Monthly Archives: July 2012

NOAA claims that Oklahoma during July 2011 was the “hottest month in US history.” Turns out it wasn’t even the hottest July in Oklahoma history. The raw data shows that both July 1936 and July 1956 were hotter than July … Continue reading →

http://cdiac.ornl.gov/ftp/ushcn_daily/state34_OK.txt.gz The two biggest years for Oklahoma all-time record maximum temperatures were 1936 and 1956. By contrast, 2011 was not much above average. All years which share a record maximum get counted in the graph above, so there is no bias … Continue reading →

Like almost all the other states, USHCN has been progressively cooling the past and warming the present. This allows them to turn an inconvenient cooling trend into a warming trend. 2011 has more than three degrees added on to it. … Continue reading →

Intellicast – Weekly Precipitation in United States

Last year we were told that Oklahoma was the hottest place ever recorded in the US. It turns out that the raw USHCN data for Oklahoma shows that it was the fifth coldest year on record, and that record maximums didn’t even … Continue reading →

The mass media hysteria about Texas in 2011 was absurd. Average temperatures didn’t rank in the top ten. The number of record maximums dis not match 1925. Normalized by the number of measurements, record maximums in Texas are in sharp decline.

One year ago today, Andrew Dessler of Texas A&M University declared that Texas was in a permanent drought and heatwave. Get used to it. The weather of the 21st century will be very much like the hot and dry weather of 2011. Giving extra credibility … Continue reading →

Yesterday, after I posted the US temperature record graphs, a number of geniuses started accusing me of calculating incremental records – i.e. during year one, every station sets a record on every day, etc. Just for fun, I did that … Continue reading →

Guest post by Joe Bastardi ———————————————— I am using my own alma  mater here so I can  not be accused of trying to  beat down other schools. But I think after looking at this, other schools that have great football … Continue reading →

Since 1930, the average of all valid USHCN thermometer data shows a half degree decline in temperatures across the US. But we keep hearing about the high ratio of record maximums to record minimums in the US. Below I will … Continue reading →