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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 FatPhil on Tuesday February 21 2017, @02:27AM

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Tuesday February 21 2017, @02:27AM (#469547) Homepage
    The data being used to approximate the rate of warming is not the same as the proxy being used to measure the historical rate of cooling. You simply can't meaningfully compare such data sets that have completely different resolutions. The old data is *massively* averaged, and thus movement is damped, the new data is peaky, still full of noise, and were you to average it to the same extent as the old data, would simply not contain enough data to draw any accurate conclusions.
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