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2,630 Feb.-24-15
In Baltimore, Maryland, a low temperature of 1F broke the record low for coldest morning recorded at the Thurgood Marshall Baltimore Washington-International.Airport.

In Louisville, Kentucky, temperatures dropped to -6F, breaking the old record low of 0F. Meanwhile, Richmond Kentucky bottomed out at a frigid -32F.

In North Carolina, a record low temperature was set at Charlotte where the overnight temperature bottomed out at 7F breaking the old record of 13F in 1896. In Asheville, temperatures dropped to just 4F breaking the old record of 10F in 1979. Temperature records for Asheville extend back to 1876.

Several records were also broken in Georgia, Macon set a new record low when the temperature dropped to 18F, beating the previous record of 21F set in 1958. Athens broke a new record low, too dropping to 14F and beating the old record of 18F set in 1958/1928.

On Friday, the city tied a 116-year-old record with a temperature of -28.9 C. The frigid temperature matched a record set back on Feb. 13, 1899.

Yesterday, Feb 20, Buffalo set a new record low maximum of 1°F, breaking the old record low max of 6°F, set in 1950.

So yet again, the sun has fallen absolutely silent, and has been so for three days. This comes at the presumed height of the current solar maximum in April ’14. We can see that the F10.7cm flux – a measure of UV radiation – is down approximately 30% from 3 months ago.

NASA’s own website (http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/pre...) states that the F10.7 flux is “an important indicator of solar activity because it tends to follow the changes in the solar ultraviolet that influence the Earth’s upper atmosphere and ionosphere.” Decreasing UV radiation, lower solar winds, allow for more cosmic radiation from interstellar space to interact with the upper atmosphere and leads to greater cloud formation. More clouds means more sunlight refracted before hitting the surface of the planet, which leads to more cooling effects.

So isn’t it interesting that the coldest month on record across a large portion of the eastern CONUS comes at the same time and we may be setting up for a cooler-than-normal spring?

F10.7cm flux (NASA) ftp://ftpgeolab.nrcan.gc.ca/data/solar_f­lux/daily_flux_values/fluxtable.txt
Frozen spring at Letchworth state park NY http://www.unmotivating.com/winter-20...
Weather chart http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sst...
Arctic ice 2007-2015 http://home.comcast.net/~ewerme/wuwt/...
satellite view of cold http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/02/21...
Record Lows USA https://twitter.com/hashtag/ColdSnap?...
Canada http://weather.gc.ca/warnings/weather...
Current sun 25th http://spaceweather.com/images2015/24.....