From the National Weather Service:
“An early-season winter storm is expected to develop across eastern North Dakota into northern Minnesota beginning Wednesday night, as colder air filters into the region. Rain developing during the day on Wednesday will mix with or change to snow by Thursday morning, with the possibility for six inches or more of accumulation by Thursday morning.
SHORT RANGE FORECAST DISCUSSION
NWS HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL PREDICTION CENTER COLLEGE PARK MD
339 PM EDT WED OCT 03 2012
VALID 00Z THU OCT 04 2012 - 00Z SAT OCT 06 2012
...HEAVY PRECIPITATION POSSIBLE OVER PARTS OF THE UPPER
MISSISSIPPI VALLEY......TEMPERATURES WILL BE NEAR 25 DEGREES BELOW AVERAGE
FOR PARTS OF THE NORTHERN HIGH PLAINS AND 10 TO 15 DEGREES BELOW
AVERAGE FOR THE NORTHERN PLAINS SOUTHWARD TO PARTS OF THE SOUTHERN
HIGH PLAINS..."
http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/discussions/hpcdiscussions.php?disc=pmdspd
Of course if this were a heat wave ready to pounce, the media and the alarmosphere would immediately call it “dirty weather” and related to “global warming”.
I wonder if the Weather Channel will name this event?
h/t to Gordon Fulks
Oh noes!!! It’s Karbon-Kaused Klimate Kaos!!!
25 degrees F below normal? Holy Toasty Toe Socks, Batman! Time to break out the Pook Toque!
This is going to bring a rapid end to a wonderful summer, the kind we will reminisce about with our grandchildren.
I thought October was the usual time that Montana and the Dakotas start seeing some snow? Is this really early?
Sure they’d label an October heat wave as “due to global warming”… but five will get you twenty that they blame THIS on global warming anyway.
Would this be Athena: The Greek goddess of wisdom, courage, inspirations, justice, mathematics and all things wonderful?
“Of course if this were a heat wave ready to pounce, the media and the alarmosphere would immediately call it “dirty weather” and related to “global warming”.”
Oh no!! NOAA better get busy “re-adjusting” past temperatures DOWN so that they can declare 2012 the warmest year ev-ah…
Never fear, those cold temperatures will be one more effect of global warming before the Weather Channel is thru with it.. You know, those “extreme weather conditions” that result from global warming (Oops! “Climate change.” )
Let us make our sacrifices and burnt offerings of heating oil to Athena, first storm of the season.
I bet they name the first snow storm: Anthropogenic
I bet they name the first storm: Anthropogenic
Colder air coming down the polar vortex. My but UV changes sure kick CO2 butt…
I think folks all worked up about “back radiation” are about to get a lesson in the importance of the stratospheric changes and wind / convection / evaporation / precipitation.
I guess the “missing heat” isn’t hiding in the Great Plains.
I think the Weather Channel should name Albert after the Nobel Prize winning scientist Al Gore who taught us all “global warming means global cooling”, a truly profound piece of oxymoronic wisdom.
Perhaps a new unit of measure should be introduced as well; the Gore scale. Winter storms could have a Gore scale for intensity; 1-Gore for cold and cloudy, 10-Gore for snow flurries, 100-Gore for an inch accumulation and so on. What was an average blizzard before could now be 1,000,000 Gore storm. Think of the alarmist exaggeration potential of such a scale.
Yes. It’s global weirding allright. And worse than we thought……
/sarc
If so, mobilize homeless shelters, farmers to ready their cattle for a harsh winter.
Perhaps just a taste of things to come. The AO will determine who experiences the power of the jet stream this year.
http://tinyurl.com/2dg9u22/?q=node/270
And it starts..
earlier than I thought.
Good luck guys way up north !!! Methinks you will need it.
It’s the Gore effect. Announce his dirty little secret and hell will freeze over. It never fails.
Somebody please clip that crazed poodle.
UK facing shortages of vegetables, fruit and wheat due to the poor weather this summer. Not much sign of global warming there.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2212516/The-vanishing-fruit-veg-Warning-shortages-price-rises-British-crops-hit-bad-weather.html
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This is just weather, but an early start to winter that could get real long for those in the mid-west.
E.M.Smith says:
October 3, 2012 at 6:45 pm
Colder air coming down the polar vortex. My but UV changes sure kick CO2 butt…
You know, x-ray went down, ultraviolet does not get reflected by snow, I’m wondering if ultraviolet radiation is a specific result of X-ray. Interesting.
That’s an excellent idea. In fact algor is a Latin word for coldness or the cold. Winter storms could be measured in algors!
That kind of weather is the reason I left North Dakota for Arizona, yes snow can come that early to the north. I have driven on snow and ice as earlier as late September. It is hard to hunt ducks in the snow when you have camo on and the ground is white. Yet the size of this weather system is huge and it is early. Last winter was a warm one it will be interesting to see how this winter turns out, I just hope when I have to go back up there this winter it will not be too cold.
It proves my theory correct, again! When is less ice on Arctic ocean -> water absorbs EXTRA coldness (because of no ice as insulator from the unlimited coldness in the air) with double strength – that double coldness goes south and intercepts the moisture; south double the amount of snow = not enough moisture left in the air, to replenish the ice on Arctic… chain-reaction has started. Last N/W the effect was in central Europe – I hope this year will be in north America and northern Europe – where most of the Warmist are. Vandalizing Arctic’s ice by ice crusher ships -> then ruff water BRAKES 1000 time larger area, in hope that: less ice to reflect sunlight = hopefully global warming, to get them out of trouble – they don’t listen to me that: a] water reflects more sunlight, than ice (mirror effect) b] for 5-6 months, there is NO sunlight to reflect.. BUT white ice is as polystyrene, full of air, as the best insulator. – minus ice, Warmist will get double whammy::: http://globalwarmingdenier.wordpress.com/midi-ice-age-can-be-avoided/
Snowing here in the Great White North – central Alberta, Canada. Life is good, the snow makes everything bright and white. Tuning up the skis!! Now we just need the moderate El Nino to turn back to a La Nina for ski season!!!