A major storm system is set to bring “potentially catastrophic” winter weather across the southern U.S. this weekend, bringing snow, freezing rain and ice pellets to a substantial swath of the country.

It could be the “storm that defines the entire winter,” according to some meteorologists.

Overall, nearly 30 states could feel the effects from New Mexico all the way to New York starting Friday.

The National Weather Service warns that not only will this be a significant storm event but that there will be dangerously cold temperatures both before and after it passes — and in places that aren’t accustomed to such frigid conditions.

But there’s still “a lot of uncertainty,” David Nadler, a warning co-ordination meteorologist with the NWS in Peachtree City, Ga., said in a special briefing Wednesday afternoon.

  • gustofwind@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    True but there’s nothing relevant about man made climate change here, this is a warning of an impending weather event. You can see it on your weather app.

    Did you even read the article? Go buy some food and emergency supplies for the weekend.

    Snowstorms were even worse before accelerated climate change and it was still news if a bad one was on the horizon.

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      8 hours ago

      The core of their message is “we need to address the reason these storms are becoming more dangerous” and you don’t think that’s relevant?

      Snowstorms were even worse before accelerated climate change

      Please source this claim or kindly stay silent instead of spreading misinformation.

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          6 hours ago

          If climate change was only about snowfall, sure. But from your own source:

          https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-services/billion-dollar-disasters

          Since 1980, half of all (CPI-adjusted) damage costs from “major weather events” (defined as weather events incurring more than 1 billion in CPI-adjusted damages) have occurred in the last 10 years. Many of which are winter storms.

          So yeah, you may have seen trends in snowfall. But the instability of weather systems is increasing due to climate change, and this storm is at least partially a consequence of that.

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          7 hours ago

          Your observations are anecdotal so they don’t count. Also that’s not what that study says.

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            6 hours ago

            Kindly read it. It also identifies many other studies confirming less snow.

            Do show me your research supporting a different conclusion

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              6 hours ago

              I did in fact read it. That’s how I know it doesn’t say what you think it says.

              • Nearly two-thirds (64%) of locations now get less snow than they did in the early 1970s. Another 731 locations (36%) have seen snowfall increase.

              Sure some places are getting less snow but also some places are getting more snow.

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                6 hours ago

                Well as you clearly just wrote most places are getting less snow as the earth warms and there will be less freezing weather generally

                So what are you trying to say?

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                  The issue is severity on both sides, that’s literally the point. Both higher and lower temperatures are being experienced throwing things out of the balance that is has been for this period of the Earth.