From the “weather is not climate” department, post by Mike Lorrey:
I woke up today to find a couple inches of snow accumulating on my deck, and was thinking about setting up a nice picture there with some of the birds that visit and some of the easter eggs the family has been making this week, when my sixth grade teacher, Catherine Lacombe, who lives down the street from me on Eastman Lake, sent me this link to a picture she took this morning of a Loon caught on the lake in the blizzard. Apparently the Loon was taking navigational and seasonal advice from Al Gore, and wasn’t very amused at all the white stuff coming down. (click on the picture above to get a high res version uploaded by Cathy to The Weather Channel)
This Easter Blizzard is part of the storm system thats providing rain to much of the east coast today, but for northern New England, has converted to snow, sleet, and ice from western Vermont and New Hampshire this morning up to the most northeastern Maine by this evening. We in the north country are usually happy to get snow for Christmas, and thrilled to have it for Thanksgiving, but Easter weekend?
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I’m up in New Hamster for a week or so & we got quite a good belt of snow to-day. Like I need an excuse to stay inside and drink.
Just so I’m clear on the concept…
…I confuse easily
It still has to be cold to snow, right?
I wonder what this weather is doing to the crop-growing in the area?
Looks like it is going to be a rather curtailed growing season for just about anything.
Easter Blizzards are not new. I remember driving through one in 1970…. but Easter was on March 29th that year. Just cold rain here in Connecticut this time.
I didn’t get the latest memo: is it more snow means global warming, or is it back to less snow means global warming? And is it late Spring means global warming, or is it still early Spring?
Warm= global warming
Cold= weather
Always the same!
Here in the Northwest it’s a record cold spring. Farmers are a month behind schedule in planting because nights are still freezing.
http://www.kxly.com/news/27633875/detail.html
Where is Al Gore ?
Due to global warming spring is arriving earlier and earlier. Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past. A warmer climate means more snow. Snow extent is reduced due to global warming.
Governments are now advised to formulate policies based on the following peer reviewed research.
Winters maybe warmer in the NH
Winters maybe colder in the NH
It gets clearer and clearer as time goes by.
This is the lastest Easter in almost 60 years. I wonder if any places in the lower 48 will see snow in May. I say yes.
Snow is soon to be a thing of the past in the Sierra….Just not this soon….
“Breezy. Numerous showers. Snow level 6500 feet. Snow accumulation up to 2 inches. Highs 45 to 55. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph. Gusts up to 35 mph in the afternoon. Ridge gusts up to 50 mph increasing to 65 mph in the afternoon.”
That’s the forecast for Tahoe Donner, for Easter Sunday, April 24, 2010
Yup – snow this morning in the Upper Valley of New Hampshire. Nothing is sticking to the ground, thank goodness, but made for a cold, wet day. And I had to postpone my marathon training long run until tomorrow afternoon…
Loons don’t mind snow. But if the lake freezes, the loon can’t catch fish. That would upset the loon rather badly.
The loons was more upset about having its picture taken than anything else — damned paparazzi!
Like R.E. Phelan, I also recall the northeastern blizzard of 1970. It was my first year of grad school and my future (and still) wife flew out from our native California to visit. Borrowed my roommate’s car and off we went to Cape Cod.
Everything was fine until about 2pm when the big, fat flakes started to fall. Mass Dept Trans closed the highway at the Scituate rotary before we got out, so we and a few thousand other “climate refugees” got stuck on the Cape. We CA snow-newbies were totally unprepared, ended up post-holing through a foot of wet, cold slop to a motel that was not really open yet for the season. We survived – maybe that’s why we’re still married.
Forty years is about right for the cold-warm-cold cycle we’ve been through
drjohn says on April 23, 2011 at 2:43 pm
I expect that after a few years of global cooling they will go back to spreading alarmism about the coming ice age.
Here in Vancouver, the local mountains have received gobs of snow over the last couple of weeks. I was up at Whistler yesterday (first time this year) and was absolutely astonished at how close the snow was to the Gondola.
I told my girls, age 4/6/8. (first time skiing Whistler all together; truly memorable day as it was gorgeous), that despite what their envirowacko teachers will tell them. It appears as if they have been born at a wonderful time. i.e. the next 20 – 30 years should deliver some stellar snowfalls!! Too bad we won’t be able to afford it as the provincial gov’t is poised to carbon tax the hell out of us.
Repeat after me: a warmer climate means more or less NH snow cover. [see this]
Snow is it here in central Vermont. Total ground covered and coming down sideways this morning. Forecast for rain never happened probably due to my elevation. Got up to almost 55 yesterday. There are still snow patches in the woods. We’re sugaring a little later this year as we’re still getting frosts but the garden was up at this time last year.
Yes fun. It’s the Sun wot does it. It was all in our WeatherAction Long Range weather forecast issued early April. Please see http://bit.ly/gnCOhY Thanks Piers
Easter is late this year, and it’s an La Nina year, but here on the Southern Great Plains of Texas, Easter weekend snows are pretty common. But not this year…
And we have a splendidly warm and sunny and dry April here in Germany. It would be a great opportunity for some warmist propaganda, but our warmists (who are also our anti-nuclear protesters) are too busy demonstrating against the evils of nuclear power.
Richard Sharpe says:
April 23, 2011 at 3:41 pm
“I expect that after a few years of global cooling they will go back to spreading alarmism about the coming ice age.”
They will also tell us that their computer models always pedicted that; you know, we’ve always been at war with Oceania and all that…
It has been warm over here in the UK. Now for many of last years it has been cold, wet or both. We tend to notice this as it’s a Bank Holiday weekend and we all love to moan about the weather over here spoiling our breaks.
Thing is, no one blamed gobal warming when the weather was lousy over the last few years but now it’s warm, of course it must be GLOBAL WARMING. Jeez, it’s enough to make you cry, or drink, or both!
It poured here in NW Calif. last night, and has been raining ever since.
Had to get out the longjohns, winter is not over.
Mountains are getting very mushy, with rockslides onto the highways a weekly event.
People are getting nervous. Where is Spring? Why are the weather forecasts upside down? Something is very wrong with the GCMs.
Aye, Piers, its the Sun wot done it.
Jim Cole says: April 23, 2011 at 3:38 pm
Geez, I’m glad for the confirmation… couldn’t find a inner-net-thingy site that referenced it. Was your point of origin for that trip New Haven, by any chance? Interesting place at an interesting time.