Canada in the winter time is somehow wonderful. This kind of rapid climate change, for whatever reason, has caused extinction level events in the past.
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jimstoner:
In Canada ? Oh , that can't be good . Bet the farmers are needing a sedative .
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jimstoner:
I told my husband yesterday that altho I am enjoying our current 80 degree weather, if it's like this in the middle of March it'll be 120 this July :-(! Global warming seriously scares me, but I think it's easier for people to understand if you say if it's 80 now imagine how hot it's gonna be in July -- they GET that :-)!
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coolplanet
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Well I've been in my bare feet and short pants gardening for the past week which I would usually be doing in May.
Everyone says how much they love it.
Tonight, after another 75 degree day when it should be 50, an ENORMOUS thunderstorm is rolling through. Lots of hail and lightning.
Sure hope we don't have a tornado. - 1 year ago
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...and of course the right-wing-corporate-fascists will just continue to preach, "nothin to see here", "move along", and related insanity as usual...
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/15/us-weather-idUSBRE82E1C320120315
Have we gone through the looking glass?
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JanforGore:
Everything is coming faster, bigger and harder.
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This is definitely the warmest winter I can remember, the temperature yesterday was 71° today 54°.
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letsliveinpeace:
It's 81 degrees in Phoenix tonight, and winter is not over yet.
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Record highs set Wednesday. Open circles indicate records were tied, circles with an x indicate records were broken. (National Climatic Data Center)
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thedirtman
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From the article:
Consider - too - the baseball and steroid analogy I used to describe how global warming stacks the deck for more record warm weather:
Just as homerun numbers got an artificial boost in the 1990s, warm weather statistics are inflated today. In the U.S., over the last 12 months [spanning February 2011 to January 2012], daily warm weather records outpaced cold weather records by a factor of more than two* (60,024 warm weather records compared to 22,474 cold weather records). In Virginia and Maryland, the last 12 months (spanning February 2011-January 2012) were the warmest on record. Washington, D.C.’s last two Julys were the hottest two on record.
The backdrop for these warm weather records is an atmosphere that’s bulking up. Levels of carbon dioxide and methane (two key greenhouse gases) are higher than they’ve been in at least 800,000 years, and global temperatures over the last decade are unsurpassed in the modern climate record. All 11 years of the 21st century rank among the 13 warmest globally since 1880 according to NOAA.
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thedirtman
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thedirtman:
A more direct baseball and climate change analogy:
Climate Change and Major League Baseball - as heat increases retaliation increases
http://current.com/community/93490934_climate-change-and-major-league-baseball-a...
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thedirtman:
Excellent posts, thedirtman!
This is very much like getting hit in the face with a baseball at 70mph. - 1 year ago
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thedirtman:
The higher the temp. the more HBPs? What bullshit, that's insane. They've been playing baseball a lot longer than anyone has been studying climate change.
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thedirtman
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JohnA:
This is simply correlating existing baseball statistics with existing temperature records. We have both of these. What could be denied?
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thedirtman:
I actually heard that nine out of ten of the pitchers throwing balls at the batters ate carrots as a kid. I think its the carrots that are causing this.
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Ihatethemall
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thedirtman:
We have existing stock market data and baseball stats too. Correlate those and tell me if bull markets create more unearned runs. I fail to see the connection.
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JohnA:
I did correlate some figures and found that when the number 3 pitcher in the Cleveland indians starting rotation plays a night game west of the mississippi the markets go up but if he is starting a game east of the River during the day the market goes down.
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Ihatethemall
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Ihatethemall:
Depends. How many pitchers not throwing balls at the batters ate carrots as a kid?
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