As much of the northern hemisphere endures record cold temperatures, we get this report from Severe Weather EU via Twitter:
Spectacular scenes today in Algeria as snow covered the sand dunes in Ain El Safra! Snow visible also in imagery by NASA’s Terra satellite.
After a 40 year absence, this is the second winter in a row for this occurrence. In late 2016 it was reported by the Telegraph as being not seen in 40 years:
Incredible photos capture freak snowfall in the Sahara Desert, believed to be first time it has fallen on the unforgiving red dunes in almost 40 years.
Now, it’s happened again. Have a look.
Photos by rt Sidali, Gian Alonso, Rabah Ripou Ouchen, Issam Bouchetata Bouchetata
You can also see the snow on the MODIS/TERRA satellite image service from NASA. Ain El Safra is the lone white section in the center of the photo from January 5th, 2018:
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I guess we now know where Al Gore was last week.
BINGO! 😀
Hope he stays there.
Nah, it’s not snow, it’s white sand. Dr Vine was correct : in the future people just won’t know what snow looks like. 😉
Greg it’s real snow i’m from there
Perhaps this will prompt Al Gore to say that because of climate change, kids in the future might not know what sand is.
Hopefully, kids in the future wont know who the heck Al Gore was and what the climate change bubble was all about. I suppose they could look it up on the Internet – if such a thing still exists. Will probably have been worn out by bitcoin and all the rest of the rubbish. Fast turning into a sewer overall.
birdynumnum
Frankly, you could post what you want, I’ll read it.
birdynumnum is a favourite expression in our house, we don’t have parrots so for 30 years the dogs have been fed their birdynumnum’s.
Classic scene few other will get.
Ha ha , I have been a user of the old birdy num nums going back to my school days and still do now. I live in Sydney and have large numbers of birds seeking num nums every day, I look out on the deck right now and there are three Galas, a family of rainbow lorikeets, two sulfur crested cockatoos and a turkey. All scratching around for left over birdy num nums and having a drink.
Re those satellite pics. does that look like an isolated extreme global warming weather event to you guys? Or more like the kind of weather conditions we might see as normal in a resumption of icing such as the last minimum?
Hrundi V. Bakshi!
I hope they do know who and exactly what Al was. I hope this era is taught as one of the big lessons that mankind had to learn.
We could ask the Boston people if they like “to know” what frozen sea water in the streets look like.
John +100
Now I’m jealous.
Tell AP’s AGW propagandist Seth Borenstein. He just wrote an article claiming that while North America was cold, the rest of the world was cooking.
+1
According to DMI the average Arctic surface temperature is currently the coldest it has been at any time in the last 2 years, except for a couple of days around day 52 last year, not what you would expect with a large cold displacement over NA. Last year if you remember there was an ‘Arctic heatwave’ according to alarmists!
not according to the DMI “Daily Mean Temperatures in the Arctic 1958 – 2018” reported here:
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/meant80n.uk.php
It looks like summer temp is remarkably consistent, with recent winter temp being 15C warmer than average. As average Arctic winter temp is -30C, the AGW/CC people are claiming ice is melting. Can we argue with that logic?
“not according to the DMI…”
The graphs in your link show just what MrGrim said
MFKB,
The DMI data is for areas north of 80N latitude. The Arctic is much larger than that.
Also, the DMI average is from 1958-2002 and mostly predates the current climate average period 1981-2010.
Ok, 3.5 more degrees of latitude.
Yer thanks MKFBoulder – the source I was referring to, which you linked to, CONFIRMED what I said – doh!
To reiterate, depsite the big displaced cold pool of air over NA, the Arctic has remained colder than last year, and is continuing to cool. Normally a displacement causes a notable RISE in Arctic temperature as per the ‘heatwaves’ last year.
Obviously it is a few degrees above the medium term average, we are at a warm phase in the natural cycle, last peak c.1940.
Current Arctic temps (according to HADCRUT) are comparable to c.1940 and very unlikely related to man-made climate change or any ‘Arctic Amplification’ nonsense.
People like Borenstein keep “forgetting” that January in the northern hemisphere is mid-summer in the southern hemisphere and hoping no one else will remember.
Yeah, cooked. Thousands of cars had been trapped in Spain because of the snow. As the snow is rare in Spain or very shallow when it is cold, some drivers could not care less to use snow chains on the tires, they were trapped when some cars could not move any more, and some thousands of people got trapped in the cold, exhausting the gas, or discharging the battery because they were often starting the car to have some heat, and switching off the car fearing to exhaust the gas. Some ten hours trapped in the snow because of global warming.
Did that look anything like the photos in this Trib article? http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/weather/chi-110201-monster-snowstorm-2011-pictures-photogallery.html
It’s only been 7 years, come February 1, since that episode of snowy weather. Hit everything, including my storm door – 4.5 feet drifted against it.
It was indeed like cement. I appreciate avalanche rescue teams enormously now.
So renouncing the Paris climate agreement results in climate cooling. There’s a nice easy solution to AGW.
In the spring, we get out our “rock skis”, usually an old pair to use when the snow pack gets thin, so we don’t wreck our new boards.
Maybe in a decade or two the good people of Algeria will be able to ski on the dunes:
Emir: “Hey Abdul – get out the “sand skis”, the snow pack is getting really thin!”
Abdul: “Yeah dude! I blame Global Warming! Hah! Hah! Remember that horse’s a$$ Al Gore and his Global Warming BS? What a maroon!”
Love that peach and vanilla ice cream affect 🙂
AndyG55,
I wonder if seb will acknowledge this prediction of mine (http://notrickszone.com/2018/01/02/global-cooling-expected-for-2018-warming-projection-may-be-one-of-the-great-scientific-blunders-of-modern-times/#comment-1245840) or will he just keep on with the blather.
The world is probably seeing the beginning of another cold period. If any scientific hypothesis fails to predict reality then it is wrong! see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KmimDq4cSU.
Patrick
Thank you for that. I’m a layman, no scientific qualifications whatsoever, and I have always said, science starts with a guess, for which I have been roundly vilified by those ‘more knowledgeable’.
Increased the number of species, too.
They now have Snow Camels.
I like the apparent look of confusion on the face. Kind of looks like a climate scientist trying to figure out what he’s going to blame this on.
+1 😀
Camels are very good mathematicians, according to the (late) Terry Pratchett. They could no doubt model climate better than the current crop of climate academics. (And they’re better looking than a good many of them!)
Well he’s got the hump!
My model shows that the snow camel is endangered.
SAVE THE SNOW CAMEL!
SEND MONEY NOW.
Endangered Polar Camel needs protection
Who’d a thunk?
Camels actually evolved in North America. Yes it is true ( look up Beringia).
They wandered around the Yukon and Alaska 3.5 million years ago.
Camels, giraffes and horses started over here.
Is someone still trying to clone woolly mammoths? Just wondering. We might need them again.
A few years ago, some Russian researchers managed to revive a Siberian pink that had been extinct for 10,000 years (Silene sp.), found in the tundra with a dead woolly mammoth, by cultivating the polar bodies that were found on its roots and still viable.
Do the Warmians and CAGWers know that there are wild dromedaries in the Gobi Desert? I’m guessing, but I’d say they’re the descendants of the dromedaries used by traders on trips on the Old Silk Road when it was busy, a very long time ago.
I suspect they are Bactrian camels not dromedaries. Two humps.
Yes, you’re right. I always get those two mixed up. The Gobi gets quite cold and has regular snow storms. I’m trying to remember which Animal Planet episode had the videos of the camels lined up in the snowy desert, exhaling clouds of warm air into the freezing cold. They looked quite healthy to me, too.
To tell the difference: turn the pic unstill the legs are on the left. If the humps for a B, it is bactrian.if the hump forms a D, it is Dromedary.
Just look at the poor guy, he’s famished. He can`t stand and all that snow has kept him from hunting his favorite food, the desert penguin.
HAHAHAHAAH OMG +many
Great now the alarmist will be talking about the extinction of polar Camels, thanks Andy
That is why camels have those big soft fleshy feet – they are snow shoes…..
Our children just wont know what camel toes are. Or will camel toes get even bigger?
I can’t see the snow in that photo.
It’s fake snow — a special white fake snow
filter on the camera.
You can’t trust the skeptics.
And if not fake snow, it was real snow
shipped in from Iceland for the pictures.
Not that it matters,
snow in the desert is just “weather”.
Real climate change comes from computers.
BIG computers with big shot PhD scientists
standing next to them.
So who are you going to trust,
your own eyes, or a sophisticated computer
— actually a SUPERcomputer —
which has correctly predicted the average temperature
within a few degrees, for 30 years
Fake snow?
I know that Al’s clip of glaciers calving in the original “An Inconvenient Truth” was actually CGI’ed Styrofoam from another movie. But here, who would let them spread a bunch of Styrofoam beads all over the area just for a PR clip? Don’t the Eviros hate Styrofoam? (Al’s ozone “hole”,CFCs, and all that.)
All that snow couldn’t have been fake snow.
Gosh! It must have been real snow! In the Sahara!
(I’m sure Mann, Gore, or at least Hansen predicted it. Sahara “snow; is not just cold H2O, it is cold H2cO2!)
You forgot to add big shot phds that are paid a lot of money which controls the results of their big shot Big Time fancy computers.
The writing on the picture is fake too. You know what is says?
“So’s yo mama!”
A small correction. The picture shown is in Morocco, not in Algeria. The small coastal embayment with the peninsula to the left of it is Nador, Morocco.
Some additional charts for the mix.
This plot from NIC shows the High Atlas covered in snow on Sunday 7th Jan
Here is the Earth.NullSchool wind chart display for 6th Jan at 1500 with a 3-hour Precipitation Accumulation overlay.
This is what a meridional climate pattern looks like. Expect more of this in the coming years.
Doesn’t count….there’s no thermometers there….they will take the next best….somewhere in south Africa where it’s 110F……..
new “hot” snow, brought to you by the climate BULL
Two straight years after 40 blank years…must be due to climate change.
Incredible odds considering that we’re supposed to be in the “end of snow” period.
“end of snow”… yes, tell that to the juncos and sparrows and those confounded mourning doves who come to my feeding station every day. I’m sure they have a few things to tweet about the ‘end of snow’ mythos.
They’d better find the “missing heat” soon, or we’ll all freeze to death.
The missing heat has been subducted to the deep sand.
ROFLMAO!
Snow in desert = unusual weather
Unusual weather = climate change
Climate change = global warming
Global warming = Al Gore was right
Don’t be a science denier
And that snow camel looks happy to me, too.
The science is settled.
97% of scientists agree.
Al Gore says so
He took two science courses in college – he knows
The pope says so too — most Popes have great science knowledge
And how about Barak O’Bummer?
Al Gore, the Pope, and OBummer, are well known as:
The Three Stooges of Climate Change
http://www.elOnionBloggle,Blogspot.com
Blog where you can discover the truth about the future climate:
It’s going to get warmer,
unless it gets colder,
or stays the same.
And I’m certain of that !.
Will someone tell us what grades AL Gore got on his 2 science courses?
Before you believe Al “The Blimp” Gore’s
ridiculous scary climate predictions:
Consider the fact that Gore
took only two science courses in college,
getting a “D” in Natural Sciences 6 (“Man’s Place in Nature”),
and a “C+” in Natural Sciences 118,
as reported by the Washington Post in 2000.
“Blog where you can discover the truth about the future climate:
It’s going to get warmer,
unless it gets colder,
or stays the same.
And I’m certain of that !.”
you forgot “whatever it is it will be really bad”
But if global warming loses its ability to scare people,
like global cooling, the hole in the ozone layer,
and acid rain, did, something else will replace it
as the leftists’ next boogeyman — I’m predicting
exploding silicone breast implants —
I have nightmares about them,
dangerous,
could poke an eye out.
This is a serious post.
Camelus dromedarius arcticus, more food for Ursus Maritimus.
Ursus Maritimus will walk a mile for a Camelus dromedarius arcticus.
Few old smokers on line Jorge!! The old joke about this famous cigarette ad was a parody: “9 out of 10 men who tried camels preferred women”. Oops I can be arrested for the half dozen diversity abuses, particularly for the odd one out slur.
In George Carlin’s immortal words (from his “sex on TV” skit), “Id walk a mile for a Camel MMMMMMmmmmmm.”
And if the weather models are correct parts of N. Africa should get more chilly episodes before the month is out.
http://www.wetterzentrale.de/en/topkarten.php?map=1&model=gfs&var=17&run=12&time=210&lid=OP&h=0&mv=0&tr=3#mapref
and
http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/gfse_cartes.php?ech=6&code=0&mode=9
Also in February 2012 Tunisia experienced lots of snow, unfortunately most of the reports have been removed from the interweb as politics overwhelmed the keeping of weather data. However https://www.iceagenow.info/heavy-snowfall-tunisia/ still has reference to it.
The satellite shot looks like it is a wider spread of snowfall than last winter’s snow.
Snow in the Atlas Mountains is not unusual. There is a ski resort in Morocco in those mountains. but for it to snow in the dunes and stick like that, and it does look like a bigger spread – well, durn!
Did Kuwait get snow again, or is it too early to ask about it?
What’s next? Mastodons and giant cave sloths and short-faced bears reviving?
And further to the south at 03°04′33″S 37°21′12″E …
Hemingway wrote a story titled The Snows of Kilimajaro. Al Gore’s 2006 movie claimed that wouldn’t happen anymore on Africa’s highest mountain: “Within the decade, there will be no more snows of Kilimanjaro.” However it’s an inconvenient truth that it’s still snowing up there. Here’s today’s forecast from https://www.mountain-forecast.com/peaks/Mount-Kilimanjaro/forecasts/5963
Days 0-3 Mount Kilimanjaro Weather Summary: A heavy fall of snow, heaviest during Tue morning. Temperatures will be well below freezing (max 19°F on Sun night, min 16°F on Mon night). Wind will be generally light.
Great resource, Ralph.
The chicken little ice-core borer, Lonnie Thompson, visited Puncak Jaya, a glacier in Indonesia, 4 degrees south of the equator, in 2010. He gave interviews, on NPR and PBS, screaming that the glacier was MELTING UNDER HIS FEET! He said the glacier would disappear, at this rate, in 5 years.
Your mountain weather forecast shows that Puncak Jaya consistently gets multiple feet of snow in weekly doses.
The Indonesian glacier is still there, 7 years later. And Lonnie is still running around the world screaming “the sky is falling!”
Kent, may I suggest giving Lonnie a bag to cover his head?
It might help him relax, especially if it has a drawstring that he can use to help keep the CO2 in the bag, so that he stops having these anxiety attacks.
Sara,
Here’s Lonnie’s on-air freak-out over the glacier’s certain disappearance by 2015 (this was in 2010):
“Lonnie Thompson is a glaciologist at Ohio State University. In the summer of 2010, Thompson traveled to the Pacific island nation of Indonesia to collect ice near the country’s highest peak, Puncak Jaya. He said that Puncak Jaya’s ice is melting – fast.
“Lonnie Thompson: This is the first glacier we have ever drilled where it rained every day on the ice. We had one case where we had a tent that sat there for two weeks. After two weeks, when we took the tent down, we had lost 30 centimeters of ice from the surface down. If you do the calculations, you’re talking about potentially losing these ice fields in five years.”
Lonnie was “racing to save Indonesia’s ice climate record” …. or something. He, of course, is a hero!
Pitiful!
Quad riding sand dunes covered in snow sure sounds fun.
At some point the top climate guru’s like Gore and Mann will have to stand up and be counted for their failed predictions. None of them saw snow in the Sahara coming but with powder comes great responsibility.
Will Algeria now send a bobsleigh team to the Olympics?
An obvious case of global warming causing moist air to be elevated into the troposphere by warmth induced turbulence until it freezes at more southerly latitudes than normal.
I am not sure if you missed sarc on the end, or if you are serious…??
DmacKenzie,
“global warming causing moist air to be elevated into the troposphere by warmth induced turbulence” ???
Glad to see settled seance can is so flexible — from global warming making summer’s hotter and winter’s milder but wetter, to global warming causing more cold weather and more snow in winter.
Don’t tell me the unfalsifiable superposition of CAGW will probably now say summers will be wetter or drier, or colder, or … whatever … CAGW is not science it is just politics.
An obvious case of “caGW” (the “a” being Man’s CO2) theorist ignoring reality.
The reality being, “They were wrong”.
DMac, is that what caused the snow there 40 years ago, during the global cooling scare, too?
A mountain-range is not “sand dunes”. Things are colder at elevation.
Do not deceive us.
Pierre, those ARE sand dunes, not mountains. It’s the Sahara. The dunes are enormous. They don’t vaguely resemble mountains.
You can tell the difference easily. Sand dunes are curved with one face (the one to the wind) having a gentle slope and the face downwind being steep. They also have a smooth top edge. These are definitely dunes.
Looking at the photo it looks like the area is starting to turn green.
Huh…. I thought the Sahara was the largest hot desert in the world!
Drifting snows on sifting sands
as cold invades once searing lands
refutes assertions of ‘global warming’ hurled
exposing Linear Thinking In A Cyclical World!
Nice!
Meanwhile, on the front page of BBC News, we’re told about the hottest day evah at a place called Penrith, near Sydney Australia. 47 degrees Cee. ish.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-42595180
(I used to live near Penrith – Penrith, Cumbria UK. A pleasant like place, in the Eden Valley, with middling to nice climate. Sheltered from the prevailing and very wet westerlies by the Lake District hills and a very good place to keep beef & dairy cows. Like wot I did but 30 miles away, still in Cumbria, but where The Climate was ‘a bit different’
That Carbon Oxide is sooooooo tedious. How does it do that?)
Yes, there is always something happening somewhere. Penrith is a suburb of Sydney; the city reached 43.4°C, also unusually hot. The Brits were probably noticing because their team was playing in a Test match at the SCG.
And Joe Root has been hospitalised.
Auto
Apparently it was the hottest Ashes Test match day ever. Now there’s a record!
“Nick Stokes January 7, 2018 at 2:05 pm”
Actually, 47.3C and NOT unusually hot for Penrith. But the Aussie MSM claiming it to have been the hottest place on Earth. Junk!
BTW, Bankstown was also a “record” breaker too. Wonder where the weather station is in Bankstown? Why, it’s at the airport of course! More junk!
Auto January 7, 2018 at 3:13 pm
And Joe Root has been hospitalised.
Yeah with heat stroke, apparently the heat stress monitor he was wearing registered 57ºC!
Patrick MJD January 7, 2018 at 4:03 pm
“Nick Stokes January 7, 2018 at 2:05 pm”
Actually, 47.3C and NOT unusually hot for Penrith. But the Aussie MSM claiming it to have been the hottest place on Earth. Junk!
Hottest Jan 7th at Penrith over the last 10 years 113ºF, next highest 98ºF in 2009.
How do you know that Nick?
The first ‘Ashes Test’ on Australian soil was in 1882-83. The BoM does not recognize Australian temperature records taken before 1910 (apparently they are ‘unreliable’).
“Apparently it was the hottest Ashes Test match day ever. “
Please show us the temperatures for all previous Sydney test matches, Nick.
Maybe you could do a “GISS” and just make them up !!. 😉
And of course, there have been no changes to the SCG over the years.
Its that DATA QUALITY thing again, Nick….. that you just DO NOT CARE about.
On the 14th Jan 1939, the city reached 45.3°C (Observatory Hill).
Is that also unusually hot?
“the city reached 43.4°C, also unusually hot”
Roflmao!
Why is it NOT UNUSUAL to see Nick LYING his assets off.
Sydney Observatory Hill recorded 45.3C in 1939,
and apart from some sort of data fudge in Feb 2013 that has never been explained, has NEVER been any warmer.
(the AWS readings were (time(temp)….. 14:49 (44.9C) and 14:59 (44.7C)
Yet somehow 45.8C was recorded as a maximum. FROARD writ large. !!
And that is after MASSIVE urban and road development around Obs Hill.
BTW Nick, days above 40°C in Sydney are not unusual.
What urban and road development? (/sarc)
Thanks, Bruce. I’ve marked 43.4°C on your plot. Apparently it has been exceeded before just three times in January. I think that qualifies as unusually hot.
Shame the first time was in 1937.
Sorry, 1939.
BTW Nick, that is UHCN-D data, not bogus BoM data 😉
Where’s the CO2 warming?
As to an Ashes Test heat record,
The hottest Test day on record appeared to be 43.1 degree Celsius in Adelaide in 1908, the Bureau of Meteorology told the Sydney Morning Herald.” source
Sydney was 43.4.
‘Bureau of Meteorology told the Sydney Morning Herald‘
LOL – the blind leading the blind.
The hottest Test day on record appeared to be 43.1 degree Celsius in Adelaide in 1908
Just as well they didn’t play in 1939 hey Nick 😉
Nick
NIce graph Nick just one question where’s the global warming over the last 30 years sure looks like a lot more days over 40C in 30’s and 40’s. Did you forget to get the adjusted graph?
“BruceC January 8, 2018 at 12:33 am”
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Peta, the Penrith stuff is fake news. A lie travels round the world while the truth gets its boot on, or something. See Jo Nova, http://joannenova.com.au/2018/01/sydney-hottest-ever-mistake-generates-fake-news/
My experience is that when it is really cold in Detroit, it is really hot in Melbourne. I am not surprised that it has been hot in Australia given how cold it has been in Detroit. An all-time record, questionable?
Now there’s a trend!
Were was the weather station in 1939, where is it now and how much urbanisation has happened since (Fastest growing suburb in the Sydney region)? No-one ever factors these in to the figures. Sure it was hot yesterday, but it was dry.
Wehad ONE hot day in Melbourne.
Not an unusually hot day, not near record setting, not at all newsworthy.
Ask Nick Stokes – he lives here, and he likes to complain about hot summer nights – but only when they actually occur. 🙂
The Penrith measurement was done with an electronic sensor and any noise spikes were NOT filtered out or time averaged, so there is a possibility that this was an incorrect measurement.
Was that 43.4 C a one second “observation”?
Climate Change and the Iranian Protests
While liberals are fiddling while North Korea and Iran conspire to develop nuclear weapons, distracting the world from the real threats it faces by manufacturing this
Global Warming nonsense, President Trump is busy developing a battle plan that will end the Evil Empire once and for all. His solution? The exact one that President Reagan used to defeat the far more formidable USSR President Trump plans to use the free market and the industrial might of America to flood the world with oil. President Trump wants America to not only be energy independent, President Trump wants America to be energy DOMINANT!!!
https://co2islife.wordpress.com/2018/01/07/climate-change-and-the-iranian-protests/