Readers may recall our story from Dec 15th, 2013: Over half the USA covered in snow, the most in 11 years
Now, it’s even more. See the map and the 3D image:
February 7, 2014
| Area Covered By Snow: | 67.4% |
| Area Covered Last Month: | 48.1% |
The map is from NOAA’s National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center
The 3D image is from this KMZ file and Google Earth:
h/t to Joe Bastardi of WeatherBell
UPDATE: Values of snow cover for this date show this is the highest in a decade.
February 7, 2014
Area Covered By Snow: 67.4%
February 7, 2013
Area Covered By Snow: 34.8%
February 7, 2012
Area Covered By Snow: 25.5%
February 7, 2011
Area Covered By Snow: 48.9%
February 7, 2010
Area Covered By Snow: 60.8%
February 7, 2009
Area Covered By Snow: 33.2%
February 7, 2008
Area Covered By Snow: 51.1%
February 7, 2007
Area Covered By Snow: 38.9%
February 7, 2006
Area Covered By Snow: 26.6%
February 7, 2005
Area Covered By Snow: 26.4%
February 7, 2004
Area Covered By Snow: 53.4%
I am in Newberg Oregon. We have 12 inches of snow on the ground. Global warming my ass.
Based on Global Warming and 4-inches of snow in my yard, I can only conclude that increased levels of man-made CO2 has raised freezing temperature of water by 1.5 degrees F.
/sarc (In case Al Gore or Michael Mann reads this…)
HEY PORTER!! HEY PORTER!! I still can’t figure out whether you are worried about your elite, high priced ski resorts going under or that global warming isn’t being taken seriously. (NYT article) Since you have personally assured all of us that global warming caused by humans is no longer a discussion but a fact, I don’t understand why you are still trying to convince all of us. And since you leave no room for comments on your article I presume you are afraid of some serious discussion of your so-called “undisputed facts”. Keep beatin the drum, Porter….someone might listen. But then they may disagree with you. Here’s hoping you can save winter. ( I can’t believe I just said that)
oracle2world says: “Snow tires? WTF? How about chains too?”
4×4 with studded snow tires on all 4, and 200 pounds of sand in back.
The aforementioned is for getting you in to trouble, the chains are reserved for getting you out.
:O
bwaahahahahahaahahaaaa!!!! Are y’all having fun DRIVING in the SNOW???? You see *this* is why you’re so good at it… because you live in SUCKVILLE!!!!! Don’t worry, it’ll be gone by the end of May, lol. Meanwhile, we in the South are stocking up on SALT… for our MARGARITAS!!!!!
Oh joy global warming has sure made it cold. Where’s al gore when you need him. What a laugh!
It is warmer in my refridgerator than outdoors. Vancouver, WA.
Well, In the winter of ’78 it snowed enough in Tucson Az for me to make a 2ft snow man in my backyard. The summer before when I was living in Germany they had a week of 80 degree weather and it was the worst drought anyone could remember. So, all of this is business as usual. Sorry Mr. Mann.
Now can Al Gore (who won a Pulitzer for his global warming farce) and all of the LibTards EVERYWHERE STFU and just admit they were wrong?! Oh wait, colder winters go hand in hand with global warming, I forgot. Seriously! These people need to form their own little island commune and leave the world alone. Enough with the lies and hidden agendas!
The V shape of snow cover represents the images of the radar (in the Live Weather Roll sidebar) for much of this winter; big semi-continent sized white V’s of cloud cover or at least the east half of one, Huge white streak that runs the continent from Texas into the Atlantic provinces of Canada.
Been many very cold nights and days here in eastern Ontario – lots of nights in the -20C’s and 30C’s. Crazy multiply vehicle pile ups on the highways, reminds me of the 70’s in many ways.
Sadly I believe the ones who say there may be indications we may be hitting a cold/cool spell.
Snow is a thing of the past. Enjoy with while it lasts.
A reporter panics outside Philadelphia about the coming ice storm:
Txomin AKA Al Gore.
Blame it on the gun owners. I’m sure this is our fault too.
Meanwhile just for interest, here in Horsham in the west of the state of Victoria right down in the SE of Australia the official temperature at our airfield at 5.30 pm ESDT [ 6.30 UTC ] is still running at a nice warm 41.5 C [ 107 F ] after reaching a top of 42.9 C [ 109 F ] about 40 minutes ago.
We finished launching about 30 gliders from our airfield in that 40 degree heat around 2 pm on what is the last day of our 48th consecutive Horsham Week 8 day long gliding competition.
The big open and racing class gliders are on a task some 700 kms long and are enjoying, along with the other class pilots, the cool airs of a 12,000 to 14,000 foot cloud base [ For pilots, ground elevation here is 440 ft ASL ] They will probably take about 5- 1/2 hours or considerably less to complete the task and arrive back later this evening.
As we say, you don’t have to be mad to get involved with gliding particularly for the ground crews but it helps !
And we are still a degree or more away from the top temperature today as measured in a couple of other regional localities.
After all the woe and bitching about the extreme cold and snow and etc , I just thought I might enliven your day with a short version of how the other half lives. 🙂
Jo Gregg says:
February 7, 2014 at 4:20 pm
I’m not sure when it happened but the master of juxtaposition Matt Drudge has the NYT article and this WUWT post linked at the top:
Matt must be pleased by the well-timed idiocy of the New York Times piece. I guess at least some of the delighted commenters come here from the Drudge Report.
[snip . . you may well be correct but it is off topic. . . mod]
Eric Simpson says:
February 7, 2014 at 10:43 pm
Thanks for a great link. I think the reporter is describing the developing dangerous situation quite well. She speaks emphatically but I don’t sense panic. She understands that a multi-day ice storm without power will lead to a crisis for many unprepared people.
It’s my birthday and I wished for snow…sorry!
@ur momisugly ren
hwere do you have it from?
That is normally a good signal. It means that the sun is coming back in the spring and Ozone is building back up there.
There has also been a very big sunspot right towards us with aurorae and that is a lot of more UV and x- rays in this direction making Ozone up there, which is what can possibly warm up by the sun.
The snake (midgardsormen) will like it. Then he goes home.
Nearly everywhere you look, that white stuff keeps piling up; Maine, Nebraska, Ohio, Texas, Chicago (ungrateful recipient of 33.7 inches of white stuff), Kansas City, Indianapolis and New York City.
http://thepointman.wordpress.com/2014/02/06/gott-mit-uns/
Pointman
Eric Simpson — That reporter’s unprofessional editorializing (she was making educated guesses NOT reporting, (headshake)) in such an obnoxiously strident tone was SO annoying that I could only listen to her to the 40 sec. mark. AAAaaaaaa! Half the people are probably already DEAD in that town because the sound of her voice coming over their TV sets (controlled by their spouse or roommate or dad or whoever who didn’t mind the brain-grating sound of an adult spoiled brat-type voice) drove them out of their houses where they quickly succumbed to hypothermia — anything but that voice!!!!!!
Mr. Wellington — you have a gracious and amazingly high tolerance for an annoying female voice. I sure hope it isn’t from years of having to endure such a voice… (“… and I told you I wanted that done before I got home and what did you do? You sat around all afternoon watching football and now it’s getting too damp to paint and how many times have I reminded you this week that we NEED to get that garage painted and I suppose you forgot to pick up the dry cleaning and did you remember to buy dog food and why are you wearing that shirt again and …… ” — lovely, hm?)
Whoa. THAT was awful.
Nice post at 10:52pm, Mr. Wellington — delightful irony, indeed.
NYTs is wondering why they are losing their revenue… 12%… Today they reported it’s the END Of Snow… I am not kidding.
Global warming is giving me frostbite.
I yearn for the good old days, you know, the ice age.