I don’t know if this is a record or not for Christmas coverage, but it is certainly reminiscent of the winter of 1977-78 where we had similar bouts of cold and snow. About 99% of Canada has snow cover also, with some parts of the Pacific Coast excepted, and it appears that all of Canada’s Lakes are frozen as indicated by the “yellow ice” in the photo. Here is the latest (Updated for 12/25/09) from NOAA:
From the National Operational Hyrdologic Remote Sensing Center here is the satellite snow depth map and the hard data on coverage:
December 25, 2009
| Area Covered By Snow: | 63.0% |
| Area Covered Last Month: | 10.4% |
| Snow Depth | |
|---|---|
| Average: | 5.0 in |
| Minimum: | 0.0 in |
| Maximum: | 889.2 in |
| Std. Dev.: | 7.0 in |
| Snow Water Equivalent | |
| Average: | 0.9 in |
| Minimum: | 0.0 in |
| Maximum: | 437.5 in |
| Std. Dev.: | 1.5 in |
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It started snowing in the St. Louis area now, too.
I hope many don’t die. It seems it’s worse in Europe, but numbers should be accounted: http://ecotretas.blogspot.com/2009/12/december-2009-cold-death-toll.html
Politicians should be responsible for the winter excess deaths. They keep on speaking about the risks of climate change, but don’t care about these deaths!
Ecotretas
I am in that green area in brown eastern Washington.
Thanks guys!
http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=12908
(and I’m gonna repost this snow map tonight!)
Well, fortunately I’m in Vancouver where it’s not a white snow day today but 2c! One of the very few places without snow or frozen lakes in Canada…
Thanks for including Canada in your report! It is the Great White North for a reason!
pwl
http://PathsToKnowledge.net
It is aso pretty cool-
minus 45C in supposedly warming siberia-
http://www.ogimet.com/cgi-bin/gsynop?zona=artico&base=bluem&proy=orto&ano=2009&mes=12&day=25&hora=18&vtn=Tn&enviar=Ver
Looks a lot like the 70’s around here-NE Oregon. 23F. and stratus. Now they are saying snow this next week.Back in about 1977/78 I was Chief instructor at a
Flight School in Pasco Wa. Didn’t turn a propeller for weeks-when it wasn’t fog,
it was snow.What runs in 30 year cycles?hmmm?
I won’t even count what the sun is doing(not)….
We will have record snowfall and record low temps this winter. Natural gas is under $5 mcf. Taxing it will cause a lot of problems for people that are already short of money. Thanks for the map. It shows several states that aren’t well prepared and will see frozen pipes.
track down that station that has almost 900″ of snow and about 430″ water inch equivalent
it doesn’t belong in the data base
animation of snowfall over the last 31 days
give it time to download
http://www.natice.noaa.gov/ims/loop/usa-1mo-loop.html
If snow is a symptom of Global Warming, then the Global Warming must have accelerated mightily, just as predicted by the almighty IPCC.
But the Earth has a Feeva! … Al Goracle
First white Christmas in Dallas since 1926.
2/3 of the lower 48, but if we add in Alaska do we get to 3/4 of the USA?
So, is this why Cyroshpere Today seems to not have the ‘compare’ function working with any date past 12/09/2009?
We would like to see the whole N. Hemisphere.
Seems to me China got blasted with early snow and Europe is got recently belted with more forecast in the next week or two.
The Weather outside is truly frightful.
Global Warming locked up the tranny, broke an axle, skidded off the road in BumSteer, Ok., and buried itself in a snowbank.
They’ll find the vehicle sometime next spring, whenever the thaw decides to manifest itself.
File it under a Missing Predictor Report.
It would appear that the only states without some snow are Miss, Ala, Fla and maybe La.
So, increased CO2 causes global warming, which leads to these freakish bouts of globe-chilling weather, therefore decreased CO2 will lead to global cooling, leading to freakish bouts of globe-warming weather.
Well then, let’s build some large processing plants, use all that miserable dirty oil and gas for feedstocks, convert them to fertilizer, dump it all into the oceans, and wait for sunlight to take care of the problem as all the photosynthesizing micro-critters extract the excess atmospheric CO2. Piece of cake. Freakish bouts of summertime weather in the winter, here we come!
October and November both had above normal Northern Hemisphere snow cover.
http://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/table_rankings.php?ui_set=1
Current snow cover is far above normal.
http://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/chart_daily.php?ui_year=2009&ui_day=358&ui_set=2
It’s a bit odd… normally storms in the North Hemishere travel west to east. The holds for most storms in our upper midwest/Plains states.
However, today’s big spinning low bucks the trend:
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/us_comp/us_comp.html
Check out the sun glint on the snow fields in Canada !
Looks like there is a wet nor’easter cranking up. It is just now at the Georgia/South Carolina line and it looks like it is dragging a warm front counter-clockwise in front of it. A lot of the snow on the DelMarVa will turn to goop as it is going to rain there. Dover, DE looks like rain on top of about a foot of snow, perfect setting for clogged rain gutters, flat roofs loaded with ponding water, and storm drains clogged with snow causing street ponding.
Stay dry, stay safe.
Happy Holidays!
Norway’s capital Oslo is cold too.
Bursting cold inserts during Christmas. Minus 23 in Oslo, warning meteorologists. Colder in the city than on the mountain.
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?prev=no&hl=en&u=http://www.dagbladet.no/2009/12/25/nyheter/innenriks/ver/9663197/
I’m going to re watch Al Gore’s Doco, I couldn’t find this scenario in it?
We are in Corpus Christi, Texas. Cold today, 50F, but sunny. We weren’t born in Texas but got here as fast as we could. Ray & Kay (ex-Chicagoans)
Think how bad this would be if it weren’t for Global Warming.
@ur momisugly stan (13:00:37) :
“It would appear that the only states without some snow are Miss, Ala, Fla and maybe La.”
Actually, we did get a few flakes/sleet early this morning at my place in NE MS. 🙂 Not enough to show up on the maps, but still. Not all that unusual for here. Snowed about an inch last winter, and I expect we’ll get some this year also.
You think this is interesting, just wait till New Years day…Anyone with the foresight to invest in a snow blower company? Front loaders, dump trucks? Road salt futures?