NOAA seems to have officially adopted the 1970s Ice Age scare as their new cherry picking baseline. These reports are popping up all over the country
Grand Rapids often is described as a cool city.
But, in meteorological terms, it’s a hot place — 1.4 degrees hotter, to be exact, over the past several years.Call it global warming or simply climate change, West Michigan is getting warmer as the decades pass.
No surprise, right? Particularly with the talk among weather experts about the warming planet and the damage that could accompany it.
But now, new data from the National Weather Service in Grand Rapids confirms the trend.
On Monday, local meteorologists will begin using “new normals.”
It’s a data set of climate variables such as temperature, precipitation and snowfall based on 30 years of record-keeping.
Every 10 years, the NWS updates its “normals” and shifts the timeline — so, starting Monday, the 30-year period goes from 1971-2000 to 1981-2010
What complete bollocks. It was considerably warmer in western Michigan during the 1930s.
USHCN raw data for Ironwood, Michigan.
But Michigan (UP) is famous for its cherries
which, of course, must be picked every year in the heat of the Summer
warmer in western Michigan during the 1930s.
Touché!
I had NOAA graph Michigan winter temps for the 2000s and used 1925 – 1935 as the baseline. Out of 12 years in the chart, 8 of them were above the “normal” of 1925-1935.
http://reasonabledoubtclimate.wordpress.com/2011/07/31/warmer-west-michigan-temperatures-force-meteorologists-to-create-new-normals/
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The temperatures in Grand Rapids went down, then back up to what was considered normal prior to 1960. The fact that temps are back to pre-1960 normals is obvious proof of catastropic global warming.
Ironwood Michigan is at the western end of the Upper Peninsula, near Minnesota — nowhere near Grand Rapids. My father was born there in the late 1920s; he remembers leaving the house in winter in the early 1930s via the 2nd floor doorway to get out over the snow.
You maybe right, Curt. If you look at the NOAA maps 1934 was very hot in the West half of the country basically from Illinois west. Michigan came out with East on the cool side. Fast forward to 1998 and the opposite was the case.
I was about to note the same geographic point. But, that doesn’t change the basic point that compared to the “new ice age seventies” any other modern period would look warm. I should add that the Great Lakes are doing just fine, tourism is off in northwestern Michigan because June was very cold, but now the fishing is great. Come visit and enjoy Al Gores new tropical paradise while you can: the first snow arrives in mid-October.
The article said western Michigan
GISS graph for Grand Rapids shows the point Steve is making Temperatures in the 1930’s + 1940’s higher than now then much colder in the 60’s + 70’s.
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/gistemp_station.py?id=425726350001&data_set=1&num_neighbors=1
Proximity to lake superior is key.