{"id":372350,"date":"2025-03-27T19:20:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T18:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=372350"},"modified":"2025-03-27T19:20:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T18:20:58","slug":"nasa-it-was-a-cold-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=372350","title":{"rendered":"NASA: It Was a Cold January"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

News Note by Kip Hansen<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite all the caterwauling about \u201cit is always hotter\u201d and \u201cit is the end of snow\u201d and all the other Climate Crazy pronouncements, NASA says the United States had an anomalously cold January 2025.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

They \u2018measured\u2019 the temperatures from space, of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s the graphic:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Let me remind you that it is Summer in the Southern Hemisphere and Winter in the Northern.\u00a0 Eastern Europe and the Ukraine, along with Alaska and much of Canada, were gratefully less cold than usual \u2013 \u00a0downunder, Australia is having a warmer summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note the usual biasing by using red colors to indicate positive values implying that they are HOT.   A good example of this is:  Fairbanks, Alaska is shown in boiling hot deep deep red:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn Fairbanks, Alaska, the average temperature for January 2025 was 6.27\u00b0F (14.6\u00b0F above normal).\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For those not quick at math, that is -14.3 C <\/strong>or 25 degrees F below freezing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and for the continental United States (excerpted and with approximate Fahrenheit degrees added to the scale):<\/p>\n\n\n

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We see the West Coast was a degree or two warmer than the 2002-2024 average and that there were warmish January days in Wisconsin\/Iowa\/ Minnesota (which sends its thanks to the Weather Gods).\u00a0 \u00a0The\u00a0US \u2018Deep South\u2019<\/a>\u00a0had very cold nights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Otherwise, for most of the United States, both days and nights were cooler than usual, at least since the turn of the century. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that\u2019s the temperature-measured-from-space news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Author\u2019s Comment:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My area is shown in white, meaning  lacking  \u201csufficient confidence to assert there is an anomaly\u201d.   That should give inquisitive minds a clue that these are not actually measurements or anomalies of measurements.  They are statistical animals of some type, which require \u2018confidence\u2019 at a 95% level. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\u00a0source for this news is here<\/a>.\u00a0 NASA performs some grand statistical gymnastics to give us (not particularly informative) graphic maps of \u201cIncrease (red) and decrease (blue) in the frequency of occurrence of the warmest 10% of temperatures in the recent month.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 The same is done for\u00a0coldest 10%.<\/em>\u00a0 All this is the service of pushing \u201cextreme weather\u201d memes.\u00a0 \u00a0Their \u201cextreme weather\u201d is, as any weatherman knows, just weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your tax dollars at work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Despite all the caterwauling about \u201cit is always hotter\u201d and \u201cit is the end of snow\u201d and all the other Climate Crazy pronouncements, NASA says the United States had an anomalously cold January 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":372357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691834101,691818491,691818473],"class_list":["post-372350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cold-january-2025","tag-nasa","tag-weather","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0winter2025inUSA-scaled-1.webp?fit=2560%2C1440&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1yRE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":271862,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=271862","url_meta":{"origin":372350,"position":0},"title":"Greenland\u2019s Ice Melts Thanks To Global\u00a0Boiling!","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"08\/06\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Every summer the Greenland ice cap loses approximately 200 Gt, and this summer is no different. 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