The picture above (which I did not take) was taken in The Colony, Texas, which is about 30 miles or so north of downtown Dallas. As you may have heard, the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex had record snowfall amounts on Thursday and Friday (and possibly a little into Saturday in some places, too). The "official" total at DFW Airport was 12.5 inches! I live in a suburb of Dallas, and we got at least 10 inches by me. I'm not sure exactly how much The Colony got, but by the looks of that picture it seems to be a fair amount. Most, if not all, of the snow was gone by Saturday night. The average snowfall for the DFW area is 2.5 inches per year. We obviously shattered that with just this one storm, and it's not including snow that we received earlier this winter.This is all very pretty to look at, and it also reminds me why I'm glad I don't live up north any more!
No more snow is forecast in my area for the week, but the temperatures are going to be well below normal. The average high this time of year in the DFW area is 60 degrees F. The temperature forecast for the upcoming week has our highs in the 40s and 50s most days, with the slim possibility that we might hit that normal high of 60 on Thursday. This is actually a warmup compared to the last 10 days or so.
On another note...the global warming folks are framing this latest snow event (where 49 out of 50 states had snow on the ground on Friday...even Florida!) as a sign that moisture in the atmosphere is increasing due to global warming, and therefore, there will be increased chances for precipitation in the form of rain or snow. Perhaps that's true to a point. But doesn't global warming also suppose that the temperatures of the earth are getting warmer? That sure doesn't seem to be the case at the moment, nor has it seemed to be the case for quite a while. From things I've read and seen, it seems like these fluctuations in temperature have been going on for millenia, well before humans ever got here (and obviously well before fossil fuels were burned). Some of this happens to be the "cycle" that the earth is in at the moment...maybe some warming in certain areas, but generally little to no change in the earth's temperatures. Some areas may even be cooling a little bit. That would explain this massive snow event that took place in Dallas and throughout the United States this past weekend.
On another note...the global warming folks are framing this latest snow event (where 49 out of 50 states had snow on the ground on Friday...even Florida!) as a sign that moisture in the atmosphere is increasing due to global warming, and therefore, there will be increased chances for precipitation in the form of rain or snow. Perhaps that's true to a point. But doesn't global warming also suppose that the temperatures of the earth are getting warmer? That sure doesn't seem to be the case at the moment, nor has it seemed to be the case for quite a while. From things I've read and seen, it seems like these fluctuations in temperature have been going on for millenia, well before humans ever got here (and obviously well before fossil fuels were burned). Some of this happens to be the "cycle" that the earth is in at the moment...maybe some warming in certain areas, but generally little to no change in the earth's temperatures. Some areas may even be cooling a little bit. That would explain this massive snow event that took place in Dallas and throughout the United States this past weekend.
Back in January of this year, I posted an entry with a neat little video from the founder of the Weather Channel where he goes into much greater detail about why global warming is not going to kill us all, even if it is occurring on a small scale (and he even questions that to an extent). Check out the video. It'll open your eyes and put the lie to the prevailing alarmist thinking out there.
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