Green Bay ended the month with 45.6 inches of snowfall, the most of any December on record.
It buried the previous record of 36.4 inches, set in December 1887, but fell 2.6 inches short of matching the snowiest month of all time for Green Bay. That record goes to March 1888, with 48.2 inches, which helped the winter of 1887-88 become the snowiest winter in Green Bay history at 147.7 inches total.
And in the more liberal part of Wisconsin, Madison, the snowfall records are already tumbling as reported in the Wisonsin State Journal:
With about three months to go in the winter of 2008-09, Madison could end up with the average total amount of snow for a season already before the calendar is flipped to the new year.
With 42.9 inches already in November and December, the 1-3 inches expected on Tuesday could push the snowfall total up to the average 45 inches that normally falls in any given winter in these parts, with the brunt of winter still to come.
The record snowfall in December is now at 38.6 inches, breaking the previous December mark of 35 inches set in 2000 as well as the previous monthly mark of 37 inches that fell in February 1994.
I loved the movie Fargo and in that North Dakota city snowfall records also fell as you can see in this report:
Fargo’s December snowfall total as of 6 a.m. was 30.5 inches, which broke the previous record of 29.2 inches set in December 1927, according to the weather service.
Grand Forks also set a record with 30.1 inches of snowfall this December, compared to the previous record of 27.6 inches set back in 1918.
It will be interesting to see what the Global Warming Alarmists of the Boston Globe will make of this story which just appeared in their own newspaper yesterday:
SPOKANE, Wash. - Spokane residents were trying to dig out yesterday after a record-breaking month of snow collapsed roofs and clogged streets. Bismarck, N.D., also set a snowfall record.
And how was the weather at midnight as the New Year was marked by the famous ball drop in Times Square? The New York Post describes the scene:
In a fitting end to a miserable year that saw an economic meltdown, Wall Street's collapse and massive job losses, bitter cold descended on New York to usher out 2008...
...Hundreds of thousands of bundled-up celebrants descended on the Crossroads of the World - huddled in blankets and shielded under umbrellas.
Driving snow pounded many of the early-bird revelers throughout yesterday, and by midnight, the mercury had plummeted to 18 degrees. Howling wind gusts of up to 40 mph made it feel below zero at times.
So the New Year has been heralded in by record snowfall and bitterly cold temperatures but will the Global Warming Alarmists in the media notice? And will some enterprising reporter out there ask Al Gore how he can reconcile his Global Warming predictions with the incredibly cold weather we've been having recently including snowstorms in Las Vegas and snowfall in New Orleans?
