Category Archives: snow

What We Don’t Know about Snow

Posted on February 1, 2012 by

From Ellen Gray NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Predicting the future is always a tricky business — just watch a TV weather report. Weather forecasts have come a long way, but almost every season there’s a snowstorm that seems to … Continue reading →

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Alaska On The Rocks

Posted on January 27, 2012 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach From the “weather is not climate” department, the sea ice is in early and thick in Alaska. It makes me shiver just to look at the picture. They had to use an icebreaker to get … Continue reading →

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The Ridiculousness Continues – Climate Complexity Compiled

Posted on January 21, 2012 by

By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” With the help of an array of WUWT reader comments on this thread and several others documented within, I’ve been compiling a summary of all potential climatic variables in order to build a conceptual … Continue reading →

Posted in aerosols, AMO, Antarctic, Arctic, climate data, clouds, cosmic rays, dust storms, earth, Earthquakes, energy, ENSO, feedbacks, geothermal energy, Gravity, hurricanes, Methane, oceans, PDO, petroleum, Science, sea ice, snow, solar, solar power, thorium power, tornadoes, wind power | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 264 Comments

Little Bubbles part 2 – Firn; The Great Equalizer

Posted on November 1, 2011 by

Continued from part 1… Guest Post by Caleb Shaw I will now tell you what I’ve learned, so you can subject it to your kindly WUWT peer- review. I’m fairly certain I’ve gotten some of it wrong, because it doesn’t … Continue reading →

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Inches of “Global Warming” Get Dumped on NASA-GISS HQ

Posted on October 29, 2011 by

Guest Post by Ira Glickstein [Update: New York City got more snow in October 2011 than ever before in recorded history, according to the NY Daily News (including some good photos). Special thanks to WUWT commenter NikFromNYC who posted this … Continue reading →

Posted in Humor, satire, snow | Tagged , , , , , | 149 Comments

Pielke Sr: Climate Includes Extreme Events

Posted on August 13, 2011 by

A Forecast Extreme New Zealand Weather Cold and Snow Event By Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. While it is common to state that weather is not climatology, the reality is that climatalogy is composed of a collection of weather events over some … Continue reading →

Posted in forecasting, snow | 82 Comments

Curious summer weather in China

Posted on July 16, 2011 by

From NTD Television Snow Covers Sichuan State Highway 318 in Summer While people in other regions of China, are enduring the hot summer, a bizarre scene of drifting snow covered the Zheduo Mountain section of the Sichuan State Highway 318 … Continue reading →

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Two-dimensional wetting technique gives room temperature ice

Posted on July 28, 2010 by

Now if we can just apply this treatment to all the glaciers and the Arctic… Artificially controlling water condensation leads to ‘room-temperature ice’ Via Eurekalert. College Park, MD (July 27, 2010) — Earth’s climate is strongly influenced by the presence … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, snow | 41 Comments

Dr. John Christy: “no-significant-trend” in S. Sierra snowfall since 1916

Posted on July 24, 2010 by

While there’s always lots of worry in California and Nevada over water supplies driven by the Sierra snowpack, and wailing in the MSM over what global warming will do to the snowpack, there doesn’t seem to be any trend, up … Continue reading →

Posted in records, snow, snowfall, Uncategorized, weather | 35 Comments

The Olympic Global Warming Onslaught is Starting

Posted on February 11, 2010 by

While the squabbling continues on MSNBC (see Bill Nye here and Morano with the American Progress guy here, and by all means don’t miss this Olberman rant ) over whether the big Washington DC snow means anything, the venue of … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, snow | 230 Comments

Lake Powell Water Levels as a Proxy for Western Snowfall

Posted on January 31, 2010 by

In Debunking National Wildlife Federation Claims – Part 2 some commenters claimed that the snow data cited from WRI “was not good enough”. OK then, on to a bigger catchment. Steve Goddard replies in this brief essay. Lake Powell (Arizona and … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, snow | 123 Comments

CRU’s forecast: UK winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”

Posted on December 29, 2009 by

Richard North from the EU Referendum writes of a curious juxtaposition of forecasts, then and now. I thought it worth sharing here since it highlights the chutzpah with which CRU botched their forecast in March of 2000. At least they … Continue reading →

Posted in forecasting, snow | 333 Comments

All-time Snow Records Tumbling Again for the Second Straight Year

Posted on April 5, 2009 by

By Joseph D’Aleo, CCM, ICECAP Map of US weather records for week ending 4/6/09 click image to enlarge or here for source. Map created by HAMWeather, UPDATE: NOAA predicts the Red River Will Crest Again in Fargo-Moorhead in Late April … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, snow, weather | 231 Comments

Snowiest Winter Ever Recorded in North Dakota

Posted on February 27, 2009 by

Guest Post by Harold Ambler Snow, wind, and cold have assaulted North Dakota yet again in the past 24 hours. In Bismarck Friday morning the temperature was 12 below zero with a new inch or two of snow expected following … Continue reading →

Posted in snow, weather | 93 Comments

Dumpus Maximus

Posted on February 25, 2009 by

Here is a weather curiosity. We’ve been hearing a lot about snowfall in the northern hemisphere this year. In Oslo, they have given up on trying to pile it up so they have resorted to dumping it in the sea. … Continue reading →

Posted in snow, weather | 144 Comments

Snow job in Antarctica – digging out the data source

Posted on February 4, 2009 by

UPDATE: the question has arisen about “occupied” aka “manned” weather stations in Antarctica (Stevenson Screens etc) versus the Automated Weather Stations. This picture on a postage stamp from Australia, celebrating the Australian Antarctic Territory in 1997, may help settle the … Continue reading →

Posted in snow, weather_stations | 278 Comments

The Ice in Greenland is Growing

Posted on December 30, 2008 by

Old Radar Sites In Greenland Show Icecap Growth Over the Years (And let’s not forget what we’ve learned about the temperature reporting from the DEW line Radar Stations – Anthony) By Joseph D’Aleo, CCM, AMS Fellow Though the ice may … Continue reading →

Posted in snow, weather | 90 Comments