Newly discovered climate records show 1930's far worse for extreme weather than today, US State Climate Extremes Comm., NCDC, published study

7/14/12, "Newly found weather records show 1930′s as being far worse than the present for extreme weather," WattsUpWithThat, Anthony Watts

"The Heat Was On—Before Urbanization and Greenhouse Gases," by Patrick Michaels on World Climate Report

"Sure is hot out! And what better time for a paper to appear in the Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology describing the construction of the “all-time” records for various types of weather extremes for each of the 50 United States plus Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The paper details efforts of the U.S. State Climate Extremes Committee (SCEC) established by the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) and led by Dr. Karsten Shein. Basically, the SCEC dusted off old records and found other new sources. So now we have “new and improved” data (available here) for the value, the date and the location of the all-time high and low temperature, greatest 24-hr precipitation, greatest 24-hr snowfall and greatest snowdepth for 50 states and two territories. The statewide record extremes have been updated through 2011 and are subject to continuous updating."...






via Tom Nelson