pazzo83
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should've taken a bus or metro tho
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this is my first real snowstorm back with the DC crew in a LONG time - i am pumped.
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my mark now is the crane on 30th and M St NW in Georgetown, which is 5 blocks away - it is no longer visible.
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roads are covered here along Penn Ave in Foggy Bottom - mod/heavy snow, 30.6F
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light snow in foggy bottom now - rosslyn skyline still visible for now
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My parents live about 10 miles to your east!
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flurries in foggy bottom
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i've seen some cherry blossoms in the past few days as well - bout to say "bye bye" to them for a lil while
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lol meanwhile
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this is kind of like how Jan 2016 was in NY - > the north trend just kept being better and better for us.
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35.4 / 18 rn in downtown DC https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=KDCWASHI234
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We did it guys!!!
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It's going the wrong way again.
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Dude Arctic sea ice is flat-lining in the middle of freaking January:
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Umm
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Some good data from one of our own: It's kind of insane that over half of the days of 2016 set daily records for low sea ice. I mean, can you imagine if there were a particular station that recorded daily record highs for 200 days of a particular year? Alarm bells would be blaring far and wide... Also, I found this graph PARTICULARLY troubling (from Svalbard, Norway):
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Buoy close to the North Pole reported a surface temp of 0.4C at 1300UTC today: Ice is getting slaughtered in this general vicinity:
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This unprecedented warmth in the Arctic just continues and continues. Vize Island, Russia (which is at about 80º N latitude) has yet to dip below 0ºF. It's avg HIGH for December is -5ºF.
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Welp And along the Arctic Coast in AK
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We have enough data on sea ice to know that its current status is anomalous - even compared to the prior warm phase AMO period in the mid 20th Century.
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Vize Island, Russia still hasn't dropped below 0F. Avg high right now there is about -4F.
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How do these fluctuations explain what is only a recent sharp decrease in sea ice coverage?
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Holy sh*t - that end of year max is just not there this year for global sea ice:
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Here's a good animation showing those areas of open water expanding...
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Even if it's a coincidental confluence of events that's behind this, you'd have to think we are approaching a situation where it starts to "run away" so to speak. In other words, melting begets melting.
