From the “weather is not climate department”, it seems that the biggest snowstorm of all time is targeting the nation’s capitol. Here’s the current radar image:
via NOAA/NWS
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC 1234 PM EST FRI FEB 5 2010 DCZ001-MDZ004>007-009>011-013-014-016>018-VAZ042-050>057-501-502- 060145- DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA-FREDERICK MD-CARROLL-NORTHERN BALTIMORE- 1234 PM EST FRI FEB 5 2010 ...RECORD SNOWFALL FORECAST IN THE BALTIMORE-WASHINGTON DC REGION... ...EXTREMELY DANGEROUS WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS DEVELOPING TONIGHT... GUSTY NORTHEAST WINDS 20 TO 30 MPH WITH VISIBILITIES FREQUENTLY FALLING BELOW ONE-QUARTER MILE DUE TO HEAVY SNOW WILL DEVELOP TONIGHT TO PRODUCE NEAR-BLIZZARD AND EXTREMELY HAZARDOUS WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING. TRAVEL IS HIGHLY DISCOURAGED TONIGHT AND WILL BE VERY DANGEROUS. LOOKING BACK AT THE BIGGEST STORM OF RECORD FOR WASHINGTON DC... THE JANUARY 1922 KNICKERBOCKER STORM...28.0 INCHES OF SNOW WAS PRODUCED FROM 3.02 INCHES OF LIQUID WATER. CURRENT FORECASTS FOR THIS EVENT HAVE TOTAL LIQUID FALLING FROM THIS STORM APPROACHING 3 INCHES...WHICH ACCORDINGLY WOULD CREATE A SNOWFALL THAT WILL RIVAL THE KNICKERBOCKER STORM TOTAL. GENERALLY ACROSS THE REGION...20 TO 30 INCHES OF SNOW WILL FALL BY SATURDAY EVENING. BALTIMORES RECORD OF 26.8 INCHES FROM THE PRESIDENTS DAY FEBRUARY 2003 STORM WILL ALSO BE THREATENED.
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It’s because of global warming!
Oh, hell, I couldn’t resist.
what goes around, comes around.
Well this does not seem to affect Wisconsin; so we can hardly call it the Wisconsin Glaciation Release 2.0.
snow way bat man
Experts tell us that the previous record storm from 1922 was due to a lack of CO2. This storm (of about the same size) is therefore due to an excess of CO2.
The explanation is simple. Cold and snow is due to too little CO2, too much CO2, or just the right amount of CO2. Much of current climate theory is derived from Romm/Goldilocks theory.
Al? Al? Are you in D.C. right now?
Now I lay me down to sleep
I pray for snow six feet deep
Spare the rest in the Land of The Free
But cover those loons in Washington, D.C.
I hope getting snowed in for a couple of days gives some people a clue about the importance of having energy. Reliable energy.
Well, of course, the ecoholics will use “Excuse 5-3a” from the IPCC handbook which says….ah, let me refer to my manual here….ah, here it is….”More Extreme Weather Events”. See! Told ya!
The snowfall projection has been zooming all day, from midteens to 24″, to 26″,to 28″, and the latest I’ve seen is now 30″. Having been through snowfalls of that magnitude here in Minnesota, where the infrastructure for dealing with snow is much more developed than in D.C. which is often paralyzed by little more than a minor flurry, I suspect they could end up shut down for a week or more. Personally I see that as nothing but a positive prospect.
Let’s put it the way Oboma would say it , this weather was left to me by my predecessor George W Bush! It’s not my fault. Now let us continue, to put up the fight, to counter this unprecedented; global warming.
:<] :<o Ha :<}Brr ':<) seriously.
Dave,
The storm will give Obama the opportunity to really hunker down and get serious about stopping global warming.
As of right now this article is not in the “Recent Posts” sidebar. Is WordPress supposed to automatically update it?
And as I’m in central PA, I better hurry up out of here to get the shopping done!
LarryD makes a perceptive comment:
Maybe this super storm will give the ”inside the beltway” crowd a wake-up call on what’s important (although the cynic in me isn’t holding my breath); i.e.: When you’re snowed in and it’s cold outside, having power is not just a minor handy convenience.
I say the above as someone whose primary residence is way back in the mountains on the east slopes of the North Cascades; where there are times we measure the snowfall in FEET, not inches (for a number of years the little mountain town just down the road from my place held the record for WA State for the most snowfall in one 24-hour period: FOUR FEET).
And I’m guessing not a lot of people in the ”Greater D.C.” area have the big powder snowshoes; or long-track snowmobiles; or wide-track nordic skis. So if they are any distance from a Metro station (credit where credit is due: D.C. has a good transist system; I’ve used it), they are about to have an up-close and personal experience with Mother Nature in one of her less-benign moods. . . .
Washington snows can only be a respite from dictat, but a fun one.
It’s snowing as heavily as I have seen in thirty years in Washington DC right now – we’re supposed to get up to a meter of snow, with 40-50 kmh winds
I’ve never seen a hurricane force blizzard (“Herbie”) before – I’d like to see one (not here though)
Joe Romm wrote in his web log in December that the December blizzard in DC was “exactly like the climatologists predicted with extreme weather.”
The hysteria that often accompanies paranoid schizophrenia is not funny to witness.
Not funny one bit.
Welp, I’m sitting in an apartment in the Virginia suburb of DC (Vienna) because of a house fire a few weeks ago and it is snowing like there’s no tomorrow. Started at around 10am local time and has continued since. Won’t this be fun. I suppose, if we must endure it, we may as well set the record so I can talk to my grandkids about the ‘storm of 010’. 🙂
Snow is just frozen water.
A blizzard is now in the forecast (I live in Rockville, MD).
None of the AGW experts has any ability to do real-time weather predictions.
100 years: no problem.
Tomorrow? We haven’t a clue.
Unfortunately our means of travel is based on the coefficient of friction. The coefficient of friction on ice/snow approaches 0.
That means that we do not move.
And our local governments have already spent all of their snow removal funds.
NOW WHAT?
My brake recall keeps people from watching me drive my Toyota Pious. Now this. My deepest fear is the Potomac turning into a glacier.
The oceans are puking heat content into the colder atmosphere, keeping the atmosphere warmer that it would be otherwise. Oceans puking snow and rain as well. As the third year of the deep solar minimum drags on, the ocean heat re-uptake will continue to be reduced. This report on sea surface temperature is just a bit of noise and can be classified as a false positive. Expect the summer of 2010 the be a repeat of the summer of 2009, the summer that wasn’t. Expect the following winter to be just as harsh as the preceding one, if not more so.
Until the Sun breaks out of it’s solar minimum, expect the trend to continue on the global cooling side.
Side note;
Something strange is happening in south Florida especially SW Florida this year. Here in SW Florida in the winter it is usually dry as a bone, like a dessert. Not this winter. We have been getting a generous amount of rain on a consistent basis as was this past summer. What natural phenomenon can explain this except for global cooling and solar minimum?
P.S.
Looking forward of the super blizzard of 2010 for the NE coast.
I wish I could make every congressperson who is in DC right now watch some video segments of Hansen making “coal cars death trains” speeches in front of crowds of green zombies
Three years ago I drove to the store (one mile away) during a blizzard in my SUV to get some chapstick for one of my kids. It was snowing so hard, that on the way home the vehicle got high centered and I blew out the transmission. It snowed three feet that night.
My advice would be to ski to the store if you really have to go. I didn’t have a car for a week after that and the skiing was much more fun anyway.
Steve Goddard (14:55:01) :
Experts tell us that the previous record storm from 1922 was due to a lack of CO2.
Post a query for Joe Romm. Maybe he can shed some light on CO2 in 1922. Aren’t Hansen and Romm around 80 years old?
Maybe they have an old Climbing magazine around from back then.
They’ve been treating our roads since last night. It really started snowing here around 3 pm and the the roads were still in good shape at 5. According to the National Weather Service, we could get up to 16 inches locally, but the local meteorologists are all over the place. One says 4-8, another says 8-10, and another says 6-12. So who knows. I’m bundled up in my fuzzy blanket for the night and my kids are picking out movies–I’m going to make hot chocolate and cinnamon toast.
Stay safe, everyone. I remember the Blizzard of ’93 and the Blizzard of ’79…just be careful.
Record snowfall for DC?
They are more than welcome to it.