Gives an understanding on historical data to present data when measuring weather phenomena.
By Paul Homewood
We all know that snowstorms are worse than ever before, and that it is all the fault of global warming.
After all, Bill Nye himself told us!
Unfortunately, Matt Kelsch, a hydrometeorologist at UCAR, throws a spanner in the works. Matt specializes in weather and climate events involving water, such as floods, droughts, rain, hail, or snow, and has also spent the last 25 years taking snow measurements in Boulder, Colorado, as a volunteer for the NWS.
Matt wrote this article for UCAR News yesterday:
http://www2.ucar.edu/atmosnews/perspective/14009/snowfall-measurement-flaky-history
As a hydrometeorological instructor in UCAR’s COMET program and a weather observer for the National Weather Service, I am keenly interested in weather trends. In this case, climate change is an important factor to explore, since we know that the heaviest precipitation events have intensified in many parts of the world
But when we turn to snowstorms in the Northeast, or…
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