Somehow it wouldn't feel right in the "Age of Obama" not to post this! ; )
Posted on 12/13/2009 3:32:38 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
(Dec. 11) -- The weather might seem complex, but the recipe for snow isn't as complicated as the recipe for Grandma's fruitcake. All that's needed is cold air and precipitation, and both look potentially abundant throughout the rest of the month, leading to the possibility of a more widespread white Christmas in 2009 than in recent years.
The likelihood of a white Christmas is always high -- greater than 75 percent -- in the northern tier of the country and in the mountains of the West. However, the presence of an El Niño and the threat of colder-than-normal weather will increase the chances of a white Christmas in the Deep South and along the Eastern Seaboard.
The cold air part of the snow recipe has been predicted by computer models that we meteorologists use to help with long-range forecasts. The coupled forecast system, a U.S. government forecasting model, has consistently predicted (since November) that temperatures in the entire eastern half of the country, including the Deep South, will be 1 to 3 degrees colder than normal in December, and it's currently forecasting cold weather for most of the nation for the remainder of the month.
Cold air without storms won't result in snow, of course, but storms combined with cold air might. And storms are more likely than normal where the cold weather is forecast because of a strengthening El Niño. An El Niño is when sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific are warmer than normal, and the moisture and energy from this warm ocean water promotes a storm track across the southern part of the United States. These storms often turn northward along the East Coast.
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We already snow capped mountains here in Sierra Vista Arizona.
Man made global climate warming, change, polar melting, ALGORE profit, missing data, panic e-mailed, Bull Crap.
Global Warming is just awful, I tellya
Somehow it wouldn't feel right in the "Age of Obama" not to post this! ; )
“Conditions Ripe for a White Christmas”
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And that’s on top of the snow job we’re getting from Washington.
So much for global warming.
We’ve got snow capped everything here in Iowa.
It is seven below zero and snowing out of Helena. El Nino usually causes us to have a warm, dry winter but so far our winter has been unusually cold and snowy.
Friday Joe Biden came to Hartford, CT to attend a luncheon for Dodd to raise money for his campaign, even though Dodd didn’t attend. The temperature was in the twenties with 20 mph winds. There were several dump Dodd protesters outside the location. We were chanting “What do we want? Global Warming! When do we want it? Now!”
Merry Christmas SandRat.
lol, and thank you!!!
wait... what?
Merry Christ - Mass freekitty
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