The Planet has a Cold

New information regarding recent winter temperature data has just been released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). I'm not going to draw any conclusions on what I've read so far, but these seem to be the kinds of things that make it difficult for global warming doom-sayers to get any kind of traction these days...

NOAA: Coolest Winter Since 2001 for U.S., Globe

If you look at the graphic provided by NOAA (below), you can see that much of the Western U.S. experienced mostly below average temps this past winter (by the way, it still feels like winter here in Southern California- Brrrr!)


You will also see that that parts of the South and Eastern U.S. experienced above normal temps. So what does this all mean?

Again, I'm not going to try and draw an conclusions from this, but "it is what it is." As I discussed in a previous post (The Final Nail?) I think we should all be more concerned about cooling temperatures rather than warming temperatures. It's a fact, the former is much more detrimental to life as we know it.

One other thing. The report also discussed recent precipitation data from this past winter and notes...

"In terms of winter precipitation, Pacific storms, bringing heavy precipitation to large parts of the West, produced high snowpack that will provide welcome runoff this spring."

Does this mean that all our collective worries about drought ravaged fields in the West have just been nullified? Again I'm not sure, but we'll take the water.

What I do know, is that a nice hot bowl of soup would really hit the sport right about now...