The Washington Post reports :
The coldest it has been on this day in Anchorage, Alaska, since 1954 is 20 degrees Fahrenheit below zero. The coldest it has been on New Year’s Eve in that same time period is even colder: -25. But this year, the lows are expected to be 33 and 27 degrees respectively — meaning that 2014 will be the first year on record that the temperature didn’t drop below zero.
It is ….. the sort of thing that we should expect to see more of.
Anchorage, Alaska never saw a day below zero in 2014 – The Washington Post
The US recorded the most nights below zero since 1989, but Anchorage now represents the global climate.
The weather pattern was almost identical in 1977, and was blamed on global cooling.
HMMMmmm, some one forgot to do his homework. That is a sure sign of the newest return to the glacial state. Alaska was Ice free during the Wisconsin Ice Age.
SEE:
http://www.cosmographicresearch.org/Images/glacial_maximum_map2.jpg
Everyone can use that Glacial Maximum (15,000 yr BP) map to drive the Warmistra nuts.
And I don’t see any ice on Greenland either.
There is the glacier in the middle but notice the lack of ice around the shore of the Arctic Sea too.
It really is a great map to toss at the Warmists so you can watch them foam at the mouth.
Not a “drive”, just a short putt. (besides, it’s redundant).
Yep… They ONLY focus on what promotes the cause…
Science, Climate History be damned!!
Meanwhile Chicago is burning up at -16 degrees tonight… http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Chicago&state=IL&site=LOT&textField1=41.837&textField2=-87.685&e=1#.VKo3JoE76K0
I’ve noticed that whenever there’s a record high temp in Alaska, the West Coast experiences cold weather. Which usually heads eastward.
Beat me to it.
Link?
E.M.Smith says ….My notes from here:
So 2015 -18 years =around 1987 and the Super El Nino.
You can tell you are a Chemist and not a Mathematician. 😉
Nah, Phil it is the astigmatism. it should have been the 1997 El Nino. (I really really need new glasses.)
Oi! Do not tell me about astigmatisms! They are coming back to haunt me!
Interesting Ice Map….
Worthy of discussion… Where were the last Glacier Sheets and why?? But… Oh well… Gail… The Science is Settled… Did you not know that?? Hehe…
The blatant abuse of one meteorlogical data point to prove that we (humans) are evil, is evil.
The area within the Arctic Circle is 8 million sq miles, roughly the size of USA and Canada together. It’s about 4% of Earth’s surface but they say it represents the whole world.
But if you say anything about USA temps they call it local.
Yep… Whatever fits their thinking… Promotes the Agenda … They focus on…
So now it’s Alaska… Forget about Chicago at -16
In short…the sex poodle didn’t visit Anchorage in 2014.
Oh BTW if you happen to go up there Anchorage has a BW Wings with another planned. My son went up there as part of a management team to open up their first store there a couple years back. It started setting new sales records for the franchise right off the bat. Young healthy men stationed in a place with somewhat limited entertainment and culinary options can consume mass quantities. He was up there for a month and Loved but his time to see the sights was of course quit limited.
Siberia wasn’t covered by glaciers, either.
This is why one has to look at the Hudson Bay/Great Lakes complex to see if it is cooling towards another Ice Age, not Africa, Australia or Alaska.
This map isn’t not as dramatic however it does show Eurasia during most extreme part of full glacial conditions (17,000-15,000 14C y.a.).
http://www.esd.ornl.gov/projects/qen/NEW_MAPS/eurasia1.gif
This is a colored map of the same thing.
http://www.esd.ornl.gov/projects/qen/euras(2.gif
Thanks Gail, for the many maps! 🙂
Anchorage represents the world climate, but the US does not. Every idiot knows that!
Except when it doesn’t. See your local grantologist for details.
Only areas suffering from warmer temperatures** are showing the climate. Cold areas are Cherry picked Denialist propaganda.
** Adusted as needed.
Can I be the first?
2015 – Warmest year ever!
Off to sell some Condos in Antarctica. Also have a bridge for sale…
As usual.
• Cold somewhere, that’s weather.
• Warm somewhere, that’s climate change.
The frozen, icy hellscape that rang in 2014 across the eastern United States returned for an encore in the west during the year’s waning hours. Temperatures fell as low as -48°F in Wyoming this morning as a brutal cold snap brings strong winds, heavy snow, and even record high air pressure to areas west of the Plains. At noon Central Time (11:00 AM Mountain), temperatures across a huge chunk of the country continued to hover in the teens or single digits, with much of the Intermountain West still solidly below zero. Wind chill values approached -50°F in many spots before sunrise this morning. This was the coldest December morning in the United States since December 23, 1998, according to Ryan Maue on Twitter.
hevane.gawker.com/temperatures-dip-to-35-degrees-below-zero-in-brutal-col-1676874958
http://www.alan.com/2014/12/31/ice-cold-american-west-48-below-in-wyoming/
Nice cherry pick. On a calendar year basis this is a record. On an actual basis the record is 683 days starting Jan 18, 2000 to Nov 30, 2001. The winter temps in Anchorage are only a degree or two less than Madison Wisconsin. Juneau Alaska in winter is warmer than Madison.
And I was there, in Polk county, in 1977. I woke up to about an inch of snow on my car, even though I live in Hillsborough county it snowed here too.
On the other hand, just east of Phoenix, we came within one degree of our record low this morning. Lot’s of snow on the Superstition Mountains and Four Peaks. http://tinyurl.com/l8wuqwh