After cataloging counts of daily records in the National Center for Environmental Information’s database for Canada, I began looking to see what country should be next on my list to research. For reference, here is what I came up with for Canada: https://guyonclimate.com/2017/04/28/canadian-record-trends/ I am getting all of my data from: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/datatools/records In order to get […]
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April 2017 Most Extreme U.S. Temperatures
In previous posts on this site and on Weather Underground I introduced the weather and climate world to the concept of an Extreme Temperature Index. Lets apply the current index algorithm to reports from April 2017 in the National Center for Environmental Information’s surface records site and see what the most extreme event and location was. […]
April 2017 Was Warm…. No Fooling…. Streak at 29
In my last piece I statistically broke down how warm the United States had gotten over the last five years in association with “the streak”. The streak is defined as the record number of consecutive months that daily record highs have outnumbered daily record lows from the National Center for Environmental Information database, which has now reached […]
Canadian Record Trends
As many of you know I began tracking United States record trends on 1/1/2000 (to commemorate the turn of the millennium when everyone else was doing so even though that date was really 1/1/2001). I knew that the first upgrade of the National Center for Environmental Information’s record site also contained vast scores of records […]
Earth Day March for Science
No question. I remain horrified by the fact that civil rights style protests are necessary to help sway the general public and perhaps the Trump Administration for the cause of pure science. Scientists should be looked up to as the definitive experts on policy decisions by any government. After all, science has given us practically […]
Roadmap to Recovery…. There is Hope
I promised that my next post would be more positive, so what I will present here is some good news concerning the world’s efforts to stem the worst future effects of climate change. Let’s all think positive, do our part to limit carbon pollution, and trust- I’ll emphasize trust!- experts and those implementing plans. The […]
Streak Dissection
In my last post I showed that the current streak of 28 months of more daily record highs than daily record lows in the National Center for Environmental Information database for the United States was also in association with the latest warmest 12, 24, 36, 48, and 60 month periods going back from March 2017 since 1895 […]
Streaking Past a Tipping Point?
Those that have visited this site know that I am big into meaningful stats. One in association with record high temperatures, and thus climate change, is the current record streak of consecutive months of more daily high records than daily low records reported in the NCEI database. That alarming streak has reached 28 months as of March […]
More March Madness
Though March 2017 across the United States was not as relatively torrid as February, the last month marked by my count a record 28 months in a row of more daily record highs than daily record lows according to the National Center for Environmental Information: Yes, there were plenty of “bracket busters” or minor cold […]
Coal-Rollers…Thought That I Had Seen Everything
Editorial: In life, no matter how long one lives, we discover new, mostly wonderful things…art, writing, books, great natural landscapes, and insightful knowledge. Sometimes we come across something horrible to see, though. While reading I stumbled upon something relatively new from the world of climate change that I thought I would never see and is […]