I guess it is winter. In a cold snap last week nearly
1,400 records were broken in the US. 886 places recorded the lowest maximum,
325 recorded the coldest minimum, and 127 places recorded the highest snowfall. [Source: Hamweather]
A few days ago the records for that seven day period were
even higher: 205 snowfall records. 969 Low Max. 203 Low temps. 17 High Temp. 61
High minimum. Media coverage of
the record cold? Almost non-existent
A search for news of cold
records set in US from Nov 26 to Nov 30 turns up one story in the Christian
Science Monitor and pretty much no where else (did I miss some?).
When 1,000 heat
records fell in a week USA today covered it. They don’t seem to
have mentioned the cold records, but we might wonder whether that’s an
editorial bias, or (I think more likely) that no official climate or meteorological
group issued a press release.
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