Spring 2015 thread (Northern Hemisphere) (palm, snow, record, temp)
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Light snow here, nothing sticking yet but can't believe its 30°F almost 1pm. Wind making it feel like 20s. And snowing with small flakes. January weather. Awesome.
See how the pressure lines bend inwards from the Ocean towards the West? Inverted Trough. terrain & hills enhance snowfall from it. Clearly see it from the current radar. Except the Capes of course.
Another look. With High pressure moving in, those "lines" should be bending outward as normally do. But because there's a storm over the waters, it's inverting the trough. Cool
Wish we had more knowledge, studies, and reports of how the sun affects our weather and climate.
Definitely a Lag effect.
Perhaps the peaking Sunspots of the late 80s/early 90s was the reason for the peak in global surface temps in the late 90s. And maybe the globe has been cooling since because the cycles are shorter and the sun is dimmer with less sun spots.. Maybe the Warm years are because of the recent peaks of sunspots.
Perhaps we had historic cold and snows around lately because we bottomed in late 2000s. Now we're peaking already with solar Cycle 24 and heading back down.
You just never know but we do know it does have affect on Earth. I think I read less sun = more clouds on earth too. (think warmer nights)
Even if those are true, though some temperatures here often mean mediocre ones up here with a bunch of frosts; highs are harder to judge: sometimes there's little difference in highs just lows, other times a big difference (like recently and some previous springs). I'm leaning towards a big difference with all the snow and severe cold up north. We still have snow cover which is just about melted out, but the hills and northern New England will take another few weeks. Talked to guy living in the hills (900-1000 feet, I'm at 200 feet) and he said his yard still has a foot of snow. For some reason the valley here seemed to have been in a relative low spot for snow this year.
Anyhow, I hate delayed springs. This is worse than usual but it always takes a while here. If there was one change I could make for our climate it would be a faster spring warm-up, instead of a tedious winter-lite weather.
Even if those are true, though some temperatures here often mean mediocre ones up here with a bunch of frosts; highs are harder to judge: sometimes there's little difference in highs just lows, other times a big difference (like recently and some previous springs). I'm leaning towards a big difference with all the snow and severe cold up north. We still have snow cover which is just about melted out, but the hills and northern New England will take another few weeks. Talked to guy living in the hills (900-1000 feet, I'm at 200 feet) and he said his yard still has a foot of snow. For some reason the valley here seemed to have been in a relative low spot for snow this year.
Anyhow, I hate delayed springs. This is worse than usual but it always takes a while here. If there was one change I could make for our climate it would be a faster spring warm-up, instead of a tedious winter-lite weather.
There's still 1-2" snowpack around here in spots. 3-5" 20-30 minutes from here. 5-12" in parts of northern CT in spots elevation dependent there.. Few in this thread I started saying they still have snow in CT.
February was the coldest month on record (but not by much), March will come close. What if this continues?! Seems like the records are practical limits, it's very unlikely for a month to reach much colder than record breaking cold. Anyhow, if every month of the year was the coldest on record. I took the max/min for the coldest month on record for each month. So for many months, the max or min may not be the coldest on record, just the mean is. January is from January 1961 [reached -30°F that month, coldest temperature recorded!], February is from February 2015. A lot of months were from the 1890s-1910s:
August is surprising, but the difference isn't as drastic in the summer. Even the coldest possible summer isn't cold... Looks like it could be somewhere in southern Quebec or upper Michigan.
Its 7 am and its only 38 so no freeze! !!!!!!! Forecast for tonight though on other hand is 30 I hope that one busts also!
It also got down to about 38F here, forecast was 39F. Currently the temperature is 55F with a high of 59F (lowered from 61F) predicted, and a low of 38F overnight.
February was the coldest month on record (but not by much), March will come close. What if this continues?! Seems like the records are practical limits, it's very unlikely for a month to reach much colder than record breaking cold. Anyhow, if every month of the year was the coldest on record. I took the max/min for the coldest month on record for each month. So for many months, the max or min may not be the coldest on record, just the mean is. January is from January 1961 [reached -30°F that month, coldest temperature recorded!], February is from February 2015. A lot of months were from the 1890s-1910s:
August is surprising, but the difference isn't as drastic in the summer. Even the coldest possible summer isn't cold... Looks like it could be somewhere in southern Quebec or upper Michigan.
It's hard for me to imagine waking up to freezing temperatures in August!
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