Talk:Climate of the United States

Coverage of U. S. dependencies
Since they are part of the United States, dependencies such as Guam, the U. S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, and the Northern Marianas may also need to be included within this article. Thegreatdr (talk) 21:40, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Removal of gallery-like section
I removed the city graphs from the article, as they were unreferenced and gallery-like, which is something wikipedia is not. The change allows this article to conform with the recent changes made with the climate regime articles. )

Potential WSJ resources with NYC focus, but USA in general for 2011
Internal links ... Internal links 97.87.29.188 (talk) 00:21, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Weather Journal: Warm New Year Ends Snow-Free December December 30, 2011, 9:22 AM ET, excerpts ...
 * http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2011/12/16/weather-journal-a-little-bit-of-winter/
 * http://www.wmo.int/pages/mediacentre/press_releases/pr_935_en.html
 * http://www.erh.noaa.gov/okx/climate/records/wetdryyearsmonths.html
 * http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2011/08/14/new-york-city-weather-rainy-monday/
 * http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2011/08/30/weather-journal-sunny-week-rising-water/
 * http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2011/07/21/weather-journal-somehow-it-gets-even-hotter/
 * http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2011/06/09/weather-journal-heat-waves-goodbye-spring-returns/
 * http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2011/01/27/snowstorm-buries-city-again-closes-schools/
 * http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2011/08/23/earthquake-in-virginia-shakes-new-york-city/
 * http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2011/08/27/hurricane-irene-new-york-new-jersey-forecast-what-to-expect-for-landfall/
 * http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2011/04/28/weather-journal-clouds-gathered-but-no-tornado-damage/
 * http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2011/03/17/weather-journal-very-little-japanese-radiation-visits-new-york/
 * http://portal.iri.columbia.edu/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=945&PageID=0&cached=true&mode=2#plm
 * http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/people/wwang/cfs_fcst/images1/usT2mSea.gif
 * http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/
 * http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/people/wwang/cfs_fcst/images1/usPrecSea.gif
 * http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/pna/nao.sprd2.gif
 * Weather Journal: Getting Colder as the Day Goes By December 28, 2011, 8:16 AM ET by Catherine Vaughan, excerpt ...
 * http://www.noaa.gov/extreme2011/index.html
 * http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/25/science/earth/climate-scientists-hampered-in-study-of-2011-extremes.html?pagewanted=all

Sunspot theory
This information, in the article for quite awhile, only applies to the United States. It was deleted:

"==Hurricanes - Sunspot theory== A 2010 report correlates low sunspot activity with high hurricane activity. Analyzing historical data, there was a 25% chance of at least one hurricane striking the continental US during a peak sunspot year; a 64% chance during a low sunspot year. In June 2010, the hurricanes predictors in the US were not using this information.(ref)(endref)(imbedded comment)note that I am not accusing the predictors of not using, just trying to clarify what they still consider unproven theory and not yet usable. Hard to report this and sound unbiased in what is being done with info! (end imbedded comment)"

Note that the link to the url has rotted. Link to hard copy is still good. I have moved this to hurricane theory. The problem is that the study was only made with the US in mind, since the US gets hit more often than any other nation. Lots of typhoons in the Pacific, but lots of countries to strike and the researcher did not correlate data there. Student7 (talk) 13:31, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

January 2014 changes
You might want to pay attention to unexplained changes. I will not be monitoring this article for awhile. An editor with unusual edits to other weather articles (check them out) has been modifying this one without apparent reason. Thanks. Student7 (talk) 19:38, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

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Temperature swings significant
I think the absence of east-west mountains contributes, the North American continent is that way kind of "open" for both cold polar air and hot air from the south. Large parts of the US sometimes has extremely changing temperatures during the winter. This becomes included in the average figures, but could possibly be mentioned better. This forecast [] for Wednesday 30.January and some days ahead for St Louis (in degrees C) is -14, +1, +7, +14, +19, +20. From very cold to summer almost in just 5 days. I don't think temperatures changes that fast at any other continent, and I think it is very interesting and worth a bit more. Boeing720 (talk) 19:20, 30 January 2019 (UTC)

What does "average annual high temperature" mean???
One graphic in this article is described as follows:

"This map shows the average annual high temperature of the United States."

It is not clear from this description what exactly is being averaged.

I suspect that it is the average maximum daily temperature for each day of the year. (With *this* average being taken over many recent years.) Finally, the average of these 365 averages is taken.

Is this correct? I hope that someone familiar with this graphic will clarify what it is intended to show. A graphic whose meaning is not clear is much less useful.2600:1700:E1C0:F340:30B1:27A7:29A4:8F6E (talk) 18:22, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
 * This is correct, yes. I understand it could be interpreted in other ways, but I think people coming here will tend to be those already familiar with the terminology. If not, they can easily look it up.  It isn't necessary to explain every term every time it is used.  — Soap — 12:22, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

The map at the top of the page
According to the map at the top of the page, File:US 50 states Köppen with territories.png, the cities of Boston, Cleveland, Kansas City, Atlanta, and Orlando all share the same climate classification (Humid subtropical), and the Appalachian Mountains are designated Oceanic, same as the Olympic Peninsula. This does not seem right to me, and it significantly contradicts the text of the article. But I am not a climatologist, and the article is inadequately sourced. Could somebody confirm or refute my suspicions about the map? Thanks-- TimK MSI (talk) 04:00, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

Problem with accuracy of the extreme temperatures
I looked into the sources given and it seems that both the June and August record low have no evidence to support them.
 * Also, the September record is wrong. According to the weatherbox on Big Piney's page, the record low is 5 for September, not -15, meaning the -15 reading never happened. Weatherboxes use official NOAA data and are always accurate. I have no idea where the other readings come from, either wishful thinking, fanciful storytelling, or backyard meteorologists who misread their thermometers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.72.202.229 (talk) 14:27, 10 September 2023 (UTC)