Sentences with phrase «winter snow totals»

Snowfall was above normal in northern New England, where some locations posted all - time record winter snow totals.

Not exact matches

As winters go, this season is pretty much on par with the total amount snow that typically falls in any given year in Central New York, but residents are fed up with all the white stuff that has fallen of late.

Despite a near - average winter precipitation total for California, Oregon, and Washington, the record warmth caused most of the precipitation to fall as rain and not snow, which had implications on the drought intensification and water resource crisis during the warm months.

In locations that are accustomed to getting snow during the winter, the total amount of snow each year is already decreasing as the planet warms from increasing greenhouse gases; the percentage of precipitation falling as snow is on the decline, with more of it falling as rain.

We live in Indiana and the past two winters have been horrible but this year we have only had 30 inches of snow totals when we normally have 100 and to tell you the truth I actually kind of miss it!

Wili: As ice volume decreases, the fraction of volume which is new ice increases, and hence the year to year variability in new ice becomes a larger fraction of the total ice volume variability, so I don't think the smoothed downward slope will stay as smooth, i.e. you should expect bigger surprises to the upside on a given winter if it is cold and has heavy snow fall.

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.

68 percent of California weather stations located between 2,000 and 5,000 feet have experienced declines in the ratio of snow to total winter precipitation from 1949 - 2004.

Indeed as as MarkW has said the extension during the austral winter of the surface of the antarctic ice up to 20 M km ² and 60 ° S would deserve a computation of the total albedo of (floating ice + snow cover)(over the southern and the northern hemispheres), with due account of the elevation of the Sun and of the clouds.

CL at # 45 wrote: «As ice volume decreases, the fraction of volume which is new ice increases, and hence the year to year variability in new ice becomes a larger fraction of the total ice volume variability, so I don't think the smoothed downward slope will stay as smooth, i.e. you should expect bigger surprises to the upside on a given winter if it is cold and has heavy snow fall.»

But, As Most of North America Warmer & Dried, Alaska is Breaking Snow & Cold Records Anchorage Daily News reports that as of 2 pm last Friday, the National Weather Service reports that Valdez has received a total of 272.1» of snow so far this winter, with 42» of snow falling in the last storm and a 6» snowpSnow & Cold Records Anchorage Daily News reports that as of 2 pm last Friday, the National Weather Service reports that Valdez has received a total of 272.1» of snow so far this winter, with 42» of snow falling in the last storm and a 6» snowpsnow so far this winter, with 42» of snow falling in the last storm and a 6» snowpsnow falling in the last storm and a 6» snowpack.

We have had a winter with record - breaking snowfall totals, with more snow than the previous year.