Record high temperatures for January


The record high temperatures for January:

On July 6th, 2007, I posted for the first time on my blog the record high temperature for Peoria, Illinois for each day of the month of July with the year the record occurred. I began the post with this paragraph:

Anyone ever ask you, “Hot enough for you?” It seems like I hear that every summer. I was at a funeral recently. I can’t remember the age of the person but I think she was around 90 years of age. One of the individuals who talked about her life mentioned that she often talked about how hot it was in 1936. 1936? But global warming is a new phenomenon! How could it be hot in 1936?

The Peoria Journal Star on December 27, 2009, page S3 published “The Weather Month by Month.” According to the Peoria Journal Star, here are the record highs for Peoria for the month of January with the year of that record high.

“January 1……. 63 ……. 1897
January 2……. 65 ……. 2004
January 3……. 61 ……. 1998
January 4……. 65 ……. 1997
January 5……. 60 ……. 1890
January 6……. 65 ……. 2008—(was 61 in 1907)
January 7……. 67 ……. 2008—(was 65 in 1907)
January 8……. 60 ……. 1965
January 9……. 60 ……. 1939*
January 10……. 59 ……. 1975
January 11……. 62 ……. 1890
January 12……. 66 ……. 1890
January 13……. 60 ……. 1932*
January 14……. 64 ……. 1928
January 15……. 63 ……. 1949
January 16……. 62 ……. 1990
January 17……. 67 ……. 1894
January 18……. 59 ……. 1951
January 19……. 63 ……. 1952
January 20……. 65 ……. 1906
January 21……. 62 ……. 1957
January 22……. 62 ……. 1967
January 23……. 71 ……. 1909
January 24……. 68 ……. 1950
January 25……. 68 ……. 1950
January 26……. 60 ……. 2001
January 27……. 63 ……. 1944
January 28……. 62 ……. 1914
January 29……. 61 ……. 1914
January 30……. 56 ……. 1988
January 31……. 70 ……. 1989”

For January:

01) The record high temperatures for January ranged from 71° to a low of 56°.
02) There were two highs in the 70’s, three in the 50’s, and twenty-six in the 60’s.
03) The most record high temperatures for a decade occurred in the 1890’s and 1950’s with 5 each.
04) The decade of the 1880’s was the only decade with no record high dates.
05) The decade of the 1930’s had 2 record high temperature dates.
06) Four dates in the 2000’s had record high temperatures.
07) The highest record high temperature of 71° occurred on January 23, 1909.
08) The lowest record high temperature of 56° occurred on January 30, 1988.

For the month of January, the 2000’s lead the 1930’s with 4 record highs for the 2000’s and only 2 record highs for the 1930’s—a 2 to 1 advantage. It must be “Al Gore’s” global warming—or not!

Of course, it is way too early to determine what kind of year 2010 will be temperature-wise. However, for the first three days of the year it has been COLD. The first day of the year was -17° below normal. The first two days of the year were -20° below normal. The first three days of the year were -20.2° below normal. That’s cold to me!!!

This is what the Bible says about our climate: “Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: ‘Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.

As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.’” Genesis 8: 20-22 (NIV)

This is what the Bible says about GOD’S promises: “‘God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?’” Numbers 23: 19 (NIV)

Now, let me think. Should I believe “Al Gore and his cohorts’ prediction of “Global Warming” fifty years into the future or should I believe GOD’S sure PROMISE?

GOD’S PROMISE: “‘As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.’”

Al Gore’s fantasy prediction 50 years into the future: catastrophe of man’s own making.

The winner is:

As I’ve said before, no human can accurately predict what the weather is going to be like 50 years from today. We have difficulty predicting with 100% accuracy what the weather is going to be like seven days from now. This I do know. If GOD wants global warming as predicted by the “Al Gore gang” to occur, there is NOTHING man can do to stop it. If GOD doesn’t want global warming to occur, it won’t, no matter what man does. Of course, GOD could always let man proceed as they choose without HIS hand in it either way. I don’t know what will occur 50 years from now and NEITHER DOES any other human on this planet!

This I also know. If I were living a life of SIN, I’d be more concerned about what GOD will do today and tomorrow or what will happen to me after my death (none of us has a guarantee that we will live another fifty years) than what is going to occur in another 50 years!!!