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I'd love to see a little snow and cold (<20F) temperatures for the Super Bowl. Cold weather plus light accumulation on the field would be my ideal scenario. While a repeat of the conditions at last month's Eagles-Lions game in Philadelphia would be interesting as well, my preference is that this game remain perhaps the snowiest NFL game in recent memory for a long time.
I bet some folks miss posts like this from me. Lol. Soon enough. Lets enjoy how winter should be for now.
mmm. that looks so good right now. I'm dreaming of seeing greenery outside, I dread going outside. My nose feels numb. I've been a bit sick, so that's been making it worse.
I prefer the lower tropospheric measurements than NOAA's thermometer readings. I think there is less room for error with satellite measurements.
Either way, the anomaly is only about 1F above the 1950-1980 normal as your graphic shows, HOWEVER, 1950-1980, was a period when global temps were slightly cooling.
The warmest decade on record (2000-2010) is less than 0.9C warmer than the coolest decade on record (1911-1920). How catastrophic is this? Not at all (so far at least).
And you will notice that decadal temps were pretty stable (and by that I mean less than a tenth of a degree difference) from the 1930's to about 1980.
But what happened at the end of the 70's that may have played a major role in the "spike" in global temps?
PDO shifted to it's warm phase
So if scientists now blame the PDO shift back to it's cool phase for the recent "pause" in global temperatures:
Then why not blame at least part of the acceleration in global temperatures over the last 30 years to the PDO's warm phase?
Btw,
I'm curious as to how NOAA can accurately compare global temperatures from the late 19th and early 20th century with today, when there are now thousands more temperature stations than there were back then?
Not saying the difference would be that great but look at the stations in 1900
and look today
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