The last instalment (probably) of this mini-series, I go on a picture tour of the N hemisphere looking into big snow and extreme cold events and ask whether these events are down to CO2 warming or could they be linked to the premature death of sunspot cycle 24?
There’s huge snowfall in the Alps this year, and one picture in particular caught my attention.
The Death of Sunspot Cycle 24, Huge Snow and Record Cold
What has this winter been like where you are?
The winter in the high deseet of southern California has been extraordiarily mild, with warm temperatures and no to mild winds. There is no snow on the Sierras, up to Mammoth Mountain. One rain event last December, this coming year will be extreme drought. Completely reversed from last winter.
Southwest sask has been average temperatures and very little snowfall so far.
Just to play Warmist’s (The Devil’s) advocate … according to the historic sunspot graph … 1778 … 1838 … and 1958 should have been THE HOTTEST YEARS ON RECORD … by far. Not 2014-16 as the oh so scienci-efficacious NASA has scolded US. I don’t know the answer … were those years the HOTTEST on record? Or did the rise in Soccer Mom SUV trips to the pitch cause the HOTTEST YEARS on record?
Typically wet on the west coast. A very wet January. A cool extended December, but not overly so.
But, no signs of sunbathers at English Bay………
And yet the central Sierra just got DUMPED on with snow last week … pretty much putting snow levels at “normal”. We are now in the HEART of the snow season in CA … which rarely occurs prior to January. But the primary RULE of the CA wet (and cold) season is … that it’s not OVER till it’s OVER. Meaning that lagging snowfall/rainfall totals can be completely reversed in a 3-day storm. Therefore … the CONSTANT measurements … daily … of snow totals relative to “normal” in CA is simply STUPID. THERE IS NO “NORMAL” … daily … snow/rain total for CA. The ONLY “normal” measurement that has any validity in CA … is the SEASON total. Every SEASON in CA differs from the prior year. Every one.
warm December in NJ…very little snow and
now its February…not very cold ,regardless
of the headlines…normal temp for this time of
year, and I would call it a drought ..
East Central Florida: a fair amount cooler than normal.
http://www.weather.gov/marfc/NJPrecipitation90Day
Calgary: It seems to be quite a bit colder and snowier than any of the previous 11 years I’ve lived here. Colder earlier and snowier earlier, too. Fewer Chinooks I think, but I’m less certain about that.
Here in the Okanagan, we just keep getting snow…Lake Okanagan was flooding last spring and it looks like we’ll get it again this spring. The last 3 years have seen a fair amount is snow..more than the previous 14….(we moved here in 2001)…I haven’t seen any low snow pack complaints so far this winter….temperatures have been ok.
I sometimes watch the evening news and weather and observe the record low for the day. Back in the early 50s winter around White Rock, B.C. we a lot colder than now. The record lows were fairly consistently in the -15 C range.
Nowadays, it’s considerably warmer, but a lot wetter.
Where I live north part of ND…NOT much snow but extremely cold and high winds making the temp feel even colder. If we don’t get the snow cover we need the farmers will suffer a dry year ahead. Feb, March or April could deliver the snow cover we need to keep our water tables up and moisture in the soil!
Where I live north part of ND…NOT much snow but extremely cold and high winds making the temp feel even colder. If we don’t get the snow cover we need the farmers will suffer a dry year ahead. Feb, March or April could deliver the snow cover we need to keep our water tables up and moisture in the soil!
Southern Ontario, east of T.O. next to the lake. Off & on Very cold (-20) to cold (0) with occasional +5 days. 4 or 5 major snowfalls (if I have to use the blower, it’s major).
At our camp up north (near Bancroft)
3 to 5 ft of snow accumulated as of last weekend. Variation depends on exposure. And this is 100+ acres of heavily forested land.
A wee bit worse than last year, a lot worse than the year before (colder more often, more snow), etc.
Southern Manitoba, we have been considerably colder and drier than normal this winter.
Same here just north of Saskatoon, although we had about 8″ of snow a week ago. Minus 30 here again for a couple of nights this week. We have had about a dozen -30 to -35 nights since Christmas.
as an old man I have experienced cold winters, wet winters, snowy winters, mild winters. they have been, the usual, and it never surprises me. This year the cold bothers me more because of my age but it is not abnormal.
this just in, tranna the lieberal tumour of canuckistan has yet another cold temperature alert.
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why is that? arent we supposed to be wearing hawaiian shirts by now?