TheClimateChanger

Has ramped up quite a bit since that map. Duquesne is up to nearly 90k out alone.

No power here.

Hopefully, this wind dies down soon.

Classic spring weather in Pittsburgh. Look at these ups & downs. Taken literally, the GFS has Monday 41F warmer than Tuesday - though I don't think this is properly accounting for midnight highs & lows (non-diurnal temperature ranges).

Thanks, Don. I agree there's a UHI component as well, but it's not impacting the trends. Whereas Phoenix has warmed at about .6F/decade since 1896, NCEI has the State of Arizona warming at about a third of that rate (0.2F/decade), so it's not like they are just using Phoenix numbers to calculate the official trends and departures. By the way, Death Valley - with a population of, checks notes, zero - has 4. But really 6, as the numbers for November & December in 1913 & 1914 are clearly erroneous. The huge surpluses were driven by implausibly high temperatures with impossibly small diurnal ranges that make zero sense in winter in Death Valley. Ignoring those months, it's 6 of 12.

Some food for thought:

Some good news. Hopefully, with lake ice coverage well below historical averages, we'll see somewhat less of a lake influence on spring temperatures this year. *Fingers crossed*

Asterisk because I think the snowfall total was a little inflated, but still very impressive.

Do you know when the last day was where the US as a whole was below the 1991-2020 average? It seems like it's been weeks.