The storm is over, the totals and reports are in.
Here’s the lowdown on the snowfall records from the Baltimore NWS:
NOUS41 KLWX 070328 CCA PNSLWX DCZ001-MDZ003>007-009>011-013-014-016>018-501-502-VAZ021-025>031-036> 042-050>057-WVZ049>055-501>504-071100- PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT...CORRECTED REAGAN NATIONAL INFO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC 1030 PM EST SAT FEB 06 2010 ...PRELIMINARY SUMMARY OF TWO-DAY STORM TOTAL SNOWFALLS EXCEEDED IN THE BALTIMORE-WASHINGTON AREA... THE 32.4 INCH TWO-DAY STORM TOTAL SNOWFALL RECORDED TODAY AT DULLES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT EXCEEDS THE PREVIOUS TWO-DAY STORM RECORD OF 23.2 INCHES ON 7-8 JANUARY 1996. THE 24.8 INCH TWO-DAY STORM TOTAL SNOWFALL ESTIMATED TODAY AT BALTIMORE/WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL THURGOOD MARSHALL AIRPORT EXCEEDS THE PREVIOUS TWO-DAY STORM TOTAL SNOWFALL RECORD OF 24.4 INCHES FOR BWI AIRPORT FROM 16-17 FEBRUARY 2003. THIS WOULD ALSO BE THE 2ND HIGHEST TWO-DAY STORM TOTAL ALL-TIME SNOWFALL FOR BALTIMORE RECORDS WHICH DATE BACK TO 1871...BEING SECOND ONLY TO THE 26.3 INCHES WHICH FELL 27-28 JANUARY 1922. THE 17.8 INCH TWO-DAY STORM TOTAL SNOWFALL RECORDED TODAY AT RONALD REAGAN WASHINGTON NATIONAL AIRPORT IS THE SECOND HIGHEST TWO-DAY STORM TOTAL RECORD...SECOND ONLY TO THE 18.7 INCHES FOR NATIONAL AIRPORT FROM 18-19 FEBRUARY 1979. THIS WOULD ALSO BE THE 4TH HIGHEST TWO-DAY STORM TOTAL ALL-TIME SNOWFALL FOR WASHINGTON RECORDS WHICH DATE BACK TO 1871...BEHIND ONLY THE 27-28 JANUARY 1922 KNICKERBOCKER STORM WITH 26.0 INCHES...THE 12-13 FEBRUARY 1899 STORM WHICH PRODUCED 19.0 INCHES...AND THE 18.7 INCHES WHICH FELL 18-19 FEBRUARY 1979. AS WITH ANY MAJOR CLIMATE RECORD ACHIEVEMENT...THESE PRELIMINARY RECORDS WILL BE QUALITY CONTROLLED BY NOAA'S NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL WEEKS.
oops !
I was living in Ashburn, VA during the 1996 storms. I’m pretty sure it was more than 23.2 inches near Dulles. We supposedly got 18 inches one day and at least another 12 the next. I still had to go to work. My Toyota 4×4 got quite the workout for the next few days.
Andrew30:
http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/daily_ao_index/ao_index_ensm.shtml
Shows AO down to -6 and the forecasts.
Off topic, but perhaps an important development in the surface temperature record issue in one of the previously discussed regions, New Zealand:
http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/2010/02/niwa-loses-opts-for-fresh-start/
“Where’s the raw data?
Anyone have contours software?
For all the wonders of computer graphics, hand drawn contours are still by far the best. Few people still know how to do them, but it doesn’t take much of a brain to out interrpolate the machines.
Good start to the Warmest Year In History. (My prediction by the morons that have left science behind and adopted witchcraft instead)
It was so cold today that I saw Democratic senator with his hands in his own pockets.
TH, I assure you sir they were teleconnected to your pockets.
I like Steve Goddard’s perspective,
I grew up in the northeast and had to dig out of these storms. And so did everyone else. As a kid 12 + I created a business. I was always happy to oblige at $20 per single driveway for a 3 foot storm.
That was a long time ago. I worked through the day until I couldn’t do anymore. There was always another driveway that needed to be cleared. I was always very satisfied that I earned my money that day.
Maybe that’s happening today?
hmmm… Nice peace of information. So cold 🙂
Phil Jones:
‘Climate-Gate’ Scientist Contemplated Suicide
Times of London
The scientist at the center of the “climate-gate” e-mail scandal has revealed that he was so traumatized by the global backlash against him that he contemplated suicide.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/02/06/climate-gate-scientist-contemplated-suicide/?test=latestnews
No need for that, Phil. Just tell us what happened to the raw data.
Come clean.
rbateman (23:20:22) :
That is either manipulation or a genuine cry for help.
I would go with manipulation because there is the reference to multiple times and also the very public admission. An admission this public may seem to play into the ‘cry for help’ scenario, but it is actually anathema. In a cry for help situation, only the trusted circle finds out unless the actual attempt is the publicized event.
That said, I also hope that I am correct, and that Dr. Phil did not actually contemplate or try to go through with that, because I have lost friends to suicide, and I don’t wish that sort of feeling on anyone, anywhere, anytime. Phil, my advice is the same in either situation.
Knock it off and get well. 🙂
Excuse me for being ironic but as a Siberian I cannot help it: comparing a bit of warm snow with the Armageddon? That’s not even an exaggeration, it’s stupid, plain and simple.
My wife’s father, an old tough mountaineer used to all kinds of weather, is complaining from Central Siberia (Krasnoyarsk): while rather extremely low temperatures are not a novelty there, this winter is exceptional in that the temperatures in Krasnoyarsk are constantly below -30 deg. C, mostly about -36, and often going down to -40. This is no joke: I remember going to school while it was -40 deg. C. You spit, it hits the ground as ice!
OT but this is worth a read:
THE recent climate science scandals have been revealing. For those of us who have had the experience of environmentalists accusing us of being “deniers” and “doubters of The Science”, as if science is a gospel truth that you question or ignore at your peril, they have also been enjoyable.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/a-vatican-of-the-laboratory/story-e6frg6zo-1225827280390
I was halfway through writing a comment and BANG, I was kicked back to the main page. This has happened before and not at any other sites.
I was about to say th
So far I have gotten every thing I’ve wanted. A dead Cap-and-Trade bill. A dead Obamacare bill. A UN being discredited beyond belief. A nation being completely bankrupt, mathematically and statistically, Bankrupt beyond belief so the bad people will have to stop the bad things they are doing to us because they have no more money left to keep doing what they are doing. I was orchestrating this day for myself for a long time now. Many foreign countries going bankrupt today like Greece and Spain. Iceland is done but giving a big FU to their international banksters. Ireland and Portugal are but a stones throw away from financial collapse. Will this bunch do the same as Iceland?
Next, I want a collapse of the entire EU. No more Codex Alimentarius, no more Agenda 21, among other things, and then a withdraw of American troops from the Middle East.
I usually get what I want.
Oh, that Codex Alimentarius, and Agenda 21are from the UN, by the way.
Michael (01:49:34) :
“I usually get what I want”
Hey Mick, could you please ask for a parrallel inquiry into AGW in the US, UK and Australia with at least one scientist indicted? Just one from each will do. Pleeeaseee!!!!
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/156703
Sorry cant find the notes etc section. This is an article about the bbc pension fund being heavily investe in climate change areas.
Baa Humbug (02:09:42) : wrote
“Michael (01:49:34) :
“I usually get what I want”
Hey Mick, could you please ask for a parrallel inquiry into AGW in the US, UK and Australia with at least one scientist indicted? Just one from each will do. Pleeeaseee!!!!”
Exactly!
I am going to see perp walks. I am going to savor those moments.
I agree Michael and Baa Humbug. We need to see some of these clowns in court, even if they are not found guilty, although I can’t see how they can escape such a verdict given the mountain of evidence against them.
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Sorry, are we talking about those ‘inch’ thingys?
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Denis Hopkins (02:11:44) :
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/156703
Sorry cant find the notes etc section. This is an article about the bbc pension fund being heavily investe in climate change areas.
Another “Gate” in the making. Is there any end to the this AGW corruption?
The last time a British scientist in the spotlight “committed suicide” there was a massive cover up. Beware, Phil.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kelly_(weapons_expert)
Does anyone know if Al Gore was in DC this weekend for the DNC winter meetings? Could you see him, surrounded by his teary eyed AGW zombies , reading global warming poetry while there is a MAJOR BLIZZARD taking place outside outside their convention?
This just gets better and better…