According to the Bloomberg article:
More than a foot of snow fell across the northeast yesterday, with some areas in New Jersey getting more than 30 inches (76 centimeters), according to AccuWeather. Central Park had 20 inches of snow by 8 a.m. yesterday, the most for the month since 1948, the National Weather Service said.
and
The snowfall was the fifth-largest on record for the city, Sanitation Commissioner John Doherty said on Dec. 26.
Here are some daily record event reports:
In addition, snow records were set all over the eastern half of the United States:
634 snowfall records were set in the USA this past week.
Here’s the storm system that set so many records, on its way to sea yesterday:
On Monday, December 27 at 1731 UTC (12:31 p.m. EST) the GOES-13 satellite captured this visible image of the powerful low pressure system that brought snows from Georgia to Maine along the U.S. east coast. Some of the snowfall can be seen over South and North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and southeastern New York. The clouds of the low obscure New England in the image.
Credit: NOAA/NASA GOES Project
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I hope those alarmists at GISS were snowed in.
Right in the smack of negative AO territory. When the La Nina jet stream meets the negative AO, you get a rather predictable pattern of temperature and precipitation.
Out on the West coast, here we go again. Another system is riding the Jet stream. Cold due to La Nina, and full of water vapor, compliments of the Pacific (talk about your lake affect!). That means that you folks in the East won’t even get to shovel down to the sidewalk before you will get hit again with what will likely be another round of record snows, all compliments of natural oscillations co-occurring: La Nina, and the negative Arctic Oscillation.
Surely we can appraciate histrionics from Joe Romm for warning us all.
Pamela Gray says:
December 28, 2010 at 8:26 am
Natural oscillations augmented (or caused) by an historically low solar cycle.
We can only pray that the snow will never melt at:
3 United Nations Plaza, New York
Where I am, in Northwestern Alberta, our temperatures are trending 5 degrees C colder than normal. Thanks La Nina.
We haven’t seen anything yet.
http://tinyurl.com/24ftj33
There is a timelapse video of the blizzard in here, I hope you like it. 😀
Between the snows of the NH and the rains here in Oz, the volumes involved are mind boggling. It takes huge amounts of energy to transport those volumes up to the atmosphere. Now that energy has been dumped.
Does anyone have the nouse to figure out the approximate amounts involved and how that relates to the planets energy budget.
But the real news is that all of these snow records were set without Al Gore stepping foot in the state.
But But La Nina and -AO what about CO2. This cannot be happening! Snow its really CO2 condensate.
@Pamela, nothing much seen for a 10 day in Boston, but yes, the storms ride up the east coast on this sort of circulation pattern. People forget that the blizzard of ’78, although a certainly bad storm, was made ever so much worse by the fact that we had 2 significant snowfalls in the weeks previous that had not melted. It is still warm enough in the Boston area that a lot of this will melt before our next big one. We probably will not be so lucky after that.
So does plowing all that snow contribute to Climate Disruption? Can I sue all the states that got dumped on and are plowing for endangering my climate? 😉
Would someone be so kind to point myself to a good rebuttall of the AGW crowd meme that states the melting Artic ice caused it to snow EVERYWHERE. I want to reeducate a few people. Thanks
Piers Corbyn certainly called this one.
Looks like climate “disruptions” due to CO2 build up to me! What does the sun have to do with climate, anyway?
I thought you were going to take this week off. Shame on you Mr. Watts.
(rant off)
This is just weather. Nothing to see, move along.
Now if the east had temps 2 degrees above normal, …
31 inches in 24 hrs in Elizabeth nj.
disgusting.
As Piers Corbyn said at Fox & Friends: “You have seen nothing …..yet”
local forecasters say we may even have snow on the mountain peaks in and around phoenix tomorrow night. it usually snows here about once a decade. guess this is it.
Piers Corbyn was spot on with this one and he deserves our congratulations for a job well done.
Well, I’m glad somebody is getting snow. Here in Denver, CO we have yet to see any significant snowfall at all, and it’s already almost New Year. This is getting ridiculous.
It’s not only that, but the weather has just been downright unusual this year along the Front Range. It seems like we’ve been stuck in Groundhog Day ever since the middle of last July. We get the same stinking weather every day: no clouds, no wind, nothing but still air and sun, all day, every day. I hate days like that; I just hate ’em, I tell ya! The onset of winter has brought only a general decrease in temperatures, not a change in the overall pattern.
Can anybody explain this?
The only way I can figure it to myself is by saying that all the low pressure systems that have been affecting other parts of the northern hemisphere must be balanced out by some corresponding high pressure somewhere else; all the artic troughs bringing record cold temperatures to the southeast must be accompanied by tropical ridges in the west; and Denver just happened to be unlucky enough to reap the flipside of what was going on elsewhere.
But I’d really appreciate it if this would change. If I have to see any more sunshine, I’m afraid my retinas are going to melt. I’m a creature of the darkness; I like clouds and storms and rain and fog, not this blasted, unremitting sun! Can anybody offer some relief?
Any ManBearPig sightings?
Nor’easters are ferocious storms but not uncommon. The trick in the headline is “December”. This could turn into a very interesting winter but its just weather.