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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“Weather” is a “short term” phenomena that meteorologists with their computer models cannot closely predict for more that a few hours into the future. “Climate” covers whatever period of time the “scientists” want it to cover depending of which theory they are trying to prove or which generous grant they are trying to acquire, and can be prophesied with virtually 100% accuracy according to computer models and those that stand to profit enormously from preventing it’s potentially catastrophic consequences.
Climate = THE WEATHER CONDITIONS over a period of time, just as weather is measured over a period of time. If you google Climate definition you will see that they are synonyms.
Climate = the weather conditions
Weather = the climatic conditions
Democrats = LIARS
“A period of time” is their Ark Of The Covenant. We all all blasphemers to the AGW Cult.
Global = All over the entire world, everywhere on earth
Warming = Rising temperatures
HOW are record cold temps possible anywhere if temps are rising everywhere?
Democrats don’t think through the names of their ridiculous lies very well.
And BTW, Climate and Weather are synonyms, and the weather has always changed…..
One of the concerns of scientist that warned of the coming ice age was that if enough of the earth was covered with highly reflective snow that a tipping point would be reached. The coming ice age was partly our fault for adding smoke particals to the air.
For some reason the name “Jeffery” stand out. Kinda give me a chill.
I just found this website today and glad I did. [Pamala Gray, “built for work”??????? (please send pics)]
I live for chaos and have found my home. For the longest time I thought I was the only guy on the planet that didn’t believe in Global Warming and where else can you find info on Mr Gay Obama..????—all in the same place? {HOME}
“Partly” is a big word, and should be placed in proper perspective. It is constantly used by the NWO cultists when the word “negligible” is a more rational fit. Of course humanity has some influence on our environment, we could not exist without controlling our living conditions. Try living in wilderness. The extent if our influence on the global climate is the point of contention, mostly necessary for our current standard of living and grossly exaggerated.
Lewis P Buckingham February 21, 2015 at 12:16 pm
“NoNoNo, its clearly climate change and it is getting hotter.
From 2004 to 2015 the temperature has risen by almost two percent.
That means that over 100 years the temperature will have risen by 18%.
We must act now!”
18% of what?
Good job Global Warming was changed to Climate Change. Credibility not damaged at all.
The fact alone that an entire continent is cooling -in this case N.A., which is also the largest man-based CO2 emitter -discredits the Anthropogenic GLOBAL warming theory.
soulsurfer
Antarctica is also cooling.
Records.
Everyday there’s a new record reported someplace on something, because records are fun.
I listen to basketball games on the radio. There’s records set in every game. First time player A scored x points 3 games in a row. First time team has won a game by less than 5 points for 7 games in a row, first time team had x amount of assists in first 7 minutes of 1 quarter. etc. Broadcasters come up with these records to make the broadcast more interesting. And it does make the game more interesting to listen to.
Likewise records in the climate science circus are strictly for entertainment purposes. The records reported have no scientific value. Records only have significance if placed into a robust scientific context. Unfortunately for climate science, imaginary contexts do not count.
Bitter Cold in Southern New Jersey Breaking 50-year Record.
http://www.shorenewstoday.com/snt/news/index.php/weather/62340-below-zero-temperatures-set-overnight-records-in-south-jersey-.html
South Jersey records set
Cold air managed to set two records at the Atlantic City International Airport in Egg Harbor Township, where the National Weather Service keeps official South Jersey recordings.
The temperature dropped to -1 at 11:53 p.m., Friday, Feb. 20, breaking the former mark of zero that was recorded in 1966.
By 5 a.m., Saturday, Feb. 21, the temperature had dropped to -4 at the International City Airport, easily setting a record for today. The old mark was 3 degrees above zero and was set in 1968.
What is the scale (time vs. temperature) of Al Gore’s ‘Stick’???
If it would disturb you in the night NOT to hear the snowplows driving by, you might live in New England. More here: http://wp.me/pnsGM-pM
LOL look at all that global warming! Someone call Al Gore, tell him; GAMES UP! You scam was just disproved by mama nature! Hahahahaha!!!
A bit late to: noaaprogrammer February 21, 2015 at 9:19 am
Can’t resist another rhyming version:
Whether the weather be hot,
Whether the weather be cold,
Whatever the weather,
Put Gore out to tether
And wether him – it’s worth a shot!
Global warming is the religion of the stupid.
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I refer to the maps presented by Vukcevic (Feb.21 at 1.40pm and 2.09pm) and comments by tty (Feb.21 at 3.06pm and 3.12pm).
Surely another plausible explanation of these “peculiar” asymetric expanses of ice in the last Ice Age is that at that time the Earth was spinning on a different axis to that now exsisting. A North Pole centered approximately upon Ellesmere Island or the Baffin Sea gives a much better fit to the actual extent of Ice sheets then, and does not need mind numbing propositions like the huge expansions of coldness and Ice sheet cover in some latitudes down to 35-40 degrees N in some places (e.g. Prairie Lands in the US) but freedom from ice cover as far North as to 70 degrees N in others (e.g. eastern Siberian coast). Such variations (on the basis of the Earth’s present spin axis) are inconceivable in any terms we now ascribe to the e.g. rain shadows and extraordinary air dryness in some latitudes and longitudes but not in others.
The vast upheavals to the Earth’s surface which would result from the necessarily external source of force needed to make such a spin axis change would also provide explanation of many other changes found on the Earth’s surface e.g. Mountain range building and tectonic shifts of continents.
The fact that such changes are disturbing to our ideas of our living on a “settled” planet should not deter us from thinking this proposition through. The fit of the extent of Ice sheets in the last Ice Age must be seen as striking, and there is now NO necessity for vastly expanded Ice sheets to explain the geological findings regarding variable extent of the Ice sheet then. Look at the Arctic on a globe and you will see things in a new light!
More waves of arctic air are coming.
“Two more big blasts of frigid air will move in through the end of the month,” Lundberg said.
The first cold wave will sweep in behind the storm spreading wintry precipitation along an 1,800-mile swath this weekend. The first new wave of cold air will spread from the northern Plains on Saturday to the Midwest on Sunday, then the East by Monday.
http://vortex.accuweather.com/adc2004/pub/includes/columns/thirdpartycontent/2015/650x366_02211835_hd21.jpg
I wonder what the comparative image over Kurdistan is like? It sure has been cool here for February. The Mountains are all snow-covered.
I’m sure that these record lows will be excluded from the temperature records on spurious grounds. Perhaps, the historical records will be adjusted down to maintain the warming agenda.
Just another NASA satellite for the alarmists to ignore.
Notice how the alarmist community consists of two distinct groups? We have the smart liars who know the alarmism is bs and then the dupes who just take the liars word never checking out the science. Also known as followers.
Like my Dad used to say. It’s cold enough to freeze the nuts off a bridge.
We desperately need some global warming before polar bears are sighted in Virginia. Everyone please leave their lights on and let their car engines run in the driveway.
Curious . . . if you click on the pic a couple of times to enlarge it, you can see fingerprint like ridging of the ice/snow. It is especially noticeable in West Virginia. Anyone have an explanation?
Valleys that are mostly unforested are quite white compared to forested ridges/highlands. Look especially at the Cumberland valley just west of the Blue Ridge mountains. Similar, smaller valleys also show whiter in the ridge/valley region in eastern WV.
Forested areas have lower albedos than cleared valleys when snow-covered.
http://scroll.in/article/708597/IPCC-chair-RK-Pachauri-cancels-trip-to-Nairobi-after-second-woman-complains-of-sexual-harassment Pach-mann is at it again. We know where the illusive, illicit heat is.