On this date in 1895, three quarters of the US was above 80F. Ninety degree temperatures were recorded in Minnesota, Maine and much of the Midwest. One hundred degree temperatures were reported in Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma, and Arizona was over 110F.
This year, they are still skiing in Arizona. Latest skiing on record there.
The commencement ceremony will take place rain, snow or shine in Folsom Field, please dress accordingly. Folsom Field will allow umbrellas in the stadium on May 9 for the Commencement Ceremony. In the event of rain or snow, the ceremony may be abbreviated. Livestream will be available on this site on Thursday, May 9.
Savannah Sellers from MSNBC will be delivering the CU Boulder commencement address today in a snowstorm and record cold. Last week she suggested that students should skip school because global warming means they they have no future anyway.
Today’s forecast high of 39 degrees would shatter the old cold record of 45 degrees set in 1917, and is 49 degrees cooler than 1916.
She also is a big gun confiscation advocate. There was a school shooting in nearby Highlands Ranch on Tuesday committed by two Trump-hating progressive children – who apparently believed they had no future. Very similar to the 2013 Arapahoe High School shooting by an Obama supporter, not long after Michelle Obama spoke at the school.
Progressives certainly know how to motivate students.
January-April 1910 averaged six degrees warmer than this year at Parker, Arizona. In 1910 they reached 100 degrees on March 5, and 110 degrees on April 27. This year the first 100 degree reading occurred on April 28.
Eight years ago, a tree fell on a power line near Los Alamos, New Mexico and started a large fire.
Global warming apparently makes trees fall on power lines. Because …. science.
Jury finds power companies mostly liable for Las Conchas Fire
Scientists tell us that climate change is a critical contributor
The burn area is filling in with maple, oak and aspen. I took these pictures today of the global warming devastation in the burn area. The horror of replacing scrawny, overgrown pine trees with beautiful deciduous trees!
Northern New Mexico had massive forest fires in the 1890s.