Final Snow Totals Missing; Greenland Warming Hit A Wall After 2012; Solway Seas 4M Higher 6000 Years Ago; + Sunspots Return
Greenland is not following a simple “steadily warming” script...
Final Snow Totals Missing
“The National Weather Service office in NYC still has not provided the final snowfall tallies and map for the Sunday–Monday blizzard,” laments meteorologist Chris Martz, “but they had time to create and post a map of this morning’s minor snowfall.”
The NWS has yet to release final snowfall totals or a storm map for one of New York City’s most significant blizzards in years. The last official update for Central Park and the major airports came at 1:00 p.m. EST on Monday. After that, the record stops.
Central Park’s 19.7 inches was measured just before that cutoff. But snow continued afterward.
Observations show roughly 0.1 inches of additional liquid equivalent fell, with about 0.06 inches in the first hour alone. Using a standard 10:1 ratio, that implies a potential 1.1 inches of additional accumulation, pushing the final total above 20 inches.
No clarification has been offered. No final climo numbers. No updated spotter reports. Not as of writing anyway.
If there was no additional accumulation, fine. But there was.
Conspiracy theories abound online (of course they do).
Crossing 20 inches would not change the physics of the storm, but it would push this blizzard into a more exclusive historical bracket for the city. At the same time, Polymarket and Kalshi —online markets where users wager real money on event outcomes— both set their NYC snowfall contracts with a hard 20-inch cutoff, settled strictly on official figures.
We know the game is rigged, but for me this one is probably just good’ol incompetence.
Greenland Warming Hit A Wall After 2012
A recent paper in Communications Earth & Environment reports that Greenland’s summer warming peaked around 2012, then largely stalled through the 2010s, with the biggest driver being natural variability via shifting wind patterns (not CO2).
