Climate Alarmist Glossary:
Unusually low snow coverage = climate change
Unusually high snow coverage = weather (ha ha)
SCE (snow cover extent)
is calculated at the
Rutgers Global Snow Lab.
Daily SCE maps are
produced by meteorologists
at the National Ice Center.
That's a United States
joint NOAA, Navy and
Coast Guard facility.
They rely primarily on
visible satellite imagery
to construct the maps.
Snow Cover Extent
over NH continents,
including the
Greenland ice sheet,
is included in
this analysis.
Annual SCE over the
Northern Hemisphere
(NH) lands averaged
25.6 million square
kilometers in 2018.
2018 averaged
+0.5 million sq. km.
MORE snow cover
than the 49-year average.
What global warming ?
2018 had the
12th highest
Northern
Hemisphere
snow cover
on record.
2017 had +0.2 million
sq. km. MORE snow
cover than 2018.
What global warming ?
Monthly snow cover
in 2018 ranged from
47.2 million sq. km.
in January 2018, to
3.0 million sq. km.
in August 2018.
January 2018
ranked as the 27th
highest January
snow cover
in 52 years.
February 2018
ranked as the 19th
highest February.
The snow was
reluctant to melt in
March and April.
March 2018
ranked as the 13th
highest March.
(North America
ranked 5th highest
on record)
April 2018
ranked as the 10th
highest April
(North America
ranked 4th highest
on record)
May 2018
ranked as the 16th
lowest May
in the past
52 years.
June 2018
ranked as the 12th
lowest June.
September 2018
ranked as the 9th
highest September
(North America
ranked 2nd highest
on record)
ranked 2nd highest
on record)
October 2018
ranked as the 14th
highest October
(Canada set a new
October snow record,
and North America
ranked 2nd highest
on record)
on record)
November 2018
ranked as the 3rd
highest November
(North America set
a new November
snow record, and
the US had the third
highest November
snow cover on record)
December 2018
ranked as the 15th
highest December
2018 snow cover
over the contiguous
United States, all of
North America, and
all of the Northern
Hemisphere, had no
unusual differences
over the whole year.
Data Source:
https://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/
https://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/