Snow - A December To Remember

[Brians356]

Yesterday rang out the snowiest December on record in the Sierra Nevada. Starting the month with virtually no snow on the ground, the Central Sierra Snow Lab at Donner Pass received 213 inches of snowfall in the month, 142 inches just in the final 10 days. The Sierra snowpack currently holds 225% of the average water content for the date.



Contrary to popular narrative, there is no significant downward trend in Sierra snowfall. "The End Of Snow!" is fake news.


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[Bill Norris]

Just proves Al Gore was and still is WRONG.

 

[joshb]

They want all the sheep running scared.

 

[Walt Krafft]

Note to self, don't ever even think of moving to Donner Pass.

 

[brokeasajoke]

Ive gotten zero snow here in the Appalachian of WNC so far ☹

 

[JPTX]

I don't think anyone has said there's an end to snow. I do think it's obvious to most there has been some changes in weather patterns, which is the Climate Change.

 

[ckaberna]

Keep that crap up there!! Enjoy!

 

[1911nut]

Yesterday rang out the snowiest December on record in the Sierra Nevada. Starting the month with virtually no snow on the ground, the Central Sierra Snow Lab at Donner Pass received 213 inches of snowfall in the month, 142 inches just in the final 10 days. The Sierra snowpack currently holds 225% of the average water content for the date.

Contrary to popular narrative, there is no significant downward trend in Sierra snowfall. "The End Of Snow!" is fake news.


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That graph needs statistics. A quick count gave me 31 years 4 m or above from 1880 to 1950. 1950 to 2020 was 16 years 4 m or above

Ask Lake Mead and Lake Powell what they think.

 

[joshb]

“Ask Lake Mead and Lake Powell what they think.”
Is it from lack of rain/snow or because of massive land development bringing in thousands of people that use more water?

 

[D Coots]

I think I'll ask Greta to go skiing....

 

[1911nut]

“Ask Lake Mead and Lake Powell what they think.”
Is it from lack of rain/snow or because of massive land development bringing in thousands of people that use more water?

The first one

 

[spencerhenry]

The first one

There is so much more to it.

Climate change, nice catchy phrase. But, really doesn't mean diddly. The climate has, and always will change. The lefties want us to believe that WE have changed it. If anyone really believes that, then they should stop doing ANYTHING that puts carbon in the atmosphere. Like, burning wood for heat or ambiance, or turning on the lights, or heating the house, or driving any car, the list could go on and on.

 

[spencerhenry]

Oh, and yes, there are plenty of people that say it will not snow anymore. I live near Aspen, there are many people here that believe that.

 

[CJ6]

Yesterday rang out the snowiest December on record in the Sierra Nevada. Starting the month with virtually no snow on the ground, the Central Sierra Snow Lab at Donner Pass received 213 inches of snowfall in the month, 142 inches just in the final 10 days. The Sierra snowpack currently holds 225% of the average water content for the date.

Contrary to popular narrative, there is no significant downward trend in Sierra snowfall. "The End Of Snow!" is fake news.


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Send it to Southern Minnesota PLEASE.

 

[232]

Was there a climate change that ended the ICE AGE? I guess that was just normal, and the scientists forgot about it.
Wonder who the liberal cavemen blamed.

 

[BAM]

I don't think anyone has said there's an end to snow. I do think it's obvious to most there has been some changes in weather patterns, which is the Climate Change.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/12/03/snow-water-resources-california/

 

[ckaberna]

Was there a climate change that ended the ICE AGE? I guess that was just normal, and the scientists forgot about it.
Wonder who the liberal cavemen blamed.

Forget history....... then we create catastrophic events that scare everyone to vote the way we want...!!

 

[Rsadams]

Been mid 80s here in central Texas... Tonight though it will drop to freezing

 

[Brians356]

Note to self, don't ever even think of moving to Donner Pass.

You can't, there's no village there. It's a road sign on I-80 in National Forest.
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[Brians356]

The first one

Droughts are cyclical, as with all natural phenomena. The fact is we are living in a relatively moderate drought period in the Western US, which, outside the Pacific Northwest, is a fairly dry region:



Consider that the planet right now is nearly as cold as it has ever been in the past half a billion years. Earth has hosted permanent ice (sea ice and glaciers) less often than not. Ice on the planet is if anything "abnormal".

We are currently in a major ice age, the Late Cenozoic Ice Age, and still in its most recent glaciation period, the Quaternary Glaciation, within which we are in one of several periodic "interglacials" or warming cycles for the past ~12k years, during which ice sheets which covered much of N. America have receded.



Please point out the period of static global temperature above.

It's pure hubris to believe humans can affect this grand pattern of natural climate change. And even if we would try (at some terrible cost) why would we want to interrupt the current gradual warming? Humans can adapt more readily to warming than to cooling. After all, the current optimal climate, a blink of an eye during which time humanity has flourished, is due to gradual warming. Given where we are on the far right of the graphic above, would you prefer the temperature to a) gradually decline or b) gradually rise?
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