From the “weather is not climate” department, inconvenient travel:
Here’s a sample of headlines related to difficult if not impossible holiday travel:
Christmas Eve storm in central states creates travel misery (WaPo)
A slow-moving storm spread snow, sleet and rain across the nation’s midsection Thursday, making last-minute holiday travel treacherous but promising a white Christmas for some.
The National Weather Service issued blizzard warnings for parts of Oklahoma, the Dakotas, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Texas. It cautioned that travel would be extremely dangerous in those areas through the weekend and that drivers should pack a winter survival kit.
Winter Storm Disrupts Holiday Travel (NYT)
“Snow will be falling at a rate that snow plows are not able to keep up with,” AccuWeather reported on its Web site, “while winds gusting past 40 miles per hour will cause severe blowing and drifting along with whiteout conditions.”
Heavy snowfall causes disruption across Europe (BBC)
Heavy snow and ice are causing disruption across a wide swathe of Europe. Flights have been delayed or cancelled at airports in Britain, Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands.
Power providers in south-east France say they have had to cut supplies to around two million people to avoid a massive regional blackout.
In Poland, nearly 60 people have died this December because of the weather.
Rare blizzard strikes West Texas
DALLAS — In much of the rolling plains of West Texas, a blizzard has never been recorded.
There has been one now.
The region west and northwest of the Dallas-Fort Worth area saw blizzard-like conditions throughout the day Christmas Eve as up to 8 inches of snow fell in the region, according to the National Weather Service. Winds gusting at up to 65 mph drifted the snow as deep as 5 feet in some areas.
No blizzard warning had ever been issued for an area of Texas as far south as Interstate 20, said Jim Wingenroth, senior forecaster at the National Weather Service office in San Angelo.
Heavily traveled Interstate 20 between Cisco and Abilene was closed after six inches of snow fell in the area 130 miles west of Dallas, said Larry Smith, Brownwood area engineer for the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Treetops glisten, but storm snarls Midwest holiday (Atlanta Journal Constitution)
The Star-Telegram said the Dallas-Fort Worth area was experiencing its first White Christmas in more than 80 years. While the area had a sprinkling of holiday snow in 2004 and 1997, the lasttime it experienced “a true, New England-style dose of snow on Christmas Day was Dec. 25, 1926,” the newspaper reported.
Some churches canceled Christmas Eve services, while others saw sharply lower attendance.
Oklahoma City had received 14 inches of snow by Thursday night, breaking a record set back in 1914 of 2.5 inches.
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I wonder if the term “global warming” will be a new name for snow.
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Well, in our part of the world there are extreme floods!
Heads up from Joe Bastardi European weather blog:
WELL HERE WE GO AGAIN! SEVERE COLD LOOMING FOR MUCH OF EUROPE FIRST 2 WEEKS OF THE NEW YEAR!
While we are in a bit of a break over the next week, a reload of excess cold is on the way for the first 2 weeks of the New Year, that will challenge the recent cold as far as how cold it was against the normals. Severe cold is likely to cause major hardship across much of the continent and when we stand back and look at this, we will say that our forecast at least caught the SPIRIT OF THE WINTER, if not the law.
Merry Christmas everyone from the pacific Northwest where we are still waiting for a white christmas 🙂 Medic 1532
Mr. Cripwell:
You have it wrong. Have you not read the memo?
The snow is caused by “global warming”. Ya see, we started warming ohhh, around 12,000 years ago and it started snowing then.
Waco, Texas had snow on Christmas Eve for the first time on record.
per: The Weather Channel
It serves them right for having Xmas in winter.
Joe Romm on Climate progress is loudly denying the blizzards. He denied the blizzard in copenhagen and Can’t cope with the days following paralysing europe.
These are the very first days of winter. To all the global warmiong adherents. Welcome to cooling. Enjoy reality for a change.
REPLY: One of his posts posed the theory that the snow was a “global warming type event”. -A
Two thousand and nine
global warming unleashes
a double winter
Oklahoma City had received 14 inches of snow by Thursday night, breaking a record set back in 1914 of 2.5 inches.
This was also a record for the most snow for any single day ever in Oklahoma City.
Dallas got 3 inches yesterday. And most of the Northwest corner of Texas is covered in record snow.
For some people this will be proof positive that CO2 is causing climate change – logic has been replaced with the new science of unfalsifiable hypotheses. Or to put it another way “whatever happens it is caused by fossil fuel burning – so we intend to tax fossil fuels”. They would still be saying this if the Mississippi was a glacier all the way to New Orleans.
I was just posting on a forum about the hazardous travel and stranded people.
Cold shock: how ignorance and a winter dip can kill – News
http://www.aol.com.au/news/story/Cold-shock-how-ignorance-and-a-winter-dip-can-kill/2357493/index.html
CDC Winter Weather | FAQ
http://www.bt.cdc.gov/disasters/winter/faq.asp
Cold Weather Safety
http://www.vdh.state.va.us/weather/ColdWeatherSafety.htm
One may notice that many of these stories report new records in the 55 to 80 year time frame or “not seen in more than 50 years.” Similar statements go back to cool weather last summer. Meanwhile, James Hansen told us last week that 2010 may be the warmest year in the history of the instrumental record.
From Gold Butte, Montana to Tombstone, Arizona to Beaver Dam, Wisconsin there was record snow in the U.S.A.
There have been some theories that warmer temperatures would increase snowfall in Greenland and Antarctica due to greater humidity. I haven’t heard any theories though that global warming would lead to the near record cold and snow which the US is seeing. Most of the reports have predicted warmer winters with decreasing snow.
A few years ago The Guardian was predicting that England would become a Mediterranean climate.
There is a reason why the theory was named “global warming.” It is supposed to be getting warmer.
We are having our usual snow filled December etc. in the far North East next to Maine. I usually don’t have to shovel my roof off this early, but… Things change. Ice dams to cope with now, on the edge of my roof, causing water to back up towards the house under the shingles. However, all is not misery. I still have chestnuts – not over an open fire, which I don’t have anyway, but in the microwave.
Romm also made some blistering comments (which I didn’t read other than for Revkin’s response to Romm, on Revkin’s opinion piece in the times) about the departing Andy Revkin from the NYtimes, so maybe Andy can’t have been that bad after all. I resisted making my own blistering comment after that, about Andy striving to learn some science at Pace, and report more about valid science than that peddled by the IPCC.
Merry – apply politically correct noun here – to everyone!
Juraj V. (07:58:56) :
“Heads up from Joe Bastardi European weather blog:
WELL HERE WE GO AGAIN! SEVERE COLD LOOMING FOR MUCH OF EUROPE FIRST 2 WEEKS OF THE NEW YEAR!”
Piers Corbyn (WeatherAction, London) is saying the same thing.
While I am at it: we need a new word for the English language: WIKI-WISE, to mean woefully misinformed, profoundly ignorant of the facts, believing only what one is told to believe. Shades of Orwell again.
White Christmas in NE Oregon, we have 1/2 to 2″ in the area of La Grande,low stratus this am. Cold, in the upper teens and low 20 F. Chance of snow this weekend.BTW
the NOAA extended last week said:”Above Normal temps, below normal precip.”
Ok, I think they are wrong.
Here’s the University webcam: http://www.eou.edu/webcam/
Where is my Global Warming? I want it now!
Just finished trying to get my truck out of the street where I had to leave it yesterday since the global warming was three feet in my drive way here in beautiful Oklahoma City.
And here in Eastern Ontario there is little snow (though it was bitterly cold until yesterday, with -16 C overnight Monday, homogenised with Toronto that would make it only -10). Luck of the draw I guess.
And Piers Corbyn is saying the same:
WeatherAction forecast (issued Dec 2) for severe winter
storms USA & Canada 19-31 Dec dramatically confirmed
Notably dangerous warning for 28-30 Dec remains in force
● Likely worst hit to be: MidWest, Great Lakes, Central & NE USA
● Short range Met Maps now show developing Northerly blast 28 Dec
but it will be more severe than standard meteorology expects
Enjoy Global Warming Al Baby!!
Even the beeb is covering it http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8430482.stm But it has to be put in perspective as normal: “Although severe, storms are not uncommon in the US during the winter months, says meteorologist Stav Danaos at the BBC Weather Centre.”
So is James Hansen telling us NASA GISS plans on tweeking the numbers?
Here in the UK the Queen’s Christmas Day Speech mentioned not a word about ‘Global Warming’, despite talking about her attendance at the Commonwealth Meeting in the W.Indies which was all about AGW!!
Maybe the Palace is getting the message.!
Happy Christmas