22 March 2012
Record Heat Continues- Northern Michigan reaches 49 degrees above normal.
Posted by Dan Satterfield
Image from NASA showing the Midwest heat. This data is from March 13-19th.
Northern Michigan temperatures reached 86º at mid afternoon Wednesday. This is an astounding 49 degrees above the average for the day and time. At the same time, the lower Miss. Valley is being hit with flooding rains. Look at some of the rain totals below:
Data from NOAA NWS.
From NWS Detroit:
A RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 83 DEGREES WAS SET AT THE SANDERSON
FIELD AIRPORT IN SAULT STE MARIE MI ON WEDNESDAY...WHICH BREAKS THE
OLD RECORD OF 57 DEGREES SET IN 1946. TODAYS HIGH TEMPERATURE
ALSO BREAKS THE ALL-TIME MARCH HIGH TEMPERATURE...WHICH WAS 75
DEGREES SET BACK IN 1946.
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.
Cant help but wonder if our new energy and national security strategy is to thaw the Arctic to get assured oil access. If it’s not our actual strategy, it appears to be our defacto emerging one. Unfortunately I remember about a decade ago the Russians used a submarine to place their flag at the North Pole to symbolize THEIR intent to exploit the polar oil. maybe we are borrowing a page from their play book. I fear we may be moving rapidly toward Termination 0 and unable to stop it because we’re broke – in more than one way. War planners always have a gloom and doom outlook so Hope I’m wrong.
Marilyn McAllister, Lieutenant Colonel (Ret) US Army
Southwest Asia War Plans Officer DESERT STORM
I’ve wondered the same thing. They’re certainly up there exploring and drilling in places that were only recently under glacier.