From the “weather is not climate department”, it seems that the biggest snowstorm of all time is targeting the nation’s capitol. Here’s the current radar image:
via NOAA/NWS
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC 1234 PM EST FRI FEB 5 2010 DCZ001-MDZ004>007-009>011-013-014-016>018-VAZ042-050>057-501-502- 060145- DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA-FREDERICK MD-CARROLL-NORTHERN BALTIMORE- 1234 PM EST FRI FEB 5 2010 ...RECORD SNOWFALL FORECAST IN THE BALTIMORE-WASHINGTON DC REGION... ...EXTREMELY DANGEROUS WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS DEVELOPING TONIGHT... GUSTY NORTHEAST WINDS 20 TO 30 MPH WITH VISIBILITIES FREQUENTLY FALLING BELOW ONE-QUARTER MILE DUE TO HEAVY SNOW WILL DEVELOP TONIGHT TO PRODUCE NEAR-BLIZZARD AND EXTREMELY HAZARDOUS WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING. TRAVEL IS HIGHLY DISCOURAGED TONIGHT AND WILL BE VERY DANGEROUS. LOOKING BACK AT THE BIGGEST STORM OF RECORD FOR WASHINGTON DC... THE JANUARY 1922 KNICKERBOCKER STORM...28.0 INCHES OF SNOW WAS PRODUCED FROM 3.02 INCHES OF LIQUID WATER. CURRENT FORECASTS FOR THIS EVENT HAVE TOTAL LIQUID FALLING FROM THIS STORM APPROACHING 3 INCHES...WHICH ACCORDINGLY WOULD CREATE A SNOWFALL THAT WILL RIVAL THE KNICKERBOCKER STORM TOTAL. GENERALLY ACROSS THE REGION...20 TO 30 INCHES OF SNOW WILL FALL BY SATURDAY EVENING. BALTIMORES RECORD OF 26.8 INCHES FROM THE PRESIDENTS DAY FEBRUARY 2003 STORM WILL ALSO BE THREATENED.
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Here’s a nice view of the storm:
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/east/latest_eastwv.jpg
Reading all the stuff on the web today one gets the feeling that yes IPCC is finished and yes Mann will not get away with it and yes Hadley will be closed down and yes the lawyers will start going for the money. Give it another 2 months. It becoming headline everyday news even on mainstream media now. Main story on Spectator, Australian etc would not be surprised to see Time, Newsweek onto it soon.
I don’t mind the snow, it’s just a couple of weeks late; it should have arrived on the day of the “State of the Failed Obama-plan” address
Down here in the Norfolk area, we are getting a ton of rain which will switch to some snow. The big thing all is worried about is the storm force winds from the east-northeast bringing the high tide in at 5 ft above mllw.
I just wish they would send some of the snow up here to Ottawa – we are a bit short this year and the ski tracks could do with a dump like this!
Ric Werme (16:45:39)
Manville, RI…54″ in the Bliz of 78…
Really good summary of the whole set of gates.
National Post, Canada, National Newspaper
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2010/02/06/lawrence-solomon-ipcc-beyond-the-himalayas.aspx
The biggest snow storm of all time. Yes, I recognise the irony. Weather is what we experience, climate is what we are told has happened or will happen.
Studying tree rings in cold latitudes is Science while History is just bunk!
Who are you going to believe, today’s tree interrogators or yesterdays diarists?
Climate changes, man chronicals those changes at no charge, mann gets paid to refute the change.
I know whom I believe. You?
Can we send Michael Mann and Phil Jones to haul wood and shovel driveways for little old ladies for the next few days?
It peers the snow track is runnin a mite south this year. Makes me glad I live near Paradice now. I shore don’t miss shovelin snow.
If the storm shuts down DC, imagine what that will do to the nation’s productivity?
(It’ll go up, of course)
In fact we’ll send you a whole train full of climate quacks to shovel that for you.
After homogenization, 1200km averaging, proxy substitution, and Mike’s nature trick – we will be able to demonstrate with 95% certainty that this storm never happened. It isn’t snowing in Miami after all.
“”””Steve Goddard (15:34:56) :
“”””Three years ago I drove to the store (one mile away) during a blizzard in my SUV to get some chapstick for one of my kids”””””
Driving in deep snow can be fun however.
I ski regularly so I drive in snow a lot, but last year we had 14 inches in the driveway here in the outskirts of Portland Oregon. I went out many times in my large SUV Nissan Armada with snow and ice tires.
I enjoyed the power and ease of getting around.
But I also had to pick up and run around others for their errands.
Jack (14:50:08) :
It’s because of global warming!
Oh, hell, I couldn’t resist.
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LOL!!!
sorry o.t but interesting.
NZ COALITION’S OFFICIAL INFORMATION ACT REQUESTS TO NIWA.
Posted 4 February 2010
New ZEaland’s National Institute for Water & Atmospheric Research (NIWA) has been requested under the Official Information Act to provide details relating to treatment of raw temperature data. The trexts of the correspondence exchanged can be accessed in the links below.
To download pdf: LINK
NIIWA’S response: to download pdf: LINK
Coalition’s further letter to NIWA: to download pdf: LINK
Last Updated ( Thursday, 04 February 2010 )
Try this one
http://nzclimatescience.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=585&Itemid=1
who won the caption contest from the last big global warming snow in Washington?
I grew up in Bethesda, MD and there was a snowstorm in the ’60s that this can’t touch.
I live near DC, we have over a foot by midnight Fri Night. It snowed from 930am-330pm without sticking. (too warm at34F) Then it finally changed over.
We have up to 24 more hours of snow, and it will snow between 1-4 inches per hour. Pretty good odds of 36″ total in my book.
This stuff is weight and heavy. DC will be socked in for awhile. Congress wont get much done. Yeah.
This snowstorm, indeed the cold winter in DC, is consistent with the Hadley CRU temperature data that shows DC is cooling since about 1975. If that cooling trend of 9.7 deg C per century does not soon reverse, there will be glaciers in DC in approximately 120 years!
http://tinypic.com/r/k2ekh5/6
If it’d been 5 degrees colder, DC area kids would have gotten a week off from school. I used to love to watch the diplomats who’d never seen snow before spin out in their Mercedes. These guys had no redneck skills at all. I heard profanity in 20 languages.
Frederick Michael 21:21:42, I remember the blizzard of 66. We lived in McLean, and it was quite a storm.
My dad got stranded out of town on business, the power went out, and I remember my mother cooking in the fireplace for a couple of days.
We had a small runty cocker mix, and he went out across the crust in the front yard, and his legs broke through. His torso was on top of the snow, and he was stuck until we went and lifted him out.
Still blowing thick and fast here now, directly sideways–lol.
We don’t have a foot yet (except in the western fenceline–drifted nearly to the second rail), but we’re getting there fast.
Thank goodness for underground powerlines and reliable electricity!
And stereos, DVD players and beer!
Smokey (18:07:59) : Apparently China is more objective than Western countries when it comes to “climate change”. click
Eventually the truth bleeds through….sometimes even from our communist neighbors first, believe it or not.
I mean….look at the Russian scientific skepticism along the same lines…
Perhaps because China and even Russia are not governed by special interests (except their own mobs lol)…is the reason we are hearing these conclusions elsewhere, first.
Also….take India for example.
The last bastion of CAGW believers will be in the UK and in the US…..and you can expect inbred Prince Charles on his side of the pond to continue spouting the propaganda and then the North American Village Idiot, Al Gore, on this side, to do the same…even while winters like these continue to strain the populated world.
Chris
Norfolk, VA, USA
All this bellyaching over a little snow, think of the Polar Bears with no ice floes to rest upon!
Think of the Vanuatu Islanders that have to move inland because their homes get flooded out.
(Just like they do every twenty years or so. Forty years ago Vanuatu government told beach residents not to build or occupy certain beach homes because of the intermittent flooding, otherwise the government wouldn’t cover their losses. Now Vanuatu Island government has an incentive to let them stay – to become poster children for global warming)