Alltime Record Set, Highest Snow Depth Since 1893 – In Potsdam!

Michael Krüger of Readers Edition here brings us a nice little anecdote in a post called: New Snow Record in Potsdam -start of December records the highest snow level since 1893.

White Christmas for 2010? A Pretty Safe Bet - TIME NewsFeed

Anybody looking for a White Christmas this weekend is in luck as wintry weather throughout December is making for snow coverage over much of the continental United States.

Historical Chances of a White Christmas

In 109 years of snow depth measurements in Twin Cities, a white Christmas happens about 72% of the time. From 1899 to 2008 there have been 31 years with either a "zero" or a "trace." The last time the Twin Cities has seen a brown Christmas was 2006. The deepest snow cover on December 25th was in 1983 with a hefty 20 inches. It was also a very cold Christmas that year, with the high temperature of 1 measly degree F. It was not the coldest Christmas Day in the Twin Cities. That dubious award goes to 1996 with a "high" temperature of 9 below zero F. The warmest Christmas Day in the Twin Cities was 51 degrees in 1922. There was not a white Christmas that year. In fact, the Minneapolis Weather Bureau log book for that day states that the day felt "spring like."

The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Phony Survey Buttresses Anti-Fox Rants

Yes, this was a perfectly objective survey conducted by an otherwise disinterested public opinion expert at Stanford. Who did the project for the university's Woods Institute for the Environment, whose mission is "Creating Practical Solutions for People and the Planet." And Krosnick is is a university fellow at Resources for the Future. Who just so happened to conduct this survey in November, before news broke about the Sammon memo, which implies they were sitting on it as they did their polling and waited until now so they could release a barrage of publicity -- in conjunction with other Leftist groups -- for maximum impact. And as you see above, Krosnick cited the Sammon memo in his survey report.

All of which USA Today found not relevant to report.