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A great image: 2016 Blizzard by Moonlight

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A massive winter storm system pummeled the eastern United States in late January 2016, with two low-pressure systems merging into a potent nor’easter that dropped heavy snow from Virginia to New England. By late afternoon on Jan. 23, snowfall totals were approaching records in several states, and hurricane-force winds were battering the coastlines and leading to serious flooding. The storm was expected to continue through the morning of Jan. 24.

The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite acquired this image of the storm system at 2:15 a.m. EST on Jan. 23. It was composed through the use of the VIIRS “day-night band,” which detects faint light signals such as city lights, moonlight, airglow, and auroras. In the image, the clouds are lit from above by the nearly full Moon and from below by the lights of the heavily populated East Coast. The city lights are blurred in places by cloud cover.

Snow totals have topped 30 inches in at least four states, and at least 12 inches have been recorded at locations in eight states, with many more hours left to the storm. Snowfall rates reached as high as three inches per hour, and blizzard warnings were in effect from Virginia to Massachusetts through Jan. 24. As of 2:30 p.m. EST on Jan. 23, the National Weather Service reported snow totals of 40 inches in Glengary, W.V., 33 inches in Frederick, Md., 23.5 inches at Dulles Airport near Washington and 16.2 inches at the National Zoo in Washington.
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Wish we'd get even a 10th of that here :S

EDIT: This winter starting to look like a bust for any major snow events here - 15 day forecasts looking mild with less and less chance of colder weather :| (slight possibility for an early Feb SSW event but unlikely) - not really surprising though we still have ~15 years on the current (milder) Atlantic oscillation and only just onto the declining edge of the current el nino and solar cycles.
 
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I'm so glad we didnt get any snow at all yesterday, so far this year weve had about 7" last year we already ready had about 3ft. The problem is the southern states dont have the infrastructure like the northern states do, so just like britain if they they get hit with snow it causes chaos.
 
Storm passing:

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A combination of the day-night band and high resolution infrared imagery from the NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite showed the historic blizzard as it moved north of the Mid-Atlantic and over the New York Metropolitan area and southern New England at 06:55 UTC (1:55 a.m. EST) on January 24, 2016. The nighttime lights of the region were blurred by the high cloud tops associated with the storm.

On Sunday, January 24, 2016 at 3:55 a.m. EST NOAA's National Weather Service Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland said "Snow is tapering off over the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast as the winter storm system tracks further offshore. This system dumped copious amounts of snow over West Virginia, Virginia, Washington D.C., Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. A few locations came close to, or surpassed all-time 1-day and 2-day snow records. Accumulations of 2 to 3 feet were common, with a few isolated areas in the West Virginia and Maryland panhandles measuring 3.5 feet."
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Some records:

Snowfall Records Broken in Mid-Atlantic

This storm set quite a number of snowfall records in the Mid-Atlantic north to New York City on January 23, 2016. In the Baltimore/Washington metro area, all three airports recorded record snowfall according to NOAA's National Weather Service.


A record snowfall of 11.3 inches was set at Washington Reagan National airport. This breaks the old record of 11.0 set in 1935. A record snowfall of 25.5 inches was set at Baltimore BWI Thurgood Marshall airport. This breaks the old record of 11.5 set in 1935. A record snowfall for the day of 22.1 inches was set at Washington Dulles airport yesterday. This breaks the old record of 1.7 set in 1982.


Snowfall records also fell from Richmond, Virginia to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The NWS noted that a record snowfall of 5.3 inches was set at Richmond, Virginia. This breaks the old record of 2.7 inches set back in 1908. In central Pennsylvania, snow totals were much higher. A record daily snowfall of 26.4 inches was set at Harrisburg. This breaks the old record of 9.5 inches set on January 23 in 1982. A continuous weather record has been kept at Harrisburg since 1888.


Snowfall Records Fall in the Northeast


Newark, New Jersey, Central Park in New York City and Connecticut also reported record-breaking snowfall on January 23.


A record snowfall of 27.5 inches was set at Newark, New Jersey. This breaks the old record of 4.5 set in 2005.


According to the National Weather Service, Central Park received the second greatest storm total snowfall set and the greatest daily snowfall record. Storm total snowfall for the current snowstorm at midnight was at 26.8 inches. This is only 0.1 inch shy of the all-time record storm total snowfall of 26.9 inches...set during the snowstorm of February 11-12 2006. A record all time daily snowfall record snowfall of 26.6 has also been set at the park. The previous record was 24.1 inches...set on Feb 12 2006.


To the northeast in Connecticut, a record snowfall of 12 inches was set at Bridgeport. This breaks the old record of 7.1 set in 1965.


In Westerly, Rhode Island, 10.5 inches of snow were reported and East Harwich, Massachusetts on Cape Cod reported 15.5 inches.
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Landsat sees the blizzard on the 24th:


Landsat 8 acquired a clear view—from South Carolina to Pennsylvania— the day after a blizzard covered much of the eastern United States in snow. Watch as more than 620 miles (1,000 km) of landscape are shown in detail
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Watches video waits for global warming/climate change mention and there it is......

" The long term trend is for more storms "

Oh shut up lol, just like in 2003 the long term trend was for hotter drier summers and high heat becoming a common place. Which it hasn't :(
 
Neil79 said:
Watches video waits for global warming/climate change mention and there it is......

" The long term trend is for more storms "

Oh shut up lol, just like in 2003 the long term trend was for hotter drier summers and high heat becoming a common place. Which it hasn't :(
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I imagine "long term" is somewhat longer than 10 - 15 years.
 
Neil79 said:
Watches video waits for global warming/climate change mention and there it is......

" The long term trend is for more storms "

Oh shut up lol, just like in 2003 the long term trend was for hotter drier summers and high heat becoming a common place. Which it hasn't :(
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Oh dear, global warming had never meant hot drier summers. It's average global temperature.

Local weather vary much depends.
The massive snow storms in the us the last few years have been down to global warming, higher temps in the pacific ocean has increased water in the atmosphere, which had then precipitated out over the us.
 
Glaucus said:
Oh dear, global warming had never meant hot drier summers. It's average global temperature.

Local weather vary much depends.
The massive snow storms in the us the last few years have been down to global warming, higher temps in the pacific ocean has increased water in the atmosphere, which had then precipitated out over the us.
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I really hate the representation of global warming/climate change - take that video posted above https://youtu.be/7Ra1qugDXsU?t=120

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While I can't get the exact data they are working from - the red annotations are from nearby glaciers - now obviously the overall trend is a concerning one - if you look at the 2010 position in context of the historical positions there is no doubt that the current overall trend is a concerning one but the picture is far less alarming if you look at it in context of the ~300 year average and not try to represent the most extreme historic peak (1862) as the starting line and infact between 1942 (which was an unparalleled at the time historic dip) and 2000 it almost returned to the average (~1970 was a small peak).

Won't lie the trend after 2000 has been an unparalleled decline in modern history - but its also happened at the same time as we've hit a cocktail of natural warming conditions - I'll be much more concerned if that trend continues after the various oscillations and cycles flip to the cooler parts of their cycles.
 
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