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%
Pamela.
All I need is observations over time. The real world will do the proving or disproving.
So far it is going well.
From 2004 to 2007 ozone amounts above 45km increased despite the quiet sun.
The more meridional jets at a time of quiet sun have been accompanied by increased global cloudiness according to the Earthshine project and El Nino events have become less dominant.
My hypothesis is based on actual observations and I need do nothing more than point to ongoing observational findings.
If any events occur that disprove my hypothesis then I will be interested to hear about them.
I take it that you are not aware of any such ?
Again, Stephen, your lack of knowledge regarding proper research into all possible causes is wanting. You must leave no stone unturned in your search for all causes. Observation will not prove anything. Observation has to do with the phenomenon being observed, such as a meandering jet stream, not the cause. The cause is an active process with little to do with observation.
Mr. Wilde,
Do you realize how very LONG a time you would need to make observations before you could assert with high confidence that the mere correlation you are observing was a cause?
Q. Why do you not follow Ms. Gray’s WELL-informed (I’ve been reading her comments for about 9 months and I can see she is intelligent and knows her stuff) advice?
Sincerely,
Janice
What’s all the fuss about ? I live about 15 miles south of Detroit , it’s 77 and sunny . Just finished working in my garden , now headed for the golf course . No…. Wait .. Sorry … My head hurts !
Pamela, Sun is working in the stratosphere from the top. Height of 45 km.
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/strat_a_f/gif_files/gfs_t01_nh_f00.gif
Pamela Gray says:
February 7, 2014 at 6:06 pm
The wheat farmers here at the base of the Blue Mountains in Oregon have this to say to “climate change” scientists: Change it back! The winter wheat roots indicate that Hell has officially frozen over!
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They’re lucky this year to have had snow on the ground when the worst freezing WX hit. Winter kill is less with a blanket of snow. The downside is that, as looks likely next week, a Chinook hits with rain, melting the snow & causing gulleys in the fields from the runoff. Depends upon how frozen the ground was before the snow. I’m happy not to have to worry about the WX any more. Always more things to go wrong with it than right.
I hope WUWT is checking with the fraud algore to get a comment on how this could possibly be happening. Maybe if the fraud is not available, the disingenuous scientists of the UK could comment.
I seriously doubt Al Gore would be able to stomach reading any thread on WUWT, let alone replying. If he did it might be something like this…
1. Global warming is a fact. Period.
2. Man-made CO2 is the cause. Period.
3. It is much worse than we thought. Period.
4. Drastic measures are called for. Period.
5. Even if we are wrong, it is the right thing to do. Period.
6. Contrary opinions will not be tolerated. Period.
Meanwhile in the central Finland: Barely just four inches of snow. Typically we have three to four times that much in February. More strangely we got cold weather from Siberia before any snow in January, though. And now we’re again at above zero temps and melting has began. Maybe another Siberia without snow cover in the coming weeks? Weird weird winter..
The NYT knows “The End of Snow” is not upon us nor is it on any imaginable horizon. They also know their acolytes (read: idiots who believe everything MSM and the MSNBC/NYT utter) do not investigate to discern any veracity in said statements, so MSM and the Times can make whatever asinine pronouncement they wish. Their followers do what followers do and follow along the party line, repeating the talking points ad nauseum.
Meanwhile the NYT’s declares the end of snow:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/08/opinion/sunday/the-end-of-snow.html?emc=edit_tnt_20140207&tntemail0=y&_r=3
Global warming and just the United States is causing problems for the whole world. We need to pay for the sun the moon and the stars. Everything happening in the universe is caused by the United States because we use 100% of all the earths resources. George W. Bush did all of this. Right.
Has anyone thought that this is how it suppose to be,rite now in this time frame,maybe the world is getting ready for a really big dry spell.
Al “jazeera” Gore ice sculpture now covered up in back yard.
This is the beginning of the cooling cycle…The next Ice Age has begun……Good luck…Hope to see you in the next warming, about 11,000 yrs from now.
Dear Mr. or Ms. McKolberg o’ Odinsey (a.k.a. Carbomontanus),
Thank you for your intriguing reply. Lol, if I want it to rain, I just wash and wax the car.
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We are waaaay off topic, now, so I’ll close by wishing you well and with this friendly reminder: NONE of the IPCC’s projections have (nor likely will ever) come true. (See Bob Tisdale’s excellent e book: Climate Models Fail)
Happy singing,
Janice
Please forgive my ignorance, but could the triple meltdowns in Japan be affecting the weather via the radioactive isotopes streaming into the atmosphere for the last 3 years?
But, but, but the New York Times has told us we are seeing the end of snow!
We’re freezing our asses off here in Virginia. These clowns promised me gerbil worming. WHERE THE HELL’S MY GERBIL WORMING?</B.
Carbomontanus, after all the misunderstanding of the past week, you have shared a most beautiful thing which I shall post here:
“If thou but suffer God to guide thee and hope in Him… .”
I often sing this soli at the piano. It is comforting.
Thank you, my zany Swedish friend, you’ve turned out to be okay (I think!).
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No, that is not possible.
John, unfortunately, we had an extensive double-event freezing temperature stationary inversion following an extensive no-precip ultra-dry cold month before the snow came. The little darlings were frozen solid below the soil before the snow came. In fact the snow event has warmed things up!
ren, you know better than to link to a pictorial depiction of a dipole and then say the cause of such an event is the Sun.
Too bad Obamacare didn’t get such a clear indication that the business model was wrong 🙂 Then even if you were a moron, or possibly even a Democratic pol, you might have a chance to redeem yourself before you looked so stupid.
oracle2world says:
February 7, 2014 at 8:01 pm
Snow tires? WTF? How about chains too?
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I bought chains for all four tires of my PkUp and I live in mid NC…. Maybe that is why we are getting our second snow [storm] of the year mid week. (we normally see snow once every five years or so.)
Leon Brozyna says: @ur momisugly February 8, 2014 at 1:15 am
Paraphrasing a sign seen outside a local church last month … Whoever’s been praying for snow — please stop … we have enough.
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That would have been me.
At Christmas I wished all the Warmists a cold snowy new year. (Sorry guys)