Monthly Archives: May 2018

The press is quite predictably parroting their usual lies and hysteria about the Ellicott City, MD flooding, where they received 3-6 inches of rain in two hours.  Press geniuses are calling six inches inches of rain a 1-in-1000-year rain event. … Continue reading →

The likelihood of hot weather on May 31 has plummeted in the US over the past century. On the last day of May, 1934 100 degree temperatures covered the Great Plains and Midwest.  Fayette, Iowa was 109 degrees.  Temperatures that … Continue reading →

May, 1934 brought three incredible heatwaves to the US. The first peaked on May 8, the second on May 18, and the third on May 30. It was 109 degrees at Gann Valley, SD on May 28, 1934 – twenty … Continue reading →

Steve Goddard on Twitter

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. H. L. Mencken In 1969, the world’s … Continue reading →

May 26 temperatures in the US have declined sharply since about 1910. On this date in 1911, almost the entire eastern US was over 90 degrees. Similar story in 1914, with 90 degree weather up into Vermont.

Eli Melaas is bragging that Blue Hill, MA has the best temperature record in the US. And he provided this graph. This is what the actual USHCN daily data looks like. I plotted four versions of the graph – Melaas, … Continue reading →

The frequency of hot May days has declined sharply in the US over the past century, with this year being just about average. However, the average temperature this month has been in the top five. Afternoon temperatures have been much … Continue reading →