#Christmas #Climate #Fakery On #Drudge

Jim Stone

Drudge posted a huge headline about Christmas eve being as warm as July, and then linked to this temperature map, and I'd like to pop a big question: When was all of Idaho, Nort Dakota, South Dakaota,

Minnesota, Michigan, Iowa, Utah, Colorado, Montana, Wisconsin, Nebraska, and much of California, Washington, Oregon, New Mexico, Arizona, and many other states below freezing on the 4th of July? This is not a hoax or joke, it is an outright lie, with Accuweather backing it up, saying "Parts of New England will be as warm as they were on the 4th of July." But anyone who was not a victim of common core education ought to know this is normal, because the temperatures in coastal New England are almost entirely determined by the direction of the wind coming off the Atlantic. What Drudge has done is a clear cut example of hoax journalism, where just because one spot is warm it has to be abnormal all the while temperatures everywhere else are normal with a few areas colder than normal, which is normal.

Yeah, it is warm in New England but even Nevada, out there in the middle of the desert, has a temperature that is 26 degrees below freezing as a high temperature for the day. That does happen from time to time in Nevada, but you can't make the case it is "as warm as July" there or anywhere else! Drudge headline correction: Due to a weather anomaly out east, which brought warm wind in off the ocean, in a couple spots on the coast Christmas Eve will be as warm as the coldest July temperature on record. There. Fixed.