Posted on 01/30/2020 11:36:32 AM PST by rktman
This nearly universally held belief that even the most skeptical of us tend to believe is “warming by recollection.” Virtually every person from snowy climes claims that winters today are nothing like they were when they were a child. This recollection reinforces the thought that we are experiencing global warming within our own lifetime. Never mind that the slight warming of ~0.6 oF (0.3 oC) that a typical 45-year-old may have experienced since that big snowfall when he was five years old is much too slight to be recognizable by anyone.
Before I looked at the actual data on the subject, I also believed that the snow of my youth in Pennsylvania exceeded any of recent decades. My research into snowfall records for my hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, showed that my memory of snowfalls past was quite flawed. Snowfall here had been on the rise, rather than in decline.
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Been pretty light this winter so far in the Tahoe area. Last year was awesome if you like snow. And, it ain’t over yet.
been light around here too- but yes, last year was a real bear- out east coast they got slammed-
One word: SNOW BLOWER!
what i nthe world is that? Snow total? Looks like a glacier though?
3 words “Dy No Mite!”
I gotta say there’s been a lot of 50 degree days for January in NY.
One day almost broke a record in the 60s.
A lot of high 40s nights until the night time.
MANY night ties have been COLD!!
But VERY little snow last year and this year really none.
That being said, in 2 months I could be typing that this was the snowiest winter ever :)
Nothing an ice dragon can’t handle.
yeah, east coast inland didn’t get much from what i understand- though i heard upstate NY, vermont got nailed with snow- but places like Maine on the coast really got hammered- a lot of times the storms are just off shore, but circle inland and stall over the land
I think a lot us at the time stood at 4’6”. So a foot of snow appeared like mountains. I fondly remember me jumping off my parents’ garage roof into mounds of snow on the adjacent patio. Never got hurt in the least. Friends would join me seeing what a blast I was having. Kids today would never do that or have team snowball battles with the other kids in the neighborhood.
Sad.
I didn’t know that.
Sometimes here in NYC February through the middle of March can have BRUTAL snow storms
But wow we’re 50 and EVEN 60s over the next 8 days.
What causes a January like this?
Don’t ever recall one like it.
Mother Nature is crazy.
Where is Rocky?
Yes, I remember the snow being much deeper when I was much shorter, funny how that works.
Yes she’s insane!! :)
Like I said, in 2 months I could say this was the most brutally snowy and cold winter I’ve remembered in a while.
Anything can happen even deep into March here
I remember them- some years we get almost a week of really warm weather right around Jan- they call it the Jan thaw- but then, like you say- Feb and even march roll aro8nd and slam- all hell breaks loose snowise-
The old saying is ‘in like a lion, out like a lamb- but for about a decade or so now- winters get delayed really- but i would imagine they used to many years ago too- every now and again-
in the early 90’s I remember ice fishing with quite warm weather in Jan- then a few years later fishing at -30 for a solid 2 week stretch in Jan- I can’t remember how warm it was- but we really were fishing in short sleeves when hte weather was warm- course back then 35-40 felt warm to us lol so it coulda been around that temp- but it seemed warmer— -
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