Daily Archives: October 20, 2010

Los Angeles had one of their coldest summers on record, with below normal temperatures nearly every day. http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KCQT/ Joe Romm found only one day of the summer interesting. Can you guess which one?

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Real Madrid has not trailed in 900 minutes of playing time this season. Ronaldo scored more goals tonight in two minutes, than Rooney has in seven months.

Update from John Cook : Sorry it’s taken me so long to get to this discussion where earlier clarification would’ve been helpful. Steve is correct that the caption of my Figure 1 is mislabelled – I should’ve said “NH land … Continue reading →

Earlier this evening I was devastated to learn that we are doomed to die of thirst. And now, just a few hours later, I find out that heavy rains are simultaneously going to drown us.

That canna be true, captain Suppose you have three thousand reporting stations and each one has a ninety-nine year record. How many daily record highs would you expect to see in the 100th year?