This national radar mosaic shows huge amounts of gathering moisture ready to collide with frigid air. The storm gets the label “Nor’easter“. Forecasters all over are watching this storm with…
Category: snowfall
Debunking National Wildlife Federation Claims – Part 2
Both WUWT and Climate Audit had posts regarding the ridiculous WaPo story about snowfall being a result of climate change. This is a follow up to those posts done by…
Summer snow in Australia
More from the “weather is not climate department”. Flurries hit southeast Australia as towns record their first-ever summer snowfalls excerpts from the story by: Rod Mcguirk, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CANBERRA,…
Forecasting The Arctic Oscillation
Recently the Chief of the met office went on UK TV to say: “OUR SHORT TERM FORECASTS ARE AMONG THE BEST IN THE WORLD.” (see video here) Yesterday, the UK…
December 2009: Second Snowiest on Record in the Northern Hemisphere
England Buried In Snow – image from The Times According to the Rutgers University Global Snow Lab, last month had the second greatest December Northern Hemisphere snow cover since records were…
LED Stoplights Failing in Winter
LED Lights Don’t Melt Snow on Traffic Lights, Hiding Signals From Drivers By ELISABETH LEAMY and VANESSA WEBER Jan. 8, 2010 From ABC News A huge swath of the country…
All of Britain covered by snow
No it’s not a time warp photo of Dicken’s time, it’s from the NASA MODIS satellite imager this week. This is like one of those “spot the cow in this…
Record cold weather roundup – hundreds of new cold and snow records set in the last week
From the “weather is not climate department. Oh the weather outside is frightful…. Prisoners used to shovel snow-bound US capitol Here’s the roundup of cold and snow records for the…
877 new snowfall records set or tied in the USA in the last week
And that’s not all, for the week ending Dec 13th, there were 815 new snowfall records set. December 2009 is shaping up to be quite the snowmaker. Here’s a map…
Nearly two thirds of the continental USA gets a white Christmas
I don’t know if this is a record or not for Christmas coverage, but it is certainly reminiscent of the winter of 1977-78 where we had similar bouts of cold…
"Global Warming" Cancels Christmas for Many Travelers – Breaks Records
From the “weather is not climate” department, inconvenient travel: Here’s a sample of headlines related to difficult if not impossible holiday travel:
Over 50% of the USA is now covered in snow
UPDATE: The East coast snowstorm seen from space The Mid-Atlantic states were completely white on Sunday, December 20, 2009, in the wake of a record-breaking snow storm. The storm deposited…
Record snowfalls in Valdez Alaska sinks boat and Washington DC gets a new snowfall record
Above: Photo taken at eye level of a sign already elevated because of seasonal snow issues. See below for photo of sunken boats in Valdez harbor due to snow loading.…
Bleach blanket brrr-go
From the “weather is not climate” department, we have this unusual event in the south of France, in the French Rivera, from Yahoo news: Sat Dec 19, 8:19 AM ET…
Houston: we have a problem – it's snowing!
From the “it’s weather not climate department” – I never thought I’d see this today on the header of the Houston Chronicle: The snow is the earliest on record. Of…
October 2009 3rd Coldest for US in 115 Years, What about the Upcoming Winter?
Guest post by Joseph D’Aleo AMS fellow, CCM NCDC has compiled the October temperatures and it ended up the 3rd coldest in 115 years. As we have shown it was…
Early start to winter ≈20% of USA is covered in snow already
While early autumn snowstorms aren’t uncommon in US weather history, they tend to be quick affairs that melt off quickly in a day or two. This however is a bit…
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