Posted on 05/15/2003 9:11:40 AM PDT by cogitator
How in the hell do you explain this:
Winter in Big Cities of the East Ranked Among the Coldest Since 1950 -
Written March 10, 2003
by Joe D'Aleo
Chief WSI/INTELLICAST Meteorologist
In our winter outlook in the fall we showed why the oceans were in a mode, which favored enhanced high latitude blocking, which would make this El Nino colder than the ones we were used to in recent decades.
The degree of high latitude blocking is measured by two climate indices, the North Atlantic and Arctic Oscillations. In recent stories, we showed how the negative mode of both modes favored colder and often snowier than normal conditions in the eastern United States and Europe, even in El Nino winters. The indices were at or near the most negative values observed since 1950 especially during the early winter from October to December.
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October to December Arctic Oscillation values were the most negative since 1950. This high latitude blocking helped generate large polar and arctic air masses that helped build deep snowcover and make the winter very cold for many areas in the hemisphere. |
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October to February 2002/03 average snowcover for the Northern Hemisphere was at the highest level in the data set eclipsing the previous record set in the winter of 1976/77. From CPC: ftp://ftp.ncep.noaa.gov/pub/cpc/wd52dg/snow/snw_cvr_area/NH_AREA |
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
|
Year
|
Average Temperature
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1976/77
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35.42
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2002/03
|
35.72
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CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK
|
Year
|
Average Temperature
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1976/77
|
37.55
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1967/68
|
38.25
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1977/78
|
39.35
|
2002/03
|
39.70
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ROCHESTER, NEW YORK
|
Year
|
Average Temperature
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1976/77
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29.48
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1993/94
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30.38
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1962/63
|
30.38
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1981/82
|
31
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1978/79
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31.44
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1969/70
|
31.56
|
2002/03
|
31.56
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BALTIMORE, MARYLAND
|
Year
|
Average Temperature
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1976/77
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37.04
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1962/63
|
37.16
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2002/03
|
38.63
|
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So this data can be used by both groups, as in "it's not warming very much" vs. "it's warming a lot more than they said two years ago".
Question has never been is it warming or cooling, the trend can be either both depending on your time frame.
The question's are quantitative, how much is due to mankind and under our control? And, is makind's impact sufficient to make a difference, if we were to change our techonolgies and economies sufficiently.
The answer for Greenhouse gases and the Greenhouse effect is clearly that mankind can affect the climate only negligibly, and it is even questionable if mankind could make a measureable difference in Climate at all:
for all emission control or other technical fixes politically feasible to apply:
" There is no dispute at all about the fact that even if punctiliously observed, (the Kyoto Protocol) would have an imperceptible effect on future temperatures -- one-twentieth of a degree by 2050. "
Dr. S. Fred Singer, atmospheric physicist
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