Yes, on a year that may end up being the warmest on record globally some regions in this country are likely to set records on the other end of the spectrum by early morning.
What a fruit grower hates most are extremes. So far, in the east, temps have not felt at all like winter, with just a few exceptional days to this. Last year we had a big downward dip in the first week of Feb. and even though it wasn’t exceptionally cold it wiped out stone fruit in much of the northeast because previous mild temps left flower buds unprepared and overfull of water causing ovaries to burst even when male flower parts often survived (how cruel is that- if you aren’t a bee). The beautiful floral display was a false promise .
Normal weather was always a myth based on crunching swinging numbers, but the myth seems to become more hallucinatory by the year. Buckle your seatbelts fruit growers!
We got nothing either last year. I am hoping my inground kumquat trees don’t loose there fruits this year. So far my first night at 10F my outdoor pepper plants are alive.
Someone posted a screenshot showing -44 F in Montana in a couple of spots near Helena. Im guessing thats pretty uncommonly cold. Not sure it constitutes a record
Hey, those were the sensational headlines! When you are talking about records on a particular day and particular place they are pretty common, but the media needs to make the common extraordinary.
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yeah, the news needs headlines. Its easy to be cynical about that, but it’s probably best not to let that cloud our understanding of whats actually taking place.
Except we can’t. Otherwise our children would be more free to roam, like baby boomers were. An exaggerated sense of danger has rendered childhood less adventurous.
Not so sure about not cold in the east thing. South of here and 25 meters lower they are running +/minus 50 chill hours{32-45} of the mean historic average of 803 annual chill hours. Versus the recent years of running either side of 600 that “AGW” has been credited for.
North by a little but same elevation? About the same but an 857 historic trend line. If the cold totally fell off the table and warming returned? We are still forecasted for 650-700 total chill hours between 32-45.
Yeah? Couldn’t help but notice MSN.com had a “record cold” story.
But, be it NY Times or USA Today, MSN or Twc…
But, it’s going to get down in single digits near zero F one to three nights this week here.
Last winter it got to -5 here. In 2020 (or 2019? I forget…) it got to -19F here.
So, how’s this a RECORD?
Might be a RECORD for the most mis-information and sky-is-falling hype.
That sunny Sunday in 1985 that the afternoon high got to -20F here and my furnace ran for all it had and couldn’t keep temps indoors above 65…that may have been our ‘record low high’ ever, but I’ve seen -29, -31, and -32 in my lifetime here in Kentucky at night.
Just who do the “forecasters” think we are? Fools?
Record cold indeed! 80 below might be a record. But this week there’ll be no legitimate records set in the USA. Even if all headlines to the contrary.
Our coldest nights predicted for Tues and Sat. We tend to run about 5 degrees below predicted at my house, so that pushes us close to zero. Not a record but certainly frigid.
Below 10 or so I close the chickens up in the coup. Right now they are standing up high on a cover I built to protect food. Their feathers look like they are going to blow off in the 25 mph gusts. They aren’t the sharpest tools in the shed.
