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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What I don’t get is when we experience hot weather the MSM rolls out the usual AGW stories – yet with all of the freezing weather afflicting most of the global there is no mention of the fact this does not line up with the consensus view on AGW – go figure?
This little ‘ol Texas boy ain’t built for global warming this cold. If this keeps up I’ll have to buy a snuggie.
Merry Christmas y’all!
Steam’s up!.
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“Steam train’s snow rescue ‘glory’
Passengers were rescued by a steam locomotive after modern rail services were brought to a halt by the snowy conditions in south-east England.
Trains between Ashford and Dover were suspended on Monday when cold weather disabled the electric rail.
Some commuters at London Victoria faced lengthy delays until Tornado – Britain’s first mainline steam engine in 50 years – offered them a lift.
They were taken home “in style”, said the Darlington-built engine’s owners.
Train services in Kent were hit hard by the freezing conditions at the start of the week.”
http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2009/12/25/steam-trains-snow-rescue-glory/
Back2bat (09:28:02) :
Strictly speaking, moving Christmas to the 25th was a successful attempt to romanise the early christian faith, an effort that involved moving its major holy days to existing roman holy days in order to make it more comfortable for the roman people. Judging by what happens at Christmas, from presents to adorned “idols” to copious consumption of food and drink, not much has actually changed from the saturnalia feast but it’s very different from the pre-roman christianity.
DirkH (10:35:17) :
“Suzanne (09:40:49) :
[…]How many years of blizzards will it take before the “warmists” catch on that the correlation between weather trends is with the PDO, AMO and solar activity, not with CO2?”
Exactly. I wonder what kinds of adjustment they are making right now to make their climate models fit again. Must be a terrible job.
No. The TEAM does not tweak the models. They add Fudge Factors, Data ‘Adjustments’ and much more manipulative Tricks in a fruitless attempt to prove the unprovable.
Thanks again to Anthony and his team
– really helping to set the world straight.
Merry Christmas and a happy New Year to all!
The big story here is that the Climate itself is the skeptic.
The louder they blare their Global Warming tunes, the harder the Climate works against them.
Gore was at the top of his form early this month, go figure what the results of that will be.
Pieter F (08:24:51) :
Maybe you are not aware that this weather will be counted towards 2009. Next months could still be the warmest since..: fill in any number of years. Besides this cold snap in US and EU still hasn’t caused the average global temperature to drop below that of last year and is also still the second warmest of the last 10 years. Check: http://discover.itsc.uah.edu/amsutemps/
I suppose higher than “normal” temperatures in the SH must be compensating for the low tempertaures temperatures in the NH.
Flints (10:15:20) :
> I read somewhere that this is called the “Gore Effect”. It’s Gods way (I don’t believe in God ….. well maybe) of telling the world that Al Gore is a liar.
No, no – the Gore effect is when Al Gore goes someplace to give a speech and remarkably cold weather happens. The effect seems to be spreading, e.g. I was in Atlanta in late February/early March to see Jim Hansen talk and he left early to get to that protest in Washington. I stayed and my flight home got canceled by snow. Now Obama has picked up the curse.
Either that or it’s getting colder and snowier in general.
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Richard (11:05:06) :
> Richard (09:37:13) :
> WUWT aint big enough for 2 Richard’s 🙂
Use your full name. WUWT is big enough for two Richards, heck, there are two Rics. This isn’t your father’s WUWT any more!
JonesII (09:00:08) :
Forecast this weekend/next week for a series of Pacific storms to hit the West Coast, wherepon they will march eastwards and finish the job of burying what is presently half-buried.
Hmm, I live in Nova Scotia, East coast of Canada and we had a bunch of snow about a week ago, but it has since rained and mostly melted. There is a bit of frozen snow here and there, and some snowbanks from where the plows pushed it all, but definately not a “White Christmas”. Don’t know why it shows it as white on that map… but it is chilly that’s for sure.
“Meanwhile, James Hansen told us last week that 2010 may be the warmest year in the history of the instrumental record.”
It will if he can help it. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
I’d love to see the Team try to hide this decline.
Remember, weather is not climate.
With any luck, we’ll be back in a warming climate in twenty to thirty years. Without luck, the next ice age began in 1998.
What is truly astonishing is the complete lack of public curiosity from Schmidt, Hansen, Alley, Mann, Jones, etc. about the causes of this. The last few years have seen some remarkable cold, snowy weather – and these “scientists” just seem to shut their eyes.
That is what happens when ideology takes precedence over curiosity and the scientific method.
You’re too kind.
IMO this is what happens when despicable people in positions of influence go unchecked by the press and public at large.
History if full of scoundrels allowed to perpertrate all sorts of offenses because the checks and balances of scrutiny were either over powered or willingly sacrificed by those who’s twisted and conflicted ideology saw benefit in the offenses.
Al Gore must be furious, what has taken 10 years of his life, Obama managed to solve global warming in one week.
I would like to be able to tell the two Richards apart.
I suggest one of you be “Richard the Lionhearted” and the other be “Richard the Original.”
Don’t worry, 2010 WILL be the warmest year in 100 years.
Harry Read Me has solved the technical problems and can now “quality control” the data to show significant warming.
Who are you going to believe; our honest UN Scientists, who want to save the globe and the women and children, or your lying eyes as you look out the window and the snow drifts.
We’ve actually had quite a few ‘snows’ over the past +three decades that I have lived here; toss in a few doozys termed “ice storms” and the number of winter wx events goes even higher.
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Pieter F (08:24:51) :
One may notice that many of these stories report new records in the 55 to 80 year time frame or “not seen in more than 50 years.” Similar statements go back to cool weather last summer. Meanwhile, James Hansen told us last week that 2010 may be the warmest year in the history of the instrumental record.
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Hansen’s statement sounds more like a promise than a prediction. With climategate going on, I wonder if it’s a promise he can keep without getting caught.
I’ll take what’s lying outside my back door, and leave the lying to the X-box global climate HAL.
Everybody knows that computer games are programmed to cheat.
Steve Goddard (15:46:15) :
What is truly astonishing is the complete lack of public curiosity from Schmidt, Hansen, Alley, Mann, Jones, etc. about the causes of this.
I don’t think they ever had any curiosity. Otherwise they wouldn’t have gotten anywhere near to this far along. It resembles the state a lot of other people seem to have achieved in this Postmodern era – near total lunacy in response to Reality. Well, at least Obama “stopped torture”, that is, unless you are sane.
I watched Sherlock Holmes on Friday. One of the best lines was “When one has a preconceived notion of the outcome, he looks for evidence to support his idea rather than paying attention to what is actually happening.”
Sounds like an apt description of team Climategate.
Two things we need to remember:
1. If it has todo with climate, it is caused by global warming.
2. Record highs are proof positive of global warming. Record lows are local weather phenomena caused by global warming.