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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DMI is interesting because they plot 30% ice extent which is different from everyone else who plots 15% extent. That is, everyone else plots the extent to which the ocean is covered with at least 15% ice while DMI lots the extent to which there is at least 30% coverage.
So there is a larger area of more consolidated ice this year but less area of scattered ice. Not sure what it all means in the “big picture” though.
Brian Dodge (17:57:33) :
Your study says winter. It didn’t say record blizzards would happen in late fall.
You didn’t supply a link so I couldn’t go to it to point out its other flaws.
Wonderful reporting on records broken or tied, Anthony. To P Gosselin (05:03:39) thanks for the WUWT HIGHLIGHTS. They are as amazing as the snowfall records. The international readership will appreciate this excellent summary.
To Pamela Gray and others: Both the evidence for AGW brainwashing in our schools (international) and our individual experiences that our children and grandchildren being taught lies instead of real subjects are extremely important. All of us should (must) protest (with evidence) to the teachers, principals, and the board of education with respectful anger. I hope someone’s blog will be focused on this MAJOR problem. Teaching children and adolescents is a sacred responsibility; lies are not ever acceptable. Teachers who lie should be placed on probation, subject to dismissal. To those teachers and school districts that take their responsibilities seriously we should give great praise and support.
Pamela:
“Come on folks, anecdotal comments and beliefs absolutely will, seductively so, give you the wrong impression”
No Pamela
I have three kids in school and they are all being taught that man made global warming is real and to not question it. They have even had ‘special’ assignments and ‘special’ homework on it.
I, however, played on their weakness. I know kids love a good conspiracy, so I gave them one.
Problem is, kids need to look up to and revere their teachers to a certain extent. Telling them that their teachers are wrong can backfire.
It can equate to telling them that they are wasting their time learning.
crosspatch (18:28:46) :
I notice absolutely nothing from Glacier National Park recently.
Will this do anything for you?
“THE BLACKFEET INDIANS PREDICT THE RETURN OF ‘MANY GLACIERS’ TO GLACIER PARK”
http://www.longrangeweather.com/ArticleArchives/BlackfeetIndians.htm
photon without a Higgs (18:53:50) :
crosspatch (18:28:46) :
I notice absolutely nothing from Glacier National Park recently.
Will this do anything for you?
“THE BLACKFEET INDIANS PREDICT THE RETURN OF ‘MANY GLACIERS’ TO GLACIER PARK”
http://www.longrangeweather.com/ArticleArchives/BlackfeetIndians.htm
=====================================
yes, we’re all on the same page, but lets not expect too much, after all they are GLACIERS 🙂
Bob Shapiro (13:18:50) :
” 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.
OMG question three said it all….
QUESTION THREE
Generating electricity causes problems for the environment.
Match words, A, B, C and D, with the numbers 1–4 in the sentences.
A acid rain
B global warming
C noise pollution
D radioactive waste
Nuclear power stations produce . . . 1 . . . .
Wind farms produce . . . 2 . . . .
Coal-fired power stations produce sulfur dioxide which causes . . . 3 . . . .
All fossil-fuel power stations produce carbon dioxide which causes . . . 4 . . . .
Here is a quantitative challenge for everyone.
Check your local heating degree days reported in your heating bills or via the local weather service. Here in Colorado the HDD (heating degree days) are up over normal heating season to date, and the CDD (cooling degree days were also down for the previous air conditioning season).
HDD since July 1 2009 = TOTAL = 2514
DPTR FM NORMAL +208
CDD since JAN 1 2009 = 533
DPTR FM NORMAL -163
That clearly shows in that in the reporting region covered by the DEN weather office, we had a cooler than normal summer and a cooler than normal fall, and winter to date.
Is there any region in the U.S. that is not seeing a similar pattern except isolated areas in the south?
It would be interesting to plot a map of HDD anomalies for the continental U.S. and a CDD anomalies for this season like those color coded maps we always see showing monthly temperature anomalies.
Perhaps one of our programmer wizards could knock together a script to scrub the data from National Weather Service products to put up another widget that monitors national HDD and CDD anomalies over average.
Larry
The insidious thing about this is, if you answer the other three questions correctly, you must answer the forth one correctly because it is the only answer left… even if you know it is wrong!
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.
So true. Glaciers are melting and not just dinky glaciers. Continent wide glaciers are gone. Historically glaciers are at record lows. They once covered a significant part of North America to well South of Chicago. And I do blame global warming for that.
@ur momisugly photon without a Higgs (18:41:32)
Winter officially started December 21.
If you plug the title of the Science article “Climate Extremes: Observations, Modeling, and Impacts” into google scholar , it will get you to
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/sci;289/5487/2068
It’s been cited 698 times – good luck with “…point(ing) out its other flaws.”
M. Simon
But the tree rings of Briffa tell me that there is global cooling(tm). Maybe the glaciers sublimated in the cool breeze.
How is it that the catastrophic climate events of the warming type are to be seen in the weather and the cooling events in the weather are just weather?
How come the glaciers are at a historical low but the Maldives are still afloat? Where did all the water go?
Brian Dodge (20:11:54) :
December 6–14, 815 new snowfall records, 100’s of cold records
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/13/lots-of-new-cold-and-snow-records-in-the-usa-this-week/
Brian Dodge (20:11:54) :
——————————-
Are you this Brian Dodge of GreenPeace?
http://www.regulations.gov/search/Regs/contentStreamer?objectId=0900006480820f2a&disposition=attachment&contentType=pdf
Hey Brian (20:11:54) ,
Thanks for the link, but why is the article dated 22Sept2000, and the cites at the end are dated up to 2009. Is this a living review? Maybe that’s how it’s done, I dunno.
Brian Dodge (20:11:54) :
I found another flaw
such as increases in extreme high temperatures, decreases in extreme low temperatures,
These aren’t happening.
Brian Dodge (20:11:54) :
Here’s another
which include extremes such as a very low or very high daily temperature, or heavy daily or monthly rainfall amount, that occur every year
These things aren’t happening every year. There’s has been no unusual pattern in weather. There has only been a decrease in extreme weather events.
So I’m done looking for flaws now. I found 2 more in less than 3 minutes. I have more interesting things to do.
@John Boston
Pollution is bad, by definition. Next the important thing is being able to identify what is and isn’t pollution. Cars are noisy and dirty, albeit less so than horses. But is CO2 dirt? Plants use it. Plants also use compost. It’s like, are germs bad? It seems we have been “too clean” and our immune systems need some germs around to be healthy. It is like, are forest fires bad? Is it good to take anti-biotics? Is stealing always wrong? Can you free yourself from mechanistic thinking?
@ur momisugly photon without a Higgs
“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”
Do you think that because winter weather started a little early this year, the GCM climatology predictions are invalidated?
The letter’s from me, but I’m not a webmaster or anything else for Greenpeace – I don’t know where the “webmaster@ur momisuglygreenpeace.org” came from.
@ur momisuglySparky
the papers at the bottom are ones that cite Easterling et. al. Their 132 references are the ones numbered in the section above.
@ur momisugly photon without a Higgs (22:14:17) :
“These things aren’t happening every year. There’s has been no unusual pattern in weather. There has only been a decrease in extreme weather events.”
http://mapcenter.hamweather.com/records/custom/us.html?c=maxtemp,mintemp,lowmax,highmin&s=20090123
There were about 400 new record highs in January 2009. I downloaded the data from hamweather.com which has the date and value of the previous record, and generated a scatterplot using Appleworks – see http://www.imagenerd.com/uploads/jan2009recordhighs-l1rqZ.jpg. You will note that the previous high temps cluster around more recent dates; the mean interval to the previous high record is only ~27 years, instead of the expected ~50 years if the dates were randomly distributed.
photon without a Higgs (11:36:58) :
oldgifford (06:53:35) :
Met Office Press Release 25 February 2009
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?
I guess the trend that they keep on about that we are all doomed as temperatures are going to continually increase.
See http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pressoffice/
I notice a lot of bickering over weather events here. It is a bit of nonsense to take a week or two of bad winter weather and parade it as proof of climate change.
But it these events repeat every year (last winter was also a doozy), then it won’t be long before these single events start to mean something. There are even warmists – Mojib Latif to name one – who are predicting colder climate for the next 10+ years, and admit the climate models were woefully inadequate.
I think it’s just a matter of a few years before the warmist scientists admit their models were wrong and that they completely overstated the role of CO2.
The Climategate e-mails already prove this. The warmists have become deparate.
2009 is the year the AGW hypothesis crumbled to a heap of rubble.
Slabadang, 13:00:22
Thanks for this link. I was not aware of this excellent Finnish documentary.
Why wasn’t it posted anywhere?
IT’S A MUST SEE!
Of course, nothing about this on the BBC – Broadcaster of Lies. I hope people in the UK remember who has been telling us lies and lies about the climate the next time they have to pay the licience fee.
Lot’s of snow. Hmm, let’s see. Snow is precipitation. Precipitation usually occurs when a cold front clashes with a warm front laden with moisture.
Excuse me for my obvious towering ignorance but I really don’t see what a record amount of precip has to do with a long term temperature trend.
There’s a low level reasoning going on here based on an “aberrant” event.