New product allows you to explore record-setting extreme weather
We've launched a new extreme weather product this week: Record Extremes. Recent, globally record-setting years have demanded a product that combines U.S. and international record extremes into one, easy to use interface. The Record Extremes page will give you the option to see U.S. and international records on a map and table. You can select any combination of record types at once, which, combined with the map, provides a interesting visual way to investigate record-setting events. The product uses data from three sources: (1) NOAA's National Climate Data Center, (2) Wunderground's U.S. records, and (3) Wunderground's International records.
The NCDC records begin in 1850 and include official NOAA record extreme events for ASOS and COOP weather stations in all 50 U.S. states as well as Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Pacific Islands. In this database you can find records for maximum high temps, minimum high temps, maximum low temps, minimum high temps, snow, and precipitation on daily, monthly, and all-time scales.
The Wunderground extremes were compiled by our weather historian Christopher C. Burt. Chris monitors 300 stations across the U.S. for Record Extremes in maximum and minimum temperature, precipitation, and snow events. Most of these U.S. records go back to the end of the 19th century, though the oldest site in this database is Charleston, SC, where precipitation records started in 1737! Internationally, Chris monitors 150 countries worldwide for all-time record high temperatures and all-time record low temperatures. If you're interested in diving deeper into extreme weather in the U.S. and abroad, Chris's book Extreme Weather is an excellent resource.
Figure 1. All-time snow records broken during the Groundhog Day Blizzard of 2011. These records were found by selecting NCDC as the source, a start date of 2011-01-31, an end date of 2011-02-02, "maximum snowfall," and "all-time."
We built the Record Extremes product to make it easy to find specific records you're looking for, or just browse the records in general.
Check records that were set on a specific date
You can check on records that were set yesterday, for example, by setting the calendar to yesterday's date, and selecting all the record variables and types that you're interested in.
Explore all records set in a certain time range
2011 was a record-setting year for the U.S., and most of the records were high maximum temp and high minimum temps. To see all of these warm records that were set last year, select "NCDC" as the source, 2011-01-01 as the start date and 2011-12-31 as the end date. Select Maximum High Temp and Maximum Low Temp in weather variables, and select all-time in the record type.
View current standing international records in the Wunderground database
Select either the Wunderground International records, and instead of choosing a date range, select "Show current standing records." This will bring up all standing records in the database for whatever record variable and type you select. Whereas we've collected every record ever set or broken from NCDC, the Wunderground records are always the current, standing record, whenever it was set. As you move your map around the globe, you'll see each country's all-time maximum high temp and all-time maximum low temp.
Filter your table results
Looking for a specific location or record within your search results? Use the "Filter Results" option in the table to narrow down your search.
Let us know what you think!
Angela
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Webcam is about 100km from here, but similar conditions nonetheless.
The worst is still a few hours away!
Laugh it up Pat, you're not immune, SuperDeltaBravo1 says South LA is constant under attack as well!
Laying them down in grid patterns in Phoenix apropos symbol of rebirth, the new world will rise up and be reborn from the ashes- Ordo ab Chao
3:17 p.m. ET
Same song, different verse. It's raining at Daytona.
2:37 p.m. ET
The Daytona 500 is actually taking place at this very moment in countless places all over the world. Unfortunately, it's the video-game version. In real-time, rain is still falling at the race track.
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HAHAHAAHAH that was funny, I was watching fox and I'm like it can't be on and then you pulled the video game thing out... cracked me up!
Yep.
Looks like I'm in for some decent storms on Wednesday afternoon....
ain't it funny how the different levels of the atmosphere have differeent conditions!
I was surprised to see a lot of record minimum high temps in the southeast US on Feb. 24. The reason the minimum highs surprised me is because the page also shows a lot of records for maximum high temps for the same dayin the same general area. This is using the NCDC data. I don't have a map from Feb. 24 to check what was going on. Anyone know?
One nagging issue with the plots I see is that it seems that the records for a given category are not always posted in the same order when you check off different boxes. That can make the plot look different when (I assume) the same data is being plotted. That is annoying. Icons seem to over post each other in different orders.
For example on Feb. 24 if you only check maximum highs the plot looks one way. If you also check minimum lows (only one in the southeast US which looks bogus), the plot looks quite different. This can also happen if you change the date range to include days with no additional records for an area. Maximum highs in Arkansas for Feb. 24-25 look different from maximum highs in Arkansas for Feb. 24. The same data is posted in both cases I presume (no record highs in Arkansas for Feb. 25), but it looks different.
i dont see the Carolinas covered....:(
Go forward in the run, it will be
Thanks for the plots. Not questioning the data being plotted, but a glance at that seems to understate the ferocity of the heat in SE Texas for August--either that or God help the people north of here. There have never been so many days above 100 in a row for Houston. I think that heat is what killed so many trees here. I drove by Memorial Park in Houston recently and they have cut a lot. I was thinking the dead trees at least would be good for woodpeckers. They've suffered in the last 50 years or so from people cutting down dead trees (among other things).
They just did wakefield's 2 weeks ago, makes a hell of a difference.
I am about 25 miles south of the track and it hasn't rained here all day.
While I'm not a race fan, I know this is an important event for a lot of people and feel bad if they cannot make it happen today.
Here's an update from Nascar.com:
4:02 p.m. ET
As updates go, it's pretty much what you might have expected. Track drying is still under way, it has stopped raining and there's hope of getting the race in tonight. However, there is also another big rain cell headed in the general direction of the facility.
3:57 p.m. ET
The skies over the track are looking much more encouraging than at most any other point today!
3:45 p.m. ET
Fifteen minutes until an expected update from NASCAR.
3:33 p.m. ET
Steve O'Donnell is tweeting up a storm today. His latest tweet says that there's a window on the radar, but adds, "We'll need the green blob behind it to blow north!" Also, dryers are on the track.
3:29 p.m. ET
NASCAR official Steve O'Donnell, asked on Twitter if shortening the race is an option to get it in today, responds, "No, sir. If we start, we intend to run 500 (miles)."
I am not a geography expert, but would that not have England crowding Labrador a bit? Continental drifts are getting a bit excited these days. That is going to put Ireland in a bit of a squeeze as well. I guess that is one way to leave the EU. ;-)
What do you think?
because of all the rain comin, i beleive more success would come to the fans if they went to McDonalds then the race :D lol
Northeast :P
And the snow continues, I can barely see the cars on the street,visibility is so minimal.
The mid-atlantic ridge was busy over night Rookie!
The track has lights so time isn't a problem... The problem is that next slug of rain that's got to go through there.
What area? (Aint been here in a while)
For comparison, there were 607 this time last year.
in the vicinity of the Chagos Arch islands. central S Indian basin. takes the area west-southwestwards, and big strengthening trend. meanders off Madagascar, before heading directly south.
Mid Atlantic a thousand miles east of England. MODIS today"
We could have carried on for at least a full page with that one some days.
So Aussies got winter in summer, the South of North America have got about the same temps or higher in winter.
The UK has got a drought in February and in parts of Southern Europe it has only rained a few days in the last 10 months.
Meanwhile the West coast of Saharan Africa's got a drought as well.
El Nino springs out like a Jack in a box?
I think we could go on for many inches of blogspace with this little group of anomalies. Its going to take more than a few contrails to sort this little mess out.
Once a long time ago we thought of a 100 things to do at the seaside when it rains, maybe we could think of a 100 things that are not normal with the last 12 months.
13, I see 648 total so far in 2012 at this link.
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It's officially postponed until noon tomoroow, but you're right- that doesn't look good either
Those East to West Commercial Air Routes would not be the corridor to Mass Spray anything..
Contrails are NOT chemtrails.
But it makes for a good "read" fo some.
Laugh it up Pat, you're not immune, SuperDeltaBravo1 says South LA is constant under attack as well!
Laying them down in grid patterns in Phoenix apropos symbol of rebirth, the new world will rise up and be reborn from the ashes- Ordo ab Chao.
if we just pretend that the airplanes are lawn mowers it will all be ok.
hi pat. i bet its beautiful in new orleans right now.
..kinda overcast and drizzly today.
But we got the "Walk" in.
halfpasthuman.com
i give two months from now
and we will be thinking of it
PINHOLE EYE!!!!
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