AP’s Seth Borenstein is running a story titled “49 states dusted with snow; Hawaii’s the holdout“. As shown in the map below, every state in the Continental US has snow someplace. As pointed out in the article, this is a rare occurrence:
The idea of 50 states with snow is so strange that the federal office that collects weather statistics doesn’t keep track of that number and can’t say whether it has ever happened. The office can’t even say whether 49 out of 50 has ever taken place before.
It’s been a very busy week for snow and also for lowest max temperature, thanks to our El Nino induced weather patterns, while the Pacific Northwest is seeing warmer conditions, the southeast and eastern US gets lots of snow thanks to the pattern.
Record Events for Sat Feb 6, 2010 through Fri Feb 12, 2010
Total Records: 2182
Rainfall: 662
Snowfall: 1180
High Temperatures: 9
Low Temperatures: 31
Lowest Max Temperatures: 220
Highest Min Temperatures: 80
Continuing the pattern of top ten Northern Hemisphere snow extent rankings from October, December and January, it looks like February may also be headed for the record books.
North America, Europe and Asia are all showing large positive anomalies in snow cover.
Daily Departure – February 11, 2010
Source: Rutgers University Global Snow Lab
The record February snow extent occurred in 1978 with an anomaly of more than 5 million square miles. That may be tough to beat, but from the map above it may have already happened. February will definitely be ranked in the top two.
Source: Rutgers University Global Snow Lab
WUWT reader Marcia pointed to this interesting link
NORMAN, Oklahoma — A University of Oklahoma student is taking an extra interest in this week’s snow storms in the south and northeast and is working to document the events in a very unique way. Patrick Marsh said it’s likely by the end of the week snow will be on the ground in all 50 states
Ten years ago we were told that “Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past” Alarmists are now attempting to rewrite history and claim that they predicted record snow and cold all along – but it simply isn’t true. Everyone from Hansen on down was predicting the demise of snow in the temperate zones, until they realized they were wrong.
“People should know when they are conquered.” – Quintus from the movie Gladiator.
h/t to Steve Goddard for the story idea and several content links.
Dr Robert:
The Sun actually is waking up, it’s just most of the sunspots in the past several days have rotated out of view now. The fact that we’re no longer seeing days with no spots on the Sun shows that Solar Cycle 24 is showing at least a minimal amount of progress.
Re: Mike D. (Feb 13 15:01),
I wonder the same thing. Are the recent very large anomalies in the LT from satellite data for January influenced by the amount of snow cover?
Phil M. (14:43:39) : “There seems to be a deep misunderstanding about global climate change on this thread (and this website, for that matter). I know of no AGW climate scientist that predicted the effects of climate change would be uniform across the globe. Some places may get hotter; some places may get cooler. Some places may get wetter; some places may get drier. Some places may get more snow; some places may get less snow. ”
And that is why AGW theory is ridiculous. Some places MAY blah blah blah, some places MAY blech blech blech and some places MAY bing bing bing. AGW predicts nothing that can be pinned down. Pretty slick, if you are a snake oil salesman.
Snow in all states may have happened in February 1899. Here is an abstract from my chronology of weather records:
In February, 1899, ice floes in Gulf of Mexico; snowstorms from FL to ME with 30 to 40 inches of snow in VA. It is the storm of the century according to the Weather Channel. Between February 1 and 14, 1899, a cold wave caused a massive East Coast blizzard and induced bitter cold temperatures across two-thirds of the Nation, from the Rockies to the Atlantic Ocean. “In a sense this is probably the first and only time true blizzard conditions existed in the state of Florida. In fact, Florida probably experienced their only blizzard in history with this particular storm,” says Paul Kocin.
All that snow everywhere but here in Vancouver. Amazing how AGW is so selective.
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My favorite snow link.
Enjoy.
On a lighter note. http://www.angelfire.com/wa/zzaran/calvin.html
Phil M. (14:43:39) :
There seems to be a deep misunderstanding about global climate change on this thread (and this website, for that matter). …Some places may get hotter; some places may get cooler. Some places may get wetter; some places may get drier. Some places may get more snow; some places may get less snow. Get it?
In short, climate change (due to manmade C02, of course) causes everything. No matter what happens, it’s our fault. The theory of manmade climate change is non-falsifiable. Got it.
Wait – isn’t that religion?
Phil M. (14:43:39) :
Some places may get hotter; some places may get cooler. Some places may get wetter; some places may get drier. Some places may get more snow; some places may get less snow. Get it?
You modified a song by Jefferson Airplane. Got it.
Nasty in Vancouver in ’08 especially the spring. Oh, BTW here’s the latest SST
anomaly from UNISYS: http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sst_anom.html
Nino’s looking rather sickly and to my untrained eyes the Pacific appears to
be getting a little cooler around him…
Almost impossible to have the biggest, hottest, anything ever! now.
Nino’s gone neutral by April….
Nina before Sept…
500 quatloos on that…
Only 49 States with snow?
Honolulu and Maui isn’t all of Hawaii. Are Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea on the Big island snow free this year?
Phil M:
“There seems to be a deep misunderstanding about global climate change on this thread (and this website, for that matter). I know of no AGW climate scientist that predicted the effects of climate change would be uniform across the globe. Some places may get hotter; some places may get cooler. Some places may get wetter; some places may get drier. Some places may get more snow; some places may get less snow. Get it? ”
Thanks Phil, I needed that…………………LOL
The best humor is ironic.
Global Warming: The Wooly Mammoth of Climate, found frozen stiff with a mouthful of Hockey Stick flowers.
Yes, you see, it’s quite elementary. If you have 10x the cold snowy anomalies as you do warm dry anomalies, it’s Global Cooling.
I.E. – AGW ran out of hot air. No need for a massive dissertation on petaflopping GCM’s.
Now, was that so hard to understand?
“The problem with your theory is that all these events are not unique, they have all occurred throughout history.”
“The theory of manmade climate change is non-falsifiable.”
The world-wide temperature records, including the sat data, showing a degree of warming unprecedented in the last 2,000 years. The warming is easily sufficient to reject the null hypothesis (the globe is not warming) and supported by many independent lines of evidence.
You can certainly falsify AGW, just not with weather events entirely consistent with the predictions of the theory.
Ray (15:40:09) :
All that snow everywhere but here in Vancouver. Amazing how AGW is so selective.
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Reply:
I feel (*shovel, shovel, shovel*) your pain, (*shovel, shovel, shovel*), Ray (*shovel, shovel, gasp*).
Sat data from the last 2000 nyrs..
ironic that
@Robert (16:17:10) :
“The world-wide temperature records, including the sat data, showing a degree of warming unprecedented in the last 2,000 years. The warming is easily sufficient to reject the null hypothesis (the globe is not warming) and supported by many independent lines of evidence.”
Odd that you claim that when even the now notorious Phil Jones of CRU has agreed that:
“two periods in recent times had experienced similar warming. And he agreed that the debate had not been settled over whether the Medieval Warm Period was warmer than the current period.”
Warming is cooling!
Time magazine explains that global warming is causing the major blizzards on the East Coast:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100210/hl_time/08599196229400
It’s astonising how just as soon as another AGW bonfire is lit, NGC moves in and dumps a bowl of cold snowflakes all over it.
Slushy the Polar Bear sez: “Remember, only you can prevent Gore effects.”
I live on the Canadian border, and about 45 degrees North, and it looks to us like winter went south for the winter. It has been pretty normal, highs in the twenties every day lately, lows in the teens. Spring is in the air. It has been a couple weeks since I wore pajama bottoms under my pants to keep warm.
You know what killed the woolly mammoths? Climate change caused by their flatulence.
This snow path is absolutely facinating!
In looking at how an Ice Age would work, one would assume the precipataion line would be all across the northern hemisphere at one causing the thickness.
But if going from south cold and working north would keep the cycle of cold air in play to intermix with warm creating mass precipitation the would invade thicker nothward.
Robert,
How does satellite data show a degree of warming unprecedented in the past 2000 years? I’m dying to see that data set!
Wow, talk about doubling down in the face of long odds! Now it is warmer today, not just than the Medieval Warm Period, but warmer than the Roman Warm Period when Hannibal crossed the Alps with elephants.
I would start a debate, but it just doesn’t seem like it would be all that productive in this case. Is there such a word as “climate irredentism?
Dr. Robert (13:47:35) :
Dear Sun,
Listen here you lazy ball of fusion. You’ve been resting long enough. It’s freaking cold and snowy. Please come back to life.
Thanks,
Earth
One day my son, you will understand that unless the sun has an alarm clock for every Ice Age to occur on time, then, you will realize that it is the pressure build-up of your own planet that has set into motion the massive reflectors to sunlight to be opened…Salt crystals and snow.
Thanks,
Sun
Lotta silly trollobytes [sic] tonight… The first north pole view I think is pretty meaningless, and probably inaccurate, based on where I sit, but the second one is interesting – it would appear that the reported anomaly is all situated on the same global latitudinal band. This leads me to conjecture that this is, of course, the lower latitudinal limit of arctic cold air flow, perhaps due to decreased solar activity. Since this cold air is more likely to produce snow out the more humid and deeper moist atsmosphere of tropics and subtropics, the pattern is not surprising.
Its further fun to speculate that since we have this apparent propensity to produce lots of heavy snow out of all of this moist subtrop and tropical air, that here is where the ice ages start, if the sun co-operates. At some point there may be a tipping point (eep, did I just say that?) where if the amount of snow falling in these latitudinal belts becomes sufficiently frequent to actually begin to have sufficient albedo effects etc. to enhance the persistence of cold air over these latitudes, eureka! glaciers.
We have a sense of how long it takes an ice age to retreat – I’m not sure we have a good idea of how quickly they form…
Hey, It’s Saturday night and there’s nothing much good on TV.