Shumlin’s Folly: Burlington Buried by Record 30″ Of Snow – Vermont Gov Warned End Of Skiing In 2007!

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The largest city of my home state of Vermont — Burlington — was buried by a record-shattering 30.4 inches (ca. 80 cm) of snow from recent storm Stella.

Burlington, Vermont area gets buried by record-smashing snow as bitter temperatures grip region. Image cropped from Westford Webcam.

Hat-tip: reader Indomitable Snowman

Amusingly the reader Snowman just informed me by e-mail that 10 years ago Vermont governor Peter Schumlin warned that the state would need to plaster its beautiful green mountains with 500-foot tall industrial wind turbines in order to prevent massive warming. He said:

Any reasonable scientist will tell you that we’re going to rise anywhere between another two and three degrees in the next 30 years. That means that New Jersey’s climate is moving to Vermont in the next decade. That has tremendous implications in our economy’s ski, maple-sugar making, leaf-peeping and the list goes on and on. So we are — I at least am — looking at this with a major sense of panic.”

Well, it looks like the maple sugaring and ski season will be extended well into April — at least for this year. Schumlin’s prediction is yet another that is exposed as just plain idiotic and silly.

The massive snowstorm dumped 30.4 inches at the Burlington airport, making it the greatest March snowstorm on record and the 2nd largest all-time (records date back to 1883) in terms of snowfall. The biggest snowfall was 33.1 inches in January 2010.

A daily record snowfall of 17.8 inches was set at Burlington, VT on March 14. This smashes the old record of 10.0 inches set in 1980. Also with 12.6 inches on March 15 the snowfall record was shattered for the date — previous record was 4.1 inches set way back in 1940.

For those claiming that it just doesn’t snow like it used to in Vermont, the statistics show that 4 of the top 10 snowfalls in fact occurred over the past 10 years, with 7 of the top 10 in the past 31 years!

What follows are the statistics provided by Snowman.

Top 10 greatest snowstorms at Burlington, Vermont:
(1) 33.1 Jan 2-3 2010
(2) 30.4 Mar 14-15 2017
(3) 29.8 Dec 25-28 1969
(4) 25.8 Mar 6-7 2011
(5) 25.7 Feb 14-15 2007
(6) 24.7 Jan 13-14 1934
(7) 22.9 Mar 5-6 2001
(8) 22.4 Mar 13-14 1993
(9) 20.0 Nov 25 1900
(10) 19.7 Jan 25-28 1986

Top 4 March snowstorms for Burlington:
(1) March 14-15, 2017…30.4″
(2) March 7-8, 2011…..25.8″
(3) March 5-6, 2001…..22.9″
(4) March 13-14, 1993…22.4″

Top 5 Snowiest March`s at Burlington:
(1) 47.6 2001
(2) 39.9 1993
(3) 37.0 1896
(4) 33.1 1971
(5) 31.8 2017 thru 3/15

Top 5 daily snowfalls at Burlington for March 14:
(1) 17.8 2017
(2) 10.0 1980
(3) 6.9 1993
(4) 4.1 1956
(5) 4.0 1897

Top 5 Daily snowfalls at Burlington for March 15
(1) 12.6 2017
(2) 4.1 1940
(3) 3.5 1998/1933
(4) 3.4 1958
(5) 3.0 1901

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March 17, 2017 at 01:56AM