January 21 temperatures in Ohio have been dropping at a rate of 12F per century. On January 21, 1906, it was 78F at Waverly, Ohio – which more than sixty degrees warmer than today.
The warmth was attributed at the time to solar activity.
Springfield News-Sun Mon, Jan 22, 1906 · Page 7
“WARM WEATHER EASILY EXPLAINED
Colonel Leland Gives Interesting Solution In His Address at Men’s Meeting. Colonel Samuel Phelps Leland, the noted lecturer and astronomer, was greeted by a large and attentive audience at the men’s meeting at the Y. M. C. A. Sunday afternoon. The subject of Colonel Leland’s address was “The Wonders of a Sunbeam.”
Mr. Leland explained in detail the vibrations of heat, light and sound, paying particular attention to the properties of light.
What was probably the most interesting part of the address was the explanation given by Mr. Leland for the extreme warm weather which prevailed on Sunday.
Early in the spring there were immense spots visible on the face of the sun. These spots are supposed to have been formed by large portions of the gaseous body solidifying on the surface. As the sun is 1,400,000 times as large as the earth, the immensity of these bodies can be imagined. These huge masses are now breaking up and falling into the molten body of the sun, and in so doing are creating a vast disturbance, causing flames to shoot out into space for thousands of miles. A greater heat than usual is produced by this act, as when a fire is stirred to throw out more heat.”
Jan 22, 1906, page 7 – Springfield News-Sun at Newspapers.com
21 Jan 1906, 1 – New-York Tribune at Newspapers.com
08 Jan 1906 – THE HEAT WAVE – Trove
08 Jan 1906 – EXTENSIVE HEAT WAVE. – Trove
27 below zero without the wind where I live this morning, St Cloud Minnesota. yesterday’s high was nine below. interesting with all that CO2 in the air, our temperature dropped like a rock after sunset yesterday. While it’s the coldest time of the year in the northern hemisphere it is the hottest in the southern and I haven’t seen any reports that Australia is burning up like we typically read this time of year. I just checked Melbourne’s forecast for the next 10 days and it’s in the 70s every day but one.
Perth and other parts of Western Australia have been having a few 42 Celsius days (don’t know what that is ancient Fahrenheit) fairly average for them, yet as soon as the wind blows in from the ocean, down it goes to mid-30s.
Was in east coast Australia for Christmas, north of Sydney, again fairly average 28-34 C max, nothing A/C or a cold beer couldn’t fix, despite BoM’s attempts to classify that as a ‘heatwave’. Inland there were a few 40 C days but then it was all over and the rain came down.
Odd how none of the ‘hottest ever’ days are in the 21st century, they’re all back in the 20th and 19th centuries, long before Ch!na sparked up its first coal-fired power plant. Tony’s research must annoy all those ‘experts’.