U.S. experiences warmest 12-month period on record
The past twelve months were the warmest twelve months in U.S. history, said NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) on Tuesday, in their monthly "State of the Climate" report. Temperatures in the contiguous U.S. during May 2011 - April 2012 broke the previous record for warmest 12-month period, set November 1999 - October 2000, by 0.1°F. The past twelve months have featured America's 2nd warmest summer, 4th warmest winter, and warmest March on record. Twenty-two states were record warm for the 12-month period, and an additional nineteen states were top ten warm. NOAA said that the January - April 2012 period was also the warmest January - April period since record keeping began in 1895. The average temperature of 45.4°F during January - April 2012 was 5.4°F above the 20th century average for the period, and smashed the previous record set in 2006 by an unusually large margin--1.6°F.
Figure 1. The ten warmest 12-month periods in the contiguous U.S. since record keeping began in 1895. Image credit: NOAA/NCDC.
Figure 2. The average temperature of 45.4°F during January - April 2012 was the warmest on record: 5.4°F above the 20th century average for the period, and was 1.6°F above the previous record set in 2006. January - April temperatures have been rising at about 1.9°F per century since 1895. Image credit: NOAA/NCDC.
April 2012: 3rd warmest on record
April 2012 was the third warmest April in the contiguous U.S. since record keeping began in 1895. Ten states had a top-ten warmest April, and no states were cooler than average. But what's really remarkable about April was that eight states--Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia--had average April temperatures cooler than their March temperatures, even though their April temperatures were still above the long-term average for the month. These statistics show just how remarkably warm March 2012 was. Most extreme was Illinois, where April 2012 temperatures ranked in the top 20% for warmest Aprils, yet were cooler than March 2012 temperatures.
Figure 3. Temperature rankings for April 2012 in the Contiguous U.S. Ten states had a top-ten warmest April, and no states were cooler than average. Image credit: NOAA/NCDC.
Figure 4. NOAA's U.S. Climate Extremes Index (CEI) for January - April shows that 2012 had the most extreme weather on record.
Most extreme January - April on record
NOAA's U.S. Climate Extremes Index (CEI), an index that tracks the highest 10 percent and lowest 10 percent of extremes in temperature, precipitation, and drought, was 42% during the January-April period, over twice the average value, and the greatest on record. Remarkably, 82% of the contiguous U.S. had maximum temperatures that were in the warmest 10% historically, and 68% had warm minimum temperatures in the top 10%, with records going back to 1910. The previous records were 56% (2000) and 57% (1992) for maximum and minimum temperatures, respectively. The percentage area of the U.S. experiencing top-10% drought conditions during January - April was 19%, which was the 17th greatest since 1910. Extremes in precipitation as computed by the CEI were near average for the January - April period.
Jeff Masters
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I think they are having server problems. No fix date stated as of yet.
haha agreed, and anyone who criticizes LOTR that way really needs to tone down the ego...
We are apparently trying to destroy the planet as efficiently as possible.
I got my information from those two the the Maia article.
Lol.
Read carefully, friend.
All three articles tell you that Balrogs are in fact Maia, just like Sauron and Gandalf, etc.
I agree. They were very helpful in supporting my argument.
hahahahaha dude I gotta hand it to you for giving me the laugh of the night :)
I picture a silhouette of a single being, surrounded by the ruin that was once it's home, a remainder of a race that squandered its gifts. But although their mistakes spawned tragedy, this living relic survives so that new hope may breed in place of demise, where empathy may replace indifference, and time may redeem the sins of the past.
come at me bro
On track with what?
Should have just rode on the gigantic eagles to mordor... solves everything.
developing some sort of tropical entity between 18th to the 24th
hahaha
Ah, ha!
Delayed effect of the Super Moon, maybe?
I think that actually went off air about time I was getting old enough to watch television and understand it.
I remember a few vague impressions of the cartoon, and of course the movie, and that's about it. I seem to remember a show called "Thundercats" with humanoid cats, which also went off air about the same time.
Now, for Voltron, I actually remember entire scenes, but not the dialogue.
When you get into late 1980's stuff,(ghost busters, ninja turtles, "Cops",etc) I seem to have entire episodes nearly memorized, i.e. able to describe the entire plot of an episode, and many scenes and dialogues accurately from memory, even though I only saw it one time, and haven't seen it for 22 or more years. The visual aspects I could reconstruct more accurately than the dialogue. Synesthesia, Eidetic Memory, Hyperfocus.
Colorful characters, abilities, animations, etc, in the right combinations are actually very hard for me to forget, which is very much a problem for me.
When I watch a new movie, it can sometimes take my brain a few days to a week to sort everything out due to what seems to be the "tetris effect" and an "audio playback" effect that my mind goes through. It is very distracting, and almost crippling at times.
At any rate, I must not have watched "He-Man" very much, or was just too young or something, because there's nothing in there except the vaguest impressions: Skeletor, and obtaining a sword that gave him power, which seems to be a rip-off of Arthurian legends, and such.
lol.
Warm in the west, cold in the east will be the general theme next week.
you guys can keep the cold i want warm and hot this time of year
STRONG SOLAR FLARE ALERT:
A strong solar flare reaching M5.7 took place at 04:18 UTC Thursday morning.
The flare was centered around Sunspot 1476.
No CME yet.
(from solarham.com)
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
415 AM EDT THU MAY 10 2012
AMZ610-630-FLZ063-066>075-168-172>174-110400-
LAKE OKEECHOBEE-BISCAYNE BAY-GLADES-HENDRY-INLAND PALM BEACH-
METRO PALM BEACH-COASTAL COLLIER-INLAND COLLIER-INLAND BROWARD-
METRO BROWARD-INLAND MIAMI DADE-METRO MIAMI DADE-MAINLAND MONROE-
COASTAL PALM BEACH-COASTAL BROWARD-COASTAL MIAMI DADE-
FAR SOUTH MIAMI DADE-
415 AM EDT THU MAY 10 2012
...FEW STRONG OR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE EAST COAST THIS AFTERNOON...
THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH FLORIDA.
.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT
THUNDERSTORMS: SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP
TODAY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME FOCUSED ACROSS THE EAST COAST
THIS AFTERNOON WHERE A FEW STRONG OR SEVERE STORMS COULD DEVELOP,
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FREQUENT LIGHTING STRIKES, GUSTY WINDS UP TO 60
MPH, HAIL AND HEAVY RAINS. THERE IS A VERY LOW PROBABILITY
OF A TORNADO DEVELOPING ALONG THE ATLANTIC COAST THIS AFTERNOON.
TORNADOES: A BRIEF TORNADO CANNOT BE RULED OUT ALONG THE ATLANTIC
COAST SHOULD THUNDERSTORMS INTERACT WITH AN EAST COAST SEA BREEZE
THIS AFTERNOON.
WATERSPOUTS: THERE IS A LOW POTENTIAL FOR WATERSPOUTS ACROSS
THE ATLANTIC WATERS AS WELL AS BISCAYNE BAY THIS AFTERNOON.
WIND: STRONG WIND GUSTS OF UP TO 60 MPH IS POSSIBLE.
HAIL: HAIL UP TO QUARTER SIZE IS POSSIBLE.
FLOODING: ISOLATED LOCALES COULD SEE A FEW INCHES OF RAIN OVER A
SHORT DURATION WHICH COULD LEAD TO ISOLATED STREET FLOODING.
RIP CURRENTS: THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF RIP CURRENTS AT THE
COLLIER COUNTY BEACHES.
.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY
A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS IS FORECAST FOR THE ATLANTIC BEACHES
THIS WEEKEND.
THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.
.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
WIDESPREAD SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED, HOWEVER INDIVIDUAL
SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER OR FLOODING TO THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIAMI.
FOR MORE INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN
MIAMI WEBSITE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/MIAMI.
$$
GREGORIA
6z GFS:
This run is still showing a TS within 10 days but not nearly as strong as yesterday's 12z run
maybe when todays 12Z run comes out is show it that strong but for now that is not what strikes me, what strikes me is the consistance of track and time frame
Good morning 13 and the rest. However,the ECMWF still doesn't show anything of significance in the SW Caribbean,but shows a weak low in the EPAC.
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Arctic Permafrost Info:
http://www.permafrost.su/en
Euro does show lots of precip from the Gulf of Hondorus up to the FL Penisula at 180hrs. The Euro precip map is on this website
About time, too !
Euro is not far behind as it is showing lots of tropical rains streaming from the Gulf of Honduras up to FL so the GFS may not be that far off base with developement off of Honduras.
Severe thunderstorm watch could be upgraded to a tornado watch later this morning
Well, it is obvious you have never seen, "The Three Stooges Go to Washington".
Nice. We've been getting strong thunderstorms every afternoon, just like the old days.
From 2:30pm till the evening hours have been stormy here all week! Looks as if though the rain won't be back until Sunday but more likely on Monday thru all of next week.
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