Snowfall breaks record

Juneau Empire ^ | 4/18/2008 | juneau empire

[dr_lew]

Juneau's snowfall record for April 17 was buried under more than a half-foot of snow Thursday.

The National Weather Service recorded 7.5 inches of snow Thursday at its Juneau International Airport weather station. The record had been only 1.1 inches, received on April 17 in 1948.

[dr_lew]

Drudge linked this. Note the "NO MINING SHUTDOWN" banner ad. Also, to see the snow cover as of Saturday PM, check this MODIS Terra 250m resolution image. To see an image corresponding to this Google Maps view of Juneau, move the vertical cursor down just a smidge, and the horizontal cursor just past half way.

[Uncle Miltie]

Ice-out in NoDak and Northern Minnesota is late this year.

GLOBAL COOLING!

[21twelve]

In the little town of Clearview just east of Seattle (but not in the mountains) they had 10.2 inches of snow as of 11 pm last night. They probably got more during the night and today as it was snowing off and on. Nobody laughed at me though when I blamed it on global warming as we watched the kids lacrosse game. (This IS Seattle).

[21twelve]

BTW - when I was a kid, it seemed that every lake at an old car parked on the ice with bets being taken at the nearby bar when it would fall through. I suppose that is a long-gone tradition nowadays?

[Conservative Vermont Vet]

I don't know how many times I posted this in March for Burlington, Vermont. It apparently worked because we are in our 3rd day of beautiful 70+ degree weather

Mayhaps Juneau can use this and it will bring them the same springtime weather?

"I feeeeel your pain." lol

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[Proud_USA_Republican]

Anyone seen Al Gore? I mean, the guy has a gulfstream IV and was getting 24/7 media coverage up until we had a more typical winter in north america. Where is the Goreacle of Globull Warming?

[mountn man]

Ice-out in NoDak and Northern Minnesota is late this year.

GLOBAL COOLING!

Chicago's snowfall this year was #7 all time, and Rockford's, about an hour away, was #2. Also IIRC Chicago had its most snow days ever recorded in 1 season.

I wonder if Algore is taking notes?

[jwparkerjr]

Now we know what happened to the dinosaurs! The press of the time was convinced that dinosaur flatulence was leading to global warming, despite the overwhelming evidence to contrary of snow, ice and falling temperatures year-’round, and the ice age just sorta snuck up on them.

[jwparkerjr]

We tried that here in Florida but gave up after losing several dozen cars that simply sank to the bottom. I think we were missing a vital ingredient in the tradition? They just never could get it right. They were liberals and they tried all sorts of things like cars of different colors, different makes, different years, even former owners of varying ethnic and religious backgrounds. No luck, every car just sank to the bottom as soon as it was pushed off the end of the dock. Every year they appropriated more money for the experiment but they finally gave up and started using old school buses. </sarc>

[GodGunsGuts]

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[SAJ]

Gork taking notes? How? He's very nearly illiterate, as proven by his flunking out of Vanderbilt divinity school (d-school, f'Heaven's sake!) in 1968-9, and his resigning from Vandy Law the next year, JUST prior to semester exams that he knew he would fail.

Not to mention his numerous incompetent, incomprehensible and unlistenable speeches while imitating a Vice President.

I know the worthless SOB couldn't put a noun up against a verb in a speech without causing grammarians, logicians, and any other competent and/or reasonably intelligent persons worldwide to melt down. Did he actually learn to write coherently at some point?

Hmmm, if so, wonder how Almost Pravda, Useless Pissants International, and Rooters managed to miss that little headline.

[MNJohnnie]

Another bit of data that does not back the claims in the NOAA report

[reformedliberal]

They average all global temps, land and water, so the temperatures/conditions at the Equator will allow them to claim April as the “sixty-something warmest*, ever.

I was thinking about the proclaimation that March was the 63rd warmest. In 100 years, there would be 100 Marchs. So, was it the 37th coldest?

I have no claim to being a statistician, so I will gratefully accept any corrections if I have this wrong. I just know that where I live, March was colder than I recall in over 30 years. It has also been too wet to plow and likely corn acerage will be reduced in favor of beans. Of course, that is anecdotal and geographically limited.

[MNJohnnie]

NOAA has about 139 years of data it works off. So It skews you numbers a bit but your point is right on.

I got snowed on when I was in Atlanta in March. March in MN this year was one of the worst in 20 years. Read about all the places that got snow in March this year that don’t normally get it. Alaska set records for the amount of snow fall in March. To read the NOAA report and take it seriously would require you to simply ignore all the observed weather data.

[mainerforglobalwarming]

In Maine we've been spoiled the past week. WE haven't received any snow or freezing weather. I guess all the praying I have done to the sun god has paid off.

[rdl6989]

I went to work without a coat earlier this week. I’m in Indiana.

[aimhigh]

It’s snowing right now in Salem Oregon. Unheard of.

[Doe Eyes]

I was thinking about the proclaimation that March was the 63rd warmest. In 100 years, there would be 100 Marchs. So, was it the 37th coldest?

From NOAA, "It was the 63rd warmest March since record-keeping began in the United States in 1895."

That would make it the 48th coldest, for the contiguous United States, since recording keeping began.

From the same report,

"The average global land temperature last month was the warmest on record and ocean surface temperatures were the 13th warmest. Combining the land and the ocean temperatures, the overall global temperature ranked the second warmest for the month of March. Global temperature averages have been recorded since 1880."

[cogitator]

Snowfall breaks record

"While he called this week's storm "a little odd" for this time of year, Bezenek said such weather is not that unusual during springtime in Juneau. In 1963, for example, a storm dropped nearly 40 inches of snow at the airport during the first few days of April."

Average total snowfall in Juneau in April is 2.8 inches. So snow in Juneau in April is not an unusual condition.