SEARCH BLOG: WEATHER
Yesterday I reported that NOAA calculated that January was slightly warmer than normal for the U.S. As a Michigan resident, that's like saying only your head was shot, but the rest of your body is better than average.
In January, ICECAP reported a couple of all-time statewide cold temperature records... for Illinois [-38°F] and Maine [-50°F]. So, out of curiosity, I checked January's all-time minimum low records at NOAA and guess what?... neither of those records appeared. Let's give NOAA the benefit of the doubt here. These may be preliminary reports. If so, we'd expect the records to appear once they have been verified.
I'm just wondering about the massive storms that hit most of the mid-latitudes of the U.S. and the record snowfalls in the north. How did all of that happen... plus the record cold temperatures in the Northeast... when things were just slightly warmer than normal? Has someone been lowering those historical temperatures again? The 19th century just seems to be getting colder and colder.
Perhaps memories just play tricks on one's mind... or maybe some records got left out in the cold.
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