And that’s not all, for the week ending Dec 13th, there were 815 new snowfall records set. December 2009 is shaping up to be quite the snowmaker. Here’s a map showing continental USA records:
Here is the daily count data from NCDC, with links to tabular reports and source for the snowfall records:
Dec 20th 124
Dec 21st 50
Dec 22nd 75
Dec 23rd 71
Dec 24th 170
Dec 25th 235
Dec 26th 152
Total 877 (CONUS and Alaska)
Many of the records have been bested significantly, and there were a number of all time records broken as well.
For example, December 24th and 25th all time records:
Click tables for original source reports from NCDC.
Note that we saw the majority of records from the most recent snowstorm in places that are fairly far south of the major USA snow belt.
| 24 December 2009 | Lat | Lon | ASOS/
COOP |
COOP/
WBAN ID* |
Record
New (4) Tied (0) |
Previous
Record |
Previous
Date |
Period
of Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UNIV OF MINN ST PAUL, MN | 44.98 | -93.18 | COOP | 218450 | 6.7 in | 4.0 in | 9 Dec 2009 | 31 |
| SHERBURN 3 WSW, MN | 43.63 | -94.77 | COOP | 217602 | 4.0 in | 3.0 in | 22 Dec 2009 | 62 |
| OK CITY WILL ROGERS AP, OK (KOKC) | 35.39 | -97.60 | ASOS | 346661 | 14.1 in | 8.4 in | 10 Mar 1948 | 69 |
| POST, TX | 33.20 | -101.37 | COOP | 417206 | 9.2 in | 9.0 in | 15 Mar 1969 | 100 |
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1238638/Chinese-hackers-linked-Warmergate-climate-change-leaked-emails-controversy.html
Aren’t we supposed to be in mild El-Nino condiions? Isn’t that supposed to be making us warmer?
that MUST be all those M $ of carbon credits that we’ve traded that are cooling our weather! Proof positive that trading carbon credits is SAVING us! 🙂
Must be Global warming, heaven help them poley bears.
Imagine swimming because of no Ice floes, because Tinkerbell from Disney Land sprinkled pixie dust, now the little rascal sprinkles more fairy dust and snow everywhere, Calling Peter Hansen, tell tinks to stop being naughty.
All them flocks of Poley bears are gonna drown, from carrying too much snow.
That’s not snow,it’s merely “soft hail” and its obviously due to global warming, I mean climate change, I mean the climate crisis. /sarc
Could someone compile a list of all the record low, snowfall, rainfall, and record low maximum temps for 2009?
It’d be especially interesting to have them for the whole world, but just the USA would also be good.
Makes me wonder WTH these people are smoking/drinking/snorting as they claim 2009 is the warmest year ever and 2010 will be even warmer.
First Legal Action Filed Today With EPA CO2 Endangerment Finding Challenged
http://pr-canada.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=153980&Itemid=65
1692 total for those 2 weeks in December.
There was also the 304 low temperature, and 403 lowest max temperature records (i.e. record cold) set Dec 6-14—what a travesty!
A December that was climate and not weather. 😉
somebody needs prayer: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00659/Al-Gore_659811a.jpg
We were told at the very beginning to expect severe weather conditions, I don’t remember anyone mentioning cold extreme weather conditions, but they will now. If you believe in AGW every event confirms that belief, just like any other religion.
Here we go again! The records at NOAA are wrong or incomplete. At least one record is totally missing in that on 12/24 Will Rogers Airport in Oklahoma City got 14+ inches with previous record at two plus inches in the 80s. Not even mentioned in the 877.
I know. I got caught in the blizzard traveling 20 miles to my grandkids home on Christmas eve. Damnest thing I’ve every been in. Couldn’t see 100 feet at best in front of the car. It was 28 degrees outside, inside the car it was 90 degrees with defrost only setting and fan blowing hard but not enough heat to keep the windshield and wipers from freezing over ever 6 blocks or so, stop, get out, scrape, back-in for next segment for hour and a half. Lucky I didn’t get hit from cars behind. Fifty plus steady crosswind. Semis blown over. Cars literally blown off the road.
Makes me want to find why calculating wind chill doesn’t appear correct after that experience. I’ve been in snow with it -5 degrees and no wind with defroster able to keep up. What’s up?
If you’ve never been in a blizzard, believe me, think twice!!
wheres Al Gore – Im sure he must be in the middle of this snow!
Whoever said the payola and the record industry were dead.?
Now that’s curious, when I go to the “Dec 24th 170” link, Oklhoma only has two entries, no Will Rogers International but, sorry, I missed the entry within the story itself.
NOAA records seem not to be CONSISTENT, apparently not totally missing.
cold hot (01:31:21) :
That’s not snow,it’s merely “soft hail”
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Rotted hail.
For what it’s worth, Peirs Corbyn says worse to come. He was a few day’s ahead of himself with what we’ve already had so maybe first few days of January?
http://www.weatheraction.com/docs/WANews09No103.pdf
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv_aueaCtng&hl=en_GB&fs=1&]
It’s cold in the NH now, but likely to get much colder. The CAGW hypothesis does not explain how this can be happening, as CO2 levels have continued to rise while the Earth has cooled dramatically.
We need to do some urgent research as to what’s going on so that steps can be taken to prepare the population for more severe winters and cooler, shorter summers. The sun seems to be implicated in this cooling and the mechanisms of cause and effect need to be discovered.
The fall-out from Climategate is going to change the face of politics, science and the power balance of the world. I find it ironic that after spending all that money to prove the link between CO2 and climate, mother nature herself has decided to take matters into her own hands.
Mankind is nothing more than a pimple on the backside of an elephant, and the harsh lessons we are going to learn over the next few decades will help everyone understand this important fact. Survival of our species depends on it.
Gregg E wrote: “Makes me wonder WTH these people are smoking/drinking/snorting as they claim 2009 is the warmest year ever and 2010 will be even warmer.”
Ah, but you are way out of date my friend. It’s not the raw data that counts. Pfft to the raw data, we can throw that away as fast at possible. What’s valuable is the adjusted data. Once the data for 2009 is adjusted in accordance with ‘internationally accepted standards’ it will prove that 2009 was one of the hottest years ever.
I say this with total confidence even though I have at the moment no idea of what the raw data might show beyond lots of cold, cold, cold. I have full confidence in Jones, Mann and their merry Cru. They have after all proved themselves over and over again.
You may wonder how the old augers, oracles etc managed to survive for so many centuries when they had no special knowledge of what the future might bring. The ‘trick’ is to make sure that no matter what happens it is loudly proclaimed as exactly what was expected, no matter how it differs from what was previously said.
That’s a lot of 1-ups on the scoreboard this month. But, by next month, you know what they will score Dec. 2009 as, the x-warmest.
It will take a full-fledged disaster to put the chill down the spine of those spinning mythical yarn. When the maddened crowds with torches and pitchforks come calling.
Gregg E. (01:35:02) :
Makes me wonder WTH these people are smoking/drinking/snorting
I could say they drank the kool–aid. But they didn’t. They had both eyes open and acted with intention (for whatever reason). They weren’t on any judgment altering drug. ClimateGate emails, and especially ClimateGate computer code, showed us that.
In a way I do agree with Fred Singer, that I can feel some sympathy for them while not at all condoning what they did,
found at 7:04 to 7:37 of this video
22c here in Sydney, Australia today. Pretty cool for summer, but at ~90% humidity it’s very sticky.
Back home in Aberfeldy, Perthshire, and not far from where his Lorship lives on Loch Rannoch, there is over 1 foot of lying snow and it is still snowing.
This Scottish December is very unusual. In my lifetime I only remember one similar one, in 1981, which was colder but not as snowy. There was another cold December in 1962 when I was a toddler so don’t remember it. That winter of 1962-63 was one of the worst in my father’s memory – the only one worse was in 1947. The UK winter of 1947 didn’t start until late January and it snowed for weeks until sometime in late March I think.
But it’s just weather…
>> It’s not the raw data that counts. What’s valuable is
>>the adjusted data. Once the data for 2009 is adjusted
>>in accordance with ‘internationally accepted standards’
>>it will prove that 2009 was one of the hottest years ever.
Ah yes, New World Politics in action, across the globe. We have had this in the UK for ten years.
In the UK, official school results have been going up for ten years, while universities and businesses have been claiming that standards have been falling rapidly. Again, it is the ‘adjusted’ school results that get published, not the real ones.
In this case, they just make the testing easier. This is a physics exam for UK 16-year olds. From pure physics, this exam has been downgraded to general knowledge questions on Green propaganda – about wind turbines, solar cells, pollution, radioactive waste, renewables, conservation, geothermal power and insulation.
http://store.aqa.org.uk/qual/gcse/qp-ms/AQA-PHY1AP-W-QP-MAR08.PDF
Where are the equations? Where are the underlying principles of physics, the foundations of knowledge? Where is the science? Just where are tomorrow’s scientists and engineers going to come from??
In world politics, the inmates have taken over the asylum. It is time to take back control.
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Interesting to verify that most os the cold deaths seem to correlate with these records:
http://ecotretas.blogspot.com/2009/12/december-2009-cold-death-toll.html
Ecotretas
As I understood Lubos’s post on cold records, he was essentially saying after 50 years warming a 1 in 100 year freak cold event could still break long-term cold records even in a warmer climate.
Surely these statistics give us an accurate confidence level for the absurd hypothesis?
If you fancy a giggle, check out this article from The Independent of 2000 which quotes ‘leading researchers’ from The Hadley centre and elsewhere telling us that snow in the UK is ‘a thing of the past’
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/snowfalls-are-now-just-a-thing-of-the-past-724017.html
Unfortunately, on the internet the links are updated even when the story isn’t. So, scroll to the bottom of the page in 2009 and what do you see?
“Met Office: more snow on the way”
Good old Independent.