Where’s that “global warming” when you really want it? 😉
This map from NOAA’s National Snow Analyses page shows the snow depth data:
![nsm_depth_2012122605_National[1]](http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/nsm_depth_2012122605_national1.jpg?quality=83)
Source: http://www.nohrsc.noaa.gov/nsa/
Automated Model Discussion:
December 26, 2012
| Area Covered By Snow: | 61.4% |
| Area Covered Last Month: | 18.6% |
| Snow Depth | |
|---|---|
| Average: | 5.1 in |
| Minimum: | 0.0 in |
| Maximum: | 1351.5 in |
| Std. Dev.: | 10.6 in |
| Snow Water Equivalent | |
| Average: | 0.9 in |
| Minimum: | 0.0 in |
| Maximum: | 650.5 in |
| Std. Dev.: | 2.4 in |
This is a perfect time to recall climate researcher Dr. David Viner’s famous missive from back in the year 2000:
However, the warming is so far manifesting itself more in winters which are less cold than in much hotter summers. According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”.
“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” he said.
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/snowfalls-are-now-just-a-thing-of-the-past-724017.html
I will have another load of global warming to shovel off the driveway today. huhhh.
7 inches snow in western MD yesterday, 3 inches a couple days before that. Unfortunately it didn’t plaster Wash DC — the hot-air-dome destroyed it. Pure-white snow is very un-PC there.
LazyTeenager says: December 27, 2012 at 2:18 am
Where’s that “global warming” when you really want it? 😉
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Here:
http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/awap/temp/index.jsp
;-)))))))
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Yes, but don’t go too far south or the record ice accumulation of Anarctica will turn your clever jibe into a snow cone.
“Mr Mosher sure likes to engage in hit and runs.”
If he commented more, that’s just more stupidity for us to criticize. 😉
Andrew
Just imagine the wailing, crying, and teeth-gnashing blared by the MSM, and spurred on by the usual Climadamuses if the snow extent were only 1/3 or less. It would be added to usual litany of disasterous-type weather, icecaps melting, fires, floods, etc. etc. as still further “proof” that we must act now to destroy our economy and go back to living in caves, huddled over an open flame spewing ACTUAL pollution into the air.
Thanks, Mother Nature. You’re a trooper.
On NOAA’s website the main page declares that November 2012 was the warmest in the US on record. Funny, they failed to mention East Asia, Siberia and Eastern Europe (one of the coldest in decades). Nor do they mention the continued cool Southern Hemisphere. As a matter of fact, the US enjoyed a fairly warm December as well (discouting Alaska, which saw temps plunge to -52F in many locations).
In those years where the NH had a very cold, snowy, and dynamic winter (many classic blizzards), the Artic was actually warmer than average. I still remember the winter of 83-84, where in Central Canada it was so cold that warm fronts approached from the North (ie Artic Circle) and not the south. For a week, the Siberian Express occured, where deep polar air masses traversed the North Pole and dove southward into the Great Plains.
During periods where the AO is very negaitve, the polar source regions are pushed equatorward – that is, the Artic actually is warmer than normal. But, The Polar Vortex is pushed into the Hudson Bay area, while a strong dome of high pressure anchors itself in Greenland (and Greenland see warmer than normal temps). The moral of the story is that it is rare that every place is bitterly cold at the same time. And if a strong negative AO comes in phase with a strong negative NAO, watch-out.
well it looks like I am getting 18 inches of snow today, 25 deg with 35-45 mph winds.
I want some global warming.
In Climate Science always frame the argument as follows:-
“Heads I win, tails you lose”.
I find it cool in Brisbane at times. (Mind you, I think the Antarctic circle runs through Tweed Heads.)
And that snow in the Snowy Mountains was just further PROOF of Global Warming, wasn’t it?
@ur momisugly Other Andy.
I find it cool in Brisbane at times. (Mind you, I think the Antarctic circle runs through Tweed Heads.)
And that snow in the Snowy Mountains was just further PROOF of Global Warming, wasn’t it?
Nearly down to the Gulf. Love it when that happens (although I know they don’t love it back there in Cajun Country – LOL!)
Two or three weeks ago, two thirds of Europe was covered in snow and temperatures were very cold indeed.
Now we have SW – W gales, mild weather and all the low level snow is gone.
Will the US suffer the same fate or is it cold for America this winter as Europe has a mild one again?
A weather forecaster on BBC World News declared this to be proof of Climate Change. This rather canny change in title means it is “heads we win, tails you loose”.
The 2012 end of era prediction has come true in the extent that the wool is no longer pulled over our eyes.
If you refute this come to southern Australia in 2013 as it is the final year of snow. According to the computer models. We all know models override reality because observation is irrelevant without a PHD in Conformity .
Looks like 2012 will be about the 9th warmest on record… http://tinyurl.com/c7fqcde
RHYS JAGGAR
Will the US suffer the same fate or is it cold for America this winter as Europe has a mild one again?
The coldest part of winter is JANAUARY/ FEBRUARY. More is to come . The coldest part of 2011/2012 winter for Europe was January 31 to February 12 where it was the coldest in 25 years
for some parts of Europe. Parts of Russia this winter have seen the coldest winter for 70 years and coldest since 1942, the year of the siege of Leningrad.
Global Warming is here to stay and any snow you are wading through is merely a figment of your imagination.
@Skeptik: Brilliant statement. Do you have anything substantial to offer… Or simply a drive by sarcastic commenter?
A more recent map. Where’s the global warming??
@D Böehm says:
December 29, 2012 at 1:40 pm
A more recent map. Where’s the global warming??
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I don’t get it. That’s a thermal map from Dec 28 to Jan 3rd. Is it a prediction?
Where is global warming? I reckon it is somewhere in the globe, and not just that inconsequentially small and unimportant fraction known as the USA. You know – GLOBAL warming, not american warming. But then, 2012 was the hottest year ever for the USA. Want to comment on that, or doesn’t it fit with your ideology?
Move to Australia and see how damn hot it is.
@Mandas: It was warm in the middle of the US because of the cold air over CA. It was colder than normal in CA this summer. That cold dry air due to the colder than average water off our coast dried the air. The dry air over the middle of the country left them in a drought. Dry air warmers faster.
Are you following? Do you understand that the drought led to warmth… not the other way around?
Meanwhile down under in the southern hemisphere, the heat goes on and on, as this BOM AU map shows: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-c-znKbNJihY/UOpTE1kG9jI/AAAAAAAACOQ/dn8IQYYrjAg/s1600/Australian.temps.2013.01.06.gif
Never before in recorded history has Australia experienced 5 consecutive days of national-average maximum temperatures above 39 C (102.2 F). Until today.
42 C = 107.6 F 45 C = 113 F
This heat is expected to continue for another 24-48 hours, extending the new record run to 6 or even 7 days.
For context, the previous record of 4 days occurred once only (1973) and 3 days has occurred only twice (1972 and 2002).
Is there not an old saying, when winter rises in the northern hemisphere, summer comes to the sunburnt island continent of Oz, in the southern hemisphere. That is, the same four seasons of the northern hemisphere arrive in reverse order down in the southern hemisphere.
Such is life, living in a world that has a tilted axis of rotation, giving us a 24 hour day, as it revolves around the sun in one year or 365.25….. days.
cui bono