There's a sure-fire solution for this problem. Live in the south or on the west coast.
Posted on 12/22/2009 11:19:22 AM PST by civilwar2
One to 3 feet of snow fell in the western Plains yesterday, while up to 1/2 inch of freezing rain fell in the central Plains. The precipitation was in response to a potent upper low in the Southern Plains and an associated surface low, which caused upslope flow conditions. The heaviest snowfall amounts were observed in the Colorado Front Range and in the Sangre de Cristo mountains of New Mexico. Strong surface winds in these areas caused much blowing and drifting snow.
Most of the snowpack across the West and western Plains is cool, with cold conditions at the lower elevations of the Great Basin. In the central Plains, where rain and snow fell yesterday, the snowpack there is warm, but snowmelt occurred along the southeastern edge of the central U.S. snowpack. Very warm conditions exist on the windward side of the Cascades where warm onshore flow occurred yesterday; slow snowmelt occurred there. Strong surface
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There's a sure-fire solution for this problem. Live in the south or on the west coast.
Those NOHRSC snow maps are always a couple of days behind. For example, we wont know how much snow falls today until the end of the day. Then that number gets put into tomorrows maps which get posted at the end of the day tomorrow. So the maps seem to be running two days behind from what I can tell.
We're in the California low desert, so we don't have to worry......I'd prefer to live in the south (family and friends) but they, too, get their nasty ice storms and such stuff.
TRUE TRUE!
The 2008 and 2009 maps look almost identical, and both have about 3 times more snow than the 2003 map. It’s that old Globull Warming.
2009 would be much worse right now if we did not have that Indian Summer for two weeks in November. It gave us over two weeks of abnormally mild air. Probably caused by the lack of Hurricanes in the Atlantic which allowed the Gulf to stay warmer longer assisted by the weak trade winds allowing backward flow up from Mexico. Now we have 10 days left until January and February arrive and another California Blizzard is coming to the plains possibly followed by three more Texas Blizzards. See Accuweather Blogs for the gory details.
OMG, the glaciers are going to consume us!!!!
Nice work .... posting this one on facebook :)
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