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posted by cmn32480 on Monday February 20 2017, @03:21PM   Printer-friendly
from the spring-has-sprung dept.

The Washington Post reports that the "lower 48" states of the USA are enjoying spring-like weather. It quotes a meteorologist as saying 1495 record high temperatures have been reached during the month of February (as against 10 record lows); among them:

  • Magnum, Okla., hit 99 degrees [Fahrenheit, 37.2° Celsius] on Feb. 11 — tying the state record for hottest winter temperature ever recorded. Yet it occurred two weeks earlier than the record it matched from Feb. 24, 1918, set in the town of Arapaho.
  • Denver hit 80 degrees [Fahrenheit, 26.7° Celsius] Feb. 10 — its warmest February temperature on record dating back to 1872.
  • Norfolk hit 82 degrees [Fahrenheit, 27.8° Celsius] Feb. 12, tying its warmest February temperature on record dating back to 1874.

[Ed Note: it is actually Mangum, OK, not Magnum. The original WaPo article is incorrect.]

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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday February 20 2017, @10:16PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Monday February 20 2017, @10:16PM (#469462)

    Well, the Chinese, Japanese and Indians have been keeping track of the weather for millenia. For other regions of the world, there are tree rings and ice cores giving us trends.
    In the western world, people do need to check how precise the chemists did get with temperature measurements in the middle of the 19th century... This is not "20-30 years ago" stuff.

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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Monday February 20 2017, @10:32PM

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Monday February 20 2017, @10:32PM (#469472)

    people do need to check how precise the chemists did get with temperature measurements in the middle of the 19th century

    I agree with the rest of your post at least more or less, but the chemists you list were not operating on an hourly basis in the middle of the Atlantic.

    The HMS Challenger Expedition was kind of an anomaly.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Challenger_(1858) [wikipedia.org]

    It made the news recently, well, a decade ago, when the 50 volume book series of the expedition was available on line

    http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-INDEX/index-linked.htm [19thcenturyscience.org]