Major snowstorm headed for eastern US

4.02.2010

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 concern.

From Accuweather.com a forecast for the mid-Atlantic suggests Washington DC might get dumped on big time:
“Accumulations have the potential to reach 2 feet in some areas, matching or exceeding snowfall from the December blizzard.”
The Weather Channel seems to agree:

Major Nor’easter to Slam Mid-Atlantic

“High-populated areas of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey and southeastern Pennsylvania will likely all experience big snow totals. Washington, DC and Baltimore could experience foot plus snow totals.”

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NOAA: All time record snowfall for DC and Baltimore?
5.02.2010

From the “weather is not climate department”, it seems that the biggest snowstorm of all time is targeting the nation’s capitol.

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LarryD (15:01:15) :
I hope getting snowed in for a couple of days gives some people a clue about the importance of having energy. Reliable energy.

Dave Wendt (15:07:42) :
The snowfall projection has been zooming all day, from midteens to 24", to 26",to 28", and the latest I’ve seen is now 30".
Having been through snowfalls of that magnitude here in Minnesota, where the infrastructure for dealing with snow is
much more developed than in D.C. which is often paralyzed by little more than a minor flurry, I suspect they could end up shut down for
a week or more. Personally I see that as nothing but a positive prospect.

Brian G Valentine (15:34:28) :
I wish I could make every congressperson who is in DC right now watch some video segments of Hansen
making “coal cars death trains” speeches in front of crowds of green zombies.
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Kevin Trenberth, IPCC stalwart and recipient and sender of CRU Climategate emails, said in 2002


“We’ll never see winter as we once knew it again”

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Blizzard Warning for DC, NYT: “Capital Is Crippled as Blizzard Continues “
6.02.2010


Let it snow… let it snow… let it snow…biggest snowstorm since 1922, and still not over.






So, it happened back in 1922 so not "unprecedented", then?


In case people are confused by anthropgenic global warming morphing by political sleight of hand into "climate change"
they should remember that C02 cannot cause "climate change" without FIRST passing through the stage of "warming".

And where is the warming? Kevin Trenberth said in the climategate emails:

From: Kevin Trenberth
To: Michael Mann
Subject: Re: BBC U-turn on climate
Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:57:37 -0600
Cc: Stephen H Schneider , Myles Allen , peter stott , “Philip D. Jones” , Benjamin Santer , Tom Wigley , Thomas R Karl ,
Gavin Schmidt , James Hansen , Michael Oppenheimer

Hi all

Well I have my own article on where the heck is global warming? We are asking that
here in Boulder where we have broken records
the past two days for the coldest days on record. We had 4 inches of snow. The high the last 2 days was below 30F
and the normal is 69F, and it smashed the previous records for these days by 10F. The low was about 18F
and also a record low, well below the previous record low. This is January weather (see the Rockies baseball playoff game
was canceled on saturday and then played last night in below freezing weather).

Trenberth, K. E., 2009: An imperative for climate change planning: tracking Earth’s global energy.
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 1, 1927,doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2009.06.001. [1][PDF]
(A PDF of the published version can be obtained from the author.)

The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t.
The CERES data published in the August BAMS 09 supplement on 2008 shows there should be even more warming:
but the data are surely wrong. Our observing system is inadequate.