Brrr… Nearly 10,000 Snow and Cold Records Set in US in Last 6 Weeks

It must be global warming!

Nearly 10,000 snow and cold records have been set in the US in the last six weeks

Watts Up With That reported:

9787 new cold and snow records since March 13th

If this were a month of a heatwave across thus USA, like last July, you can bet it would be MSM headlines all over the place and breathless stories from AP’s Seth Borenstein and pronouncements from the Mannian climate cartel about how all this is connected to global warming, er climate change, er climate disruption.

But, don’t worry. The junk scientists will explain this away.

Last year the junk scientists tried to convince us that global warming means more ice.

Then they tried to convince us that global warming will cause less snow but more blizzards.

Then they tried to tell us that  global warming causes thicker ice.

 

Remember Blizzard Warning Tonight…

Here a picture, in case you are reading challenged … It means Brooklyn will look like this, see ..

Picture is provided to help the low information Obama voters … It’s going to be cold for all the people without houses and electricity. Remember everything is fixed after Sandy, Barack and Christie says so. so enjoy.

… Blizzard Warning remains in effect until 1 PM EST Saturday…

* locations… New York City… southern Westchester County… and
coastal portions of northeast New Jersey.

* Hazard types… heavy snow and strong winds.

* Accumulations… snow accumulation of 10 to 14 inches… with
localized higher amounts within developing snow bands.

* Winds… north 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 45 mph.

* Temperatures… falling into the 20s by this evening.

* Visibilities… one quarter mile or less at times.

* Timing… the strongest winds and heaviest snow will occur this evening
into Saturday morning.

* Impacts… heavy snow and winds will make for dangerous driving
conditions with visibilities near zero in white-out
conditions. In addition… some tree limbs will be downed…
causing scattered power outages.

Precautionary/preparedness actions…

A Blizzard Warning means severe winter weather conditions are
expected or occurring. Falling and blowing snow with strong winds
and poor visibilities are likely. This will lead to whiteout
conditions… making travel extremely dangerous. Do not travel. If
you must travel… have a winter survival kit with you. If you get
stranded… stay with your vehicle.

Heaviest Snowfall in a Century Hits Moscow

Well ain’t this just peachy as global warming breaks out in Russia …

The heaviest snowfall in a century brought Moscow and the surrounding region to a near standstill and left hundreds of people without power, officials said Tuesday.

And with snowfall set to continue at least until the end of the week, the authorities are bracing for more chaos on the roads.

“There hasn’t been such a winter in 100 years,” Pyotr Biryukov, deputy mayor for residential issues, said Tuesday in comments carried by Interfax. “The snow this year has already reached one and a half times the climatic norm,” he said.

The capital has seen 216 centimeters of snow fall since the beginning of winter, Biryukov said.

Average snowfall in Moscow is 152 centimeters a year. Biryukov said the city saw 26 centimeters in the 24 hours preceding his Tuesday afternoon news conference and has seen 36 centimeters since the beginning of February.

The heavy snowfall that struck the city Monday quickly led to chaos on the roads. The Yandex Probki traffic monitoring service reached a full 10 points, and on Monday evening it issued the seldom-seen warning that “it’s quicker to walk.”

Moscow traffic police said Tuesday that they had counted more than 3,000 minor traffic accidents in the previous 24 hours, far exceeding the daily average for the city.

“There were 3,160 small traffic accidents in Moscow over the past day,” a police spokesman said.

more here …

Snowpocalypse Russia: ‘Snow Tsunami’ Swallows Streets, Cars, Buildings

Russia is having a hard time with ice and snow, meanwhile the USA freezes, but Obama goes for global warming so he can tax US energy.

RT writes:

On Friday, Moscow was on a verge of traffic collapse as more than 10 inches of snow fell on the city, which is more than half of January’s average.

Thousands of passengers were stranded overnight in the capital’s major airports, as several dozen flights were delayed.

Muscovites woke up and found their cars, driveways and houses buried under a thick layer of snow, with city workers unable to get to smaller streets.

Moscow’s Yandex app showed traffic at level 10, the highest possible, as strong winds created blizzard conditions and built imposing snow drifts.

Falling snow and ice caused many accidents due to poor visibility and bad road conditions. Moscow witnessed a 13-kilometer jam on MKAD, one of the city’s main highways, reducing speeds to 10 to 25 kph in the capital.

More than 12,000 snow removal trucks worked around-the-clock to clean up the mess, but their efforts did little, with the city coming to an effective standstill.

The chair of the Duma’s transport committee called for local transport officials to face legal sanctions for failing to cope with the winter weather. “Until local bureaucrats face the wrath of the law, winter will always be a surprise occurrence. They will continue to do nothing, as people suffer,” Mikhail Bryachak told Kommersant FM radio.

 

You know how to know you are in an ice age, it just doesn’t stop snowing.

Snow-Covered Desert

Snow-covered deserts are rare, but that’s exactly what the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite observed as it passed over the Taklimakan Desert in western China on Jan. 2, 2013. Snow has covered much of the desert since a storm blew through the area on Dec. 26. The day after the storm, Chinese Central Television (CNTV) reported that the Xinjian Uygyr autonomous region was one of the areas hardest hit.

The Taklimakan is one of the world’s largest—and hottest—sandy deserts. Water flowing into the Tarim Basin has no outlet, so over the years, sediments have steadily accumulated. In parts of the desert, sand can pile up to 300 meters (roughly 1,000 feet) high. The mountains that enclose the sea of sand—the Tien Shan in the north and the Kunlun Shan in the south—were also covered with what appeared to be a significantly thicker layer of snow in January 2013.

Global warming hard at work in China.

If You Watched The Sunday Night Football Game you already Knew

Thing of the past in St Paul: In the last two years, we’ve had two of the top three single-day December snowfalls

Twin Cities have third largest December single-day snowfall – TwinCities.com

The storm Sunday, Dec. 9, dumped 10.5 inches of snow at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, the official observation point for Twin Cities. That was a record for the day and the third largest single-day December snowfall on record for the metro — behind the 12 inches that fell Dec. 28, 1992, and the 16.3 inches that fell Dec. 11, 2010.

It meant more than 150 flights canceled at the airport, commutes times that doubled and even tripled in some cases and hundreds of cars towed during snow emergencies.

It’s getting cold on earth, ice age ahead? Many think so. it’s in the sunspots. The hot air coming from Obama and others, use at your own peril.

Feel The Warming

Heavy Snowfall Warning Issued in Korea

The snow began accumulating with such speed in Seoul on Wednesday morning that it forced the Korea Meteorological Administration to issue a heavy snow advisory for the region.

Two thousand traffic police officers have been mobilized around the city to keep traffic moving during the evening rush hour.

Heavy snowfall, cold, sweep across Turkey

43 village cut off – Roads blocked by snow.

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AGU highlights | Climate Etc.

I am 200% opposed to this new level of activism by the AGU, but I seem to be in the minority among AGU members.

…Its a good thing the climate scientists aren’t in charge of policy.

Huge snowstorm hits Alps

resorts that have opened are forced to close

It’s early… Plenty of time to salvage the reast of the snow season…

Endless Winter for Alaska’s Mountains This Year

Interesting reading …

There aren’t many places you can go to in the United States to see snow in August, and usually, even Anchorage, Alaska, isn’t one of them.

But the city is still dealing with leftover snow from last winter in its bordering mountain ranges. The all-time record snowfall of 133.6 inches last winter – just over 11 feet – could give Anchorage an endless winter.

Anchorage is bordered by mountains like this one in Chugach State Park, called Flattop Mountain.

It’s a unique milestone set off from the records we’ve been seeing this summer, with many cities reaching all-time high temperatures when the historic heat wave rolled through in June.

Seasonal Snowfall of 133.6 Inches Sets Record for Anchorage, Alaska

In this March 23, 2012 photo, a moose crosses a road near Anchorage, Alaska. A spring snowfall has broken the nearly 60-year-old seasonal snow record of Alaska's largest city. Inundated with nearly double the snow they're used to, Anchorage residents have been expecting to see this season's snowfall surpass the record of 132.6 inches set in the winter of 1954-55. The 3.4 inches that fell by Saturday, April 7, 2012 brings the total to 133.6 inches.

Alaska still in the deep freeze. Snowfall has been about twice the average.

A spring snowfall has broken the nearly 60-year-old seasonal snow record of Alaska’s largest city.

Inundated with nearly double the snow they’re used to, Anchorage residents have been expecting to see this season’s snowfall surpass the record of 132.6 inches set in the winter of 1954-55.

The 3.4 inches that fell by Saturday afternoon brings the total to 133.6 inches. National Weather Service meteorologist Shaun Baines said forecasters don’t expect more than an inch of additional accumulation.

Before a dumping of wet snow Friday, none had fallen since mid-March, and the seasonal measure hovered at 129.4 inches, or nearly 11 feet. The halt gave residents a chance to clear their snow-laden roofs and city crews an opportunity to widen streets squeezed by mountains of snow.

Two different weather phenomena — La Nina and its northern cousin the Arctic Oscillation — are mostly to blame, meteorologists say.

Even by Alaska standards, Anchorage has been walloped by snow. City snow removal crews have worked around the clock to clear roadways and haul more than 2.5 million cubic yards of snow to the city’s six snow disposal sites, which are close to capacity. Maintenance and operations director Alan Czajkowski says that volume would almost fill the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans.

That’s not even counting the loads disposed of by state crews.

At the height of the snow overload, many residential streets were rimmed by snow-walled canyons that towered over fences and shielded homes. Some roofs collapsed, mostly on older commercial buildings with flat roofs.

The collapses caught the attention of many residents worried the same thing would happen to their roofs, a concern that turned into booming business for commercial snow removal outfits.

USA: Snow From Plains to Mid-Atlantic States

Rain will change to snow across the central Plains today before sliding eastward into the mid-Atlantic on Wednesday. Feb 6, 2012

A weak and moisture-starved system quickly moving from the central Plains to the Northeast could bring many on its path a quick coating of snow the next two days.
As this weak disturbance moves across the central Plains today, cold air behind a front heading south out of the northern Plains and Canada will be a major player on precipitation type across the region.

As of early on Tuesday morning, snow had already begun to break out across parts of western Kansas and southern Nebraska as the leading edge of this cold air filtered across the Front Range of the Rockies as well as northern parts of the central Plains.
As this cold air penetrates farther south into the milder air, rain in areas from eastern and central Kansas to Missouri will mix with and then change over to snow.