In winter, you can
see heavy snow and ice storms that cause damage to roofs and pipes.
While it is true that warmer temperatures can produce heavier snow — as anyone who lives within range of lake - effect snow, which mostly falls before the Great Lakes freeze over or become too cold to generate the condensation responsible for heavy snow, can attest — we have been
seeing both heavier snow and colder temperatures, both in the United States and in Europe, and not merely this winter, but for a number of winters running.
Not exact matches
Today the
snow is coming down
heavier than I've
seen it in a long time (we have a Red Met Office weather warning which has never been
seen here before) so I'm cosied up in layers of wool and sharing an outfit from last weekend.
After an overnight dump of six or so inches of wet,
heavy snow, I was interested to
see how whether the A3 would make it out of my neighborhood on unplowed roads (and uphill, to boot).
We had
seen other cars get stuck in the
heavy snow pack and worried what the GL450, what with its bouncy suspension and high center of gravity, would do if it hit a
snow berm at a bad angle.
In several illustrations, we
see copious white for the abundant
snow, as
heavy - hearted Brimsby trudges forward to make someone's acquaintance.
Tennessee only
sees around 6.3 inches of
snow every year, but it is typically never
heavy.
Winter Storm Niko is expected to bring
heavy snow with many areas
seeing 6 - 12 inches of
snow.
Yet, as soon as you peek out of the blinds, you
see stormy skies,
heavy rainfall or even
snow, and your plans are ruined!
All I can
see are trees, sagging
heavy from weeks worth of fresh
snow.
For the entire Northern Hemisphere, there is evidence of an increase in both storm frequency and intensity during the cold season since 1950,1 with storm tracks having shifted slightly towards the poles.2, 3 Extremely
heavy snowstorms increased in number during the last century in northern and eastern parts of the United States, but have been less frequent since 2000.11,15 Total seasonal snowfall has generally decreased in southern and some western areas, 16 increased in the northern Great Plains and Great Lakes region, 16,17 and not changed in other areas, such as the Sierra Nevada, although
snow is melting earlier in the year and more precipitation is falling as rain versus
snow.18 Very snowy winters have generally been decreasing in frequency in most regions over the last 10 to 20 years, although the Northeast has been
seeing a normal number of such winters.19
Heavier - than - normal snowfalls recently observed in the Midwest and Northeast U.S. in some years, with little
snow in other years, are consistent with indications of increased blocking (a large scale pressure pattern with little or no movement) of the wintertime circulation of the Northern Hemisphere.5 However, conclusions about trends in blocking have been found to depend on the method of analysis, 6 so the assessment and attribution of trends in blocking remains an active research area.
«While it may seem contradictory, those
snows are actually something Greenland may
see more of with global warming, as the atmosphere becomes primed to dump more
heavy precipitation.
the Greenland ice sheet has
seen a small positive change in ice for this year, The unusual year is mainly down to
heavy snow and rain in winter and a relatively short and intermittent summer melt season.
Syrian refugee camps in Jordan
saw their flimsy shelters collapsed by the
heavy snows.
This snowpack accumulation near the poles, which gets its water via the Arctic and Antarctic oceans, that in turn rob it from equatorial latitudes of our oceans, also results in a reduction in the earth's spin axis moment of inertia and causes the spin rate to increase as evidenced in the recent history of the rate at which Leap Seconds are added to our calendar (
see Wysmuller's Toucan Equation for more on this evidence that during this warm time with much greater polar humidity, earlier seasonal, later seasonal and
heavier snows are beginning to move water vapor from the oceans to the poles to re-build the polar ice caps and lead us into a global cooling, while man - made CO2 continues to increase http://www.colderside.com/faq.htm).
Early
snow was limited, Januaries were often cold and sunny and March and April often
saw heavy precipitation down to valley levels.
The «Beast from the East» was the name given by the media to an unusual weather pattern which
saw warmer that average temperatures over the arctic sending colder air further south than normal, resulting in much of western Europe being hit with sustained low temperatures and
heavy snow, blown in from Siberia.
See for example the ludicrous desalination plants built in Australia, or the ten successive years of positive bias in year - ahead temperature forecasts in the UK, and the local difficulties encountered with shortage of de-icing resources at airports and for roads after
heavy snow followed not long after forecasts of a mild winter there.
Geographic situations can also induce unseasonable
SNOW, even here in Australia we have had heavy snow just west of the Sydney basin and it is not yet Winter, with our «snow fields» already seeing very heavy falls (for Austral
SNOW, even here in Australia we have had
heavy snow just west of the Sydney basin and it is not yet Winter, with our «snow fields» already seeing very heavy falls (for Austral
snow just west of the Sydney basin and it is not yet Winter, with our «
snow fields» already seeing very heavy falls (for Austral
snow fields» already
seeing very
heavy falls (for Australia).
The Third National Climate Assessment shows that some regions of the country have
seen as much as a 71 percent increase in the amount of rain or
snow falling in the
heaviest storms between 1958 and 2012.
My own locality on the coastal plain of Virginia [where
snow is an anomaly, for sure]
saw a change over to brief
heavy snow this evening, as adiabatic cooling did its dirty work.
Tennessee only
sees around 6.3 inches of
snow every year, but it is typically never
heavy.
Although inclement weather in the form of ice and
snow are rarely
seen in this area, other weather occurrences such as
heavy rain can cause drivers to get into accidents while operating their vehicles.
You never know when Tennessee may
see a large
snow that is too
heavy for the rooftops in your neighborhood, including the roof of the condo or other property you rent.
Kentucky also
sees flooding, rockslides and
heavy snow quite frequently.
Frequently operate equipment such as
heavy dump truck, post pounder, brush cutter, billy goat blower, chainsaw, circular
saw, pressure washer,
snow blower, pionjar jackhammer, walk behind weed trimmer, hand, and air tools