Posted on 02/05/2010 12:00:39 PM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON – Shoppers jammed aisles and emptied stores of milk, bread and shovels Friday as a massive snowstorm blew into the Mid-Atlantic. Forecasters predicted a record 30 inches or more for the nation's capital, and authorities already were blaming the storm for the deaths of father-son Samaritans in Virginia.
The region's second snow storm in less than two months could be "extremely dangerous," and heavy, wet snow and strong winds threatened to knock out power, the National Weather Service said.
Flakes started falling around noon in Washington, where the federal government sent workers home early. The storm's wide swath and predictions of historic proportions for an area ill-equipped for snow had airlines canceling flights and school districts closing hours before any snow arrived.
The last time D.C. got at least 28 inches of snow was in 1922. The city has seen more than a foot only 13 times since 1870, according to the National Weather Service. The storm was expected to track through Virginia and West Virginia, across Maryland into southern New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
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Does this mean the Koolaid Express will be grounded for a while?
Come on down! Or come East!
I bet she likes him even better in his bike shorts when he is doing that charity ride!
I didnt mean that you live in Wexford- I was trying to give an idea where my mom is. She’s much closer to Butler Co than I, is all I meeant, and figured you would more likely know where Wexford was than the unincorp. “town” she lives in. Have a good Sunday.
Oh..ok...misunderstanding do happen on Fr HA!
Is that Lancaster PA.? Use to live there for about two years..transferred there with my company.
Is that just outside Williamsport?
Harrisburg and State College are quite far apart.
And that’s freaking incredible because I’m about 1 hour east of State College and we got 5 inches tops.
Yes...just about three miles to the east of the Port.
WNEP has to be the lamest TV station in PA.
I wish my cable carried the Harrisburg stations, at least.
The only alternative newscasts I can get late at night are Chicago and 9 News in NJ.
Mountoursville people are unique and very family and community focused I thought. They do rally around once another at difficult times.
A woman digs her car out of the snow in Chevy Chase, Maryland. A bitter chill heaped new misery on the US east coast Sunday, leaving thousands shivering without power as emergency crews battled to clear snow-clogged streets before a new winter storm hits. (AFP/Mandel Ngan)
I get news 9 and PIX 11 out of the city also. I only put on NEP first thing in the morning just to check the weather the it goes to FOX. I could care less about PA news.
Thanks for thinking of me. Have you happened to note how warm January was (globally)?
January 2010 UAH Global Temperature Update +0.72 Deg. C
Much of this is due to El Nino. El Nino puts more water vapor into the atmosphere (warm ocean surface waters); plus, the general rule-of-thumb is that for every degree C of warming (global warming), atmospheric water vapor increases 6.5% (which is confirmable by satellites, and easier to measure than atmospheric temperature by satellites).
So, if it's cold enough, and there's more water vapor in the atmosphere, and you mix the two together, what's going to happen?
Note two things. I'm not saying a whit about anthropogenic causation, just the climate system. And I can also say, a warming climate does not cause any particular snowstorm. But it might cause more blizzards.
I hope you still think I'm reasonable, because I am realistic.
What do you think about all the stuff that has come out over the past few months about IPCC scandals and Climategate?
What I think probably couldn't be expressed in 100 pages of single-spaced 10-point font with 1-inch margins. You deserve a better answer than that. And I will attempt to give you one after my nutsy February concludes.
But... simply put, find the real reasons that the stratosphere is cooling off. See below.
Climate change is a puzzle. There are lots of different ways that all the pieces of the puzzle could be assembled, with various degrees of fit to the most parsimonious explanation. There is only one most parsimonious explanation, the one that allows the fit of the most puzzle pieces. There are still a few pieces that don't seem at present to fit quite right, but more of them fit under this explanation than for any other "competing" explanation. Ultimately, that's what determines my reactions to all the "stuff".
Global Warming Causes Stratospheric Cooling
Impact of Greenhouse Gases (see the section on Stratospheric Cooling at the bottom)
Due diligence pays intellectual rewards.
Talk to you later.
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