When we point out that things aren't as hot as expected (predictions of 5 or more degrees increase being more like half a degree), we are told that the climate is changing in a way that we will experience more extremes. The problem is that we're not seeing these extremes. Case in point, the Great Blue Norther of 1911:
On November 11, temperatures in Kansas City had reached a record high of 76 °F (24 °C) by late morning before the front moved through. As the cold front approached, the winds increased turning from southeast to northwest. By midnight, the temperature had dropped to 11 °F (−12 °C), a 65 °F (36 °C) difference in 14 hours.[5] The next day would have a record low of 6 °F (−14 °C) and a high of only 21 °F (−6 °C).[10] In Springfield, the temperature difference was even more extreme. Springfield was at 80 °F (27 °C) at about 3:45 p.m. CST (21:45 UTC), before the cold front moved through. Fifteen minutes later, the temperature was at 40 °F (4 °C) with winds out of the northwest at 40 mph (64 km/h). By 7:00 p.m. CST (01:00 UTC 12 November) the temperature had dropped a further 20 °F (−7 °C), and by midnight (06:00 UTC), a record low of 13 °F (−11 °C) was established. It was the first time since records had been kept for Springfield when the record high and record low were broken in the same day. The freak temperature difference was also a record breaker: 67 °F (37 °C) in 10 hours.
And it wasn't just Kansas City, it was all over - Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Dallas, Peoria, Columbus, Lexington KY. So these records are really old. If the climate were getting more susceptible to extreme weather events, where are the new records?
It's almost like what you read in the Press is biased or something.
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Something like that happened in Gainesville, FL on Dec 23, 1989. Started at 76 degrees American and started raining. Ended by 5pm at 19 degrees and everything was frozen. Gainesville, FL.
Yet our local newspaper and tv news conveniently forgot this happened.
Ya think??? They 'might' be hiding stuff from us? Quelle surprise!
It's pretty obvious. Every thermometer in the old days was wrong. Not only that they were wrong all in the same direction. Nothing an 'adjustment' can't fix to make the output fit the theory that generates the income stream.
I remember quite clearly a day in the first half of the 1980's when the temperature in central Ohio went from the mid 80's to snowing in 45 minutes.
The temperatures here now are nowhere near as hot as they were back then. It's probably 10 degrees cooler now.
A lot of waterfowl hunters got caught out on that storm, several died from drowning or hypothermia.
Not really that unusual in the Sub-Arctic where there is little topography change to slow up a fast moving front. A friend related he was sunbathing in 70 degree weather and fell asleep. Woke up in a snow squall.
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