[7express]

So, the one for Saturday night/Sunday morning isn't going to be that big of a deal??

[Cambium]

11pm Temps with IR Satellite using Visible Color Table to show where the clearer skies are. Northern CT has some clouds, southern doesn't including NYC.

25-35 below normal temps region wide. 9 times in the single digits now.

[CT_Native]

I'm not out to scream climate change/global warming/global cooling; it's straight-up reporting -- just sharing because we had a cold January, and you can see where it was colder than "normal." Will be fun to look at this month's map too. Scroll past if you don't care.

January 2015 was the second warmest January since record keeping began in 1880, said NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) on Thursday. NASA also rated January 2015 as the 2nd warmest January on record, behind January 2007, which had the warmest departure from average of any month in recorded history. January 2015's near-record warmth continues a trend of very warm months for the planet--December 2014 was the warmest December on record, and 2014 was Earth's warmest calendar year on record. Global ocean temperatures during January 2015 were the 3rd warmest on record, and global land temperatures were the 2nd warmest on record. Global satellite-measured temperatures in January 2015 for the lowest 8 km of the atmosphere were the 7th or 5th warmest in the 37-year record, according to Remote Sensing Systems and the University of Alabama Huntsville (UAH), respectively.



Departure of temperature from average for January 2015, the 2nd warmest January for the globe since record keeping began in 1880. China had its warmest January on record, and record warmth was observed over much of the Caribbean and portions of Brazil and Mongolia. Image credit: National Climatic Data Center (NCDC).

Arctic sea ice falls to 3rd lowest January extent on record

Arctic sea ice extent during January 2015 was the 3rd lowest in the 36-year satellite record, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). During most of January, the Arctic Oscillation (AO) was in a strongly positive phase, bringing low sea level pressure to the Arctic and high pressure to the middle latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere. Typically, during the positive phase of the AO, surface winds push ice away from the shores of Siberia, leading to the formation of more young, thin ice that is prone to melting out in summer. The positive phase also tends to increase the transport of thick, multiyear ice out of the Arctic through Fram Strait. Thus, January's weather may be setting the stage for greater ice melt in the Arctic during the summer of 2015 than occurred in 2014.

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Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog : Second Warmest January on Record Globally | Weather Underground

[Poseidon3290]

car reporting -4

[7 Wishes]

Originally Posted by FREE-BUSINESSES

Global cooling is in full effect in north east region, so what happened to global warming, I could use it right about now.

Usually when one region is super cold, another is well above normal. Anchorage, AK has been so far above normal that I believe they are actually WARMER than us this month and have had bouts of RAIN, which is fairly rare for them (i.e. they usually get almost all snow for their precip all winter).

It's very complicated which makes it hard to both prove or disprove any theories about changing climate in either direction. Three years ago we had the warmest February on record in the northeast and a large part of annual snowfall was a freak snowstorm that previous October. So although what's going on now is quite historic, it's not necessarily a barometer of the future.

Here's an area also experiencing more winter than normal:

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/snow-bl...380-slideshow/

Originally Posted by mikelizard860

No look at the end time of the forecast snowfall in the graphic on their site. It's ending 7am friday

I was just speculating, I hadn't actually gone over to their site and checked; thanks for the info.

[ctwhitechin]

Man I don't pity you guys up there, I check often where I used to live in Glastonbury, wow looks evil. Happy I'm in Florida, even here this morning was 31...people are flipping out.

anyway Cam, thoughts on Wed the 25th? My mom, and aunts are flying down here for a few days to get away from the cold and visit #1 son lol, and are leaving around 11am from Westchester airport. Hope they get out ok. stay warm, that is some extended period of cold you are enduring.

[7 Wishes]

The 1 degree in Bridgeport right now goes along with Feb. 21, 1950 (also 1 degree) for the coldest ever so late in the season.

In that sense, while I was rooting for the elusive non-subzero streak to finally break, the 2 degrees right now in Central Park with their very long record is the coldest this late in the season in modern times (some other earlier feats were 1 deg on Feb 19, 1936, -1 on Feb. 24, 1873. and 1 on Feb. 25, 1914). It is the first time in decades (don't have the date) that a daily record low there was shattered by 5 degrees or more (to put that in perspective, Jan 2014 was the first time in 20 years that a daily record low was broken instead of tied and even including ties it was the first record low since Jan 2004).

[Mike 75]

I am at 0 this morning. The funny thing is these low temps don't really bother me anymore. It's crazy how fast I've adjusted to this.

[Cambium]

WOW! Feels like 22 below zero here with the winds. Lowest temp of the year -2.6°F
Feels like this...



Current temps



Current SouthEast Temps. Whats up with Kentucky. GEESUS.

[7 Wishes]

Someone posted this on Facebook last night:

"It is colder in New York City right now than Anchorage AK, Moscow, Russia, and Reykjavik, Iceland. - Matt"

Someone else found a station in Antartica that is warmer too (in the 20s).....however, it is "summer" there right now and it is on the edge of the continent, not at the South Pole where it's a lot colder.