Anyone found a good crazy-weather map?

[Joel_BC]

Some places getting hotter/drier in spring, some getting colder/cloudier... The weather seems to have been especially crazy in the last couple years, possibly longer. Has anyone found a map of North America (US & Canada, is what I'm thinking) that shows where it's getting hotter than usual, where colder, where wetter, where drier, where windier, etc??

Weird weather makes it harder to garden or crop-farm. Also harder to keep livestock, in some ways. Not to mention just to live comfortably as humans!

Very long cool-wet period here in spring where I live, 2011 & 2012... and 2010 was such a cool-night summer that we couldn't get corn plants to mature their ears.

If you know of an on-line map for the US but not Canada, that still could be interesting. Could assume that the patterns in the north of the US tend to cross the border into neighboring areas of Ca.

 

[DeniseCharleson]

No whiz-bang graphics, but you can get daily high temps for the contiguous US states and southern portions of Canadian provences here:

http://vortex.plymouth.edu/usheat.gif

 

[Joel_BC]

No whiz-bang graphics, but you can get daily high temps for the contiguous US states and southern portions of Canadian provences here:

http://vortex.plymouth.edu/usheat.gif

My main curiosity at the moment is where, on the map, the weather has deviated significantly from seasonal norms. And not just for a day, but for weeks or months at a stretch.

That's the kind of situation that makes crop planning difficult. For instance, you can have a (for you) "tried & true" variety of corn that you've been growing and that has been sure-fire for 20 years, but if the weather changes a lot then you don't get much or any crop with the ol' stand-by.

Of course, as I write this, I'm kind of unsure whether the majority of people here are simply living somewhere where the weather is just "pretty normal"...

 

[Flytyer24]

So I am sure CA has something like this too. But here is a few links. The first is NOAA which does the climate change and weather patterns for the USA.

http://www.climate.gov/#climateWatch

This link is just a write up from the WWF about how each region in the US will be affected.

http://www.worldwildlife.org/climate/maps/index.html

 

[BarredBuff]

I don't have one or know of one. But I can see what you are saying. For about five years now we have extremes on Summer and Winter, whether it be Hot and Dry or Cold and Snowy. Hardly any fall or spring...

 

[Joel_BC]

I'm mainly interested in N America, since I live here, but I just heard (two minutes ago) on the radio a little report on London and the preparations for the 2012 Summer-Olympic Games. The correspondent in London that was being interviewed said London has been experiencing the rainiest June/July stretch in 100 years! Crazy weather, but that's over in England.

Anyway, must be a site (maybe with a map) depicting the weird patterns here on our continent.

 

[Dawn419]

Hi Joel!

Your post got me curious, too, so I hunted up some links but I don't know if any of them will have what you are looking for.

Extreme Weather and Climatic Events

Online Climatic Data Directory (scroll down the page for a ton of links)

Weather and Historical Weather

 

[Joel_BC]

There's a lot of good stuff on those links, Dawn. Thanks.

 

[Joel_BC]

Weird weather continues. The climate scientists have analyzed the data, and they tell us we've had the rainiest June on record here, and July has averaged rain every three days. A good year for lettuce and such! :/

Heard a report yesterday on the radio saying it's been so hot and dry in Illinois (or at least part of the state) that the corn crop is being seriously hampered. I know a lot of you in the eastern States (& Canada) are dealing with heat.

 

[hqueen13]

Crazy weather, but that's over in England.

But its all innerconnected.... so where there is too much rain somewhere, that means somewhere else is not getting what it needs. Like here on the east coast. Just saw the other day that we had the 5th driest first half of the year that we have had since they started recording. That's pretty crazy!!