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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I live just outside the NW Corner of baltimore city, MD (there is also balt, county) in the suburb of Pikesville, MD 21208. In my apartment complex, we measure 62.3″ of snow from Friday/Sat’s storm, and Tues/Wednesday’s storm. That doesn’t include the 14″ from the late Jan storm or the mid December snow storm-16″ there.
“All-time record broken”. FALSE. All-time would mean some 4.6 billion years of snowfall observations. Please stop misusing the “records” the way the warmists do.
It’s here! It’s here! The tipping point… the ice caps have extended down to Washington DC! The next ice age has arrived!
Does record snow come from record cold?
How cold does it have to be to snow?
How warm can it be and still have snow?
Doesn’t snow come from water vapor in the atmosphere?
Where does record snow come from?
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.
What like UK in 1947
http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq187/bobclive/1947winter.gif
How about when it melted,
http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq187/bobclive/NottsFloods1947.jpg
@ur momisugly Ric Werme (05:57:57) :
Kay (05:04:26) :
> It’s easy to see how, in theory, one bad winter, where the snow doesn’t melt until June if at all, could cause an ice age.
That was one of the basic tenets of the impending Ice Age worry in the mid 1970s. A few months after I read that I flew across the country, I think around the end of February, and concluded unless the snow covers all the conifers, the spring and summer sun will heat up the ground level air just fine.
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Well, like I said, “in theory.” 🙂 It’s easy to see how they reasoned that. But 10 ft. snow banks don’t melt quickly. A lot of it might still be there in May; the temps at night here can get to freezing that late. Baltimore is dumping their extra snow in the harbor, but DEP won’t let us do that here. We used to do it, but they’re more worried about the carp than they are about a few mountains of snow.
@ur momisugly Shelama (07:26:29) Does record snow come from record cold? How cold does it have to be to snow? How warm can it be and still have snow? Doesn’t snow come from water vapor in the atmosphere? Where does record snow come from?
Usually, we get pounded when the temperature is right around 32 F. There’s more moisture in the air, so snow totals are higher and the snow is heavier and wetter, thus harder to plow. If it’s colder, it helps keep the total down (though not always; during the ’93 blizzard it was brutally cold thanks to high winds), but the snow is lighter and fluffier.
Some more global warming.
The southern states are receiving and will receive snow as well. How does global warming explain snow near the gulf of Mexico? Shouldn’t the “extra GW moisture” be extra hot and fall as rain not snow?
Slioch (06:36:19) :
There have actually been several discussions here about the warm anomaly showing up in the satellite measurements. For example, this one is from January 15:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/01/15/uah-satellite-data-has-record-warmest-day-for-january/
I am looking forward to future discussions, because I am interested how such jumps can even happen.
Just think of it. The temperature jumped nearly a half degree! If you want to create a panic, draw a trend-line from that!
However, if you look back at the 1998 El Nino, you’ll notice that the sharp rise was followed by an equal-and-opposite sharp fall.
What I wonder is how the heck this heat can just appear, and then just vanish? Where does it come from? Where does it go?
It seems obvious that thermometers display a weakness, when it comes to measuring our planets “energy budget.” Somehow “deposits” and “withdrawals” are occurring that need to be explained.
It is the varying (and sometimes conflicting) explanations which truly open your eyes to how complex our planet is, for energy doesn’t just disappear. It takes forms which thermometers don’t measure. We need to start thinking about latent heat, and potential energy, and thermohaline circulation, and all sorts of other fascinating stuff.
Just start with this one: What holds more energy, a square foot of air at 30.5 degrees in a dead calm, or a square foot of air at 30.4 degrees in a 100-mile-an-hour wind-gust?
Slioch (06:37:36),
Great job of cherry-picking the record you want.
But let’s look at a longer record than only the last three decades: click
That gives a much more honest perspective. I have more charts if you’re interested.
Slioch (06:36:19) :
How many folk have got the message that, at the same time, both satellite series are recording the January 2010 anomaly as the warmest on record?
Thank you for repeating what others have identified, that the Satellite Series do NOT match reality. China was the the other really major “anomoly”, pun intended.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u03QcymdCtg&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6&border=1]
After Hansen at GISS performs his adjustments you will find that no snow fell in Washington at all.
Oliver K. Manuel (19:13:31) :
The Great Spirit of the Universe definitely has a sense of humor
Which the ecologists, greens, gaia believers,etc. lack.
What a presumptuousity this lack of humour reveals: They think they can alter the change of seasons and even ride the chariot of the sun itself, like silly Phaeton. They pretend, really they wiseacre, to know the laws of earth and heaven, while doublessly believing in those “laws” which are not but descriptions of phenomena seen through the colored glasses of subjetivity. Real laws are the ones which explain and reveal causes not the ones which only describe observations no matter if by beautifully presented mathematical correlations.
rbateman (20:16:20) :
“…Oh, and btw…. the literature says the MWP was nearly global. They didn’t have thermometers back then. They had people who wrote about the times they lived in, and it was warm.”
All evidence points to MWP and other warm periods covering most of the globe.
With the ‘warmist’ scientists blaming this winter’s record snow on CO2, why don’t those texts from the past talk about all the snow they experienced?
I think the CRU/GISS/NASA/IPCC have reached a tipping point in their credibility.
There are lies, damn lies and 21st century climatology.
Here in extreme western MD we escaped this storm — only 4-5″ but w/very strong winds. Still, that’s ~40″ total for both storms. Electric power has blinked alot over the last week, but never gone out for more than a second or two — very lucky.
One interesting occurrence after the first storm was how badly the forecast was for the overnite low after the snow stopped. The NWS predicted 5 to 10F, but it dropped down to a startling -6F (-21C) under clear, calm skies. I’m trying to figure out the mechanism for this — perhaps the storm had condensed out so much moisture from the air that after it passed, we were left with extraordinarily dry air which radiated heat away very efficiently during the night.
This snow cover and its high albedo (in a rural area) is almost guaranteed, as it has most of this winter, to keep temp from exceeding the freezing point even during a “warmer”, sunny spell. Urban areas with large areas of snow removal will easily get above freezing during those spells.
NewsFlash!! Senator Inhofe’s family builds new home for Al Gore.
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/61146
Here is my question for ya’ll…is this the Pineapple Express but only farther South? Obviously El Nino moisture is fueling this…just wondering.
Hard to believe, but Dallas/Fort Worth area is getting steadily snowed on today – around six inches of snow is predicted by the end of the evening. Looks pretty. But I don’t have a snow shovel! You D.C. folks can come down and help us all shovel.
Warmists are claiming the recent unusually heavy snowfall in D.C. is due to global warming. Using that rationale, when a heat wave occurs in mid-summer, skeptics can claim with equal validity that the cause is global cooling. Even if the warmists had a sound basis for their claim (i.e more severe weather events), I’d still have difficulty accepting the idea that the advance of glaciers thousands of years ago at the onset of the last ice age was the result of global warming instead of global cooling.
toyotawhizguy said:
“I’d still have difficulty accepting the idea that the advance of glaciers thousands of years ago at the onset of the last ice age was the result of global warming instead of global cooling.”
As would any proponent of AGW. We are actually currently in an “ice age” and just happen to be in a nice interglacial period inside this much larger ice age. There are long periods of glaciation and shorter warm interglacial periods. The freakish heavy snows on the east coast are not a sign of either impending warmth or glacial advance…they are simply “out of the norm” based on weather data collected over the past 150 years or so. In being “out of the norm” and involving heavy amounts of precipitation, they are consistent with AGW models– but do not prove anything.
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It may be snowing like hell in the USA NE, but perhaps I should point out that we are freezing again in NW Europe. -6 tonight, -2 in the day. Light dusting of snow.
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DFW has set a calendar-day snowfall record with 7.9″. It’s interesting to note their statement doesn’t include any clause about “quality control” from NCDC.
Yee Haw! …The ice sheet has extended down to Texas!