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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Anyone hear anything about vehicles using bio-diesel or even vegetable oil? Such a wonderful green technology, using renewable energy, heading straight on into temperatures that make the substances gel up.
I have read of systems using electric heaters for the fuel tank, while we are facing conditions that make these fuels turn to sludge in the lines going to the engine. One has to hope they have enough reserve battery power to both warm the tank and start up the cold engine. Other proposals are dual-fuel and possibly dual-engine, use a conventional fuel until things warm up then switch over. Regular highway diesel has additives to prevent gelling. For dual-engine, start with gasoline or something more eco-friendly like ethanol.
How well are the all-electric vehicles doing in the cold? Did they ever field-test a Tesla roadster in Siberia?
Innocentious (07:11:45) :
Look actually what this does is give the AGW believers an opportunity to say, see we told you more moisture was going to be in the air!!!!
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That moisture was supposed to be in the form of hurricanes, typhoons, torrential rains, etc, not in late fall and early winter record blizzards.
“This action, clearly calculated to cause maximum political damage before the Copenhagen summit…”
Deconstruct people’s motivations; never address their truth claims — you can never demonstrate to these people that they are wrong, for they merely reinterpret your motivation for trying to prove them wrong and ascribe it to nefarious impulses. Heaven forbid you do it merely because you have a healthy curiosity in science!
It is a real problem if scientists themselves have grown up amongst and influenced by this culture where you defend the indifensible by just accusing your critics of being “evil”. It is basically the end of the scientific method. How can it possibly survive, if you never let real critics have a say? If findings can never be checked? It turns science into power games, nothing more.
It is an opportunity for others to step in and take over the sacred task of the pursuit of knowledge.
Ahhhhh, those were the days from the BBC. They must wish now that they had kept up their more balanced reporting.
Viewpoint: Get off warming bandwagon
By Professor William M Gray of Colorado State University
Thursday, 16 November, 2000
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2000/climate_change/1023334.stm
Questioning global warming
By BBC News Online’s Jonathan Amos
Tuesday, 14 November, 2000
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2000/climate_change/1017204.stm
The real work in climate science is being muffled by the pollies with the megaphones.
So, this is how we get a seemingly mild Christmas forecast with the worst is over when you have Piers Corbyn predicting months out what was just suffered, round 2 just about to hit, and round 3 in January. The standard weather models can’t do this, as they are tied to the warming theories.
It’s a shame, really, to see meteorology dragging a ball & chain around in the 21st Century.
kadaka (11:46:17) :
Tell any Haitian about how bio-fuels are good for the planet.
I suspect that most U.S science teachers lack the range/depth of skills to have been able to see through the B.S. but a more in depth analysis would be interesting. I would be intrigued to find if many have kept their personal views shuttered out of political correctness.
Not unlike the situation where 70% of meteorologists think CAGW is a major exaggeration, but will rarely speak out on their local broadcasts. (Probably influenced by programming direction, but not entirely).
Pamela Gray (10:02:45)
“In my opinion, your conclusions regarding teachers and AGW hype is utter nonsense…”
Ben Santer
Scientist, educator, and school yard bully.
P Gosselin (11:33:22) :
I was going to suggest putting the UEA CRU whistle blower at the top of the list as that event was a singular tipping point, but there would likely have been another event in the future if this one didn’t happen, and it was McIntyre’s tireless and brilliant due diligence that “allowed” many of these e-mails to have to have been written, so, I agree with McIntyre being #1. Regarding #2, I would suggest it is Anthony and Company, and the whistle blower is 3rd.
Pieter F (08:00:18) :
…90 years of serious seasonal observation… seems important to me. It’s direct observation with a purpose. All that other GISS and CRU stuff is modeling and, as it seems, has been consistently incorrect in predicting climate change.
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Freeman Dyson seems to agree with that:
“My first heresy says that all the fuss about global warming is grossly exaggerated. Here I am opposing the holy brotherhood of climate model experts and the crowd of deluded citizens who believe the numbers predicted by the computer models. Of course, they say, I have no degree in meteorology and I am therefore not qualified to speak. But I have studied the climate models and I know what they can do. The models solve the equations of fluid dynamics, and they do a very good job of describing the fluid motions of the atmosphere and the oceans. They do a very poor job of describing the clouds, the dust, the chemistry and the biology of fields and farms and forests. They do not begin to describe the real world that we live in. The real world is muddy and messy and full of things that we do not yet understand. It is much easier for a scientist to sit in an air-conditioned building and run computer models, than to put on winter clothes and measure what is really happening outside in the swamps and the clouds. That is why the climate model experts end up believing their own models.”
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/dysonf07/dysonf07_index.html
Two kids in school does not a reliable conclusion based on sound research make. When I say back it up, don’t give me the, “My kids are being indoctrinated” remark. That isn’t a sound research based conclusion and you know it. It is your biased unresearched opinion. State it as such or I will call you on it. We don’t let AGW posters get away with it. Neither should we let ourselves get away with it.
Slioch (10:29:59) :
There’s always a small number of cold and warm records broken like the ones you point out in your comment. What is noteworthy is the large number of snowfall records. These were not predicted to happen in global warming.
PeterM NZ (10:37:57) :
The Farmers Almanac is predicting a clod winter in the US.
Pamela Gray says:
December 27, 2009 at 9:31 am
interesting. My then 15 YO son returned from school 2 years ago full of global warming talk. I asked where he got the information from. His teacher was instructing the class about AWG and all the ensuring consequences from melting poles to species extinction. I was incensed – downloaded alot of anti AGW info from WUWT and told him to read it. My son still wasn’t convinced and preferred to believe the teacher because they “know more than you Dad”. I rang both the teacher and the form dean and learned AWG was part of the curriculum. I live in NZ so not perhaps relevent your experiences.
D. King (12:12:08) :
Ben Santer aiming his message at the only group of people he is able to influence—children.
Adults are too much for you, hey Ben?
It has certainly been cold in some parts of the Northern Hemisphere this winter timed almost to perfection for the Copenhagen Fearfest. What I cannot understand is why this is not reflected in Arctic Ice Extent?
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_timeseries.png
It seems to be headed the other way. Are there other factors at play here or do the warmists still have a case?
Well I would venture a guess, that in 2009, besides the record new snow falls, there were also new records set in the plain silliness of the utterances of global warming climate change CO2 Polar Bear worry warts.
Try this one on for size; fresh from last night’s T&V news broadcast on ABC television; well specifically from San Francisco’s Channel 4. Now honestly I can’t remember whether I watched it on the 16:9 720P or the 4:3 480i; but it was on Channel 4.
Now my policy towards T&V news broadasts, is exactly the same as it is towards newspapers such as the San Jose Murky News, or the New York Times.
I hold the person whose name appears with the story personally responsible for the absolute accuracy of ANY and every story they write/ attach their name to. Sametimes it maybe AP who is responsible; which I take to mean Accurate Presentation.
In any case I expect EVERY newsperson/Columnist/Journalist who presents anything in the public NEWS media to check the scientific accuracy of EVERYTHING they print; by citing the authors and peer reviewed journal, if published, and the name of a second source they checked with to venrfy the scientific accuracy of the story. Well the only exception is if the reporter/reportress personally conducted the research and is reportressing his/er own results.
So last night’s story just has to be correct because it was on Television, and they wouldn’t lie. Maybe someone can locate the peer reviewed journal this was published in.
According to last nights story, animals will have to migrate a quarter mile per year to keep up with their comfort zone just because of global warming climate change CO2 increase.
Now they didn’t elaborate whether that was north/south/east or west; or whether they all move in all directions; maybe they just swap places.
Now I don’t know how many National Geographic TV shows I have seen, in which some growing lion cubs (male) got chased out of their Pride, to go find themselves a new habitat not already occupied by some ornery lions, and hopefully some food species also got chased out of their place to the new lion’s spot; maybe by grass getting up and moving to a healthier spot.
No I don’t know the names of the fools who are promoting this idiotic thesis; they evidently don’t know that great white Sharks migrate thousands of miles here and there all the time; probably looking for that next fur bag they are going to turn into mush..
Now I don’t know whether somebody’s supercomputer discovered this amazing fact, or whether these scientists have a world wide animal species migration network that keeps track of the centroid of the world’s elephants or maybe the locust and termites too.
Bur how would you distinguish one termite who just moved his quarter mile from another that simply grew there.
Hey animals (dumb things) do the same thing that humans do when shopping in the mall, or driving down the freeway. Everybody moves into the empty space/lane; maybe it’s called the ballroom dancing effect. When you are shepheding your partner or are being shepherded around the Ballroom, you instinctively keep your elbows out in the classical ballroom dancing stance. This is for the purpose of nudgeing the couple next to you out of the way, so you can “dance through”, and head for that open spot on the floor what which to display your ballroom prowess.
Well you see everybody is heading for that spot, and that is going to create a vaccuum somewhere else on the floor, and soon people will head for that place.
So random migration is part of our psyche, and everything always does it. Weeds get up and move to some empty ground to try and escape the crowds, or maybe the RoundUp.
Any way this 1/4 mile annual dance shuffle has to be the dumbest scientific theory I have ever heard. These people will stop at nothing to scare the ehell out of all of us. In case you haven’t noticed those places on earth, that have already way overpopulated their own territory, engage in mass emigration to some empty place (relatively), in order to continue their profligate ways there.
The USA for example is viewed as a wide open uninhabited expansion territory by peoples who are used to doing the ballroom shuffle anywhere in their own country.
Gaia has programmed everybody, and everything to move to the empty space, wherever it is. Movable “Holes” were discovered, long before the semiconductor solid state Physics of such things was written down.
So how about it ABC/channel 4; where did you come up with that insane story.
P Gossling!
Finlands TV is a runner up on your list.Thier climatexperts doesnt recognize their own temp data after CRU handling. Seems to be a Nordic consensus.
What the [snip] is this??? They also comment on Russian and Spetsbergen data!!
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AGW being taught uncritically in schools? Sure it is. Here are two more data points:
1) My power flying instructor has two sons in a private primary school here in Toowoomba. He asked me one day about the AGW thing as his kids were coming home from school worried about it. I gave him a 5 minute summary and he was happy to go home and tell them not to worry.
2) Nearly 3 years ago I went to a niece’s wedding. The father of the groom was at our table afterwards and he turned out to be a senior physics teacher in the Western Australian High School system. He was dyed in the wool disciple of James Hansen. Sites like CA are just discredited denier rubbish according to him.
I asked him to send me a couple of examples of the final year physics exam papers which he did. They were about as fluffy as the one ralph linked to. Nothing like what I did in 1965 in the same school system.
” ralph (03:27:21) :
….This is a physics exam for UK 16-year olds. From pure physics, this exam has been downgraded to general knowledge questions…”
I’ve looked at the test which you linked to (http://store.aqa.org.uk/qual/gcse/qp-ms/AQA-PHY1AP-W-QP-MAR08.PDF), and I’m shaking my head in disbelief. Yes, it’s blatant propaganda and for the most part common knowledge, but it’s worse than you think.
Several multiple choice sections have 4 choices to be used 1 each for 4 questions, so this really is matching, not multiple choice. To use an equal number of choices and questions for matching, especially for only 4 questions, is a form of pedagogical malpractice.
Being certain of at least one answer greatly increases a student’s chances of getting remaining questions in that section correct. But, by getting one wrong, the student is “forced” to get at least two wrong.
WAR IS PEACE, SLAVERY IS FREEDOM, and WARMER IS COLDER
D. King (12:07:54) :
kadaka (11:46:17) :
Tell any Haitian about how bio-fuels are good for the planet.
While I will presume it was a good informative video, unfortunately it seems non-compatible with my dial-up connection. However I was already aware of the massive deforestation of Haiti, which has left it much worse off than the Dominican Republic, with whom it shares the island. The trees were used to make charcoal, the predominant local heat source. Without trees, and without money to get fuel elsewhere, some form of bio-fuel production naturally seemed inevitable. For which they will need open space, thus they will still be lacking the type of forest growth that helps the Dominican Republic during hurricanes and similar high wind events.
Strange that you don’t hear of green and/or relief groups proposing large solar energy projects for Haiti, given all the sunlight and the open space…
Hi ho Hadley: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/4375035/Snow-storms-could-hit-Britain-next-week.html
I remember a comment made by somebody who was in Britain in the early 40s that this was a frequent weather pattern at the time.
Yeah sure Big Ears of the House of Hanover. Its going to be the warmest year ever, right on bozo.
So how do those temp records compare to last years? Anyone have info? Here in Spokane, WA we were getting 6′ of global warming about this time last year, though the rest of the year was fairly “normal.” Overall an all time record was set.
This year we’re dry and there’s nothing interesting in the forecast. And I’ll take this year’s weather over last, anytime.
Pamela Gray (10:14:16) :
“I have been following the crazy jet stream and its confluence with the change in the Arctic Oscillation…”
Maybe that explains the above?
Ric Werme (07:52:11) :
http://home.comcast.net/~ewerme/wuwt/
Awesome job. Thanks.
I wonder how much our autumn/winter has been the results of a fight between a negative Artic Oscillation and El Nino? Will the AO index continue its fall from earlier in the decade? If one goes back to 1976, there was a significant change in ENSO (towards El Nino) and a very large drop in the AO index. The winter of 77-78 was a very cold snowy one for the NH.