Paging Dr. David Viner, white courtesy phone please
Here is the map from NOAA’s National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center showing the snow coverage at 53%, the most in 11 years for this date.
December 15, 2013
| Area Covered By Snow: | 53.0% |
| Area Covered Last Month: | 5.8% |
And here are the past 11 years for this date, December 15th:
Image courtesy on NWS Kansas City, MO
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Wish the images went further back in time. Could play it like a movie and eyeball for interesting trends. I wanted to see 1998 but the site seems to start at 2003. Too short a period to do anything interesting with the data…and now I am curious.
Seems to me to be a good reason to live south of I-10.
The fun part is that this wil bring temperature down and so the averige temperature. And yes that means that its not warming up. But stil december wil be 0,6 degrees C to warm. It wis time that someone looks at the raw temperature data to figure out were we realy standing. My bet will be between 10.5 and 11.5 degrees C
More than five years ago Alogore predicted that the North Pole would be ice free in 5 years.
BZ-Z-Z-ZT!!
Wrong.
But thanx for playing, Al. You’ve been a good sport (not). Vanna has some lovely parting gifts for you on your way out…
Thanks for the post. It is interesting stuff. But the official records will still be altered to reflect the political needs of the Team and the State. I am thinking it is time for them to claim “The HOTTEST Year Ever” yet again.
Every time they “adjust” records in the 30s (or whatever) lower and today’s records higher to prove their hypothesis it just says to me they know they are wrong.
I am curious as to the level of snow cover for the entire Northern Hemisphere.
Wow. It must be a sign of AGW.
/s
We all know the chicken littles of this would will claim that.
I take this as a sign. A sign that it will be a white Christmas for a whole lot of people. Nothing more, nothing less. But, isn’t this fun!!
OMG. Just think what’s going to happen when all this snow melts. Sea levels will rise and we’re all going to drown. It’s a catastrophe.
While Viner’s comment deserves top mention, don’t forget Robert F Kennedy’s comment about kids in Virginia in a hit piece on Sarah Palin:
I suspect more Virginia kids have video game consoles than sleds, but we can’t blame that on AGW.
I will note that most of Virginia didn’t get the snow, as long as Kennedy will note that there are other reasons for rope tows to be (nearly?) nonexistent these days.
Is that a snow-white courtesy telephone?
Well in the opinion of this guy that now drives a big truck for a living and is heading off tomorrow to do 4 stops every day Tuesday through Friday next week in Canada from Toronto to Windsor then back to Romulus, MI. NO! It’s NOT FUN!
I maintain records for monthly and seasonal snowfall and Snow Depth Days for a handful of sites around New England. The main message in the data seems to be that snow data is an awful data stream to use when looking for climate trends. Way, way too variable, even by New England’s “If you don’t like the weather, wait a minute” standard.
Still, that’s a lot of snow cover for mid December!
Winter temperatures in United States have been dropping now since 1998 as measured by NCDC/NOAA data sets ( Climate at A Glance). As the AtLANTIC SST cools further and both AMO and PDO are negative, the winters will get even colder and more snow will also spread across the land .We are in for 2-3 decades of cooler winters like we had 1895-1915 and again 1965-1975 and even like the late 1970’s. The Pacific and Atlantic Oceans sst cycles are heading for
their cool phase and this will take us to 2030/2045.
dbstealey says:
December 15, 2013 at 11:51 am
More than five years ago Alogore predicted that the North Pole would be ice free in 5 years.
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Yeah, it’s 5 years (almost to the day) from when he gave the lecture (or one of those lectures) in that German museum.
Of course the video is long gone from YouTube.
It was another crap scientist, like Viner, who fed him the bogus information, wasn’t it ? Can’t remember who though.
On the Canadian Prairie above the 49th parallel the winter of 1996/97 is still referred to as the ‘winter from hell’, with deep snow pack that came early and lasted longer than normal and yet the winter of 1997/98 was one of the warmest on record(very mild and no snow until after Christmas). You can see that same lack of trend highlighted in this post with this years snow coverage similar to 2007. It is still a useful exercise to point this out to our AGW adherents though, with their wild talk of a future without snow.
Jim says:
December 15, 2013 at 12:12 pm
> I am curious as to the level of snow cover for the entire Northern Hemisphere.
Try http://www.nohrsc.noaa.gov/nh_snowcover/
http://www.natice.noaa.gov/pub/ims/ims_gif/ARCHIVE/NHem/2013/ims2013348.gif
http://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/chart_daily.php?ui_year=2013&ui_day=348&ui_set=2
http://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/chart_anom.php?ui_set=0&ui_region=nhland&ui_month=11
Ric Werme says:
December 15, 2013 at 12:46 pm
Today, Virginia kids sled or ski on their ipads. Same as in the rest of the affluent world.
In central Washington State we had some snow 2 months ago. It melted. Repeat. Then we had some Arctic air (cold). It moved on. Now the temp has gone to 55° F and the wind just hit a gust of 53 mph. Irrigation ditches, creeks, and small lakes still have ice. So, we are not in that 53% figure – for what it is worth.
Cool!
The ice-free corridor between the canadian plains and the northern Rockies, where the first Americans are said to have crossed into America ca. 12.500 yrs before today, after they had travelled from Asia through Beringia to Alaska, can clearly be seen in that picture.
Watching this picture, Roland Emmerich’s “The Day After Tomorow” springs to mind…
We’re not in the 53% figure either down here in Florida, but I just got my power bill today. I’d rather have warming.
& Northern Forida still gets a couple of snows per decade, just like it did when the world was 0.4° colder*.
*adjusted for inflation, VAT & other applicable taxes not included, 15% restocking fee, only 5 minutes from downtown (at 240mph), Santa will ram his ovipositor down your children’s throats & lay eggs in their chests, not valid with any other offers, please consult a doctor if your anaconda wants some despite her not having buns (hon), 18% gratuity for parties of 6 or more, don’t drink and drive.
For Jim @ur momisugly December 15, 2013 at 12:12 pm
http://www.natice.noaa.gov/ims/
That’s an awful lot of global warming covering the U.S.
/sarc
The sad thing is this snow is just abnormal weather, possibly of mild academic interest unless, of course, you are looking at your heating bills.
The reason sceptics take notice of this type of thing is to make the point that it’s weather, not that it is proof of man made global cooling.
In contrast, alarmists can be relied on to bleat that “this is firm proof of man made climate change”, whenever there is an occasional batch of unusual hot, or wild, weather somewhere in the world.