Readers may recall our story from Dec 15th, 2013: Over half the USA covered in snow, the most in 11 years
Now, it’s even more. See the map and the 3D image:
February 7, 2014
| Area Covered By Snow: | 67.4% |
| Area Covered Last Month: | 48.1% |
The map is from NOAA’s National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center
The 3D image is from this KMZ file and Google Earth:
h/t to Joe Bastardi of WeatherBell
UPDATE: Values of snow cover for this date show this is the highest in a decade.
February 7, 2014
Area Covered By Snow: 67.4%
February 7, 2013
Area Covered By Snow: 34.8%
February 7, 2012
Area Covered By Snow: 25.5%
February 7, 2011
Area Covered By Snow: 48.9%
February 7, 2010
Area Covered By Snow: 60.8%
February 7, 2009
Area Covered By Snow: 33.2%
February 7, 2008
Area Covered By Snow: 51.1%
February 7, 2007
Area Covered By Snow: 38.9%
February 7, 2006
Area Covered By Snow: 26.6%
February 7, 2005
Area Covered By Snow: 26.4%
February 7, 2004
Area Covered By Snow: 53.4%
Some of the driest parts of Oklahoma and Texas received a foot or more of snow in the past week. We may be fortunate and even more precipitation will fall in coming days. The area around Wichita Falls is suffering from extreme drought.
OK, but how normal or abnormal is this?
Mike Jonas says:
February 7, 2014 at 3:36 pm
OK, but how normal or abnormal is this?
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Eyeballing it, it looks to me like there is standing snow cover in parts of the country that are considered desert regions. I would call that pretty darn abnormal.
I bet it is rotten snow or turn to it soon. Warmth will return in vengeance in a short time, by July, this year, at the latest.
Looks exactly how I imagined the Ice Ages over the history of the earth that had them.
Global warmist— cool it!
This is due to Global Warming. Wind during the Spring = Global Warming. Heat during Summer = Global Warming. Leaves falling in the Fall = Global Warming
This is why we have to fight global warming!
Is it my imagination, but is there snow in the the Sierra Mountains now? What impact will that have on the CA drought?
Nothing but global warming would be capable of doing this? Right Algore??
2-4 feet of global warming expected in the mtns around here this weekend. Skiers in heaven.
Reblogged this on Public Secrets and commented:
If only we had listened to Al Gore and signed Kyoto, we wouldn’t be suffering this horrid warming! Wait…
How much snow pack is there in the Sierras?
Mike Jonas says:
February 7, 2014 at 3:36 pm
OK, but how normal or abnormal is this?
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First, one must define normal.
As usual little rock is right on the line but I just looked outside and it’s covered in a nice light dusting! Someone at work was going on about the climate being really different. Ugh
Normal is when a liberal complains that the increase in snow is due to global warming. What lemmings!
Here in Houston we’ve had 3 frozen precipitation events this winter. Considering that we average 1 every 5 years, it’s been a completely crazy winter. We usually have warm temps over the winter with periods of cold, this winter has been cold with brief periods of warm. I’m not the only person around here ready for this winter to end.
I think 2/3’s snow and ice cover is a tipping point. Welcome to the new ice age. Snowball earth, here we come!
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I forgot the … tags.
So we can now snowshoe from Hokkaido Japan over ice and snow to central Texas, or even from Bangladesh to Texas, or how about Pyongyang N. Korea to Texas where it is below freezing, snow forecast for tomorrow and sea ice is along the northeast coast of N. Korea.
See NOAA ESRL northern hemisphere surface temperatures on Sea Ice page (I don’t get the link on the Sea Ice page by clicking on the graphic)
But…but…but Dr. David Viner said in 2000 that “within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event?”
He really let me down. I believed him and threw away all of my winter clothes. My mum has been buying books by the bulk at flea markets in order to heat our house because..because…because of Dr. Viner!
She locked me in the basement and is mad at me because I told her to sell her car and buy a boat because the sea level was supposed to be up to our house by now. I learned that from a movie about some kind of truth we didn’t or shouldn’t want to face. All I remember was some fat guy with a really big head had me and my friends really scared.
Well, she went ahead and sold the car and now I am in real trouble and she says I have to ride my bike five miles into town to buy the basic necessities. She won’t do it and blames me and not Dr. Viner and the guy with the big head.
Mum said when I turn 38 next week she’ll buy me a sled that I can use to drag the groceries back from the store. I found out bicycles don’t work too good on icy streets with lots of snow on them.
Anyone know where to find that guy the with big head?
Meanwhile, in a surreal (albeit increasingly frequent) coincidence, the NYT has a column entitled “The End of Snow”…..Those guys are just too funny. Except for the billions of our tax dollars that their ideological (btw, theirs’ has nothing to do with logic) buddies in government have wasted on their Hoax of the Century.
It’s all Bush’s fault!
Porter Fox’s article in NYT has a delusional moment of climate change , feeling that the planet has warmed 7 degrees, and soon there will be no cities that will be able to host the Olympics because the snow won’t be there. Now a days journalists really believe if you keep saying something enough times, it becomes the truth. No one can change the weather by charging taxes . Man can’t change the weather with money. Obama has spent 8 trillion dollars and it hasn’t made the USA any better.
god I hope those 350 nitwits are still standing in front of the WH. The key is to have gale force winds and -30c temps to really teach us a lesson about harmful CO2.
Will logic ever wake up the liberal mind. If we are being frozen out from the Northern Vortex, with sub minus temperatures, I ask them where do they think the cold came from, from freezer doors left open in many Canadian homes, ??? No , Could it be a Northern jet stream, blowing over the top of an enormous ice surface located in the Artic. Yeah,, could that be why they call it the polar vortex??? But you have sworn that all that ice has melted into the ocean. How can that be possible, that it’s back,,,, could it be a miracle, Praise the Lord , we’ve been healed.