Climate does not equal weather we are told, which is a damned good thing, because the weather is certainly not sticking to the script, at least in North America:
About 10in of snow had fallen by 0100 in Washington, with forecasters predicting the heaviest snowfall to hit the area in 90 years.
The storm – dubbed “snowpocalypse” and “snowmageddon” by the local media – is expected to stretch from Indiana to Pennsylvania and into parts of New York and North Carolina.
Parts of Maryland and West Virginia are already buried under more than 20in of snow.
And forecasters say that snowfall rates are likely to increase – up to 2in an hour – early in the day.
It comes less than two months after a December storm dumped more than 16in of snow in Washington.
The National Weather Service has said the storm could be “extremely dangerous.”
It forecast up to 30in (76cm) of snow in the capital, which would shatter Washington’s record snowfall of 28in in 1922.
In San Diego, the temperatures are a good 10 degrees below seasonal norms.
Yesterday’s cold snap only budged the mercury to 62°. And it rained, last night.
We’re hunkering down.
For at least the past year, the trend has been for AGW conferences in DC and other places, including the hearing of a Congressional Committee on same, being canceled due to “inclement weather (of the very cold and icy and snowy type).”
The AGW crowd has been hollering “Climate does equal temperature!” as a result.
My question, from a aged, unable to get a real job out of college career guy: If they keep showing me temperature graphs to show how we are warming up, why can’t I look at the record broken (low) and things like a significant snowfall in Norfolk, VA Beach area (last time they had a huge dump was 1980 – 24″ in 2 days), and other such evidence staring us in the face as a counter?
Guess I’m just really stupid and those science teachers I had, and the math ones, too, all lied to me about how to observe and evaluate.
Yeah – AL GORE had a press conference scheduled for today in WASH DC – he planned to use the hot air from his speech to melt the Snow-Pocalypse…Too bad the suckers who bought into his version of Global Warming ” the sky is falling, the sky is falling..” stupidity are stuck in their homes around the beltway due to the coming ice-age…
Weather here in Kandahar, AFGHN for the past week was sunny & dusty, and now have been changed to rainy & muddy with temps in the 60′s – Camp Muddy for the next few days turning back to Camp Dusty once the mud dries up..fun.
Well this is what pallets are really for! mudknockers at every tent entrance. Work on huts in a pinch.
Climate does not equal weather we are told,
that is, as long as it is freaking cold!
Here at the Wombie-burrow, 70 mi to the WNW by W, we’ve hit 30″ and no sign of stopping.
Just got a cold front from Alaska. The 18 foot swells on the North Shore make for a nice break, but the 65 degree days and 50 degree nights have us reaching for sweatshirts.
I’m in Baltimore and looking at the biggest snowfall in my 63 years here. It’s thigh high with about 10 hours to go.
We’ve had snow of some sort on the ground since the 18th of December. Got about a foot of powder last weekend and another foot or so of wet snow yesterday and today. I’ve seen more mornings below 5 degrees than I can count including one at 3 below. Days on end where we didn’t hit 30. Sounds more like Iowa than central Virginia. If this is global warming, I sure don’t want to experience a cooling off.
I’m in Northern Virginia, looking at 24 inches of snow in Reston. Power was off for 13 hours, and just came back on. Some people are not as lucky as we are.
Not much moving. Trees down on our local streets. Airports closed until further notice. Lots of snow to shovel. The stores were cleaned out of staples in panic buying. I posted a squirrel recipe link on a local blog.
There are reports of snow shovel theft. “Μολὼν λαβέ”
No phone! No lights! No motor cars! Not a single luxury. Like Robinson Crusoe, as primitive as can be.
Fortunately, I managed to construct an Internet router out of bamboo.
The Crystal Radio wireless connection is always a option in a pinch…
Run several in parallel through the bamboo router for broadband.
Gee, and I thought broadband was when I listened to my crystal radio set as a kid and heard dames singing on the other end.
NaCly,
Friend/colleague is driving a truck from here in San Diego to Reston this weekend. Perfect timing wouldn’t you say! Rain here, snow there, sleet all the way.
The main roads are OK. Reports of cannibalism are overstated. Tell your friend to drive safely. We need more Lex fans in Reston.
“The global warming movement as we have known it is dead,” the brilliant analyst Walter Russell Mead says in his blog on The American Interest. It was done in by a combination of bad science and
bad politics.”
entire summary article and obit:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/the-great-global-warming-collapse/article1458206/
Walter Russell Mead maybe a “brilliant analyst” regarding foreign affairs, but he has no background or credentials regarding climate change. Unfortunately some seem to think he does while he conflates science with politics, for a naturally flawed result.
His declaration that the “global warming movement as we have known it is dead,” while that may excite his disciples, is apocryphal. He should know in this most recent QDR for the first time, the Pentagon is rightly focusing on climate change, and the resultant weakening of fragile governments, food and water scarcity, disease, and mass migration. LINK
Political stances cannot and do not change the science.
Unfortunately, Flit, he’s a brilliant analyst, which doesn’t claim he is a scientist, so his credentials need not amount to more than being able to write an opinion and having the results of that opinion evaluated. Kind of like you or I here, as a matter of fact.
Which, I’m always amused when the chattering classes claim a source cannot be accurate because he doesn’t have the credentials, while the chatterers have no credentials upon which to base the claim. Isn’t that like a 4th grader claiming his teacher can’t teach because he doesn’t have a doctorate in education? As if the 4th grader is qualified to judge?
That the Pentagon is focusing on climate change is hardly compelling evidence of climate change being a fact. The Pentagon concentrates on a lot of things, including the results of nuclear launches. The fact that Omaha is still a populated cesspool of our American Midwest is proof positive that Pentagon planning is not indicative of probability. I’m betting they do these sorts of plans all the time absent immediate threats. It’s, you know, what war planning is all about.
– Max
Fliterman,
There is NO science in AGW and the alleged scientists that support it such as Al Gore have a huge deficiency in such basic matters as statistics, sharing the data that led to their conclusions and honesty.
Read the CRU emails and get back to us.
A semi-related personal note…
The Son&Heir starts Phase 2 of Marine Basic Training today. That means his Platoon got in buses and headed up to Pendleton today for good times on the rifle range and in the field.
As I look out the window at the San Diego weather and rain overflowing my gutter and driveway drains I hope they’re able to enjoy their own personal little bit of global warming.
Now all my fellow Southerners down here in Texas know why you hardly ever build a house in Milwaukee without at least one wood-burning fireplace. When I was a kid, we lived in a house with two fireplaces downstairs and two upstairs. And we needed them at least some of every winter. And when you get a real blizzard, you have to don skis to get to the grocery store if it’s open. What a lovely blast of reality for Washington D.C.
I hope this strikes a real blow at the warmenists’ conviction that the world is getting warmer. Jules Crittenden summed it all up a year or so ago: “The world gets warmer, and the world gets colder, and nobody quite knows why…”
Marianne
M.M., here in central Maine I heat with wood, even though I have an oil fired FHW system. Wood is cheap and I always have heat in a power outage which is not infrequent. Always gotta have a backup.
Al Gore could not be reached for comment.
Here in Lake Havasu we have showers and 60 degrees. The showers suck because I had to abandon my flip flops and put shoes on to go grocery shopping. SK1, Thank You.
Heh. When I lived in Lake Havasu, anything under 70 degrees had me reaching for my winter coat. I was such a wuss!
Still am, as I’m considering wrapping myself in my Mexican blanket here in SoCal. Cold and dreary, here!
Hunkering down reminds me of an old Air Force medical study to see how low a temp a typical adult male could tolerate and still sleep on a bare wood surface in his birthday suit after weeks of slowly lowering the thermostats – the figure being in the range of 50-52 degrees. I take it yer “hunkerin” is for the wymen & chillun, you manly man, you.
Snow off and on and in the 30s here in Western NC. Kinda hard to have any sympathy for low 60s. I don’t even bother with a jacket in the low 60s.
No pity whatsoever for the District of Corruption, however. They deserve a lot for the garbage they dish out to the rest of the country while we simply try to live a decent life.
Like QM, I don’t bother with a jacket in the low 60s, but this 30-40 degrees and cold RAIN for days & nights on end gets nerve wracking. Been looking for an ark-building contractor.
Miss Birdlegs ma’am … You’ll be thinking longingly of 30-40 degrees this coming August when it’s hotter than a pancake griddle and will have been for three months. Same here in Houston. But it has been a very cold winter for Houston this year.
Marianne
The High Desert: Friday and Saturday was rain, wind, rain, wind and more rain and wind. It was lucky to hit the high forties. Today is partly cloudy with westerly winds around 17 mph and highs in the forties again. Yeah. Global Warming. Right. Algore is a fraud. Period.
Just returned from a short business/vacation trip with my Bride to ” sunny” Phoenix…took a side trip Sat and Sun to the south rim of the Grand Canyon… we arrived Sat mid morning…an impressive sight indeed for all of thirty minutes…then a thick fog bank rolled in…and the Canyon disappeared…for us permanently…cold/rain/snow/sleet, not necessarily in that order, followed adding to the already two feet of snow remaining from a reported five foot dump a few weeks ago…
Very early Sunday morning six inches of new very wet snow…roads not yet plowed…the usual( or so we’re told) three to four hour trip back to Phoenix becomes a white knuckle, migrane inducing six and one half hour slip-a-thon, with my dear Bride, in a rented Kia Sportage( beware… a true crap-cutter ) with baloney skins for tires…I bitched about the tires( I’m that kind of a guy) at the turn in …the Agent, non-plused, assured me that the Company maintains a strict ” no snow tire ” policy throughout its fleet…its Arizona after all… global warming strikes again. Best