Massive early cold wave – Nearly an inch of snow at Rapid City. This is the earliest recorded snowfall going back to 1888.
Source: NOAA
Mount Rushmore from NWS Rapid City Twitter Feed:
A television Meteorologist in Sioux Falls, SD had this to say:
Way too early for this. Even the Presidents look like they are crying…
The national Weather Service in Rapid City posted this on Twitter a few minutes ago, it shows their view outside the window looking at their radiosonde launch station
According to a newspaper report from the Sioux Falls Argus Leader, eight inches of snow have reportedly fallen in the Black Hills area. This beats the previous early snowfall record set on Sept. 13, 1970, when 0.7″ of an inch of snow fell at Rapid City, SD.
Elsewhere, 8″ of snow were reported in Downtown Custer, 6″ were reported five miles south of Hill City, and 4-5″ inches were reported in Hill City, Sioux Falls Argus Leader reported. Mount Rushmore reported 7″ of snow, and Sundance, Wyoming reported 4″. The map below shows accumulations.
SNOW REPORTS LISTED BY AMOUNT INCHES LOCATION ST COUNTY TIME ------ ----------------------- -- -------------- ------- 8.00 DOWNTOWN CUSTER SD CUSTER 0800 AM 7.00 MOUNT RUSHMORE SD PENNINGTON 0810 AM 7.00 1 ENE DOWNTOWN CUSTER SD CUSTER 0605 AM 6.00 5 S HILL CITY SD PENNINGTON 0815 AM 6.00 8 NW TERRY PEAK SD LAWRENCE 0750 AM 6.00 2 SSE DEERFIELD RESERVO SD PENNINGTON 0740 AM 5.00 5 ENE DOWNTOWN CUSTER SD CUSTER 0600 AM 5.00 JOHNSON SIDING SD PENNINGTON 0530 AM 4.50 HILL CITY SD PENNINGTON 0852 AM 4.00 1 ENE SUNDANCE WY CROOK 0800 AM 4.00 2 SSE DEERFIELD RESERVO SD PENNINGTON 0400 AM 3.00 7 SW DOWNTOWN RAPID CIT SD PENNINGTON 0800 AM 2.50 1 W DOWNTOWN RAPID CITY SD PENNINGTON 0815 AM 2.00 6 E DEVILS TOWER JUNCTI WY CROOK 0842 AM 2.00 9 ENE DEVILS TOWER JUNC WY CROOK 0840 AM 2.00 ALADDIN WY CROOK 0835 AM 2.00 6 W BEULAH WY CROOK 0824 AM 2.00 5 W WHITEWOOD SD LAWRENCE 0820 AM 2.00 2 W DOWNTOWN SPEARFISH SD LAWRENCE 0815 AM 2.00 3 ESE DOWNTOWN GILLETTE WY CAMPBELL 0750 AM 2.00 4 S DOWNTOWN RAPID CITY SD PENNINGTON 0600 AM 1.50 BEULAH WY CROOK 0855 AM 1.30 12 SW MOSKEE WY WESTON 0800 AM 1.00 FOUR CORNERS WY WESTON 0827 AM 1.00 1 N DOWNTOWN RAPID CITY SD PENNINGTON 0815 AM 1.00 LEAD SD LAWRENCE 0745 AM 0.90 1 NW PIEDMONT SD MEADE 0730 AM 0.90 1 ESE DOWNTOWN RAPID CI SD PENNINGTON 0600 AM
Source: NWS Rapid City
Freeze warnings for many northern U.S. locations have also been issued, including Spokane, WA and Duluth, MN.
I expect we will see many many cold records set.
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Well, the Global warming is causing chaos with the climate, everyone knows that. Obama said so. 😉
Yes, and according to his little pal, Master Kerry, we must save everyone from the warming, even those nice
‘IS’ people in Iraq and Syria,
Not only that, Master Kerry says it is in the Bible, that we must save those nice IS people from Global Warming. If you don’t try to save them, by taking reusable bags to the market, you are a heathen!
Here in Norway its been the oposite. When USA is Cold or mild, we have been mild and warm. 🙂
Listening to some farmers in Iowa and Missouri on radio, they’ll be running around tomorrow to assess crop damage.
It’s been a few years. I’ve forgotten. Is that stuff what they used to call “snow”?
No. It’s called Global Warming Powder.
I think we have a winnah! 😀
(I am so stealing that)
That’s one to remember, excellent!
Better known as GW fallout!
that is Funny!!
Epic!
My grandchildren don’t know what it is, according to some warmist PhD.
You must always mention the twat’s name – so that when he Googles his name, he gets hits that show up what he said: Dr David Viner http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/snowfalls-are-now-just-a-thing-of-the-past-724017.html
Hardly surprising. All the heat is going into the ocean. (/sarc))
Canada, big exporter of cold air to USA….
We should reconsider the Keystone pipeline. Lesson learned: Never piss off the Canadians – the payback is chilling.
I live in Vancouver. We get our cold air systems from Alaska. But please do approve Keystone, it will save a lot of oil spills from rail.
Shouldn’t countries that export cold air get paid money from UN green slush fund? They help to reduce global warming.
We could start up a whole new trading scheme based on Cold Air Credits, this would be worth billions of dollars per year and would provide a useful new revenue source for hard pressed banking sector.
Countries hosting these CAC exchanges would see boost in GDP, it a win-win way to fight global warming and save the planet.
This is great news for skiers
…and terrible news for farmers.
Not so good for the Alarmists either.
Farmers have to take a hit every now and then. They have been profiting from increased yields due to the increased concentration of CO2 int he air in recent decades.
And people who pay for what they eat.
I think most of the Cornbelt will dodge the freeze damage bullet tonight. Fortunately, this cold air mass has moderated a bit with its slow track from Canada and soils in the Midwest are pretty moist and warm right now.
With the marginally cold for frost/freeze damage event tonight(late afternoon dew points are well above freezing, except in ND/SD), I expect the low spots in outlying areas to get close to or just below freezing.
That is, those areas that clear out by midnight.
This is around 2 weeks early compared to climatological averages for temperatures to get down to 32 degrees in these areas.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=arx&storyid=104309&source=0
Speaking of farmers, in case you missed it yesterday. Thanks to one of the best growing seasons/weather ever, along with help from increasing CO2/atmospheric fertilization and technological advances, this years corn and soybean estimates from the USDA were for record production………by a wide margin over anything ever recorded.
http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/usda/current/CropProd/CropProd-09-11-2014.txt
“Corn production is forecast at 14.4 billion bushels, up 3 percent from both
the August forecast and from 2013. Based on conditions as of September 1,
yields are expected to average 171.7 bushels per acre, up 4.3 bushels from
the August forecast and 12.9 bushels above the 2013 average. If realized,
this will be the highest yield and production on record for the United
States. Area harvested for grain is forecast at 83.8 million acres, unchanged
from the August forecast but down 4 percent from 2013.
Soybean production is forecast at a record 3.91 billion bushels, up 3 percent
from August and up 19 percent from last year. Based on September 1
conditions, yields are expected to average a record high 46.6 bushels per
acre, up 1.2 bushels from last month and up 3.3 bushels from last year.”
Even worse news for warmests…97% of them believe it’s a very rare and exciting event.
( According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”.
“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” he said. – in March 2000 )
Record corn harvest for ethanol and record soybean harvest for export and fake hamburgers. What will happen to the real food crops?
Tell me about it, I’m rushing to get my greehouse in order before the big chill. I really hate store bought tomatoes, I thought I might have another month at least.
its the poor animals out in it I sorrow for, far too early and they wont have full winter coats or body fat built up.
This response is to ozspeakingup who is worried about animals without a winter coat. I’m in the Kansas City area. My old (30 years old) Morgan horse has been growing in his winter coat since July. Earliest I have ever seen him do that, and I have been partially chalking it up to the fact that he is old. He did regret it last week when it was 90 degrees, but not today. He’s not the only one either, he just has the thickest coat. These animals may know something we don’t.
Not so, farmers will receive cash subsidies for damages and for not planting anything. It is a win-win for farmers…
Yeah, let the farmers eat cake.
And what’s David Viner up to today? He’s in a well paid government job advising former British colonies on Global Warming tm.
Minimum/low temperature report from Saturday morning(9-13-2014) and possible corn/soybean market reaction next week.
http://www.marketforum.com/?id=1259905
Yes AW bad news for the farmers indeed. But as you know most of us carry Government (you the taxpayers) crop insurance and although that never pays beck the hrs and hrs put in let alone the damage it does to soils and equipment they are somewhat covered.
Yesterday, sweatin’ it off… today, freezin’ it off.
Once the snow and temps have been homogenized, it was really a blast of hot, humid air from the Gulf of Mexico that was felt.
Looks like the presidents are crying
Oh, jezz, I swear I didn’t read the quote in the article.
I had the same thought when I saw the photo. Who can blame them?
50 miles west of Chicago, tonight predicted to get down to 39F.
A bad end to a cool and damp spring/summer.
Bad news for the remaining tomatoes and pepper plants.
The great lakes had ice late last winter, so the water is still colder than normal, I hope this is not the start of the next (little) ice age. Last winter was tough, two in a row will be depressing. I know it is weather not climate, but with the decadal oscillations shifting to the cold phase and the low in activity we may be in for some cooling.
That’s why the warmists are so desperate with this latest propaganda push, for the UN meetings coming up next year, they see the window closing as the warm scare will be harder and harder to maintain in the face of mother nature and the truth. Hence the push for the weird or dirty weather meme from all that dirty carbon pollution, can’t sell the warming scare scenario when you are shivering.
Therefore also a bad time to mess up our energy infrastructure !
As many here know, we had that blast through Southern Alberta on Monday and Tuesday. In Calgary we had about a foot of heavy, wet snow. Tens of thousands of trees were broken, driving around last night we say an immense number of broken branches lying everywhere, and the City has a special collection service to get the debris to landfill sites. (For those not familiar with winter weather, trees handle snow fine unless they still have leaves, which they all do. A large tree can have thousands of pounds of snow stuck to its leaves)
Many cars and houses are damaged from broken tree branches, many power lines were down including a bunch that were visibly steaming. Crop damage is immeasurable at this point, but will probably be serious. This is a critical time for farmers, they probably intended to be harvesting this week and next, not trying to find the crop under the snow. It was definitely destructive.
Three days earlier I flew in from Palm Springs: 41C, down from the previous day of 43C. Several hours after I left the dust storm and 7.5cm of rain flooded the area.
Looked to me like the offshore Mexican tropical storm pushed a big system over into the Central Valley deserts, and then further ENE, which caused a counter-clockwise movement from northern Canada to swing south-south east, dragging the cold with it. Calgary was colder than Yellowknife.
Doug,
Though large scale/upper level features teleconnect thousands of miles apart and often effect each other, in this case the offshore Mexican tropical storm and this northern stream system hitting with snow and cold are coming from entirely different stream flows(at least that’s my impression).
This cold wave/pattern had origins going back over a week ago, when northern stream energy and Arctic cold at very high latitudes began dropping south thru AK and Northwest Canada.
Much like recent northern stream troughs/lows, including the ones that caused one of the coolest July’s in Midwest history and last Winters Polar Vortex’s, this one dropped straight south and brought unusually cold air south of the US/Canadian border.
The Mother Lode of cold air is still up in N.Canada right now.
http://www.weather.unisys.com/surface/sfc_con.php?image=na&inv=0&t=cur&expanddiv=hide_bar
Where will that go?
Early next week, the northern stream will grab a chunk of that cold and send it southeast into southeastern Canada, with just the southern edge getting into the Upper Great Lakes and Northeast US briefly.
The new pattern as the week continues and possibly into week 2 will feature a more zonal flow of much warmer air that spreads across the US from west to east.
Thanks for sharing your local perspective CodeTech.
I’m curious:
Have you seen many damaged evergreens?
Please keep us updated on the crops.
Yes, I will never forget the October 4 1987 storm in Albany/Southern Vermont.
The earliest measurable snowfall at Albany, where 6.5″ inches fell, with as much as 20″ reported in parts of the Catskills. The storm wreaked havoc on the area because it was a heavy, extremely wet snow, which fell on fully leaved trees. Numerous branches and trees were felled…taking down power lines with them, blocking roads and damaging houses. Albany was described as “looking like a war zone.” Hundreds of thousands of people were without power…some for up to two weeks. It was the most snow that ever fell during the month of October in Albany.
I remember having to take showers in the morgue at the local hospital in Bennington, VT.
I remember that Winter. I was living in Albany, NY at the time. There were many downed tree limbs around the roads of the city. I remember thinking at the time trees have to prepare for Winter like animals and people do and that is the reason they lose their leaves in the Fall.
It had never occurred to me before the reason why trees lose their leaves in the Fall. It’s because having them during a heavy Winter snowstorm would cause the trees to lose their branches. It’s also the reason pine trees can retain their pine needles, because they don’t hold as much snow as leaves.
Bob Clark
@Robert Clark. Another reason is that tree leaves from non evergreens need quite a bit of water to keep them functional. The tree.wouldn’t be able to support full foliage in winter anyway, because the air is sondry and the ability to get moisture from roots to leaves is greatly diminished in winter – in many places it is like desert conditions as far as moisture is concerned since the water is all locked up in snow and ice.
Evergreens have smallish leaves with a wax coating and chemicals inside which don’t freeze. The small wax coated.leaves prevent water.from escaping (reduces leaf transpiration) which allows the tree to hold on to the leaves without the water cost. Note that there are a handful of conifer species that do lose their leaves in winter as well.
The Calgary snow fall over 3 days was the highest total for the complete month of September ever recorded.
all that good wood to landfill?
why not shred the leaves etc and use it as green mulch immediately to help protect soils, and saw the bigger bits for use next year for firewood,
looks like bitter cold winters may become the norm, not the exception.
what a waste to put it in a ditch
Ban Ki-Moon must wish his Climate Summit could be moved out of the US.
I suggest Monrovia, Liberia or Freetown, Sierra Leone as a new venue for the Climate March.
Nothing says warming like cooling.
Wouldn’t that be a great bumper sticker?
Gee, looks like a cold winter coming again. I am in NZ and we are in spring the winter here was mild I thought.
The People’s Climate March may be hilariously cold. I hope Al Gore attends.
Forecast for Ely, Mn tonight is 27° F (-2.7° C). Glad I’m didn’t plan a late summer canoe trip this year.
Please share some of the cold with us europeans too.
Asked a colleague today why he believed in CAGW and the response was: it just feels like there should be a problem releasing all this CO2.
Be careful what you wish for, skeptics, you might just get it!
Mind control over the weather is about as real as CAGW.
We never wished for a deep Solar minimum or deep freeze or anything like that. We just didn’t want international treaties based on flimsy science. That the Global Warming models collapse so spectacularly is of course beautiful.
Okay, we’re upset about the Keystone – when we get upset y’all get the cold shoulder 😉
The polar vortex seems to have again hurtled an historic Arctic outbreak out of Canada and into the USA after leaving Calgary reeling from an early season snowstorm earlier this week. At West Yellowstone MT the mercury slid all the way down to 6 F this morning (12 Sept 2014), the first time it has ever been so cold this early in the winter (or is it summer?). And for the first time ever in early September the temperature dropped into the teens at Sheridan Wyoming where the temperature stood at 18 F this morning following an extensive snowstorm yesterday.
From NWS Billings:
…RECORD LOWS SET AND TIED FOR SEPTEMBER 12TH…
SHERIDAN HAD A LOW OF 18 DEGREES THIS MORNING. THIS CRUSHED THE OLD RECORD OF 30 SET IN 1975.
Mark,
“…the first time it has ever been so cold this early in the winter (or is it summer?). And for the first time ever in early September…”
I think you mean the first time in recorded temperature history. There was very, very thick ice there multiple times in the past. I guess I’m just sensitized to things sounding like the warministas and their “unprecedented” weather claims. 😉
Bruce
Yeah, I purposely wrote that in the style of an alarmist, but with tongue in cheek.
Well not really. Temperature have been lower and winter has come sooner many times in the past. The only difference is that man with his thermometers was not present then to record and observe what is happening now.
On the Climate Change discussion forum on Facebook someone made the point that it has snowed in September in the northern U.S. states before and gave a list of when this has happened. I found it notable that the highest level was in 1971. This was when we were having unusually cold Winters to the extent some suggested we were heading towards another ice age.
Bob Clark
It could be so easy for the professional alarmists; just switch to ice age alarmism.
But they seem to have a 90 degree phase lag to the PDO.
That would work for our current head of the White House Office of Science and Technology:
WORLDNETDAILY EXCLUSIVE
HOLDREN: ICE AGE WILL KILL 1 BILLION.
Obama’s science chief blames man-made carbon emissions.
Published: 10/09/2009 at 12:00 AM
http://www.wnd.com/2009/10/112317/
Note: the title here refers to what Holdren said in 1971 when harsh Winters led some to suggest we were headed towards an ice age.
Bob Clark
That doesn’t look like the presidents are crying. It looks like their noses are running.
Funny I thought they looked like Sentinels from X men.
A gov. tax payer paid for webcam “photo”, every 20 sec.’s is worth a thousand post “words” on the internet.
When the low info voters see the snow it sinks in much better than trying to understand earth, sun, moon, cloud, ocean, ect cycles and the statistics from that put into a graph via a compter model.
The National Park Service , the Forrest Service, heck all the ski areas have web cams.
Put up a link to them all and invite the public to come by and see the truth for themselves.
Lies kill.
Truth is life.
If you live out in the boonies and use propane for heat, you may want to fill up now before the farmers all start drying their wet corn.
Oh BTW: looks as though Jefferson may have caught a cold as he seems to have an ice cycle hanging from his nose.
goathauntwebcam
abasin web cams
like that
http://www.webcambiglookcom/nationalparks.shtml
http://www.arapahoebasin.com/ABasin/snow-conditions/web-cams.aspx