Record high temperatures for April

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, February, and March:

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!

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!

For March:

01) The record high temperatures for March ranged from 87° to a low of 70°.
02) There were fourteen highs in the 80’s, and seventeen in the 70’s.
03) The most record high temperatures for a decade occurred in 4 different decades—the 1900’s, 1980’s, 1990’s, and 2000’s—with four in each decade.
04) The decade of the 1880’s had no record high dates.
05) One date in the 1930’s had record high temperatures.
06) The highest record high temperature of 87° occurred on March 21, 1907.
07) The lowest record high temperature of 70° occurred on March 5, 1945.

Now it is a horse race! In January, the 2000’s led the 1930’s by a 2 to 1 margin. The 1930’s from January through February had 10 record high temperatures. The 2000’s had five. The 1930’s has one more record high temperature in March giving the 1930’s a total of 11 for the first three months of the year. The 2000’s added four more record high temperatures to its previous total of five increasing its three month total to nine just two less than the eleven of the 1930’s. The race is on! It must be “Al Gore’s” global warming—or not!

Here are the April 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 April with the year of that record high.

“April 1……. 83 ……. 1946
April 2……. 84 ……. 1940
April 3……. 82 ……. 1978
April 4……. 86 ……. 1929
April 5……. 85 ……. 1929
April 6……. 85 ……. 1929
April 7……. 88 ……. 1893
April 8……. 84 ……. 1931*
April 9……. 84 ……. 1887
April 10……. 92 ……. 1930*
April 11……. 91 ……. 1930*
April 12……. 89 ……. 1930*
April 13……. 90 ……. 1887
April 14……. 85 ……. 2003
April 15……. 87 ……. 2002
April 16……. 88 ……. 2002
April 17……. 88 ……. 1894
April 18……. 91 ……. 2002
April 19……. 84 ……. 1985
April 20……. 89 ……. 1987
April 21……. 85 ……. 1985
April 22……. 88 ……. 1980
April 23……. 88 ……. 1886
April 24……. 85 ……. 1990
April 25……. 92 ……. 1986
April 26……. 90 ……. 1986
April 27……. 86 ……. 1986
April 28……. 91 ……. 1894
April 29……. 92 ……. 1899
April 30……. 90 ……. 1901

For April:

01) The record high temperatures for April ranged from 92° to a low of 82°.
02) There were nine highs in the 90’s, and twenty-one in the 80’s.
03) The most record high temperatures for a decade occurred in the 1980’s with seven in the decade.
04) The decades of the 1910’s, 1950’s, and 1960’s had no record high dates.
05) The 1930’s had four record high temperatures.
06) The 2000’s had four record high temperatures.
07) The highest record high temperature of 92° occurred on April 10, 1930 and April 25, 1986.
08) The lowest record high temperature of 82° occurred on April 3, 1978.
09) There were seven record high temperatures in the 1880’s and 1890’s.

It is still a horse race! In January, the 2000’s led the 1930’s by a 2 to 1 margin. The 1930’s from January through February had 10 record high temperatures. The 2000’s had five. The 1930’s had one more record high temperature in March giving the 1930’s a total of 11 for the first three months of the year. The 2000’s added four more record high temperatures to its previous total of five increasing its three month total to nine just two less than the eleven of the 1930’s. Both the 1930’s and the 2000’s had four more record high temperatures in April. So, the totals now are 15 record high temperatures for the 1930’s through the first four months of the year and 13 record high temperatures for the 2000’s through the first four months of the year. The race continues! Who will win out? 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!!!