And that’s not all, for the week ending Dec 13th, there were 815 new snowfall records set. December 2009 is shaping up to be quite the snowmaker. Here’s a map showing continental USA records:
Here is the daily count data from NCDC, with links to tabular reports and source for the snowfall records:
Dec 20th 124
Dec 21st 50
Dec 22nd 75
Dec 23rd 71
Dec 24th 170
Dec 25th 235
Dec 26th 152
Total 877 (CONUS and Alaska)
Many of the records have been bested significantly, and there were a number of all time records broken as well.
For example, December 24th and 25th all time records:
Click tables for original source reports from NCDC.
Note that we saw the majority of records from the most recent snowstorm in places that are fairly far south of the major USA snow belt.
| 24 December 2009 | Lat | Lon | ASOS/
COOP |
COOP/
WBAN ID* |
Record
New (4) Tied (0) |
Previous
Record |
Previous
Date |
Period
of Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UNIV OF MINN ST PAUL, MN | 44.98 | -93.18 | COOP | 218450 | 6.7 in | 4.0 in | 9 Dec 2009 | 31 |
| SHERBURN 3 WSW, MN | 43.63 | -94.77 | COOP | 217602 | 4.0 in | 3.0 in | 22 Dec 2009 | 62 |
| OK CITY WILL ROGERS AP, OK (KOKC) | 35.39 | -97.60 | ASOS | 346661 | 14.1 in | 8.4 in | 10 Mar 1948 | 69 |
| POST, TX | 33.20 | -101.37 | COOP | 417206 | 9.2 in | 9.0 in | 15 Mar 1969 | 100 |
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I wonder what the Northern hemisphere anamoly will be. Cold in North America, Europa and China(Siberia is normal with all that cold).
2009 WUWT HIGHLIGHTS
This is the year the AGW hypothesis crumbled to pieces.
In addition to numerous cold weather events, reports of quiet solar activity, Arctic refreeze, FOIA stonewalling, surging scepticism, the Catlin folly, etc., the following are some of the more important WUWT highlights:
15 January:
WUWT VOTED BEST SCIENCE BLOG 2008
21 January
FAULTY ANTARCTIC PAPER BY STEIG; MANN ET AL
18 February
FAULTY NSIDC SATELLITE AND DATA
9 March
ICCC CONFERENCE
WATTS’ PAPER: IS US SURFACE TEMP RECORD RELIABLE?
2 April
NOAA STUDY SHOWS CLIMATE CHANGE NOT ALL MANMADE
17 April
EPA DECLARES CO2 “A DANGEROUS POLLUTANT”
18 April
STUDY: ONLY 34% BLAME HUMANS FOR GLOBAL WARMING
28 April
POLAR 5 SURVEY FINDS SURPRISINGLY THICK ICE
25 May
MIT NEW LOW, RELEASES ULTRA-KOOK GW STUDY
27 May
SOLAR ACTIVITY REACHES NEW LOW
2 June
NIPCC RELEASES 880 PAGE REPORT
8 June
PIELKE COMMENTS ON THE SCIENTIFIC PROCESS
20 June
MET OFFICE PREDICTS CLIMATE FOR REST OF CENTURY!
25 June
EPA SUPPRESSES SCIENCE
26 June
CLIMATE BILL PASSES HOUSE 219 – 212
23 July
MET OFFICE REFUSES TO RELEASE DATA
26 July
“DEEP COOL” MOLE LEAKS DATA TO MCINTYRE
30 July
AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY MEMBERS REVOLT
1 August
NCDC: NOW AN ADVOCACY GROUP, PHOTOSHOPS!
8 August
AWI POLARSTERN REPORTS LOTS OF ICE
13 August
CASPAR AND THE JESUS PAPER
21 August
SOLAR CYCLE 24 POSTPONED AGAIN
26 August
FORMER CSIRO DIRECTOR PROJECTS GLOBAL COOLING
5 September
EL NINO
7 September
SCIENTISTS’ 2009 SEA ICE PROJECTIONS MISS THE BARN
28 September
CLIMATE AUDIT: YAMAL DIVERGENCE PROBLEM
29 September
COSMIC RAYS 19% HIGHER
3 October
SOLAR CYCLE 24
9 October
OCEAN HEAT CONTENT DROPPING
23 October
GROWING SCEPTICISM
3 November
LINDZEN/CHOI PAPER
5 November
SCEPTICISM SPREADS TO FINNLAND
15 November
450 SCEPTICAL PEER-REVIWED PAPERS
19 November
CLIMATEGATE EXPOSED: “UNBELIEVABLE!”
23 November
GLENN BECK ON CLIMATEGATE
MONBIOT EXPERIENCES RARE MOMENT OF SANITY
25 November
NEW ZEALAND WARMING MANIPULATED
29 November
MSM REMAINS IN DENIAL
1 December
WUWT HOCKEY STICK
PHIL JONES STEPS DOWN
7 December
EPA COUP D’ETAT, NOW MORE POWERFUL THAN CONGRESS?
AMERICA SEES THE HOAX
14 December
REVKEN TO LEAVE NYT
19 December
COPENHAGEN LEAVES WARMISTS OUT IN THE COLD
21 December
MM ON FOX NEWS SPECIAL
22 December
WIKI-REVISIONISM
25 December
WHITE CHRISTMAS
26 December
DRAMATIC ATMOSPHERIC COOLING
Wishing everyone a happy and healthy New Year!
These highlights will be accompanied by the links shortly.
The UK experienced it’s coldest ever Christmas Eve, with a minimum recorded of -16c.
Didn’t see it reported anywhere, I can imagine the headlines if it was the mildest ever Christmas Eve however.
With four days to go, Lincoln, Nebraska has already had its snowiest December in the ~125 years records have been kept. I haven’t been keeping track, but I expect it will challenge the record for coldest December, also.
After CRU adjustments are applied, the snowfall totals will be deceased from 22.5 inches to ‘trace’, and we will learn that we’re actually now in the subtropical zone.
But at least Interstate 80 is open again.
Just for the record,
The above 2009 hihjlights are ny own that I chose from the WUWT site.
A few of the highlights actually come from CA, Bishop Hill or Air Vent.
20 years from now the value added data will show a warm, dry winter of 2009-2010.
And in Europe: thunderstorms!
Jeroen (04:25:59)
And in Siberia a hotspot
Jeroen (04:25:59) :
I wonder what the Northern hemisphere anamoly will be. Cold in North America, Europa and China(Siberia is normal with all that cold).
I expect the normal “hot spot” over Siberia
At what point does weather become climate? [Or at least have some passing familiarity with it?]
Anthony, thank you for this link to NCDC for snow records. How can we learn or track how many cold weather records were set in 2009 or 2008?
Climate Progress is screeming that the equater is very hot.
It always is. When that changes let us know.
One of the things that bothers me is television. It has been less than 50 years that we have seen video reports of storms elswhere. Just because they weren’t reported, doesn’t make them less severe. In my area, it was a cool summer. It means there are still unharvested fall crops. That I have never seen.
According to yesterday’s Burlington (Vermont) Free Press
“So far this winter, 10 inches of snow have fallen in Burlington, half the normal amount to date, according to the National Weather Service”
Current weather at the foot of Mt Mansfield is 40F and raining.
It’s enough to warm the cockles of the heart — no record for Buffalo this year, unlike 2001 when record snowfall of over a foot and a half was recorded on the day before and the day after Christmas.
Last night we got some snow — it looks like powdered sugar was sprinkled over the green grass — and it’ll probably all melt by this afternoon in the sun and above freezing temps.
Of course, this being Buffalo, we’ll probably get socked in New Year’s Eve.
It is getting harder and harder to ‘hide the decline’ from anyone who looks out the window.
Steve M. (05:41:22) :
Jeroen (04:25:59) :
“I wonder what the Northern hemisphere anamoly will be. Cold in North America, Europa and China(Siberia is normal with all that cold).”
“I expect the normal “hot spot” over Siberia”
I expect the average will be something like -36C instead of the ‘official, homogenised,pasteurised and adjusted’ average of about -40C thus giving a huge anomaly of +4C.
Looks to me like there’s a low centred over Montreal.
I don’t think Burlington Vermont is going to stay mild for long.
http://www.findlocalweather.com/weather_maps/temperature_north_america.html
It has been interesting to watch the huge blizzard out west lose it’s strength, once it was cut off from the warm, moist air and cold arctic air that fueled it. Pressures at its center have risen from down near 980 mb to 1008 mb in two days.
New Hampshire has been on the warm side, which depresses the ski industry, but is a great blessing for people like me who have farm chores to do outside. It looks like we have a 48 hour window of opportunity to free items from ice, before the next arctic blast hits us Monday. “The Other Dan” in Vermont will be glad to hear the cold air may squeeze 3 inches of snow from the moist air as it moves in, but I’ll likely be a sour puss.
What impresses me so far this winter is the size of the storms. (There is gossip of another East Coast Bomb over New Year’s.) I understand the warm and moist “fuel” for these storms is due to the El Nino generating a rich southern stream, but I don’t fully understand why the other aspect of these huge storms, the northern stream’s cold, is so extremely cold.
Anyone have any ideas?
Aligner
Corbyn seems to have hit the nail squarely on the head.
Jeroen (04:25:59) :
“I wonder what the Northern hemisphere anomaly will be. Cold in North America, Europa and China(Siberia is normal with all that cold).”
The UAH SST anomaly has been running about .5F warmer than last year. The overall anomaly has also been above last year. I’m guessing the overall UAH anomaly will come in around .3-.4 above the base while the NH will be a little lower.
O/T : Surprisingly, the wikipedia has a list of scientists opposing the mainstream scientific assessment of global warming.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientists_opposing_the_mainstream_scientific_assessment_of_global_warming
I stumbled across this list when i saw that William M. Connolley, a member of the RealClimate blogging outfit, edited the wikipedia article about Segalstad , removing the reference from the Segalstad article to above category. He did that in November. The reverse reference – pointing from the category to Segalstad – is still there. The logic behind this escapes me.
You learn so much from the wikipedia, especially from the edit history.
Met Office Press Release 25 February 2009
Coldest winter for a decade
Mild weather is expected to see out what remains of winter. Despite this, it is expected to be the coldest UK winter since 1995/96, according to provisional Met Office figures.
……………….
Peter Stott, Climate Scientist at the Met Office, said: “Despite the cold winter this year, the trend to milder and wetter winters is expected to continue, with snow and frost becoming less of a feature in the future.
Ok, we can’t see any climate changes in our recent weather. Isn’t that what really matters. If the climate has changed due to 60 years of emissions shouldn’t it start showing up sometime? Well, maybe it has but it’s so minor that nobody can tell the difference with their senses.
The fact is no one is going to be able to notice a 1F change in climate within all the nature variations. Even 1C is pretty much beyond our ability to notice unless one happens to live right at a freezing line. This is what makes much of the AGW hullabaloo such nonsense.
Henry chance (05:50:41) :
Climate Progress is screaming that the equater is very hot.
It always is. When that changes let us know.
Now that there is loads of money for the victims of advanced cultures, the whole world will be forever screaming that they are hotter than ever. I doubt their temp reports will be ever be honest again.
Ano (05:41:24) :
“At what point does weather become climate? [Or at least have some passing familiarity with it?]”
Average global climate is an abstract concept which attempts to show changes in weather patterns over a long time period i.e. a trend.
However, weather systems are non-linear in behaviour and this makes accurate prediction of behaviour even a few weeks ahead impossible.
Both weather and climate exhibit deterministic chaos, with many systems operating in concert to produce the effects any observer experiences at any moment at a specific location on the Earth. So perhaps no surprise that climate scientist and meteorologists cannot speak with any certainty about what the future will bring.
Weather/climate are self similar on both metric and temporal scales, they change from moment to moment in a deterministic way without the assistance of man.