On March 27, 1910 temperatures were 70F (21C) all the way to the shores of Lake Superior. Salem Indiana reached 97F (36C.) If this happened now, scientists would say they are 99% certain it was caused by humans.
NASA says that global temperatures bottomed in 1910.
Based on the weather personalities seen on TV, trying to predict the weather seems to be a very difficult task and one they must get a lot of ribbing from their friends. They still seem to want the job though even when they are wrong so often. Lol
“Temperatures will average 15-30 degrees Fahrenheit below normal with the core of the cold air directed at the North Central states. Normal highs during the first week of April are in the lower to middle 50s in Minneapolis, Chicago and Detroit and in the 60s from Kansas City, Missouri, to Nashville and Cincinnati.”
http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/polar-vortex-to-plunge-cold-into-midwest-east-us-early-april/56265180
http://www.pa.op.dlr.de/arctic/geop100/a30.gif
Unfortunately a lot of fruit trees that blossomed early due to the mild March are going to sustain some devastating crop losses.
Forecast circulation in the lower stratosphere on April 2.
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/strat_a_f/gif_files/gfs_z100_nh_f168.png
The pressure over the Arctic Circle. Very low solar activity.
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/strat-trop/gif_files/time_pres_HGT_ANOM_JFM_NH_2016.png
Yea Ren
We Hoosiers and those in surrounding states are in for a cold start for April with some hard freezes to come. Going to really screw up some of the vegetation. My Chinese Elms and Cotton wood already have buds on them. The Robins started showing up last week. But Old Man winter still isn’t done with us as of yet.
I remember back in the 60s and 70s this time of year was always associated with a usually active start to the tornado season in my part of the country. Now it would have to be a snownado.
I guess even a skeptic like me can be taken in my the hype sometimes. I have had the impression that tropical cyclone activity in the Pacific was up significantly over the last few years but my impression was wrong. It is up but not nearly to the extent I thought it was.
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2016/03/23/long-term-tropical-cyclone-trends/
From the EPA…
http://www.nipccreport.info/articles/2011/may/Heatwaveindex.jpg
https://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/pdfs/print_heat-waves.pdf
Nope, no cooling in the sixties and seventies, and the thirties was downright pleasant.
Good one Gator Boy, I see stuff like this, and it boggles the mind.
My old stomping grounds in the Arctic are/were running at -35C or colder, so all that cold air is coming down