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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As you guys know, I've touched on the prospects of Friday/Saturday's outbreak of Severe Weather over the past few days. The reason I posted this map is simple...Friday's Severe Weather setup looks almost identical to the Super Tuesday Outbreak in 2008, in which 131 tornadoes were reported. A meteorologist that I know and trust very well has already said that Friday could end like this day, and people across the Ohio Valley and South really need to start watching this.
:D good....of it wasnt i was going to resort to a much larger scale area, The SOutheast, of the Eastern Seaboard...or my favorite; CAROLINA ALLEY!!
Drop down Baby..
YOU MEAN, the hours around 144 that i have watched with an empty skull for the last 15 minutes?
*cough* tell me more about this coming outbreak...:D
It does sound like it could be a very bad outbreak, but it's still a week away, and things can certainly change in a week.
Well, for one, CAPE values extend far up into the Ohio Valley, meaning that instability wouldn't be a problem. Second, there is plenty of wind shear and forcing to support an outbreak. I'd post images, but they're from ProAccuWeather, and I'm not allowed to post those here.
0.o
are the caro-......is the Mid Atlantic involved?
How strong/moderate/weak an ElNino/LaNina/ElNinoModoki/neutral is dependent on how high above or how low below the average SeaSurfaceTemperatures are over various areas of the NorthPacific and NorthAtlantic.
Given that the NorthernHemisphere's average SSTs have been significantly increasing over the last couple of decades, how does one evaluate the significance of how high above or how low below the average SSTs are in an ever warmer ocean?
I find myself wondering if just when we've started to understand the causal relationships between the NAO & AO & ENSO & other Oscillations&MajorPlayers and the weather, GlobalWarming has kicked over the game table to set up a whole 'nother game.
Another case of you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone?
Looks like there could be a very minimal threat.
minimal....boring.
dernit...a very minimal threat....:(
i havnt the slightest hope for a bow echo in the next 7 days do i?
You have hope, on Saturday. I'm just saying it's very minimal because there is a very large amount of uncertainty for that day. :P
oh. YAY! UNCERTAINLY UNCERTAIN! uncertain we stand, certainly we fall lol.
i ddint buy it, even when you sweetened the deal to sell it. lol.
...SPL NOTICE...
270300Z
SUBJ / NOTHING / /
RMKS / /
1. THANK YOU FOR NOTICING THIS NOTICE. YOUR NOTICING HAS BEEN NOTICED.
THIS NOTICE WILL BE REISSUED BY WHENEVER SPL FEELS LIKE IT.
000
WTNT42 KNHC 312039
TCDAT2
MAJOR HURRICANE CHUCK NORRIS DISCUSSION NUMBER 100
NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL1002011
1000 PM EST SUN FEB 26 2012
…...MAJOR HURRICANE CHUCK NORRIS IS THE MOST POWERFUL HURRICANE EVER TO FORM IN ANY BASIN..... MAX SUSTAINED WINDS ARE AT 500MPH....GUSTING TO 550MPH. PRESSURE HAS DROPPED TO 652MB..... ANYONE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM PREPARE TO BE ROUNDHOUSE KICKED BY THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE THING ON THE PLANET EVER...CHUCK NORRIS...........
....DVORAK INTENSITY ESTIMATES FROM BOTH AGENCIES REMAIN AT
495 MPH..BUT AMSU INTENSITY ESTIMATES FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF
WISCONSIN CIMSS ARE A LITTLE HIGHER. THE INTENSITY IS SET AT 500 MPH
FOR THIS ADVISORY. NOTHING CAN STOP THIS INCREDIBLE STORM...SO CONTINUED INTENSIFICATION IS FORECAST.......... NOTHING ANYWHERE NEAR CHUCK NORRIS CAN CAUSE AN INCREASE IN SHEAR.......AND AGAIN, NOTHING INHIBITS
INTENSIFICATION OF THIS MOSTER STORM............NOTHING CAN STOP CHUCK NORRIS EXCEPT ANOTHER CHUCK NORRIS......... ALL OF THE
GLOBAL COMPUTER FORECASTING MODELS...SUCH AS THE GFS AND NAM...HAVE REFUSED TO WORK BECAUSE MAJOR HURRICANE CHUCK NORRIS DEFIES ALL MODEL GUIDANCE............
THE OFFICIAL INTENSITY FORECAST IS WHATEVER CHUCK NORRIS WANTS AND WE CANNOT DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT.....
THE STORM CONTINUES TO MOVE WHEREVER HE WANTS......... THE TRACK FORECAST AND REASONING ARE
ESSENTIALLY UNCHANGED. MAJOR HURRICANE CHUCK NORRIS WILL MOVE SOMEWHERE ....AND THEN HEAD TOWARDS YOU IF YOU WANT HIM TO GO OUT TO SEA AND AWAY FROM YOU.......... THIS STORM WILL MAKE LANDFALL SOMEWHERE BETWEEN ANTARCTICA AND THE NORTH POLE.......WE JUST DON'T KNOW WHERE.........
......YOU CANNOT GET OUT OF THE PATH OF THIS STORM AS THERE IS NO RUNNING FROM CHUCK NORRIS...HE WILL FIND YOU......OUR BEST ADVICE IS TO STAY INSIDE....AND DRINK MOUNTAIN DEW......
FORECAST POSITIONS AND MAX WINDS:
INIT 31/2100Z ?N ?W 500 MPH
12H 01/0600Z ?N ?W 515 MPH
24H 01/1800Z ?N ?W 525 MPH
36H 02/0600Z ?N ?W 535 MPH
48H 02/1800Z ?N ?W 540 MPH
72H 03/1800Z ?N ?W 555 MPH
96H 04/1800Z ?N ?W 575 MPH
120H 05/1800Z ?N ?W 605 MPH
$$
FORECASTER WXGEEKVA
Looky here boyz!
dudes...we can be googled! :D:D:D
This is probably hands down the best post I've ever read on this blog, big props bro lololololol
http://www.agriculturedefensecoalition.org/conten t/alaska-arctic-issues
The Arctic and Alaska have been warming over the last several years. The melting of the glaciers is taking place at an alarming rate. (It appears that this warming trend is hitting not only Alaska and the Arctic but other areas where frozen oceans and land areas have prevented the exploitation of natural gas, oil, and other natural resources by various countries and private oil corporations, like Shell Oil.)
Recent Research by the ADC has led to some interesting findings with regard to both Alaska and the Arctic areas. It appears that many government agencies and leaders in the United States have discussed how the natural resources of these areas could be exploited if these areas were artificially warmed.
Missing in all recent discussions of climate change and global warming are the impacts of aviation induced water vapor (a highly potent greenhouse gas), into the atmosphere through jet engine combustion. New NASA and university studies, some of which are presented below, show that aviation has a huge warming impact on all parts of the Earth most prominently having a negative impact in the Alaska and Arctic areas by artificially warming these areas.
This has led to many countries staking out claims to these warming areas in Alaska and the Arctic. Oil and gas companies are applying for permits to drill in these areas (the U.S. has already given Shell Oil permits to drill and in 2012, have approved questionable oil spill mitigation measures). Many countries are competing with each other for the monetary prize, military advantage, and other benefits from the warming of these areas.
The ADC has worked to document these various interests, the financial rewards of exploiting these areas, the ecological hazards, military advantages, advantages to shipping commerce, and other interests.
We hear the climate change/global warming manta all the time with crisis warnings day-in and day-out without closely examining the water vapor/aviation impact issues. These dire warnings are designed to drive the impetus for a new carbon tax and for a multitude of climate remediation or geoengineering schemes to be implemented which could make the situation much worse.
Instead of working with Boeing and other corporations, along with the military to reduce the amount of water vapor and toxic emissions produced by rockets and jet engines, a major source of warming over these cold areas, geoengineers like David Keith and Ken Caldeira, are working to add additional water vapor into the atmosphere to produce aluminum oxide or sulfur particles in the atmosphere. (This process happens when the water vapor is mixed with various gases like aluminum oxide gas.)
Some areas in the world are turning colder or freezing while those areas where there are natural resources to be tapped for $Billions in profits are warming. Jets producing excessive water vapor could be used to continually warm these area...and we may be seeing their impact on an almost daily basis as they criss-cross our skies releasing excessive water vapor and producing man-made clouds.
The information presented below and videos is for your own research into this topic. It should be noted that many studies are showing that aviation and rockets emissions are having an enormous impact on the Earth's Atmosphere along with the water vapor (a powerful greenhouse gas), that they produce.
That would be fascinating from a meteorological standpoint, and quite possibly the subject of a thesis.
The mid-Atlantic states are north of the Carolinas. Sorry.
1988 and 2000 were very active years.
I'm thinking it was God help those people up there. :)
Tropical Cyclone Advisory #5
DEPRESSION SUR TERRE, FORMER IRINA (11-20112012)
10:00 AM RET February 27 2012
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At 6:00 AM UTC, Overland Depression, Former Irina (unknown presure) located at 15.3S 46.8E has 10 minute sustained winds of 20 knots with gusts of 35 knots. The cyclone is reported as moving west southwest at 14 knots.
Dvorak Intensity: OVERLAND
Forecast and Intensity
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12 HRS: 16.1S 45.4E - 15 knots (Depression sur Terre)
24 HRS: 17.0S 43.6E - 20 knots (Perturbation Tropicale)
48 HRS: 17.3S 42.5E - 25 knots (Perturbation Tropicale)
72 HRS: 17.0S 41.7E - 35 knots (Tempête Tropicale Modérée)
Additional Information
=======================
Low level circulation center remains very difficult to localize. Current position is estimated thanks to 0300 AM UTC Malagasy observations (Nosy-be, Atsohily and Majunga). Within the next 48 hours, available numerical weather prediction models are in good agreement. System is expected to keep on tracking west southwestwards and on slowing down gradually on the northern edge of subtropical ridge existing in the south. On this forecast track, as it shifts along the northwestern Malagasy coastline, it is expected to undergo a moderate easterly wind shear. This conditions might limit system intensification. Associated heavy rainfalls might affect the northwestern areas of Madagascar an the eastern Mozambique coastline (between 14s and 18s) and should temporarily occur over Mayotte and Comoros archipelago.
Wednesday and Thursday, system is expected to undergo two opposite steering influences. The first one associated with an equatorial ridge located northward (inducing an eastward motion) and the other one associated with the subtropical ridge located southward (inducing a westward motion). System could therefore remains globally quasi-stationary and slowly intensify (weakening wind-shear, favorable sea surface temperature on the middle of Mozambique channel).
Beyond, subtropical ridge might become back the main steering flow and system should take back a west-southwestward track by continuing to intensify. Uncertainty is poor for the track at medium range. Available numerical weather prediction models forecast a more or less early landfall on Mozambique (track is more or less north). Members of the ECMWF ensemble system is also located northern than the deterministic track. RSMC official forecast track is a compromise of these options. Forecast intensity has been downgraded compare to previous forecast.
Inhabitants of the northern channel area (including Comoros archipelago, north-western coasts of Madagascar and Mozambique coasts) should closely monitor the evolution of this system.
Current intensity does not justify issuance of regular warning. It remains however closely monitored in relationship with its potential for intensification. For further information about this system when no tropical cyclone forecast advisory (WTIO30) is issued, refer to bulletin awio20 for cyclonic activity and significant tropical weather in the southwest Indian ocean issued by the RMSC daily at 1200 PM UTC.
Thank you very much for your post, It's nice to see real weather post in here, well for the exception of
chuck Norris, he, he,
Weather is an important factor for the work I do, I come in here and see what's going on.
I also depend on NWS chat, which is restricted.
Again, Thank You, Trunkmonkey!
i agree, southeast is N.C. to Florida and west to Louisiana
Wednesday, I'm under the highest chance (30%) for severe weather! Damaging winds will be the main threat, but there is a chance for some tornadoes and hail. A large area, including the Ohio Valley, the Mississippi Valley,and Alabama are under the highest chance and Georgia and the Carolinas should get some strong storms too.
Gotta run, ya'll. Have a good one.
Unless, of course, you're big time enough and have enough dirt on other corrupt people in high places, then your power can never be checked and you'll be untouchable and be able to do whatever you please with impunity.
The prison-industrial-complex slave labor is just for the little people, the majority of which are non-violent offenders to be profited off of in the private prisons. How many Americans have lost jobs to prison labor?
I remember that storm very well. ha ha, in fact we had the (green dot) hail report there in east central Illinois ...lol. We had close to 4 inches of rain in a 24 hr. period that day/night. Big powerful storm, had a tremendous amount of moisture with it.
I did not mention silver iodide. That is only one particular method. There is also dry ice, various salts, etc. depending on whether or not your aiming for precipitation or just cloud nucleation, and depending on whether your going after ice or water deposition.
No matter whether you are seeding for temperature and density or precipitation, the results are the same. It is far from a guaranteed method. Regardless of what method you are using, the atmosphere has to be able to support it. And even at the local level the results of such activities are difficult to predict, let alone altering synoptic weather patterns.
There is no total control of the weather universe, as the weather involves a lot more than just clouds. You'd need to be able to reasonably control all aspects of the atmosphere, and we are a long ways from doing anything remotely that complex.
Again, with no legitimate science backing your claims it really is silly to claim that we have the capabilities your claiming. And even if we did, we sure as hell shouldn't be conducting large scale weather experiments without a serious science discussion on the ramifications of performing such actions before carrying them out. Or shall I remind you how our latest climate/weather experiments are going?
http://www.agriculturedefensecoalition.org/?q=geo engineering
Professor Benford (U.C. Irvine, CA), wrote the following regarding the public in a Reason.com article in 1997: %u201C%u2026But perhaps the greatest unknown is social: How will the politically aware public react--those who vote, anyway? If geoengineers are painted early and often as Dr. Strangeloves of the air, they will fail. Properly portrayed as allies of science--and true environmentalism--they could become heroes%u2026 A major factor here will be whether mitigation looks like yet another top-down contrivance, another set of orders from the elite. Draconian policing of fuel burning will certainly look that way, a frowning Aunt Bessie elbowing into daily details...In contrast, mitigation does not have to push a new camel's nose into our tents... Technical solutions can play out far from people's lives, on the sea or high in the air. "Once we become caretakers, we cannot stop...(they) must be carried forward in the shadow of our stewardship""
Contrails are not being "used" for anything. They are a bi-product of air travel and any affect on weather/climate is a consequence of demand for that service. Effect of contrails on climate has substantial error bars - some papers have suggested a net warming effect, while others have suggested a cooling effect. A commonly-held understanding of high clouds is that they tend to produce a net cooling effect, while low clouds tend to produce a net warming effect. See "global dimming."
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Hazardous Weather Outlook
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
508 AM EST MON FEB 27 2012
AMZ550-552-555-570-572-575-FLZ041-044>047-053-054 -058-059-064-141-144-147-271715-COASTAL WATERS FROM FLAGLER BEACH TO VOLUSIA BREVARD COUNTY LINE
OUT 20 NM-COASTAL WATERS FROM VOLUSIA BREVARD COUNTY LINE TO SEBASTIAN INLET OUT 20 NM-COASTAL WATERS FROM SEBASTIAN INLET TO JUPITER INLET OUT 20 NM-WATERS FROM FLAGLER BEACH TO VOLUSIA BREVARD COUNTY LINE 20 TO60 NM OFFSHORE-WATERS FROM VOLUSIA BREVARD COUNTY LINE TO SEBASTIAN INLET 20 TO 60 NM OFFSHORE-WATERS FROM SEBASTIAN INLET TO JUPITER INLET 20 TO 60 NM OFFSHORE-INLAND VOLUSIA-NORTHERN LAKE-ORANGE-SEMINOLE-SOUTHERN BREVARD-OSCEOLA-INDIAN RIVER-OKEECHOBEE-ST. LUCIE-MARTIN-COASTAL VOLUSIA-SOUTHERN LAKE-NORTHERN BREVARD-
508 AM EST MON FEB 27 2012
THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA.
.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.
.THUNDERSTORM IMPACT...
AN AREA OF DISTURBED WEATHER OVER THE EAST GULF OF MEXICO WILL PUSH ACROSS CENTRAL FLORIDA TODAY...BRINGING HIGH RAIN CHANCES AND AS WELL AS A CHANCE FOR AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS. THE PRIMARY
THREAT FROM ANY STORMS THAT FORM WOULD BE CLOUD-T0-GROUND LIGHTNING. REMEMBER...IF THUNDER CAN BE HEARD THEN LIGHTNING IS WITHIN STRIKING DISTANCE. SUSPEND OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES AND SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. DO NOT RESUME OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES UNTIL THUNDER HAS BEEN SILENT FOR 30 MINUTES.
.DENSE FOG/SMOKE IMPACT...
SKIES WILL CLEAR LATE TONIGHT AND WINDS WILL DIMINISH A HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE OFF THE MID ATLANTIC COAST WEAKENS AND MOVES INTO THE ATLANTIC. AREAS OF FOG ARE EXPECTED TO FORM LATE TONIGHT AND CONTINUE THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. THE FOG MAY BECOME DENSE IN AREAS...ESPECIALLY IN AREAS THAT RECEIVE RAIN TODAY.
.MARINE THUNDERSTORM GUST IMPACT...
A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP OVER EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA THIS AFTERNOON. ANY STORMS THAT DO FORM WOULD MOVE NORTHEAST AROUND 15 KNOTS. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY INTENSIFY AS THEY APPROACH THE COAST AND MOVE OFFSHORE. THESE STORMS WOULD BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SURFACE WIND GUSTS AROUND 34 KNOTS.
.WIND AND SEA IMPACT...
A MODERATE TO FRESH SOUTHEASTERLY BREEZE WILL GENERATE CHOPPY 4 TO 6 FOOT SEAS WITH DOMINANT PERIODS 7 SECONDS OR LESS. SMALL CRAFT SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION WHEN VENTURING INTO THE OPEN ATLANTIC
TODAY DUE TO THE ROUGH CONDITIONS.
.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY.
HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.
.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO MONITOR THE WEATHER AND SELF ACTIVATE IF NEEDED.
$$
Noon start time for Daytona 500 is currently doubtful.
Probably many are hoping for a start this evening.
Link
It's pretty wet throughout the region now and still dripping. For the sake of the working people who are race fans, I hope they have an early evening start.
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