Record cold for northern Minn.: 40 below »
Posted by: STONERS 6 months, 2 weeks agoIt lived up to its name: The temperature in International Falls fell to 40 below zero Monday, just a few days after the northern Minnesota town won a federal trademark making it officially the "Icebox of the Nation."
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STONERS6 months, 2 weeks ago
"The previous record low in International Falls was 37 below, set in 1967, said meteorologist Mike Stewart at the weather service in Duluth. The cold was expected, he said: "When the winds finally died off and the skies cleared off, it just dropped."
"The temperature also fell to 40 below in Embarrass, 80 miles southeast of International Falls. That's just one degree above the all-time record in Minneapolis, 250 miles to the south, that was set in January 1888, the weather service said."
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HMMace6 months, 2 weeks ago
I WENT TO ST PAUL ONCE---NEVER WENT BACK---TOOK A WEEK TO WARM UP..
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saintetienne6 months, 2 weeks ago
Gullible er,....Global Warming continues!!
Any minute now, Florida and Long Island should be covered with thirty feet of water, and polar bears will be suntanning on Baffin Island. Al Gore told me so.
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simonsez6 months, 2 weeks ago
There are millions of "annual average mean temperatures" around the globe. LA has one NY has one, Miami has one, Bejing has one, Zurich has one, Sydney has one, etc.
This probably won't register with you because of your high intellect, but they are caused by weather conditions in each area.
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Ratskii6 months, 2 weeks ago
I've been in Minnesota for 36 years. In the 70s and early 80s we used to get a low of -20 or colder at least once every 3 or 4 years. Since the 90s we never get them anymore. Minus teens yes, but no more minus twenties. The decrease in the average temperature over the last 30 years has been about one and a quarter to one and a half degrees Fahrenheit. That doesn't mean there aren't going to be cold spells in the far north. When the overall temperature reaches 6 degrees F above 30 years ago, most climetology experts agree. Our coastal cities will become flooded, the Gulf of California will reconnect with the Salton sea and much of the Southern U.S. will become submerged.
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capecoralM6 months, 2 weeks ago
Satellite readings of temperatures in the lower troposphere (an area scientists predict would immediately reflect any global warming) show no warming since readings began 23 years ago. These readings are accurate to within 0.01ºC, and are consistent with data from weather balloons. Only land-based temperature stations show a warming trend, and these stations do not cover the entire globe, are often contaminated by heat generated by nearby urban development, and are subject to human error.http...">http://surfacestations.org/">error.http...
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ciera-marie6 months, 2 weeks ago
Amazed it is weather you are right and for that point alone I give you a positive. However if lived here, you would know that the deep cold we are having minus the snow is a big cause of concern for us. We have experienced a drought the last few winters because of lack of snow. Normally by now we should have at least three feet of snow or more to go with the -40 plus snow. Hasn't happened. Not only that our summers every year since 1997 have been getting warmer and breaking records. Winter has been starting later, more like December, Spring maybe May and Summer stays till October.
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amazed6 months, 2 weeks ago
ciera -- it's still weather. There have always been droughts-- look at your area in the 30's (ever hear of the dustbowl days?). There have always been warm winters and cold winters and cold summers and hot summers.
It all depends on which data you look at how much the climate has changed or not. In addition, the reliable temperature that we have only goes back about 30 years. The less reliable temperature readings only go back about 150 years. In the 1100's, England was warm enough to be a major wine producer. Two hundred years later, Europe was in the midst of a "mini-ice age". During this period, there were years with no summer-- snowstorms in July.
Today it was 8 degrees when I woke up. Last year at this time, it was 70 degrees.
We just don't have enough historical data to justify all this hysteria. Even 500 years of data would be less than a blink in the timeline of the earth.
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Isoparm6 months, 2 weeks ago
It takes heat energy to move the cold air masses down from the north. That air is displaced by warm air convecting north from equatorial areas. The more energy, the more air movement. this leads to greater temp. extremes. That snow that fell had to be evaporated at some point in time. It takes almost 1000 times as much heat energy to vaporize a pound of water as it does to raise the temp. of liquid water 1 deg.F. Whether that vaporized water condenses and falls as rain or snow, it still took the same amount of energy to put it there. Think about all the pounds of snow that fell, and all the heat energy it took to put it there.
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IAmMine6 months, 2 weeks ago
Wow, forget about decades of overall high average temps. 1 cold month in 1 particular area and we proved all those loony libs, chicken littles, envirowhackos, gullibel warmers wrong! Yee Haw!!
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capecoralM6 months, 2 weeks ago
As we can see by the drive by negs there are some proponents of the flawed Man made theory who simply do not want to discuss the issue any more. As more and more data is coming in that is dispelling the "settled science" and the "consensus opinions" it is becoming clearer that there are other forces on the climate that may be causing the surface temperature data to be corrupted. http://surfacestations.org
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quackpot6 months, 2 weeks ago
cape, there are clearly MANY forces affecting the earth's weather. That is a no-brainer for something as complex as weather patterns.
What is extraordinary is that humans can, and are, affecting dramatic changes on such a massive scale
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IAmMine6 months, 2 weeks ago
cape, you keep brining up this site that is run by 1 meteorlogist who has been closely tied to and gets support from Stephen McIntyre (big oil and gas). Even if what he says is true (not), it only make up about 2% (thats the whole US) of all "land" weather stations. and everyone is corrupt? Please. What about all the other data??
Confuse, confuse, confuse... Is this Watts guy the new flavor of the month. When are you guys gonna go back to the "they were screaming about an ice age 40 years ago" bunk?
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Step...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Watts
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capecoralM6 months, 2 weeks ago
It appears the work they are doing at surfacestations is rather eye opening. Many unpaid volunteer contributors. When we consider that the US has a majority of the stations from the worldwide pool it should be important to note the location of many of these data sources. Some of which are clearly providing false data points due to there location next to exhaust fans that are corrupting the data source. Now I can clearly understand that many believe there is a giant Exxon-Mobil conspiracy to debunk the Man made crowd but the actual photos of the stations placement is related to the energy companies how? And because the left is always preaching that that guy is not a scientist type of stuff it is a fact that Watts is a Meteorologist.
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Isoparm6 months, 2 weeks ago
It sure gets frustrating after awhile doesn't it? The intransigence of some of these people is simply amazing. they will never let a little thing like lack of an understanding of basic science get in the way of imposing a political opinion on something as complex as non-linear dynamics. One thing I know is that this universe does not give a sh*t about political opinions and will continue to abide by its own rules. Sadly, in time you and others will be in a position to say "I told you so". But I doubt that you will feel like cheering.
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capecoralM6 months, 2 weeks ago
Did I say corrupt? I said it looked like many of the data collection sites used in formulating the latest IPCC report without correction factors included as you infer they do. These surface station data points are also included in averaging that Hanson used to make his public claims (again without correction) and in fact with omission of many. Then you have non-synch of model predictions with actual observation. Just a question for you. Were some screaming Ice age Ice age 40 years ago? How many of those same are screaming man made man made today? Answer many of the each statement were and are being made by the EXACT same "scientists"
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MonkeyBiz6 months, 2 weeks ago
Forty below!! I break out my junior arctic explorer kit if the temp drops to forty above. I do not leave the house if the temp drops below forty above. I see no good reason to suffer unnecessarily. It was bad enough today what with a north wind and the temp hovering around fifty five degrees.
I hope cyber sweetie Cierra Marie is OK. We probably haven't heard from her because her mouse froze to death.
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ciera-marie6 months, 2 weeks ago
MonkeyBiz aren't you sweet! ;-). Like I posted earlier, today it's (Tuesday) 7 above. That's a heat wave.
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saintetienne6 months, 2 weeks ago
I'll do one better, goppy.
Let's take the TRILLIONS of dollars that have been wasted over the years on Social Security, government programs to help the poor, government programs to assist the homeless, government programs to tax and regulate businesses, and the billions and billions of dollars that are hemorraghed each year to welfare recipients and illegal aliens, and burn it.
It would keep the entire Earth cooking for years to come. And we may as WELL burn it. After all, it's not doing anybody any good. Despite more and more taxes being STOLEN from us by the government, there are more homeless, more poor, more welfare recipients, more illegal aliens, a depleting supply of dollars for Social Security and ever-increasing hardships on businesses.
Yep, that Democrat-run government sure knows how to achieve RESULTS.
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