Right in this moment there is an unusual and huge snowstorm in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego. All roads are blocked, all schools, and shops are also closed because streets are covered with 3 feet of snow and no vehicles are moving in town. Snowplows are doing what they can but it is not enough. Read it in La Nacion newspaper:

http://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=1155546&pid=6965466&toi=6263

The rest of the country is also under a polar wave that is similar to the one in 2007 –and though there will be a brief relief until friday, next week is forecasted another polar wave (or MPH) of similar characteristics. This cold is getting boring.

I guess you have heard about the small town of Coronel Pringles, near Sierra de la Ventana, Buenos Aires province, at about 30°1′S – 61°20′W – Altitude: 247 m.a.s.l., they had -4.5ºC on July 16th, then when the snowstorm began two days ago they saw the biggest snowstorm ever. In fact, it was the FIRST one in their entire history. They were (and still are) isolated from the rest of the country and rescue operations had to be carried due to the 1.5 meter snowfall (5 feet). Present TV news (4:29 pm local time at +3 GMT) show how theses operations are being carried. Snowfalls were on all Argentina, as it happened in July 2007 –except in the humid northeast or Mesopotamia.

Of course this is weather, but weather is inscribed in climate, and repeated weather events along a long enough period become climate. I hope you’ll keep informed about the late frosts we’ll see in Argentina well into November (as it did back in 2007, when a tremendous frost destroyed more than 50% of crops in Buenos Aires province. Corn, barley, soybean wheat, and other crops had from 50 to 100% losses on the frost occurred on Nov. 14th –just 40 days away from summer.

And TV news all over the country are speaking only about the huge snowfalls, abnormal cold weather –even forgetting the A1(H1N1) fake pandemia!

I would say that actual power use is a more reliable metric than some of the less-than-well-sited temperature sensors found in this region. Since electricity use in winter and in summer is truly dependent upon how cold and warm it actually is rather than what a model is predicting.

Regards to all,

John

In Illinois, the cottonwoods are starting to drop leaves already, in July.

“Chaiten volcano in Chile perhaps?”

No Tim,
The ash plume of Chaitén Volcano reaches not high enough to generate anything but a local effect.

Only if a substantial amount of emissions reach the troposphere like we saw with Mount Redoubt and Sarychev Peak Volcano on june 12th which reached an altitude of 21 km, we will have notable effects.

Sarychev ejected a considerable amount of SO2 into the troposphere resulting in red skies, a lot of ash and water vapor causing noctilucent clouds all over the world.

So far in July, we are an average of 5.8F low.

Any good atlas and many globes show the “limit of palms” line circling the globe in both hemispheres… Yeah, they can take a bit of snow, but not much.

http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/seaice/extent/AMSRE_Sea_Ice_Extent.png

Shows the red (current year) line more or less “middle of the pack”. It looks to me like absolutely normal and well inside “natural variability” given that there are prior years lines on each side of the red line. The “speed” looks more or less average too.

Given the abnormally warm water near by, the average ice melt implies some cold offsetting the water. Like maybe the air gets cold first, and then the water cools off over a couple of years…

South American’s will enjoy a bit of cooler weather as this region has been experiencing very large positive temperature anomalies until recently

And here we have a perfect example of the nuttiness of the AGW crowd. Why believe the facts on the ground when you can believe a computer generated data food product? Perhaps facts on the ground ought to be believed because a standard part of testing computer programs is called the “sanity check”. You first, before anything else, ask “Is the output sane and reasonably close to reality?” Or put in the negative “Is the output so outrageously out of touch with reality as to be insane?”

This is before you do much of anything else. Once in 89 year snow is bad enough, but twice in a couple of years? That means “warmer” fails the “sanity check”. And you want to believe “its warmer”?

So please, take your anomalous anomaly maps and look at them real hard. Then look at the facts (and snow) on the ground. Then ask yourself the simple question: “Which is real, the computer data food product, or the snow?” Once you have a grip on reality, then ask the question “Given that the snow and widespread reports of cold induced crop reductions are real, what does this say about the truthyness of the anomalous anomaly maps?”

I know it’s painful to come to grips with the fact that you are believing in a fantasy. I know it’s hard to tell an old friend that they have “a problem”. But the sooner to “go there” the quicker you can start your recovery.

To be blunt:

It is cold and snowing a lot in the southern hemisphere.
It is NOT hot this “summer” in the northern hemisphere.
Many places in the north are reporting “summer” more like spring / fall.
The only possible conclusion is that it’s cold, and getting colder.
This means the computer products are broken. Seriously broken.
There is a natural, roughly 30 year, weather cycle, and it’s turned cold.
AGW is dead, it just doesn’t know it yet.
The time to “distance yourself” from AGW is now.
The longer you wait, the more painful it will be.
Never blindly trust computer models.
Ever.

(I have 36 years experience programming and managing computers. I have a Community College Teaching Credential in computer science. I know computers. I’ve built several from scratch including putting together a 12 processor Sun from “piece parts” i.e. cpu’s not on the boards, memory in shipping boxes and I’ve installed and configured more operating systems than I can count on everything from PCs to Cray Supercomputers. I have managed the build, quality control / quality assurance, and shipment of a compiler tool chain through several product cycles. Oh, and one of my software projects got 4 software patents. It is my professional opinion that the computer codes that create the data series and the climate models that turn that data into dire predictions of warming are seriously broken. Be advised, I have ported GIStemp to Linux and have it running in my living room. I’ve not just read the code, I’ve made it work… what is your opinion based on? …)