Buried Alive
This winter has been exceptionally severe in the Northeast. Temperatures have been well below normal for January, even plunging to -7. Snowfall, however, is the worst part. January 2011 was the snowiest month on record. Since xmass, Connecticut has received about 71" or six feet of snow, most falling on these dates:
December 27 13.9 inches.
January 7 6.6 inches.
January 12 24 inches.
January 18 3.5 inches.
January 21 5.6 inches.
January 27 12 inches.
February has brought no respite. Several more inches have fallen already. Meteorologist Joe Furey says the first two weeks of February will be as bad as last month. The record for snowfall set in 1996 may be broken. Because this winter is cold as well as snowy, there has been little melting, so the depth of accumulation keeps increasing. Already great mounds of snow are piled along roadsides and driveways, and it's poised to get even worse. It's remarkable that this can happen at a time of global warming. We can only hope that a compensatory warm spell will finally melt the accumulation in time for spring.
posted by starman at 3:05 AM
5 Comments:
We have had only a moderate amount of snow here in Arkansas. It snowed three weeks ago, but the snow melted after a few days. It is raining now. The weather is expected to get cold tonight, but it remains to be seen how low the temperatures will drop.
Neal Robbins
You are so lucky. Tomorrow the groundhog won't see his shadow because we'll get still more frozen precipitation.
Hi Tim--
Since weather is my hobby I particularly enjoyed this post. Here in So Cal at low elevations we had one memorable, wonderful 2" snowstorm in 1949 and none since; I'm afraid it will never happen again. One indication to me of climate change is that some low-altitude places in Northern Calif. regularly had snow until about 1980 and none since. That is sad.
But anyhow meanwhile it is exciting to watch the Revolutions spread across the Arab world--I hope they keep spreading because they're needed almost everywhere, although I'm sure that in a lot of countries they'll make things worse before they get better; but at least they have started the ball rolling for progressive change ultimately!
I still haven't been able to get back to finishing your book but I'm looking forward to do so hopefully this month!
Roger
Hi Roger, great to hear from you! Today, groundhog day, we're still getting snow but old phil won't see his shadow, so I guess there's hope, lol. By now the snow piles are reaching for the heavens....what a horrible winter. If only CA could have more of what we have too much of here.
Yes, the events in Egypt are interesting. I plan to post something on that but as I told Neal, I'm waiting for the situation to be clarified.
Yes, the world would surely be a better place if we in LA got more snow and you in MA got less. This would happen if the Earth's axis tilt were say 35 degrees instead of 23. I was thinking about this because in another group (world-create@yahoogroups.com) we were discussing my proposal to build a giant artificial planet, which should be our humanity's goal for say the Year 3000 because it would multiply the amount of land available by a factor of 100. But if we could build a planet that big, it seems like it wouldn't be too imposible to change the Earth's tilt. On the other hand, there are a lot of possily better/cheaper ways of changing the weather that could be done with today's technology for only a few hundred billion dollars. That's something I'm really looking forward to--within my lifetime, probably by 2030!
Roger
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