Anyone with 60 year memory can recollect that the heaviest snowstorms came in relatively warm weather. Looking back through records you can see that many of the most severe storms were in near freezing conditions.
What made the 1996 storm devastating was the way it ended. Warm weather brought rain, floods and huge chunks of ice coming down rivers and streams. I witnessed the ice that came from the ice dams upstream of Collegeville take out the Perkiomen Inn in 1996.
Global warming is upon us, but don’t put away the snow blowers. My advice is; if you use a snow blower or plow keep it running or updated, you will most likely get more use out of it in warmer winters.
The Pennsylvania weather book
By Ben Gelber
http://books.google.com/books?id=34RKv9fMFo4C&pg=PT75&lpg=PT75&dq=Pennsylvania+1956+snowstorm&source=bl&ots=CoQl-QQfQe&sig=ohLb0TSL3hf7LscAyMziwS-ha9Q&hl=en&ei=S9h5S9nFFMyg8QaN5Yj2Dg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CCgQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=Pennsylvania%201956%20snowstorm&f=false
An amazing, though clearly little-known, scientific fact: We get more snow storms in warm years!
February 15, 2010
http://climateprogress.org/2010/02/15/an-amazing-though-clearly-little-known-scientific-fact-we-get-more-snow-storms-in-warm-years/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+climateprogress/lCrX+%28Climate+Progress%29
Monday, February 15, 2010
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