Want a cold Thanksgiving? Try Lake Placid New York or Mt Washington, NH.
Will The Snowiest Decade Continue?
BOSTON (CBS) — Despite the snow blitz of 2015, many baby boomers still insist that, overall, we don’t get the harsh bitter cold and deep snowy winters like we did in the good ole days.
Weather records prove that just isn’t the case and despite the ongoing claims that snows are becoming rare and hurting winter sports, this millennium has been a blessing to snow lovers and winter sports enthusiasts.
Just as the Saffir-Simpson and Fujita Scales were devised to categorize hurricanes and tornadoes, the Northeast Snowfall Impact Scale (NESIS) was created by Paul Kocin and Louis Uccellini of the National Weather Service to rank high-impact Northeast storms. This scale has 5 categories including extreme, crippling, major, significant and notable. In addition to meteorological measurements, the index uses population information which provides an indication of a storm’s impacts on society. The NESIS scores are a function of the amount of snow, the area affected by the snowstorm and the number of people living in the path of the storm. The aerial distribution of snowfall and population information are combined in an equation that calculates a NESIS score which varies from around one for smaller storms to over 10 for extreme storms.
The last decade stands out like a sore thumb! It has had 29 major impact northeast winter storms with NO previous 10-year period with more than 10 storms! In Boston, 7 out of the last 10 years have produced snowfall above the average 43.7 inches. MORE
h/t Greenie Watch
Just like The Day After Tomorrow predicted!!!
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Baby boomers grew up during a period of cold that spawned a global cooling scare, so yes, they could rightly claim that winters are milder now. Of course, their perceptions of Winter have likely changed as they have aged. I clearly remember walking uphill to elementary school (both ways) in snow up to my knees. The snow hardly ever reaches my knees anymore. Proof of global warming.
We ain’t seen nothin’ yet. With the deepening Solar minimum, in another 10 years or so, the arable line for agriculture in the Northern Hemisphere is most likely going to move south by 200-300+ miles. And shortened growing seasons south of that line are going to change what can be grown.
68* and sunny in San Antonio 😉
Yeah, MPS, but it’s still San Antonio. Which is rapidly encroaching on my neighborhood.
Headed for snow this Thanksgiving, screw the city traffic.
From ACParker: ” I clearly remember walking uphill to elementary school (both ways) in snow up to my knees. The snow hardly ever reaches my knees anymore.”
Uhhh, are you taller now than when you were seven?
Forgot to answer the title’s question.
Mild Fall, so far. Sunny and coolish here in the Salt Lake valley. Should get to near 50 today and tomorrow. Rain for Thanksgiving with snow in the mountains. Snow on the valley floor by Saturday morning (not much, unless lake effect kicks in), then cooler (upper 30’s to mid-40’s), partly cloudy and unsettled into December. Still pretty mild.
Winter hasn’t really set in until around Christmas the past few years, and we haven’t been cursed with much, if any, ice fog. That is much preferred to October snow with ice fog for 6 to 8 weeks and valley snow lingering into April, which was closer to normal for this baby-boomer.
Spring and fall were nonexistent this year around here. We went from late snow to 85°, this fall we went from 85° directly to snow.
We’ve had 4 measurable snow falls in the past month, each occurring just as a new blanket of leaves fell.
I bet however, since I have a new snowmobile, it will 75° in January and mid February.
It was so cold, Bubba actually got in bed with Hildebeast.
Subtropical boring Florida weather, 75 with a little rain. Hurricanes not likely until next summer.
Millions of people in Florida will be running the oven and the AC at the same time.