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Restating the Obvious
POSTED:Sat, January 17, 2009 @ 2:50AM
Secret gov't doc reveals global cooling!Blog Links» Baby, it's cold outsideAnthony Watts notices that NOAA announces in a press release that: The NOAA/NCDC 2008 temperature map shows near normal USA in 2008but that the press release that comes with a map shows not annual but only December temperatures, including a warm Georgia-South Carolina. The annual map (found by Watts) shows all cold temperatures, including record cold in northeast Nebraska. There is a great deal of discussion in the comments at Watt's Up with That, but no one noticed that not only was a misleading map presented, but the headline is dishonest as well. The map -- the real one -- does not show "near normal" temperatures across the USA. It shows uniformly cold temperatures. A normal year would have some places cold (blue on the map) and others warm (red). An all-blue map is anything but normal and is Commenter David S. appends a list, a looong list, of places reporting record lows today. Some places, like Moline, Ill., have broken the Jan. 16 record set back in 1888, and not just barely but by 6 degrees. Waterloo, Iowa, recorded the coldest temperature ever, and it was 8 degrees colder than the old coldest:
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New record low temps from the weather channel 1/16/2009.
http://www.weather.com/newscenter/topstories/todayinweather.html?from=hp_news
Today in weather
Tim Ballisty, Meteorologist and Renee Willet, Content Manager, weather.com
Jan. 16, 2009 8:58 am ET
Record lows in the 20s, 30s below zero | Inauguration forecast | On this date
8:17 am ET
Several record lows pouring in: TWC meteorologist Mark Ressler has gathered up more and more record lows this morning coming in from the Midwest and Northeast. Like we said in the 7:57 am ET update, there may be even more to come in during the morning.
Maine
• Caribou: -37 [-27 in 1984]
• Houlton: -36 [-26 in 2004]
• Bangor: -25 [-20 in 1994]
New Hampshire
• Concord: -24 [-19 in 1984]
Vermont
• Burlington: -21 [-20 in 1920]
• Montpelier: -25 [-21 in 1994]
Iowa
• Waterloo: -34** [-26 in 1977]
• Ottumwa :-20 [-19 in 1977]
• Mason City: -31 [-25 in 1977]
• Dubuque: -30 [-30 in 1888]
• Cedar Rapids: -27 [-23 in 1982]
• Spencer: -28 [-26 in 1977]
Minnesota
• St. Cloud: -34 [-31 in 1977]
Illinois
• Moline: -29 [-23 in 1888]
• Rockford: -25 [-24 in 1982]
• Peoria: -21 [-20 in 1977]
Michigan
• Detroit: -15 [-14 in 1972]
**ties coldest temp on record 3/1/1962
7:57 am ET
Breaking subzero record lows: It’s becoming a broken record when talking about broken record lows. With the arctic air mass in place, cities are reaching down low for new records as temps tumble into the 20s and 30s below zero.
Here’s a list of new record lows already set this morning. There will be more to come in this morning so check back to see the updates.
City: New Record [Old Record]
• Caribou, ME: -33 [-27 in 1984]
• Houlton, ME: -33 [-26 in 2004]
• Waterloo, IA: -34** [-26 in 1977]
• St. Cloud, MN: -33 [-31 in 1977]
• Montpelier, VT: -24 [-21 in 1994]
**ties coldest temp on record 3/1/1962