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
I’ll start to worry when the climate stops changing.
“Paging Dr. David Viner, white courtesy phone please”
That is a classic – still laughing to myself…
…I blame all of that heat, hiding in the abyss. Ye Deniers, just wait until it springs forth and brings blazing death unto ye all! sarc/
Thank God, I’ll be able to go ice fishing this year! I haven’t gone in the past two years, even lakes like Lake Geneva, WI didn’t have sufficient ice cover. Don’t knock it if you haven’t tried it.
We don’t know if such a thing will bring temps down or not. There’s no way to tell if any cold trend as a result would have been there anyway.
On my edge of the map (Pacific Northwest) it’s about 20f warmer now than it was a week ago.
I just don’t think albedo has that much of an effect.
Or west of I-5 😉
I grew up in Northern VA (Front Royal, Manassas) in the 60s and 70s. It was rare to get snow before Xmas. Some years we didn’t get much snow at all, other times we’d get dumped with a couple feet. Nothing has really changed.
The warmests will sell this a climate change from warming oceans. The oceans are hotter therefore more water evaporates and rises into the jet stream which hits the arctic air which dumps more snow. After last years floods in Alberta the large snow pack and the large rains that quickly melted it causing floods were both sold in the media as excess moisture due to extra hot glabally warmed oceans. I’m pretty sure the Colorado floods later in the summer were sold in pretty much the same way.
Global warming causes droughts and rainstorms, snowstorms and brown christmas’s, warmer than usual winters, colder than normal winters, excessively hot summers, excessively cold summers, you name the weather condition AGW has its fingers in it.
And the reason that there is a lot of snow in the US right now…
“Accelerated warming in the Arctic is decreasing the difference in temperature between the Arctic and the Northern Temperate Zone. This is causing the polar jet to slow down and become more wavy, i.e. with larger loops, as illustrated by the NASA image further below.
This is a feedback of accelerated warming in the Arctic that reinforces itself. As the jet stream slows down and its waves become more elongated, cold air can leave the Arctic more easily and come down deep into the Northern Temperate Zone.”
http://arctic-news.blogspot.com.au/2012/12/polar-jet-stream-appears-hugely-deformed.html
Now, was this caused by the INCREASE in Arctic sea ice extent over 2012 this summer? Was it caused by the
cold‘warm’ Arctic this summer? 😉 Curious minds want to know.Let me say it: Children in the southern United States won’t know what snow is.
The maximum snow depth on this page is over 110 feet.
http://www.nohrsc.noaa.gov/nsa/index.html?region=National&year=2013&month=12&day=15&units=e
But if you look at individual snow depth records, there is none even close to 30 feet.
http://www.nohrsc.noaa.gov/nsa/reports.html?region=National&var=snowdepth&dy=2013&dm=12&dd=15&units=e&sort=value&filter=0
Is this an error or do I not understand?
It’s persitantly above normal temperatures in the UK at present, with pretty severe storms caused by the interaction between a cold North American continent and a warm Western Europe. The loops in the jet stream are whipping these storms across western areas of Europe with a real fury. Thats why we have to look at temperatures and weather on a wider basis, it may be cold and calm in North America, but it sure ain’t here.
Absolute proof that manmade CO2 induced climate change is causing wild fluctuations in the weather. All we need to solve the problem is your gold your guns and your gas. You’re welcome…
If I’m not mistaken it was Professor Wieslaw Maslowski. How did this nutcase ever become a professor?
As you can see he thought that 2013 ice free Arctic was just being toooooo conservative.
Now we have another professor who swears there will be no sea ice left in the Arctic in August or September 2016.
Again we see toooooo conservative. Expect his date to be pushed back before he is tarred and feathered, just like Maslowski now pushes his date back to 2019. These people never give up.
In Europe I think they are getting a break, after the awful winter they had last year. However they may experience what we experienced last year, a snow-free first half, followed by a very snowy second half. (Though Philadelphia to Washington got left out, last year.)
The arctic flow has been remarkable to watch, basically coming over the top of the globe from Siberia to Alaska. Apparently this is due to a Pacific pattern. Joe Bastardi has been suggesting that as the Pacific pattern fades an Atlantic pattern, (typical of late winters when the AMO is warm and PDO is cold,) may kick in, and this would exchange one very cold pattern (for the eastern USA) with another. To make matters worse, (or better, if you like awful winters,) Joe D’Aleo has been carefully watching some hints that a “Stratospheric warming event” may be brewing, and they often are associated with extreme arctic outbreaks. To me it looks ominous so far, and a lot like winters of the late 1970’s.
During these severe winters so much cold air is exported from the Pole that we can often have situations like we had last week, where it is twenty degrees colder in Montana than it is on the North Pole. Of course, you can then expect Alarmists to wave data about showing that the Pole is warmer, ignoring the suffering of the poor and the elderly further south who can’t afford much heat, due to Alarmist’s idiotic policies. (Look back through the archives to last winter (February?) for an excellent and compassionate article Willis wrote on this subject.)
I confess to being a bit of an Alarmist myself, for I am alarmed by the way this winter is shaping up. Snow may be a laugh in December, but when it continues week after week after week after week, right to the start of April, the laughter will give way to grumbling even Washington may notice. Indeed, perhaps we should be saying, “And So It Begins.”
Snow… that white thing of the past?
Funny last year the warmunists claimed that the freezing weather was due to the decline of Arctic ice cover. This year they claim it’s the increase in Arctic ice that’s causing the cold. Personally, the latter makes a lot more sense, but either way, they are coming off as triple-o looons.
And in old ice news just in……
H/t Steven Goddard.
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2013/12/15/1989-nasa-blamed-thickening-ice-in-greenland-on-global-warming/
Hi Caleb. Thanks for your reply to my comment on your blog which I was going to make another reply, but we’ll go with this. By the way, though, I think in a post like this talking about the Arctic air freezing half the world, when you make a long comment, imho, you should include a link to your own blog with its deep & detailed continuing coverage of the Arctic situation: http://sunriseswansong.wordpress.com/2013/12/02/arctic-sea-ice-recovery-advent/
For What its worth, our December is currently running about 8 degrees below normal–in the Kansas City area. Its supposed to be warmer this week, and then cool off again, to nearly 20 degrees below normal. We’ll see how it averages out at the end of the month.
Jim says:
December 15, 2013 at 12:12 pm
I am curious as to the level of snow cover for the entire Northern Hemisphere.
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9 of the 12 months show increasing NH snow cover over the past 10 yrs
http://suyts.wordpress.com/2013/12/14/more-on-our-lost-albedo/
A sign that it will be a white Christmas for a whole lot of people.
Is that a Santa Claus reference?
NOHRSC snow coverage for December 9
Even better on Dec 9 : 2/3 coverage for 2013
2003 27.3%
2004 22.1%
2005 58.2%
2006 24.7%
2007 51.9%
2008 34.5%
2009 55.5%
2010 35.3%
2011 35.3%
2012 26.0%
2013 66.9%
Regards,
rj
starzmom;
For fun, match a day in the month to that average, and then try and recall it. See how well it represents your month!
Ric Werme says:
December 15, 2013 at 12:54 pm
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!
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yup, here in etna maine I got a pretty solid measurement of 13-14″ (drifts made it hard to narrow it down further) today while 5 miles away was 11-12.
not too often its snowing that hard (was coming down pretty good) at 5 deg f.
accounting for drifts is a real pita too, have 2 spots not affected much (depending on wind direction) and its still pretty much inaccurate.
wind was pretty bad today, snowblowing the road I was ranging 8″ to 20″ within 20 feet travel.
I also wore at least an inch on my face 🙁
Martin says:
December 15, 2013 at 3:23 pm
The explanation (“accelerated warming”) you offer for cold air going deep into the south would be a lot more believable if not for documented cold and snow in Florida having arrived there well before SUVs. Have a look.
From the document linked to below, there is under the heading
“Notes on Snow and Sleet”
In 1774 there was a snow storm that extended over most of Florida. The inhabitants long
afterwards spoke of it as an extraordinary white rain.’
and this:
1766. John Bartram, the botanist, says the night of January 2 was the fatal night that destroyed the lime, citron, and banana trees in St. Augustine, together with many curious
evergreens up the river that were nearly twenty years old, and many flowering plants and shrubs that were never before hurt. Bertram, who was then camping on the St. Johns River above Volusia, says the morning of January 3 was clear and cold; thermometer 26o, and wind northwest. The ground was frozen an inch thick on the banks of the river.’
http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/035/mwr-035-12-0566.pdf
These and others on pages 569-570 (+ 2 entries on page 571)
Source is Monthly Weather Review, December 1907
CLIMATOLOGY OF JACKSONVILLE, FLA., AND VICINITY.
By T. Frederick Davis