From the “weather is not climate” department, inconvenient travel:
Here’s a sample of headlines related to difficult if not impossible holiday travel:
Christmas Eve storm in central states creates travel misery (WaPo)
A slow-moving storm spread snow, sleet and rain across the nation’s midsection Thursday, making last-minute holiday travel treacherous but promising a white Christmas for some.
The National Weather Service issued blizzard warnings for parts of Oklahoma, the Dakotas, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Texas. It cautioned that travel would be extremely dangerous in those areas through the weekend and that drivers should pack a winter survival kit.
Winter Storm Disrupts Holiday Travel (NYT)
“Snow will be falling at a rate that snow plows are not able to keep up with,” AccuWeather reported on its Web site, “while winds gusting past 40 miles per hour will cause severe blowing and drifting along with whiteout conditions.”
Heavy snowfall causes disruption across Europe (BBC)
Heavy snow and ice are causing disruption across a wide swathe of Europe. Flights have been delayed or cancelled at airports in Britain, Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands.
Power providers in south-east France say they have had to cut supplies to around two million people to avoid a massive regional blackout.
In Poland, nearly 60 people have died this December because of the weather.
Rare blizzard strikes West Texas
DALLAS — In much of the rolling plains of West Texas, a blizzard has never been recorded.
There has been one now.
The region west and northwest of the Dallas-Fort Worth area saw blizzard-like conditions throughout the day Christmas Eve as up to 8 inches of snow fell in the region, according to the National Weather Service. Winds gusting at up to 65 mph drifted the snow as deep as 5 feet in some areas.
No blizzard warning had ever been issued for an area of Texas as far south as Interstate 20, said Jim Wingenroth, senior forecaster at the National Weather Service office in San Angelo.
Heavily traveled Interstate 20 between Cisco and Abilene was closed after six inches of snow fell in the area 130 miles west of Dallas, said Larry Smith, Brownwood area engineer for the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Treetops glisten, but storm snarls Midwest holiday (Atlanta Journal Constitution)
The Star-Telegram said the Dallas-Fort Worth area was experiencing its first White Christmas in more than 80 years. While the area had a sprinkling of holiday snow in 2004 and 1997, the lasttime it experienced “a true, New England-style dose of snow on Christmas Day was Dec. 25, 1926,” the newspaper reported.
Some churches canceled Christmas Eve services, while others saw sharply lower attendance.
Oklahoma City had received 14 inches of snow by Thursday night, breaking a record set back in 1914 of 2.5 inches.
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Prediction – GISS will still have a “hot spot” in Siberia………
Merry Xmas from Adelaide, South Australia. A beautiful cloudless day of 25C yesterday for christmas day. A relatively cool December after a hotter than normal November here.
J.Peden (09:53:06) :
Steve Goddard (08:30:01) :
“Imagine waking up there one morning surrounded by Palm Trees and Girls Gone Wild.”
If I thought it would help I would start pumping CO2 into the atmosphere now. Unfortunately, the whole theory is absolute balderdash!
If “Global Warming” actually means freezing my a** off in “sunny” California, then those climate dudes are spot on!
Merry Christmas to all!
Coming out of a fairly cold “warmest decade ever”, you cannot help but believe that the books could indeed be cooked.
Suzanne (09:40:49) :
History on this says that they won’t get it until they are up to their eyeballs in snow, ice, driving polar winds and ruined citrus crops.
Richard (09:37:13) : Choose another handle mate – Richard x or Richard y – thats my handle. WUWT aint big enough for 2 Richard’s 🙂
[Note: WordPress allows you to choose nicknames that appear in place of your screen name. ~dbs, mod]
OMG ,,, we live in two worlds. This from the other one.
“Right wing bullies Build-A-Bear into removing videos about manmade climate change”
December 25, 2009
http://climateprogress.org/2009/12/25/science-build-a-bear-remove-videos-about-manmade-climate-change/
“The anti-science crowd is all for “teaching” our kids about dirty energy (see “Let’s Learn About Coal”: Industry front group distributes coloring book on the “advantages” of coal). But when it comes to climate science, their motto seems to be “We don’t need no education,” as Think Progress reports.
Until recently, the Build-A-Bearville website (part of the Build-A-Bear Workshop) featured online videos telling children about manmade global warming and the dangers it holds for the North Pole. In the videos, little animals learn about the problem and teach Santa Claus about it. The right wing has been outraged over the antics of these bears and penguins. One conservative called for a boycott of Build-A-Bear, and another said the the videos amount to “indoctrination.” In response to this right-wing pressure, Build-A-Bear has taken down the educational videos. “
And it looks like about 60- 65% of USA is covered with snow
http://www.natice.noaa.gov/pub/ims_gif/DATA/cursnow_usa.gif
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Yeah but I’ve been using Richard now for a long time – so newcomers can change
First time ever that the National Weather Service has issued a blizzard warning for the Kansas City metro area. It’s a white Christmas. I don’t know how much snow we got–it’s 18 inches deep in some places and the grass sticks out in other spots. Wind is wild!
Merry Christmas to all. Especially to Anthony and the moderators. You all are a wonderful voice of reason in a crazy world.
I wonder how the AGW crowd will spin this weather bomb.
Somewhere near Memphis on the Mississippi:
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j155/43gm94l/History/Navy/burtonisland.jpg
And the average world temperature will no doubt by up again for December.
And if so, what is the betting that all the ‘warm’ areas of the globe will be in the uninhabited regions yet again – so nobody can verify the fraud.
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In other news, president Obama declared that he’s had enough of the global warming weather in the nation’s capital and flew to Hawaii with his family to escape the freezing effects of CO2-induced climate change.
Unfortunately, hundreds have not made it to Christmas. Dying from the cold spell is happening all over the world: http://ecotretas.blogspot.com/2009/12/december-2009-cold-death-toll.html
Ecotretas
JonesII (09:00:08) :
And Piers Corbyn is saying…
It is uncanny how good he is at that. Now we’ll see on December 28–31 if the rest is right.
Dishman (09:22:42) :
There’s now proof of Global Warming in Dallas!
Nor anywhere else mate!
Merry Christmas! Enjoy some Vince Guaraldi Christmas music
Back2bat (09:28:02) :
John in NZ (08:05:16) :
It serves them right for having Xmas in winter.
Indeed! Whoever picked Christmas Day did not even get the season right. Twas Spring, if i recall.
Or maybe ~October.
But the conception, or inception, whichever interpretation you take, would have been at this time. So Merry Christmas on December 25 anyway!
I would prefer to give these cold fronts last names instead of first names like ‘gore’, ‘pachauri’ or ‘miliband’.
_Jim (09:36:58) :
Your photo is correct.
Here is an animation of snow over the last 31 days
http://www.natice.noaa.gov/ims/loop/usa-1mo-loop.html
give it time to download
it looks like more than 50% of the US was snow covered yesterday
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it’s from this web site
http://www.natice.noaa.gov/ims/index.htm
My current greeting for assorted passersby and acquaintances: “So, enjoying the global warming?”
Ah, such happy smiles and laughter, brightening so many people’s days. A true sign of “warming” indeed!
And the way things look, I’ll be able to keep using it through April. Such joy!
Thousands of Oklahomans remain without power as a massive winter storm blew through the state…
http://www.news9.com/Global/story.asp?S=11726617
Modus Propagandi:
The month of December will be ‘colder’ than x # of years until it is the middle of January, in which January will be ‘colder’ than x # of years and December will be the warmest in y # of years.
Repeat until nauseated.
Anthony and the Moderators, don’t give a damn about what is happening outside, just bask in the glow of our total regard for your efforts in bringing WUWT to us all.
Many, many thanks and I wish you all strength and fortitude in the New Year. Keep up some of the most amazing work I have ever seen on the interwebby-thingy!
Give it a few more months and the media will have rewritten history and all this freezing temperatures will be forgotten, true to the Orwellian society being built. Meanwhile the “official” temperatures will be adjusted and no evidence of a major cooling event will be seen for 2009. They may get away with it for now but if the global cooling continues for a few more years, I don’t think the public are that blind and stupid not to notice the corruption.