Weird Weather Watch 2005

Yesterday Buffalo NY set a record temp of 68 degrees, the previous record was in the late 1800's. Currently it is 25 a drop of 43 degrees in less than 24 hours.

whats abnormal about it ? warm air moved through your area after cold air. its happened before, it will happen again.


snow in the sahara, thats abnormal.

Originally posted by jeeze louise
Yesterday Buffalo NY set a record temp of 68 degrees, the previous record was in the late 1800's. Currently it is 25 a drop of 43 degrees in less than 24 hours.

you're talking about a minuscule time period. Mother earth has been around for a long time. Montana used to be a jungle, and africa used to touch south america !

Well, in Michigan all is normal. Rain, sleet, freezing rain, snow and now sun. A typical day in the Great Lakes region.......

Radagast: Ok...maybe for the entire history of Earth, this weather is not unusual. I'm sure an ice age and a magnetic pole shift certainly beat our present weather in strangeness. THAT'S NOT THE POINT. For OUR present relevant time span, which is several hundred years, let's say, these weather patterns are VERY UNUSUAL. Do you understand now? It's all relative. Global climate change is a reality...get used to it.

Last night I went to a restaurant without a coat and today it was snowing...but this has happened many times before over the several years I've lived in New York City. Nothing unusual.

Well, right now its about -6 degrees (Fahrenheit) with a windchill of -27 below. That is todays high tempature. This morning it was more like -18 below with a windchill in the high negative thirties.
This is the forecast from one of the local news stations:

Thursday Night: Cold air moving into the area as the winds increase mean extremely low wind chill values. Values could be down into the -40 to -50 range across the area Lows:-20 to -31. Winds: NW 15-25.

Friday: Bitterly Cold air continues to reinforce itself and will stick for the next few days. Highs: -10 to -5. Winds: NW 10-15.

Tempatures like this are rare, but we still havent hit any records. (the record low for here is -38 which was set in 1965)

*Edit*
I should probably also say I live in NW Wisconsin.

[edit on 1-14-2005 by Sarcasimo]

Here in OHIO

Yesterday it hit 70 and today it is 20 and the flood waters are suposed to start freezing. Whole towns turning into icey ponds.

the temp has been bouncing up and down dramaticly since our blizzard before christmas.

Just to give you guys an idea...

Today in:
2004 - -21.3°C
2005 - -9°C


[edit on 14/1/05 by MacKiller]

True oddities may have occured before, and true, it may be magnetic poles or some cycle, but I don't think that we should sit back and shrug it off. Odd weather and catastrophies can wipe a good portion of us out if we aren't prepared in some way, or we don't do something to help fix it.

Troy

I waswatching the news today and they showed Hawaii covered in snow...now thats kinda odd

Well ...where I am in Australia, in the last fortnight we have had just
about every season this summer, all in the space of 2 weeks, so yep
I think it's weird.

the mountain in hawaii is named "white mountain" because the elevations are so high it snows every year.....

to the poster that said thunderstorms in january in canada are unprecedented, can you tell me what province you live in so I can research that ?

I guess I shouldn't be surprised on a conspriacy board, a warm front followed by a cold front is considered is evil or something to worry about...

the data presented here represents 1% of what happened yesterday.

where's the other side ? objectivity anyone ? well, I don't want to spoil things, but today in connecticut its cold.
according to weather .com, for my town in january, the average high is 35 and the average low is 18.
here's the forecast for the next week high/low;

33°/23° 0%
33°/24° 10%
26°/7° 30%
20°/14° 20%
27°/18° 40%
26°/8° 40%

Originally posted by radagast
to the poster that said thunderstorms in january in canada are unprecedented, can you tell me what province you live in so I can research that ?

Read their post, go look at a map, and you will find out.

Ottawa, Ontario. Capital of Canada. Actually it'd be interesting to see if this has ever occured in Ottawa in winter, please post the results of your search here if you could.

Radagast, you're still not listening. You can't just look at the big picture of the planet, when continents were in different positions and the Giza plateau was a vibrant rainforest. YES, compared with that, an unseasonal thunderstorm is nothing. But everything is relative....if you use the past 2000 years as your framework, this is indeed very unusual. This means we are going through a major climate change - major for our frame of reference - several thousand years. For us this is major, because it's unprecedented in *recorded* history. But YES, you're right: if your framework is a billion years, it's just a normal day for the planet, because it's had many of these cycles before.

Do you understand now why your arguments are not relevant? Because we are all using a different framework here. I really hope this helps.

EDIT: internet connection screwed up, double post. Pardon.

[edit on 15-1-2005 by p a v e l]

Exactly! What is happening, right now, in this shorter time frame is what is important. Again, if we just shrug it off as normal, we could get into trouble. That doesn't mean we necessarily need to run around in an "end of the world" panic. I don't necessarily like all the media hype over every little disaster or killing, because stuff happens and people die every day, I know this. I don't need to be told every day that someone got killed in a car accident. But this thing with the weather is genuinely odd, and I think we need to keep an eye on it. I'm not saying stop living life, and obsess about it, but be aware of what is happening around us, and be prepared, like I stated before, and continue to help fix the environment.

Troy

Here's some strange or uncommom reports within the last couple of weeks

December 4th in the New England Region of the United States where it is says, “the bright flash light up the clouds, three seconds later came the boom”

December 6th over Australia where it was reported, “An eerie, constant, low rumbling sound accompanied the explosions.” From ‘fireballs’.

December 12th the reports from the Washington D.C. Region of the United States that says, “It looked like a ball of fire falling out of the sky.".

December 13th the report of the fireball that lit up the skies of China ‘turning night into day’.

December 16th from the Utah Region of the United States where it was reported, “Meteor May Have Fallen in Salt Lake”

December 19th where in Indonesia a news report was headlined, “Meteor suspected amid unexplained sightings and blast in Indonesia”

December 21st where an unknown asteroid, and since named 2004 YD5, was discovered flying past the earth and under our satellites.

January 5th where in the Wisconsin Region of the United States a news report says, “Authorities in north central Wisconsin received dozens of reports Tuesday evening of bright flashes of light in the sky, as from an explosion, and they said it likely came from meteor activity."

January 7th where in the Alaskan Region of the United States a news report says, “Juneau residents saw a fiery ball traversing the sky.”

January 12th where in India it is reported, “I saw a huge ball of fire in the air. It raced down to the earth so fast that before I could do anything."

Great Antarctica Earthquake that occurred on December 24th, was measured at a magnitude of 8.2,and which is one of only 12 of this magnitude that has occurred on earth since 1990, and one of the most powerful since 1900.

9.0 earthquake event that occurred in the Indian Ocean Dec 26

Three volcanoes in Guatemala all simultaneously active for the first time in 31 years,"

Other volcanic activity which include: Andaman Islands, Veniaminof, USA, Colima, Mexico, Karymsky, Russia, Kilauea, USA, Manam, Papua New Guinea, Shiveluch, Russia, Soufriere Hills, Montserrat, Spurr, USA, St. Helens, USA, Suwanose-jima, Japan and Tunguraha, Ecuador. Neither was it mentioned that Italy’s Mt. Etna had also erupted, though the lava flow has stopped and now only gas is escaping.

November 14th, Record Cold in Boston,
November 27th, Record snow is Israel,
November 30th, Record Cold in California,
December 1st, Record Cold in Nevada,
December 1st, Record Heat in Australia,
December 2nd, Rare Winter Typhoon Taiwan,
December 2nd, Mysterious fog covers 86,800 square miles of China,
December 3ed, Super Typhoon in Philippines,
December 3ed, Record Heat in Canada,
December 5th, Record Rain in California,
December 12th, Worst Floods in 40 years in Malaysia,
December 15th, 50 Foot Waves Hit Hawaii,
December 16th, Record Cold in Florida,
December 17th, Hurricane force winds hit California,
December 17th, Hurricane Force Winds hit France,
December 19th, Record Heat in Montana,
December 19th, Mysterious Light Brightens Arctic,
December 19th, Coldest in 50 years in Israel,
December 19th, Hurricane Force Winds in England,
December 19th, Hurricane Force Winds in Germany,
December 21st, Fog Covers Northern India,
December 21st, Hurricane Force Winds in Canada,
December 21st, Hurricane Force Winds in Montana,
December 23ed, Catastrophic Storms Hit South Africa,
December 23ed , Hurricane Force Winds in Finland,
December 23ed, Worst Strom in Ohio History,
December 23ed , Big Storms Shatter Records in Kentucky,
December 23ed , Massive Storms Hit Canada,
December 23ed , Massive Storm Spans Sea of Japan,
December 24th, Severe Storms Leave Most of Finland Without Power,
December 24th, 2km Thick Fog Layer Covers Large Areas of India,
December 24th, Massive Storms Leaves Thousands Stranded in Scotland,
December 25th, South Florida Covered in Fog,
December 25th, First White Christmas in 86 Years for Texas Town,
December 26th, Millions wake up to White Christmas in England,
December 28th, Alaska Rains 212% above Normal,
December 28th, Heavy Rains and Floods Kill 20 in Iran,
December 29th, Rare Winter Heat Wave in Midwest US Continues,
December 30th, United Arab Emirates Has First Snow in Recorded History,
January 3ed, Lighting Causes Brushfires in Australia,
January 4th, Floods, Rain Devastate South Africa,
January 4th, Storms Leave Thousands Without Power in Australia,
January 4th, Coldest December in 59 Years for New Zealand,
January 4th, Lightning Kills 8 in South Africa,
January 4th, Lightning Kills 27 in India,
January 5th, Extremely High Alaskan Temperatures,
January 6th, Freeze and Record Lows Strand Thousands in US,
January 8th, Mighty Cyclone Approaches Kamchatka,
January 8th, Storms Pound Northern Europe,
January 8th, Record High Temperatures in Russia,
January 9th, Hurricane Force Winds in Denmark and Sweden,
January 9th, Europe’s ‘Tsunami’,
January 10th, Record Rains Continue in California,
January 10th, Strongest Storm in 40 Years Hits Russia,
January 11th, Record Heat, No Snow in Many Parts of Europe
January 12th, Winter storm leaves behind damage worth EUR millions in Finland.

www.whatdoesitmean.com...

Ghoul
Great post, how comprehensive do you claim it to be? I wonder if that's all, what sources did you use, and what is your guess as to the total percentage of unusal activity accounted for? Also, a note on the explosions, meteors are really nothing new, meteor showers are nothing new, and asteroids passing by the earth are nothing new. No cause for alarm, our status as a species is unchanged, we could still all die at any moment.

I don't know about you guys but I actually enjoyed it being warm again in January here in the Southeastern US, at least for a little while that is. I don't believe any records were broken here even though it was in the 70's on several days. My heating bill looked like it would be alot higher than normal so 2 weeks of warm weather was just want I needed to reduce my bill. I don't mind the weather changing a little bit myself. Before you know it, more tornadoes and warm spring air will likely be back again here in the US but that is normal too. I guess all is quiet for the moment though.