Quote:Those debating on the side of global warming gained a little more evidence Monday when North Texas recorded its hottest temperature ever for Dec. 4.
Temperatures reached 84 degrees at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, breaking the record of 83 set on Dec. 4, 1977.

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Quote:If the calendar didn't read December, we might think it's summer in Madison, with thunderstorms, strong winds and record high temperatures in the forecast.

A powerful storm system expected to make blizzard-like conditions in the upper Plains will be coming to the Madison area Monday, but with summer storm conditions here instead of snow.

Quote:Despite sprinkling rain in the morning throughout the Valley, Phoenix set a new temperature record Saturday, breaking a 77-year streak. 
The high temperature for the day broke 84 degrees, beating a high of 81 degrees in 1940. 
"Today we broke the daily record in Phoenix," said meteorologist Matthew Hirsch with the National Weather Service in Phoenix.

Quote:Leh, Bannihal and Kupwara recorded the lowest night temperatures in Jammu and Kashmir, the weather office said on Sunday.

The present cold wave conditions are likely to persist during the next 24 hours although light snowfall has been forecast at isolated places in the higher reaches of the state during the next 48 hours.

"The lowest minimum temperature recorded on Sunday was at Leh where the night's temperature dropped to minus 8.6 degrees Celsius.

Quote:Hong Kong is on track to break several new warm weather records this year, including that of the hottest temperature ever recorded and highest number of warm nights.

Quote:Permafrost in the Arctic is thawing faster than ever, according to a new US government report that also found Arctic seawater is warming and sea ice is melting at the fastest pace in 1,500 years.

Quote:Erie, Pennsylvania, experienced the latter on Monday, when a total of 34 inches of snow fell on Christmas Day, blanketing the city and shattering the city's previous records for snowfall in a single day.

The snowfall total was more than four times the city's previous all-time Christmas record of 8.1 inches, and it also broke the record for most snowfall in one day in the city's history, which was 20 inches on November 22, 1956.

Quote:Arctic air will keep the Midwest, East and South shivering into the start of 2018, with temperatures approaching record-cold levels at times.
Flint, Michigan, set an all-time December record-low temperature of 17 degrees below zero Thursday morning. Records in that location date back to 1921.
Watertown, New York, fell to minus 32 Thursday morning, which shattered its daily record for Dec. 28 of minus 23. Daily record lows for Dec. 28 were also tied Thursday morning in Toledo, Ohio (minus 8), and Paducah, Kentucky (10 degrees).

Quote:A dog has been found frozen solid on an Ohio home’s porch as a bitter cold snap grips much of the United States.

Toledo humane society cruelty investigator Megan Brown tells The Blade newspaper she doesn’t know how long the dog was outside Thursday, when Toledo’s high temperature was expected to be in the teens (minus 11 to minus 7 degrees Celsius). A second dog was recovered shivering inside the home.

Quote:The city along Lake Michigan broke a 56-year-old record for daily snowfall today - and more is on the way, the National Weather Service says.
Between midnight and 7 a.m. Friday, 9.3 inches of snow was measured in Muskegon.
This breaks the previous Dec. 29 record of 7.6 inches, set in 1961.

(01-04-2018, 07:45 PM)Cuzz Wrote: Bomb Cyclone?? Arctic Vortex wasn't good enough? Snowpocalypse, snowmagedon, what?? I think the weather faces should keep trying. Eventually they'll come up with a catchy term that will catch on.  

(01-05-2018, 07:57 PM)Juniper Wrote:

(01-04-2018, 07:45 PM)Cuzz Wrote: Bomb Cyclone?? Arctic Vortex wasn't good enough? Snowpocalypse, snowmagedon, what?? I think the weather faces should keep trying. Eventually they'll come up with a catchy term that will catch on.  

Right?  Where is this shit coming from.  They're called blizzards.

(01-05-2018, 07:57 PM)Juniper Wrote:

(01-04-2018, 07:45 PM)Cuzz Wrote: Bomb Cyclone?? Arctic Vortex wasn't good enough? Snowpocalypse, snowmagedon, what?? I think the weather faces should keep trying. Eventually they'll come up with a catchy term that will catch on.  

Right?  Where is this shit coming from.  They're called blizzards.

(01-05-2018, 08:14 PM)tvguy Wrote:

(01-05-2018, 07:57 PM)Juniper Wrote:

(01-04-2018, 07:45 PM)Cuzz Wrote: Bomb Cyclone?? Arctic Vortex wasn't good enough? Snowpocalypse, snowmagedon, what?? I think the weather faces should keep trying. Eventually they'll come up with a catchy term that will catch on.  

Right?  Where is this shit coming from.  They're called blizzards.

Look at the storm  from the satellite  and you can  see where  they get the cyclone  part

Quote:Halifax Breaks Record for Lack of Snow

Quote:"There's never been a year in Halifax, going back 65 years, where we've started off the winter with such a low snowfall amount," said David Phillips.

We've only had 18 centimetres so far this winter, which is about a fifth of what is considered normal. It's not for lack of precipitation, because we've had an above average amount, it's just mostly been in the form of rain.

Quote:The weather has been fickle in Lebanon County so far this winter, and that is no more apparent than this weekend, when the region could experience both record-high and record-low temperatures.

Quote:Invercargill - the country's southernmost city - beat a 100-year old record for its hottest day on Sunday, with the temperature reaching 32.3°C.
Dunedin Airport also set new a record for its highest recorded temperature yesterday, when the mercury hit 35°.
That intense hot spell is set to end today, with scattered rain and temperatures in the low 20s forecast for Otago and Southland.
There is also the possibility of thunderstorms in Southland.

Quote:A wintertime mass of warm, dry air baking California shattered daytime temperature records around the Bay Area Saturday, including a record in Sonoma County that has stood for 112 years.