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Posted on 12/18/2021 1:13:15 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
A white Christmas seems to be slowly morphing from a reliable reality to a dream of snowy holidays past for large swaths of the United States in recent decades.
Analysis of 40 years of December 25 U.S. snow measurements shows that less of the country has snow for Christmas than in the 1980s.
The numbers are small enough that it’s difficult to tell whether this is a meaningful trend and, if so, whether climate change or natural weather variability is the cause, said University of Arizona atmospheric scientist Xubin Zeng, who ran the data.
Still, Zeng, who has published studies on decreasing snowpack in the western U.S. being connected to climate change, said the downward slide of white Christmases is consistent with global warming.
In 20 to 30 years “with climate warming, the prospects of a white Christmas in many parts of the U.S.A. will be slim indeed,” said Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado.
Several meteorologists cautioned about finding trends in complex data where both precipitation and temperature are factors. But despite those issues, fewer white Christmases seems associated with warmer temperatures from climate change, said Northern Illinois University meteorology professor Victor Gensini.
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Then it's not a trend.
Good God, what utter nonsense.
I have never experienced a white Christmas.
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So the author is tying to make a mountain out of a mole hill.
I’ve had about six. Not bad in the south. One was even in Florida!
“The numbers are small enough that it’s difficult to tell whether this is a meaningful trend and, if so, whether climate change or natural weather variability is the cause...”
Climate change IS natural weather variability.
“There’s no trend. You just don’t see it,” Robinson said.
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Libs gotta keep advancing the narrative even if it's a false one.
I’m sitting in my house in northern Idaho watching the snow come down like Oobleck. If it slacks off I might get a chance to snow-blow the driveway enough to get another load of wood down from the barn without using a sled. The fridge is full of beer and I have Christmas music cued up on the stereo. My Christmas will be white but then so was the Donner party’s...
In Stamford we have 44 degrees and cloudy.
snowing out right now!
I’ve lived in the South my whole life (not in the mountains), and average daytime temperatures in November and December can range from the 40s to the 60s, so snow in December is rare unless you do live at a higher elevation. The coldest part of winter here falls in January or February.
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These people hate Christmas but they’ll try to use it as a Global Warming club to beat us with.
Not working jerks, get some new material.
Once on another forum I posed that we were having a white Christmas.
One of the social justice warriors demanded to know what I meant by that.
I replied it was Christmas and it was snowing in North Texas.
He not only apologized but he was a lot less angry for some time afterwards. He got a look in the proverbial mirror and must not have liked what he saw.
Mine currently is, with a forecast for more late next week. It certainly ain’t “green”.
We had snow on my wife’s birthday several years ago here in Ctrl MO. Her birthday is May 4th.
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