{"id":385257,"date":"2010-03-03T07:30:17","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T12:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/?p=35752"},"modified":"2010-03-03T07:30:17","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T12:30:17","slug":"2001-2010-was-the-snowiest-decade-on-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/385257","title":{"rendered":"2001-2010 was the Snowiest Decade on Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2010\/03\/02\/2001-2010-was-the-snowiest-decade-on-record\/\">Steven Goddard<br \/>\nWatts Up With That?<\/a><br \/>\nMarch 3, 2010<\/p>\n<p>Now that we have reached the end of the meteorological winter (December-February,) Rutgers University <a href=\"http:\/\/climate.rutgers.edu\/snowcover\/files\/moncov.nhland.txt\">Global Snow Lab numbers<\/a> (1967-2010) show that the just completed decade (2001-2010) had the snowiest Northern Hemisphere winters on record. \u00a0The just completed winter was also the second snowiest on record, exceeded only by 1978. \u00a0Average winter snow extent during the past decade was greater than 45,500,000 km2, beating out the 1960s by about 70,000 km2, and beating out the 1990s by nearly 1,000,000 km2. \u00a0The bar chart below shows average winter snow extent for each decade going back to the late 1960s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/2000_decade_snow.png\" rel=\"lightbox[35752]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"2000_decade_snow\" src=\"http:\/\/nw0.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/HLIC\/959062e96676d7341300a0dc3dd407f8.png\" alt=\"undefined\" width=\"510\" height=\"356\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are a few interesting facts.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Average winter snow extent has increased since the 1990s, by nearly the area of Texas and California combined.<\/li>\n<li>Three of the four snowiest winters in the Rutgers record occurred during the last decade \u2013 the top four winters are (in order) 1978, 2010, 2008, 2003<\/li>\n<li>The third week of February, 2010 had the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/climate.rutgers.edu\/snowcover\/table_area.php?ui_set=0&amp;amp;ui_sort=2\">second highest weekly extent<\/a> (52,170,000 m2) out of the 2,229 week record<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.tv\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: black 0px solid;\" src=\"http:\/\/nw0.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/HLIC\/bfbe2065eceed0f0214f5d2b43dc886e.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"2001 2010 was the Snowiest Decade on Record 190110banner4\" width=\"340\" height=\"169\" title=\"2001 2010 was the Snowiest Decade on Record Photo\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bar graph below shows winter data for each year in the Rutgers database, color coded by decade. \u00a0The yellow line shows the mean winter snow extent through the period. \u00a0Note that the past decade only had two winters below 45 million km2. \u00a0The 1990s had seven winters below the 45 million km2, the 1980s had five winters below 45 million km2, and the 1970s had four winters below 45 million km2. \u00a0This indicates that the past decade not only had the most snowfall, but it also had the most consistently high snowfall, year over year.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/winter_snow_extent_1967-2010.png\" rel=\"lightbox[35752]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"winter_snow_extent_1967-2010\" src=\"http:\/\/nw0.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/HLIC\/22f62b952205975dd0f825124d5f3fa2.png\" alt=\"2001 2010 was the Snowiest Decade on Record \" width=\"510\" height=\"490\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It appears that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/environment\/snowfalls-are-now-just-a-thing-of-the-past-724017.html\">AGW claims of the demise of snowfall<\/a> have been exaggerated. \u00a0And so far things are not looking very good for the <a href=\"http:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2010\/02\/19\/north-america-snow-models-miss-the-mark\/\">climate model predictions<\/a> of declining snowfall in the 21st century.<\/p>\n<p>Many regions of the Northern Hemisphere have seen record snowfall this winter, including <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2010\/feb\/07\/nation\/la-na-dc-snow7-2010feb07\">Washington D.C<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/8529506.stm\">Moscow<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk\/2010\/jan\/04\/record-snow-china-south-korea\">China, and Korea<\/a>. \u00a0Dr. Hansen\u2019s office at Columbia University has seen record snowfall, and <a href=\"http:\/\/nw0.eu\/tag\/al-gore\" class=\"st_tag internal_tag\" rel=\"tag nofollow\" title=\"Posts tagged with al gore\">Al Gore<\/a> has ineptly\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/2010\/02\/28\/2010-02-28_dont_believe_white_lies_says_al_gore_recordbreaking_snow_is_due_to_global_warmin.html\">described the record snow<\/a> :<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cJust as it\u2019s important not to miss the forest for the trees, neither should we miss the climate for the snowstorm,\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A decade long record across the entire Northern Hemisphere is not appropriately described as a \u201csnowstorm.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"crp_related\">\n<h3>Possibly Related Posts:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nw0.eu\/2010\/01\/12\/december-2009-second-snowiest-on-record-in-the-northern-hemisphere.html\" rel=\"bookmark\" class=\"crp_title\">December 2009: Second Snowiest on Record in the Northern Hemisphere<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nw0.eu\/2009\/12\/21\/record-snowfalls-in-valdez-alaska-sinks-boat-and-washington-dc-gets-a-new-snowfall-record.html\" rel=\"bookmark\" class=\"crp_title\">Record snowfalls in Valdez Alaska sinks boat and Washington DC gets a new snowfall record<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nw0.eu\/2010\/02\/18\/northern-hemisphere-snow-extent-second-highest-on-record.html\" rel=\"bookmark\" class=\"crp_title\">Northern Hemisphere Snow Extent Second Highest on Record<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a 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March 3, 2010 Now that we have reached the end of the meteorological winter (December-February,) Rutgers University Global Snow Lab numbers (1967-2010) show that the just completed decade (2001-2010) had the snowiest Northern Hemisphere winters on record. \u00a0The just completed winter was also the second snowiest on record, exceeded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}