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.
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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
E.M. Smith said:
“So please, take your whole stored heat somehow clawing it’s way down from the tropopause via ice and snow to cause ocean heating thesis and chuck it. It’s worthless as real measurments of the process show the daily heat is all up in the air by 3 pm and gone after sundown. There isn’t any ‘stored heat’. Get over it.”
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Your rather colorful and fictionalized description of something I didn’t even say shows you have considerable literary talent…well done!
In reality, what we are essentially talking about with AGW is of course the enthalpy of the earth’s ocean-atmospheric system. The latent heat processes involved in evaporation, condensation, formation of snow, etc. are all well understood and while each process is either exothermic or endothermic with respect to the system, what we are talking about is whether or not the 40% increase in CO2 since the 1700’s tips the earth’s ocean-atmospheric system from a neutral condition with respect to outer-space toward an exothermic or endothermic condition. Does the more of the latent heat created during the formation of snow for example, released to the troposphere, remain in the troposphere because of higher amounts of CO2, rather then getting released to outer-space? If the answer is yes, then, increasing amounts of CO2 create an net endothermic response of the earth’s ocean-atmospheric system with respect to outer-space, i.e., more energy is coming into the system then is leaving it. It would appear, based on millions of years of earth’s history, that this is exactly what increasing the amount CO2 in the troposphere does do…create a net endothermic response (with respect to outer-space), altering the the energy “budget” for the earth’s ocean-atmospheric system, leaving more energy in the system to acclerate the hydrological cycle, which in turn removes that excess CO2 from the atmosphere through increased rock weathering and the ultimate creation of greater amounts of limestone at the bottom of the ocean, which is the earth’s natural repository of excess CO2.
As a side note, it would seem apparent that, in addition to simply measuring stream flows, etc. that using such measuring tools as the eddy covariance, it whatever form, would be one way of measuring the additional heat in the troposphere over time to identify one of the causative parameters to the acceleration of the hydrological cycle.
Geoff Sharp says:
December 28, 2010 at 6:08 pm
R. Gates says:
December 28, 2010 at 4:11 pm
2010 will be one of the warmest years on instrument record. This is entirely consistent with AGW models. Arctic Sea ice today (12/28/10 ) is at its lowest point for this date in the satellite record, also, entirely consistent with AGW’s. I think AGW skeptics are making far too much of the cold weather in Europe, and in the long run, we could eventually learn that the lower sea ice levels are indeed affecting the outbreak of cold and snow for Europe.
You are cherry picking again Gates, even with a strong long lasting El nino the world temps will not rise, the current readings (CH04) are taking a severe nose dive. The current monthly low of ice extent in the north is a product of the extreme high pressure over Greenland, which is part of the global cooling process (weak polar vortex). Strange that you continue not to mention the record ice extent in the south?
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We’ve not had a postive sea ice anomaly in the Arctic since 2004, yet we’ve had many negative and positive anomalies in the Antarctic Sea ice in that time. When, in the very unlikely event, that we get a 6 year (or even 2 or 3 year) period of a positive sea ice anomaly in Antarctica, I’d be glad to comment, but right now, not much of interest there, (except for what appears to be higher temps in deep ocean currents around the area) whereas the Arctic is changing fast…
I really dig those maps from <a href="http://mapcenter.hamweather.com/records/custom/us.html?c=maxtemp,mintemp,lowmax,highmin&s=20101221"HAMweather; thanks for showing us that site!
I remember about two weeks ago, when Anthony posted a map in his post about Hundreds of new cold and snow records set in the USA for the week ending Dec. 12. That was a humdinger: record low and lowest-max temperatures outnumbered record high and highest-min temps 7:1!
Good thing he wasn’t posting over the Christmas holidays, or I’m sure he would have felt obligated to post about the week ending Dec. 24 when record high and highest-max temperatures in the US outnumbered record low and lowest-max temps 24:1.
At least we got a post about all the snow in the UK. I guess Anthony follows the news wherever the cold weather takes him.
Boo to my lame HTML skills! First paragraph should read:
I really dig those maps from HAMweather; thanks for showing us that site!
Why do you new media lie so much?
In the 60s, we had 30 FEET oir more, of snow often, and over several lyears.
Could you repeat for me: “She sells sea shells down by the sea shore” thrice swiftly.
Next, while standing on your left foot slowly extend your right foot forward like this while …
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Uh oh…
Anonymous Howard says:
December 29, 2010 at 11:18 am
At least we got a post about all the snow in the UK. I guess Anthony follows the news wherever the cold weather takes him.
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Anonymous Howard,
So….what’s your point?
And document, please the 24:1 ratio you are talking about.
Also note, the warm bubble due to the ridge in the west (and all of those record high temps) is crashing right now and, like usual, in contrast, the eastern US will warm up (for a time).
Note the severe winter weather alerts…quite a few in the SAME place where the high records were before….quite a big reversal to the” OMG the sky is falling the world is warming” frantic antics of your posts.
http://www.wunderground.com/severe.asp
And not remotely gentlemanly and honorable of you to attack a man (Anthony) while he is gone on vacation.
If you don’t like his blog, then you can go somewhere else.
But don’t be dishonorable and just sit there and make potshots.
Chris
Norfolk, VA, USA
I highly reccomend the original “The Coming Ice Age” that Leanord Nimoy did on In Search Of.
We are there…where the last cooling left off… and it only took a few short years to get there.
actually, in between all the bickering here and the science, there are a few good pieces of good fundamental meteorological science that have been spilled. overall, this blog has both good contributors and some very bad ones, but in general (average) this stuff is at least indicative of much more debate and thought provoking discourse than, say, the hockey schtick as I call it, presented by Al Bore, in; “A Profit Making BULLSHIT STORY” of his.
it’s one thing for us to quibble and hem and haw, but there are processes happening far off beyond this solar system that are contributing more to these climate changes, perhaps far more, than any planetary changes we think we all have good handles on here. those are fundamentally the blockages of solar energy well before that energy can be absorbed here on earth, either by the atmosphere, or any land or ocean masses below. what is the major cause of this ‘change’ has far more to do with a significantly smaller amount of direct solar radiation making it to earth, mostly due to blocking that occurs naturally between the earth’s orbit and the position of the sun, at distances that make any human intervention or possible intervention, laughable.
but I digress. the blog is a good gang here. a few drive by shooters, but overall, good discussion.
Hint: look further out than our own atmosphere, for the real causes. that’s where they are.
Anonymous Howard says:
December 29, 2010 at 11:18 am
I really dig those maps from <a href="http://mapcenter.hamweather.com/records/custom/us.html?c=maxtemp,mintemp,lowmax,highmin&s=20101221"HAMweather; thanks for showing us that site!
I remember about two weeks ago, when Anthony posted a map in his post about Hundreds of new cold and snow records set in the USA for the week ending Dec. 12. That was a humdinger: record low and lowest-max temperatures outnumbered record high and highest-min temps 7:1!
Good thing he wasn’t posting over the Christmas holidays, or I’m sure he would have felt obligated to post about the week ending Dec. 24 when record high and highest-max temperatures in the US outnumbered record low and lowest-max temps 24:1.
At least we got a post about all the snow in the UK. I guess Anthony follows the news wherever the cold weather takes him.
With only 15 records total. Good grief. That’s the most cherry picked date you could find for the month of December. Why don’t you revisit that site for Dec. 30, one day following your non-robust posting. Around 300 record cold records. Geesh.
http://mapcenter.hamweather.com/records/7day/us.html?c=maxtemp,mintemp,lowmax,highmin&s=20101225&e=20101225
Snow Job, NYC Sanitation Department’s slow snow clean-up was a budget protest
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/sanit_filthy_snow_slow_mo_qH57MZwC53QKOJlekSSDJK#ixzz19bWuL5ox
check out this doc from the early 60’s… weather was so bad new york almost cancelled christmas… lol
savethesharks says: (December 29, 2010 at 8:55 pm)
I linked to the HAMweather site where I got the data. Unfortunately, that site doesn’t allow you to link to a week’s worth of data (except the most recent week), so I only linked to one day. But all you have to do is change the date in the little dropdown box to see any other day.
Here are the total Continental US records for the week ending December 24, 2010:
High to low records = 889 to 24 = 37 to 1 (I had a math error in my earlier calculation.)
A couple weeks ago, Anthony crowed about a week with hundreds of new cold and snow records, and just this morning there is a new post trumpeting that record lows outpace record highs 21 to 1 this week.
In between those two weeks was a week when record highs outpaced record lows 39 to 1 (271/7). And during that week, your attention on this site was diverted to Western Europe where the snow, like confirmation bias, lay heavy on the ground.
What is my point? The answer is: What was Anthony’s point?
Seriously? I wrote my comment one day after he wrote his post (while on vacation apparently) along with 80 or so other people on a public blog on the Internet with an open comment form that is gated by moderators… and I’m a bad guy because I didn’t check his schedule first? Did you notice that Anthony Watts posted something every day this week?