Remember those Ford television commercials using International Falls to tell American that it was cold in Minnesota but that a Ford could start even if the temperatures were below zero ?
That's the Minnesota that I remember ... it should be cold ... it should be below zero for a few days each year. Remember those days, when you would go out at 3 AM and start the car just so it would be able to start when you needed it hours later ?
Well, we know that last year was a "warm winter" but how long has it been warm ? As of today, we are only 16 days from the all-time record for consecutive days with a high temperature above zero in Rochester, MN.
Here are the top 5 streaks for most consecutive days in which the high temperature was 0 degrees or warmer. The last day in Rochester in which the temperature stayed below zero for the entire day was January 4th of 2010 when the high was -1°. Just two days prior to that, the high was -6° and low was -19° on January 2nd, 2010.
1) 1130 days – 2000-12-25 through 2004-01-28 2) 1114 days – 2010-01-05 through 2013-01-22 3) 1110 days – 1955-12-20 through 1959-01-02 4) 779 days – 1990-12-31 through 1993-02-16 5) 749 days – 2005-01-16 through 2007-02-03
That's going back over 100 years and since 2000, there have been three of the longest stretches.
Yeah, I may not mind that it is not "shivering cold" but we have to acknowledge that climate change is real.
Remember those Ford television commercials using International Falls to tell American that it was cold in Minnesota but that a Ford could start even if the temperatures were below zero ?
ReplyDeleteThat's the Minnesota that I remember ... it should be cold ... it should be below zero for a few days each year. Remember those days, when you would go out at 3 AM and start the car just so it would be able to start when you needed it hours later ?
Well, we know that last year was a "warm winter" but how long has it been warm ?
As of today, we are only 16 days from the all-time record for consecutive days with a high temperature above zero in Rochester, MN.
Here are the top 5 streaks for most consecutive days in which the high temperature was 0 degrees or warmer. The last day in Rochester in which the temperature stayed below zero for the entire day was January 4th of 2010 when the high was -1°. Just two days prior to that, the high was -6° and low was -19° on January 2nd, 2010.
1) 1130 days – 2000-12-25 through 2004-01-28
2) 1114 days – 2010-01-05 through 2013-01-22
3) 1110 days – 1955-12-20 through 1959-01-02
4) 779 days – 1990-12-31 through 1993-02-16
5) 749 days – 2005-01-16 through 2007-02-03
That's going back over 100 years and since 2000, there have been three of the longest stretches.
Yeah, I may not mind that it is not "shivering cold" but we have to acknowledge that climate change is real.