This was the coldest winter in Wisconsin since 1895 by a substantial margin.
However, I did an analysis of past NOAA data tampering in Wisconsin, and believe that there is a good chance they will declare that 1904, 1917, 1918, 1920 and possibly 1936, and 1979 were all colder. There is also a remote possibility they can push 1977 ahead of 2014, but that level of tampering might require approval from higher ups in the political chain.
My worst case tampering forecast has NOAA pushing this past winter back to #8 behind 1904, 1917, 1918, 1920, 1936, 1977, and 1979.
My best case tampering forecast is #5, behind 1904, 1917, 1936 and 1979. This assumes the same amount of tampering as last winter.
but that level of tampering might require approval from higher ups in the political chain
What, from the likes of serial liar and Obama hobnobber Peter Gleick? I think they’ve all tacitly agreed that they should go ahead and tamper and fabricate and lie, and no approval from “higher ups” like the once crowned Hippie of the Week Peter Gleick or the litigious Mann is needed. They’ve all internalized the explicit words of the likes of Stephen Schneider who said they must find “the right balance between being effective and being honest.” The right balance? Actually, if you read the full context of the infamous Schneider quote, it’s implied that that “balance” should be shifted fully toward being effective (dishonest) because Schneider maintains that their agenda is all that important. We “must make up scary scenarios,” Schneider said. And what have we had in the last 25 years since Schneider said that? One bs scary scenario after another. Nothing will silence their raucous and interminable fear mongering. And likewise, nothing will stop them from tampering with the data to further their politics. Because they are trying to be effective, not honest. They are trying to be effective fear mongers, and effective data manipulators so more of “the little people” (the public) will be duped by their scary scenarios. So their leftist “cause” can be realized. If they give honest scenarios with truthful data… no one will listen to them.
“We’ve got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing …” -leftist Senator Tim Wirth, 1993
“A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the United States… [we] must design a stable, low-consumption economy.” -John Holdren (1973), O’s “Science” Czar
“A global climate treaty must be implemented even if there is no scientific evidence to back the greenhouse effect.” -Richard Benedik, U.N. / U.S. Bureaucrat
“We have to offer up scary scenarios… each of us has to decide the right balance between being effective and being honest.” -Stephen Schneider, lead ipcc author, 1989
“Unless we announce disasters no one will listen.” -Sir John Houghton, ex ipcc chair
“Everything we have developed over the last 100 years should be destroyed.” -Pentti Linkola, Finnish Ecologist
“Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?” -Maurice Strong, ex UNEP Director
Their tampering is even more predictable than the weather.
Coldest since 1895 – Hmmmm I’m a Milwaukee resident since 1944, and I have to say that’s it’s been colder. I remember minus 20 something more than once in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, but I have to say that it’s been cold for a very long spell this year. We had one day of a good winter thaw and then right back in the ice box the next day.
I flew in a small plane last Wednesday from Milwaukee to Manitowoc 75 miles north. Lake Michigan was frozen over except for a mile or two right along the shore. And that was largely because of a 60 kt wind OK at 3,000 feet but it was whipping on the ground pretty good. So if it had been calm I think it would have been solid right up to the beach.
Steve, You have actual memory of things.
After I got out of the service, I worked at a bank at 55 Water Street in Manhattan (1977) . I remember looking down at the East River that was pretty much frozen over.
Government data often conflicts what people on the ground actually remember.
You have a typo. The 1999 should be 1979 in your worst case section. — John M Reynolds