The surge of early spring heat records reached over 400 yesterday alone in preliminary reports from the National Climatic Data Center. This includes 68 official National Weather Service locations out of 290 possible records. In other words, over 23% of all official reporting locations in the entire U.S. set new daily records for March 15. [...]
Signal: New record highs outpacing new record lows
Record high temps for the U.S. outnumbered record lows 5:1 in March
Last month, temperatures and precipitation in the contiguous United States averaged above normal, according to scientists at NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. The average temperature in March was 44.0 degrees F, which is 1.4 degrees F above the long-term (1901-2000) average. March precipitation, while record dry in areas like Texas, was overall [...]
2010 records most national extreme heat records ever
The year 2010 now has the most national extreme heat records for a single year–nineteen. These nations comprise 20% of the total land area of Earth. This is the largest area of Earth’s surface to experience all-time record high temperatures in any single year in the historical record. No nations set record for their coldest [...]
2010 record highs outnumber record lows more than 2 to 1
Since January 1, 2000, there have been 311,734 record daily high maximum temperatures set, and only 152,329 daily record low minimum temperatures, a ratio of about two to one. Since January 1, 2010, this year, there have been 17,148 daily record highs, and 6,315 daily record lows, more than a ratio of two to one. [...]
Record temperature highs outpaced new lows 5:1 in October
The incredible warmth globally this year has continued into October across America. Almost the entire 48 states were above normal in October. The Mountain West and the North were the warmest. This warmth also shows up in the temperature extremes. Nationwide, there were 1544 new record highs in October. Only 321 record lows were set. [...]
