Warming climate could mean bigger blizzards, less snow

cnn ^ | 2/26/2013 | Matt Smith and Brandon Miller

[tobyhill]

OK, go ahead and get the "Where's my global warming?" jokes out of your system. With the U.S. Midwest trudging through its second blizzard in a week, we understand. But while it may seem contradictory at first, scientists say bigger blizzards fit the pattern they expect to see from a changing climate.

The immediate meteorological cause of the back-to-back snowstorms is a colder-than-normal mass of air that's been hovering over the central United States, combined with an amped-up jet stream that's been dipping south from Canada. That makes conditions ripe for major snowstorms after a warmer-than-normal January for most of the Lower 48.

"Once you get into a pattern that sets up these storms, they can repeat themselves," National Weather Service Director Louis Uccellini told CNN.

[justa-hairyape]

Sunspot cycle 24 is closely matching sunspot cycle #5.

from Solar Update February 2013

[Intolerant in NJ]

In our part of the country we’ve had about three inches of snow this year, well below the average twenty-one inches and the predicted for the winter twenty-five inches - and yet they can tell us that in fifty years the sea level will rise three point seven one inches and the temperature increase by two point six eight degrees......

[Calamari]

Enjoy your Summer! I imagine it will be hot around San Antonio this summer too.

[Hugin]

I was refering to this...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2217286/Global-warming-stopped-16-years-ago-reveals-Met-Office-report-quietly-released—chart-prove-it.html#ixzz2M3e2IyzP

[justa-hairyape]

You can get better accuracy by biasing every post modern temperature trend report downward. Basically downshift every temperature curve trend by 45 degrees. So when they say it was warming, in reality what occurred was, it had warmed but was currently holding a steady trend. Believe me if there was a sure fire sign of continuing warming after the 1998 El Nino, it would have been obvious. They were catching Dorado off the coast of So Cal the water was so warm.

So now when they admit the temperature has recently held steady, in reality what has occurred is a recent dramatic drop in total biosphere energy. Not completely discernible in the noise of the temperature metric, but we have seen in North America the past few weeks, what Eurasia has seen this winter. And we will continue to see more of this drastic cooling trend the next few weeks.