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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PINHOLE EYE!!!!
we be 90 days away
lol
FWIW, this year's tornado season could be way worse than last years. All of this is due to the unseasonably warm winter we've been seeing and thanks to the equally unseasonably warm SST's in the GOMEX.
Well, this is rather odd...
My houseplants always fall over before they grow that tall.
I pretty much agree with that. Maybe a little more active. My VERY early thinking is 10-12 named storms, 4-5 hurricanes, 2-3 major hurricanes.
i give 11-14 TS, 6-9 H, 2-4 MH. :D
reasonable?
That's through Feb 3. Add about 259 "filtered" storm reports to 648 for current YTD (all subject to revision, of course).
that area is always dry this time of year until mid july isnt it? as was the case the past 2 years and they were still active years...i dont know
Looks like this would be the Hurricane Chaser's dream location, at least in terms of frequency.
I think so.
I'm writing a blog right now on my early thoughts for the year. It should be ready later this evening.
The Daytona 500 has been postponed until noon tomorrow. It will be shown live on Fox. This is the first time the race has ever been bumped a day
i will be anticipating your post :D
Yes, unforunately! My blog is finished for those who wish to check it out.
unfortunately?! i have to diagree wit u there...its fortunate! more chance for thunderstorm, more chance for severity in the thunderstorms with more heat:D
I give up on snow i want a big bad thunderstorm now!
He says that it's the largest snowstorm in 10 years and they haven't updated our warning since 5:20am. We have 10-15 inches of snow on the ground from this storm and it's not going to be over for hours. It's been snowing since 11am, 8 hours ago.
Environment Canada said that we would get at most 10 inches.
Radar shows it having no sign of stopping any time soon.
I know I'll be outraged if I have to go to school tomorrow!
Hopefully tomorrow...I am liking the looks of the surface low in the South Central Gulf...ship and buoy obs showing a twist in the prevailing easterly surface winds from the south and some slightly lower pressures in a high pressure environment.
Yeah, just like Adrea Rossi has a genuine low temperature fusion device that he isn't sharing any info on due to concerns of being "ripped off".
There are a lot of "private companies" out there claiming to have done amazing things, all of them with the same line about not showing research for a host of reasons or other such nonsense. And ultimately, every one of them has been shown to be hoax that was really only effective in separating fools and their money.
Cloud whitening over an area the size of France? Please. Cloud seeding for local precipitation has an effectiveness of anywhere from 5-30% for a particular area, depending on the atmospheric conditions. Weather modification in general has a long history of big promises and equally big failures.
Now you're talking about some private company performing a synoptic scale weather altering experiment? Has it occurred to you that even if it were possible what the consequences of such an action would be?
Large scale weather modification experiments, at best, are dangerous without a thorough review of science behind it. That company better have some serious liability insurance.
You need to loosen the strap on your tin-foil hat. I think it may be cutting off circulation.
*SMACK*
Not till AFTER June first! If you pre-troll it now you take all the fun out of it later. ;)
and what 'product' would that be?
Fresca
Slavery
mm, i prefer SUNKIST
i dont think he actually asked a question, just testing out a new dictionary with all those larger words. =p
lol
And I was implying that the middle and lower class are just slaves of the upper class. :P
Im sure that Neapolitan left an answer lol...
Not my fault. Never did get how them thar fancy newfangled loinclothes are s'poseta work.
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