Record high temperatures for February


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?

I had a post for each month from July of 2007 through June of 2008. I stopped at June because I did not have the new figures for the second half of the year. I now have the figures for January through June. Therefore, I thought I would begin the process again.

First, here are the conclusions for January:

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!

Here are the February record high temperatures for Peoria.

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 February with the year of that record high.

“February 1……. 63 ……. 1911
February 2……. 54 ……. 1920
February 3……. 63 ……. 1992
February 4……. 68 ……. 1890
February 5……. 60 ……. 1946
February 6……. 59 ……. 1904
February 7……. 63 ……. 1925
February 8……. 63 ……. 1990
February 9……. 65 ……. 1943
February 10……. 74 ……. 1932*
February 11……. 68 ……. 1999
February 12……. 69 ……. 1938*
February 13……. 65 ……. 1938*
February 14……. 67 ……. 1954
February 15……. 72 ……. 1921
February 16……. 60 ……. 1911
February 17……. 64 ……. 1890
February 18……. 63 ……. 1994
February 19……. 71 ……. 1930*
February 20……. 67 ……. 1930*
February 21……. 69 ……. 1930*
February 22……. 71 ……. 1922
February 23……. 64 ……. 1930*
February 24……. 71 ……. 1930*
February 25……. 70 ……. 2000
February 26……. 71 ……. 1996
February 27……. 72 ……. 1976
February 28……. 68 ……. 1895

For February:

01) The record high temperatures for February ranged from 74° to a low of 54°.
02) There were eight highs in the 70’s, two in the 50’s, and eighteen in the 60’s.
03) The most record high temperatures for a decade occurred in the 1930’s with 8.
04) The decades of the 1880’s, 1960’s, and 1980’s had no record high dates.
05) One date in the 2000’s had record high temperatures.
07) The highest record high temperature of 74° occurred on February 10, 1932.
08) The lowest record high temperature of 54° occurred on February 2, 1920.
09) The year of 1930 had five of six straight days with record high temperatures.

The 2000’s lead over the 1930’s of 2 to 1 has been reversed. The 1930’s from January through February now has 10 record high temperatures. The 2000’s now has five. The 1930’s now has a 2 to 1 advantage over the 2000’s. The reversal occurred in one month. It must be “Al Gore’s” global warming—or not!

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)

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!!!