From NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center: NASA snaps picture of Eastern US in a record-breaking ‘freezer’
NASA’s Terra satellite captured an image of the snow-covered eastern U.S. that looks like the states have been sitting in a freezer. In addition to the snow cover, Arctic and Siberian air masses have settled in over the Eastern U.S. triggering many record low temperatures in many states.
On Feb. 19 at 16:40 UTC (11:40 a.m. EST), the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument that flies aboard NASA’s Terra satellite captured a picture of the snowy landscape. The snow cover combined with the frosty air mass made the eastern U.S. feel like the inside of freezer. The MODIS image was created at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
On the morning of Feb. 20, NOAA’s Weather Prediction Center (WPC) noted, “There were widespread subzero overnight lows Thursday night (Feb. 19) extending from Illinois to western Virginia, and numerous record lows were set. Bitterly-cold arctic air is setting numerous temperature records across the eastern U.S. and will keep temperatures well below normal on Friday (Feb. 20).”
In Baltimore, Maryland, a low temperature of 1F broke the record low for coldest morning recorded at the Thurgood Marshall Baltimore Washington-International Airport.
In Louisville, Kentucky, temperatures dropped to -6F, breaking the old record low of 0F, according to meteorologist Brian Goode of WAVE-TV. Meanwhile, Richmond Kentucky bottomed out at a frigid -32F.
In North Carolina, a record low temperature was set at Charlotte where the overnight temperature bottomed out at 7F breaking the old record of 13F in 1896. In Asheville, temperatures dropped to just 4F breaking the old record of 10F in 1979. Temperature records for Asheville extend back to 1876.
Several records were also broken in Georgia, according to Matt Daniel, a meteorologist at WMAZ-TV, Macon Georgia, who cited data from the National Weather Service. Daniel said that Macon set a new record low when the temperature dropped to 18F, beating the previous record of 21F set in 1958. Athens broke a new record low, too dropping to 14F and beating the old record of 18F set in 1958/1928.
NOAA’s NPC noted that “Highs on Friday (Feb. 20) will struggle to get out of the teens from the Ohio Valley to the Mid-Atlantic region. After Friday, temperatures are forecast to moderate and get closer to February averages as a storm system approaches from the west.”
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“The last time it was this cold in Guelph, Ont., on Feb. 13, Wilfrid Laurier was Canada’s prime minister.
On Friday, the city tied a 116-year-old record with a temperature of -28.9 C. The frigid temperature matched a record set back on Feb. 13, 1899.
Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/ontario-city-matches-116-year-old-record-for-coldest-february-13-1.2235950#ixzz3SOtELXnY“
and cyclical !!!!!
The year 1899 would be almost the mid point of the cooling trend from 1885 to 1915/16. Then there was a 30+ year warm trend from there to 1946/47. It looks cyclical to me, as well.
Roll on Holocene Glacial !
Laurentide ice sheet was up to 3000m thick, but guess what, parts of Siberia even today under permafrost, never got covered with ice sheet during the last Ice age. Atmospheric-oceanic currents interaction with jet stream stuck in meridional flow, picking lot of evaporation from the Pacific and depositing it as snow over north American continent.
So how do you tell snow from cloud as seen from outer space. Can they look through clouds to see only the surface ??
@george e.smith
Clouds and snow have different reflection and polarisation characteristics.
Areas of Alaska and Yukon in Canada were unglaciated but that doesn’t mean they weren’t cold.
But Alaska and Yukon were refuges for megafauna during the last glaciation – conditions allowed that at least.
Wasn’t their a mini ice age in Europe during the 1600″ which covered the entire Eastern Hemisphere?
Little Ice Age LIA apparently was global cooling due to lack of sunspots, Maunder minimum.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/images/Temperature_Pattern_LIA.gif
while the last Ice Age was only part of N. Hemisphere
http://anthro.palomar.edu/homo/images/map_of_glaciations.gif
Note Alaska was not under the ice sheet, Alaska is getting warm again, an ominous sign
“Eastern Hemisphere”???
Cambridge University webpage has whole of Siberia free of the ice sheet !
http://www.qpg.geog.cam.ac.uk/research/projects/englishchannelformation/1453389260_3dcecb561c.jpg
Alaska and Siberia were (mostly) ice-free because it was too dry, not because it wasn’t cold enough. Alaska north of the coastal mountains has never been glaciated, since it is in rain-shadow.
And that map of ice-sheets is way off. There were major ice-caps in the southern hemisphere too, in southern South America, in Tasmania and on the South Island of New Zealand. Not to mention any number of montane glaciers.
On the other hand the icecap in Eurasia is much too large for the last ice-age, it actually mostly shows the next-to-last ice-age for 135,000-225,000 years ago (except in Ukraina where it shows MIS 12, the fifth ice age back),
Wherever did you find that junk?
The Cambridge University map on the other hand is more or less correct for the last glacial maximum about 20,000 years ago, except that the ice over Scandinavia and in England actually coalesced in the North Sea and Iceland was not completely ice-covered at that time.
top ice-sheet map is from http://www.palomar.edu/
In contrast,
http://pamola.um.maine.edu/DailySummary/frames/GFS-025deg/DailySummary/GFS-025deg_WORLD-CED_T2_anom.jpg
Official Ice age for Europe and North America began in 865. And, ends in 1865. I came across this when reading about wool production in England’s History.
It was still very cold in Texas to about 1956. We actually had four seasons back then. Don’t know if this was related to the mini ice age.
“Official Ice age for Europe and North America began in 865. And, ends in 1865. I came across this when reading about wool production in England’s History.”
Interesting, but when and how and who was it decided LIA started in 865 and ended in 1865?
The Atlantic froze in New York harbour and people could walk from Manhattan to Staten Island in the LIA. During the American Revolution, when British forces occupied Manhattan, American soldiers secreted cannons stored in Manhattan out over the ice down to New Jersey. Yeah it was in the Western Hemisphere, too. Sorry I can’t locate the link. The Bosphorus in Turkey also froze over so southern eastern hem was affeccted too. Only global warming zealots question the extent of these periods (very warm and very cold) and have tried to deep six them over the past couple of decades..
What about the rest of the world where temperatures are dropping? Mexico, The Middle East, North Africa, Greece, and many parts of Europe.
Add Australia too. A distinct lack of 40C+ temperatures this summer except for inland northwestern regions.
@wickedwenchfan.
Adelaide has had two bursts of 40C temperatures so far this year.
Still .. just a normal summer 🙂
It must be a manifestation of Anthropogenic Global Warming, I mean what else could cause this unprecedented unusual weather?
Cheers
Roger
http://www.rogerfromnewzealand.wordpress.com
Whats unusual?
Unprecedented since when?
You didn’t check the link, did you Alx?
Not a real photo. Does the image look remotely real to you? Here’s the take-away sentence from this article: The MODIS image was created at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Nice “image”
Heinrich, You know, I’m thinking the same thing. It’s creepy. The question is why not show the real photo?
Just weather .
Whether the weather be hot,
Whether the weather be cold,
Whatever the weather,
We’ll weather the weather,
Whether we like it or not.
Whether the weather be hot,
Whether the weather be cold,
Whatever the weather,
Al Gore will figure out
how to make money on it.
I always heard it was the wether that had to wether the weather.
I worked at an observatory in the Andes mountains long age. The weather forcasts came from Antofagasta by telex (!). During the 1983 El Nino it was so bad that we got on the telex (in Spanish, obviously): “Today no weather because of the weather”.
No big whoop near Concord NH. This morning’s low was 11.0F, so not even the coldest of the season:
Just weather.
I am dangerously holding my breath awaiting an “Official” comment from ” Snow-whites-house”
No, Robert! Weather = Climate. The consensus science is settled, kindly get on song!
Show mw your Meteorological degree
Sure, but who is mw?
No such thing as settled Science when it comes to weather and climate and most other things. It is an expression used by idiots.
The settled science to determine if the science was settled was conducted using non scientific methods. The sent a vague 2-question survey to 11,000 scientists, most threw it in the trash and did not even respond. Of those who did, they cherry picked only 99 scientists, yup 99 out of 11,000. Then 97 of those were used to come up with the 97% of all scientist believe in global warming mantra. What a joke!
Bob Coco, I think it was 77 out of 79 responding. For 97 out of 99, the result would have been 98%.
jorgekafkazar jmj49.
Argh! I understood 75 of 77!
“Settled Science” is an oxymoron. A fitting word for the concept is “dogma”.
Roger B
Thanks, but –
I prefer ‘Belief System’.
Have a happy.
Auto
T’aint snow. It’s Vinersnow.
Climate change is a farce. CO2 actually helps us breathe
Don’t you mean vegetation. Breathing animals exhale CO2.
By the way. CO2 helps us live longer and look younger for a longer time. Rather simple. Too much Oxygen burns us up too quickly. That is why people on mountain tops live a lot longer and are in better health.
Would not shout this out to loudly to politicians. First thing you know will be taxed for using CO2. I know, but this is a different kind of Carbon Tax. Sort of like being taxed coming and going.
Lee Tousignant – Regarding CO2 and breathing: Yes, we breathe CO2 out, but CO2 is also involved in the control of respiration. Chemoreceptors which are located in structures termed the carotid and aortic bodies play an important role. They are stimulated by a decrease in the O2 pressure and by increases in the CO2 pressure and H+ concentration in arterial blood.
There is also a respiratory center in the brain, lying within the medulla oblongata. This sends impulses to the respiratory system. The neurons of this center are stimulated directly by increases in CO2 pressure and H+ concentration. Conversely, the center is depressed by decreases in CO2 pressure and H+ ion concentration (i.e. an increase in pH).
The breathing in of increased concentrations of externally administered CO2 is a powerful respiratory stimulant.
So, in this context CO2 does help us to breathe.
I suggest that Dr. David Viner from the no snow brigade to do some explaining.
Yes siree! Global warming….one more thing the libtards got wrong!
Wrong about o many things and too blind to see what is right in their face. Too bad they make the rest of us suffer for their stupidity.
Yes, they got it wrong. And you, simpleton, have it wrong, as well! You people who thing that ‘global warming’ or ‘climate change’ or whatever it’s being called this week means everything gets warmer simply show your ignorance with statements like this. If it gets warm enough and enough fresh water gets dumped into the ocean, it will shut down the Atlantic Conveyor and other ocean currents that keep things warm. This means the ambient temperature gets colder. Do educate yourself.
The Atlantic shut down proposal has been debunked so many times. Are you new here Jeffrey?
Any relation to Dr. Smith? ’cause I can’t helping reading what you wrote and hearing ‘The Pain… The Pain.’
would have been less typing to just say DERP!!
Hmm, but the rate of ocean increase has decreased precipitously. The 11,000 year average is 11mm per year. The 20th century average was 3.4mm per year. 21st century it is 1.7mm per year and going down. (It may actually be zero now, as most glaciers are growing again) So if less fresh water is going into the oceans, where is this magical fresh water that shuts down heat coming from?
I also wonder, how, if cold water blocks the warmth, how we ever got out of the ice age to begin with, when much more fresh water was being released. There were times, in the last 11,000 years when the water rose a yard in a matter of days. Wouldn’t that have just plunged the earth back into an ice age?
By “educate” do you mean?: “Accept what you’ve been told. The science is settled.”
In my education, I learned of something called The Scientific Method. When i see so-called scientists abandon this method, it’s not MY education that is in question.
This stuff is made up as they go along, overtime they are wrong they just change the theory.
Hey Jeffrey,,, you are the ignorant person. When using the Scientific Method, you form a hypothesis and then conduct lab work or gather data which in turn either proves or disproves said hypothesis. What is utterly ridiculous is the fact that idiot liberals want every possible outcome of data to prove their moronic hypothesis that human creation of Co2 is destroying the planet. Thus they try to preach that when its hot,, Global Warming,,, when it’s cold,,,, the cause is still global warming,,, when there is a drought,,, global warming is to blame,,, when there are floods ,,,, it’s global warming,,, when there are hurricanes…. yes— global warming,,, I’ve even seen some idiots proclaim that Global warming is causing earthquakes… It is a joke that anybody even repeats what these absolute idiots are preaching!!!!!!! The earth’s climate is cyclical,,,, always has been…. This will continue with man living on the planet or without.
He forgot the SPARC tag, doncha think?
Soooo… the gravitational forces of the moon and the massive tides resulting, will be overcome by a little fresh water? and and and the solar cycles have nothing to do with the amount of energy the earth receives and therefore could never effect the normal cyclical climate changes the earth has always experienced?
Now I understand. It gets colder when it gets warmer.
Fiddling with the figures:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/globalwarming/11395516/The-fiddling-with-temperature-data-is-the-biggest-science-scandal-ever.html
grow up. If you want to believe in a fairly tale change your lifestyle to fit it.
Climate change is simply a socialist construct designed to destroy capitalism and the free market in the Western world. Nobody else on the planet cares. The Chinese could give a rat’s toe nail about it. Only the suicidal Europeans (and their fellow travelers in North America and Oceania), who seem to want to find multiple avenues of self-destruction, are pushing this fallacy that humans are responsible for climate change. Did SUVs cause the Carboniferous era 360 million years ago?
Gee Jeffery, you are a Mr. Know-it-all. I guess you got a 100% on every test you ever wrote.
Have you looked at any satellite images Jeffrey…lots and lots of warmth rushing up into the Arctic to be cooled! Everything’s working just fine!
Lowest sunspot output in years. Please practice what you preach. Ahh but what should one expect from some spewing angry vitriolic sentences calling others names. Your debate skills are lacking , your science is flawed More CO2 makes bigger plants which in turn creates more oxygen through photo synthesis.
Instead of getting your science through you tube and insulting people I think you should bone up on your sixth grade science. You and Al Gore.
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2011/feb/10/low-sunspot-activity-may-spell-colder-weather-for/
Now go play with your hockey stick graph.
If. If you were better informed, you’d not post things like that.
@ur momisugly M Painter — that’s my guess (the main clue: “… or whatever it’s being called this week…).
Sorry about that, Smith — we’ve been under attack from a battalion of trolls this week.
I come to this site to learn. What have you come here for Jeffrey?
Well Jeffrey, Seeing as NASA OCO debunks CO2 well mixed gas theory, what is your postulation on the “Control Knob” TM.?
The Atlantic Conveyor is driven by the gravity and the earths rotation. Only at the polar boundaries do marginal changes in temperature or salinity effect its change from surface to subsurface by a few miles.
If not, just stop rivers by pumping in cold or saline water, why build dams?
So Jeffrey, the danger from Global Warming is “the ambient temperature gets colder”? So we should fear the cold from global warming? The more warming, the colder it gets? Sorry, I really must be too stupid to “educate” myself, because I just can’t seem to grasp the concept!
Seriously?
Oh, lord. That’s Bill Nye the Science Guy’s argument. “enough fresh water gets dumped into the ocean, it will shut down the Atlantic Conveyor?” Fresh water into the oceans has been happening daily for eons. It’s called rain. The conveyor and other ocean currents, as you call them, are driven by the wind (wind stress) and the rotation of the earth, and it takes centuries for the thermohaline circulation to traverse the world once.
Bill Nye on Larry King in 2007 making these ridiculous claims: 0:50-2:60 min.
Looks like Kentucky’s -32F just missed out from the all-time state low:
Kentucky -34F Jan. 28, 1963 Cynthiana 684′ elev
Clearly these temperature readings need to be adjusted, homogenized, re-centered, and further massaged.
The tendency of Gaia to not comport with the belief system of the heroic man-made-CO2-is-frying-the-planet cult is quite disappointing.
So much so that the cultists may be forced to cut short Gaia’s reign as goddess.
Or, they could accept reality, and deal with the actuality of a cooling planet.
Naaaaah….
Sadly, you are right, in 10 years from now the gatekeepers of official temperature records will have ensured this current cold spell never took place. It will have been homogenised away.
“It’s so cold, I’ve seen a teenager with his pants pulled up!”
I saw a brass monkey. He was crying his eyes out!
I saw a witch’s abandoned brass bra laying in the frozen tundra of an Ohio corn field.
My brass monkeys are
singing soprano!
The brass monkey you are referring to was actually a grate used to store cannon balls aboard ship. In order to ensure there was no chance of a spark from the balls rubbing together or against the grate, the grate was made of brass. Yes apparently in very cold weather, the (cannon) balls did freeze on to the brass monkey.:)
Cheers
Roger
http://www.rogerfromnewzealand.wordpress.com
When the weather was really cold, the monkey contracted and the cannon balls couldn’t maintain the pyramidic? stacked shape and fell off the monkey; apparently.
Hi Paul.
You got a mention in today’s Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/
cold enough to freeze the nuts off a steel bridge
i loved that one..
It’s so cold, there’s a rumor of a politician with his hands in his own pockets!
+ 10
That should be the case for government grant supported climate alarmist also.
db,
You should write for late night TV. That one had me laughing out loud!
I stopped at the pharmacy this morning. They’re out of Cabin Fever medicine and haven’t bothered to order Spring Fever medicine yet.
Tried the liquor store?
My Cabin fever medicine is Jack Daniels and Coke.
It’s so cold Richard Simmons put pants on.
Too much cold is always tougher for life than too much heat…….both will happen whether we have a global warming or global cooling climate.
The reason is because of natural cycles and numerous natural forces that are much more powerful, especially on a regional scale than the impact that increases in CO2 will ever cause…..by a wide margin.
tomorrow doesn’t look much better
“http://earth.nullschool.net/#2015/02/22/1500Z/wind/surface/level/overlay=temp/orthographic=-100.09,49.58,630”
Yeppper…Global Warming…AKA…..Climate change….Anyone look at what the Sun is doing lately?…Try to blame that on CO2…LOL…
F10.7 is falling to below 100 any day now. But that’s been cycling up and down. Got down to 80’s for a half rotation in July before jumping back up to +130. The magnetic indices web sites I’ve checked haven’t been updated for a few weeks, and some not since end of 2014. So not sure what there is there.
Sunspot activity is getting low right now, but monthly average is still around 50 I think, which has been typical for cycle 24.
The biggest concern with solar activity that I haven’t heard any discussion on is the presence of a significant size south polar coronal hole. Coronal holes are not unusual, except this one is polar. Polar coronal holes (from what I’ve read) typically appear during solar minimum, not during active phases. We’re just 4 months past the NASA declared solar max of November 2014. So that to me suggests the sun may get quieter a lot faster than solar physicists might otherwise expect. All the previous model predictions of Cycle 24 going back to 2009 have been off the mark so far.
Can’t look at the facts that you pointed out. They need to spout the liberal nonsense. It makes them feel good.
Wonderfully witty remarks, herein. Settled science my asperges!
Settled science, just as the Earth being flat was “settled science” for a very long time
Here’s the national outlook on snow depth (as of Feb 21, ’15):
http://www.intellicast.com/Travel/Weather/Snow/Cover.aspx
West-central IL has been pretty lucky. 6 or 8″ of snow on the ground and a sunny 40 deg.F right now in Hooterville. Coldest it got at our Hollerback Ranch was -9F.
O.T. but a question.
There really is a place called Hooterville? I thought it was a placename made up for the T.V. show because of all the well endowed young women that resided there.
Apologies, Richard of NZ, for my attempt at humorously describing my rural retirement hideaway. It kind describes my experience here, if you’ve ever followed the theme.
Oops, sorry, the show was called Green Acres in the 60’s.
nipples must be poking through the sweater covering Hooterville but I still wanna go there. yea I said it.
I don’t want to scare anyone, but it looks like the Laurentide Ice Sheet.
Only thinner.
C’mon…it’s only had a year! /sarc
Climate and weather are synonyms…What kind of idiot has just now figured out that the weather changes? Democrats, that’s who! GOOGLE CLIMATE DEFINITION and stop being a pathetic democrat liar….
Yesterday, Feb 20, Buffalo set a new record low maximum of 1°F, breaking the old record low max of 6°F, set in 1950. Today, we’ll be topping 100″ of snow for the season, with several weeks to go … that’s one helluva way to get exercise.
Are you guys sure about those past records?
Are they being broken or are they actually being smashed?
All those old North American temperature records you guys are quoting have supposedly been officially de-rated, downgraded, reduced and etc by the NCDC, GISS, NOAA, CRU UKMet, BEST and etc and etc because they made the modern temperatures look too darn cold and some comparative warming up of present temperatures was urgently required .
So curiosity has got the best of me and I’m wondering what those past record low temperatures with the same times and dates that are now being broken, now look like in the NCDC’s and etc’s records.
As those old temperatures have been cooled by a degree or more, sometimes two degrees but who knows, NCDC and etc no longer know either, due to break point adjustments and etc and etc , an admitted fact by Zeke Hausfather, Mosher and other insiders, then if what you guys are quoting as past low temp records are actually NCDC and etc adjusted temperature records, your cold spell isn’t just breaking the real, observed past records.
It’s absolutely smashing them.
Nobody seems to know any more what were the real temperatures observed and recorded by those careful weather men of past eras really were.
Thats the price future science now has to pay for today’s scientific stupidity and the utterly incompetent corrupting of the scientific truth on a grand scale.
From what I’ve read they don’t mess w/the one-time records — cold or hot. I guess because that would cause a true uproar — more stealthy just to bollix-up the trends and averages.
I wouldn’t be surprised if by the time we got to the 2100 the official freezing point of water was 36 degrees F.
Anyone know where Al Gore is right about now? I do. He’s trying to count his millions, but he’s laughing too hard.
But, but, but, Al GOred said its Global Warming!!!!!
Al gore has solved the earth warming problem!
In Baltimore, Maryland, a low temperature of 1F broke the record low for coldest morning recorded at the Thurgood Marshall Baltimore Washington-International Airport.
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LOL I’ve considered that a good morning this year.
I hate Feb…
…and that’s a record low recorded at the warmest spot…..UHI
So I take it the record high temperatures on the west coast will offset the record low temperatures on the east coast…
…and overall US temps will still show an increase
/snark
After homogenization, it all fits. Now just lie back and think of England.
Yeah, the Northwest’s 10 or so degrees above average record highs are going to offset the East’s 40 degrees below average record lows. The NOAA maps are a joke, for my area they show the departure from normal as -8F last week, which is strange because our normal average is 40F but our high temperatures last week were in the teens, and the lows were 40F below average. No, data fixing going on there.
It has been warm in Northern California, but it hasn’t been record setting nor close to record setting. I hope a freeze does not come along as the fruit trees are starting to bloom. It will either be a bumper harvest, or if a freeze comes along, then no fruit.
That little groundhog makes more sense than Al Gore and his band of misfit scientist that bought into the global warming myth. 4.5 billion years old the Earth is and they are basing their theologies on computer models. What the hell? Aren’t computers programs the result of humans designs and writings?
We just celebrated Presidents Day here in the US. That’s the day when the President walks out of the white house and if he sees his shadow it’s another year of Bullsh*t.
Now that’s funny!