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%
Check out this image of the top of a ski lift in Scotland. Not long ago it was getting too hot for the Scottish snow industry.
One by one their canaries are dropping like flies.
Pamela,
I will continue to link to my hypothesis until it is discredited.
The essential difference to all other hypotheses is that a quiet sun warms the stratosphere at upper levels and towards the poles rather than cooling it as per established climatology.
One must have that effect in order to cause more meridional jets at a time of a quiet sun as in the LIA and the mid 20th century cooling period and now.
A warmer stratosphere pushes the height of the tropopause downward.
To get the jets to dive equatorward requires a lowering of tropopause height towards the poles relative to the tropopause height at the equator.
Can you discredit that assertion ?
Maybe someone got the sign wrong in all those models and we’re actually heading for the next Ice Age.
Like I’ve always told most weather guessers throughout the years, “try looking out the window once and awhile.”
The reason it is sooo cold is simple: A lack of climate hubs!
If only we had thought of this sooner, we would all be enjoying perfectly “average” temperatures.
What a wise usage of the public’s hard-earned tax dollars. Turn down the heater, and save money, so we can afford “climate hubs”!!
/sarc
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/02/05/obama-next-executive-action-to-address-climate-change/
Everyone now in your best Bill Murray/ Ghostbusters voice ‘Gloooobaaal Waaaarmmming, AGGGH!
10″ of snow = 1″ of rain.
Sue says: (2/7/14 at 11:36 pm) “It’s my birthday” — HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SUE! Have fun building snow people and sledding and stuff….. while poor, ol’, Gunga Din shovels and shovels and shovels out his driveway. #(;))
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@ur momisugly Rex — Gooo, Rex! #(:))
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Major Beatdown (8:24am) — LOVE it. Fun humor!
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Dear Pamela,
I’m glad that in your neck of the woods women don’t talk like that (my example of a nagging wife at 12:02am v. a v. Eric Simpson’s 10:43pm video comment) anymore. I value your opinion of me, so I want to make it clear that I don’t think that all women talk that way to their husbands. Further, many lazy slobs-of-husbands certainly merit such a harangue. Around here, though, there are still a LOT (no, not all) of bossy women who talk that way without cause to considerate, meek, men who just put up with it. And, to show that I’m “fair and balanced,” (heh) I’ll add that there are also still, unfortunately, many Archie Bunkers still verbally abusing the Ediths of the world, too.
The news “reporter” in the video would be obnoxious to me whether he or she is a man or a woman. Thank you for pointing out a flaw in my metaphor for Lord Wellington of Colorado: he may have become inured to such a voice by a man in his life and I completely forgot about that possibility.
Thanks for keeping me on my thinking and writing toes, Pamela. I get lazy… . You are a gifted teacher — your students are blessed.
Your friend,
Janice
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My Dear Lord Wellington,
How do you do it? In one sweet phrase, my fair lady Janice, you sent Springtime into my winter-weary heart…… and I sigh. So good to hear from you again. Please greet the honorable (and blessed) Lady Wellington for me.
Yours with a wistful smile,
Janice
Global warming (aka climate change) is the religion of the stupid.
http://www.zazzle.com/FirstPrinciples?rf=238518351914519699
Would somebody contact the folks at the NCDC and ask them to adjust their temperature data for the year up at least another few degrees, because reality is simply TOO COLD!
Here is “Hot” Springs, Arkansas we have 4″ on the ground, temperatures at night in the teens and 20’s for the past week and projected for another week. My natural gas usage for heating for this past November was double the previous 5 Novembers average. December’s usage was up 70%. I will get January’s usage in this week. It will not be pretty.
Just how soon did they say that Global Warming was going to ruin the skiing industry?
Ladies and Gentlemen
I looked up quite closely
You can go skiing from Dallas in Texas to uphill Trieste in Italia and allmost to Basel
Here in the Oslofjord we have swinging around Zero.
Both Trondheim and Tromsø have it very warm
Moskva has it warm but Jekaterineburg behind Ural is deep blue frost.
But pleace rather think in terms of water. Will China and will California have enough water?
I live in Southern Vermont and(believe me)it is WARM HERE!It got up to 3-degrees fahrenheit last night!!!
[snip -pointless political rant, off topic -mod]
Hi, Gunga Din!
How’s the shovelin’ going? Hope you are now enjoying some hot chocolate in a warm house.
How soon, you ask? Well, heh, heh, one thing’s for sure, it will never be the current year… . So, we’re okay for this winter! lol
Take care,
Janice
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Fantasy ALWAYS involves the distant in: 1) time; or 2) location (bottom of oceans… the North Pole…. )
Yo! All you snowboarders? “PAY NO ATTENTION TO THAT {FANTASY SCIENCE} MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN!” — for … “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow… .” (MacBeth)
#(:))
Verse for the Day:
“As long as the earth endures,
seedtime and harvest,
cold and heat,
summer and winter,
day and night
will never cease.”
Genesis 8:22.
isn’t that thing realy affecting humans?
Joe says:
February 7, 2014 at 6:55 pm
The far north of North America is abnormally warm now; basically we have their weather now, they have ours
Just got off the phone with my brother in Dawson City, Yukon.
FPCN58 CWVR 081900
Extended forecasts from Monday 10 February to Friday 14 February for
yukon and northern british columbia issued by Environment Canada at
11.00 am pst Saturday 8 February 2014.
The next scheduled forecast will be issued at 4.00 pm.
Whitehorse.
Monday..Sunny. Low minus 27. High minus 19.
Tuesday..Sunny. Low minus 27. High minus 21.
Wednesday..Sunny. Low minus 28. High minus 21.
Thursday..A mix of sun and cloud with 30 percent chance of flurries.
Low minus 37. High minus 25.
Friday..A mix of sun and cloud. Low minus 33. High minus 21.
Normals for the period..Low minus 19. High minus 10.
Teslin.
Monday..Sunny. Low minus 30. High minus 19.
Tuesday..Cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries. Low minus 27.
High minus 19.
Wednesday..Sunny. Low minus 30. High minus 20.
Thursday..A mix of sun and cloud with 40 percent chance of flurries.
Low minus 31. High minus 22.
Friday..Cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries. Low minus 29. High
minus 19.
Normals for the period..Low minus 20. High minus 10.
Atlin.
Monday..Sunny. Low minus 26. High minus 19.
Tuesday..A mix of sun and cloud with 60 percent chance of flurries.
Low minus 26. High minus 18.
Wednesday..Sunny. Low minus 30. High minus 19.
Thursday..Cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries. Low minus 29.
High minus 20.
Friday..Cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries. Low minus 27. High
minus 17.
Normals for the period..Low minus 17. High minus 8.
Haines Junction.
Monday..Sunny. Low minus 31. High minus 19.
Tuesday..Sunny. Low minus 30. High minus 20.
Wednesday..Sunny. Low minus 32. High minus 23.
Thursday..Sunny. Low minus 34. High minus 23.
Friday..A mix of sun and cloud. Low minus 30. High minus 20.
Normals for the period..Low minus 20. High minus 9.
Kluane Lake.
Monday..Sunny. Low minus 31. High minus 23.
Tuesday..Sunny. Low minus 37. High minus 22.
Wednesday..Sunny. Low minus 36. High minus 22.
Thursday..Sunny. Low minus 34. High minus 24.
Friday..Sunny. Low minus 32. High minus 21.
Normals for the period..Low minus 26. High minus 11.
Pelly – Carmacks
Beaver Creek.
Monday..Sunny. Low minus 31. High minus 22.
Tuesday..Sunny. Low minus 36. High minus 25.
Wednesday..Sunny. Low minus 38. High minus 27.
Thursday..Sunny. Low minus 34. High minus 25.
Friday..Sunny. Low minus 32. High minus 22.
Normals for the period..Low minus 28. High minus 14.
Faro – Ross River.
Monday..Sunny. Low minus 34. High minus 21.
Tuesday..Sunny. Low minus 34. High minus 25.
Wednesday..Sunny. Low minus 36. High minus 23.
Thursday..A mix of sun and cloud. Low minus 37. High minus 27.
Friday..A mix of sun and cloud with 30 percent chance of flurries.
Low minus 33. High minus 23.
Normals for the period..Low minus 23. High minus 13.
Mayo.
Monday..Sunny. Low minus 38. High minus 27.
Tuesday..Sunny. Low minus 38. High minus 30.
Wednesday..Sunny. Low minus 40. High minus 31.
Thursday..Sunny. Low minus 38. High minus 29.
Friday..Sunny. Low minus 35. High minus 26.
Normals for the period..Low minus 26. High minus 14.
Dawson.
Monday..Sunny. Low minus 40. High minus 29.
Tuesday..Sunny. Low minus 41. High minus 32.
Wednesday..Sunny. Low minus 42. High minus 31.
Thursday..Sunny. Low minus 36. High minus 28.
Friday..A mix of sun and cloud. Low minus 34. High minus 25.
Normals for the period..Low minus 30. High minus 19.
Dempster.
Monday..Sunny. Low minus 28. High minus 26.
Tuesday..Sunny. Low minus 26. High minus 23.
Wednesday..Sunny. Low minus 30. High minus 26.
Thursday..Sunny. Low minus 34. High minus 29.
Friday..Sunny. Low minus 34. High minus 28.
Normals for the period..Low minus 30. High minus 21.
Old Crow.
Monday..Sunny. Low minus 38. High minus 29.
Tuesday..Sunny. Low minus 32. High minus 27.
Wednesday..Sunny. Low minus 33. High minus 28.
Thursday..Sunny. Low minus 32. High minus 28.
Friday..Sunny. Low minus 32. High minus 28.
Normals for the period..Low minus 30. High minus 21.
Dease Lake.
Monday..A mix of sun and cloud with 40 percent chance of flurries.
Low minus 33. High minus 20.
Tuesday..Cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries. Low minus 25.
High minus 18.
Wednesday..Sunny. Low minus 27. High minus 18.
Thursday..Cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries. Low minus 23.
High minus 15.
Friday..Cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries. Low minus 21. High
minus 13.
Normals for the period..Low minus 19. High minus 8.
Cassiar Mountains.
Monday..A mix of sun and cloud. Low minus 32. High minus 24.
Tuesday..Cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries. Low minus 28.
High minus 22.
Wednesday..A mix of sun and cloud with 30 percent chance of flurries.
Low minus 34. High minus 21.
Thursday..Cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries. Low minus 26.
High minus 19.
Friday..Cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries. Low minus 24. High
minus 16.
Normals for the period..Low minus 21. High minus 10.
Watson Lake.
Monday..Sunny. Low minus 28. High minus 21.
Tuesday..Flurries. Low minus 29. High minus 21.
Wednesday..A mix of sun and cloud with 40 percent chance of flurries.
Low minus 30. High minus 22.
Thursday..A mix of sun and cloud with 40 percent chance of flurries.
Low minus 29. High minus 22.
Friday..Cloudy with 40 percent chance of flurries. Low minus 27. High
minus 19.
Normals for the period..Low minus 25. High minus 12.
Muncho Lake Park – Stone Mountain Park.
Monday..A mix of sun and cloud with 30 percent chance of flurries.
Low minus 31. High minus 22.
Tuesday..Cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries. Low minus 28.
High minus 21.
Wednesday..A mix of sun and cloud with 30 percent chance of flurries.
Low minus 28. High minus 19.
Thursday..Cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries. Low minus 27.
High minus 20.
Friday..Cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries. Low minus 24. High
minus 18.
Normals for the period..Low minus 19. High minus 7.
Fort Nelson.
Monday..Sunny. Low minus 28. High minus 22.
Tuesday..A mix of sun and cloud with 30 percent chance of flurries.
Low minus 28. High minus 22.
Wednesday..Sunny. Low minus 29. High minus 18.
Thursday..Sunny. Low minus 30. High minus 23.
Friday..A mix of sun and cloud. Low minus 27. High minus 21.
Normals for the period..Low minus 23. High minus 12.
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This cold is an ecological killer. Need to wait till Spring to see the disaster
Funny how even the weather has been politicized by the far left socialist Demokrat party in the United States. The idea that Anthropogenic global warming is even possible stretches the facts.
Only 12,000 years ago the entire northern hemisphere was under hundreds of feet of ice. Obviously (thankfully) there has been some warming up since then or we’d all be squeezed in living along the equator. None to very little of this temperature change has taken place while human beings were producing gases. In fact, the biggest effect on global temperature is the Sun, not gases.
Algore and his ilk have found that pouring tax money into the pockets of “scientists” to get them to create data that supports his carbon credit scheme to be quite profitable. Demokrat Socialists have also found the investment in the “scientists” to be beneficial to getting votes from those who blindly follow them.
Will human production of CO2 cause some warming of the planet? Well not in the last 15 years or so… will the Earth go into another ice age at some point? YES… boy will the skiers be happy then.
“… rather think in terms of water. Will China and will California have enough water… .” (Carb the Sweed o’ Montanus)
Pardon my tone, Carb, but ever since you dissed my post of “The Hut Sut Song” (along with a Swedish folk song) replying to your post about Swedish folk music……., well, since then, I’ve had a bit of a frown on my face whenever I see your name (that and that fact that I usually can’t figure out what you are saying, heh).
ANYWAY,
The only intelligent answer to your question is: I don’t know.
The question is moot as to causation (though not to casuistry, lol): There is nothing humans can do to significantly change the amount of rainfall ANYWHERE on earth.
Now, preparing for drought, THAT is something we can do. Well, er, we could potentially do… . Thanks to the Envirostalinists, we’re flat broke!
So…. just go snowboarding, eat some pizza, and sing the “Hut Sut Song.” Might as well be happy; there’s nothing you can do about the weather. Nope. Fretting about it is not doing something. So you might as well not.
Worrying is POINTLESS.
Skoal!
@janike moor
You are wrong again. I know better. 😉
We had so much drought that we found it necessary to dig up and restore an old water hole. and install new devices.
When it came on, it started to rain, and It has rained steadily ever since,… so that is the way!
Another method is to repair or restore the roof.
Take off the tiles, it may have been dry for weeks,….the rain will be pouring down in just a few hours. It never fails,..
But there were 2 brothers out there in Onsøy where my name comes from, (I am McKolberg from Odins-ey you see.)
One of them was so strange that he could not live among people, so he lived out in a cave at the sea and one could see him rowing in his boat with a line hanging after. What he caught was put on the seat , he sat on it and rowed on……. until it was “tender” so he could eat.
And thus the Lord cdid care for him for many years.
The other brother was more social. One year they had a quite severe draught so the peasants decided to go to church together and rather pray for rain.
That brother however stepped up with a parachute. All laughed at him an said How can it rain when it has not rained for several weeks?
But the brother meant that if they were going to pray for rain he should also bring with him a parachute.
They went in and prayed. And as they came out the rain was pouring down.
The brother then just opened his parachute and was the only one who came dry home.
But when I think of it, maybe he was not so stupid after all. Because Prof. A Næss of Logics has told that the statement “…It rains or it rains not… ” is a true statement, on which one can be absolutely sure.
So if it had not rained, he could have criticized the church. An if it had rained he could score very high with that parachute. He was maybe well conscidered and prepared for all cases.
Doing something with the weather,… the rule says that there is no bad weather only bad dressing. (Ikke dårlig vær, bare dårlige klær. Dårlig rather means foolish Cfr German Tor = fool.)
That may be the best rule. indeed you can do something with the weather. You can prepare for it. For instance by not doing foolish things that cannot take the weather.
Forecast and a bit respect for Nature is quite important.
Now for instance, our cellar pump is running. I also have a pump in reserve.
Those pumps have ran more and more along with the raising of the Mahuna Loa curve.
And the community has renovated the water and sewage system.
One must resign on a bit “luxury” and rather invest in things that enables us to live with and tacle the enviroment and the foreseable future. Rajendra Pachauri has said that “no one will have to resign on his living standard. We must only learn to chose other values!”
I agree quite thorroughly. Eaclty that is what has given me a very high living standard.
Who are to be blamed if society is not arranged that way? (to secure your living standard)
Well that is a political problem is n`t it?
I find, people do not agree on reality. They obviously live in different realities. But there is one and only one universe or reality. That is my opinion but that is not agreed on.
“Reason is a lonely thing, you are allways alone with it…” F.Stabel.
Not all predictions of IPCC come true and especially not in detail. But I am prepared for that, and try rather and se the essence and the core of what they deliver, which is healthy, and will be true in any case, and then prepare also for the eventualities. To be able to live with uncertainties is quite important.
Human error will be the worst threat in any case and can be predicted rather for sure.
Again we have a very good rule ERRARE HVMANVM EST.
Worrying is pointless?
There I have a song:
2.Was hilfet uns die schweren Sorgen
Was hilfet unser Weh und Ach?
Was hilft es dass wir jeden Mogen
Beseufzenn unser Ungemach?
Es machet unser Kreuz und Leid
Nur grøsser bei der Traurigkeit
SANN!
That is Georg Neumark 1642 “Wer nur den lieben Gott lasst walten..”
Comes on Youtube. The Mozart Choir in Berlin is best on it.
“Swede” — “and the fact”
Regarding the california drought, I live about 60 miles north of San Francisco. I have been keeping track of our rainfall via a rain gauge in our yard. Now, admittedly, I am no expert, and my dime store rain gauge can’t compete with instruments the sainted “experts” use, but in the last week we have had 15.6 inches of rain, and it is still pouring. Chains are required on the mountain passes. This cannot be good news for the water nazis, who were anticipating further power grabs in response to the “worst drought in human history”.
I must disagree that this weather event will not have much impact, as I’ve read here. Also, another poster mentions that San Francisco has recorded .27″ in the last week. Thanks simply cannot be the case, and if the poster is citing a source, that source is wildly inaccurate.
Finally, due to EPA edict, and a federal judge’s wrongheaded command, we are (and have been, throughout this drought) allowing EIGHT MILLION GALLONS of water to flow from the Sacramento River to the sea, bypassing reservoirs so that the delta smelt, a fish, yes a simple, fairly unremarkable fish is not adversely affected by efforts to store water. I don’t know if our other major rivers (Klamath, Scott, etc) are beneficiaries of this insane ruling, but I suspect they are.
Stephen, once again I have to remind you it is your duty to disprove your own idea. But I understand you do not have the proper facilities and backing to do such research. Okay, then I propose this: You must do the proper literature search for all possible causes of jet stream shift and then present your problem of why those causes cannot be the driver. You must then go on to present why your proposed driver can fill that role and the necessary research proposal to study it. I take it you do not have a graduate level course under your belt regarding research proposals. I would suggest you obtain a graduate level book on the process and rework your website into an acceptable and reasonable research proposal format. You neither need facilities or backing to do this kind of serious work.
To correct or amplify, “thanks simply cannot be the case” should read “that”. Also, the eight million gallon remark should have been added to. That is eight million gallons PER HOUR, round the clock.
It’s about 70 and sunny here in the Hill Country. Ha, ha, ha.