U.S. experiences warmest 12-month period on record
The past twelve months were the warmest twelve months in U.S. history, said NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) on Tuesday, in their monthly "State of the Climate" report. Temperatures in the contiguous U.S. during May 2011 - April 2012 broke the previous record for warmest 12-month period, set November 1999 - October 2000, by 0.1°F. The past twelve months have featured America's 2nd warmest summer, 4th warmest winter, and warmest March on record. Twenty-two states were record warm for the 12-month period, and an additional nineteen states were top ten warm. NOAA said that the January - April 2012 period was also the warmest January - April period since record keeping began in 1895. The average temperature of 45.4°F during January - April 2012 was 5.4°F above the 20th century average for the period, and smashed the previous record set in 2006 by an unusually large margin--1.6°F.
Figure 1. The ten warmest 12-month periods in the contiguous U.S. since record keeping began in 1895. Image credit: NOAA/NCDC.
Figure 2. The average temperature of 45.4°F during January - April 2012 was the warmest on record: 5.4°F above the 20th century average for the period, and was 1.6°F above the previous record set in 2006. January - April temperatures have been rising at about 1.9°F per century since 1895. Image credit: NOAA/NCDC.
April 2012: 3rd warmest on record
April 2012 was the third warmest April in the contiguous U.S. since record keeping began in 1895. Ten states had a top-ten warmest April, and no states were cooler than average. But what's really remarkable about April was that eight states--Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia--had average April temperatures cooler than their March temperatures, even though their April temperatures were still above the long-term average for the month. These statistics show just how remarkably warm March 2012 was. Most extreme was Illinois, where April 2012 temperatures ranked in the top 20% for warmest Aprils, yet were cooler than March 2012 temperatures.
Figure 3. Temperature rankings for April 2012 in the Contiguous U.S. Ten states had a top-ten warmest April, and no states were cooler than average. Image credit: NOAA/NCDC.
Figure 4. NOAA's U.S. Climate Extremes Index (CEI) for January - April shows that 2012 had the most extreme weather on record.
Most extreme January - April on record
NOAA's U.S. Climate Extremes Index (CEI), an index that tracks the highest 10 percent and lowest 10 percent of extremes in temperature, precipitation, and drought, was 42% during the January-April period, over twice the average value, and the greatest on record. Remarkably, 82% of the contiguous U.S. had maximum temperatures that were in the warmest 10% historically, and 68% had warm minimum temperatures in the top 10%, with records going back to 1910. The previous records were 56% (2000) and 57% (1992) for maximum and minimum temperatures, respectively. The percentage area of the U.S. experiencing top-10% drought conditions during January - April was 19%, which was the 17th greatest since 1910. Extremes in precipitation as computed by the CEI were near average for the January - April period.
Jeff Masters
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I've just learned to truck through them, it's not so much that it's WU's fault - the general public's attention towards hurricane prediction is very limited and narrow and generally based on misinformation such as 'El Nino = Bust hurricane, all clear'
That attitude TWC takes too isn't helpful either 'Even though the models say a major system might be around in 6 days, go ahead and take that month cruise in the Caribbean in the middle of August!'
..eggggcelent!!
It would be worth it (72 hours) if it cut down on the trolls. Looks like the same person has two accounts and is interacting with themselves today. Too
bad that spray doesn't work. But that would be too easy. That and if people would stop quoting the trolls and the banned people trying to sneak back and annoy. Watch out for the spelling and don't quote them.
StormTrackr2K = troll.
StormTracker2K (with an "E")= valuable blogger
LaNina2012 = troll avoiding a ban for the 4,368,948th time.
Yes.
That is awesome!
Wednesday, May 09, 2012
by Mike Adams,
Editor of NaturalNews.com
U.S. Senator Ron Wyden is, as far as Senators go, an honorable guy. I don't agree with all his politics, but I actually used to live in his district in Oregon when he was a congressman (1981 - 1996), and I remember him standing out as someone who genuinely seemed to care about the People.
To my knowledge, Sen. Wyden is the only U.S. Senator who has actually visited the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility and warned the U.S. public about what he saw. And what did he see? A wrecked, half-collapsed building site littered with massive collections of nuclear fuel rods that now threaten the entire Northern hemisphere with a radiation apocalypse.
When Wyden returned to the USA following the visit, he immediately issued an urgent warning, now reprinted on his website. In the watered-down language of political correctness, the warning is still quite strong. As his website says: (http://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/a fter-tour-of-fukushi...)
Wyden's principal concern is the relocation of spent fuel rods currently being stored in unsound structures immediately adjacent to the ocean. He strongly urged the Ambassador to accept international help to prevent dangerous nuclear material from being released into the environment.
He then went on to say, in his own words: (emphasis added)
"The scope of damage to the plants and to the surrounding area was far beyond what I expected and the scope of the challenges to the utility owner, the government of Japan, and to the people of the region are daunting. The precarious status of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear units and the risk presented by the enormous inventory of radioactive materials and spent fuel in the event of further earthquake threats should be of concern to all and a focus of greater international support and assistance."
His website goes on to say something that should stun anyone who understands the threat of radioactive contamination of the environment:
"Wyden found that the facilities designed to house spent nuclear fuel and the reactors themselves were still in a state of disrepair and located in areas that would make them susceptible to further damage from future seismic events. The reactor buildings still contain large amounts of spent fuel -- making them a huge safety risk and the only protection from a future tsunami, Wyden observed, is a small, makeshift sea wall erected out of bags of rock."
Did you catch that last part? The only protection from a tsunami is a "makeshift sea wall erected out of bags or rock."
And to think, the fate of the world now depends on us all just "lucking out" and crossing our fingers in the hope that no earthquake or tsunami takes place before they clean up the Fukushima facility mess.
Which brings up the question: What exactly is being done to clean up the Fukushima facility mess?
In a word, nothing.
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/035813_Ron_Wyden_Fukush ima_radiation.html#ixzz1uPLHwSxT
See now this is helpful. If you see a problem, let the others know that it is happening and identify the troll and point out who the victim is and others who aren't paying attention will see and not accidentally quote the troll.
Agreed! How are you pedley?
Out in futureland, but I've never once seen a model predict a borderline Hurricane in May.
Doing OK, going to be HOT here today (for me). I have 88.4 and I think they said 93. How is the weather down your way?
981 mbar.
I don't think I've seen it, either.
That said... this is WAY out, and the GFS has always had a habit of developing stuff in the W Caribbean waaay out. I'm not saying it can't happen, but until more models can show this, its just one model. I find it interesting that the GFS ensemble is showing a generalized pressure drop, which definitely helps the operational's hypothesis.
Basically, lets wait until we are 6-7 days out before we jump on anything.
All but the South Pacific and North Indian cyclones...I know nothing about those.
It's currently overcast...we had some rain earlier, but it was light
it is acutally 24hrs and i could barely wait that long :)
Before I started working at my local WFO wunderground 4-5 years ago was a place of intelligent/ rational conversation now Unfortunatly it's really gone the other way. I've been a fan of masters work for long time since his days when he flew into Hugo. Some of the most prolific hurricanes have hit the united states during el niño seasons.
I prefer to follow the 00z and 12z runs as the 06z and 18z ones has less data incorporated to the model.
Hurricane Alma 1966 developed the first couple days of June. Maybe we'll see something similar.
I agree the general quality of posting has greatly declined here on WU. Especially during hurricane season. During the season, the posts are basically 50% trolls, 10% actual questions, 10% actual answers, and 30% people calling the trolls out or feeding them.
The trolls names change constantly, but it is really the same dozen selfish, ignorant people (or so). The ones who post intelligently, and actually try to help have slowly dwindled over the past few years (now it is really only about 20-30 posters, you included).
I'll stay here trying to help as much as possible, but like you, I am becoming less a fan of the way the blog has changed.
I live in Bermuda (a 20 square mile island more than 500 miles away from the nearest landmass - an unlikely target right?) and I can attest that El Nino means little in terms of a bust or not. Each of the following Hurricanes brought at least tropical storm force winds to Bermuda: 2003 Hurricane Fabian, 2006 Hurricane Florence, 2009 Hurricane Bill, 2010 Hurricane Igor. Yet in 2005 we were spared tropical storm force winds from all 15 hurricanes (despite a few close calls from tropical storms Franklin, Harvey, and Hurricane Nate).
Each of these years had anomalies on either side of the El Nino spectrum and the "it only takes one" broken record continues to play.
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I didn't even notice the fake name, now that I look back, I did respond to the fake copy, lol.
I guess I didn't notice because it's hard to believe someone would be lame enough and stupid enough to pretend to be someone else to exploit someone. My gosh, its amazing how many people out there utterly waste their lives while ruining other people's lives, or attempt to.
There are a lot of leeches and bums out there...
12Z GFS @ 240 hours:
12Z ECMWF @ 240 hours:
One of my all time weather shows is the Nova show that featured Gilbert and a young Dr. Masters. I'll never forget the lone survivor of the apartment building that was wiped away by Camille.
Actually, I care because I have friends in FL who could be impacted. I also care because I have an interest in tropical weather. I also have a bit of a pet peeve when people jump on one model's very long range output, and use it as gospel... when it is still more than a week out. It is kinda like planning a vacation when you don't even know when or where you are going.
People in need of mental health treatment ...I cant believe that exploiting and mimicing another person brings joy to some demented people? I put my ex in that category!
Eastern Atlantic
Wow... looks like a C9 followed by a M3. That sunspot is definitely crackling. (its HUGE, too)
216HR:
240HR:
Yep... It blows my mind to think you can fit one or two full earths just in the dark core of the spot.
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