We keep hearing endless BS about global warming and extreme weather. But 35 years ago, climatologists blamed extreme weather on global cooling.
November 25, 1981 – Perspective | Chicago Tribune Archive
Unless you are over 80 years old, you have no clue what an extreme weather year looks like in the US. 1936 was by far the most extreme year in US history. Flooding and dust storms ravaged half of the country in March.
Pittsburgh, March 30 1936.
p1 – 20 Mar 1936 – The Daily News (Perth, WA : 1882 – 1950) – Trove
July, 1936 was the hottest month in US history. with temperatures 12 degrees above normal in the interior.
Seventy-nine percent of the US reached 100 degrees (38C) in 1936. Recent years have been closer to 35%.
Thousands of people died in the heat, which reached 121 degrees in North Dakota.
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February 1936 was the coldest February on record, with temperatures 26 degrees below normal in Montana.
April 1936 brought one of the deadliest tornadoes in US history.
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Most of the US was in drought in 1936, but in 1934 almost the entire country was in drought.
Compare with 2016.
In 2016, one city block in Maryland floods, and people call it Biblical. We get a few days over 90 degrees, and people declare it to be the most extreme year ever. This is not science, it is brainless superstition. But there is nothing new about it – these geniuses have been doing the same thing for at least 145 years.
