Dr. Jim Steenburgh who is an active blogger and a meteorology professor at the University of Utah, posted a blog on how unusually warm it has been in 2012 across Utah. Here in Star Valley we have experienced a comparatively warm year as well. I have reproduced his blog below and if you have an interest in following Jim, you can see his posting at the following link:
http://wasatchweatherweenies.blogspot.com/
A Big Record Will Likely Fall
Source: www.mattbors.com |
For the year to date (Jan–Nov), our mean statewide temperature is 53.7ºF, the highest in the instrumented record.
Source: NCDC |
Data from NCDC suggests that in December 1934 the statewide average temperature was 1.1ºF above the 1981–2010 statewide average temperature. I don't have access to statewide statistics for the first 12 days of this December, but we can look at anomalies at specific stations. At Salt Lake City we ran 7.6ºF above the 1981–2010 average. At Cedar City we ran 8.0ºF above the 1981–2010 average. Now that's a fever!
Thus, we head into the last half of December with a very real chance of recording the warmest calendar year in Utah during the instrumented record. That sounds impressive, but in the coming decades, this year won't seem all that unusual.
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