Snowiest Decade Ever
March 6th, 2010 at 12:01 am by Bill Steffen under Bill's Blog, Weather
<–Central Park employee keeping people away from an area where tree limbs were falling from the weight of snow after 20.9″ of snow (4th biggest snowfall ever) on Feb. 26, 2010. The Rutgers University Global Snow Lab has gone through all the data and proven that the decade of 2001-2010 (December through February) was the snowiest decade on record in the Northern Hemisphere. The snowiest prior decade was the 1960s and this decade beat that record by 70,000 square kilometers. Average winter snowfall increased from the 1990s by nearly the area of Texas and California combined! Three of the top four snowy winters occurred in the last decade. The four top years are 1978, 2010, 2008 and 2003. The third week of February this year had the 2nd highest snow cover out of the 2,229 week record. Some areas seeing record snowfall this winter include the Mid-Atlantic States, Moscow, China and Korea. The least snowfall was in the winter of 1981-82.
wow comment huh? Awsome, kinda adds to the argument against the “global warming” debate. However it could very well add to the climate change story being more of a cooling. I have heard that the quake last sat moved the earth’s axis. Has it been determined in which direction? Are we now pointed more towards the sun, or away from? Could this in fact move us towards a cooler summer if the angle of deflection was to the negitive or a warmer summer if the deflection was towards the suns rays? AND if towards the suns rays, increasing the amount of sun hitting the northern hemisphere, will we have to listen to the global warming camp say “seee see we told ya”, lol yeah I know I worry a lot might be, but I could easily see it happening considering the amount of money involved in the research. Have a good day Bill
Argument against GW: No
Any real change in the axis: No
I heard that the axis moved 3″, so I don’t think we’ll be noticing a difference. It’s amazing that they can even measure that.
The argument could be made that heavier precipitation is actually a sign of global COOLING sqeezing more of the moisture out of the air.
Actually no – there would be less moisture in the air to begin with if we were colder.
Actually, if the atmosphere as a whole had warmed over the last 30 years, there would be an increase in the total amount of water vapor in the air. If the atmosphere as a whole then started cooling over the last few years, some of that excess water vapor would have to fall as precipitation.
Thanks for the authoritative simplistic answer though Rob!
The atmosphere as a whole hasn’t been cooling the last few years, and I don’t think moisture sits around in the atmosphere for decades waiting for a cooldown to “squeeze” it out.
In any case — glad my simplistic answer helped.
BLAH, BLAH, D’BLODIBLAH!
It’s amazing that they had the SAME methods for collecting data 100+ years ago.
NOT!
The last time before this year we lost our snow cover this early up here was in 2000 during that hugh warm spell
Actually, last year the snow was gone by 3/3 perhaps sooner.
Bill, just want to say thank you for the beautiful sunshine this last week, I feel like there is a new begining going to come forth..I love the sun it make me feel warmer, even tho the 19 deg mornings are too cold.I will be even happier when consumers doesn’t get so much of my money.The day is coming for the earth to be renewed with color, Spring flowers and green grass, Another promise from above..Keep up the good work! Oh, Thanks for getting the weather guage set up in Ionia..Makes a body feel I M P O R T A N T..
So all of this talk of the declination of the Earth has amounted to what? Are we still 23.5 degrees? Has it changed to 23.49999 degrees? What is the point here. Let’s have some real numbers
Thunder Storms and warm temps in the 7o’s COMING SOON!!!! From saying see ya snow and seeing some green out back in the woods INDYDOG!!!!
Clear nights will help…. Time for another Atmosphereic Phenomena, from the point …The zodiacal light is a soft cone of light stretching upwards from the horizon after sunset or before dawn when it is sometimes called the ‘false dawn’. It is sunlight scattered by a disk of innumerable dust particles extending outwards in the plane of the So…lar System to Jupiter and perhaps beyond.
WOW !Where do you guys get all this useless information. LOL. No really it is very interesting. Never knew there were so many weather heads out there.
All these clear beautiful nights and no northern lights! aarrggghhh! It’s been just way toooo long since we’ve had a good light show in West MI. Anyone hear anything about north. light prospects?
Nothing around here until the sun starts acting up. http://spaceweather.com is a great place to look for more info.