It’s almost as if the planet is trying to send a message to Washington. I find the choice of words from NOAA/NWS (see below the read more line) interesting when they say”
AS WITH ANY MAJOR CLIMATE RECORD ACHIEVEMENT…
Perhaps in this one case, weather is climate.
From NWS:
The seasonal snowfall total in Washington DC stands at 54.9 inches. This would break the previous all-time seasonal snowfall record for Washington DC of 54.4 inches set in the winter of 1898-99.
And the snow continues tonight. A blizzard warning remains in effect until 10PM EST with snow tapering off after that. Here are preliminary snowfall reports from the NOAA/NWS in Baltimore:
While there will be a break, my forecast engine says there may be more snow next Monday.
Here’s the details on the breaking of the all-time snowfall Wahington and Baltmore record from the NWS:
PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC 300 PM EST WED FEB 10 2010 ...PRELIMINARY ALL-TIME SEASONAL SNOWFALL RECORDS SET AT THE THREE MAJOR CLIMATE SITES IN THE BALTIMORE-WASHINGTON AREA... AS OF 2 PM TODAY...WITH THE 9.8 INCH TWO-DAY SNOWFALL TOTAL MEASURED AT RONALD REAGAN WASHINGTON NATIONAL AIRPORT...THE SEASONAL SNOWFALL TOTAL IN WASHINGTON DC STANDS AT 54.9 INCHES. THIS WOULD BREAK THE PREVIOUS ALL-TIME SEASONAL SNOWFALL RECORD FOR WASHINGTON DC OF 54.4 INCHES SET IN THE WINTER OF 1898-99. OFFICIAL SNOWFALL RECORDS FOR WASHINGTON DC DATE BACK 126 YEARS TO 1884. AS OF 1 PM TODAY...WITH THE 11.9 INCH TWO-DAY SNOWFALL TOTAL MEASURED AT BALTIMORE/WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL THURGOOD MARSHALL AIRPORT...THE SEASONAL SNOWFALL TOTAL IN BALTIMORE STANDS AT 72.3 INCHES. THIS WOULD BREAK THE PREVIOUS ALL-TIME SEASONAL SNOWFALL RECORD FOR BALTIMORE OF 62.5 INCHES SET IN THE WINTER OF 1995-96. OFFICIAL SNOWFALL RECORDS FOR BALTIMORE DATE BACK 118 YEARS TO 1893. FINALLY...AS OF YESTERDAY...THIS YEARS SEASONAL SNOWFALL TOTAL AT DULLES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT STOOD AT 63.5 INCHES. THIS WOULD BREAK THE PREVIOUS SEASONAL SNOWFALL RECORD OF 61.9 INCHES SET IN 1995-96. AS OF 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON...THE TWO-DAY SNOWFALL TOTAL AT DULLES IS 8.5 INCHES...WHICH WOULD MAKE THIS YEARS SEASONAL SNOWFALL TOTAL 72.0 INCHES. OFFICIAL SNOWFALL RECORDS FOR DULLES DATE BACK 48 YEARS TO 1962. THESE PRELIMINARY STORM TOTALS ARE AS OF THIS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON 10 FEB 2010...AND WILL BE UPDATED AFTER THE CURRENT SNOW HAS ENDED. AS WITH ANY MAJOR CLIMATE RECORD ACHIEVEMENT...THESE PRELIMINARY RECORDS WILL BE QUALITY CONTROLLED BY NOAA`S NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER OVER THE NEXT FEW MONTHS.
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URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC 720 PM EST WED FEB 10 2010 DCZ001-MDZ009-013-014-016-110300- /O.CON.KLWX.BZ.W.0002.000000T0000Z-100211T0300Z/ DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA-MONTGOMERY-PRINCE GEORGES-ANNE ARUNDEL- CHARLES- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WASHINGTON...GAITHERSBURG...ANNAPOLIS... WALDORF 720 PM EST WED FEB 10 2010 ...BLIZZARD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EST THIS EVENING... A BLIZZARD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EST THIS EVENING. * PRECIPITATION TYPE...HEAVY SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW. * ACCUMULATIONS...STORM TOTAL SNOWFALL OF 10 TO 20 INCHES. DRIFTS 2 TO 4 FT. * TIMING...HEAVY SNOW AND GUSTY WINDS WILL CONTINUE THIS EVENING. * TEMPERATURES...LOWER 20S. WIND CHILL VALUES IN THE SINGLE DIGITS TO LOWER TEENS. * WINDS...NORTHWEST 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 40 MPH. BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW WILL REDUCE VISIBILITIES TO A QUARTER MILE OR LESS AT TIMES... PRODUCING BLIZZARD CONDITIONS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A BLIZZARD WARNING MEANS SEVERE WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE OCCURRING. DO NOT VENTURE OUTSIDE. THIS IS A LIFE THREATENING SITUATION FOR ANYONE WHO BECOMES STRANDED. FALLING AND BLOWING SNOW WITH STRONG WINDS WILL CREATE WHITEOUT CONDITIONS...MAKING TRAVEL EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. DO NOT TRAVEL. IF YOU MUST TRAVEL...HAVE A WINTER SURVIVAL KIT WITH YOU. IF YOU GET STRANDED...STAY WITH YOUR VEHICLE.
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And here is the details on the Philadelphia record:
RECORD EVENT REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 730 PM EST WED FEB 10 2010 ...SNOWIEST YEAR (JULY THROUGH JUNE) ON RECORD FOR PHILADELPHIA... WITH THE 14.0 INCHES OF SNOW THAT FELL IN PHILADELPHIA THROUGH 7 PM, THE SEASON TOTAL JUMPED TO 70.3 INCHES. THIS TOTAL NOW RANKS AS THE SNOWIEST SEASON ON RECORD, SURPASSING THE 65.5 INCHES THAT FELL IN 1995-1996 SEASON.
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Anthony (or anyone else),
The whole state of Maryland was under a blizzard warning late this afternoon. I was wondering if there has ever been another storm that required a whole state to be under a blizzard warning before. Would NCDC have data on something like that? Or the Balt/Wash NWS office perhaps? Thanks, Joel.
has anyone posted this:
Guardian: How to reform the IPCC
by David Adam and Suzanne Goldenberg
“The Nobel prize was for peace not science … government employees will use it to negotiate changes and a redistribution of resources. It is not a scientific analysis of climate change,” said Anton Imeson, a former IPCC lead author from the Netherlands. “For the media, the IPCC assessments have become an icon for something they are not. To make sure that it does not happen again, the IPCC should change its name and become part of something else. The IPCC should have never allowed itself to be branded as a scientific organisation. It provides a review of published scientific papers but none of this is much controlled by independent scientists.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/10/ipcc-reform
Believe me, most snow is the last thing these people need. Getting the freezing rain on top of the existing snow is preventing it blowing off of roofs. Now there are TWO layers of frozen rain on two layers of snow and roofs are collapsing. I heard a report of the Hartly, Delaware post office roof collapsing but the person reporting said that was something they “heard” and had not verified it. Several residential roofs have collapsed in the DelMarVa area on the Eastern side of Chesapeake Bay.
54 inches in 1899 was due to a lack of CO2 and cold. 54 inches in 2010 is due to out of control warming and excess CO2.
Do I get a Nobel Prize for figuring that out?
With all this free time on D.C.er’s hands, being house-bound and all, what a great opportunity for them all to be making up signs and banners telling people to stop global warming.
If this series of storms really does prove global warming, then why don’t we see people outside protesting?
…and Anthony, I understand your lack of amusement with the new M4GW video. Perhaps you could admonish your fans to not post links to videos with banjos (gasp…I can’t believe I even used that word…).
greg2213 (19:44:45) :
Not according to Uncle in Spokane. He moved up there to get away from NE winters and is now fit to be tied. Oh, and btw…. the literature says the MWP was nearly global. They didn’t have thermomoters back then. They had people who wrote about the times they lived in, and it was warm.
Reply to Mark (19:10:35) :
“I just saw on Drudge that tomorrow, the NYT is going to have an article connecting the heavy snow to global warming.”
Those whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make mad.
not sure if this has been posted either:
Guardian: Victory for openness as IPCC climate scientist opens up lab doors
Wearing his other hat as IPCC author, Santer was also widely accused of being the man who added the key words “discernible human influence” to the body of the IPCC report, and of doing it very late in the day. True enough. This was messy and does not reflect well on the IPCC. Those words were agreed at a main session of the IPCC in late 1995, attended by politicians. They wanted them included in the report’s summary for policy-makers. But they went beyond what was said in the chapter from which the summary was supposedly drawn.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/09/ipcc-report-author-data-openness
Is it Fairbanks or Yellowknife?
Nah….its North Carolina.
http://www.highcountrywebcams.com/webcameras_BannerElk.htm
Chris
Norfolk, VA, USA
“NOAA/NWS (see below the read more line) interesting when they say”
AS WITH ANY MAJOR CLIMATE RECORD ACHIEVEMENT…
Perhaps in this one case, weather is climate.”
Yes, but they are just setting it up to later tell us all this precipitation is further proof of climate change.
Have we reached the level of General George Washington crossing the Delaware to catch the Hessians unaware?
The Hessians were caught dead drunk, as nobody in their right mind conducted war in the 18th Century during the dead cold of Winter.
Like DC is getting hammered with now, all shut down.
The Hessians were hammered too, in more ways than one.
Ain’t Globlal Warming fun?
Lazarus Long:
Poor Robbie!!!! I bet nobody at IPCC gives a damn, but I DO!! I’m sitting at my spinning wheel and spinning up some pure New Zealand wool to knit little Robbie a doodle-warmer.
My beagle, Doctor Watson, is supervising.
Here’s the Philly area totals: Mt Holly WFO snow reports
Pat: I am of the opinion that there should be no IPCC of any sort. The very name is absurd,”Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change”. As if there can be a global government panel that can do anything about the ever changing climate. Have we all woke up in a bad Saturday morning cartoon?
More warming equals more precipitation is only partly true. See the article about Aussie Droughtgate from a couple of days ago.
Toatal sunshine hours (SSH) causes more evaporation by a factor of four. So it’s the lack of cloud cover that causes more evaporation.
It has to be cold enough for it to snow. If there were record snow falls in the late nineties, broken now in 2010, when will it be warm enough to change snowfall to rainfall? According to alarmists, it’s been warming at an UNPRECEDENTED rate since the 80’s, almost 30yrs ago. Didn’t a British wag say British kids won’t know what snow is? Well these kids have their own kids now, they sure as hell know what snow is.
There is no end to it, reminds me of “Hey Leonardo, wenna arr yu gunna finnish?
According to WCAX News there was more snow in Baltimore than in Burlington Vermont. Clearly this proves that the warmer it is the more it snows. That is way the snowiest place in the world is at the equator.
This is really getting out of hand. All weather proves global warming and the lack of warming in the last 10 years proves it, everything proves it, the ice ages prove it everything proves it.
I like the M4GW Song.
“I just saw on Drudge that tomorrow, the NYT is going to have an article connecting the heavy snow to global warming.”
Of course we expect this nonesense. If one examines history, you’ll find that this season breaks the record set back in the winter of 1898-99. On Valentine’s Day that year, the Great Eastern Blizzard hit. Washington had 20.5 inches of snow with a 34-inch cover at the storm’s end. The storm occurred during one of the bitterest arctic outbreaks on record.
Snow–it’s connected with cold. Does the agenda-driven media think we’re all idiots? Or, are they the idiots?
Lazuras, at that snow depth, forget the Corgi! MY WEE WEE would be cold!
greg2213 (19:44:45) :
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Maybe this Global Warming thing is purely a regional effect, like the MWP? 😉
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Reply:
I’ve been searching old maps for that Medieval Region. Anybody know where it is? I haven’t found a trace.
Oh yah, you betcha. Thanks for the link to the M4GW video.
Just got to love a wannabe Viking who sings. You don’t see that everyday.
The motorhome is heated with a wood stove! Since most motorhomes seem to just burst into flames sooner or later anyway, why not?
That will make it easy to calculate the carbon footprint of the motorhome however. All you will need is a tape measure….
“I just saw on Drudge that tomorrow, the NYT is going to have an article connecting the heavy snow to global warming.”
Of course we expect this nonesense. If one examines history, you’ll find that this season breaks the record set back in the winter of 1898-99. On Valentine’s Day that year, the Great Eastern Blizzard hit. Washington had 20.5 inches of snow with a 34-inch cover at the storm’s end. The storm occurred during one of the bitterest arctic outbreaks on record.
Snow–it’s connected with cold. Do the agenda-driven media think we’re all idiots? Or, are they the idiots?
Steve Goddard (20:15:22) said:
As the actress said to the bishop, “Half an inch makes all the difference!”
You have yet to explain why it was 54.4 back then and 54.9 with elevated CO2 levels. (Although it could well be more than half an inch by the time this is over.)
Well the precipitation aspect of AGW seems to be correct thus far.
I wonder if AGW takes into account the negative feedback that increased precipitation causes though ? Anyone know if that’s accounted for too in their models ?
REPLY: You are ignoring this is an El Nino Year -A
The most damning evidence against sudden, man made climate change can be found on Youtube. The video history is damning. The warming must be happening in Obama’s extra seven states, ’cause it sure isn’t happening in the fifty that we know about.
Looking at the weather models, the storm on Monday is slated to pass mostly out to sea. It will start in the Gulf of Mexico and get lifted into the South but then will get pushed out to sea before it can get entrained with the cold air over the atlantic states. If it is just 200 miles further West, then it will dump 2-4 inches of water equivalent from Carolina up to Maine.
Also of note is the possible formation of a Mcfarland signature in the 10-12 day time frame. This is not over yet.