Tag 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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Two Feet of Snow in Seattle

Posted on January 27, 2012 by

More proof of global warming climate change global climate disruption has been seen with this latest snowstorm in Seattle. Readers may recall this story from 2008 from where the mayor even refused to bring out salting/snowplowing for fear of environmental … Continue reading →

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The warm-cold oscillation

Posted on January 16, 2012 by

From the Institute of Physics Cold winters caused by warmer summers, research suggests Scientists have offered up a convincing explanation for the harsh winters recently experienced in the Northern Hemisphere; increasing temperatures and melting ice in the Arctic regions creating … Continue reading →

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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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Record snowfall for “Climate Justice Day” in New York

Posted on October 30, 2011 by

It just doesn’t get any better than this. The Occupy Wall Street Mob had a “Climate Justice Day” scheduled for today. I don’t think they figured on a “Nightmare on Wall Street” irony like this. I notice Bill McKibben isn’t … Continue reading →

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Getting ready for more global warming: Heathrow airport triples snow clearance fleet

Posted on September 29, 2011 by

It seem airport operator BAA has realized that Global warming has really dumped on them the last two years and rather than be caught with their pants down again, they 3x increased their equipment and staff ready to clear snow. … Continue reading →

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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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Late, low, May snow in California

Posted on May 15, 2011 by

From the “weather is not climate” department, I’m getting reports this morning of snow down to 2500 feet in Forest Ranch, CA a few miles from where I live. This is not surprising, give the cold storm coming through at … Continue reading →

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Record Snow in Sierra – Near 200% of normal at Boreal Ski resort

Posted on March 29, 2011 by

“Milder winter temperatures will decrease heavy snowstorms,” says the IPCC in 2001. Recent snows suggest much for AGW induced snow worries, but still the hype continues: “Heavy snowstorms are not inconsistent with a warming planet,” said Jeff Masters, director of … Continue reading →

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New record low temperatures in San Francisco Bay area

Posted on February 26, 2011 by

Jan Null of Golden Gate Weather writes: Based on hourly weather observations a number of minimum temperature records were either set or tied in the Bay Area this morning.

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Low snow in SFO – to be or not to be?

Posted on February 23, 2011 by

Is Al Gore at his Fisherman’s Wharf Condo? Our own Charles The Moderator sent me a query today, along with a link to this SFO Chron article about the possibility of snow down to sea level. It’s possible, and has … Continue reading →

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NYC’s seasonal snowfall: 3rd largest on record

Posted on February 22, 2011 by

New York City Seasonal Snowfall Now 3rd Greatest in the Record (since 1868); Frigid Moscow Guest post by Joseph D’Aleo, CCM New York City metro area after a welcome thaw late last week, saw cold return this weekend and then … Continue reading →

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Chicago snow 2011 and 1967 – global warming then too?

Posted on February 3, 2011 by

Here’s the national snow depth, Chicago has between 20-30 inches of snow by this map: Source: http://www.nohrsc.nws.gov/nsa/ Dr. Richard Keen writes in an email: I was a college student in Chicago for the 1967 Big Snow, so here’s a couple … Continue reading →

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The Goreacle: Snowstorms caused by global warming

Posted on February 1, 2011 by

Here Al Gore responds to Bill O’Reilly of Fox News on his blog: An Answer for Bill February 1, 2011 : 11:43 AM Last week on his show Bill O’Reilly asked, “Why has southern New York turned into the tundra?” … Continue reading →

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Snowzilla is coming

Posted on January 31, 2011 by

You’ve probably heard the forecasts already, watch it advance on radar below: Animate this image: >>> Look at all of the warnings below, the red area from Oklahoma to Lake Michigan is Blizzard Warning while the pink is Winter Storm … Continue reading →

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Frequency of Big Snows: Northeast U.S. and Colorado

Posted on January 29, 2011 by

Guest post by Richard Keen, PhD I’m sure by now every snow freak in the Northeast U.S. has pored over the “Billboard Top 40″ (actually, 41) list of major snow storms since 1955. If you haven’t, go to “The Northeast … Continue reading →

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Another Eastern Snow – Brutal Winter Assault Continues

Posted on January 27, 2011 by

Guest post By Joseph D’Aleo, CCM, AMS Fellow Mother Nature for the second year in a row is sending a message to alarmists in the government and the media. Another snowstorm has swept across the nation and focused its fury … Continue reading →

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California’s remarkable December weather

Posted on January 3, 2011 by

While Miami and much of south Florida experienced the coldest December on record, the “other sunny state”, California, has been getting blasted with snow. My family and I experienced this firsthand yesterday on the drive back from Southern California to … Continue reading →

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USA record lows outpace record highs 19 to 1 this week

Posted on December 31, 2010 by

539 new snowfall records were also set. Since we are often treated to lists of record high temperatures when heat waves occur and they are improperly linked to global warming (like in Russia’s heat wave this summer), I thought it … Continue reading →

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Heaviest December snow in NYC in 6 decades – 5th largest ever – hundreds of other snow records set around the nation

Posted on December 28, 2010 by

According to the Bloomberg article:

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First white Christmas in Atlanta since 1882, NCDC gets new snow record in their own backyard

Posted on December 26, 2010 by

Apologies to my readers and my family, I made the mistake of watching TV today. So I had to report on this rare weather event. Here’s what the National Weather Service serving Atlanta says about it:

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Snowmageddon II: Monster blizzard to bomb New England?

Posted on December 24, 2010 by

Merry Christmas!  The best numerical weather prediction models in the world have been churning out 5-day forecasts for the past few days that will make someone pull their hair out.  The main question is how far east will the major … Continue reading →

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Snowfall “…a very rare and exciting event”

Posted on December 24, 2010 by

From the Independent, March 20th, 2000: 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 … Continue reading →

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New winter temperature proxy in UK: “grit”

Posted on December 18, 2010 by

UPDATE: BBC and Reuters is reporting (h/t to reader FergalR) that: ‘Transport Secretary Philip Hammond said he had asked the government’s chief scientific adviser to assess whether the country was experiencing a “step change” in weather patterns due to climate … Continue reading →

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Hundreds of new cold and snow records set in the USA

Posted on December 13, 2010 by

New 2 day record December snowfall amount to the Minneapolis/St Paul area While there have been a few high temperature records in the desert southwest and western Oregon, the majority of weather records in the USA this week have been … Continue reading →

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