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12 Jan 1924, 14 – The Guardian at Newspapers.com

09 Jun 1977, Page 1 – The Daily Inter Lake at Newspapers.com

California Governor Jerry Brown warned of immeasurable disaster.

LOS ANGELES, March 7—Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr., warned here today that drought?stricken California was “facing a disaster of immeasurable magnitude.” “The specter of drought has been gathering momentum, not only in California, but across the country,” the Democratic Governor declared, adding that people must learn that “this is an era of limits and there are very hard choices to make.”

Brown Warns of Drought Disaster; Says ‘Hard Choices’ Face California – The New York Times

Forty years later, he blamed drought on global warming.

California Braces for Unending Drought – The New York Times

Thanks El Niño, But California’s Drought Is Probably Forever | WIRED

The permanent drought appears to have been short lived, however.

In Mammoth, the snow is so deep residents must tunnel out. There’s a history to that – Los Angeles Times

Then back inside to warm up in a fossil fuel powered building, and drink a fossil fuel brewed coffee brought over on a fossil fuel powered boat from Brazil – while talking on their fossil fuel powered cell phone.

“We are not a cult”

Thursday will be the second October 10th in a row with record cold here in Boulder, Colorado. We have about five inches of snow in the forecast. It will also be a record for earliest day to not get above freezing – the previous record being October 11, 2009.

And the trend has been sharply downwards since CO2 hit 350 PPM.

But for climate scientists at NCAR, it will be just another day of looking at climate models – instead of out their window.

This is how I spent the first day of summer this year in the mountains above Boulder.

This script gives easy access to USHCN monthly raw, TOBS and Final adjusted temperatures.

Getting the data:
wget ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ushcn/v2.5/ushcn.tavg.latest.FLs.52j.tar.gz
wget ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ushcn/v2.5/ushcn.tavg.latest.tob.tar.gz
wget ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ushcn/v2.5/ushcn.tavg.latest.raw.tar.gz
tar xzvf ushcn.tavg.latest.FLs.52j.tar.gz
tar xzvf ushcn.tavg.latest.tob.tar.gz
tar xzvf ushcn.tavg.latest.raw.tar.gz

wget ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ushcn/v2.5/ushcn.tmax.latest.FLs.52j.tar.gz
wget ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ushcn/v2.5/ushcn.tmax.latest.tob.tar.gz
wget ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ushcn/v2.5/ushcn.tmax.latest.raw.tar.gz
wget http://cdiac.ornl.gov/ftp/ushcn_daily/ushcn-stations.txt
tar xzvf ushcn.tmax.latest.FLs.52j.tar.gz
tar xzvf ushcn.tmax.latest.tob.tar.gz
tar xzvf ushcn.tmax.latest.raw.tar.gz

wget ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ushcn/v2.5/ushcn.tmin.latest.FLs.52j.tar.gz
wget ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ushcn/v2.5/ushcn.tmin.latest.tob.tar.gz
wget ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ushcn/v2.5/ushcn.tmin.latest.raw.tar.gz
tar xzvf ushcn.tmin.latest.FLs.52j.tar.gz
tar xzvf ushcn.tmin.latest.tob.tar.gz
tar xzvf ushcn.tmin.latest.raw.tar.gz

Then cd into the new directory, which will have a new name every day. It will be something like ushcn.v2.5.5.20191004

Example usage:
python3 date.py USH00412679 7 1921 “EAGLE PASS”

Data for July, 1921 at Eagle Pass, Texas.

output:
Raw EAGLE PASS USH00412679 7 1921 37.29 99.12
TOBS EAGLE PASS USH00412679 7 1921 37.16 98.89
Final EAGLE PASS USH00412679 7 1921 35.92 96.66

Last two numbers in each line are Degrees C and Degrees F

You will have to know the station ID of the station you are looking for:
ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ushcn/v2.5/ushcn-v2.5-stations.txt

Script :
——————————————————————-

import sys

filename = sys.argv[1]
#print(filename)
#filename = filename.replace("USC", "USH")
#print(filename)
month = int(sys.argv[2])
year = sys.argv[3]
comment = sys.argv[4]

fd = open(filename + ".raw.tmax")

for line in fd :
    #print(line[12:16])
    if (line[12:16] == year) :
        #print(line)
        offset = 18 + (9 * (month - 1))
        #print(line[offset:offset+4])
        temperature_c = float(line[offset:offset+4]) / 100.0
        temperature_f = (temperature_c * 1.8) + 32.0
        print("Raw", comment, filename, month, year, "%.2f" % temperature_c, "%.2f" % temperature_f)

fd = open(filename + ".tob.tmax")

for line in fd :
#print(line[12:16])
    if (line[12:16] == year) :
        #print(line)
        offset = 18 + (9 * (month - 1))
        #print(line[offset:offset+4])
        temperature_c = float(line[offset:offset+4]) / 100.0
        temperature_f = (temperature_c * 1.8) + 32.0
        print("TOBS", comment, filename, month, year, "%.2f" % temperature_c, "%.2f" % temperature_f)

fd = open(filename + ".FLs.52j.tmax")

for line in fd :
    #print(line[12:16])
    if (line[12:16] == year) :
        #print(line)
        offset = 18 + (9 * (month - 1))
        #print(line[offset:offset+4])
        temperature_c = float(line[offset:offset+4]) / 100.0
        temperature_f = (temperature_c * 1.8) + 32.0
        print("Final", comment, filename, month, year, "%.2f" % temperature_c, "%.2f" % temperature_f)

Winter is coming early again this year.  We are expecting five inches of snow here in Boulder on Thursday. Montana had record snow last week. This is the eighth year in a row with above average October snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere.

Rutgers University Climate Lab :: Global Snow Lab