More news about global warming causing record cold temperatures.
And they say this with a straight face.
From the Spokesman-Review:
It’s not just you – it really was that cold Monday morning.
If February 2019 will go down in the record books in Spokane as one of the snowiest, then March might just follow as one of the coldest. Four days in, there’s a good case to be made.
“It looks like we’ve had 29 days in a row below normal,” said Mark Turner, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s Spokane office. “And mainly it’s just due to the weather pattern.”
Since Feb. 2, Spokane has ignored queues for a quick-approaching spring season, with a temperature range wildly diverging from what would typically be expected. While temperatures usually are expected to rise slowly out of the freezing range in early March, Spokane has instead grown colder – the warmest days so far this year were on Jan. 5 and 6.
Most of these days below normal are well-below normal, too, with temperatures 10 or even 20 degrees from what’s expected.
As of Monday, Spokane has had 22 days of snow accumulation of at least 10 inches, the longest stretch since 1993 and the 10th longest on record. (Spokane has a while to go to beat the record. In 1969, Spokane had at least 10 inches of snow on the ground from Jan. 10 until March 16 – 66 days in a row.)
And it’s not just Spokane. In outlying areas, records were broken as temperatures dropped. In Pullman on Sunday, temperatures plunged to minus 5 degrees, breaking a record that had stood for more than 40 years.
The newest record was short-lived, however, as the National Weather Service reported a new low of 8 degrees below zero.
Monday morning in Spokane, temperatures took a nosedive to about 6 degrees.
With wind chill, it was anywhere from 10 to 20 degrees below freezing.
Thermometer’s stuck below normal
If February 2019 will go down in the record books in Spokane as one of the wettest, snowiest months in history, then March will surely follow as one of the coldest.