New product allows you to explore record-setting extreme weather
We've launched a new extreme weather product this week: Record Extremes. Recent, globally record-setting years have demanded a product that combines U.S. and international record extremes into one, easy to use interface. The Record Extremes page will give you the option to see U.S. and international records on a map and table. You can select any combination of record types at once, which, combined with the map, provides a interesting visual way to investigate record-setting events. The product uses data from three sources: (1) NOAA's National Climate Data Center, (2) Wunderground's U.S. records, and (3) Wunderground's International records.
The NCDC records begin in 1850 and include official NOAA record extreme events for ASOS and COOP weather stations in all 50 U.S. states as well as Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Pacific Islands. In this database you can find records for maximum high temps, minimum high temps, maximum low temps, minimum high temps, snow, and precipitation on daily, monthly, and all-time scales.
The Wunderground extremes were compiled by our weather historian Christopher C. Burt. Chris monitors 300 stations across the U.S. for Record Extremes in maximum and minimum temperature, precipitation, and snow events. Most of these U.S. records go back to the end of the 19th century, though the oldest site in this database is Charleston, SC, where precipitation records started in 1737! Internationally, Chris monitors 150 countries worldwide for all-time record high temperatures and all-time record low temperatures. If you're interested in diving deeper into extreme weather in the U.S. and abroad, Chris's book Extreme Weather is an excellent resource.
Figure 1. All-time snow records broken during the Groundhog Day Blizzard of 2011. These records were found by selecting NCDC as the source, a start date of 2011-01-31, an end date of 2011-02-02, "maximum snowfall," and "all-time."
We built the Record Extremes product to make it easy to find specific records you're looking for, or just browse the records in general.
Check records that were set on a specific date
You can check on records that were set yesterday, for example, by setting the calendar to yesterday's date, and selecting all the record variables and types that you're interested in.
Explore all records set in a certain time range
2011 was a record-setting year for the U.S., and most of the records were high maximum temp and high minimum temps. To see all of these warm records that were set last year, select "NCDC" as the source, 2011-01-01 as the start date and 2011-12-31 as the end date. Select Maximum High Temp and Maximum Low Temp in weather variables, and select all-time in the record type.
View current standing international records in the Wunderground database
Select either the Wunderground International records, and instead of choosing a date range, select "Show current standing records." This will bring up all standing records in the database for whatever record variable and type you select. Whereas we've collected every record ever set or broken from NCDC, the Wunderground records are always the current, standing record, whenever it was set. As you move your map around the globe, you'll see each country's all-time maximum high temp and all-time maximum low temp.
Filter your table results
Looking for a specific location or record within your search results? Use the "Filter Results" option in the table to narrow down your search.
Let us know what you think!
Angela
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DAY 1 CONVECTIVE OUTLOOK
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
0658 PM CST THU FEB 23 2012
VALID 240100Z - 241200Z
...THERE IS A SLGT RISK OF SVR TSTMS FROM PARTS OF THE OH VALLEY SWD
TO THE CNTRL GULF COAST...
...OH/TN VALLEYS TO THE CNTRL GULF COAST...
CONSIDERABLE UNCERTAINTY REMAINS REGARDING SEVERE POTENTIAL TONIGHT.
AS ANTICIPATED MODEL GUIDANCE HAS LARGELY BEEN OVERDONE WITH RESPECT
TO GULF MOISTURE RETURN INTO THE OH/TN VALLEYS WHERE A SIGNIFICANT
WLY COMPONENT TO LOWER-LEVEL FLOW HAS HELD SURFACE DEW POINTS IN THE
40S TO MIDDLE 50S. FARTHER S...AN EML HAS PROMOTED SUBSTANTIAL CIN
WHERE THE RICHER GULF AIR MASS RESIDES /REF 00Z LIX AND LCH RAOBS/.
IT APPEARS THE GREATEST TSTM COVERAGE WILL REMAIN FOCUSED ALONG THE
OH VALLEY DOWNSTREAM OF THE MID-MO VALLEY SHORT WAVE TROUGH. BUT THE
MARGINAL THERMODYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT SUGGESTS SEVERE POTENTIAL WILL
REMAIN LIMITED DESPITE PRESENCE OF VERY STRONG DEEP-LAYER SHEAR /REF
MCD 0146 FOR NEAR-TERM DISCUSSION/.
WITH TIME...ACTIVITY MAY ATTEMPT TO FORM SWD ALONG A COLD FRONT
ADVANCING ACROSS THE MID-MS INTO THE TN VALLEY. HOWEVER...GIVING
PREFERENCE TO THE DRIER CONVECTION-ALLOWING MODELS /HRRR AND
WRF-NSSL/...IT REMAINS POSSIBLE THAT LITTLE IF ANY TSTMS ACTUALLY
FORM IN THE TN VALLEY. STILL...WILL MAINTAIN A CONDITIONAL SLIGHT
RISK GIVEN THE PREVALENCE OF SUPERCELL WIND PROFILES AND A MODEST
INCREASE IN MOISTURE RETURN.
TOWARDS THE CNTRL GULF COAST...GUIDANCE HAS NOW BECOME MORE BULLISH
WITH STORM DEVELOPMENT TOWARDS 12Z ALONG THE SEWD ADVANCING FRONT.
WITH GREATER INSTABILITY IN THIS REGION...CONVERGENCE ALONG THE
BOUNDARY MAY BE SUFFICIENT TO OVERCOME THE SUBSTANTIAL CIN AND
RESULT IN A FEW TSTMS. ALTHOUGH LOW-LEVEL FLOW SHOULD BE
WEAKENING...STRONG DEEP-LAYER W/SWLYS WOULD PROMOTE A RISK FOR
SEVERE HAIL/WIND SHOULD STORMS FORM PRIOR TO 12Z.
..GRAMS.. 02/24/2012
I sure hope storms get started. With 500+ helicities, that would be fun.
I do not support Heartland at all, nor any think-tank bent on a biased outcome of a study before it has been performed. I do come here for the facts that Dr. Masters and others put forth. I happen to read Dr. Masters blog and The Atlantic on an almost daily basis, and for once, topics collided.
.."The mountains and the canyons started to tremble and shake
as the children of the sun began to awake."
Well, click on the link cause he's on the phone with Bob just now.
Is that cold mass gonna drop very fart to south?
I guess it's gonna drop a very huge fart bomb to the south.
Unfortunately I'm at work and the website is blocked! :(
Severe Weather and Flash Flood Warnings
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Click on the station ID to bring up list of recent severe weather statements.
SVR T-STORM WARNING LOUISVILLE KY - KLMK 809 PM EST THU FEB 23 2012
Severe Warnings Issued More Than Three Hours Ago
SVR T-STORM WARNING RALEIGH NC - KRAH 142 AM EST THU FEB 23 2012
Tornado Warning? Rotation? Nah, just some gusty winds and quarter sized hail. Storm Relative Velocities don't show anything near the surface.
Pretty nasty looking storm.
me too..
But sometimes it comes out to be funny.
been tracking this storms development and the rotation has stayed extremely weak and broad.
Storms are moving into higher helicites and this is a 30,000 ft storm so well see what happens
Enjoy your evening.
Upper level rotation tracks across center of screen.
I dont have hi-res radar!
Well it's being recorded just go to livestream.com/wrbn
Dual-polarization radar info. (pdf)
How often do you have your radar set to update? The storm looks a lot worse now.
You may also want to set Storm Motion. Do you know how to do that?
NEXRAD Radar
Base Reflectivity 0.50° Elevation
Range 124 NMI
Mine goes every 20 seconds.
The version I heard is that Gleick contacted Heartland staff using the name of a board member (or someone inside the organization) and asked for documents.
If that's the case then there is no "insider", just a staffer who assumed the name on the request was real.
Cool, I have GR2Analyst, lol.
Anyway. you've nicely enumerated all the items that came out in the piece in The Atlantic. But I'd already read all them, and don't find them convincing. Here's the "evidence" in a nutshell, all of it circumstantial and conjectural, and of the sort that likely wouldn't be allowed in most courtrooms: the memo uses a different POV; it's from a different time zone; it contains a numerical typo; it mentions Gleick; it uses the term "anti-climate".
A bit flimsy, no?
Anyway, rather than re-enumerate the items outlined in the wonderful DeSmogBlog deconstruction of the Heartland strategy memo, I'd direct you to this verifiably true Heartland document. Then tell me that it's not as wacky as the memo Heartland claims is phony. And pay special attention to the passage on page 8 discussing "climategate". You'll note an obvious lack of talk about how the emails were illegally stolen. And you'll also note this passage: "Heartland once again played the lead role in informing the public about these blows to alarmist credibility."
Hypocrisy, thy name is Heartland.
KYC081-187-240200-
/O.NEW.KILN.SV.W.0001.120224T0129Z-120224T0200Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
829 PM EST THU FEB 23 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN GRANT COUNTY IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY...
SOUTHEASTERN OWEN COUNTY IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY...
* UNTIL 900 PM EST.
* AT 825 PM EST...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTH
OF MONTEREY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
SOUTHEASTERN OWEN AND SOUTHERN GRANT COUNTIES...INCLUDING
MONTEREY...BEECHWOOD...NATLEE...NEW COLUMBUS...KEEFER...
LAWRENCEVILLE AND CORINTH.
THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING INTERSTATE...
I-75 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 145 AND 151...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
STAY INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
PLEASE REPORT HAIL OR STRONG WINDS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY
CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.
&&
LAT...LON 3835 8484 3835 8487 3837 8488 3838 8490
3841 8489 3861 8460 3849 8455 3842 8463
3836 8471 3833 8478
TIME...MOT...LOC 0129Z 246DEG 37KT 3833 8488
$$
ASL
You also get cooler cars on a hot day and some cover to keep rain off your head as well.
Parking lots - great places for solar farms. Those sections of roads where people often get caught in stop and go would be another good location.
Let the price of panels come down a bit more and you'll start seeing lots of parking lot and rooftop installations. We've just seen a drop below $1/watt and it is expected prices will get to around $0.70/watt later this year.
dbz doesn't always correlate with hail size. Quarters is what was falling.
According to NWS a trained spotter has reported .7 inch diameter hail covering the ground
Could be something to watch with it.
WOO HOOO!!! YEAH BABY!!!!
repost of #189
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MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 0146
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
0628 PM CST THU FEB 23 2012
AREAS AFFECTED...NE KY...FAR SRN OH
CONCERNING...SEVERE POTENTIAL...WATCH UNLIKELY
VALID 240028Z - 240200Z
A SEVERE THREAT MAY DEVELOP THIS EVENING ACROSS NE KY AND FAR SRN
OH. A MARGINAL HAIL AND WIND DAMAGE THREAT WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE
STRONGER CELLS. THE ACTIVITY SHOULD REMAIN ISOLATED AND A WW IS NOT
ANTICIPATED EARLY THIS EVENING.
CONVECTION IS CURRENTLY DEVELOPING ALONG A WARM FRONT EXTENDING FROM
FAR SRN IND ENEWD ACROSS NRN KY INTO WV. THE ACTIVITY IS LOCATED
JUST AHEAD OF A BAND OF LARGE-SCALE ASCENT MOVING EWD ACROSS CNTRL
KY AS SHOWN BY RUC ANALYSIS. THIS COMBINED WITH 0-6 KM SHEAR VALUES
OF 75 TO 80 KT EVIDENCED ON WSR-88D VWPS...COULD BE SUFFICIENT FOR
AN ISOLATED SEVERE THREAT. IF A CLUSTER OF SFC-BASED STORMS CAN
INITIATE ACROSS NCNTRL KY AND PERSIST EARLY THIS EVENING...THEN AN
ISOLATED WIND DAMAGE THREAT ALONG WITH HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THE STRONGER CELLS. HOWEVER...THE AIRMASS ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE
BOUNDARY IS CHARACTERIZED BY WEAK INSTABILITY WITH SFC DEWPOINTS IN
THE MID 40S TO LOWER 50S F AND MLCAPE VALUES GENERALLY BELOW 500
J/KG. THIS THERMODYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT LOOKS MARGINAL FOR A SUSTAINED
SEVERE THREAT AND ANY THREAT THAT DEVELOPS SHOULD REMAIN MARGINAL.
..BROYLES.. 02/24/2012
ATTN...WFO...RLX...JKL...ILN...LMK...
LAT...LON 39018320 39188443 38938542 38348577 37948547 37688495
37698397 37828320 38348285 39018320
The best part of it is that I will be right in the thick of it.
VIL is good to see if a cell is producing hail.
but you might already know that:)
You seem like your awful excited about some severe weather tomorrow too....
CAPE and LI's will be very impressive around here tomorrow, but mid-level lapse rates are not going to be all that impressive. Also, cloud cover ahead of the front will somewhat suppress solar insolation which will limit how much the atmosphere will be able to destabilize. Main thing to remember, it's still February, not July. I'm not expecting a widespread severe outbreak across the Carolinas, but rather a broken line of convection with isolated strong to severe cells. Main threat will be hail and damaging winds. While an isolated tornado can't be ruled out, it will not be the main concern. I do expect these areas to be under a Severe Thunderstorm Watch sometime tomorrow, but not a Tornado Watch.
im not enthused about being in a 30% range.
I still got pictures from last april in my head:/
Yesterday i was in the 5% range for damaging wind, and sure enough at 12:30 a strong line of storms rolled through and produced some strong windspeeds.
I don't know..they considered issuing one this afternoon, and wind shear is more than favorable for an isolated tornado threat.
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