It's snowing like a biatch here in the heartland of the US. They have closed everything in anticipation of it. Guess I'll get a bottle of rum on the way home. I may be there for a while.

It's not global warming anymore. No one was buying that. It's global climate change. Now it's impossible to be wrong.

Wow...welcome to Fark most of you...

Gonna be 70 here tomorrow, woot!

The old adage, "it's too cold to snow", has some truth to it, and there is research supporting the idea that the average climate in the U.S. is colder than optimal to support the heaviest snowstorms. For example, Changnon et al. (2006) found that for the contiguous U.S. between 1900 - 2001, 61% - 80% of all heavy snowstorms of 6+ inches occurred during winters with above normal temperatures. The authors also found that 61% - 85% of all heavy snowstorms of 6+ inches occurred during winters that were wetter than average. The authors conclude, "a future with wetter and warmer winters, which is one outcome expected (National Assessment Synthesis Team 2001), will bring more heavy snowstorms of 6+ inches than in 1901 - 2000." The authors found that over the U.S. as a whole, there had been a slight but significant increase in heavy snowstorms of 6+ inches than in 1901 - 2000. If the climate continues to warm, we should expect an increase in heavy snow events for a few decades, until the climate grows so warm that we pass the point where winter temperatures are at the optimum for heavy snow events.

/from Jeff Masters at Weather Underground

So it's a good time to live in Florida then? Make fun of us all you want, at least it doesn't snow here!

cretinbob: Climate change does not turn off the seasons subfarktard

xanadian: Inflammatory headline is inflammatory.

Either that, or subtard doesn't understand thermodynamics and the hydrological cycle...

AAAAAAAND you both fell for it.

/too obvious
//not subby

I love how all the global warming freaks, love to freak out when someone cracks a joke about it.

/lighten up Francis

The funny thing is that the only people smart enough to believe in global warming are the only people dumb enough to get trolled by this headline.

wizzardofxxxx: So it's a good time to live in Florida then? Make fun of us all you want, at least it doesn't snow here!

Didn't it snow like two weeks ago down there?

cretinbob: Climate change does not turn off the seasons subfarktard

Didn't get the memo? Its Climate Disruption now.

Don't you idiots get it? Warming causes freezing temperatures! When they said 10 years ago there would be no more snow and were wrong - it just proves that the global warming is worse then we thought. We can't talk about it anymore. Gore said the debate is over. Science is all about making a decision and not discussing it anymore. We used computer simulations to prove global warming. Computer simulations are never wrong..EVER. You people hate science.

lordaction: Warming causes freezing temperatures!

When the temperature goes from 26 to 28 it certainly does.

NPR had a great interview with a climatologist recently. He basically said that global warming IS happening, but this is not an example of it. Global warming takes much longer and this is simply a very wet year because of air patterns.

cretinbob: Meanwhile, in Australia (new window)

//Fark thread (new window)

WOW...just WOW Can you imagine a cyclone happening in Australia during Cyclon season.

/I will leave this (new window)here for you...

Wettner: wizzardofxxxx: So it's a good time to live in Florida then? Make fun of us all you want, at least it doesn't snow here!

Didn't it snow like two weeks ago down there?

Maybe? I didn't get it where I live. Usually if it 'snows' here it's just flurries and melts before it hits the ground. You see it for like a second and then it's gone.

Spanky_McFarksalot: cretinbob: Climate change does not turn off the seasons subfarktard

Didn't get the memo? Its Climate Disruption now.

I heard it was called Catastrophic Environmental Change

/in other news, in Canada we call this "normal"

The newscasters here in Houston are already prepping their Snowpocalypse 2011 coverage.

12349876: The old adage, "it's too cold to snow", has some truth to it, and there is research supporting the idea that the average climate in the U.S. is colder than optimal to support the heaviest snowstorms. For example, Changnon et al. (2006) found that for the contiguous U.S. between 1900 - 2001, 61% - 80% of all heavy snowstorms of 6+ inches occurred during winters with above normal temperatures. The authors also found that 61% - 85% of all heavy snowstorms of 6+ inches occurred during winters that were wetter than average. The authors conclude, "a future with wetter and warmer winters, which is one outcome expected (National Assessment Synthesis Team 2001), will bring more heavy snowstorms of 6+ inches than in 1901 - 2000." The authors found that over the U.S. as a whole, there had been a slight but significant increase in heavy snowstorms of 6+ inches than in 1901 - 2000. If the climate continues to warm, we should expect an increase in heavy snow events for a few decades, until the climate grows so warm that we pass the point where winter temperatures are at the optimum for heavy snow events.

/from Jeff Masters at Weather Underground

Sounds about right. Here in Toronto Canada, we are only getting about 30 cm of snow(No idea how many inches that is). The US mid western states have been hammered with snow this year, and we have barely recieved any.

Come to Canada for less snow you Mid Western Eskimo's or build a better igloo.

Snow? In the midwest? OMG, the apocolypse has come!!

Meanwhile we had frost here in Seattle last night.


Not bragging. Actually kinda annoyed. Wouldn't mind getting a few inches here.

Are there seriously people who don't believe that our emissions are causing climate change?
It's funny that the rest of the world all agrees it's happening, but the conservatards in the US have managed to cause a "controversy" about it. It's ridiculous.

Don't this happen every farking year?
/We got snow a month later than usual

I've never seen more than 9 inches of snowfall in a single storm before, so I'm actually somewhat excited about this. I'm working from home today and tomorrow, which is code for "playing Madden in sweatpants all day", so I say bring on the storm! Kind of bummed I can't go out running though...Even with the balaclava and full-on Under Armour, I don't think my legs would be up to the challenge.

We've got 6 inches and counting of Global Warming^TM here in Texoma. Suck it, libtards.

the1hatman: cretinbob: Climate change does not turn off the seasons subfarktard

xanadian: Inflammatory headline is inflammatory.

Either that, or subtard doesn't understand thermodynamics and the hydrological cycle...

AAAAAAAND you both fell for it.

/too obvious
//not subby

There should be no points awarded for trolling the global warming crowd. It's too easy.

As a CA resident who, every time there's an earthquake, fire or flood thread about my state, has to read a bunch of childish vitriol about how we should fall into the ocean or how we should just move or how absolutely stupid we all are just because we live in a place that skips the shiatty seasons, let me just say...Fark all of y'all. I have no sympathy whatsoever.

70 and sunny today biatches!

trollers gonna troll

I am begging for a snow day here in NW Oregon. I don't think we are going to see any accumulation on the valley floor this winter. :(

I'm waiting... Morning commute sucked, but it has since slowed way down. Which is good, because I am out of coffee. Hopefully I will have time to stock up on the necessities before it gets truly ugly.

wizzardofxxxx: So it's a good time to live in Florida then? Make fun of us all you want, at least it doesn't snow here!

Yes, but you have to live in Florida.

Srsly, our extreme weather situation involves me cranking up the wood stove and the oil lamps for a few days, while kicking back with a bottle of wine and a good book or three.

Yours involves things (new window) that are a little less pleasant.

I'll take the snow, thanks.

the1hatman: cretinbob: Climate change does not turn off the seasons subfarktard

xanadian: Inflammatory headline is inflammatory.

Either that, or subtard doesn't understand thermodynamics and the hydrological cycle...

AAAAAAAND you both fell for it.

/too obvious
//not subby


Yeah, I dunno if subby gets the full 10, but its up there..

Why does snow hate America?

Shaggy_C: I've never seen more than 9 inches of snowfall in a single storm before, so I'm actually somewhat excited about this. I'm working from home today and tomorrow, which is code for "playing Madden in sweatpants all day", so I say bring on the storm! Kind of bummed I can't go out running though...Even with the balaclava and full-on Under Armour, I don't think my legs would be up to the challenge.

CSB:

Back in Jan 2004, my little sandbar got hammer with a storm we call White Juan (as we got hit by hurricane Juan the previous fall). I managed to get into work for my 7am shift at a call center, and was the only person who got in for the queue I took. 12 hours later: 37 inches on the ground, and 8 ft drifts. Didn't get out of the center until noon the next day.

/snow is nothing
//'99 icestorm in Eastern Ontario, THAT was scary

smallerGov: cretinbob: Meanwhile, in Australia (new window)

//Fark thread (new window)

WOW...just WOW Can you imagine a cyclone happening in Australia during Cyclon season.


I'm personally more concerned about Cylon season.

X-boxershorts: stupiderGov: cretinbob: Meanwhile, in Australia (new window)

//Fark thread (new window)

WOW...just WOW Can you imagine a cyclone happening in Australia during Cyclon season.

/I will leave this (new window)here for you...

It's not that it's just another cyclone. It's that the cyclone is twice the size of Texas.

Twice the size of Texas is still small.

/Alasktard
//I can see Sarah Palin from my house
///And I hate it

Bring on the thundersnow! Too bad I won't get to see it because of a blizzard.

Lost_at_sea: I love how all the global warming freaks, love to freak out when someone cracks a joke about it.

xanadian: Inflammatory headline is inflammatory.

Either that, or subtard doesn't understand thermodynamics and the hydrological cycle...

Something is something? Thanks for that entirely redundant response to such an obviously baited headline.

wippit: 37 inches on the ground, and 8 ft drifts

Or, as we call it, "Tuesday"

/I keed
//Like 6 inches of snow total all winter in Wasilla
///Which is near anchorage. It is farking up my rotation

we hit 70 on Saturday and still sitting around 60 today. I can't imagine what -9 feels like. I did a stint in Buffalo, NY in Jan. a few years back, it was cold but not -9. and I have never seen that much snow. the drifts where 8 ft. high...

LostInTO: Sounds about right. Here in Toronto Canada, we are only getting about 30 cm of snow(No idea how many inches that is).

30 centimeters is right around a foot.

1 foot = 30.48 centimeters