Deconstructing a mystery: What caused Snowmaggedon?

What caused Washington DC’s Snowmageddon two years ago?

Physorg.com reports:

By Feb. 10, 2010 the National Weather Service reported that three storms spanning from December to February in the winter of 2009-10 had dumped a whopping 54.9 inches of snow on the Baltimore-Washington area. The snowfall broke a seasonal record first set in 1899. Snowmaggedon, as the winter was dubbed, entered the history books as the snowiest winter on record for the U.S. East Coast.

Two years later, scientists are still searching to identify the unique set of conditions that enabled storms of this magnitude to occur. To determine a direct cause to infrequent but major winter storms, Siegfried Schubert and colleagues Yehui Chang and Max Suarez – all of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., became detectives…

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2 thoughts on “Deconstructing a mystery: What caused Snowmaggedon?”

  1. Something just aint right….anthropogentic global warming wasn’t mentioned once, in the article.

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