This national radar mosaic shows huge amounts of gathering moisture ready to collide with frigid air. The storm gets the label “Nor’easter“.
Forecasters all over are watching this storm with concern.
From Accuweather.com a forecast for the mid-Atlantic suggests Washington DC might get dumped on big time:
“Accumulations have the potential to reach 2 feet in some areas, matching or exceeding snowfall from the December blizzard.”
The Weather Channel seems to agree:
Major Nor’easter to Slam Mid-Atlantic
“High-populated areas of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey and southeastern Pennsylvania will likely all experience big snow totals. Washington, DC and Baltimore could experience foot plus snow totals.”
Here is the weather channel snowfall map:
Look for pandemonium in Washington soon.
JR ‘ But, good truck, lots of winter driving experience and good skiing in VT. All that equals FUN!”
This has been one of he worst ski years in VT since I sarted skiing again 20 years ago. Areas opened weeks later than usual due to warm temps and therfore no snow making. We have gotten one storm that dumped (supposedly 33 inches in Burlington but Stowe only got 6inches). The next storm was a rainy downpour.
March is usually a reliable snow month, but last year it just rained. No snow forecast from this noreaster in VT. Sunny day today and Sunday
Andy:
“Not to be too anal about terminology, but words matter. Doesn’t a Nor’easter come from the North East? Hence the name. Seems like the Weather Channel would know that.”
The prevailing wind in the UK is a “sou-wester” and it comes FROM the south west, so you seem to be dead right.
That Punxutawney Phil must have had one heck of a shadow on Tuesday. Looks like he was right about more winter.
Dirk said:
“You’ve cherrypicked the only height where 2010’s signal comes out on top.”
Actually no I did not. From sea level up to about 46,000 is where 2010 has so far been a record year for global atmospheric temps…the whole troposphere is warming while the stratosphere is cooling…just as predicted by all credible AGW warming models.
In regards to the “oceans warming the atmosphere”…well that is of course a gross simplification, as we know that all the energy really comes from the sun, and more is getting trapped at lower levels, hence the cooling of the stratosphere. The nice little blanket of CO2 and methane in the troposphere is getting thicker and thicker year by year, trapping heat at lower levels…and so the temps will go up up up down here, and down down down up there…basic physics and no conspiracies needed…
To clarify, a Nor’easter typically moves N or NE, carried by upper steering winds. The surface winds flow CCW, so areas north of the storm experience NE winds.
Just going from memory, multi-feet snows have occurred here in the mid-Atlantic states more often recently (since the late 1970s) than some decades before. Jan 1996 was perhaps the record snow event since the late 1800’s in western Md — up to 36″ in low elevations, 50″+ in mountains.
So there has been a moderate increase in yearly snowfall avgs from the late 1970’s to present. However, it only matches the snowfall avgs in the late 1800’s to ~1920, then snowfall avgs dropped off a bit for decades. Of course, there were occasional big snows like 1961.
R. Gates (10:00:06) :Hey body! you didn’t answer me why it is that the thermosphere reaches up to 2500°C, so I will ask you a new one: Which is the color of CO2?
R. Gates (10:00:06)
Facts about CO2:
CO2 it is not black, but trasparent and invisible
CO2 is the gas you exhale. You exhale about 900 grams a day of CO2
CO2 that you exhale is what plants breath to give you back O2 (oxygen) for you to breath. Then it is neither a pollutant nor a poison, it even rejuvenates!!!:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1485258/carbon_dioxide_therapy_carboxy_therapy_pg2_pg2.html?cat=69
CO2 is heavier than air, it doesn´t fly up, up and away CO2 is a trace gas in the atmosphere, it is the 0.038 per cent of it, or 3.8 parts per ten thousand.
The atmosphere, the air you know, does not have the capacity to “hold” enough heat, it only “saves” 0.001297 joules per cubic centimeter, while water , the sea you know, has 3227 times that capacity (4.186 joules).
Would you warm your feet with a bottle filled with air or filled with hot water?
The so called “Greenhouse effect” does not exist, see:
http://www.giurfa.com/gh_experiments.pdf
But if you have been cheated to the core and still believe in it, think the following:
Svante Arrhenius, the guy of the greenhouse effect, said he thought CO2 acted as the “window panes” of a green-house, but as its concentration in atmosphere it is just 3.8 per ten thousand, you would have a greenhouse with 3.8 window panes and 9996.2 empty holes
R. Gates (10:00:06) :
Dirk said:
“You’ve cherrypicked the only height where 2010’s signal comes out on top.”
Actually no I did not. From sea level up to about 46,000 is where 2010 has so far been a record year for global atmospheric temps…the whole troposphere is warming while the stratosphere is cooling…just as predicted by all credible AGW warming models.
In regards to the “oceans warming the atmosphere”…well that is of course a gross simplification, as we know that all the energy really comes from the sun, and more is getting trapped at lower levels, hence the cooling of the stratosphere. The nice little blanket of CO2 and methane in the troposphere is getting thicker and thicker year by year, trapping heat at lower levels…and so the temps will go up up up down here, and down down down up there…basic physics and no conspiracies needed”
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Six months ago the AMSU anomaly was at zero and the mantra then was that a decade or more of flat to declining temps was way to short to contradict AGW predictions, but now a six month uptick is supposed to provide rock solid confirmation of those predictions. Get a grip!
I’m glad it’s only dumping rain here. We’ve had a couple of inches of rain which iirc would translate to a foot of snow. Thankfully the temperature has been hovering at 34F. 🙂
Been snowing here in DC for 4+ hours.. luckily it’s still above 0C so not much sticking to the roads yet. Unluckily the latest estimate calls for uninterrupted snow over the next … 31 hours? (Clears out wax from ears) I heard that correctly.
Leon Brozyna (23:14:02) :
The bad news:
— all those self-important political and bureaucratic slugs will get to take a three-day weekend without a second thought (or maybe even a first thought).
That’s the good news out of this storm. The only thing that would be better would be if a mini “Day After Tomorrow” scenario developed which left the entire D.C. beltway encased in permanent glaciation. As a wise man once pointed out,
“No man’s life, liberty or fortune is safe while our legislature is in session.” — Benjamin Franklin
If the deadheads could be prevented from gathering to inflict more of their wonderful plans to fix the catastrophes they created by their previous efforts to remedy the catastrophes they created by their efforts to solve the problems they created by their previous efforts to…etc., the native resilience of the American people and economy might actually be able to pull us out of our present predicament. Unfortunately, their profligate schemes to exploit the greed of the populace to ensure they stay in power may have pushed us past a “tipping point”. Social Security has “unexpectedly” gone broke “much faster than predicted”, The National Debt has zoomed to a point where it can’t ever be paid off
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/it-is-now-mathematically-impossible-to-pay-off-the-u-s-national-debt
It’s been a nice run but it may be time to gather round and sing “So Long and Thanks for All the Fish”
Forgot the link;
Dave Wendt (12:27:00) :
This is your armageddon:
The National Debt has zoomed to a point where it can’t ever be paid off
Unless a Carbon Currency (Cap&Trade) is adopted.☺
Dave Wendt (12:27:00) :
The National Debt has zoomed to a point where it can’t ever be paid off
Just don’t worry, think it’s another “hockey stick” ☺☺
rhys jaggar[02:59:51
You said
“The 1980s had quite a few ’snow fests’ in SE UK, whilst the 1990s were broadly like the 1970s. As were the 2000s. Until Dec 2009.
I went back and checked the actual snowfall record since 2000 and found Dr Viner was wrong for 8 of the last 10 winters between 2000 and 2010. [Only 2002 and 2008 had no snow] according to this UK source http://www.richardjwild.co.uk/blog/category/uk-snow-news/
Here’s a few more “Hockey Sticks” that are way scarier than anything Mann and Briffa could hope to produce.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_orkXxp0bhEA/S2t9YjuMC5I/AAAAAAAAaTg/m7-lFiP3Xnc/s1600-h/100204-20-001.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_orkXxp0bhEA/S2t-ZkxJD4I/AAAAAAAAaTo/TjgVxYrhc9M/s1600-h/100204-20-002.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_orkXxp0bhEA/S2uE8A1SwOI/AAAAAAAAaUQ/vmbjvJXJsss/s1600-h/100204-20-007.jpg
Well I am in the north of Scotland happily waiting to see what comes our way from across the Atlantic. Can’t wait, they got it all so wrong …. The grit supplies are at an all time low, they have followed the government’s minium amount needed to get through our non existent airbrushed out, so called winters. So now they have plundered their next year budget. All on the strength of recommendations that there would not be a hard winter from the met men.
There is a great line sung with fearsome tone ‘and sent him homeward – to think again!’
JonesII (11:10:28) :
You are right. Not only is co2 blameless, I think it is really a thoroughly wonderful molecule. I am trying to understand why it has been particularly singled out by the US gov’t for such special persecution. I will get back to you all if I figure it out. 🙂
I’m pretty sure we did have some snow here in East Anglia in 2008! I’ve worn my sheepskin snow boots every winter for the last few
Here is a nice description of the carbon cycle from a book a read a little while ago:
Well no wonder the hell they want to tax atmospheric co2! lol I believe this might be a “tax on everything.” 🙂 Zeke the Sneak
SouthAmericanGirlsArePerfection (07:54:47) :
Which country exactly?
All this talk about Nor’easters, and don’t believe most of you live anywhere near the north east. I live about 45mins north of Phila and the Nor’easter that is currently dumping 18″ of snow on us right now came from the southwest. Hence the name Noreaster.. furthermore this is the 4th storm of this sort this year (last week was a nice 17.3″. (minor disclaimer) weather man nor scientist am I, Lived here most of my life!! fun times!! Global warming my ass!!
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