Record cold hits Texas
AUSTIN (KXAN) – The wind chill dropped to subzero, the temps hit record lows in the teens, and Texas came under a hard freeze warning the likes of which this state has rarely seen.
Viewers sent in photos of toppled canopies, iced-over fountains, and some brilliantly frozen car washes. Take a look at our gallery, which we’ll update all week.
http://www.kxan.com/dpp/weather/gallery-record-cold-hits-texas
TUCSON – Southern Arizona wakes up to cold snap that will continue through Friday, says News 4 Meteorologist.
A strong surge of arctic air continues to pile into the region. All-time record cold temperatures may be the case after Friday morning. Expect single digits and teens for overnight lows tonight across the region. Mt. Lemmon will dip below zero with wind chills well below zero.
Chris Nallan here – Do you remember the last time when the Catalinas and Rincons were under Wind Chill Warnings? Again, this event will likely go down in the record books.
you cannot tie any single weather event to climate change. Scientifically speaking, it can’t be done. Even if a cyclone or hurricane 5 times larger than anything we’ve ever seen builds up, we can’t do it. True.
However, extreme weather events and larger, more extreme storms like Cyclone Yasi are exactly what climate scientists have been predicting for a long time. In other words, such storms are are going to increase with global warming
http://planetsave.com/2011/02/02/cyclone-yasi-in-australia-climate-change/
You cannot say that all climate alarmists are dishonest, but this is exactly the sort of dishonest drivel we hear from them every day.
Northeast and Mid-Atlantic: equal chances for above-, near-, or below-normal temperatures and precipitation.
Central U.S.: equal chances of above-near-or below normal temperatures and precipitation;
Southern Plains, Gulf Coast States & Southeast: warmer and drier than average.
Southwest: warmer and drier than average.
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2010/20101021_winteroutlook.html
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Is -34F “warmer than average” for New Mexico?
February 2, 2011
January 2, 2011
In September 2010, commodities traders began warning of a major wheat shortage this winter. The reasons were all weather-related. The Russian drought and wildfires in the summer of 2010 had halved the wheat crop and prompted a government ban on exports. An early frost in September had badly damaged crops in Canada and China. Prices were soaring.
The very next month, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Washington issued an “Arctic Report Card,” painting an even darker picture. As the greenhouse effect thinned the ice caps, Arctic air temperatures were rising, driving polar winds south and east. The forecast for the winter of 2010-2011 was monster snowstorms throughout the Northeast and Midwest, and too little rain in the West. America’s Midwestern breadbasket could expect fields frozen solid, disrupted transportation and a poor winter wheat harvest.
http://www.forward.com/articles/135144/
Are they talking about Bastardi’s forecast? Did anybody see a forecast from NOAA in October for “monster snowstorms?”
Two years ago, snow was a thing of the past.
http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Skiing—is-.4962678.jp?
But now, snow is exactly what climate scientists expected all along.
