Alaska’s largest city breaks seasonal snow record
By RACHEL D’ORO | Associated Press
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A spring snowfall has broken the nearly 60-year-old seasonal snow record of Alaska’s largest city.
Inundated with nearly double the snow they’re used to, Anchorage residents have been expecting to see this season’s snowfall surpass the record of 132.6 inches set in the winter of 1954-55.
The 3.4 inches that fell by Saturday afternoon brings the total to 133.6 inches. National Weather Service meteorologist Shaun Baines said forecasters don’t expect more than an inch of additional accumulation.
Before a dumping of wet snow Friday, none had fallen since mid-March, and the seasonal measure hovered at 129.4 inches, or nearly 11 feet. The halt gave residents a chance to clear their snow-laden roofs and city crews an opportunity to widen streets squeezed by mountains of snow.
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I had to laugh at this juxtaposition in the story though:
Extreme weather has hit not only Alaska. It’s also struck the lower 48, where the first three months of 2012 has seen twice the normal number of tornadoes and one of the warmest winters on record.
Full story here
It’s all part of the push for Global Weirding, which is the formal declaration that any kind of weather can (indeed, must) be attributed to man-made climate change
This GLOBAL WARMING is becoming hard to bear, especially for roofs!
That doesn’t sound like much. When I lived in the Colorado Rockies, we’d get over 400″ pretty much every year.
AGW/CAGW/et-al truly is a fascinating phenomenon when looked at from a psychological/sociological point of view.
I speak as a former ardent ‘warmista’ (honest, I was…even paid a voluntary 10% wind-levy charge on my power bills and didn’t own a car for 6 years) who’s views profoundly shifted in light of new facts.(Pachauri flying first class to India to watch his local cricket team playing a game was a key one…then to fly back to the climate change meeting he was attending ..or chairing or summat) To ?paraphrase John Meynard Keynes ‘when the facts change I change my mind’.
I realised that there was no crisis due to the fact that the people who were telling me there was a crisis were acting like there was no such thing.
I have said in various fora over recent years that it is a profoundly painful process indeed to undergo a paradigm shift in ones thinking and boy oh boy did I suffer abuse at the hands of former colleagues/associates when I began to depart from the narrative such that I could not in any way exhort on my former warmistas to at least have a critical eye on what we were being told.
I was either for them IN-TOTO or against…..
Ah well, I have comfortably moved on since then and bought a beautiful V8 motor car…
It’ll run on 85% ethanol so that’s ok…..Can’t seem to find the stuff mind..
The above is all true.
Darn it to heck! That global warming can strike anywhere.
Any betting what the response will be? – either:
a) Yes, we predict that there will be more of these extreme weather events…
or
b) Weather is not climate…
They have become very good at redundancy in promoting the global warming story no matter the facts.
for jones: it’s nice to see someone use fora the more correct alternate to forums.
stan.
Thank you kindly.
stan stendera says: April 7, 2012 at 7:38 pm
“it’s nice to see someone use fora the more correct alternate to forums.”
It is also refreshing when people understand that the word ‘correct’ is an absolute term like ‘unique’, ‘original’ or ‘pregnant’. 🙂
jones says:
April 7, 2012 at 7:06 pm
I speak as a former ardent ‘warmista’ . . .
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I too changed sides.
Better dental plan.
stan stendera says:
April 7, 2012 at 7:38 pm
for jones: it’s nice to see someone use fora the more correct alternate to forums.
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Would the plural for rum and raspberry be ra and raspberri?
Graphite says:
Would the plural for rum and raspberry be ra and raspberri?
Good point…..but if one were to be a ‘rum’ chap blowing ‘rasperries’ where would one sit?
Perhaps the three to seven decades of global cooling that some have predicted will warm things up.
Snow at Mt. Baker, in Washington State: 305 inches in the upper elevations.
http://www.onthesnow.com/washington/mt-baker/skireport.html
Another .9 inches fell, as expected, and has stopped. Read the official news here:
http://pafc.arh.noaa.gov/pubfcst.php?fcst=NOAK48PAFC
Anchorage Daily News has been notorious to report an alarming view.
I’ve written several articles about the papers alarming stance.
You can find those articles at my wordpress blog.
The snow today was thick, wet, and big. I don’t think I had seen snow that fluffy all year.
The streets are already clear, but the new snow has covered the ugly melting snow still piled up around town. Some piles are six stories tall and probably wont disappear until July.
Some of you may remember a story I wrote last year about snow predictions at Logan Pass in Glacier Nat’l Park. In that story, Dan Fagre, Research Ecologist and Climatel Change Research Coordinator for the Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center of the U. S. Geological Survey, stationed at Glacier National Park, was quoted as saying, “Snow will melt out of the mountains earlier in spring(it already melts nearly three weeks earlier than it did 50 years ago).”
Last Thursday, The Missoulian reported this story:
“Plowing under way on Glacier National Park roads”
“Snow levels at high elevations across the park are above average for this time of year”, Germann said, “and while they are not as high as last year the snow depth is substantial.”
Read more: http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/plowing-under-way-on-glacier-national-park-roads/article_38cd7f60-7f99-11e1-8076-001a4bcf887a.html#ixzz1rQJkpeBj
So it seems that Dan Fagre and his prediction for an earlier snow melt and less snowfall has failed again for the 5th straight year. Much like the Arctic not falling below the record set in 2007. Seems there have been many failed predictions since that Alarmist year of 2007.
How many other stories can we find that directly conflict with the predictions of the IPCC and their AR4?
Those of us who live here are thrilled! If you spend that much up-close-and-personal time with your shovel and snowblower, there’s just no glory in coming in second 😉
It is not just the snow, but the winter in general has been as hard and cold as I can remember in my 40 plus years in Alaska. Much of January was brutally cold. It is good to see some coverage of our weather, as opposed to listening to Brian Williams on NBC blathering on and on about the only weather that matters in his little narcissistic world — New York’s.
Based on the accumulations in the mountains around Anchorage, I expect that, absent some extreme summer high temperatures or extensive rainfall, there will be assorted areas of snow that do not completely melt this summer. And it may thus begin, a new ice age.
I’m on the northeast end of Anchorage, and even though the melt has started we’ve still got about 24″ of global warming on the ground. Easter egg hunts will be fun – either real easy because the eggs will be hidden in driveways or walkways, or really hard because they’ll be tucked in posthole-like footprints in the snow.
And I’m now the proud owner of a snow rake. For pulling that snow off your roof. My arms and shoulders were burning before I got halfway around my roof. Gotta figure out to get the snowblower up there…
Reblogged this on Climate Ponderings.
Climate Disruption can strike anywheres, I tells ya! Gaia’s gonna getcha!
57 years agio, I wonder how good this fits with Piers Corbyn´s theory.
Yesterday we had snow in Spain, Quite a shock for british tourists who come here to spend Eastern holydays.
http://www.abc.es/20120407/sociedad/abci-tiempo-previsiones-pascua-201204071301.html
(Link in Spanish)
Not to worry~ they will now claim that all this snow will melt, and add to accelerating sea-level rise.
Glad that’s done, would have hated to do that much shoveling for second. Going to head down to Alyeska, about 30 miles as the crow flies, to do some skiing. The have gotten almost 70 feet of snow this season. With a cold summer (god forbid) I might be skiing into August.