RECORD HIGHS MARCH 2012

[Cyclenall]

Incredible weather events are unfolding in southern Ontario today, I was going to post something but a severe thunderstorm hit us hard and knocked out our power!! Wow, I would have never thought that would ever happen in mid-March!! More crazy storms are heading for us right now and I have a feeling they are going to be bad . There is even humidity like in March 2000.

[tropicana]

stay safe cyclenall!! you are in windsor right?

Record Highs Thu Mar 15 2012

International Falls MN 57F tied 2009
Grand Forks Airport ND 59F
Rawlins WY 60F tied 1995
Fargo ND 62F
Minot ND 64F
Appleton WI 64F tied 1995
Riverton WY 64F tied 1999
Rhinelander WI 65F
St Cloud MN 65F
Oshkosh WI 66F
Wausau WI 68F
Williston ND 68F
Marshfield WI 69F
Glasgow MT 69F
East Rapid City SD 69F
Havre MT 70F
Billings MT 70F tied 1992
Dickinson ND 71F
La Crosse WI 71F
Milwaukee WI 72F
Wisconsin Rapids WI 73F
Chadron NE 73F
Mason City IA 74F
Rochester MN 74F
Miles City MT 74F
Scottsbluff NE 75F
Sioux Falls SD 75F
North Myrtle Beach SC 77F
Lansing MI 78F
Morristown TN 78F
Dubuque IA 78F
Toledo OH 78F tied 1990
Cedar Rapids IA 79F
Waterloo IA 79F
North Platte NE 79F tied 1935
Lamoni IA 80F
Salisbury MD 80F tied 1990
Indianapolis IN 80F
Fort Wayne In 81F **warmest so early**
South Bend IN 81F
Joplin MO 81F
Des Moines IA 81F
Colombia MO 81F
St Louis MO 81F
Moline IL 81F
Peoria IL 81F
Chicago O'Hare IL 81F * 1st ever back-to-back 80 degree or higher highs in March*
Burlington IA 81F
Atlanta GA 82F
Washington National DC 82F
Rockford IL 82F **warmest so early**
Madison WI 82F **warmest so early and new March record**
Memphis TN 82F tied 1977
Knoxville TN 82F
Nashville TN 82F tied 1921
Pensacola FL 83F tied 1967
Springfield IL 83F
Louisville KY 83F
Lincoln IL 83F
Amarillo TX 84F
Birmingham AL 84F tied 1984
Washington Dulles VA 84F
Tupelo MS 84F
Muscle Shoals AL 85F tied 1908
Huntsville AL 85F
Athens GA 85F
Pinson AL 85F
Colombus GA 86F
Elizabeth City NC 86F tied 1973
Augusta GA 86F
Chattanooga TN 86F
Alma GA 86F tied 1973
Richmond VA 86F
Macon GA 87F
Norfolk VA 87F
Colombia SC 88F tied 1977
Sarasota FL 89F

IN CANADA

Coronation AB 10.2C 50F
Rosetown SK 10.3C 50F
Kenora ON 11.2C 52F
Saskatoon SK 11.6C 53F
Gimli MB 12.0C 54F
Saulte Ste Marie ON 12.6C 55F
Dauphin MB 13.7C 57F
Winnipeg MB 14.4C 58F
Brandon MB 14.9C 59F
Estevan SK 15.7C 60F
Portage la Prairie AB 15.9C 60F
Collingwood ON 22.7C 73F
Windsor ON 24.4C 76F

-justin-

[Cyclenall]

Strangely enough, not much happened after yesterday morning's severe thunderstorms and no squall line at all occurred in Ontario. Clusters of storms throughout the day occurred but that's it. However, in the afternoon there were very powerful cells on lake Huron that for March were simply inconceivable. I even think one of them was a supercell on those cold waters! It died off before reaching land. Regardless, Michigan ended up getting most of the action with a mini-tornado outbreak (3?) that was unforeseen due to lack of wind shear. Amazing to see EF3 damage in Dexter MI in March. There is so much crazyness this week that a novel could be written on it...called March Madness .

stay safe cyclenall!! you are in windsor right?

No, mid-western Ontario.

[Cyclenall]

I was about to sign off but I checked the forecast and my jaw hit the floor, now it shows basically 20ºC EVERY DAY FOR THE NEXT 8 DAYS!!!!!!! No words to describe that, just fantasy like. I can actually remember thinking how crazy it would be if every day was 20ºC like that but now that its actually forecast (TWN); I'm calling this unprecedented and historic. In fact, I highly doubt anyone alive today has ever seen a duration of that type of heat in March and I'm starting to wonder if it has ever happened to begin with. Just 1 20ºC day in March is a rare event. I'm still talking southern Ontario here but I'll be way more widespread than that. I was going to also comment earlier in the week about what the models were showing and how to deduce from that what temperatures might come of it.

I can now hear the birds chirping in early morning (4:30 am) like I do during the summer...

[RL3AO]

Good luck keeping up with this thread for the next week.

[jinftl]

From weather.com...

Over 1,000 Record Highs This Week!
by Chris Dolce, weather.com Meteorologist

This has been a week of incredibly warm weather across much of the country. Over 1,400 record high temperatures have been broken or tied since Monday, and we're not done breaking records yet! Here's a quick roundup of the action so far:

Monday - According to the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), 138 daily high temperature records were tied or broken primarily in the Northeast and Midwest. This includes records set in New York City (71), Boston, Mass. (71) and Albany, N.Y. (69) that were more than 100 years old!

Tuesday - 218 daily high temperature records tied or broken in the Central and Northeast U.S, according to NCDC. Included were Concord, N.H. (71), Omaha, Neb. (81), Minneapolis, Minn. (67) and Sioux Falls, S.D. (79).

Wednesday - 457 daily high temperature records tied or broken, including St. Louis, Mo. (86), Chicago (81), Milwaukee, Wis. (78) and Paducah, Ky. (82), just to name a few. Minneapolis, Minn. (73) set a new record high on Wednesday for the fourth time in five days! Stunningly, Traverse City, Mich. shattered their earliest 80-degree reading on record, by 13 days; the old record was March 27, 1945.

Thursday - A whopping 593 locations equaled or exceeded their record highs across the Rockies, Plains, Midwest, Southeast and Mid-Atlantic states. Chicago hit 81, the first instance of back-to-back 80s there in March on record. Madison, Wisc. tied its all-time March record of 82, breaking the March 15 record by 13 degrees. Record highs also fell in Atlanta and Norfolk, Va.

More records are likely through the weekend and into early next week. Below is a look at the record high temperature potential over the next two days.

Saturday's Record High Potential
If you've been stuck in an office building all week missing out on this record warm spell, St. Patrick's Day will be your lucky day. Pretty much every city that's been warm this week will still be warm Saturday. Once again, oodles of records are in jeopardy, as some 100 major cities will be near record territory!

Sunday's Record High Potential
Sunday, more record high temperatures are likely. This time, at least 80 major cities from the Midwest through the Southeast and parts of the Northeast are in the zone for record warmth.
http://www.weather.com/outlook/weather- ... 2012-03-11

[CrazyC83]

It's like who ISN'T breaking records now...

[tropicana]

i give up hahaha this is overwhelming to keep up, but i will try:-

Record Highs Fri Mar 16 2012

Laramie WY 62F tied 1994
Marquette MI 64F
Rawlins WY 64F
Rock Springs WY 64F tied 1994
Alamosa CO 68F tied 2011
Traverse City MI 70F
Cheyenne WY 70F
Riverton WY 70F tied 2007
Appleton WI 70F
Rhinelander WI 70F
Green Bay WI 70F tied 1927
Houghton Lake MI 71F tied 1927
International Falls MN 71F
Wausau WI 72F
Gaylord MI 72F
Muskegon MI 72F
Zanesville OH 72F tied 2003
Grand Forks Airport ND 73F
Minot ND 73F
Flint MI 73F
Colorado Springs CO 75F tied 2011
Marshfield WI 75F
Denver CO 75F
Fargo ND 76F
St Cloud MN 76F
Oshkosh WI 76F
Wisconsin Rapids WI 77F
Williston ND 77F
Dubuque IA 78F tied 1945
Rochester MN 78F
Jamestown ND 78F
Dicinson ND 78F
East Rapid City SD 78F
Fort Wayne IN 78F
Rochester MN 78F
Lansing MI 78F
Alliance NE 79F
Sidney NE 79F
Tribune KS 79F tied 1916
Grand Rapids MI 79F
Madison WI 79F
South Bend IN 79F
Minneapolis MN 79F
La Crosse WI 79F
Miles City MT 79F
Concordia KS 80F tied 1894
Rockford IL 80F
Eau Claire WI 80F
Scottsbluff NE 80F
Pueblo CO 80F tied 1994
Rockford IL 80F
Hastings NE 80F
Lamoni IA 81F
Burlington CO 81F
Topeka KS 81F
Omaha NE 81F tied 1966
Mason City IA 81F
Bismarck ND 81F **ALL time Mar record tied Mar 22/23 1910, Mar 27 1946 and Mar 25/07**
Chicago IL 82F *warmest so early**
Cedar Rapids IA 82F **warmest so early**
Waterloo IA 82F
St Joseph MO 82F
Kansas City MO 82F
Rapid City SD 82F
Yuma CO 82F
Chanute KS 82F
Sioux Falls SD 82F
North Platte NE 82F
Imperial NE 82F tied 1994
Joplin MO 82F
Moline IL 82F tied 1945
Yankton SD 83F
Greenville SC 83F
Sioux City IA 83F
Hill City KS 83F
Goodland KS 83F
Russell KS 83F
Chadron NE 83F **All time Mar record tied Mar 12/07, Mar 29 1967 and Mar 30 1978**
Greenwood MS 83F
Valentine NE 84F
Mitchell SD 84F
Huron SD 84F
Des Moines IA 84F
Dodge City KS 84F
Athens GA 85F
Colombus GA 85F tied 2002
Birmingham AL 85F
Montgomery AL 86F
Garden City KS 86F
Amarillo TX 87F

IN CANADA

Hudosn Bay SK 12.5C 55F
Yorkton SK 14.1C 57F
Wawa ON 14.9C 59F
Wiarton ON 15.1C 59F
Timmins ON 15.9C 60F
Saulte Ste Marie ON 16.0C 61F
Kapuskasing ON 16.1C 61F
Muskoka ON 16.8C 62F
Regina SK 16.8C 62F
Geraldton ON 16.8C 62F
Sioux Lookout ON 16.8C 62F
Gimli MB 17.3C 63F
Kenora ON 17.5C 64F
Trenton ON 18.5C 66F
Markham Buttonville Airport ON 18.9C 66F
Portage la Prairie MB 19.3C 67F
Toronto Pearson ON 19.3C 67F
Dauphin MB 19.5C 67F
Winnipeg MB 19.9C 68F **warmest so early**
Welland ON 20.1C 68F
Peterborough ON 20.2C 68F
Brandon MB 21.3C 70F
London ON 21.5C 71F
Hamilton ON 21.8C 71F
Estevan SK 23.0C 73F

-justin-

[Cyclenall]

Well, it was another awesome day of extremely warm weather. I'm finally starting to hear the media call this "unprecedented" and record shattering. What really hit it home was a display graphic The Weather Network put up yesterday of Toronto's forecasted daily highs to the records for each respective date. For the next 5 days, it showed each record being annihilated!!! Another tally would be to see how long the records are broken there on each consecutive day. The main years of competition are 1945, 1990, and 2000. As Suzanne L from TWN put it on her twitter feed; "Temperature records from Saskatchewan, Manitoba & Ontario are melting quicker than marble cheese in a microwave."

Another thing that should be monitored is the humidex values because I'm sure some records for that are being broken. Windsor ON on Thursday reached 24.4ºC but I heard the humidex reached an astonishing 29C humidex!! Some in-depth analysis needs to be done on this ridge and high pattern.

Thank you jinftl for posting that article, I had no idea it was that extreme. I don't think I have ever seen that many records broken in a week but someone needs to start comparing this to something!

i give up hahaha this is overwhelming to keep up, but i will try:-

If there is anything I can do to assist, let me know! An idea is to just post the most significant records that were broken (similar to what we do when there is a major tornado outbreak underway) that are like "warmest so early" and "All time March record", large cities, records that were broken that go back really far, records that were beat by massive margins, etc. Then link to a source that can account for the 100s of records that may have occurred on said day. I don't think over 500 records were posted on Thursday so I guess you can't keep up . That is probably the longest list for Canadian records I have ever seen on these threads. There are probably more then that too.



I looked at the 00z GFS model run and I like what I see. I'm probably not using the right stuff to see what the models show for future temperatures around my neck of the woods but I can sort of see where the high is located and how strong. This run continues to show relatively high pressure over the Great Lakes region and other areas without any significant pattern "shift" after 144 hours. I'm using the Tropical Cyclone Genesis Models page.

[RL3AO]

I'm finally starting to hear the media call this "unprecedented" and record shattering.

Its probably a phrase over used but it does apply to this one. Shattering records day after day over a large chunk of the nation.

[tropicana]

this is quite exciting actually, i do it out of the love. I keep my own records anyways, so its just a matter of posting it on here. I can never include every single record, try as hard as i might, that would be a 24 hour job to try to decipher all the records at every single weather station across the US . Getting the canadian data is even harder, because most times, they dont post statements. Yet still i do it.
This is def a warm spell for the record books, not even necesarrily for the temperatures and how much above normal they are, that in itself is astonishing...but its also the length of this spell...and the time of the year. So many of these factors is already re-writing history books. Notice also how many of the records are not even being tied, they are just being surpassed.

Also not even included here, but I keep records as well, the numerous record high minimum temperatures being broken nightly. Warmer March nights have never occurred at many reporting sites.

[jinftl]

According to TWC, we are now up to 1500 record high temp records being tied or set in just the last 7 days....has that ever happened before i wonder??? And I belive that is just U.S. data....records are being smashed daily in Canada too.

They are also calling for potentially up to 200 or more new records being set this weekend!!!

http://www.weather.com/outlook/weather- ... 2012-03-11

[CrazyC83]

I'm sure just about everywhere east of the Rockies will be breaking many records.

[tropicana]

Record Highs Sat Mar 17 2012

Watertown NY 64F
Saulte Ste Marie MI 65F
Minot ND 69F tied 1910
Grand Forks ND 70F
Dickinson ND 70F
Cheyenne WY 70F
Casper WY 71F tied 2007
Jamestown ND 71F
Miles City MT 71F tied 2010
Binghamton NY 71F
Worland WY 72F
Blacksburg VA 72F
Billings MT 73F tied 2010
Buffalo NY 73F
Dayton OH 73F tied 1934
Sheridan WY 73F
Colombus OH 75F
Mansfield OH 75F
Detroit MI 75F tied 1945
Duluth MN 75F
Marquette MI 75F **ALL Time March record**
Fargo ND 76F
Cincinnati OH 76F tied 1934
Fort Wayne IN 76F
Denver CO 76F
Elkins WV 76F tied 1989
Youngstown OH 77F
Rhinelander WI 77F
Zanesville OH 77F
Cleveland OH 77F
Indianapolis IN 77F
Pittsburgh PA 77F
Akron OH 77F
Toledo OH 77F
Madison WI 77F
Muskegon MI 77F
Huron SD 77F tied 1968
Mitchell SD 77F
International Falls MN 77F **ALL Time March record**
Aberdeen SD 77F
South Bend IN 78F
Lansing MI 78F
Grand Rapids MI 78F
Wausau WI 78F
Apalachicola FL 78F tied 1963
Green Bay WI 78F
Gaylord MI 78F **ALL Time March record**
East Rapid City SD 78F
Sisseston SD 78F
Fayetteville AR 78F tied 1982
Mobridge SD 79F
Rapid City SD 79F
Houghton Lake MI 79F
Appleton WI 79F
Morgantown WV 79F
Flint MI 79F
Lincoln IL 79F
Springfield IL 79F tied 1894
Evansville IN 80F
Oshkosh WI 80F
Milwaukee WI 80F
Minneapolis MN 80F
Scottsbluff NE 80F
New Bern NC 80F
Marshfield WI 80F
Mitchell SD 80F
Sioux Falls SD 80F tied 1894
Pierre SD 80F
Rochester MN 81F **warmest so early**
Mason City IA 81F
North Myrtle Beach SC 81F
Sidney NE 81F
Wisconsin Rapids WI 81F
Dubuque IA 81F
North Platte NE 81F
Salina KS 81F tied 1994
Eau Claire WI 82F
Chadron NE 82F
Rockford IL 82F
Chicago O'Hare IL 82F
Cedar Rapids IA 82F
Moline IL 82F
Burlington IA 82F
Huntsville AL 82F tied 1963
Traverse City MI 82F **ALL Time March record tied March 1910**
Valentine NE 82F
Waterloo IA 82F
Tupelo MS 83F tied 1963
Burlington CO 83F
Des Moines IA 83F
La Crosse WI 83F
Hastings NE 83F tied 1994
Tribune KS 84F
Omaha NE 84F tied 1894
Norfolk NE 84F
Pinson AL 84F tied 2002
Grand Island NE 84F
Russell KS 84F
Sioux City IA 85F
Goodland KS 85F
Florence SC 85F
Imperial NE 85F
Hill City KS 86F tied 1994
Birmingham AL 86F tied 1963
Alma GA 86F tied 2002
Garden City KS 86F
Tallahassee FL 87F tied 1982
Fort Smith AR 87F tied 1921
McCook NE 87F
Colby KS 88F

CANADIAN DATA

Gaspe QC 12.3C 54F
Wawa ON 14.0C 57F
Dauphin MB 14.3C 58F
Geraldton ON 15.3C 59F
Gimli MB 15.7C 60F
Portage la Prairie AB 16.2C 61F
Brandon MB 17.5C 64F
Timmins ON 18.1C 65F
Winnipeg MB 19.2C 67F
Sioux Lookout ON 19.3C 67F
Saulte Ste Marie ON 19.3C 67F
Kapuskasing ON 19.4C 67F
Welland ON 20.7C 69F
Kenora ON 20.7C 69F
London ON 22.3C 72F
Wiarton ON 22.7C 73F
Sarnia ON 23.1C 74F
Collingwood ON 24.0C 75F

**though warm in Windsor ON, the 23.3C top temperature Saturday failed to break the 1945 record of 23.9C**


-justin-

[CrazyC83]

Amazing that Florida record highs are being surpassed in the Upper Midwest...

[Cyclenall]

this is quite exciting actually, i do it out of the love.

Same here, this is actually just as exciting as tracking a hurricane. It's maybe because its actually affecting me instead of looking in the distance.

I keep my own records anyways, so its just a matter of posting it on here. I can never include every single record, try as hard as i might, that would be a 24 hour job to try to decipher all the records at every single weather station across the US . Getting the canadian data is even harder, because most times, they dont post statements. Yet still i do it.
This is def a warm spell for the record books, not even necesarrily for the temperatures and how much above normal they are, that in itself is astonishing...but its also the length of this spell...and the time of the year. So many of these factors is already re-writing history books. Notice also how many of the records are not even being tied, they are just being surpassed.

Well that is what mainly what the most incredible aspect was the duration of the heat wave. I'm still hoping for those extreme spikes during these days that can tote 23ºC above average temperatures (right now it's between 14ºC-18ºC above average). We're probably going to start to do that soon.

Also not even included here, but I keep records as well, the numerous record high minimum temperatures being broken nightly. Warmer March nights have never occurred at many reporting sites.

I'm keeping track of how warm the nights are as well and those are just as amazing as some of the daytime highs. All winter it was like that as well.

So far today I heard something odd...Toronto struggled to reach even 10ºC because of heavy clouds? How is this possible when literally just 1.5 hours away its 22ºC with a humidex of 28ºC!? I still don't believe it.



This forecast is for Winnipeg, Manitoba for tomorrow. Yes, that is 28ºC air temperature with the humidex at 31C!!!!!! Mind = Blown. If that verifies, it will be one of the most insane temperature readings ever in Canadian history and will be equal to March 8, 2000 in Windsor. This will be Winnipeg's March 8, 2000 and I'm not sure but if it actually gets up to 30ºC air temperature tomorrow I think it will be the earliest 30ºC so far in Canada (ever) (just think, beating Windsor ON by weeks when it's way higher in latitude!!! ). I'll look at the Almanac for that city later to see more info.

[SaskatchewanScreamer]

As per usual with any changes in nature the wildlife are aware of it long before us stupid humans.

This shows the normal time that Canada geese will show up in my area


http://books.google.ca/books?id=Gsp07mQKBuIC&pg=PA25&lpg=PA25&dq=Venezuela+%2B+migration+%2B+duck&source=bl&ots=DVXDvDDEwL&sig=34b6kC__fnKAA1WXmch3lkxsORY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=5EVlT__0E83C0AGx9qClCA&sqi=2&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false I had been doing a search re ducks when I found the above (an explaination re the long link above).

That would be around May 20th. This year it is this weekend that the main migrating flocks are currently flying overhead and a number already touched down a week ago.

[combellack]

Ottawa was in the chill for a couple days but starting tomorrow EC has us being over 20 till Thursday with a 26 on Wednesday which is within a hair of marches all time record. On average we have a 20 Deg march day in Ottawa once every five years so a stretch like that is truly stunning.
Mark
I should mention that by in the chill i mean only 5 degrees or so above average LOL

[Nicko999]

So far today I heard something odd...Toronto struggled to reach even 10ºC because of heavy clouds? How is this possible when literally just 1.5 hours away its 22ºC with a humidex of 28ºC!? I still don't believe it.

Check Montreal's temperatures this winter compared to Burlington, Vermont for example... Both cities have the same climate.

We've been affected by fog in the last few days... 12.9C was the mildest it has been this March in Montreal.

Down to the Vermont/Quebec border (40 minutes drive), the temperature has been as high as 16.9C. Ottawa has been above 15C as well.

We're just starting to feel the warmth...

[Cyclenall]

This is the almanac data for Winnipeg, Manitoba Richardson International Airport and St Johns College (combined data set going from 1872-2008) for March 18:

Average Maximum Temperature -0.7 °C
Average Minimum Temperature -10.5 °C
Monthly Frequency of Precipitation 29 %
Highest Temperature (1872-1938) 14.4 ºC 1910 (8.8 °C 2000 for Airport station)
Lowest Temperature (1872-1938) -33.3 ºC 1883 (-25.6 °C 1944 for Airport station)
Greatest Precipitation (1872-1938) 20.3 mm 1922 (10.0 mm 2007 for Airport station)
Greatest Rainfall (1938-2007) 5.0 mm 2007
Greatest Snowfall (1872-1938) 20.3 cm 1922 (10.8 cm 1996 for Airport station)
Most Snow on the Ground (1955-2002) 76.0 cm 1956

We have a pretty large data set here, 140 years! It shows that if it does get to 28ºC air temperature today that it will be nearly 29ºC or 82.4ºF above average (never seen that...not even close) and obliterate the record by a whopping 13.6ºC to 19.2ºC (depending on the station). Remember, this is from 140 years of data and it would beat the previous record from 102 years ago. It would be cool to see it reach 30ºC and then it would beat that even further and I would say its more then a once in a 140 year event, maybe 500+ year event. If you take the record high that could occur today and the record low then you have a range for March 18 of 61.3ºC or 142.3ºF difference.

To tropicana, on Global News they reported that Ontario broke 22 records yesterday (March 17) so there are 12 more to be added to the list at least.

So far today I heard something odd...Toronto struggled to reach even 10ºC because of heavy clouds? How is this possible when literally just 1.5 hours away its 22ºC with a humidex of 28ºC!? I still don't believe it.

Check Montreal's temperatures this winter compared to Burlington, Vermont for example... Both cities have the same climate.

We've been affected by fog in the last few days... 12.9C was the mildest it has been this March in Montreal.

Down to the Vermont/Quebec border (40 minutes drive), the temperature has been as high as 16.9C. Ottawa has been above 15C as well.

We're just starting to feel the warmth...

But that's just a 4ºC difference while this is a 12ºC difference. I don't think heavy clouds and fog make that big of a change on the local climate there. And I was looking forward to seeing a long streak of Toronto breaking records in a row .