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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http://in.news.yahoo.com/137/20100211/375/tsp-olympics-snow-finally-falls-on-bare.html
Just as I said a week ago or so after seeing the Arctic Oscilliation going into the deep negative territory would the Winter Olympics see snow a few days before it’s due to start. That prediction came true. My next was that they get too much snow.
We’ll see.
correction:
“My next *prediction* was that they get too much snow.”
The funny thing is that I watched a meteorologist on one of the Portland, Oregon tv station where he stressed to his viewers that global warming causes extreme weather events. Never mind the fact that we have a dull two years of hardly any hurricane activity. But since DC broke a record that was 110 years old does that mean the record back then was a result of global warming, too?
I wanted to reach into my television screen and slap that guy silly.
Ignore my hic-ups…am typing too fast here.
Lowell:
“That will make it easy to calculate the carbon footprint of the motorhome however. All you will need is a tape measure….”
Funniest thing I have heard today! Thank you.
Lots of alarmists out there blaming the DC snow on the “extra moisture content of globally warmed air.” One minor problem – temperatures in Washington are running far below normal and have been for weeks.
http://www.accuweather.com/us/dc/washington/20001/forecast-climo.asp?partner=forecastfox&traveler=1&zipchg=1&metric=0&mnyr=2/1/2010
At some point even the most obtuse person is bound to realize that this has nothing to do with warm air.
Well, the weather is busting out of the “normal range” (i.e. recorded history) of statistical climate on the East Coast thus this season is relevant to the long term climate thus weather on this scale of “change” is climate change. Sure one day wouldn’t be but an entire season of record cold and snow has a statistical impact upon the longer term (10, 20, 30 years) trend of the climate. If you don’t think so then you need to check your statistics math.
However, it’s not likely caused by man unless you’re a warming alarmist where every weather event is caused by Man Made Global Warming Climate Change. In fact humans should just get off the planet since everything we do causes every wee bit of climate change. Heck we even breath out CO2 with our every breath! Heck even the greenies wanting people to take bike rides causes MORE CO2 to be put into the atmosphere. The only way to stop it is to eliminate man. Yikes.
To those of you asserting that the snowiest season on record for many parts of the USA East Coast is caused by man how about telling us just how such a backwards world works? You can’t have it both ways, either the planet is warming or it’s cooling (or it’s staying exactly the same or close enough).
One could say that the extra moisture is leaving the atmosphere to compensate for any extra CO2 that is in it. This is part of the idea of the “Ferenc Miskolczi’s Saturated Greenhouse Effect Theory: C02 Cannot Cause Any More “Global Warming” (http://pathstoknowledge.net/2010/01/13/ferenc-miskolczi%e2%80%99s-saturated-greenhouse-effect-theory-c02-cannot-cause-any-more-global-warming).
So there are alternative explanations than jumping off the deep end with extreme cooling events being considered the cause of a warming world.
pwl (22:04:13): “So there are alternative explanations than jumping off the deep end with extreme cooling events being considered the cause of a warming world.”
Oops, that should be: “So there are alternative explanations than jumping off the deep end with extreme cooling events being considered the RESULT of a warming world.”
Steve Goddard (21:49:28) said:
Hmmm, Steve, doesn’t it have more to do with the intersection of moisture laden air from the tropics, as a result of elevated SSTs, moving northwards with very cold arctic air moving southwards?
That is, it likely has little to do with recent temperatures in and around Washington or Maryland.
Question to all Politicians, and all Journalists;
“This would break the previous all-time seasonal snowfall record for Washington DC of 54.4 inches set in the winter of 1898-99.”
If its GLOBAL WARMING that creates this new record now, surely it was GLOBAL WARMING in 1898-99 too?
Yes?
So, what caused GLOBAL WARMING in 1898-99 ??????
Come on now? What was it?
May I suggest the indians on horseback?
The propaganda rolls on, oblivious to common sense. When are people going to get really, really tired of being lied to?
I can’t wait to see the snow cover satellite images a few days from now on the first clear sky day after this storm series. With snow that deep and this early in the season (low sun angle) that snow will be altering terrestrial albedo numbers for weeks.
The same snow depth in March or April would go away in a matter of a few days due to the high sun angle.
Larry
I’ve seen references to warm air, cold air, lake effect snow, and who knows what I’ve missed. Now Steve G @ur momisugly 21:49:28 states this has nothing to do with warm air.
When one talks about air masses several things are important and temperature is one of those things. In the case of a storms such as these dumping snow on the mid-Atlantic region there is relatively warmer air that has a high H2O content and a second air mass that is relatively colder with a lower H2O content. When the air masses meet the denser air (cool, dry) stays lower and the more buoyant air (warm, moist) rides up over the former. Rising air expands and the temperature falls. This supports, in the current case, a de-sublimation or deposition, producing snow.
I hope someone has captured and animated the satellite views for these storms. With some highlight and labeling that would show the sources, characteristics, and dynamics of the storms. I don’t have the knowledge or software to do it but would like to see it. Can someone provide a link?
We know, because Hugo Chavez tells us so, that the Haitian earthquake was a trial run of the Pentagon’s super-secret Nuclear Tectonic Generator, aimed at Port au Prince on orders of Corpse Man direct from Washington.
Haitian Voodooists have now retaliated, shooting two –count ’em!– major blizzards right where Corpse Man slurps his arugula. Save us, Smee! If Corpse Man, El Supremo, can’t stick a pin in this one, we’re all doomed.
Damned groundhogs !
More rotten snow!
RockyRoad (20:37:49) :
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I’ve been searching old maps for that Medieval Region. Anybody know where it is? I haven’t found a trace.
Try looking at the corner of
1st Street and Independence Ave
Washington, DC 20215
That’s as Medieval as you can get.
“old44 (20:16:36) :
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.”
ROTFL! They can never ever give a mic to a skeptic again because they would have to weasel themselves out of anything we say: “It was supercharged moist air” “How is that different from normal moist air” ….
Then it was a young George Washington, who upon chopping down the cherry tree started a run of Global Warming that decades later made a run of Global Cooling and we had our 1st victory as the Continental Army caught the Hessians napping after they got hammered.
Perhaps (the) God(/s/ess) got bored with throwing snowballs at Al Gore, and decided to aim at Barack Obama or Nancy Pelosi instead. Both of them were in Copenhagen for that particular blizzard.
Whichever way, it seems disadvantageous to get in a snowball fight with someone who makes their own snow.
Looks like another storm winding up in Texas. I surely hope they don’t get another blast in the mid-atlantic.
Pennsylvania and West Virginia are likely to see some terrible flooding this spring when all this melts, if it melts in a rainstorm.
Here in the U.K. we’ve just been told that, after 30 years of extensive research, scientists have concluded that Spring will arrive 11 days earlier.
I’m grateful for that!!
Presumably this means that spring will arrive 11 days earlier in Philadelphia, Washington, New York and everywhere in the middle/northern latitudes and not just “this sceptred isle”
Unfortunately none of my daffodils have heard this and are still snug underground
“THIS WOULD BREAK THE
PREVIOUS ALL-TIME…”
Why is this written in the conditional mood? Are they trying to imply that somehow it’s not clear that it does break the record, or are they only marginally literate?
Only a couple inches in southern NH. However it was enough to touch up the old snow-cover, which was starting to look worn and grimy.
We don’t have much snow, but it doesn’t go away. I built an igloo for children in December, after our single snow of over six inches, and its still standing, although it did have to survive a brief warm-up and rain in January.
It was funny to listen to Boston stations yesterday afternoon, as they became aware the “blizzard” was going to miss them. (It grazed the southern part of Cape Cod.) They all piled on the poor weathermen, of course. As Baltimore got clobbered, Boston got light drizzle and temps of 35.
If the storm had blown up as expected, Boston could have gotten a foot and winds of 45 mph. So they cancelled school and everyone was rushing out to buy milk and bread and candles. Now they are calling it “The Phantom Blizzard.” People are complaining (tongue-in-cheek) about how tired they are from shoveling all the phantom snow.
One fellow commented that there will be a headline about how the “Snow-Removal Budgets Are Exhausted,” because they had all the plows out working overtime, plowing away the phantom drifts.
Another fellow commented that if the plows are going plow when there is no snow, he wished they’d plow away all the salt they dumped on the street in front of his house.
The governor asked that all “non-essential state employees” stay home. Of course that phrase, “non-essential,” got people talking. The consensus was that, with ordinary folk unemployed, it would be a great relief to tax payers if all “non-essential” state employees stayed home for good.
Also various comments about “the snow job at the state house.”
So…life goes on in quaint New England.
Hell hath no fury like Mother Nature scorned…
Aftermath: a mathematical formula used to calculate just how screwed one is, after a weather event of stupendous proportions…
Aftermath… a mathematical formula used to derive how much the taxpayers will pay, as they are going to blame this weather on Global Warming.