From the ‘how long will it take some alarmist to blame this on global warming’ department and old man winter comes this map and warning that shows what is likely to be a “historic” blizzard with crippling amounts of snow:
* Update: shortly after pressing the publish button the map got updated to this version:
Via the NYC/Islip National Weather Service forecast office…you don’t often see language like this:
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 319 PM EST SUN JAN 25 2015 ...CRIPPLING AND POTENTIALLY HISTORIC BLIZZARD TO IMPACT THE AREA FROM LATE MONDAY INTO TUESDAY... CTZ006>012-NJZ006-104-106-108-NYZ071>075-078>081-176>179-260430- /O.UPG.KOKX.BZ.A.0001.150126T1800Z-150128T0500Z/ /O.NEW.KOKX.BZ.W.0001.150126T1800Z-150128T0500Z/ NORTHERN NEW HAVEN-NORTHERN MIDDLESEX-NORTHERN NEW LONDON- SOUTHERN FAIRFIELD-SOUTHERN NEW HAVEN-SOUTHERN MIDDLESEX- SOUTHERN NEW LONDON-HUDSON-EASTERN BERGEN-EASTERN ESSEX- EASTERN UNION-SOUTHERN WESTCHESTER-NEW YORK (MANHATTAN)-BRONX- RICHMOND (STATEN ISLAND)-KINGS (BROOKLYN)-NORTHWESTERN SUFFOLK- NORTHEASTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK- NORTHERN QUEENS-NORTHERN NASSAU-SOUTHERN QUEENS-SOUTHERN NASSAU- 319 PM EST SUN JAN 25 2015 ...BLIZZARD WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM MONDAY TO MIDNIGHT EST TUESDAY NIGHT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS ISSUED A BLIZZARD WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM MONDAY TO MIDNIGHT EST TUESDAY NIGHT. THE BLIZZARD WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * LOCATIONS...NEW YORK CITY AND SURROUNDING IMMEDIATE SUBURBS...LONG ISLAND...AND MOST OF SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT. * HAZARD TYPES...HEAVY SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW...WITH BLIZZARD CONDITIONS. * ACCUMULATIONS...SNOW ACCUMULATION OF 20 TO 30 INCHES...WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS POSSIBLE. SNOWFALL RATES OF 2 TO 4 INCHES LATE MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY MORNING. * WINDS...NORTH 30 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS 55 TO 65 MPH...STRONGEST ACROSS EASTERN LONG ISLAND. * VISIBILITIES...ONE QUARTER MILE OR LESS AT TIMES. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE LOWER 20S. * TIMING...LIGHT SNOW WILL BEGIN MONDAY MORNING...WITH ACCUMULATIONS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES POSSIBLE BY THE EVENING RUSH. SNOW WILL PICK UP IN INTENSITY MONDAY EVENING...WITH THE HEAVIEST SNOW AND STRONGEST WINDS FROM ABOUT MIDNIGHT MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY AFTERNOON. * IMPACTS...LIFE-THREATENING CONDITIONS AND EXTREMELY DANGEROUS TRAVEL DUE TO HEAVY SNOWFALL AND STRONG WINDS...WITH WHITEOUT CONDITIONS. SECONDARY AND TERTIARY ROADS MAY BECOME IMPASSABLE. STRONG WINDS MAY DOWN POWER LINES AND TREE LIMBS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A BLIZZARD WARNING MEANS SEVERE WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. FALLING AND BLOWING SNOW WITH STRONG WINDS AND POOR VISIBILITIES WILL LEAD TO WHITEOUT CONDITIONS...MAKING TRAVEL EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. DO NOT TRAVEL. IF YOU MUST TRAVEL...HAVE A WINTER SURVIVAL KIT WITH YOU. IF YOU GET STRANDED...STAY WITH YOUR VEHICLE. ALL UNNECESSARY TRAVEL IS DISCOURAGED BEGINNING MONDAY AFTERNOON...TO ALLOW PEOPLE ALREADY ON THE ROAD TO SAFELY REACH THEIR DESTINATIONS BEFORE THE HEAVY SNOW BEGINS...AND TO ALLOW SNOW REMOVAL EQUIPMENT TO BEGIN TO CLEAR ROADS.
For Boston, a Blizzard watch is in effect Tuesday:
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See what cheating (deflating the footballs) gets you?
They weren’t deflated, just inflated in the sauna.
I thought they used helium gas.
Belichick is one of the top 5 greatest football coaches ever. However that doesn’t mean he will not use whatever straddles the boundaries of legal to get an advantage. But If inflation of the football was really an issue, why didn’t Luck say something during the game? The pressure changes with temperature.
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This is why I follow a simple game; cricket.
At 1:31 PM on 25 January, jim Steele asks:
Because Andrew Luck – the Indianapolis Colts quarterback – never had his hands on any of those footballs. It was only the New England Patriots’ game balls which proved to be under-inflated. The Colts’ game balls, on the other hand, were inflated within the proper range of pressure ordained by NFL rules.
Er, you’ve never actually played football, have you?
Ahhh but it was Brady and Manning that got the rule changed in 2006 and then went on to say that
the change would be advantageous:
“The thing is, every quarterback likes it a little bit different,” Brady told the Sun-Sentinel at the time. “Some like them blown up a little bit more, some like them a little more thin, some like them a little more new, some like them really broken in.”
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/01/22/brady-pushed-for-rule-to-let-visiting-team-provide-own-footballs/
http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2006-11-28/sports/0611270475_1_new-football-new-england-quarterback-competition-committee
Mcourtney January 25
It is difficult for North Americans to get excited about a game that can take 5 days
@Tucci, No I never played football at the college or professional level but that is a red herring. I also admit not being aware of the rules change that allowed the offense to use their own ball. I also well aware that each QB prefers the balls inflated differently to maximize his ability to throw the ball. So what constitutes an unfair advantage? Whether or not the Patriots football proves to have been slightly under inflated, how much of an impact did that have on the outcome of the game versus Belichick’s game planning and the Patriots execution. Obviously it had no impact on the lack of points put up by the Colts in a 45 to 7 game. I think Luck is a great QB and I wanted a game that was decided fairly, but the Pats defense shut him down. Would the Pats have scored more than 7 points with a ball inflated with one more pound of pressure? he Pats ran for over 180 yards and the cast off Blount had 3 TDs. Was the pressure of the ball significant? The inflated ball issue is a tempest in a teapot.
[snip -Anthony]
[Off-subject, personally critical, insulting. left in queue. .mod]
I take these exchanges where they go. If it gets “insulting,” it’s only because there’s REASON more than sufficient to so assess arrogant willful ignorance. But having busted HTML left off the board is actually for the best, ain’t it?
Belichick: ‘I’m Not A Scientist’
http://espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs/2014/story/_/id/12227841/pete-carroll-seattle-seahawks-new-england-patriots-ready-deflategate
SNL skit:
http://blog.masslive.com/patriots/2015/01/snl_skit_spoofs_bill_belichick.html
I’ve used up my free access to boston.com (and I’m not paying) but there was a good piece from former NFL official about how the balls are managed if you want to look for it.
“It is difficult for North Americans to get excited about a game that can take 5 days”
But there are breaks for tea.
Incidentally, since the weather plays a part in cricket strategy (e.g. you can try to avoid defeat by slowing the game down until rain stops play) why haven’t we seen more about the threat Climate Change (™) poses for cricket?
Had to chuckle about the Bill Nye the entertainer guy’s explanation of the only way that it could have happened.
“To really change the pressure, you need one of these,” he added, holding up an inflation needle.”
http://www.foxsports.com/nfl/story/deflategate-debunker-bill-nye-picks-apart-belichick-s-defense-012515
Guess Nye doesn’t understand the ideal gas law and effect of temperature. A good science guy would have mentioned the fact that they could have inflated the balls in the sauna or with one of their heaters in order to obtain the correct psi under a much higher temperature…………..then when the balls went outside at around 50 degrees pv=nrt kicked in.
t goes down on the right side of the equation and pressure drops on the right side.
However, since some games can be played in bitter cold weather, with temps well below freezing, which would really amplify this deflating effect, I’m wondering how the NFL would not know this basic science and require/verify that game balls be inflated and measured with air from the playing conditions.
And I assumed all of us here followed motor sport – not football or cricket. For me, the more CO2 there is fired from a supercharged nitro-methane burning dragster, the better. Anyway, what has all this got to do with blizzard forecasts?
“The inflated ball issue is a tempest in a teapot.” I think a more accurate phrase would be a tempest in a pigskin 😉
Very few people are saying it would’ve affected the outcome of the AFC championship game. But it is still illegal. And this issue was brought up earlier when Indy played NE during the regular season: http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/deflate-gate-indianapolis-colts-complained-november-inflated-england/story?id=28365105
Clearly it would not look good for NE if this has been going on for some time, especially given how close the Ravens game was.
Tucci78
January 25, 2015 at 2:19 pm
But the refs handled the balls for both sides all the time. Why did they not take the balls out of service? Do the refs not know what an under inflated ball feels like?
RoHa, I’ll declare my hand as a Test cricket tragic and also a Packers fan since the mid 60s. I think this hoohaa is a doddle compared to serious Ashes Test dodges of the past – The Ridge at Tent Bridge (?), every pitch in sub-continent ever etc. That said I’m with you on the Climate Change impact. We are sleepwalking into unknown horrors here. What’s the Goracle ever said about this impact? Nada. No street cred til he does.
Should just scratch them next time.
t goes down on the right side of the equation and pressure drops on the right side…………p(pressure) is on the left side.
I’m guessing that the Patriots ball boy was instructed to put all of their tested footballs on the icy frozen ground, to soften them up, and that they were given to the ref to test just after having been pumped up in a hot environment, and kept in a warm enclosure.
So no cheating, but just taking advantage of the fact that the rules don’t specify the test environment.
It’s the same way the Americas Cup prelims back a few years after all the boats tested within weight limits in the Mediterranean off Spain, they were sent to Sweden for a set of race prelims there, and every boat tested overweight, because Sweden has higher gravity than Spain.
The dummies wrote the limit in weight, instead of in mass.
Now this is just my personal opinion and you shouldn’t include it in your PhD thesis.
G
Yes it’s true. There is higher gravity in my bathroom right near my scale.
If one wants a conspiracy theory, how about this one:
The ball boy was bribed to inflate the balls in a sauna by an evil Las Vegas gambler, named John D’Eezonest, in the hope Brady would perform poorly with a flabby ball. Sure enough, Brady threw the ball poorly in the first half of the game, including an interception. Therefore the referees, who had bet heavily on the Patriots, exchanged the flabby balls for properly inflated balls, whereupon Brady completed ten of eleven passes and was unstoppable.
Now, back to talk about the storm…
So that’s why the Ikea preserves are such a good deal.
Didn’t take long at all for global warming alarmism. But for fun –
http://o.onionstatic.com/images/28/28433/original/700.jpg?1486
http://www.theonion.com/articles/nfl-investigating-whether-patriots-played-game-wit,37805/
I have lived in several of the areas covered by this forecast. The projected snowstorm is ugly, but it doesn’t appear to be exceptional.
Sure doesn’t, the only thing that is different is the reporting of it before hand. During the Lindsey snowstorm My family and I spend 12 hours stuck in a car on Long Island and it took us two days to before we could go the 40 miles to NYC. Now that wasn’t as bad this is forecasted to be, and they did just the opposite of what they are doing now, they forecasted only about 2-3 inches.
That was the storm that prove beyond doubt that John Lindsey was the best mayor Manhattan ever had. As far as he was concerned Queens and Brooklyn could have fallen into the ocean. For all he did for the outer boroughs they’d still be under snow. That was also the snow storm that changed how mayors look on snow removal. One bad job and they are out.
Agreed, It’s a snowstorm. A big one. A blockbuster if you will. But I’ve lived in New England my whole life. Nothing…based on this forecast…we haven’t seen before.
Exactly – Joe Bastardi has been forecasting this for some time – saying that it is a close analogue of 1978.
Ian W. nope. I was trying to move to Munich just after the blizzard of 1978. We had a third floor aprtment in Stoneham. The snowfall was about 48 inches. Drifts were up to about 15 feet. On the lee side of our building snow drifted up our third floor balcony floor guessing maybe 18 feet above ground. Delayed the move for three weeks. Everything was paralyzed for a week.
And as usual, you Yanks export everything (culture, products, etc) to us in the UK, so we will be getting it on Wednesday/Thursday. Thanks! 🙂
Who said you had to import everything?
You’re welcome, sadbutmadlad. Enjoy!!!
I’m gonna go sledding and then I’m gonna move to a warmer climate.
I’m too old for this……….snow.
After a spell in Co we went to where you are heading….blue skies but a bit nippy at 65 Deg. Should be back in the 70’s later in the week. 🙂
I did that long ago. In the military, I was stationed in Maine, and Kansas, and I spent a winter in Adak, Alaska, and I’m done with snow. Now I live near Sacramento, CA, and the snow here is perfect; it’s over THERE, on the mountains where it is pretty, and generally NOT down here in my driveway. And I do not own a set of tire chains, and I don’t go into the mountains in the winter.
Well Bob what ever happened to “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. “. Somebody had to bring it up again.
Jim
It’s unlucky to be buried in snow without knowing what snow is. /s
I wish you luck there. Extreme here is something like one feet in a week rather than three feet in a night.
Actually weather has to pass through Canadian jurisdiction for some fine tuning prior to delivery.
What is it with this VAT stuff…do you always have to pass it on?
But weren’t they predicting that Global Warming would make the climate of Britain resemble that of Southern Spain?
(A threat which somehow failed to terrify the British.)
RoHa, us Brits terrified? Petrified more like (as in bloody freezing!) In the last one hundred years, us Brits have endured summer washouts on the whole – most recently in 2011 and 2012 when UK climatologists changed their predictions (again) to “Colder and wetter summers with an increased risk of severe flooding could become the norm for Britain.” The following year, 2013, was a beautiful scorcher of a summer (ha, ha) and joins the seven occasions when our century of summers were gorgeously comparable to Southern Spain, namely, 1915, 1949, 1959, 1976, 1990, 2003 and 2013.
Incidentally, last year (March 2014), Met Office ‘scientists’ did a ‘U’-turn on their original predictions and said “on average, the UK will see hotter, drier summers in the long term due to global warming”. What’s not to like?
Click on Jetstream and look at the waviness over North America:
http://cci-reanalyzer.org/DailySummary/#
The waviness naturally happens and partly due to the mountains. The two major winter storm systems happen east of Colorado and in Alberta (clippers), as the curvature in jetstream causes upper air divergence creating lows that migrate eastward. This has always been the case. The high pressure in the Pacific during La NIna sends the jetstream further north before it descends onto the Great Plains. The weakening of the high pressure due to El Ninos cause less curvature and a more west to east flow. I grew up north of Boston, and had a morning paper route which finely attuned my senses to variations in snow. Lots of snow between the 50s and 70s when a similar negative PDO was in effect.
We’re not in a La Nina. If anything, we have weak El Nino conditions.
Indeed we are not in a La Nina or an El Nino according to definition. But that does not negate the fact that the temperatures in the Pacific OCean modulate the “waviness” or prove that the waviness is unnatural. Based on your comment I am sure you are a big adherent of Francis who tries to connect low Arctic Ice with waviness. More prominent scientists disagree with Francis including Trenberth arguing the cooler eastern Pacific causes stronger high pressures. So Barry, which Arctic sea or seas other than the Bering, are currently so below average that it causes stronger high pressure in the eastern Pacific. And please explain the mechanism.
“Waviness” such a non-sciencey term, I thought you were better than that.
From a recent paper by Jennifer Francis (she uses the word “wavy”):
“New metrics and evidence are presented that support a linkage between rapid Arctic warming, relative to Northern hemisphere mid-latitudes, and more frequent high-amplitude (wavy) jet-stream configurations that favor persistent weather patterns. We find robust relationships among seasonal and regional patterns of weaker poleward thickness gradients, weaker zonal upper-level winds, and a more meridional flow direction. These results suggest that as the Arctic continues to warm faster than elsewhere in response to rising greenhouse-gas concentrations, the frequency of extreme weather events caused by persistent jet-stream patterns will increase.”
Barry
January 25, 2015 at 2:34 pm
Jennifer Francis has the tail wagging the dog. There is very little energy in the polar regions to alter circulations, the energy comes from the tropics. Therefore , if the Hadley cells become weaker due to slightly weaker Sun, then they are smaller and less vigorous, their associated jetstreams and the Ferrel cells move equatorward and the jetstreams become latitudinal due to large Rossby waves. The polar cells therefore expand equatorward and have a weaker circulation with latitudinal jets allowing mixing of warm air toward the poles and cold polar air to the temperate latitudes.
Massive blizzard up to 3* feet of snow!
No doubt we will hear the old chestnut – Massive blizzards and very cold temperatures are not inconsistent with CAGW!
Come on Pretend Nobel Laureate Mann, get on Twtter and tell everyone!
where’s Algore?
joe
Algore must be in NYC. I think you are looking at his affect.
Anthony,
The “second storm” [as is being described by media] appears difficult for the international models. There is significant disagreement across these forecasts. At present [4:07 PM, EST], I would like to report that the Philadelphia stations are being quite candid. There is no hype. The clear message is: the models are so divergent that a forecast for 24 hours out is impossible for the DELMARVA up to Philadelphia. At the same time, there seems to be a consensus that Northern New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and New England will experience a great deal of snow. Worse, cold, high velocity winds has the potential for damage.
Kudos to the Weather Bell team again. On the FREE Saturday summary, Joe Bastardi flagged the last week of January into February as the beginning of a winter storm season which MAY approach the 76-77 years. He has not fully stepped out on that ledge yet. However, Weather Bell is the only organization to stick its neck out. They began in the fall. If climate alarmists begin shouting “Climate, Climate, Climate”.. I can clearly remember thanking God that, we had a fireplace to sleep around and cook for a week back in those days.
Best Regards,
Historically, February is the month with the most frequent heavy snows..
I was in Massachusetts for the February 1978 blizzard that shut down the streets for 3 days, emptied the supermarkets, and brought in the National Guard. Due to the way the low pressure systems work their way up the coast, the days preceding the storm were warm and I was jooging in a t-shirt, followed by one of the regions greatest blizzards. Its weather not climate change. Appreciate the power of natural weather.
Bastardi has mentioned both 76/77 and 77/78. The former, IIRC, was mostly just cold. 77/78 had only two significant storms in Eastern Massachusetts. However, they both set 24 hour records for snow at Logan airport. The first had little wind that was poorly forecast, the second was a hellacious blizzard but the snow didn’t start until 1100 after everyone had gone to work or school. That was the major cause of the traffic disaster that evening.
While the storm was pure joyous excitement for me (except for my car getting blown off track in the only true whiteout I’ve even been) (and maybe the shortcut I took through an old orchard while walking into work that night), the folks along the southern New England coast saw thousand of homes destroyed in the astronomically high tides and about 100 died.
At this point the storm is not expected to be as bad as ’78, but you can bet people are paying attention.
I have two good WWW pages on the storm:
http://wermenh.com/blizz78.html
My personal account for the web written I think for the 15th anniversary of the storm, and the first 5-year anniversary when the Web was a good medium for it. This is one of my favorite essays.
http://wermenh.com/blizz78a.html
More technical stuff that didn’t fit above. I’ve added some to it, so it has information about the first storm and the other blizzard of ’78 in the midwest. Today may be the anniversary of the lowest air pressure ever recorded in Cleveland, Ohio.
If anyone tries to claim that CAGW is getting more extreme, these storms should squash that. If people say that’s only one year, there are plenty of others we can point to. 1978 has millions of witnesses who still clean out the grocery stores of bread and milk before a storm.
Me, I bought some bread (yay, they had some), did not buy milk, did buy toilet paper this afternoon.
Ric writes: “The former, IIRC, was mostly just cold.”
I was in “record cold” Cincinnati at the time:
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/iln/climo/summaries/winter76-77/cold1977.php
Ric, in ’78 Rhode Island was closed for a week due to bad timing that stranded thousands of cars on Rt.95. Everybody was let out of work and school at the same time in mid-afternoon when the snowfall was coming down heavily. Memory of that storm still scares the populace and politicians when 3 inches are predicted.
I remember the 60s in a small town north of Boston as consistently having 2-3′ banks of plowed snow along the streets that were great for tunneling. And drifts we’d jump off the roof into and never hit ground. IFRC, I delivered the Lawrence Tribune, The Boston Globe and another Boston paper, evenings.
Agreed. And actually they’ve been calling for a big winter in the east starting last spring. They’re big on analogs, looking for years with similar SST’s. Of course, they make their share of mistakes. Who doesn’t in that business. Bigger problem is for all his talent, Bastardi’s a major drama queen. Never seen him miss on the mild said of a storm. When he’s wrong, it’s always on the extreme end. The winter of 2011-12 I believe it was, was a major bust…and embarrassment for WB… during which they kept hyping snow and cold which never arrived. Kept it up late into February. That was the year we had temps in the 80’s in early March here in Mass.
At http://www.weatherbell.com/saturday-summary-january-24-2015 he explains and forecasts great cold in February and March, lingering in April.
Robert, I wish all of the TV media outlets were treating this storm with candor. Unfortunately too many of the TV outlets are acting as if something like this has never occurred before, using their ominous “Storm Center” intro music and acting as if this were the end of the world as we know it.
The gullible head out to the supermarkets and buy enough food to last a month (most of which will spoil before they’ll get around to consuming it) and emptying store shelves. There are runs at the hardware stores for ice melt, shovels, generators, and snowblowers. I could see this is this were happening during July, bit it’s winter and this kind of stuff happens almost every winter.
The people (and the media) need to get a grip.
Impossible. These sorts of things can’t happen nowadays. We need to do something about such irresponsible weather forecasts. Where’s Holdren?
Most people in central Jersey were expecting heavy, historic snowfall starting Monday in the afternoon. Our medical office closed after the afternoon patients cancelled because they were convinced by the irresponsible weather readers it was unsafe. Even most of the morning patients cancelled. All the staff was present willing and able to do their duty. Their were no major roads problems all day. Dear weather readers your hyperbole is very harmful and self serving. Perhaps Chicken Little was the first meteorologist and today’s meteorologists just continue the tradition: The Sky Is Falling.
Nothing says warming like cooling.
Alarm! Alarm!
Every time I see news like this I’m glad I moved to Hervey Bay – 25 South, winter temperature around 70, never snows
Maybe another New England Blizzard of ’78? (I hope not for those living there.) But the forecast doesn’t look as bad. After the fact they’ll just make it seem worse. Most of those there didn’t live through “worse”.
On the bright side, maybe some of the younger generation will figure out that “Man-made CO2 = Warming = Blizzards” doesn’t quite add up.
Lived there then. Wasn’t that bad. And next year they’ll get a foot and worst evaaaahhhhhhhh. Isn’t there some way to these guys/gals for fearmongering? A generation of wimps.
I take it you didn’t live on the southern New England coast.
Ric Werme…..Bay of Fundy…you have not seen storm surges or tides
My wife and I spent a perigean full moon night in Alma NB last August. http://wermenh.com/nova_scotia_2014.html I haven’t been there for a good storm, but given Alma’s elevation, the storm surge can’t be that bad!
Watching on FNC. What a bunch of crap. Does nobody know how to go help a neighbour anymore?
Well, not if your neighbor has been protesting the cops and you are a cop. But I agree Fox News is just so full of it whenever a storm comes. I guess this started with Shep Smith and Karina, which was bad no doubt , but nowhere near as bad he made it out to be.
Did you read the latest on what the Senate voted in terms of Climate Change.
I didn’t vote for my Florida Senators.
Paul
Do you mean this:
“Republicans outfox Democrats on climate votes”
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/senate-climate-change-vote-114463.html
Just to add to the fun, Nantucket sound is under a hurricane force wind warning :
http://classic.wunderground.com/US/AN/232.html
Yesterday’s storm had hurricane force winds and a central pressure akin to a cat 3 hurricane. Its offshore fast forward motion and relatively low pressure in Canada kept the isobars spread apart.
Tuesday’s storm is going to be closer, and stalling near Nantucket. While the central pressure may not be as low, we’ll have high pressure in Canada so we’ll wind up much stronger winds. The duration and tides won’t be as bad as they were in 1978, but I expect that Cantore will pick a stretch of coastline he can evacuate from if necessary.
I wonder where St Gore is now?
Davos, Switzerland
He was so worried about global warming and sea level rise that he he moved to the warm coast of California.
I would like all Democrats to move nearer to the sea, or preferably in it!*
*along with the Green Party in the UK.
While it might not seem as bad as the snow storm. We are due a cold spell here in central Florida that I find horrible. I may go down to 40F in places! That just ain’t right!
I do blame Mann-Made global whatever. After all, has it ever been 40 in January before???? (no, the hard freezes of the 70s don’t count)
You know, if forecasts verify, five of the top ten snowfall events in NYC since 1869 will have occurred over the past nine years. Or to put it another way: from 1869 through 2005, NYC experienced a snowfall sufficiently heavy enough to still remain on the top-ten list today an average of once every 19-20 years; since 2006, it will have seen one of those events about every 2 years. I wouldn’t say that’s in any way evidence of climate change–but it stretches credulity to claim it’s no more than just coincidence, don’t you think?
Must be the fabled ‘warm snow’ then. As opposed to the cold snow that only occurred before 1950.
Mr. Pettit,
I disagree. The weather in the Mid-Atlantic varies greatly by less than 200 miles. The winter wind and snow levels from the South East border of Pennsylvania to New York City are completely uncorrelated. Temperatures are consistent for warming across the same 200 miles. New York City is located in the transition zone from Mid-Atlantic to New England. It’s a weather and not a climate “crap shoot”. This from a 68 year old Jersey guy who grew up as close to Liberty’s rear end as a person could get. Then moved to Delaware and could see a completely divergent weather and growing season pattern. The separation is less than 220 miles. The variability of this micro geography is my personal proof point that those who argue to understand the global climate drivers are mistaken. Last, they should not bring up sea levels. From Cape Hatteras to Nova Scotia, the changes can happen in less than 100 miles
Regards,.
@ur momisugly Robert, I live “close” to the the “wet” coast, Canada/ Washington State, BUT about 220 miles inland from Vancouver our climate is so incredibly different from there it boggles the mind, our annual rainfall is less then 11″ something they can get in a month this time of year ( the rain shadow of the Coast mountains of course). Reading these reports are kind of funny ( oh we did get 18″ of snow last week in 36 hrs, it’s all gone now, just got prepared and read a book or two for a few days, got lucky no power outs like in the past).
Sure. This is very strong statistical evidence that the climate is changing. Are you saying that this looks like an effect of CO2? My first guess would be an AMO effect.
The absolute best you can hope for is that it is a sign of a local not global change in climate, but even that is very doubtful.
It’s always a bad sign when the meteorologists’ forecast maps use feet instead of inches, e.g. http://media.necn.com/images/653*367/potentialsnowfall_wed.jpg
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Oh crud.
The Boston area gets the most snow, but the heavy snow will be very wide-spread.
Total Snowfall in inches by Tuesday midnight.
http://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/models/gfs/2015012512/gfs_asnow_neus_12.png
Bernie Raino at Accuweather suggests a “dry slot” could poke north to Boston, and they might “only” get a foot, as areas just to their west get a yard. (Or meter, if you insist.)
Funny that Waterloo, Ontario, home of BlackBerry, Land Of Math, is in the “snow belt” and is getting nothing. WUWT?
We have a naturally aspirated skating rink behind our house without a flake on it. I took two grandchildren out there this afternoon to go sledding. They hardly know what snow is! They had no idea that a snowman could be made by rolling a ball of it to get bigger ‘by itself’. I had to SHOW them!
Maybe it has something to do with the fact they live in Singapore. Don’t they have snow there any more? What’s happening to the world?
Remember this? http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9057151/carry-on-warming/
Newsel, yes, an excellent summary by Matt Ridley. Everyone should read it.
One of these times when I am glad that I live in Georgia!
26th 27th January 2015……. GISS reports new heat-wave temps in New York !!
Well a heat wave compare to last year…
http://www.businessinsider.com/new-yorks-east-river-is-freezing-over-2014-1
The Great Blizzard of 1888.
Next.
The Great Blizzard of 1717.
Due to waviness from less Arctic Ice,
The best tale I heard about that 1717 snow was that apple orchards were damaged, because the snow was so deep and packed that sheep were eating the twigs on the tops of the trees.
Single story houses were completely buried, and people entered and exited two story houses by windows on the lee sides.
They don’t make ’em like they used to…..unless this one matches it.
Actually the Great Snows of 1717 was likely a string or nor’easters, one right after the other.
Gavin will don his dapper Gay SuperHockeyStickMan suite and lean out his office window to proclaim to New Yorkers, “Peoples of the Earth, Have no fear. I will use my Anthropogenically Correct Consensus Global Warming X-Ray Vision to melt the snow and warm the air.” Unfortunately is will cause massive flooding and disruption of electrical systems, especially Hospitals, across the boughs leading to 10s of thousands dead. Ha ha. 😉
The explanation I’ve seen given on alarmist blogs is that Global Warming means that the air holds more moisture, which causes heavier snowfalls.
I don’t have a sarc tag for this, because that’s really what they believe, or did some years ago, when I quit wasting my time by going to those sites.
Funny how they change the tune to fit the narrative. Before it was, “the children aren’t going to know what snow is”.