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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Slabadang (13:00:22) :
>Finlands TV is a runner up on your list.
The Video is concise, on the spot and quite enlightening. Emjoyed very much.
Could you please tell me the on-air date, if you know it. Thanks.
Pamela>> Sorry to say, but also in Sweden our kids are being tought to embrace the AGW theory uncritically. In fact, my son was told by a teacher:
“I don’t question this and I don’t think you should either.”
This is a very real problem.
But please tell us how this is handled in your school. Sounds interresting.
That is because there is a major low pressure system West of you that is pulling warm air up from the South as the wind circulates counter-clockwise around it.
If you look at the jet stream you will notice that it is a Southerly flow over MA. When that storm to your West passes, it will become a more Northerly flow and it will get cold.
Patrick Davis said: 22c here in Sydney, Australia today. Pretty cool for summer, but at ~90% humidity it’s very sticky.
NEWFLASH: It’s always humid in Sydney. The worst climate in the country outside of Townsville.
The ignorance of most of you is frightening. Anyone with half a brain knows that with the warming of the earth due to man-made pollution, extreme weather, both hot and cold, will come.
Not to mention, it’s not NEARLY as cold in many areas as it once was. We haven’t been below zero in Tulsa, OK, in over a decade, when we used to be on an annual basis. [snip]
Patrik (16:51:12) :
Pamela>> Sorry to say, but also in Sweden our kids are being tought to embrace the AGW theory uncritically. In fact, my son was told by a teacher:
“I don’t question this and I don’t think you should either.”
This is a very real problem.
But please tell us how this is handled in your school. Sounds interresting.
Patrik, you’ve hit the nub of the problem. Pamela, for the first time on this blog AFAIR, was wrong-footed.
In the EU, Bad Science is now a given and Child Abuse is now normal.
Time for lies to be revealed, is it not?
John Boston (17:08:47) :
The ignorance of most of you is frightening. Anyone with half a brain knows that with the warming of the earth due to man-made pollution, extreme weather, both hot and cold, will come.
Not to mention, it’s not NEARLY as cold in many areas as it once was. We haven’t been below zero in Tulsa, OK, in over a decade, when we used to be on an annual basis. [snip]
Just keep coming back here mate.
It’ll take a while, judging by my experiences, but it will happen!
Sometimes the ones you trusted most, just lied. Dunno their motives but it, sure as diddly, fooled me too!
John Boston:
I hope you were being sarcastic because expecting “extreme cold” to come from a warming of the globe is rather nonsensical.
Where does the cold air for the extreme cold come from? Does it come from the poles? If so, how can the air be colder now when the poles should show the most warming of all? If anything, greenhouse warming should see a moderation of Winter cold temperatures. I would expect to see little or no change in Summer temperatures and a significant warming of Winter temperatures. We aren’t seeing that.
DirkH (16:25:28) :
Excuse me, am i insane or is the BBC insane?
“Is the BBC insane?” is a rhetorical question.
Reading the piece all the way through, it’s not that bad.
Perhaps it would be beneficial for parents to convince their kids they must do their part to fight global warming by dramatically reducing their energy usage, per the end of that piece. Such as no iPods, cell phones, no TV unless it’s parentally-authorized (news and documentaries), no video games, no computer use unless it’s for school use and that will be monitored. You could even get a manual reel lawnmower and have them mow the lawn with it. Now a washboard and tub for their laundry may be overdoing it, but you can certainly get them to hang stuff on a clothesline.
Yes, this is stuff they must do, getting the parents to use funny lightbulbs and separate the trash is not good enough. This is about their sacrifices, not their parents.
Then after they get so fed up they shout about how they cannot possibly see how any of it matters or even makes sense, well then, let the de-programming begin.
Pamela Gray (13:50:00) :
The negative Atlantic oscillation can help explain the snowfall, but there are other pieces to the puzzle. From the current NWS extended discussion (http://www.crh.noaa.gov/product.php?site=NWS&product=PMD&issuedby=EPD) they state:
THE KEY TO TO THE OVERALL LONGWAVE PATTERN IS THE REDEVELOPMENT OF
VERY STRONG BLOCKING OVER SRN GREENLAND BY THU THAT DRIFTS SLOWLY
WWD INTO THE SRN DAVIS STRAIT NEXT WEEKEND. THIS STRONG HIGH
LATITUDE BLOCK FAVORS SUPPRESSED WESTERLIES ACROSS THE LOWER 48
STATES WELL INTO THE ATLANTIC. THESE SUPPRESSED
WESTERLIES..JOINING FORCES WITH A SUBTROPICAL STREAM NEAR THE
US/MEXICAN BORDER AND THE MODERATE EL NINO…FAVOR AN ACTIVE STORM
TRACK ACROSS THE GULF OF MEXICO TOWARDS THE S ATLANTIC COAST.
In other words, the NAO is conducive to southern stream storms but only because the pacific El Nino creates a more active southern stream jet, Also if you examine the NAO index chart (http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/pna/nao_index_ensm.shtml) you can see, roughly, a negative AO in October and December and positive in September and November. It is no coincidence that the continental US was warm in Sept and Nov and cold (and snowy) in Oct and Dec.
Again I stress that the negative AO is just an indicator that essentially says “hey U.S., look to the north and/or south for near-term weather rather than predominately zonal west to east.” It does not mean more or less snow, or even more cold air although cold is a pretty good bet most times AO is negative. Under the current El Nino and other Pacific conditions, it means decent shots of arctic air (although not excessive) along with decent pacific storms reforming somewhere over the mid-U.S. and moving north into the midwest or up the east coast.
For those that say weather is not climate, consider that when it gets cold here from the negative AO and other factors, it does not get equally warm somewhere else to balance it out. It will probably get somewhat warmer somewhere else, but not warm enough to balance out the cold.
John Boston (17:08:47) :
The ignorance of most of you is frightening. Anyone with half a brain knows that with the warming of the earth due to man-made pollution, extreme weather, both hot and cold, will come.
Not to mention, it’s not NEARLY as cold in many areas as it once was. We haven’t been below zero in Tulsa, OK, in over a decade, when we used to be on an annual basis. [snip]
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everything about your argument made sense, except the part after you said “the”.
This may have been posted, but there is no doubt that this is by FAR FAR the most serious and referenced presentation of the whole “climate change” saga by anyone/organization. Would not be surprised if the major networks will use it in the coming months.
http://hro001.wordpress.com/2009/12/27/climate-science-finnished/ there are parts 1, 2 and 3
With all the snow lying around at the moment, It makes one wonder what would happen if the worlds temperature take a a downward dive.
John Boston (17:08:47) :
My suggestion is to read the Arctic Oscillation paper linked above. Some of our weather may be explained by the theory that AGW causes a cooler stratosphere. OTOH, there are also natural factors causing the stratosphere to cool. I suspect that it is not ignorance that causes most posters here to implicate natural cooling, but a broader and deeper understanding of weather and climate.
I believe that manmade CO2 has a slight warming effect over many decades, but not much more than that. I do not believe it is responsible for more severe weather, but it can cause less severe weather by my current understanding. For climate and weather I mainly look at PDO and AO. I humbly suggest you should do the same.
Slioch (15:02:15) :
You also didn’t check the locations where those few record warms happened. You make it sound as if the occurred in the same locations and on the same days as the record snow. This did not happen.
You also overlooked where I said there are always a small number of cold and warm records broken. The small number of warm records you are talking about is just part of normal weather. They are not global warming. The sky isn’t falling.
However, there were 304 low temperature, and 403 lowest max temperature records were set for the week Dec 6–14. That is noteworthy.
Temperatures across most of the continental US are below average now. You wish to believe that it doesn’t have to be colder for snowfall records to be set that’s up to you. The rest of us will stay in the real world.
The earth is supposed to be warming now if ‘global warming’ is real. And record snow was not predicted in ‘global warming’ scenarios.
Global warming is not happening.
david m (17:42:26) :
With all the snow lying around at the moment, It makes one wonder what would happen if the worlds temperature take a a downward dive.
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i’ve read, it’s not how cold the winter is, but how cool the summers are. north america just came out of a cool summer right?
Slioch (15:14:25) :
I have looked in occasionally and do not recall a week without many record events. Warm records generally exceed cold records, as has occurred this last week.
Your occasional looks must be only when the few number of record warm has been greater then the record cold.
You must be thorough and complete before talking like you know what is really happening. Half measures don’t count in science. Half measure can be cherry picking. Cherry picking is what the ClimateGate scientists did and most likely are still doing.
I’m tired of this sophistry game your ilk plays.
Science 22 September 2000: Vol. 289. no. 5487, pp. 2068 – 2074 DOI: 10.1126/science.289.5487.2068
Climate Extremes: Observations, Modeling, and Impacts
David R. Easterling,1* Gerald A. Meehl,2 Camille Parmesan,3 Stanley A. Changnon,4 Thomas R. Karl,1 Linda O. Mearns2
They found that for complex event-driven climate extremes such as more wet spells (increased precipitation at mid- and high latitudes in winter[e.g. record snowfalls]) change is “likely”;physically plausible and could be shown for a larger group of models. These observations are confirmation of the model predictions made 9 years ago.
I blame Al Gore – and his “Global Warming”. It has been much cooler and wetter the entire year in my little corner of the world – so this information really doesn’t surprise me. I think we haven’t seen the worse of it yet – as we get into February and March, it will be really interesting to see what the weather is like then!!
crosspatch (17:29:12) :
He is also overlooking the cooling since 2004.
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_4ruQ7t4zrFA/Sy0GNXuxT1I/AAAAAAAADqY/90Z472zMWPg/uah-temperatures-1995-2009.JPG
And the cooling since 1998.
And the cooling since the Medieval Warm Period.
And the cooling since the Roman Warm Period.
etc, etc, etc
Do you really want a lecture from me on self-reporting opinion survey research and how to do it right? Come on folks, anecdotal comments and beliefs absolutely will, seductively so, give you the wrong impression and lead you to the following:
Survey taken re: adultery in a closed room of 100 adults
90% of respondents in the room report not having indulged.
90% of the same respondents believe others in the room have.
I see these record blizzards have brought the trolls out. Who are they trying to convince, us, or themselves?
Maybe they’re just whistling past the cemetery.
kadaka …
Oohh. I love your thinking. ☺ Well done.
And maybe their eco-weenie teachers could give up their classroom smart boards and go back to blackboards. No more rides from parents to school less than 2 km … all kids must now walk to school of it is less than 2 km. Let’s see what else. No more Slurpees. Obviously we have to put an end to Coke and Pepsi in their lives. And don’t even think about toys..especially those bears you build yourself. Barbies no more. And the summer cottage that takes two tanks of gasoline to get to. Poof.
Obviously not about to happen, but the thinking is good kadaka.
“Hey kids what are YOU willing to give up?”
It is not always some other ba$tard is it. ☺
It makes one wonder what would happen if the worlds temperature take a a downward dive.
It isn’t really the snow laying around at low altitudes. One thing I have noticed is the complete lack of recent information (as in the past 3 years or so) of the state of glaciers in the NH. What have glaciers been doing in the Alps and the Rockies the past few years?
It seems like most of the information I can find is pre 2002.
There is this article from this site in 2008. I notice absolutely nothing from Glacier National Park recently.
There seems to be comments here that there is something going on with Arctic ice. The only thing I see happening is growth.
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icecover.uk.php