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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Dec 7, 2009. The leaflets proclaiming “The science is settled” cover the ground.
Dec 25, 2009. The snowflakes proclaiming “Climate gags IPCC prediction” cover the toxic leaflets.
Aurora Borealis shining down on Dallas can you picture that?
Just weather not climate.
Imagine if this was the NH summer and heatwaves spread accross the USA and Europe, there would be alarmists screaming from every rooftop about how it’s a sign of global warming [climate change] we must act now, its worse than we thought, blah blah blah. (It’s happened before – heatwaves & alarm).
The snow started out light on Christmas eve here, then got heavy for the evening.
Now a white Christmas with a few flurries that have just fallen this afternoon, Weather Underground talks a slight chance of snow tomorrow and Wedensday.
They only reported 3 inches here in Wichita but it can be hard to tell with all the snow blowing into drifts.
I’m between Indianapolis and Chicago. Map shows us with snow and we have had 47°F temps today with a ton of rain. Air temp is just now (5pm EST) starting to get cold enough for snow. Not sure how the map differentiates between rain and snow but we have had a pretty brown Christmas so far.
Richard Holle (13:43:13) : You think this is interesting, just wait till New Years day…
The forecast for Norway’s capital Oslo New Years day is in agreement with Piers Corbyn:
The winds from Siberia are going to make it extremely cold – another Siberian blast.
I wonder if wattsupwiththat.com should have a “Spread the word and support this article. Share it on Digg!” banner on every article like they do on TalkingPointsMemo.com?
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/12/did-jim-inhofe-manipulate-poll-data-on-climate-change-policy.php
Using very sensitive instruments (Electric&gas Meter) I can say that the last few years have been getting colder.
This winter though, indeed takes the biscuit.
Thank you all.
Dave UK. Who lives not far from the UEA Grrrrr.
Well: Here in north-central ND right now we have a pretty good approximation of an 3-day blizzard like the old-timers used to talk about; and that I occasionally saw when I was kid 50 years ago. Realize this is in the ”weather is not climate” department, but still:
NWS sez total expected snow in our County thru tomorrow 6-9 inches;
Blizzard warning with N winds 25-35 mph & gusts to 50 mph today;
Temps 5 to 15 above, so wind chill well below zero.
White-out conditions common; ALL of I-29 and I-94 in ND are closed (been a LONG time since that happened, IIRC).
the glorious thing about this weather, is that you/we all saw it coming! quiet sun, etc.
I’m in St. Louis, and even though we’re “green” on NOAA’s map, it’s white outside right now.
Eddie (14:10:33) :
“I’m between Indianapolis and Chicago. Map shows us with snow and we have had 47°F temps today with a ton of rain. Air temp is just now (5pm EST) starting to get cold enough for snow. Not sure how the map differentiates between rain and snow but we have had a pretty brown Christmas so far.”
You aren’t specific enough with your location. But the map does not show all snow between Indy and Chicago. Here’s more detail
http://www.nohrsc.noaa.gov/interactive/html/map.html?mode=pan&zoom=¢er_x=++-91.20¢er_y=+++38.77&ql=station&var=ssm_depth&dy=2009&dm=12&dd=25&dh=12&snap=1&o9=1&o12=1&o13=1&lbl=m&min_x=-91.233333333335&min_y=38.450000000001&max_x=-84.166666666668&max_y=43.75&coord_x=-87.7000000000015&coord_y=41.1000000000005&zbox_n=&zbox_s=&zbox_e=&zbox_w=&metric=0&bgvar=dem&width=600&height=450&nw=600&nh=450&h_o=0&font=0&js=1&uc=0
I’m wondering where 47F temps were to be found. All in the area seems to be freezing. Here is Lebanon, IL:
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=40.056001090767424&lon=-86.47064208984375&site=ind&smap=1&marine=0&unit=0&lg=en
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.
Picked up a good foot of snow so far with some more to come here in the Northland of MN. Some places have gotten nearly 2ft. Lots of sleet and rain mixed in, too, so snow totals were down a bit from what they could have been. Impressive system. Look for January to be just as impressive as this month has for the US.
“…and it appears that all of Canada’s Lakes are frozen as indicated by the “yellow ice” in the photo.”
Ewww… don’t eat that yellow ice, Canada! 🙂
I’m right on the tip of Lake Michigan, and this morning there was no snow in sight. It all melted with the previous evening’s/ early morning’s rain. Was pretty decent, temperature-wise, this morning and into the afternoon.
But just looked out the window, and sure enough… it’s white out again!
Oh well. Merry Christmas, Anthony and WUWT readers!
u.k.(us) (14:38:56) :
the glorious thing about this weather, is that you/we all saw it coming! quiet sun, etc.
We saw this coming, the literature says this is what we should be expecting, and here it is, quiet sun and all.
The real question is:
What exactly is “Their” problem?
“They” have the no less access to the literature than we do.
“They” had to know what was coming.
Yet, for all that, they stand there and watch as Rome freezes over.
They should ask thier doctor if Reality is right for them.
Wrong time of year.
Although 20 degrees below zero are not unusual he chooses to use the term “cold blast”.
– If we see 10 to 15 years back, it is not common that it is so cold at this time of year. Nor that it will remain cold over such a long time. We are still in December, but sees a kind of cold, we usually have in January and February. Therefore, the term explosive cold, says meteorologist Bjart Eriksen.
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?prev=no&hl=en&u=http://www.rb.no/lokale_nyheter/article4776244.ece
Spare a thought for all the climate modellers in 2010.
All the effort required to rewrite algorithms to remove all this inconvenient outlier data.
14C and raining here in Canberra, Australia, down from 35C two days ago.
Actually a tiny patch of now on the top of Mauna Kea, so even Hawaii has some snow on Christmas. Got to the lower 60’s in town last night. Life is hard here…
Strange weather here in the Chicago area. The front side of this low brought rain that melted all of the snow. Now on the back side of the low we are getting new snow and artic air to turn all of the standing water to ice.
The Sun is blank again.
Don’t you folks realize that this is exactly what AGW theory has been prediction all along?
And in case some one wants to ban me AGAIN for being a troll: Guess what, I am kidding.
stan (13:00:37) :
It would appear that the only states without some snow are Miss, Ala, Fla and maybe La.
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It did snow this morning in Alabama.
oops, predicting, not prediction.
You all have to understand that NOAA, NASA, IPCC, etc. with the help of most of the media are trying their best to cover up all this unusual gold weather all around the world. It will only backfire eventually as the people will start to question how come there’s a massive discrepancy between what’s reported and reality. The longer they do this the worse it will get for them. The thing they always forget is we all have sensors of our own – ears, eyes, touch, etc. So, the longer they continue with the masquerade, the bigger the hole they are digging for themselves. I only hope that one day soon we can have a lot of those at high places put in jail for what they have done.