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Re:Cause And Effect: A New Statistical Test That Can Tease T... by raverbashing on Saturday December 20, 2014 @01:52PM (#8777511)
" The fallen snow doesn't just disappear, wouldn't it affect later measured temperatures?"

Unless your weather station is totally covered by snow, no.

And the effect of snow in the total thermal capacity of a city is small. Just compare its mass to the mass of "all things" (buildings, etc)

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Re:Cause And Effect: A New Statistical Test That Can Tease T... by FreeFull on Saturday December 20, 2014 @05:55PM (#8778251)
Snow and ice does have an overall effect on climate, due to its high albedo reflecting light that would otherwise be absorbed and turned into heat.
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Re:Cause And Effect: A New Statistical Test That Can Tease T... by jsprogrammer on Saturday December 20, 2014 @02:30PM (#8777622)
Why would you be sampling at a single arbitrary point like that?

I'm interested in how things diverge at all scales.

Imagine two identical snowing days, except on one of the days you remove the 6 feet of snow on the mountain. There wouldn't be any difference in the amount of snow that falls? Or the local and global temperatures?

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