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White Christmas increasingly becoming just a dream for US
The Associated Press ^ | December 18, 2021 | by Seth Borenstein

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: americanpravda; apepee; associatedpravda; carbonpropaganda; christmas; climatehoax; fakescience; globalwarming; hoax; itsover; propaganda; sethborenstein; snow; socialism
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1 posted on 12/18/2021 1:13:15 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
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.

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Then it's not a trend.

2 posted on 12/18/2021 1:14:47 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Good God, what utter nonsense.


3 posted on 12/18/2021 1:14:53 PM PST by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I have never experienced a white Christmas.


4 posted on 12/18/2021 1:15:05 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Why would these people even care? They don't even have Christ for Christmas. Maybe worry about that first.

5 posted on 12/18/2021 1:15:20 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

+1


6 posted on 12/18/2021 1:15:52 PM PST by Allegra
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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.

So the author is tying to make a mountain out of a mole hill.

7 posted on 12/18/2021 1:16:39 PM PST by Petrosius
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To: Fiji Hill

I’ve had about six. Not bad in the south. One was even in Florida!


8 posted on 12/18/2021 1:17:40 PM PST by ealgeone
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“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...”


Climate change IS natural weather variability.


9 posted on 12/18/2021 1:18:38 PM PST by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: Petrosius
A data set from Rutgers University’s global snow lab finds continental U.S. snow in the last week of December slightly increasing, not decreasing, said climate scientist David Robinson, whose data based on satellite imagery goes back to 1966.

“There’s no trend. You just don’t see it,” Robinson said.

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Libs gotta keep advancing the narrative even if it's a false one.

10 posted on 12/18/2021 1:18:50 PM PST by ealgeone
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I’m sitting in my house in northern Idaho watching the snow come down like Oobleck. If it slacks off I might get a chance to snow-blow the driveway enough to get another load of wood down from the barn without using a sled. The fridge is full of beer and I have Christmas music cued up on the stereo. My Christmas will be white but then so was the Donner party’s...


11 posted on 12/18/2021 1:19:53 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

In Stamford we have 44 degrees and cloudy.


12 posted on 12/18/2021 1:19:54 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

snowing out right now!


13 posted on 12/18/2021 1:20:04 PM PST by Bob434
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I’ve lived in the South my whole life (not in the mountains), and average daytime temperatures in November and December can range from the 40s to the 60s, so snow in December is rare unless you do live at a higher elevation. The coldest part of winter here falls in January or February.


14 posted on 12/18/2021 1:20:10 PM PST by Cecily
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15 posted on 12/18/2021 1:20:32 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Magic Fingers
That climate, it's always a-changin


16 posted on 12/18/2021 1:21:33 PM PST by Theophilus (Thes so-called "vaccines" are the top three comorbidities)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

These people hate Christmas but they’ll try to use it as a Global Warming club to beat us with.

Not working jerks, get some new material.


17 posted on 12/18/2021 1:24:35 PM PST by SaxxonWoods
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To: Fiji Hill

Once on another forum I posed that we were having a white Christmas.

One of the social justice warriors demanded to know what I meant by that.

I replied it was Christmas and it was snowing in North Texas.

He not only apologized but he was a lot less angry for some time afterwards. He got a look in the proverbial mirror and must not have liked what he saw.


18 posted on 12/18/2021 1:28:06 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Mine currently is, with a forecast for more late next week. It certainly ain’t “green”.


19 posted on 12/18/2021 1:30:30 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We had snow on my wife’s birthday several years ago here in Ctrl MO. Her birthday is May 4th.


20 posted on 12/18/2021 1:30:37 PM PST by Pollard (PureBlood -- youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
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