On Sept
11, 2007, it rained on the North Pole, an event never known before.
On January
11, 2008, snow fell in Baghdad, an event no living being recalled.
Individually, records being broken is not statistically
significant.
Globally, records being broken in unison is significant.
Climate Records Broken
When suddenly more baseball players are breaking records that stood for decades,
you have to wonder what has changed in the environment. Likewise, when
century-old meteorological records are being widely broken not by partial
percentages but by double digit percentages, you have to wonder. Claims that
it is better record keeping or communication is a false claim, for the records
are decade or century old records. The Farmers Almanac was a dessiminator
of distant weather oddities. (Additional reports of record climate
changes can be found in the analysis of
torrential rains.)
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010827
"Tampa's dry August may set a record"
Florida's drought, heading into its fourth year, is on course to produce
one of the driest Augusts on record in the Tampa region.
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011219
"Record rains fall on the Northwest"
In Washington, record rainfall totals for the date were reported from
Olympia to the Seattle-Tacoma airport to the north and Stampede Pass in the
Cascades to the east. The total at Olympia, 2.12 inches, easily bested the
mark of 1.38 inches set in 1966.
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011120
"Thirty-six rainless days pour on the problems"
Richmond has apparently set a record for the longest run of rainless days
in more than a century of official weather history.
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011223 "Snow,
cold are in; record is out"
Like Joe DiMaggio's record-breaking hitting streak, Minnesota's stretch
of above-average daily temperatures is expected to end at 56.[previous
record was 42.]
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020108 "Heavy
snowstorms hit Russia's far east"
Some two months' worth of snow showered down upon the far eastern region,
piling half a metre of snow upon numerous villages and bringing down electrical
lines. Vladivostok dwellers also witnessed a rare snow thunderstorm,
which had been seen only twice in the 20th century.
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020219 "February
is fooling the flowers"
"It's not just early. It's outrageously early," said horticulturalist
Deb Brown at the University of Minnesota
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020221 "USA's
winter weather defined by record warmth"
The nationally averaged temperature was 39.94 degrees Fahrenheit for November
through January, 4.3 degrees above the 1895-2001 long-term average.
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020327 "Rivers
down to barest of levels"
scores of the nation's rivers fell to historic low levels during the past
four months
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020401 "March wasn't
quite lion enough to add to weather records"
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020619 "wildfires
have scorched 1.75 million acres so far this year, more than double the 10-year
average on this date"
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020619
'Extreme behavior' pushes Colorado blazes
"We're less than a week into the fire season and we're almost at the total
for the entire 2001 fire season in Colorado of 280,000 acres"
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020729 [Graph
of historical wildfires. Note: While the recent fires have been about 10%
of the size of historical, 300,000 versus 3,000,000 acres, the recent
fires would have been larger if the number of firefighters today were
as non-existent at the time of these historical fires.]
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020809 "Floods Sweep
Through Europe, More Than 20 Dead"
"One weather station on the river recorded the highest rainfall in 48
hours since records began over 100 years ago."
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