Record Temps for Feb

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ridindirty800

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So here in S.E Wi we are setting record high day temps the last 2 days and may continue for the next 3. The last 3 winters were crap here and 2014 was a brutal one as far as cold goes. I keep inching to saying maybe winters are changing for good and not going to be like the ol' days. But then I see this chart and thankfully reminds me that weather is just big cycles. Look at the average high for the record setting Feb 135 years ago....... So I will keep my thinking that this is just part of a cycle and not what we should get used to seeing.
 

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xcr440

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Yup, its happened before, it will happen again. We were breaking records set in 1981 this weekend in the Twin Cities as well.
 

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renegade

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Same story with the rains in California. It's happened before, it will again. Funny though, time frame for both is close. 140 years give or take.
 
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Stack

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ridindirty800 said:
So here in S.E Wi we are setting record high day temps the last 2 days and may continue for the next 3. The last 3 winters were crap here and 2014 was a brutal one as far as cold goes. I keep inching to saying maybe winters are changing for good and not going to be like the ol' days. But then I see this chart and thankfully reminds me that weather is just big cycles. Look at the average high for the record setting Feb 135 years ago....... So I will keep my thinking that this is just part of a cycle and not what we should get used to seeing.
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This reminded me of a time in January 2008 when we had ~70 degree weather and it truly felt like summer outside, even had winter tornados reported. Correlation seems to be a La Nina or weak La Nina? I always thought La Nina gave us ample cold and snow, but I guess that's really not always the case. The PDF below is very interesting, talks about the winter tornados in Northern Illinois.

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/Image/lot/severe/ChicagoWinterTornadoes.pdf

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That's an awesome picture! :)
 
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xcr440

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I forgot to add, that the next two years after 1981 were at least two of the top 5 snowiest winters EVER in the Twin Cities, so we got that going for us......
 
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ridindirty800

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This reminded me of a time in January 2008 when we had ~70 degree weather and it truly felt like summer outside, even had winter tornados reported. Correlation seems to be a La Nina or weak La Nina? I always thought La Nina gave us ample cold and snow, but I guess that's really not always the case. The PDF below is very interesting, talks about the winter tornados in Northern Illinois.

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/Image/lot/severe/ChicagoWinterTornadoes.pdf

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That's an awesome picture! :)
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Yes I remember that year well with the tornados. I think in Wisconsin, January is the only Month without a tornado but I could be wrong.
 
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old abe

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blkhwkbob said:
Whoever bought sleds in 1997 or 1998 had to be pissed.
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I remember those 2 years, and I did buy a new sled in each 97, and 98. We had to do a lot of spur of the moment trips, but we rode. Several trips turned into somewhat poor conditions by raining instead of snowing. Bummer!!!
 
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wisco-mb

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Yes, all part of the cycle... Hope the warm cycle is ending soon....
I see high 60's for tomorrow. That will break the all time record high in all of February for Madison, and probably most of state.
 
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sweeperguy

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wisco-mb said:
Yes, all part of the cycle... Hope the warm cycle is ending soon....
I see high 60's for tomorrow. That will break the all time record high in all of February for Madison, and probably most of state.
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Heard talk of being at the peak of a 10 year cycle*. (High temps) supposedly start the downside trend. In 10 years be at the low temp swing. Hope this is true. (*20 year to totally cycle through)
 
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ridindirty800

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sweeperguy said:
Heard talk of being at the peak of a 10 year cycle*. (High temps) supposedly start the downside trend. In 10 years be at the low temp swing. Hope this is true. (*20 year to totally cycle through)
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That would be great! I would gladly let this winter end if we knew we had 10 years of cold coming lol...... who knows its anyone's guess. This fall they said it could be a bad winter, and it may have started out cold filled and snowy, from about Dec.22 on its been spring in S.E Wi
 
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timo

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yah good one,,,,they're going to predict what the temps are gonna be for 10 years and they can't figure out next week.



sweeperguy said:
Heard talk of being at the peak of a 10 year cycle*. (High temps) supposedly start the downside trend. In 10 years be at the low temp swing. Hope this is true. (*20 year to totally cycle through)
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sweeperguy

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timo said:
yah good one,,,,they're going to predict what the temps are gonna be for 10 years and they can't figure out next week.
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Not that they were doing predictions, they were talking about cycles of mean tempertures. Seems to have some basis? 97& 98 would have been the last high temp peak. Although this is just a general observation. I'm not looking over pages of average winter temps to compare. Just off of memory (which mine sucks) and I see a post here speaking of 97 and 98 being warm and rain in winter.

my brain tends to remember the good winters not the bad, I also have the advantage of time off in the winter, to go where the snow is. So even if its bad at home, I usually get in at least a couple thousand miles or more ��
 
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old abe

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This is going to be the 6th day of record temps by 5 to 8 degrees where we are located. Just unbelievable for January setting all new records, now again in February by those amounts in degrees and days???
 
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