Posts under ‘Josh Blumenfeld’

Now that it’s March, temperatures will begin warming rapidly and the mounds of snow (many still from our December blizzard!) rapidly will begin to shrink. It’s about this time that I begin getting requests for snow totals and how much snow we saw over winter.
Our snow season runs from July 1 through June 30, which [...]

Many of the questions I receive in the Storm Center relate to climate and weather data. What was the warmest day in 2007? How much snow fell last winter? When was that hail storm in early May?
Fortunately, many of these data are only a few key strokes away on the La Crosse National Weather Service [...]

When the city of Vancouver made their bid to host the 2010 Winter Olympics almost a decade ago, they planned for every contingency — except Mother Nature.
Daytime temperatures above freezing in the weeks leading up to the opening ceremony played havoc with outdoor course preparation, and forced the Canadians to use helicopters to bring in snow [...]

Here’s a thought for all you optimists: meteorological spring begins March 1. While we’ll have to wait until March 20 for the Spring Equinox, when the vertical rays of the sun are over the Equator, it’s clear that the sun is setting later, rising earlier, and beginning to take a more vertical angle over the [...]

The first decade of the 21st Century was the warmest decade ever recorded since modern records have been kept, according to new data released by the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), a branch of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). In addition, 2009 tied for the second warmest year across the globe in the [...]