From the “Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past” by climate scientist Dr. David Viner department comes this news from NOAA/NWS:
With 156 inches between December 2017 and February 2018, Erie, Pennsylvania, set a new record for most winter snowfall:
156 inches is 13 feet.
The next closest in the nation was Syracuse, NY with 102.3 inches. More here
Hmmm…when it was hot in DC when Hansen testified the threat was “Global Warming”.
Then “The Pause” began and the meme switched to the threat of “Climate Change”.
Both caused my Man’s CO2. Or so the “honest and ethical” wannabe-controllers and/or fleecer of Man would have you believe.
These people aren’t dumb. They hope you are.
Don’t be dumb. Be skeptical.
Glaciers don’t start on the oceans…
Yes they do;
Glaciers are made if ice, ice is made of snow/rain, snow/rain is made of water vapor, water vapor comes from the ocean, (a lot of latent heat transfer is involved on the way).
It should not be forgotten that this record was set despite the fact that Lake Erie froze over 2-3 weeks earlier than usual this winter thus mitigating then eliminating lake effect early.
Sorry to mention this…but winter isn’t over yet either. Anywhere in the northern hemisphere. Unless it is a scorcher of a summer around the the northern hemisphere, especially if it is also a cold winter in the soon to be southern hemisphere winter, it will be interesting to watch how they adjust 2018 to be anywhere near the warmest on record. That will be easy to catch and expose if they do. It appears the Pause continues…
I know it isn’t over and been telling others it isn’t. Took this truck driver 3 1/2 hours to make 92 miles yesterday morning because of ice and crashes.
Ah come on guys, it’s just inconvenient and rotten cold, snow and ice. It’s all well within AGW theory and predictions.
All together now: “I blame global warming!”
Anyone who still believes this scam is a scoundrel or an imbecile (or both).
It doesn’t really say anything about global warming. The article fails to mention temperature at all. In fact, Feb 2018 was the 4th warmest February in Pennsylvania since national records began in 1895, according to NOAA. UAH also had the US lower 48 states very warm in February (6th warmest Feb in US since their TLT data set started in 1979). So this really doesn’t say anything negative about the validity or otherwise of ‘global warming’ or indeed the status of anyone who ‘believes’ in it.
Excuse my ignorance but what is snow “Departure”? (label on vertical axes of the graphs)
It means ‘departure from average’, based on average 1981-2010 snowfall for that region. It’s an anomaly value, basically.
leslie graham
March 8, 2018 at 3:18 pm: That the wild jetstream flow-induced warm winds first came from the SOUTH could be deduced from the maps as time went on. This event comes from a cooler tropic, thanks to the ‘Quiet Sun effect. Stellar Physicist and Forecaster Piers Corbyn discovered it. The reduced pressure from the Equator allows for a weaker Polar Vortex and more such irregularities.
There are Zero polar thermometers, it is all a guess. And warm inflows rise quickly as they must; releasing that warmth, almost all sub-freezing still, to Outer Space. Rare spots further south received a little bit more warmth for a few hours, but from foehn winds of Greenland which had dumped colossal heaps of global white and fluffy warming way up on the plateau This released latent heat of condensation. Most radiated to space, but some was concentrated down the pressure gradient on the 10,000ft drop to the few eg Nth Greenland stations that recorded it. Minus 30C came back soon, but unreported.
Meanwhile, there is little icefree water in the high arctic, and the Barents anomaly is chilling as i write, as northerly winds finally herald the next stage ine the AMO cool period. Stage one has been going on a few years. Cooler deeper water, flow and height changes, return of Atlantic Cod from further north…..About 32yrs can be expected in this half of the natural cycle, as before to c.1980.. At least this year we are getting less ‘arctic death spiral’ idiots , but they do seem to grasp at such tiny straws. Sad really. Just hope they haven’t disposed of their means to keep warm……
Several comments above to the effect that ‘record snowfall in Pennsylvania means global warming theory can’t be right’.
Consider this: the second coldest February temperature recorded for PA state occurred in 2015. Yet, as the above chart shows, snowfall in February 2015 in PA was below average.
Consider also: February 2018 was the 4th warmest February recorded for PA state, yet snowfall was at record high levels for the month.
Therefore snowfall in PA (or lack thereof) is not a reliable indicator of whether global warming theory is right or not.
…meanwhile in China
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/08/new-us-natural-gas-boom-coming-as-chinese-demand-surges.html
See, Just as scientists predicted, record breaking high snowfall caused by Global Warming….
Of course if there was record low snowfall, Leftists would then say, “See, just as scientists predicted, record breaking low snowfall caused by Global Warming..
CO2 is the elusive God Particle; it’s omnipotent!
Sarc/off..