News Reports
Not sure whether you guys have lives or not, but did anybody catch NBC Nightly New's report friday evening about the abnormally warm temps? I think it was either written by The Wall Street Journal's Editorial staff or by the Bush Administration. It basically said that this warm trend is due totally to the ongoing moderate El Nino. Hmmm...wait isn't moderate el nino suppose to be banner snow years for the Northeast? Let's look back at some previous moderate el nino years...2001. I think we all remember that year. '98, maybe not banner, but strong overall. If that ice storm was all snow it would have been mighty impressive. I remember Ahin (do you guys remember Ahin from freshman year?) getting his land rover stuck up on Runnals hill for super bowl weekend and it sunk in so deep that they had to get out of car through the windows. '92-'93, another banner New England year, I remember skiing in the Poconos that year and they had too much snow to open one of the lifts. Long Island broke their seasonal snowfall totals that year. It just doesn't seem to line-up with their report.
ABC World News came out with their own report Saturday evening and basically countered NBC's. ABC said that it does have do with both global warming and the el nino, thank you ABC!! I actually had trouble falling asleep friday night due to NBC's story.
Anyway went out for a nice long bike ride yesterday, nothing like an early January ride in VT in shorts. Another rain-maker coming into southern VT tonight!!! Woo-hooo. Stratton may have to close down after this one, Bromley already has.
Quinn hope you make out better in tonights storm, we're suppose to get 2-4" before the change-over...either way looking forward to the 15th. The weathermen keep hyping it up as a big changing point.
TK, i hope you and the rest of CO get 0" of snow for the rest of year. You've had enough bragging rights for one year...yer done. AK maybe 2-4" more snow allowed. The East will rise again!!!
ABC World News came out with their own report Saturday evening and basically countered NBC's. ABC said that it does have do with both global warming and the el nino, thank you ABC!! I actually had trouble falling asleep friday night due to NBC's story.
Anyway went out for a nice long bike ride yesterday, nothing like an early January ride in VT in shorts. Another rain-maker coming into southern VT tonight!!! Woo-hooo. Stratton may have to close down after this one, Bromley already has.
Quinn hope you make out better in tonights storm, we're suppose to get 2-4" before the change-over...either way looking forward to the 15th. The weathermen keep hyping it up as a big changing point.
TK, i hope you and the rest of CO get 0" of snow for the rest of year. You've had enough bragging rights for one year...yer done. AK maybe 2-4" more snow allowed. The East will rise again!!!
posted by More Cowbells at 10:42 AM
2 Comments:
I actually did catch that newsclip on NBC. TV was on while cooking dinner and a story about the freakishly warm NE winter caught my ear and the whole story made me go Hmmm as well. El ninos definitely can bring epic snow to NE. Of course 2001 was epic, but I remember 92-93 well. That year had the most snow I've ever seen in northern CT. From Dec. 1-Jan 10 it snowed near continuously leaving nearly a 48 " snow pack. I skiied a local mtn in the state forest and had waist deep turns in the woods. The most epic skiing in CT I've ever had. Totally unheard of in my lifetime in CT. Of course, Jan 15 brought the infamous Jan thaw and all that snow melted in like 36 hours.
NBC definitely has its head up it ass, or up the current administrations, you decide.
Seth
Yes, Seth! I remember that winter in CT. That pitiful picture of Mohawk I posted earlier was the site of some unreal skiing. We were skiing all over the mountain and in the surrounding state forest, jumping off little cliffs...it was Connecticut and it was crazy!
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