This national radar mosaic shows huge amounts of gathering moisture ready to collide with frigid air. The storm gets the label “Nor’easter“.
Forecasters all over are watching this storm with concern.
From Accuweather.com a forecast for the mid-Atlantic suggests Washington DC might get dumped on big time:
“Accumulations have the potential to reach 2 feet in some areas, matching or exceeding snowfall from the December blizzard.”
The Weather Channel seems to agree:
Major Nor’easter to Slam Mid-Atlantic
“High-populated areas of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey and southeastern Pennsylvania will likely all experience big snow totals. Washington, DC and Baltimore could experience foot plus snow totals.”
Here is the weather channel snowfall map:
Look for pandemonium in Washington soon.
Joe Romm says you can’t report this unless you have a Phd in climate science. Mann’s is in Geology from a school that doesn’t have a climate department.
I have had my tast of gorflakes and expect 5 more inches tomorrow.
We were lied to regarding snowless winters.
“unexpectedly heavy snows”
I also appears the tree huggers won the battle against road salt. Drive carefully. Your Prius has no brakes.
OT but…
Detectives question climate change scientist over email leaks
University of East Anglia scientist Paul Dennis denies leaking material, but links to climate change sceptics in US drew him to attention of the investigators
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/04/climate-change-email-hacking-leaks
Looks like Mann will get some of this global warming snow. At least he can play with his hockey stick again.
“Forecasters all over are watching this storm with concern.” What forecaster doesn’t like a nice big storm? I thought they lived for his stuff. As a D.C. resident, I know I’m stoked.
Al Gore must have a speaking engagement in DC, Baltimore or Delaware.
The man is a travelling menace.
A scientist at the University of East Anglia has been questioned by detectives investigating how controversial emails were leaked from the campus’s climate research unit.
Norfolk police have interviewed and taken a formal statement from Paul Dennis, 54, another climate researcher who heads an adjacent laboratory.
The leaked emails from the head of the unit, Professor Phil Jones, surfaced just before the Copenhagen conference in December and caused a furore because they suggested that data which did not support theories of global warming was being deliberately withheld. Dennis denies leaking the material. But it is understood that his links with climate change sceptic bloggers in North America drew him to the attention of the investigating team, and have exposed rifts within the university’s environmental science faculty.
Can’t be true. They say it was hacked.
There is a whole lot of moisture with this thing. I’m sitting here in western NC and it started sleeting about an hour ago, but it’s just going to be a mix for us. Maybe an inch or two. If temps would be about 3-4F colder, this would break every snow record we have. 2″-3″ of liquid precip. is forecast.
Unuasaly large number of trolls hailing this report.
I prefer wait and see.
“Penitenziagite!”
It is only weather.
And they just got a foot of snow in some places last weekend. They got a lot of snow in that region in 1996 but that was the first week of January. A “doozy” is right. BUT … the storm tracking 50 miles east or west can make a huge difference in snow totals. It can mean the difference between a dumping and a dusting or the difference between a dumping and a deluge of rain.
I feel bad for the rest of the southeast, and for innocent bystanders in DC, but I can’t help but think that Washington DC, home of the home of the never-ending snow job, deserves every flake that it gets. 😉
I was thinking “must be brutally cold there”, but the forecast is only for a low of 32F. Oh well.
Not to be too anal about terminology, but words matter. Doesn’t a Nor’easter come from the North East? Hence the name. Seems like the Weather Channel would know that.
“Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past” headline was posted in the Independent newspaper in the UK on March 20, 2000.
However, the warming is so far manifesting itself more in winters which are less cold than in much hotter summers.
According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”.
“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” he said. (end)
Please, for the CHILDREN.
For those on the East Coast subjected to the storm, please save samples of the snow in jars and then put in them in the Freezer.
And, many years from now, your thankful descendants with great reverence will remove the jars, gather round them, and marvel at real SNOW.
MattN (15:39:59) :
There is a whole lot of moisture with this thing. I’m sitting here in western NC and it started sleeting about an hour ago, but it’s just going to be a mix for us. Maybe an inch or two. If temps would be about 3-4F colder, this would break every snow record we have. 2″-3″ of liquid precip. is forecast.
I am sitting in the central NC area just south of Jordan lake. We rarely get snow (once ever 4-5 years) and it never stays long. So far this winter, it has snowed twice and we still have snow from the last storm – amazing!
Meanwhile, in Washington State from east of the normally snowy Cascades:
Headline: “Kittitas County irrigators are asking: Where’s the snow?”
http://kvnews.com/articles/2010/02/04/news/doc4b69ea7583efd597666919.txt
Oh, the snow is in Washington, D.C. So Mother Nature confused the two Washingtons. Funny business, this weather.
http://www.spectator.co.uk/spectator/thisweek/5749853/the-global-warming-guerrillas.thtml
Awesome article in The Spectator, Almost enough to warm the heart of us deniers
“Contrast it with wattsupwiththat.com, a site founded in November 2006 by a former Californian television weather forecaster named Anthony Watts. Dedicated at first to getting people to photograph weather stations to discover how poorly sited many of them are, the site has metamorphosed from a gathering place for lonely nutters to a three-million-hits-per-month online newspaper on climate full of fascinating articles by physicists, geologists, economists and statisticians.”
OT A forthrightly well stated:
The end is not near by S. Fred Singer
February 04, 2010
http://www.hindustantimes.com/The-end-is-not-near/H1-Article1-505317.aspx
The Cap & Spill Bill must be on the burners in DC, and they called in thier big gun, Gore. The snowflakes will settle the bull.
Couple of OT posts about Paul Dennis of CRU and oblique references to Big Oil swaying opinions.
Take a read of Climategate email 973374325.txt and follow the links. Here is part of it:
” BP, FORD GIVE $20 MILLION FOR PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
EMISSIONS
STUDY
Auto.com/Bloomberg News
October 26, 2000
Internet: [1]http://www.auto.com/industry/iwirc26_20001026.htm
LONDON — BP Amoco Plc, the world’s No. 3 publicly traded oil
company, and Ford Motor Co. said they will give Princeton
University $20 million over 10 years to study ways to reduce
carbon-dioxide emissions from fossil fuels. BP said it will give
$15 million. Ford, the world’s second-biggest automaker, is
donating $5 million. The gift is part of a partnership between the
companies aimed at addressing concerns about climate change.
Carbon dioxide is the most common of the greenhouse gases believed to contribute to global warming.
London-based BP said it plans to give $85 million in the next
decade to universities in the U.S. and U.K. to study environmental
and energy issues. In the past two years, the company has pledged $40 million to Cambridge University, $20 million to the University of California at Berkeley and $10 million to the University of Colorado at Boulder.”
Test question: Who’s in the pay of Big Oil?
“within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”.”
The result of average temperature changes measured in the 1/10 and 1/100 degree.
Pandemonium in Washington?
Have you become a political forecaster, Anthony:-? Or just an observer? 🙂 Certainly the pandemonium will increase as November approaches.
Their must be some sort of AGW event in DC this weekend for us to get this much snow. Could Al Gore and Hansen be in town at the same time? One shudders to think of the devastation 😉 .
Jakers (16:13:48)
Typically, it tends to not be that cold in D.C. when we get big storms. You would think that they would come out of the northwest but storms from that direction tend to drop their snow in the mountains. Our killer storms are usually coastal lows that form over Cape Hatteras and move north. When I see a big storm down in the Texas area I start to worry. It moves eastward and gets out over Hatteras and that’s when we get a dumping. A few miles east or west can make the difference between rain and a foot of snow. The last one went straight out to sea and we only got a few inches, but south of here they had up to a foot. In fact the rain/snow line is just going to be south of D.C. this time, but not close enough to save us from this one. I’m over in Delaware this week at about the same latitude (and about 100 miles east) but we may get some rain before it switches over to snow here.
Hey, take is easy on us folks in the Baltimore-Washington area. This has already been billed by the Washington Post as a “historic” storm. (They went on to say it’s just like the one that hit us the week before Christmas.) Anyway, it seems we get these 2 footers about every 6 or 7 years, (except when we get hit more than once) and it was not many years ago the governement shut down for almost a week. Do you think anyone will notice that the DC is shut down?
A response for Andy, who wrote:
“Andy (16:21:32) :
Not to be too anal about terminology, but words matter. Doesn’t a Nor’easter come from the North East? Hence the name. Seems like the Weather Channel would know that.”
Actually, a Nor’easter comes up from the southwest. On the northern side of the storm, circulation around the low causes the wind to come out of the northeast, along with the moisture that, in the winter months, falls as either cold rain or snow. Hence the monicker, Nor’easter, which predates The Weather Channel by several generations of our east coast neighbors.
Those winds tend to be rather strong, too.