tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4383109810185861842.post7614615959745115406..comments2023-06-19T08:58:01.084-04:00Comments on CapitalClimate: Century-Plus March Monthly Average Temperature Records Smashed From New England to Montana, Minnesota to MississippiSteve Scolnikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11887989345192863494noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4383109810185861842.post-87160695798448325672012-04-02T00:19:43.450-04:002012-04-02T00:19:43.450-04:00It was also the warmest on record at Youngstown, M...It was also the warmest on record at Youngstown, Mansfield, Columbus, Dayton, and Cincinnati in Ohio. And I saw on the NWS Colorado Springs website, it was the warmest there. Really incredible how widespread the record-breaking warmth was this month. I suspect there's a good chance this will be the warmest March on record nationally. We'll just have to wait and see. 1910, which is the current recordholder I believe, was a little warmer out west. But given that many places in the midwest and eastern US are 2-5+ degrees warmer this month that that month, I suspect 2012 will come out on top.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4383109810185861842.post-13772240782529431842012-04-01T14:48:39.988-04:002012-04-01T14:48:39.988-04:00Just wanted to point out that the reason it's ...Just wanted to point out that the reason it's been so long for a monthly record in Indy is because the downtown site was much warmer than the airport site. Same story at Pittsburgh. March 2012 was the first month ever to rank as the warmest on record since records began being taken at the Pittsburgh International Airport in the early 1950s. Every other monthly record was from the downtown site, although the previous March record was from Allegheny County Airport. There was a period of overlap between the downtown site and the airport site, and downtown tended to be about 3 degrees warmer because it is quite a bit lower in elevation (the airport is on a 1200' ridge) and subject to much greater UHI. Allegheny County Airport is about a degree warmer, mostly from overnight minima (as it is at roughly the same elevation as KPIT).<br /><br />In addition to being the first month at the airport to set a record, this is only the third month even to crack the top five all-time at Pittsburgh. The other months are August 1995, which is second all-time, and November 2001, which is fifth all-time.<br /><br />The thread-ex program is one of the reason I think a lot of people don't believe in global warming because they see these numbers trotted off as "official" and it looks so much warmer in the past. Plus, they hear the denier mantra about increasing UHI contamination in the records, when in actuality the reverse is usually true. I've been kind of on a crusade to get the NWS to quit splicing together records from disparate sites, but it hasn't really been successful. This is also why the co-op sites used by GHCN show considerably more warming than these "official" city numbers, which aren't used by GHCN -- at least not as a spliced together record.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4383109810185861842.post-66374106362372316012012-04-01T14:34:13.396-04:002012-04-01T14:34:13.396-04:00Here's another impressive set of records from ...Here's another impressive set of records from Des Moines, Iowa:<br /><br />http://www.crh.noaa.gov/images/dmx/March_Story_DSM.pdf<br /><br />55.7 degrees last month, previous record 51.5 degrees from March 1910.<br /><br />39.7 degrees from January 1 through March 31, previous record 36.1 degrees from 1921.<br /><br />55.1 degrees from April 1, 2011 through March 31, 2012, previous record 53.6 from 1934-35.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com