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Published on Monday, April 9, 2012 by Common Dreams
Record Warm March Temperatures Continue Record-Breaking Periods
More than 15,000 warm temperature records broken during March
- Common Dreams staff
The contiguous United States experienced the warmest March ever in the warmest start of the year ever in the warmest 12-month period ever, according to new data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
The record warm March temperatures hit the entire nation with each state having experienced at least one record warm daily temperature. The NOAA reports that there were over 15,000 warm temperature records broken during the month.
The NOAA also connected the record breaking March temperatures to the slew of tornadoes saying that "warmer-than-average conditions across the eastern U.S. also created an environment favorable for severe thunderstorms and tornadoes."
The first three months of the year were record warm for the contiguous United States with an average temperature of 42.0°F, 6.0°F above the long-term average. .....................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/04/09-5
xchrom
(108,903 posts)hlthe2b
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grantcart
(53,061 posts)Viva_La_Revolution
(28,791 posts)we were consistently 5 degrees under (at least) and we broke the all time record for rain in March.
Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)...of every idiot Conservative in Arizona and all they'll tell you is, "We got 18" of snow in March!!!"...because, that's 'normal', right?
Morons. My sister is still in Chicago and was freaked out about how warm it was, while I'm sitting in central AZ snowed in for 2 days. Bizarre.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)Because we are SHIVERING!!!!! Come get your cold temps and take them back where they belong!
saras
(6,670 posts)Zax2me
(2,515 posts)BANK on it.
We had an early spring.
You know the old saying - "if you don't like the weather around here wait five minutes - it will change".
It's an OLD saying.
marmar
(77,047 posts)nt
MissMarple
(9,656 posts)You got me. Totally jaw dropping before common sense kicked in.
And seriousness aside, it puts me in mind of a handkerchief, a mint julip, and a rocking chair on the veranda.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)And this should make some places in Canada and Russia much nicer.
Not minimizing it, I just don't think enough will be done to really understand and perhaps change this until we see much worse, something that costs people money. Even then...
TheMadMonk
(6,187 posts)jtuck004
(15,882 posts)a geographic area. But the answer may not be to get rid of them. Rather, maybe it is to study and clarify what their real effect is going to be, substantiated with good science\data, and find an answer. And make 'em stay in a motel.
Climate change may, or may not, make most of those places intolerable where they actually live TODAY, but that doesn't say other places won't become more hospitable 50 or 100 years down the road. There are a lot of unfounded assumptions in this arena, and what is REALLY going to change, and HOW LONG it will take seems to be rather variable.
Again, I don't necessarily disagree, but how we deal with the problems we may already be facing may be more important than holding our breath till a whole segment of the country comes around to this way of thinking.
bvar22
(39,909 posts)...if the daytime temp exceeds 95F.
That happened here in Central Arkansas last May,
BEFORE the plants were old enough to bear fruit.
Terrible year for tomatoes, disaster really.
There is not enough time between Last Frost and daytime temps exceeding 95F to produce tomatoes.
This year looks to be worse.
If THIS is the New Normal,
we are ALL in trouble.
We depend on growing food for our consumption.
We are already revising our planting to cope with the expected heat/Drought.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)And they taste better.
Eastern Wa - you plant a tomato after the last frost (or when the snow is gone from Mica Peak) and harvest many green ones after the first frost of the winter.
to get Okra you have to transplant, and even then...
and the watermelons from anywhere up here taste like shit.
Perhaps we will be able to grow crappy beefsteak one year , but if we get decent Okra grandma will be (temporarily) happy..
What I don't think people realize is what this is going to do to food, and the changes to what is left of arable land. We are so dependant on mass produced food, and we are screwing with that, above all.
Dumb. But I think people should keep it in mind with their future plans, given that it has become so politicized.
qb
(5,924 posts)sez the frothy man.
Proles
(466 posts)Kablooie
(18,605 posts)It makes the whole country look red as if it's Republican.
dread
(51 posts)When they have to think if they can afford real maple syrup... The shoobs in vermont are gonna be loaded!
RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)Out over the Atlantic sat a high pressure system.
A high turns clockwise, to the right. As the high pushed winds from over the Atlantic toward Florida and up into the eastern US it picked up warmer air. It also blocked cold air from moving toward Florida thereby keeping the western US cooler.
It was a weather system that for some reason was stronger than ever.
Why it was stronger than ever through most of the winter is the question which is damn hard to answer.
But the decade old description of the coming global warming/ climate change did prophesy that records would be broken in the coming climate alterations forced by CO2. And here we are.