Posted on 12/26/2007 7:01:53 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
Madison, WI is on the verge of setting an all-time December snowfall record, and it could happen Friday.
With a forecast for up to nine inches of snow Friday, the record of 35 inches set in 2000 could be toppled by Friday night.
Anything over seven inches the rest of 2007 at Dane County Regional Airport will break the mark since the current snowfall total for December is right about 28 inches.
The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm watch for Friday for southern Wisconsin including Dane County because a low pressure system expected to develop in the southern Plains states Thursday night will track northeast into northern Indiana and lower Michigan Friday, putting Wisconsin in the path of the swath of heavy snow.
The localized Madison forecast issued at 6 a.m. this morning from the National Weather Service calls for 5-9 inches of snow Friday, with north winds of 9-15 mph.
Light snow is expected tonight, totaling maybe an inch, so anything over six inches Friday could produce a new snowfall record here.
Saturday, Sunday and Monday also have slight chances of snow, but New Year's Day is expected to be sunny.
Dem environmentalists will tell you that the individual weather situations do not define global warming/cooling (these cold/below normal temps are caused by global warming) and that the average temperatures over the country/world are what counts.
I suggest we take the temperatures of all the major cities as published in the daily papers, average them, and compare to past records. The same could be done with world temps included to get those averages. This would provide a general integration of global temps.
LOL. Pretty apt descrition for more of the year than I’d like.
We were north of it for many years. I’ve seen (and shoveled) more snow in my life than any sane person would ever want to look at.
Summers are nice, but not long enough, and the scenery is fantastic. When circumstances permit, I’d love to be outta here. There’s lots of other beautiful places to live.
I grew up in the Buffalo area, where some people really think it doesn’t have summer. Syracuse wasn’t much of a change.
Dem environmentalists are idiots. It's the compilation of all those individual weather stations that give us the average.
Besides, if an individual station gives a warmer reading, they'll use it to support GW anyway, and if it gives cooler, they'll say it's just an aberration. Heads, I win; tails, you lose....
i am from Pittsburgh originally, so i am not unaccustomed to snow, but i think the seasons are more balanced there than upstate NY. i always say no wonder everyone’s a fanatical SU fan up there, there’s NOTHING ELSE TO DO! ; )
And it’s not like SU is doing so great either....
That probably wouldn't be accurate. Temperature readings have been taken at airports a lot of the time over the years and airports have gotten bigger planes and more concrete over time, plus city sprawl has extended past most airports also making the temps a little warmer where the temp readings are taken.
if they didn’t have bad luck, they wouldn’t have any at all! devo’s ACL and all.
[Temperature readings have been taken at airports a lot of the time over the years and airports have gotten bigger planes and more concrete over time, plus city sprawl has extended past most airports also making the temps a little warmer where the temp readings are taken.]
Good point. In fact that is the case in Phoenix.
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