By Steven Goddard
Russia has seen it’s first snow accumulation of the season.
http://www.snow-forecast.com/maps/static/europe/last3days/snow
According to Rutgers Global Snow Lab, Russia doesn’t normally receive snow until the second week in September.
http://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/chart_dclim.php?ui_day=251
More is forecast for the next week, as well as in Norway and Sweden. Southeast Greenland is expecting heavy snow.
http://www.snow-forecast.com/maps/static/europe/next3to6days/snow
Much of The UK and Ireland are expecting cold weather during the next week, as is Moscow. Temperatures on the Greenland ice sheet will be dipping down to near -25C. Nice August weather!
http://www.snow-forecast.com/maps/static/europe/132/lapse
No doubt the news media will be talking about the Moscow heat wave for at least two more weeks. Absolute, undeniable proof of “global” warming.
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The Russian heat wave is estimated to have cost their economy $15 billion. Put in perspective, the US national debt increases by more than double that every week.
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These earlier snows might indicate some form of cooling. Oceans are cooling and despite a ‘record’ July in the UK we have had lower than the so called average in August.
Climate is a chaotic system and will vary within wide parameters-wider than alarmists are willing to accept and definitely not human driven.
As per usual nature shows us she knows better than we do.
Getting chilly early up North I see. Down here in Tasmania it’s not too cold, but the temps are staying consistently low. Problem is, it’s felt a lot colder than the official record.
An amusing side point – Bishop Hill has a post on Connolley and his bad behaviour on Wikipedia.
Steve, I realize we can measure temperatures across the 510,065,600 km2 of the Earth’s surface to an accuracy of 1/100th of a degree Celsius over decades. (The absolute genius of man). But, if you settle before the due date we are prepared to write off the 52 cents. Signed – The Peoples Republic of China.
It seems a few private sector weather forecasters (who depend on the accuracy of their forecasts for revenue) are predicting a cold European winter. We shall see. Nailbiting times (again)…
The Russian heat wave is estimated to have cost their economy $15 billion. Put in perspective, the US national debt increases by more than double that every week.
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Yeah, but we owe it to the Red Chinese, not the Ruskiis.
In the same vein as measuring ice loss/forest loss (or gain) etc in x number of Olympic sized swimming pools, or x number of football fields the debt calculates out to $1,361,250.13 per square kilometer of US soil, or $43,266.88 per soul. (Surely you all can just borrow that amount) – sarc! OK – enough of the useless information – back to the interesting stuff.
There’s cold everywhere, certainly feel it here in Sydney, Australia. Sydney is down a few deg C on the average for this time of year, and even more interesting, for me anyway, Alice Springs is 9c below the norm for this time of year too.
And yet, the BoM says it’s the warmest on record. Well I guess that is possible if you manipulate the record.
Steve,
In the good old days….Bad news was death to the messenger.
🙂
LOL! You’re so predictable. I can’t believe I have to explain this to you WUWT guys again!
Seasonal cooling, like early snow in Russia, is weather, not climate!
Seasonal warming, however, like Russia just experienced this summer, is a strong climate signal, a clear indicator of global warming, and not weather at all. The burning in Russia is also a forcast of the doom that awaits us for our abuse of Gaia. And for our rampant consumerism, too. And air conditioners. And SUVs. Evil, evil SUVs.
In Finland we had little snow in Lapland on 23 July. Simultaneously temperatures in southern part of the country were 20 degrees C. Six days later we had highest temperature ever recorded, 37.2 degrees Celsius, in eastern part of the country.
http://yle.fi/alueet/lappi/2010/07/lumisade_yllatti_lapissa_1851310.html
I’ve noticed that leaves have started to change colors in various parts of NYC. strange since its been very warm until this week…
Given the NOAA satellites’ track record for confusing albedo with temperature, I wonder if NOAA will report unusually warm temperatures over the fresh snow fields?
No doubt the news media will be talking about the Moscow heat wave for at least two more weeks. Absolute, undeniable proof of “global” warming.
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UAH showed it warmest August day on the record a few days back. That Roy Spencer is in on the global warming cult as well 😉 worlds cooling, arctic ice is growing and only the religous say otherwise. Keep repeating it till it feels true Steve.
There is a distinctly Autumnal feel in parts of the UK already. I’ve noted some leaves starting to turn and showing hints of red – at least 3 weeks early. Also in our garden our resident robin is proclaiming his territory – a sound I usually associate with early October.
dolormin,
Keep telling yourself what is being observed is anything other than natural variability. It’s always fun watching someone get all hyper over the black cat fallacy.
Another record highest snow extent for the winter of 2010-2011?
dorlomin
In a 30 year global temperature record with no temperature trend, we would expect to see 12 daily record highs set every year. 365 / 30 = 12
No point getting hysterical over a standard Gaussian distribution.
Steve, I think there’s an upward shift in that Gaussian distribution due to the addition of asphalt, air conditioning units, more buildings, more concrete, reflective glass, larger airports, expanded highways, thermometer elimination, etc., etc. No wonder there just might be a slight “warming” of the earth.
Not sure how reliable that chart is. According to weatheronline, temp at Nar’jan Mar (on the Pechora river just a few miles from where the snow is shown to be lying) is currently 8c and it hasn’t dropped below 2c yet this month.
Snow?
Already?
That’s okay, my Al Gore is ready for it — that’s the name of my ergonomic snow shovel, not to be confused with the fat, crazed, sex-poodle of tabloid fame.
1st significant cold front of the season overnight in the Colorado front range. 52 deg & rain this morning at the house. Was talking to a friend from Montana last week who said there were winter storm warnings about 7000 ft last week.
…. winter is on the way
Interesting that the sun is still in the doldrums:-
“The geomagnetic field was quiet to active on August 23. Solar wind speed ranged between 272 and 408 km/s, slowly increasing after 13h UTC as a high speed stream from CH418 became the dominant solar wind factor. Solar wind density reached very high levels during the latter half of the day, typical of the leading part of a strong coronal hole disturbance.
Solar flux measured at 20h UTC on 2.8 GHz was 74.9 (down 7.7 over the last solar rotation). The planetary A index was 7 (STAR Ap – based on the mean of three hour interval ap indices: 6.6). Three hour interval K indices: 10001224 (planetary), 00012214 (Boulder).
At midnight UTC the visible solar disk was spotless.”
Issued on August 24, 2010 at 02:10 UTC
Thanks to Solen, who provided the summary.
http://www.solen.info/solar/
Steve,
Dont mind the fact that the Rutgers Global Snow Lab map is “an 89 x 89 cell Northern Hemisphere grid, with cell resolution ranging from 16,000 sq. km to 42,000 sq. km. If a cell is interpreted to be at least fifty percent snow covered it is considered to be completely covered, otherwise it is considered to be snowfree.”
I’m sure everytime there’s a < 10cm dusting of snow in Russia over three days, it completely fills one of these 16000 km2 cells and exceeds the 50% coverage threshold, especially when regional temperatures are above zero. Or maybe snows like this aren't uncommon this time of year, but aren't sufficiently large enough to show up on Rutgers climatology maps.
This is, as I’m sure the EAU/CRU and other Warmists will be quick to tell you, a mere anomaly, one they can ignore on their models because it doesn’t fit the ‘norm.’ Besides this is weather isn’t it? I’m sure Messers Mann et al will say it is to reassure their footsoldiers and the 97% of ‘scientists’ they claim agree the ‘science is settled.’
Here in the Taunus we have temperatures distinctly cooler than ‘normal’ for August and the trees are doing their autumn thing. Yes, I’m convinced its Anthropomorphic Global Warming… Now, where did I put my thermal underwear?