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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Re: Snowed in in the UK (04:12:22) : “fancy a giggle”
Even more hilarious, 2 weeks after the Independent published that “end of snow” article Britain had “White Tuesday”. I remember it well, I was one of the many people on that April day stranded for 12 hours at Luton Airport, because we were snowed in!
This is the biggest fun to watch. The entire AGW movement will start to collapse as soon as the mainstream media start to eat away at its foundation. Look at the bashing the MSM hacks already get in their comments sections…
Do you think our wonderful leaders are getting the hint yet?
Now back to observations and discussion that are centered on a higher road of discourse. I have been following the crazy jet stream and its confluence with the change in the Arctic Oscillation. Of note, lake affect snow has occurred East to West instead of the usual West to East direction. I think this is also causing the bizarre jet stream split with some sections flowing over the top Canada, a second leg flowing from North to South along the Pacific coast, and the lower leg following the typical El Nino track called the Pineapple Belt. This results in a mix of warmer and very moist pressure systems colliding with below normal cold systems. This kind of disturbed flow could result in snow much further South than normal and extremely variable weather throughout.
Who else has been following the change in the Arctic Oscillation? Could this be a multi-decadel change or is this an oscillation that can flip back and forth quickly? How long has this oscillation been known? What data do we have so far on its occurrence?
@ur momisugly Pamela Gray (10:02:45) :
I understand what you are saying, and shall endeavour in future to make certain that I preface my remarks as based on personal observations.
OT:
sounds like a number of Senate Democrats may have thrown in the towel regarding cap and trade:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30984.html
most of them cite economic reasons, perhaps not willing to admit that the public is finally awakening to the biggest scam in history.
Pamela Gray, joe has only re-iterated his experience and maybe he shouldn’t have genarised about it being all teachers and schools.
The UK governement is pushing it down our throats with outragous TV adverts about MM global warming directly aimed at Children.
The wonderful carbon cycle diagram by NASA has a new URL, it’s here:
http://nasascience.nasa.gov/earth-science/oceanography/ocean-earth-system/ocean-carbon-cycle
Pamela,
I’m glad you are here and that your schools do not support global warming. Perhaps it is because you are there making sure they don’t. Thank you for that.
I’m talking about my children in my schools. The things my children’s friends say and what their parents say. The things they bring home and their assignments. I have seen this in their grade schools, their high schools and now college.
I have no other data and my bias is out in the open.
I did bring it up hear because I can’t really talk about this in my community. I would like to know what others are experiancing. After all, supression of free speach, especially peer pressure, is how we get into trouble like this.
Sandy (03:56:08) :
A statistical outlier of 50 – 100 year records being broken the opposite way that the climate is modeled to be headed is not possible. Too many signmas above for the warmth, and you don’t get to go back that far unless the climate has reversed itself.
Global Warming cannot cause record breaking Global Cooling events (China, Europe,USA, Canada) unless Global Warming itself was a figment of overactive imaginations.
I have 2 kids at school over here and they are taught AGW without any word of it being controversial. I had to tell my kids to just give the politically correct answers to tests, so their overall grades won’t suffer. I have taught them “the other side” myself.
It is a problem, for sure.
Just to complete the meteorological information for the past week, which for some reason was not reported in the above article, here is all of the data from the last weeks weather in the USA.
http://mapcenter.hamweather.com/records/7day/us.html?c=
You will see that there are actually slightly more WARM records than cold ones
Total Records: 2180
Rainfall: 1102
Snowfall: 872
High Temperatures: 26
Low Temperatures: 25
Lowest Max Temperatures: 57
Highest Min Temperatures: 98
Do you think our wonderful leaders are getting the hint yet?
Not yet, it would seem. They still appear in public sporting faces smeared with cookie stuff and matching shirts, claiming innocence.
The NZ moon man much respected by some farmers is predicting a cold miserable winter for NZ. See http://www.nzherald.co.nz/niwa/news/article.cfm?o_id=136&objectid=10593960&pnum=1
No doubt NIWA will be spinning their own version.
Surely no surprise to any regular here…but a preponderance of record highs or lows are the key. An extreme event here or there is not significant, but when record qtys of highs or lows occur (from an equivalent number of reporting stations), these are an unbiased indicator of where we truly are WRT actual GMT.
But AGW is a religion (and a political cause) It is impervious to facts. The only thing that may turn this around is if snows at lower latitudes but higher elevations cease to melt in summer, and ice caps significantly advance.
Steve F (10:07:16) :
Do you think our wonderful leaders are getting the hint yet?
No. You can yell at them for weeks and they don’t get the hint.
But the average person is getting it!
I did bring it up here… sorry typo. : )
Caleb (06:41:56) :
…the northern stream’s cold, is so extremely cold.
Anyone have any ideas?
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A quiet sun may be the answer.
The energy from an active sun causes amplified heat flux from the ocean. With a quiet sun that amplified heat is lowered and earth cools, i.e., small variations in the sun are amplified in the oceans—“an amplification mechanism”. As Willie Soon puts it (paraphrased) the sun is big and earth is small and small variations from the sun have large effects on the earth.
Read here:
http://www.sciencebits.com/calorimeter
or here:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/04/15/the-oceans-as-a-calorimeter/#more-7057
Since the entire AGW -‘Climate Change’ theatre has become religion –
Is it not time to invoke the separation of church and state? at least in the US.
I say to the ‘team’ – prove it, or declare it a religious movement and go to your churches but get out of the state funding, politics, etc.
We need to keep in mind that most teachers are simply following a curriculum developed by others. They also select the books that are used.
In many cases they don’t have much of a choice what they can say without getting into hot water themselves.
Here’s another good piece of news:
CAP & TRADE IS DEAD
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/12/27/dems-wave-white-flag-on-cap-and-trade/
Actually, this brings me to my list of top CLIMATE MOVERS-2009: These are the ones I think who have really made a difference, scientifically, politically or media-wise.
1. Steve McIntyre
2. The UEA CRU whistleblower
3. Sen. James Inhofe
4. Lord Monckton
5. Fred Singer
6. Richard Lindzen
7. Roger Pielke Sr.
8. Anthony Watts
9. Talk Radio, FOX News
10. Drudge Report, American Thinker and Hot Air
I’ll let others argue about the rankings.
There are also lots of other jounalists, bloggers, etc. who have made immense contributions.
oldgifford (06:53:35) :
Met Office Press Release 25 February 2009
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,
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Trend? The trend of the last three years is that winters are getting worse.
Does he want a larger data set than three years? Let’s go back to the Medieval Warm Period of 1000 years ago. Winters of the last 150 years are worse than then.
What trend is he talking about?
Samsung has begun airing a really annoying AGW commercial on NatGeo channel. It’s tag is “No Ice – No Winter Sports.” Anybody else seen it?
“Slioch (10:29:59) :
[…]
You will see that there are actually slightly more WARM records than cold ones”
Well – according to the AGW hypothesis we should have seen 60 years of unrelenting human induced warming by now. So we should be seeing MANY more warm records than cold records. Completely unquantified suggestion of course.
Richard M (07:00:03) :
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.
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The sun has been very quiet since early 2007. Our senses can feel that effect.