News Note by Kip Hansen — 400 words/2 minutes

Despite all the caterwauling about “it is  always hotter”  and “it is the end of snow” and all the other Climate Crazy pronouncements, NASA says the United States had an anomalously cold January 2025.

They ‘measured’ the temperatures from space, of course.

Here’s the graphic:

Let me  remind you that it is Summer in the Southern Hemisphere and Winter in the Northern.  Eastern Europe and the Ukraine, along with Alaska and much of Canada,  were gratefully less cold than usual –  downunder, Australia is having a warmer summer.

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:

“In Fairbanks, Alaska, the average temperature for January 2025 was 6.27°F (14.6°F above normal).” 

For those not quick at math, that is -14.3 C or 25 degrees F below freezing.

and for the continental United States (excerpted and with approximate Fahrenheit degrees added to the scale):

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).   The US ‘Deep South’ had very cold nights.

Otherwise, for most of the United States, both days and nights were cooler than usual, at least since the turn of the century. 

And that’s the temperature-measured-from-space news.

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Author’s Comment:

My area is shown in white, meaning  lacking  “sufficient confidence to assert there is an anomaly”.   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 ‘confidence’ at a 95% level. 

The source for this news is here.  NASA performs some grand statistical gymnastics to give us (not particularly informative) graphic maps of  “Increase (red) and decrease (blue) in the frequency of occurrence of the warmest 10% of temperatures in the recent month.”  The same is done for coldest 10% .  All this is the service of pushing “extreme weather” memes.   Their “extreme weather” is, as any weatherman knows, just weather.

Your tax dollars at work. 

Thanks for reading.

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