National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported the month of May was the second wettest and temperatures were in the bottom-third for its 125-year US history.
The 2010 publication titled, ‘A Global Overview Of Drought and Heat-Induced Tree Mortality Reveals Emerging Climate Change Risks for Forests’, was accepted by the Obama administration as scientific evidence that climate change had made the Earth:
“…increasingly vulnerable to higher background tree mortality rates and die-off in response to future warming and drought, even in environments that are not normally considered water-limited.”
But NOAA just reported that May US precipitation totaled an average of 4.41 inches, 1.50 inches above average, and ranked second wettest in the 125-year period of record for May as well as second wettest for all months since January 1895.
The only wetter month in US history was May 2015 with 4.44 inches of precipitation.
The 37.68 inches of precipitation across the contiguous U.S. from June 2018 to May 2019 shattered the previous 1982-83 12-month period by 1.48 inches.
Near-record to record precipitation was observed from the West Coast through the central Plains and into the Great Lakes and parts of the Northeast.
As a result, severe May flooding was observed along the Arkansas, Missouri, and Mississippi rivers. Vicksburg, MS, reported ongoing flooding since mid-February.
A southward dip in the jet stream over the western contiguous U.S. during May contributed to above-average late-season snowfall, with Denver reporting its snowiest May in 44 years with 3.9 inches total for the month.
Duluth, MN, reported 10.6 inches of snow on the May 9 for the snowiest day since records were first kept in 1884.
May’s average contiguous U.S. temperature was 59.5°F, 0.7°F below the 20th-century average and ranking in the bottom third of the 125-year record.
Below- to much-below-average temperatures spanned from California, into the Great Lakes, and across New England. Five states, from the Southwest to the northern Plains, had a top 10 coldest May on record.
The first five months of 2019 were marked by large regional temperature variability, but average temperature for the contiguous U.S. was 43.4°F, 0.1°F above the 20th-century average and ranking in the middle-third of NOAA records for January the May period.
Read more at American Thinker
When it suits them, like now, the alarmists point out that May 2019 was the fourth warmest on (their) record books. It was pointed out on this website earlier that much of the recent rainfall was caused by a late spring / persistent cold fronts meeting gulf of Mexico humidity farther south than normal.
So much for Global Warming causing more droughts and growing/creating more desserts. Maybe those really smart computer models didn’t take into account the additional water vaporized into the atmosphere. And that water vapor goes somewhere — more rain. More CO2, more water, gosh, what on earth likes CO2 and water — maybe plants. I dunno. This sounds like a catastrophe to me.
Some were making all sorts of rediculous predictions over this Glogal Warming/Climate Change load of malarkey and Paul Ehrlich making all these idiotic predictions not one of them ever happened and still he blathers this mindless drivel even some 50 years after writing his Eco-Babble book THE POPULATION BOMB
The Alarmists are never called on the carpet for their failed predictions. The MSM does not do its job. It’s up to the people to pay attention. I think we are.
All the fake predictions from the Eco-Wackos on the very first Earth Day not one has happened