<div>Perhaps a few of NASA climate scientist James Hansen's "Storms of my Grandchildren" are here now ( "<strong>Storms of My Grandchildren</strong>: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity" <a href="http://www.stormsofmygrandchildren.com/">http://www.stormsofmygrandchildren.com/</a> ).</div>
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<div>The US Northeast is setting winter season records for total snowfall ("Snowmageddon," as Obama called it), as Vancouver B. C. has its warmest January on record, and a lack of snow, forcing snow to be trucked in for the winter Olympics:</div>
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<div><font size="4">Vancouver: Record-warm January…February frost?</font></div>
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<p>VANCOUVER -- In light of recent news of a Pineapple Express in Greater Vancouver and a shortage of snow at Cypress Mountain, it comes as little surprise that this January will go down as the warmest in Vancouver history. The 44.8-degree 31-day average easily eclipsed the previous mark of 43.3, set in 2006. Since record-keeping began in 1937, the January average had been 37.9.</p>
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<div><font size="4">Record warm January in Vancouver on eve of 2010 Olympics</font></div>
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<div><a href="http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Record+warm+January+Vancouver+2010+Olympics/2491944/story.html">http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Record+warm+January+Vancouver+2010+Olympics/2491944/story.html</a></div>
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<div><font size="4">Second ferocious Nor'easter in a week pounds U.S. East Coast</font></div>
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<div><font size="4"><font size="2"><a href="http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=1428">http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=1428</a></font></font></div>
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<div>This new low is predicted to "bomb" into a mighty Nor'easter with a central pressure below 970 mb, the kind of pressure typically found in a Category 1 hurricane.</div>
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<div><span class="b"><strong>Last Updated:</strong></span> 3:38 PM GMT on February 10, 2010 </div>
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<div><strong><font size="4">Snowiest winter on record for Baltimore, Wilmington, and Dulles</font></strong></div>
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<div>The snow from this latest blizzard have pushed snow totals for the 2009 - 2010 winter season to a new record for Baltimore, Wilmington, and Dulles Airport, and will likely set a new seasonal snowfall record in Philadelphia, Atlantic City, and Washington National Airport later today. As of midnight last night, here are the snowfall numbers so far for the 2009 - 2010 winter, and the records they have broken:<br>
<br>Baltimore, MD, 64.4". Old record: 62.5", winter of 1995 - 1996.<br>Washington Dulles Airport, VA, 65.7". Old record: 61.9", winter of 1995 - 1996.<br>Wilmington, DE, 59.5". Old record: 55.9", winter of 1995 - 1996.<br>
<br>Cities close to breaking their seasonal snowfall record:<br><br>Philadelphia, PA, 62.3". Current record: 65.5", winter of 1995 - 1996.<br>Washington D.C. National Airport, 48.8". Current record: 54.4", winter of 1898 - 1899.<br>
Atlantic City, NJ, 45.5". Current record: 46.9", winter of 1966 - 1967.<br> </div>
<div><strong><font size="4">Heavy snow events--a contradiction to global warming theory?</font></strong></div>
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<div>As I discussed in my <a href="http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=1427" target="_blank">previous post</a>, record-breaking snowstorms are not an indication that global warming is not occurring. In fact, we can expect there may be more heavy snowstorms in regions where it is cold enough to snow, due to the extra moisture global warming has added to the atmosphere--an extra 4% since 1970.</div>
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