Submitted by Working-Office-7215 t3_11c5ecz in vermont
vtmtct t1_ja3fdl2 wrote
Contrary to popular belief, there has not been a statistically significant difference in the amount of snow received in Vermont in recent years. Here is the source. As you can see, some areas have received more snow, some areas less, and some are unchanged. People are suffering from a mirage created by the over saturation of climate change “predictions”. The narrative is simply not born out in the data. Towards the bottom of the link there is a summary of findings.
Generic_Commenter-X t1_ja3iuqn wrote
Right, but the issue isn't necessarily how much snowfall we've gotten, but how long it sticks around. Fat good a foot of snow does us if it melts the next day (which is exactly what happened earlier last month). In the source you provided, I don't notice anything pertaining to that. This is the first winter I can remember when nearly all our snow had melted by mid-January.
HeadPen5724 t1_ja3ntmr wrote
I mean 3-4 years ago we got snow in October and it stayed the entire winter 🤷🏼♂️. Often times we’ve had a green Christmas. It’s Vermont, the weather is weird.
vtmtct t1_ja3k2po wrote
The post was about snowfall. Also you’re not providing anything more than your own anecdote. Do you know of any data to back up what you’re claiming?
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HeadPen5724 t1_ja3nntd wrote
https://www.weather.gov/btv/historicalSnow
We’ve had much more snowfall than in the past. This years been weird, but the overall trend has certainly been an INCREASE in snowfall.
vtmtct t1_ja3o61p wrote
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HeadPen5724 t1_ja3uac7 wrote
You’ll never find figures for snowpack because it changes daily. Snowpack in March or snow pack in January… as I mentioned in a prior post, only a few years ago it snowed in Oct. and stayed the whole winter, sometimes we have a green Christmas. Vermont is known for having crazy weather, trying to read into any given winter or even 5winters is a fools errand.
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HeadPen5724 t1_ja3vvqv wrote
Are you going to average up daily snowpack for the past 100 years? It’d love to see that information, you should make a webpage with that data. I’ll edit my comment when you do ;)
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HeadPen5724 t1_ja3xo44 wrote
I never said anything about a daily record, in fact I said you wouldn’t find those figures BECAUSE it changes daily. If you wanted to look at annual snowpack (which is what it seemed you were wondering about) you’d need to average it out for every year you wanted to look at and aggregate that… But you take it however you want sunshine.
vtmtct t1_ja3semt wrote
The idea that you would simultaneously receive more snowfall but have a lower snowpack makes no sense. This is proven by the simple fact that a melting snowpack would mean more days above 32F, but that also mean more precipitation falling as rain. That’s not what is happening
vtmtct t1_ja3m4fj wrote
I’m not defensive at all. I’m just responding to you. But actually I do have data to back up what I said. I linked to it.
Just think about this for a second. If it was actually warmer and melting snow faster you would also expect more rain events and thus less snowfall. That’s not what we see. For the record climate change is real, but many of the narratives are not. Many are purely anecdotal- a mirage.
realmadrid111 t1_ja3o8st wrote
Not sure that /u/Generic_Commenter-X was actually trying to start an argument (neither am I disputing your point about snowfall), and I actually do agree (just in my personal experience) with their point about the actual snow base throughout the winter. To your point, do you have any data that supports temperature correlating directly to snowfall? There are lots of high pressure, super cold times when we get no snow. Also a lot of "warmer" days when we get dumped on with heavy, wet snow. I just find it interesting that you spin up your own narrative in the same breath that you're trying to debunk others' narratives.
vtmtct t1_ja3ra4y wrote
Does temperature directly correlate to snowfall lol? Yes it has to be below 32F. No data needed
realmadrid111 t1_ja3tb1v wrote
Objectively false... it can snow when it's above 32 degrees. Clearly you're just here to appear correct at everyone else's expense. What a dick.
vtmtct t1_ja3w0be wrote
I’m a dick for providing data that runs counter to your incorrect beliefs? Yes it’s possible to see snowflakes above freezing, but do you see a lot of accumulating snowfall above 32 that sticks around? You should tell the ski industry they would be thrilled to build a ski hill there. Still waiting on your data
realmadrid111 t1_ja3z5ur wrote
What are my incorrect beliefs again? Just trying to figure out what you're arguing against. Now you're talking about snowfall vs snowfall that "sticks around"... seems like that was the whole point we were trying to make in the first place.
vtmtct t1_ja3p0z5 wrote
If the temperature is greater than 32 it rains and if it’s less than 32 it snows. So if it’s warm enough to melt the snow on the ground, any precipitation would fall as rain not snow. You would see more rain and less snow if their lower snowpack argument was true. The data that I provided as well as the link from u/headpen5724 shows increasing snowfall.
HeadPen5724 t1_ja5amam wrote
Love how if you bring data into a Reddit thread it gets you downvoted.. here’s an up vote
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