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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R. Gates (08:24:38) :
“Okay, here’s a bit a trivia for all you who can’t quite figure out how AGW can mean bigger snowfalls, and bigger rainfalls, and more evaporation…
More heating=More evaporation=more extreme rain & snow event (all as predicted by every AGW model”
More heating = More evaporation = More Clouds = Higher Albedo = More Cooling
More heating = More evaporation = More Snow = Higher Albedo = More Cooling
“Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley said he expected conditions to worsen throughout the day during what “we anticpate will be the biggest snow in Maryland history.””
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/local-breaking-news/?hpid=topnews
Yes…we know…everything is because of AGW. Heat, cold, snow, rain, drought, early migration, late migration…..repeat mantra. We get it.
What about repeatedly in the same year…..like this year. That is why it has never happened before in the DC area, and it is unprecedented. It has never happened. Does that mean that the planet will not warm, of course not. But, since the AGW crowd points to 100 year drought and heat records as evidence of our supposed dire situation, this soon to be 100 year event should be noted, too. But what am I saying, winter and cold records are only weather….and hot temperatures and summer records are all climate. What was I thinking…
Oh yeah….we are expecting more snow on Tuesday, and next Saturday. So we may just break the all-time record this year.
Well, NOAA’s models were wrong in their “prediction” of US temperatures.
They had record cold temperatures for December for the Midwest and East Coast.
Even as late as October they predicted warmer than normal temps for the upper Midwest.
Yeah….spot on “predictions” from the models.
Lol. It is snowing in Buffalo
30″ in Pittsburgh when it finally stopped this morning.
NOAA can’t do anything about the snow, but they could study and report on changes in the NAO that are consistent with weather patterns like this and tell people to prepare for the winter – and help local governments etc to prepare.
Did the US Public get anything like this from NOAA?
Nada. Instead, the US was treated to lobbying from people like Jane Lubchenco and Sue Solomon for things like cap and trade
Enough to make ya SICK
These massive snowfall could lower sea levels by dangerous amounts, threatening coral reefs, increasing shipping hazards, and lowering sea surface area which in turn could reduce rainfall.
This dangerous cycle can only be stopped if we do nothing now.
Write you congressmen and senators and demand they do nothing.
62 degrees at sea level, Hawaii right now
Wow. I completely retract what I wrote yesterday about this not equaling the ’66 storm. It looks like Dover, Delaware is going to get a huge dump this afternoon. If you have a snowblower in that town, you’re rich.
DJ Meredith (10:21:26) :
Their weather forecasts haven’t turned out any better than thier financial forecasts.
Sure, write your Congressman and Senators and tell them to toss the pretender legislation along with the slinky-tongued pretenders.
That i-shovel is an interesting gizmo, but it would be stolen after the first snow. It would run out of juice quickly in a snow around here. It is too frail-looking to handle concrete-snows, or any wet snow. Now, put a gas engine on it, a means to plug itself in for the sensors and starters, and make it a snow blower, give it proximity sensors so it won’t hit your car or a pedestrian, and some serious anti-theft, and you’d have a winner.
I’d like to find out what current snow accumulation in Richmond Va is… actually Montpelier Va, which is all of about 10 miles NW of the interstate loop around Richmond… I’ve had NO problems finding out what they’re forecasting for accumulation by the end of today for today’s total (e.g., only today, not what fell last night too), but durned if I can find how much is already currently there in total. Would much appreciate any help on this one! Seems darned silly that I can’t find accumulation totals for a major city like Richmond tho.
El Nino Jet Stream pattern http://squall.sfsu.edu/gif/jetstream_norhem_00.gif plus plunging AO http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/daily_ao_index/ao_index.html equals record NE snow fall. A precocious 5 yr old might be able to figure this out. Sun ain’t involved. CO2 ain’t involved. This is 1 +1 = 2 modeling.
… less evaporation, desert contraction, desert expansion, less forest, too much forest, smaller frogs, larger frogs, dogs coupling with cats ….
Miracle gas® eh?
NOAA: All time record snowfall for DC and Baltimore?
Of course its due to man-made CO2, as everyone knows. The last time it happened was in 1922, when everyone knows man-made CO2 was pretty high. But the greatest was in 1772 as recorded by George Washington and Thomas Jefferson in their diaries, when everyone knows man-made CO2 was at its peak.
well, living in the middle of the Mid-Atlantic blizzard today (2/6/10) I can tell you I have never seen anything in my 61 years here like it! and its cold too – 31F this morning and dropped all day to 22 F now and falling. Not to enter into the global warming debate, but
what would the weather (not climate) look like sliding into a Littel Ice Age or, on the other hand, what would the weather look like leading to something like the Medieval warm period? Something to think about.
Official total 21.4 inches here (although some areas got more than that). It’s #4 on the Top 5 storm list since records have been kept.
I think the blizzard is punishment for not saving the pika. After all, more cold weather and fewer pikas would prove global warming.
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/02/05/05greenwire-obama-admin-denies-endangeres-species-listing-73387.html
Tragic really.
April E. Coggins (21:48:43) :
I think the blizzard is punishment for not saving the pika. (…)
This is based on decisions made decades ago by old DC bureaucrats. They heard computers were now being used, thought about it after some three martini lunches, and decided if a choice had to be made they would rather save the elite.