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where is all the water coming from?

Steve

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as of Tuesday we are in range of breaking records here in New Jersey..

About 2 1/2 inches of rain Tuesday night and Wednesday morning makes 2009 the third-wettest year since records have been collected, the National Weather Service said Wednesday.

The storm brought total rainfall for the year at Atlantic City International Airport up to 56.62 inches, said Anthony Gigi, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Mount Holly.

The rainiest year was 1958, with 67.18 inches and 1948 comes in second with 62.20 inches of rain,

Rainfall records have been kept for nearly 130 years.

as of Yesterday we are at 62.20 tied for second, and it is raining today..

seems the global warming trend may get crushed under an advancing glacier...

over the years global warming alarmists have pointed to glaciers retreating as an indicator of a warming trend... while a school kid understands that glaciers advance due to snow pack and retreat in light snow years... if you only rely on one factor temperature, and ignore snow fall data.. then in a year that is setting record precipitation records, and is modestly cooler.. your poster child (retreating glaciers and ice fields) may put a chill on your data...
 

Steve

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kangaroo_snow.jpg

a roo in snow? yea it's confused to...

The global warming alarmists are claiming that 2010 could be the warmest year on record. Perhaps they better inform Mother Nature about this since she seems to be having other plans leading into the new year. Not only is the U.S.A. experiencing unusually cold weather but, almost unbelievably, Australia has just had some snowfall two weeks into their summer which officially began on December 1.

Most people consider summer a time to wear shorts and thongs wherever one pleases, with little thought of ski jackets or snowboards. However Victoria saw a light dusting of snow, and it's already two weeks into summer.

It does snow in Australia, in limited areas compared to the entire area of the continent.

Winter time sees excellent snowfalls for skiing in the Snowy Mountains region of southeastern New South Wales and northeastern Victoria. Central Tasmania also sees good snowfalls. These falls usually only start in June at the earliest - usually July - and continue through August, tapering off in the early months of Spring.
 

Steve

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Perched on the soaring Karakoram mountains in the Western Himalayas, a group of some 230 glaciers are bucking the global warming trend. They're growing.

In the rugged western corner of the plateau, the story is different, according to a new study. Among legendary peaks of Mt. Everest like K2 and Nanga Parbat, glaciers with a penthouse view of the world are growing, and have been for almost three decades.

"These are the biggest mid-latitude glaciers in the world," John Shroder of the University of Nebraska-Omaha said. "And all of them are either holding still, or advancing."

When Shroder and a team of researchers examined satellite imagery of the region's glaciers dating back to 1960, they found that 87 glaciers had surged forward during that time, sliding down into lower elevations. An analysis of gravity signatures in the region also suggests the glaciers are growing in mass, and have been since at least 1980.

The team's work will be published in a forthcoming issue of Annals of Glaciology.

Surging glaciers are common and do not necessarily mean a glacier is growing in overall size. But the fact that dozens of them have all surged in the same region hints that larger climate forces are at work.

"It looks like it's the Westerlies," Shroder said, referring to strong jets of wind that pour from west to east in a belt around the planet. Though he can't say for certain, the winds appear to be carrying more moisture from the warming Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea eastward.

Researchers have also found that glaciers on California's Mt. Shasta have been growing for decades. And glacier recession has been blunted in the mountains of Oregon and Washington state because of increased moisture from the Pacific Ocean.

why couldn't the golbal warming alarmist just say we have had an extended drought?
 

Steve

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Scandinavian nation reverses trend, mirrors results in Alaska, elsewhere.

After years of decline, glaciers in Norway are again growing, reports the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE).,... previously reported on the growth in Alaskan glaciers, reversing a 250-year trend of loss. Some glaciers in Canada, California, and New Zealand are also growing, as the result of both colder temperatures and increased snowfall.

Ed Josberger, a glaciologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, says the growth is "a bit of an anomaly", but not to be unexpected.
 
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