Kansas – Earliest frost on record – Growing season now third shortest on record

Kansas – Earliest frost on record – Growing season now third shortest on record http://iceagenow.info/2014/10/kansas-earliest-frost-record-growing-season-shortest-record/ The shortest was 114 days in 1901, followed by 133 days in 1912, says the Hays (Kansas) Daily News. The Daily News reported that an all-time (114-year) record was broken on September 13, 2014, when the thermometer dipped to 31 degrees […]

National Snow & Ice Data Center (NSIDC): Past 3 years in a row set ice record! ‘Sea ice in Antarctica has remained at satellite-era record high daily levels for most of 2014’

Figure 6c. Monthly Antarctic September ice extent for 1979 to 2014 shows an increase of 1.3% per decade relative to the 1981 to 2010 average. Credit: National Snow and Ice Data Center High-resolution image On September 22, 2014, Antarctic ice extent increased to 20.11 million square kilometers (7.76 million square miles). This was the likely […]