From NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center: NASA snaps picture of Eastern US in a record-breaking ‘freezer’
NASA’s Terra satellite captured an image of the snow-covered eastern U.S. that looks like the states have been sitting in a freezer. In addition to the snow cover, Arctic and Siberian air masses have settled in over the Eastern U.S. triggering many record low temperatures in many states.
On Feb. 19 at 16:40 UTC (11:40 a.m. EST), the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument that flies aboard NASA’s Terra satellite captured a picture of the snowy landscape. The snow cover combined with the frosty air mass made the eastern U.S. feel like the inside of freezer. The MODIS image was created at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
On the morning of Feb. 20, NOAA’s Weather Prediction Center (WPC) noted, “There were widespread subzero overnight lows Thursday night (Feb. 19) extending from Illinois to western Virginia, and numerous record lows were set. Bitterly-cold arctic air is setting numerous temperature records across the eastern U.S. and will keep temperatures well below normal on Friday (Feb. 20).”
In Baltimore, Maryland, a low temperature of 1F broke the record low for coldest morning recorded at the Thurgood Marshall Baltimore Washington-International Airport.
In Louisville, Kentucky, temperatures dropped to -6F, breaking the old record low of 0F, according to meteorologist Brian Goode of WAVE-TV. Meanwhile, Richmond Kentucky bottomed out at a frigid -32F.
In North Carolina, a record low temperature was set at Charlotte where the overnight temperature bottomed out at 7F breaking the old record of 13F in 1896. In Asheville, temperatures dropped to just 4F breaking the old record of 10F in 1979. Temperature records for Asheville extend back to 1876.
Several records were also broken in Georgia, according to Matt Daniel, a meteorologist at WMAZ-TV, Macon Georgia, who cited data from the National Weather Service. Daniel said that Macon set a new record low when the temperature dropped to 18F, beating the previous record of 21F set in 1958. Athens broke a new record low, too dropping to 14F and beating the old record of 18F set in 1958/1928.
NOAA’s NPC noted that “Highs on Friday (Feb. 20) will struggle to get out of the teens from the Ohio Valley to the Mid-Atlantic region. After Friday, temperatures are forecast to moderate and get closer to February averages as a storm system approaches from the west.”
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ALGORE is putting a freon trading company together which will be tax payer funded.
These jet stream loops that allow Arctic excursions into humid lower latitudes is a mini lesson on how glacial ages creep forward.
Read about the herky jerky cold/warm jitters (less related to Milankovitch cycles that also produce cold regimes) that are likely related to long term weather pattern variations allowing cold Arctic incursions into lower lattitudes:
http://www.esd.ornl.gov/projects/qen/nerc130k.html
See a visual representation of hypothesized glacial extent during these herky jerky cold, wet spells and compare that edge with the current picture in this post:
http://hugefloods.com/Pleistocene.html
Bottom line, you must have a cold incursions mixing with precipitable water vapor for ice age glacial buildup to happen. Kinda like what we have right now but happening frequently during longer seasonal cold periods such that summer melt is squeezed down in time in a 100 plus year pattern.
Anybody who can’t or won’t see this mini-lesson in how ice can advance have to come up with far-fetched triggers while ignoring the present mechanism that is so easily understood and entirely plausible.
Of course it is a scientific fact. It is, after all, a new scientific ALGORErhythm.
Last week I noticed on earthnullschool that the wind conditions were transporting streams of warm moist air into the polar regions. This could be seen in both hemispheres. In the NH, the northward movement was in place both in the Pacific and Atlantic basins. It fit with the lowered state of sea ice growth in the Arctic, as both entrances into the Arctic had these warm moist streams of air pushing in. That has recently changed on the Atlantic side. There is now a steady wind flow for several days coming from the Russian side that crosses the top of Greenland and then heads south. Will this force sea ice to move south out of the Arctic?
I can’t wait for summer – when we hear complaints about the HEAT!!!!
Now let me see – cold in winter, hot in summer, spring and fall – much better.
The key would be, it seems, to have spring and fall all year long.
How’s that?
They pretty much have that in coastal southern California. If you move there bring lots of money or be prepared to live like a refugee.
Pepe is a genius!
Pepe, come to Florida, The Genius State.
Ridicule Global Warming as much as you want, but it is an indisputable fact that we used to have winters with heavy snow and temperatures so cold that even Niagara Falls would freeze over. We saw these winters disappear over the ’80s and ’90s, proving the theory of Global Warming. Various skeptics and deniers refused to believe the evidence right in front of their eyes, but surely now that these winters with heavy snow and temperatures so cold that even Niagara Falls freezes over are returning, no sane person can deny that … uh … Global Warming is … uh …
Wait, let me go out and come back in again.
LOLOLOL!!!!! +10
Cue Bo Derek
…naw,,,that’s Pamela…on the beach…taunting us 🙂
Is Bo Derek’s web handle Pamela Gray?
Nuts. I am a short, redheaded, sturdy, Irish woman. Built to work, not lay around on the beach.
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If Pepe was a girl, (and rich) I’d marry her!
c’est la vie
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John
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Take a good look at the picture above. That is exactly the opposite of what the climatolgist Flock was saying only a few months ago. Of course it wasn’t that long ago that the Flock was all for anthropogenic global warming until the global temperature flattened out contradicting their claim of it going up even faster. It also contradicted their claim that polar caps would melt and snow would disappear. So, plan B was implemented – climate change. Now anything that happens can be attributed to man-made climate change. They even tried to separate weather from climate except when it gets warmer. Every road leads to climate change and that road is paved with human impact. The Flock continues to follow.
Now the Flock leaders, in their infinite pursuit of conning governments for more funding, are claiming that global warming is causing all the snow (warming ocean temperatures pushing more into colder air blah blah). What they totally ignore are the record low temperatures. They can’t justify that with global warming.
The two things they can’t hide (but avoid like the plague) are the following two undeniable facts. There are more, but these alone totally destroy their claims.
1. Ice is growing both in the Artic Circle and in Antartica. At a rapid pace. Totally opposite of what they were claiming not that long ago. But Plan B steps with the mighty climate change sword. Climate change allows for both extreme warming and extreme cooling. Of course they have no hard data to back that up, but their claims are broadcasted anyway. What better way to make all roads lead to man-made climate change. They attach man-made to climate change on everything even though man’s impact on the climate is microscopically small. Something like .03%.
2. C02 level changes lag behind temperature changes. Several decades to several centuries. They cannot alter or modify that data without clearly being shown as fraud. Those numbers aren’t arbitrary. They can only manipulate data they can hide from the public and CO2 data levels is common knowledge. Instead they totally ignore discussing the subject and continue to spout that C02 increases cause warming when the data tells the exact opposite. Temperature changes cause C02 level changes and not the other way around.
Just remember these the next time you hear someone blaming something on global warming, err… I mean climate change, err… I mean man-made climate change. The ones you hear it from the most are the biggest hypocrites.
The real danger to America is not just a filthy muslim sodomite by the name of Obama alone, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a filthy sodomite like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of a gay Obama presidency than to restore the necessary,commonsense ,Godliness and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a creature for their president or any democrat.
The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr.gay muslim Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America . Blaming the prince of the gay fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. “The Republic can survive a gay Obama, who is, after all, merely a gay fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made this gay muslim creature their President.
Racism, religious hatred and homophobia have nothing to do with science. Saddest thing about the global warming debate is the press coverage to people who’s reason for being skeptical is intolerance. Worse is the fact that I get lumped in with such people when I disagree with the Global Warming narrative myself.
DuJan, founder and editor of the Hillary Clinton-supporting website, told WND he has first-hand information from two different sources that “Obama was personally involved in the gay bar scene.”
“If you just hang out at these bars, the older guys who have been frequenting these gay bars for 25 years will tell you these stories,” DuJan said. “Obama used to go to the gay bars during the week, most often on Wednesday, and they said he was very much into older white guys.”
Obama, DuJan said, is “not heterosexual and he’s not bisexual. He’s homosexual.”
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Refer to my comment directly above
I do not understand you deniers, it is not global warming it is climate change, that way the AL Goobers of the world have it covered coming and going.
You are behind the times. It is now “climate disruption”.
Next it will be “Climate Chaos”?
Why don’t they just get to the heart of the matter and call it “Climate Usage Tax”; you lived in the climate, so you must give us more money.
Well since climate is inherently chaotic that pretty much covers everything.
How about “Climate Diarrhea” for the next iteration?
Or “Climate Constipation”?
Actually “Irritable Bowel Climate” would be best since it covers both Diarrhea and Constipation.
Heard Michael Mann is heavily investing in eXlax…
“irritable climate syndrome”
The Atlantic conveyor? They just want a money conveyor from the rich to themselves, IMHO.
John Boles (February 21, 2015 at 11:48 am) wrote:
The Atlantic conveyor? They just want a money conveyor from the rich to themselves, IMHO.
You have the right picture, but the wrong target. The rich are very good at protecting themselves and their money from depredation. They have phalanxes of lobbyists and accountants and tax attorneys to press their case in Congress and take advantage of the loopholes that result from their influence.
There’s a much easier target — you and I, and the rest of the middle class. Individually, we don’t have a lot of money, but when you steal a little bit from tens of millions of people, it adds up in a hurry. When the government comes after us looking for money, all we have for protection is a copy of TurboTax. Guess who’s going to lose?
Yes, it really is climate change. It is getting colder. In fact, 2014 was one of the 600 coldest in the last 10000 years, and the long term trend is down. The way to solve it is to restore CO2 levels to about 800 ppm, and even with that we may not be able to stave off the next ice age by more than a few hundred years. But it will help solve our food shortage:
What then is this “Carbon Pollution”?
A sinister, evil collusion?
CO2, it is clean,
Makes for growth, makes it green,
A transfer of wealth, a solution.
Some explanation and nice charts to illustrate the point:
http://lenbilen.com/2014/02/22/co2-the-life-giving-gas-not-carbon-pollution-a-limerick-and-explanation/
Looks like the map they showed in the global warming hysteria movie The Day After Tomorrow…
but, but in the “news” today –
http://www.savingadvice.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/New-York-City-climate-change-panel-rising-seas-550×365.jpg
Rising Seas May Claim Parts of New York City According to Climate Change Panel
http://www.savingadvice.com/articles/2015/02/21/1033067_rising-seas-new-york-city-climate-change-panel.html
I guess the newsies aren’t pleased with Rudy saying Obama doesn’t love America, but just imagine how cool this will be when it freezes over.
Never mind that Battery Park has shown no increase in the rise.
So Bubba, are you on the VPIRG mailing list?
Did you get the notice for the ProSnowVT Day of Action?
Did you know that “Unless we get serious about climate change, winter as we know it is in danger. By 2050, most of the snowfall we see today will become rain.”
And oh yeah,another 4 – 8 inches more tonight and tomorrow.
Have fun!
Yes, as NYC freezes and both the Hudson River and East River are calving ice bergs, they came out with this hysterical news.
If draught doesn’t get it first.
23.02 snow and freezing rain in Texas.
http://earth.nullschool.net/#2015/02/23/0000Z/wind/isobaric/1000hPa/overlay=temp/orthographic=-92.49,40.88,1043
Snow in the US..therefore global temps plummeting. Err…no
And Canada, that is the second largest country on the globe. You know, the globe that is getting warmer.
And the freezing cold Arctic. Many extreme cold warnings today by Environment Canada for the Arctic. You can include that part of the globe, and Antartica.oh yah and…….
Global Warming is being offset by the giant wind farms that have been built on the Great Plains and Midwest. The windmills are sucking cold air out of Canada, further cooling the air and pushing it eastward. They are also causing high pressure systems to form over East Coast which has forced Atlantic Hurricanes to turn north in mid ocean and miss the East Coast since 2005. Only one hurricane has hit the East Coast since the giant wind farms were built and that was because the wind just wasn’t blowing across the Great Plains 3 days before Sandy hit NJ. The trouble is, since each blade on these giant windmills is not in perfect balance, they are sending vibrations deep into the earth which is causing an increase in earthquake activity in areas like Oklahoma that have never had earthquakes before. Eventually, this will cause a rift valley to form on the Great Plains which will be flooded by a shallow ocean in the next 200 years. This will greatly damage wheat and corn production, leading to world wide famine. Also the windmills are pushing against the earth’s natural east west rotation, causing the the earth to slow ever so slightly, but just enough that in a few short years all GPS devices will become completely useless. The greatest scientist ever Nikola Tesla did experiments on both power generation and vibrations so this is solid science and can’t be challenged.
The perfect reply to the alarmist screeching.
Yes absolutely, I too have noticed the earth’s east west rotation slow slightly. Makes it harder to stir sugar into my tea in the morning.
My coffee stirs the other way around down under.
Which scientific hypothesis derived from climate science research implies it should counter the stirring of your tea effects in slowing the Earth’s rotation
And just how is GPS rendered useless? Current Latitude/ Longitude are its function. Changes in Lat/Long are mathematically calculated in the receiver.
Whatever happens to the shape of the planet will not affect the computation of a GPS receiver. If your receiver has bad information of a mountain or surface feature lat/long, then that might be a problem with your receiver data, not GPS.
The GPS accuracy is the result of inaccuracies in the signal combined with a factor based on the geometry of the satellites. Within the receiver the position error is thus estimated by looking at: The geometry of the satellites contributing to the position fix and The estimated user equivalent ranging error (UERE) caused by various disturbances.
As the surface features move, change, whatever, the data in the GPS receiver is updated; unless you chose to not know where your within a few meters.
I think that all these tall buildings of 1000 to 3000 feet in height which are being built in various countries are bound to knock the Earth’s rotation out of kilter.
All these wind farms could well do the same.
We’ll wobble out of our normal orbit, and then there’ll be trouble. It’ll get very cold as we head away from the sun, but we might fry if we go the other way. I need a government grant to study this idea.
Sandy, of course, was not a hurricane when it hit–just a tropical storm.
The good news for us at least, Wichita is far enough to the west that we rarely get bitter shots of cold at this magnitude and also receive periodic breaks from warmer air masses.
It’s in the mid 50’s right now but it is going to get a bit colder, only that it will be more in line with what is typical for February and not even close to subzero deep freezes.
None of these records for cold, ice cover and snow cover count.
It is only the high temperature records that count.
Signed,
Modern Media
Good there is global warming. Think how cold it would be otherwise. In Michigan the crocus normally are poking up from the ground about now. Not this year.
Its so arrogant to think that humans could have the power to change the earth’s temperature. The sun will do what is does to control earth’s climate, and we will take what we get. Why we ever dumped the discussion of air pollution and switched to global warming is beyond me. Pollution is unarguable. We pollute. We don’t warm the earth…get over yourselves about that one and get back to talking about the filth we spew into our environment.
Arrogant to think that? Maybe not, after all, the atmosphere is finite, just like the oceans we thought of as unlimited and have overfished, the forests ditto we have denuded, and the rivers ditto we have polluted. But it is arrogant to insist that it has happened when the evidence suggests otherwise.
For decades the air has been clean. The environmentalists won. You can tell that the environmentalists won because when you go to to a hotel they don’t clean your towels or sheets unless you insist on it and they advertise this lack of service as if it was wonderful by putting out a card saying they are being “Green” and not being cheap.
It used to be that some politicians could run against environmentalists on the basis that the hurt business, but no more.
So having won what do environmentalists do to raise money? They can’t complain about the air or the water that is clean, they can’t complain about endangered species, they are protected, the super fund sites are mainly clean, so now what? The only answer is climate change, without it the WWF,The Sierra Club and Greenpeace might as well close up shop their job is done, and their donors know it.
It was not environmentalists who fixed the smog problems in places such as Pittsburgh, London, LA, etc.
It was responsible local and state governments and the people – not bludging greenies.
“From NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center: NASA snaps picture of Eastern US in a record-breaking ‘freezer’“.
1. Whose words (“record-breaking freezer”) are they? IOW are they really NASA’s or is someone else applying them? Check : They are NASA’s own words. http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasa-snaps-picture-of-eastern-us-in-a-record-breaking-freezer/#.VOkCnS4auTs
2. Is it really a record-breaking freezer, or are NASA hyping it? IOW, is there really an overall record low, or are there just a few local records being set? After all, local record highs and lows are being set all the time. And over what time-frame is the “record”? I haven’t been able to check, because I don’t see enough information. Can anyone provide more information?
The dark area shows an area of low pressure in the stratosphere over the polar circle. You can see how the arctic air can flow into North America.
http://oi59.tinypic.com/o78ylj.jpg
Thanks, Anthony. Beautiful picture, if you are not in it.