The coldest New Year’s Eves on record in Fort Collins were -22F in 1898 and 1900. It isn’t even 11 PM and we are already down close to that, with clear skies and no wind.
Centigrade :
I’m just back from the gym. The cold takes your breath away when you step outside.
http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/arctic-chill-to-close-out-2014/39832165
Cold all across the Southwest. Snow forecast for Las Vegas!
And foolish me. I thought the Man-Made CO2 choking the atmosphere was going to make it warmer. You know, settled science and all.
That’s Mann-made Co2 and it causes all climate and weather.
Don’t worry… Climate Change Believers will somehow turn this around to be evidence of CO2 based Mann-Made Global Warming er… ugh… I mean Climate Change … or .. er .. ugh .. “Climate Disruption”!!
A station at Overland Trail & Poudre between Fort Collins and Laporte is showing -21.5°F.
It measured +8.1°F at 1:22pm, i.e. nearly 30°F drop.
Several other weather stations both north and south of Fort Collins also measure in the -20°-21°F range.
Stay put and enjoy the balmy -15°F UHI in the city.
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I’m close to the -21.5 F station
Then I will not be visiting you! Brrrrrrr!!!
it’s still dropping on the Poudre at -22.9°F.
Wellington, Colorado is the coldest at -24°F.
Up here in Cheyenne a new record low of -22 set last night.
Sorry to be so dumb but where do I find the degree symbol?
My wireless temp sensor quit at -22F last night around 9:30 pm.
There’s nothing dumb about asking, Annie. Try this method:
Make sure the NumLock key is ON. Press & hold the ALT key and type 0176 on the numeric keypad.
I will not get into the many dependencies but here is a wikiHow primer on various methods:
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Degree-Symbol
There is also a primitive but reliable fallback you can use for just about anything: Find a web page with the symbol or character, then copy and paste it from there. It’s usually not hard to find and it is much faster than looking up the code for a rarely used character.
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P.S. Which part of Colorado?
Thanks. Copy/Paste is easy. Northern Co. Near Wellington on the edge of Larimer County. On the big Canal.
It was -24F at the Budweiser Brewery at 7 am.
-24°F is about right.
Getting a head start? 😉
I do a search find one and copy and paste. If it shows in the window your good.
You can steal the one from the comment above for example
“Wellington, Colorado is the coldest at -24°F.”
Beats trying to find/remember HTML for all the symbols but you can do that too.
http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm
On a Mac Option + K
@annieoakley .. It’s an ASCII character. In most fonts, you can type it by holding down the ALT key and pressing 0176 on the keypad.
PS. . On Windows, the Character Map utility is very useful for finding character codes. It is usually in: Start / All Programs / Accessories / System Tools/
Its 12 degrees F in the foothills of Albuquerque with a -9 F windchill. We can only imagine how cold it would be if it weren’t for global warming.
I’m going to be in Albuquerque tomorrow. Maybe we can meet up?
Hope you have a great time in Albuquerque tomorrow!
Tequila sunrise!
“centigrade” – perhaps “celsius”, please Steve?
Great work, though – love your blog
Neville just use this: http://www.metric-conversions.org/temperature/fahrenheit-to-celsius.htm
Reading. Comprehension. Fail.
I have days I feel disagreeable and cranky, too, Jim … 👿
But Colorado, she wakes up that way every day!
Oh, lovers spurned!
Who said I had even been asleep? Who said I even had my glasses on?
When I wrote that I had been awake for more than 24 hrs and I haven’t slept more than 3-4 hrs for several nights because I can not breathe.
I can actually convert readings from Centigrade to Celsius in my head.
Really! 🙂
Hi Gail, yes, mucho thanks, no problems there; I grew up with both and do the conversion as mental arithmetic! But what I meant was: the term ‘centigrade’ is now largely obsolete (as from 1948), and the universal term is now the SI unit “degree Celsius”. So I was (tongue-in-cheek) suggesting Steve use “Celsius” instead of the obsolete ‘centigrade’. No probs though, really, all good. [and I really DO so love this blog!! Never seen so many pokes in the eye (to those for whom it’s appropriate!) with so many burnt sticks – well done, Steve! ]
Oh, and also, a ref to the development of the SI units:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius
Cheers, all
Neville
That extreme cold is from global warming. Didn’t any of you see “The Day After Tomorrow”?
From our good friends at the NOAA, comes the word that despite the all the cold many of us are feeling, the world indeed is really getting warmer.
http://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/2014-officially-warmest-year-record-n277121
NBC is now the official Ministry of Truth.
“…think back to the summer, when we were all cranking up our A/C.”
Where I live, we had one average hot week all summer, the rest was rainy and/or cool. Cool summers are becoming the norm here.
Of course all of this is ocean based Argo nonsense.
Never used the AC all summer. Had one 99F day.
Here outside Phoenix we used it, but we never hit 110°F even once (in Phoenix, actually; out in the boonies we never hit 105°) though the average is 106 and we typically get 8-12 days a year over 110.
Yeah, A/C. Right.
I am south of Raleigh NC and never used the A/C in the house or vehicles. Open windows worked just fine, especially since most of the time the nights were below 70°F. We have barely seen any days over 90°F the last two somers and only one day per summer over 95°F.
This summer has been more like Maine than the south. Cold, Wet, Soggy
2012 was the only year I had to run the A/C much, since I replaced my shingle roof with a metal roof about 7 years ago. The house stays cooler, and like you Gail, I live where we can leave our windows open at night.
It seems to be similar to standing out on a hot deck pulling into Subic Bay at 117 F., when all of the sudden a large cloud moves in and light rain drops the temperature to 82 F, and the whole crew begins to shiver.
After some time we all get used to it, even -50 F 😉
Surely can’t be new year’s eve there yet – it’s not even 8 pm here in Melbourne, Oz (on new year’s eve) – unless they’ve moved the international date line 😉
Currently 24 C here (~74 F) too
While the US freezes and the Hockey Stick is stuck in ice, Michael “The Fat” Mann says that he wants Leonardo DeCaprio to play Mann (himself) in a warmist propaganda flick. Lol. Double lol. Lol and rolling on the floor laughing out loud. It would have to be Fats Dumbo that played the Mann of the Mann Made
Global WarmingClimate Change.Hmmmm…. who should play Michael Mann? Too bad that Trofim Denisovich Lysenko is no longer with us. He would have been perfect.
I thought Dom DeLuise played Mikey Mann in the Mel Brooks directed movie, “Blazing Saddles”
I particularly enjoyed their scientific demonstration of the relationship between beans, methane gas and a campfire. Summed up the current state of climate science quite nicely….
The way they have it now; all this record cold just proves that global warming is a fact. Yep, hot is global warming, medium is global warming, cool is global warming, and cold is global warming. Hell, everything proves global warming.
Here in my little acre of central Indiana windchill is a balmy 0 F this fine morning. The pup has been walked. The trash taken out to the road for collection. The coffee ground and brewed. And we have a fire in the fireplace.
I don’t know why you bother with all that thermometer stuff Steve, you know you are going to have to wait a few years before Gavin will tell you what the temperature really is. Even then, you’ll have to keep your eye on it
Maybe we can start a business manufacturing thermometers that have no numbers on them — just blank spaces where the scale usually is. The “climate scientists” can just fill in the spaces themselves, with whatever number the algorithm demands.
why am I in moderation?
You are not in Mexico anymore, Steve. Didn’t you get your breath taken away there too?
Am off out shortly so it will be next year before I visit here again.
Happy New Year to all, in particular Steve / Tony. You are forging your own place in history exposing this scam.
Thank God we have man made CO2 in the atmosphere. Without it it would even be 0,7 º C colder !!!!!
Be glad it isn’t -40º F. We had that a mere 25 years ago here on my mountain. If you spat on the snow, it froze before hitting the ground!
We even brought in our sled dog, Duke. Normally, he likes sleeping in the snow.
Happy Hot New Year to all!
You just reminded me why I prefer a few days between 90 – 95 for a couple of months a year.
80% of country below 32F:
http://models.weatherbell.com/news/drudge_usa.png
Thanks for the first LOL of the day, EternalOptimist. You nailed it! I love reading the commenters here and much appreciate Steve/Tony’s posts which are the inspiration. It looks like this cold front/ storm covers all of the west even to Texas. Haven’t taken the time to look at any weather maps, but heard Dallas weather before my radio station came on early today, also CA. Here in So. AZ, we had several 22 degree F. mornings recently, today is warmer and overcast, very heavy winds and maybe snow by tomorrow. Northern AZ is promised lots of snow. We’re glad for the moisture.
This is WEATHER, not climate. We all know the difference: “Climate” is when it gets warm.
Too bad folks.
I live up here in northern Alberta, Canada and it is +2C right now. [seriously] ;^D
Grumble. It was still minus 2C at 9:00 am here in Sunny North Carolina. Now, during the hottest part of the day we made it up to +7C
Well, on the positive side, I do not have to corral cats when it is like this. They all come running inside. 😉
-3 just south of Calgary now…added up my station temps for the year, will come in around 4.3 C, average over 25 years, is 4.6, so, long way off HOTEST year ever at this location!
We are at minus 1 C in mid North Carolina and it is not even 8 PM.
Not much difference eh! Happy New Year Gail.
Happy New year to you too Lance and to the rest of the gang.
Stay warm folks.
Happy New Year, Gail et al.
Time to go out and take care of our analog social relationships.
Happy New years, Colorado.
We are staying home and avoiding the crazies. Just fed the baby kid again since she is in for the night. We managed to adopt out our little buck. So I only have the one bottle baby so far this year.
We plan to go out and celebrate with friends in a couple of days.
I try to walk a couple miles every day, but yesterday (12/30) I gave up about four minutes into it. Here in Louisville, Colorado (about 5-6 miles east of the People’s Republic of Boulder), it was so cold with a clear blue sky when I started about 1:30 pm, I really couldn’t stand it, and I’m usually not bothered very much by cold weather (although the older I get, the less I like it).
And, yes, this past summer I only turned on the A/C for two days. The rest of the summer, cracking the window in my office (where all the computers, external hard drives and other heat-generating equipment sit) and turning on one or two bathroom vent fans to create outside-to-inside air flow through the office was more than enough to keep me comfortably cool.