Are you glad to finally be emerging from the coldest winter in 100 years?

Question

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSPEK16157020080204?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

Answer 1

located where? well in canada its been pretty nippy

cooold.... cant wait till summer and beach visits

Answer 2

I'm glad to be emerging from any winter. I despise winter and I feel like c**p the whole way through which makes me even more miserable knowing that winter can effect me that easily. I HATE the winter.

Answer 3

YES,

Answer 4

Using Bob's logic, if the Pats lose their first 5 games in 2008, each by a margin over 10 points or more, Pats fans shouldn't worry since "they've lost games before and always came back."

This isn't 1-2 years of stall and its not just one year of cooling - this is 8 years of stall followed by 1 year of cooling.

Now, the reality is that yes, it is driven by a La Nina which actually could have resulted from the previous warming.    But that would simply put the present warming on an almost identical course with the MWP.

When we stop tracking the MWP, call me.

Answer 5

Yesterday the temps outside were around 85-90 degrees Fahrenheit. They've been like that all through December, January, and February.

If that was the coldest winter in a century, I'm not looking forward to summer.

Answer 6

I live in Northern Canada and we did not have the coldest winter on record for my area but we did break a record for the longest cold snap. In late January the temperatures plummeted to -40 during the day and -50 at night before wind chill. This is common for our area at that time of the year however the cold lasted for nearly two weeks before finally warming up.  That is unusual, it usually last 2 or 4 days and then warms up again.  We have also had an unusually high amount of snow.  I do not know whether we are the cause of global warming or not but I do know that our weather patterns are changing.  If we had accurate weather data for more than a hundred years we might have a better understanding of climate change.

Answer 7

You do have an active imagination don't you?

The global average temperature for December 2007, was the 10th hottest on record.

The global average temperature for  January 2008, was the 40th hottest on record.

The February data isn't out yet, but I can assure you that this winter's average temperature won't even be close to the "coldest winter in 100 years".

And before you object to my inclusion of the southern hemisphere data, here's the same information using only northern hemisphere data (i.e. winter):

December 2007 (NH) is the 3rd warmest on record.

January 2008 (NH) is the 37th warmest on record.

Perhaps you should consider a career in fiction writing vs. science.

Answer 8

I don't know where you live but for about the last 15-20 years Ohio weathers been warmer.

Answer 9

you think this winter was bad, wait till next winter

Answer 10

Emerging?  Not quite yet!  Another major ice storm and 6 inches of snow last night.

Answer 11

emerging?

Answer 12

Coldest? I've recently found out that the statistics for this past winter shows it was the warmest ever measured here in Sweden! (Not that it counts as "proof" for global warming any more than your "coldest winter" proves the opposite though!)

Answer 13

It was hardly that.  We've had much colder ones.  And it proves nothing about global warming.

Weather factors can overcome global warming for a short time.  It happened in 1982, 1991-1992, 1999-2000.  EVERY TIME global warming came back stronger than ever.  Proof (but you have to actually look at it).

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/2007/

discussed in detail, with confirmation, at:

http://tamino.wordpress.com/2008/01/24/g...

As long as we keep making greenhouse gases in enormous amounts, global warming will dominate in the long run.  It's simple physics.

http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/earthguide/di...

Answer 14

where do you live , where I live all they talk about is global warming .....

Answer 15

To answer your question;

Emerging?, No where I am (Northern MN) we woke up to the coldest temperature "EVER" for the month of March. It was 20 degrees below zero last night.  Breaking all time records, for the city and region where I live.  Global Warming my &#$.

Answer 16

it snowed a lot last night.  Looks like we arent quite emerging out of it yesterday.  I hear there is more snow coming on friday for me, fantastic.  This was the longest winter I can remember ( Not that individual accounts of observing weather for 25 years means anything, cough cough).