Why the current snowstorm in the Rockies does not refute climate change.
I am sure there are many more just like it. It was as predictable as the sunrise or a pendulum changing sides. By now, we are used to seeing people tweet such things on a cold day or when it snows. The counter punch that I often hear is that “people do the same thing with a hot day or a heatwave.” The reality is that cherry-picking one day, one storm, or one week of weather to describe climate change is problematic and may reveal a lack of understanding of weather and climate.
Temperature anomalies in the U.S. showing that most of the country is warmer than normal but colder than normal conditions prevail in the Mountain West on September 29th.for basic definitions of “weather” and “climate.” According to the Glossary: Weather: The state of the atmosphere, mainly with respect to its effects upon life and human activities...As distinguished from climate, weather consists of the short-term variations in the atmosphere....Climate: The slowly varying aspects of the atmosphere–hydrosphere–land surface system. It is typically characterized in terms of suitable averages of the climate system over periods of a month or more, taking into consideration the variability in time of these averaged quantities.
Ok, I will now turn to this snowstorm. According to the National Weather Service in Great Falls, Montana over 2 to 3 feet of snowfall has fallen in the storm.
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