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Meteorologist 2010s officially the snowiest decade in the east coast in the NOAA record surpassing the 1960s Climate Depot
Who's not winning??
The monster blizzard of 2015 will be adding to what is already the snowiest decade on the East Coast.
It's called "Global" Warming...or Climate Change if you prefer.
How does the increase in localised snow on the East Coast of the US balance out against the drought on the West Coast or the reduction of snow at the poles?
That's the thing. It's called natural variation. That's why you have to go back and look at averages over long periods of time. This drought for all the bleating going on is really not bad. Yet. After it has gone on for a hundred years I will be concerned. California has had multiple droughts over the last 1200 years, some of them lasting over 200 years, so, compared to that...this is a dawdle.
"So what is causing the current drought?
Ingram and other paleoclimatologists have correlated several historic megadroughts with a shift in the surface temperature of the Pacific Ocean that occurs every 20 to 30 years—something called the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO). The PDO is similar to an El Nino event except it lasts for decades—as its name implies—whereas an El Nino event lasts 6 to 18 months. Cool phases of the PDO result in less precipitation because cooler sea temperatures bump the jet stream north, which in turn pushes off storms that would otherwise provide rain and snow to California. Ingram says entire lakes dried up in California following a cool phase of the PDO several thousand years ago. Warm phases have been linked to numerous storms along the California coast.
"We have been in a fairly cold phase of PDO since the early 2000s," says Brian Fuchs, a climatologist at the National Drought Mitigation Center, "so the drought we are seeing now makes sense."
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