It was a cold January – where was Watt?

Kip Hansen's News Notes – 400 Words / 2 Minutes

Despite all the crazy statements about “always hotter” and “it's the end of snow” and all other climates, NASA said the U.S. is cold and remote.

Of course, they “measure” the temperature of the space.

Here is the graphics:

Let me remind you that it is summer in the southern hemisphere and the north. There is not enough gratitude in Eastern Europe and Ukraine, as well as much of Alaska and Canada – the summers are warm along Australia.

Note that the normal bias of using red to indicate positive values ​​means they are hot. A good example is: Fairbanks, Alaska, displayed in boiling hot crimson red:

“In Fairbanks, Alaska, the average temperature in January 2025 was 6.27°F (14.6°F higher than normal).

For those who are not happy with math, that is -14.3 c or 25 degrees below frozen.

For mainland America (excerpt with degrees Fahrenheit added to the scale):

We see a warm January in the West Coast (thanks to the weather god) above the 2002-2024 average, with Wisconsin/Iowa/Minnesota (thanks to the weather god). The nights in the “Deep South” of the United States are very cold.

Otherwise, at least at the beginning of this century, in most parts of the United States, day and night are cooler than usual.

This is the temperature measured from space news.

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Author's comments:

My area is displayed in white, which means a lack of “enough confidence to assert that there is an exception”. This should allow the curious mind to know that these are not actually measurements or abnormalities of measurements. They are some type of statistical animals that require “confidence” at a level of 95%.

The source of this news is here. NASA performs some grand statistical gymnastics that provide us with (not particularly useful) graphical maps “In the last month, the warmest 10% of temperatures have increased (red) and decreased (blue). The same is true for the same The coldest 10%. All of this is a service that drives the “extreme weather” meme. As any weather forecaster knows, their “extreme weather” is just weather.

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Thank you for reading.

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