If you've been listening to the news, you know that meteorologists are barely able to contain themselves over the glory of the storm currently pummeling most of the US. Here's what it looks like from space:
Click the image to see the WIRED story.
Meteorologists predict that the storm will bury snowfall records across the Midwest. In the East, it’s expected to deliver ice storms that could cause $1 billion in damage. It’s the latest in a string of storms fitting a pattern predicted by climate scientists. As the world warms up, the air can hold more moisture, loading storm systems with more water that’s ultimately dumped back onto the Earth.
Yes, global warming = more dramatic winter weather! It's a wild, wild world. And exciting! SNOWPOCALYPSE FOR ALL!
Chris
Click the image to see the WIRED story.
Meteorologists predict that the storm will bury snowfall records across the Midwest. In the East, it’s expected to deliver ice storms that could cause $1 billion in damage. It’s the latest in a string of storms fitting a pattern predicted by climate scientists. As the world warms up, the air can hold more moisture, loading storm systems with more water that’s ultimately dumped back onto the Earth.
Yes, global warming = more dramatic winter weather! It's a wild, wild world. And exciting! SNOWPOCALYPSE FOR ALL!
Chris
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Gah.
Edited at 2011-02-01 08:20 pm (UTC)
It looks like someone smeared frosting on our corner of the globe.
So, I have to sort of wonder about the energy crisis of the early 70s and the crazy snowiness that winters then had as well. Were we just unable to measure worldwide climate as well back then? Without Internet, did we just not hear about what was happening?
Rhetorical questions, really.
I had to shovel to get the mail.
Which is six feet from the front door.
Me, I shoveled the snow out from around my parked & bagged Vespa, parked on the front stoop under the eaves, several feet away and eight inches up from the sidewalk. Rather, BURIED IN A GIANT DRIFT, I mean.
Have you ever posted photos of said Trip? I don't recall seeing any and I wanna!
Doesn't look like it's been down! How much are you asking, again? That's the fourth generation, right? What year? I wants!
..oh... and -25C wind chill tonight.
Edited at 2011-02-01 09:13 pm (UTC)
Sunny and cold (for Seattle) here.
Oh, and blowing, drifting snow as it still dumps down....
But a tiny voice in my head thinks it looks like the US's angry ex-girlfriend has erased his picture from the globe.
LOL!