Heavy snowfall in a warming world
A major new winter storm is headed east over the U.S. today, and threatens to dump a foot or more of snow on Philadelphia, New York City, and surrounding regions Tuesday and Wednesday. Philadelphia is still digging out from its second top-ten snowstorm of recorded history to hit the city this winter, and the streets are going to begin looking like canyons if this week's snowstorm adds a significant amount of snow to the incredible 28.5" that fell during "Snowmageddon" last Friday and Saturday. Philadelphia has had two snowstorms exceeding 23" this winter. According to the National Climatic Data Center, the return period for a 22+ inch snow storm is once every 100 years--and we've had two 100-year snow storms in Philadelphia this winter. It is true that if the winter pattern of jet stream location, sea surface temperatures, etc, are suitable for a 100-year storm to form, that will increase the chances for a second such storm to occur that same year, and thus the odds have having two 100-year storms the same year are not 1 in 10,000. Still, the two huge snowstorms this winter in the Mid-Atlantic are definitely a very rare event one should see only once every few hundred years, and is something that has not occurred since modern records began in 1870. The situation is similar for Baltimore and Washington D.C. According to the National Climatic Data Center, the expected return period in the Washington D.C./Baltimore region for snowstorms with more than 16 inches of snow is about once every 25 years. This one-two punch of two major Nor'easters in one winter with 16+ inches of snow is unprecedented in the historical record for the region, which goes back to the late 1800s.
Figure 1. Car buried in Virginia by "Snowmageddon" on February 8, 2010. Image credit: wunderphotographer Brabus Cave.
Top 9 snowstorms on record for Philadelphia:
1. 30.7", Jan 7-8, 1996
2. 28.5", Feb 5-6, 2010 (Snowmageddon)
3. 23.2", Dec 19-20, 2009 (Snowpocalypse)
4. 21.3", Feb 11-12, 1983
5. 21.0", Dec 25-26, 1909
6. 19.4", Apr 3-4, 1915
7. 18.9", Feb 12-14, 1899
8. 16.7", Jan 22-24, 1935
9. 15.1", Feb 28-Mar 1, 1941
The top 10 snowstorms on record for Baltimore:
1. 28.2", Feb 15-18, 2003
2. 26.5", Jan 27-29, 1922
3. 24.8", Feb 5-6, 2010 (Snowmageddon)
4. 22.8", Feb 11-12, 1983
5. 22.5", Jan 7-8, 1996
6. 22.0", Mar 29-30, 1942
7. 21.4", Feb 11-14, 1899
8. 21.0", Dec 19-20, 2009 (Snowpocalypse)
9. 20.0", Feb 18-19, 1979
10. 16.0", Mar 15-18, 1892
The top 10 snowstorms on record for Washington, D.C.:
1. 28.0", Jan 27-28, 1922
2. 20.5", Feb 11-13, 1899
3. 18.7", Feb 18-19, 1979
4. 17.8" Feb 5-6, 2010 (Snowmageddon)
5. 17.1", Jan 6-8, 1996
6. 16.7", Feb 15-18, 2003
7. 16.6", Feb 11-12, 1983
8. 16.4", Dec 19-20, 2009 (Snowpocalypse)
9. 14.4", Feb 15-16, 1958
10. 14.4", Feb 7, 1936
Heavy snow events--a contradiction to global warming theory?
Global warming skeptics regularly have a field day whenever a record snow storm pounds the U.S., claiming that such events are inconsistent with a globe that is warming. If the globe is warming, there should, on average, be fewer days when it snows, and thus fewer snow storms. However, it is possible that if climate change is simultaneously causing an increase in ratio of snowstorms with very heavy snow to storms with ordinary amounts of snow, we could actually see an increase in very heavy snowstorms in some portions of the world. There is evidence that this is happening for winter storms in the Northeast U.S.--the mighty Nor'easters like the "Snowmageddon" storm of February 5-6 and "Snowpocalypse" of December 19, 2009. Let's take a look at the evidence. There are two requirements for a record snow storm:
1) A near-record amount of moisture in the air (or a very slow moving storm).
2) Temperatures cold enough for snow.
It's not hard at all to get temperatures cold enough for snow in a world experiencing global warming. According to the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, the globe warmed 0.74°C (1.3°F) over the past 100 years. There will still be colder than average winters in a world that is experiencing warming, with plenty of opportunities for snow. The more difficult ingredient for producing a record snowstorm is the requirement of near-record levels of moisture. Global warming theory predicts that global precipitation will increase, and that heavy precipitation events--the ones most likely to cause flash flooding--will also increase. This occurs because as the climate warms, evaporation of moisture from the oceans increases, resulting in more water vapor in the air. According to the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, water vapor in the global atmosphere has increased by about 5% over the 20th century, and 4% since 1970. This extra moisture in the air will tend to produce heavier snowstorms, assuming it is cold enough to snow. Groisman et al. (2004) found a 14% increase in heavy (top 5%) and 20% increase in very heavy (top 1%) precipitation events in the U.S. over the past 100 years, though mainly in spring and summer. However, the authors did find a significant increase in winter heavy precipitation events have occurred in the Northeast U.S. This was echoed by Changnon et al. (2006), who found, "The temporal distribution of snowstorms exhibited wide fluctuations during 1901-2000, with downward 100-yr trends in the lower Midwest, South, and West Coast. Upward trends occurred in the upper Midwest, East, and Northeast, and the national trend for 1901-2000 was upward, corresponding to trends in strong cyclonic activity."
The strongest cold-season storms are likely to become stronger and more frequent for the U.S.
The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) began as a presidential initiative in 1989 and was mandated by Congress in the Global Change Research Act of 1990 (P.L. 101-606), which called for "a comprehensive and integrated United States research program which will assist the Nation and the world to understand, assess, predict, and respond to human-induced and natural processes of global change." This program has put out some excellent peer-reviewed science on climate change that, in my view, is as authoritative as the U.N.-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports. In 2009, the USGCRP put out its excellent U.S. Climate Impacts Report, summarizing the observed and forecast impacts of climate change on the U.S. The report's main conclusion about cold season storms was " Cold-season storm tracks are shifting northward and the strongest storms are likely to become stronger and more frequent".
The report's more detailed analysis: "Large-scale storm systems are the dominant weather phenomenon during the cold season in the United States. Although the analysis of these storms is complicated by a relatively short length of most observational records and by the highly variable nature of strong storms, some clear patterns have emerged (Kunkel et al., 2008).
Storm tracks have shifted northward over the last 50 years as evidenced by a decrease in the frequency of storms in mid-latitude areas of the Northern Hemisphere, while high-latitude activity has increased. There is also evidence of an increase in the intensity of storms in both the mid- and high-latitude areas of the Northern Hemisphere, with greater confidence in the increases occurring in high latitudes (Kunkel et al., 2008). The northward shift is projected to continue, and strong cold season storms are likely to become stronger and more frequent, with greater wind speeds and more extreme wave heights". The study also noted that we should expect an increase in lake-effect snowstorms over the next few decades. Lake-effect snow is produced by the strong flow of cold air across large areas of relatively warmer ice-free water. The report says, "As the climate has warmed, ice coverage on the Great Lakes has fallen. The maximum seasonal coverage of Great Lakes ice decreased at a rate of 8.4 percent per decade from 1973 through 2008, amounting to a roughly 30 percent decrease in ice coverage. This has created conditions conducive to greater evaporation of moisture and thus heavier snowstorms. Among recent extreme lake-effect snow events was a February 2007 10-day storm total of over 10 feet of snow in western New York state. Climate models suggest that lake-effect snowfalls are likely to increase over the next few decades. In the longer term, lake-effect snows are likely to decrease as temperatures continue to rise, with the precipitation then falling as rain".
Figure 2. The annual average number of snowstorms with a 6 inch (15.2 cm) or greater accumulation, from the years 1901 - 2001. A value of 0.1 means an average of one 6+ inch snowstorm every ten years. Image credit: Changnon, S.A., D. Changnon, and T.R. Karl, 2006, Temporal and Spatial Characteristics of Snowstorms in the Contiguous United States, J. Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 45, 8, pp. 1141-1155, DOI: 10.1175/JAM2395.1.
More heavy snowstorms occur in warmer-than-average years
Another interesting result from the Changnon et al. (2006) paper (Figure 2) is the relationship between heavy snowstorms and the average winter temperature. For the contiguous U.S. between 1900 - 2001, the authors found that 61% - 80% of all heavy snowstorms of 6+ inches occurred during winters with above normal temperatures. In other words, the old adage, "it's too cold to snow", has some truth to it. The authors also found that 61% - 85% of all heavy snowstorms of 6+ inches occurred during winters that were wetter than average. The authors conclude, "a future with wetter and warmer winters, which is one outcome expected (National Assessment Synthesis Team 2001), will bring more heavy snowstorms of 6+ inches than in 1901 - 2000. The authors found that over the U.S. as a whole, there had been a slight but significant increase in heavy snowstorms of 6+ inches between 1901 - 2000. However, a separate paper by Houston and Changnon (2009), "Characteristics of the top ten snowstorms at First-Order Stations in the U.S.", found that there was no upward or downward trend in the very heaviest snowstorms for the contiguous U.S. between 1948 - 2001, as evaluated by looking at the top ten snowstorms for 121 major cities.
Commentary
One can "load the dice" in favor of events that used to be rare--or unheard of--if the climate is changing to a new state. It is quite possible that nature's weather dice have been loaded in favor of more intense Nor'easters for the U.S. Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, thanks to the higher levels of moisture present in the air due to warmer global temperatures. It's worth mentioning that heavy snow storms should be getting increasingly rare for the extreme southern portion of the U.S. in coming decades. There's almost always high amounts of moisture available for a potential heavy snow in the South--just not enough cold air. With freezing temperatures expected to decrease and the jet stream and associated storm track expected to move northward, the extreme southern portion of the U.S. should see a reduction in both heavy and ordinary snow storms in the coming decades.
The CapitalClimate blog has a nice perspective on "Snowmageddon", and Joe Romm of climateprogress.org has some interesting things to say about snowstorms in a warming climate.
References
Changnon, S.A., D. Changnon, and T.R. Karl, 2006, , "Temporal and Spatial Characteristics of Snowstorms in the Contiguous United States", J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 45, 1141.1155.
Groisman, P.Y., R.W. Knight, T.R. Karl, D.R. Easterling, B. Sun, and J.H. Lawrimore, 2004, "Contemporary Changes of the Hydrological Cycle over the Contiguous United States: Trends Derived from In Situ Observations," J. Hydrometeor., 5, 64-85.
Kunkel, K.E., P.D. Bromirski, H.E. Brooks, T. Cavazos, A.V. Douglas, D.R. Easterling, K.A. Emanuel, P.Ya. Groisman, G.J. Holland, T.R. Knutson, J.P. Kossin, P.D. Komar, D.H. Levinson, and R.L. Smith, 2008: Observed changes in weather and climate extremes. In: Weather and Climate Extremes in a Changing Climate: Regions of Focus: North America, Hawaii, Caribbean, and U.S. Pacific Islands [Karl, T.R., G.A. Meehl, C.D. Miller, S.J. Hassol, A.M. Waple, and W.L. Murray (eds.)]. Synthesis and Assessment Product 3.3. U.S. Climate Change Science Program, Washington, DC, pp. 35-80.
Congratulations, New Orleans!
Congratulations to everyone in New Orleans, for the Saints' Super Bowl victory! It's great to the see the city celebrating after enduring so many years of hardship in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
Jeff Masters
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Whoa there.... please show me something I posted that falls into that category before hurling that. Seriously. Look back. No insults from me, that I can remember.
Please do or remove my name from that post.
I agree as well. I'm not sure why my name was mentioned here.
Apparently so.
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
324 PM EST MON FEB 8 2010
...A WINTER STORM MAY IMPACT THE REGION FROM TUESDAY NIGHT INTO
WEDNESDAY EVENING...
.ONE STORM CENTER WILL MOVE TO THE OHIO VALLEY BY TUESDAY
EVENING...WHILE A SEPARATE STORM FORMS ALONG THE MID-ATLANTIC
COAST. THE COASTAL STORM IS EXPECTED TO BECOME THE DOMINANT SYSTEM
ON WEDNESDAY...AND INTENSIFY RAPIDLY OFF THE NEW JERSEY COAST.
THIS SYSTEM WILL BRING THE THREAT OF SIGNIFICANT SNOWFALL TO
NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA...AND THE SOUTHERN TIER OF NEW
YORK...INCLUDING THE WESTERN CATSKILLS.
NYZ044>046-090430-
/O.EXB.KBGM.WS.A.0001.100210T0000Z-100211T0600Z/
CORTLAND-CHENANGO-OTSEGO-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CORTLAND...NORWICH...ONEONTA...
COOPERSTOWN
324 PM EST MON FEB 8 2010
...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY EVENING THROUGH LATE
WEDNESDAY NIGHT...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON HAS ISSUED A WINTER
STORM WATCH...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY EVENING THROUGH
LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
SNOW IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN ACROSS THE REGION TUESDAY EVENING...THEN
CONTINUE THROUGH THE DAY WEDNESDAY...AND INTO THE EVENING HOURS.
AT THIS TIME...THE STEADIEST AND HEAVIEST SNOWFALL IS ANTICIPATED
TO OCCUR WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.
BY THE TIME SNOW BEGINS TO WIND DOWN LATER WEDNESDAY NIGHT...THERE
IS THE POTENTIAL FOR TOTAL ACCUMULATIONS OF 7 INCHES OR MORE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A WINTER STORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT BECAUSE HEAVY SNOW IS A
POSSIBILITY...BUT NOT A CERTAINTY. AT THIS TIME...THERE IS THE
POTENTIAL FOR SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 7 INCHES OR MORE. TRAVEL
CONDITIONS COULD BECOME HAZARDOUS...SO IT IS IMPORTANT TO MONITOR
THE LATEST FORECASTS AND STATEMENTS IF YOU ARE PLANNING TO TRAVEL
IN THE WATCH AREA LATE TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY.
Here we go again
good call!
Thats good you stuck to your own prediction, you might get some actual snow fall out of the inches into FT.
NWS BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC
Back up again. Has changed back and forth 4 times since originally posted.
ACCUMULATIONS...10 TO 20 INCHES.
Lol yeah, I totally implied that you were here for my posts, right....
Yes HurricaneHunterGal, sadly enough personal boundaries were not respected at all =/.
294. CaneWarning 8:20 PM GMT on February 08, 2010 Hide this comment.
An expert in everything...except basic nutrition
298. TampaSpin 8:20 PM GMT on February 08, 2010 Hide this comment.
Quoting CaneWarning:
Does obesity cause global warming?
Link
NOt sure it causes GW but from the looks of JFL i would say it does cause stupidity......ROFLMAO
Look back the last 3 blog posts, since your appearance.
Which started with cherry picked IPCC data - and your own grafics, which you posted around 10 times.
Later you started to claim that Co2 is not a pollutant, beside you was several times made aware that it is.
What is wrong with that? I never called anyone obese, I simply posted an article that questions if obesity causes GW. It's a valid question, and not as off topic as many posts have been today.
Well said....HIS TOTAL BS is ok because of what he stands for.....I am so done with him and his attacks on AGW people.....shame how AGW peeps cannot make even the smallest comment without being attacked! JUST THE HARD FACTS. So typical of far left wing liberal thinking as well. JUST THE HARD FACTS AGAIN!
Most current temps that i could find in a hurry.
Flood kills 16 people, damage 510 houses in S. Afghanistan
Heavy rain and flooding claimed the lives of at least 16 persons and damaged over 500 houses in Kandahar province south of Afghanistan, spokesman for provincial administration Zalmai Ayubi said Monday, Xinhua reported.
"The flood washed away three vehicles in Shah Walikot district on Sunday as a result 16 passengers were killed and of these only six bodies have been found and search for the remaining 10 is continuing," Ayubi told media.
He also added that 510 mud houses have been damaged in and outside Kandahar city.
Eleven people including five children have also lost their lives in the heavy rains and flooding that hit western Farah province on Sunday.
http://en.trend.az/regions/world/afghanistan/1635010.html
PRESCOTT (AP) — Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick got a first hand look at the muddy mess that covers a Black Canyon City recreational vehicle park north of Phoenix.
The first-term Democrat from Arizona’s 1st District spent two hours surveying flood damage Friday with much of her time occupied at the River’s Edge RV Park.
A thick layer of mud now covers the RV park as well as the mobile homes that couldn’t get hauled out in time before the floodwaters hit on Jan. 21-22.
“It must have been like a washing machine,” RV park owner Steve Phillips said of the flood as he looked at his truck buried in mud.
His home and tool shed were also covered in a layer of mud.
No one is able to move back into the RV park until the mud is cleared and utilities are restored.
“This time, we lost a whole bunch of property,” Phillips said, including land that literally washed away into the nearby confluence of the Agua Fria River and Black Canyon Creek.
Bud Dunn and his wife were among just three RV park residents who decided to ride the flood out. They stayed with their dog in their neighbor’s trailer as two feet of water flooded into it.
“We didn’t expect it to get as high as it was,” Dunn told Kirkpatrick. Unlike some of his neighbors, his RV was inoperable so he couldn’t get it out when the warning of the impending flood came in.
http://www.trivalleycentral.com/articles/2010/02/08/casa_grande_dispatch/around_arizona/doc4b70475f c67e1177708704.txt
River flooding prompts closings
River flooding has prompted the closing of portions of the Three Rivers Greenway in the Columbia area and a popular public boat ramp near Camden.
Columbia parks officials have closed Granby Park and the portion of the Riverfront Park trail that winds near the Broad River.
West Columbia doesn’t officially close its riverwalk at this stage, but walkers will find only the short section from the Gervais Street bridge south to Cayce is above water. All of the riverwalk in Cayce is closed.
On the Wateree River, the S.C. Department of Natural Resources has closed the public boat launch at U.S. 1 in Kershaw County. The river is flowing high enough to make parking and launching boats unsafe.
http://www.thestate.com/breaking/story/1147333.html
The Environment Agency plans to double the number of homes and businesses that receive free flood warnings, as of next month. It will raise the numbers registered for warnings from 430,000 to a million by offering an opt-out automatic service to properties with a landline in flood-prone areas.
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Nl1/Newsroom/DG_184946
WILMINGTON, NC (WECT) - River flood warnings are in effect for many area rivers due to heavy recent rains. The news is even worse when you consider that more heavy rainfall is in the forecast for tomorrow and possibly early Wednesday. River levels will likely be even higher than the current official forecasts, which do not factor in additional rainfall.
Along the Northeast Cape Fear river in Burgaw the current river stage as of Monday morning was 9.3 feet . Flood stage is 10.0 feet and the river is forecast to crest at 10.7 feet Wednesday morning. Minor flooding is likely in the River Bend and River Burch subdivisions. Flooding of Croomsbridge road and Old Maple Hill road is likely.
In Elizabethtown minor flooding is already occurring as the river is nearing its crest. The current stage is 28.8 feet, which almost four feet above the flood stage of 25.0 feet. Watch out for flooding, especially along the right bank of the river.
In Lumberton the Lumber river is about two feet above the 13.0 feet flood stage. Flood water are likely impacting the Pines area.
If you live in low lying areas continue to monitor river levels closely for the rest of the week. Minor to moderate flooding will remain possible.
http://www.wect.com/Global/story.asp?S=11950951
That will shut down that area.
Queensland insurance companies are calculating the damage bill from flash floods that battered the state over the weekend, killing a mother-of-four and a teenage boy and damaging scores of homes, luxury boats and properties.
As the clean-up from the rain deluge continues across the south-east corner today, scores of home owners and businesses are expected to lodge insurance claims for damage as varied as boats torn apart and livestock swept away to leaky roofs and destroyed carpet.
Major insurance companies told brisbanetimes.com.au this morning it was too early to estimate the cost of the storms, but the sheer number of calls for help to the State Emergency Service indicate it would be substantial.
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/storm-damage-bill-mounting-20100208-nmrz.html?autostart= 1
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
351 PM EST MON FEB 8 2010
...YET ANOTHER MAJOR WINTER STORM WILL AFFECT OUR AREA FROM LATE
TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY EVENING...
.AN EXPLOSIVELY DEVELOPING NOR/EASTER WILL BRING HEAVY SNOW TO MUCH
OF OUR AREA STARTING LATE TUESDAY AND TUESDAY EVENING AND
PERSISTING THROUGH WEDNESDAY.
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PAZ054-055-060>062-067>071-091100-
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WARREN-MORRIS-HUNTERDON-SOMERSET-MIDDLESEX-WESTERN MONMOUTH-
EASTERN MONMOUTH-MERCER-SALEM-GLOUCESTER-CAMDEN-
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SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON-CARBON-MONROE-BERKS-LEHIGH-NORTHAMPTON-
CHESTER-MONTGOMERY-BUCKS-DELAWARE-PHILADELPHIA-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WILMINGTON...DOVER...ELKTON...
CHESTERTOWN...CENTREVILLE...EASTON...DENTON...NEWTON...
WASHINGTON...MORRISTOWN...FLEMINGTON...SOMERVILLE...
NEW BRUNSWICK...FREEHOLD...SANDY HOOK...TRENTON...PENNSVILLE...
GLASSBORO...CAMDEN...CHERRY HILL...MOORESTOWN...MOUNT HOLLY...
JACKSON...MILLVILLE...HAMMONTON...LONG BEACH ISLAND...
WHARTON STATE FOREST...JIM THORPE...STROUDSBURG...READING...
ALLENTOWN...BETHLEHEM...WEST CHESTER...NORRISTOWN...DOYLESTOWN...
MEDIA...PHILADELPHIA
351 PM EST MON FEB 8 2010
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM TUESDAY TO MIDNIGHT
EST WEDNESDAY NIGHT...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A WINTER
STORM WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM TUESDAY TO MIDNIGHT
EST WEDNESDAY NIGHT. THE WINTER STORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN
EFFECT.
LOW PRESSURE MOVING FROM THE TEXAS GULF COAST TONIGHT WILL HEAD
INTO THE OHIO VALLEY TUESDAY. THAT LOW WILL GIVE UP ITS ENERGY TO
A COASTAL STORM...WHICH WILL DEVELOP ALONG THE NORTHERN NORTH
CAROLINA COAST LATE TUESDAY AND TUESDAY EVENING. BY WEDNESDAY
MORNING... THIS NOR/EASTER IS FORECAST TO INTENSIFY STRONGLY JUST
SOUTHEAST OF OUR AREA...AND LIKELY BRINGING HEAVY SNOW TO A GOOD
PART OF OUR AREA OVERNIGHT TUESDAY INTO THE DAY ON WEDNESDAY.
SOUTHEAST OF INTERSTATE 95 THE SNOW MAY MIX WITH SLEET AND RAIN AT
TIMES DURING THE FIRST HALF OF THE DAY ON WEDNESDAY. THIS IS MORE
LIKELY CLOSER TO THE COAST. BUT AS COLDER AIR WRAPS AROUND THE
STORM EVEN THESE AREAS ARE EXPECTED TO CHANGE BACK TO ALL SNOW.
TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED TO RANGE FROM 10 TO 18
INCHES WITH THE HIGHEST AMOUNTS OVER THE NORTHERN EASTERN SHORE OF
MARYLAND, NORTHERN DELAWARE AND EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA. HEAVY SNOW
SHOULD OCCUR IN TWO BURSTS ACROSS THE REGION. THE FIRST WILL OCCUR
TUESDAY NIGHT WITH FOUR TO EIGHT INCHES LIKELY TO ACCUMULATE BY
THE MORNING COMMUTE WEDNESDAY. THE SECOND SHOT WILL BE AN EVEN
MORE INTENSE BURST OF HEAVY SNOW WITH THE UPPER AIR DISTURBANCE
ITSELF THAT SHOULD OCCUR IN THE PHILADELPHIA AREA, MARYLAND AND
DELAWARE DURING WEDNESDAY MORNING AND NEW JERSEY AND NORTHEAST
PENNSYLVANIA DURING WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. THE SNOW WILL END BY
MIDNIGHT WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
WINDS WILL INCREASE AS WEDNESDAY CONTINUES AND WILL CAUSE
CONSIDERABLE BLOWING AND DRIFTING OF SNOW, EVEN MORE THAN WHAT
OCCURRED WITH THE WEEKEND SNOW STORM. AT AND NEAR THE ATLANTIC SHORE
BLIZZARD CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE LATER IN THE DAY ON WEDNESDAY AS
WINDS INCREASE.
A WINTER STORM WARNING MEANS SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SNOW AND
SLEET ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. STRONG WINDS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE.
THIS WILL MAKE TRAVEL VERY HAZARDOUS OR IMPOSSIBLE
#2) Follow the line of attack: After Tdude tells JF to leave for a blog of his own, the 'parasite' inference is made. JF makes a valid point there, and he never says "Tdude is a parasite". Parasite is just another word for troll, so everyone throwing that word around is equally to blame here. Who threw the first stone(s)??
#3) The names I referenced: To be clear, this statement was not geared at those I witness attacking JF. Those are the first ones that come to mind whose unceasing denialist posts offer little if no constructive sourcing. Repeatedly I see these bloggers simply stating what they 'know' and that every one who disagrees is 'wrong' based on their own sense of righteousness and ideology. I have yet to see a post from any of these folks that comes close to the constructive criticism offered by Atmo, or sometimes Tdude, when he's not engaging in petty activities.
#4) I may come across as rude, condescending, or directly attacking individual bloggers, and for that I ought too experience a ban. But I won't be mocking any of you to my cronies, or posting pics and calling names. Those are the activities that disgust me, and I might just have to stop reading where it signs off Jeff Masters.
THE LIKES WHICH HAS NOT BEEN SEEN
This weekend’s snowstorm, named ‘Snowmaggedon’ by President Obama, will go down as one of the greatest snowstorms in history. This was the same storm that produced minor accumulations here in Chicago Friday night.
The notorious storm that pounded several states across the Mid-Atlantic, was responsible for dumping over three and a half feet of snow in Maryland. With plenty of Gulf moisture and two storms systems that combined into one, many major east coast cities were crippled with heavy snow.
Millions across the east were affected by this storm. Tens of thousands were left without power, hundreds of flights were canceled, and numerous schools and businesses had to be closed. Blizzard warnings were issued for Washington DC, Baltimore, Maryland, Delaware and sections of New Jersey with winds gusting 40-50 mph.
http://www.examiner.com/x-30794-Chicago-Weather-Examiner~y2010m2d8-The-blizzard-of-2010-Snowmageddo ns-impacts
I told him he could leave because he was complaining about how hardly anyone agrees with him on here. so wouldnt it make sense to go find a blog that has more people that agree with your perspective?
Published Date: 08 February 2010
EXTRA leakbusters have been taken on by South East Water to tackle a flood of burst mains following Mid Sussex's Big Freeze.
The number of bursts in underground pipes have more than doubled in the past three months and the water company has now taken on 10 extra staff.
http://www.midsussextimes.co.uk/mid/Tackling-flood-of-burst-pipes.6052448.jp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_Internet#Concern_troll
Is that going to be in a dendritic pattern? It took me 2 days to figure that post out you put up prior. LoL :)
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