Posted on 12/18/2021 1:13:15 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
A white Christmas seems to be slowly morphing from a reliable reality to a dream of snowy holidays past for large swaths of the United States in recent decades.
Analysis of 40 years of December 25 U.S. snow measurements shows that less of the country has snow for Christmas than in the 1980s.
The numbers are small enough that it’s difficult to tell whether this is a meaningful trend and, if so, whether climate change or natural weather variability is the cause, said University of Arizona atmospheric scientist Xubin Zeng, who ran the data.
Still, Zeng, who has published studies on decreasing snowpack in the western U.S. being connected to climate change, said the downward slide of white Christmases is consistent with global warming.
In 20 to 30 years “with climate warming, the prospects of a white Christmas in many parts of the U.S.A. will be slim indeed,” said Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado.
Several meteorologists cautioned about finding trends in complex data where both precipitation and temperature are factors. But despite those issues, fewer white Christmases seems associated with warmer temperatures from climate change, said Northern Illinois University meteorology professor Victor Gensini.
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Nye was pushing the "global warming" hoax.
Needless to say, Tucker ate his lunch.
At the very end, just as they were signing off, an angry Nye said "We might not have another Ice Age!".
LOL. “I’m dreaming of a Diverse/Equal/Inclusive Christmas ..”
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Watching the Big Sky playoff right now and there is snow everywhere.
It's in Bozeman, MT.
IF it were a white Christmas, they would be demanding that it were less white.
You should have strung the snowflake along just for fun.
oh, yeah, “climate change” ...
the polar jet stream didn’t dip down as far as usual, so been a warm, dry winter for many ... however may of the northern states have been getting tons of snow and rain ...
Rochester NY gets an average of about 100 inches of snow a year but has had snow of 1 inch or more on Christmas only 56% of the time since 1926. Always check the hype against actual data.
If you really wanted to get under his skin you should have capitalized the word "White" :)
This just popped up in our forecast:
I remember as a child in upstate NY that we had rain for Christmas and then on Easter Sunday we had a beautiful snow and we went outside sledding....so that was 50 yrs ago.
FTR, we have snow here in Eastern Washington and very cold temps now....
GFY AP. In the eye.
Well, a White Christmas is racist anyway, isn’t it? I guess we’re just doing our part to end systemic racism and the crime of “whiteness”.
Um, we’ve already had snow covered ground... in NOVEMBER. No measurable snow since. Just flurries here and there.
Just because it doesn’t snow on CHRISTMAS DAY doesn’t mean squat.
Take my white, please.
Mother Nature never missed one year in my lifetime...and looking out the window...she's doing her winter thing again.
In 1991, I watched a gay male colleague give a Christmas tree ornament that had on it Bing Crosby’s face and the phrase “Wishing You a White Christmas,” to a Black female colleague. Everyone thought is was funny and laughed. Do that today and the snowflakes would gasp.
We’re covered in a few feet of it.
What about Australia???
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