Seattle has coldest first week of June since 1891
Seattle just experienced the coldest first week of June, according to climate records dating to 1891, said Cliff Mass, University of Washington metrologist. Both 1999 and 2008 share the record, with 1917 falling in second place, he said. “Just wait until tomorrow,” he said, when temperatures are going to be even colder.
Story here:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004466972_webweather09m.html
Missoula water park closing due to cold weather ‘to protect children from hypothermia’
Missoula water park closing for week due to cold weather
Associated Press – June 9, 2008 8:24 PM ET MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) – The Missoula Parks and Recreation Department has decided to close the Splash Montana Waterpark this week, because cold weather is forecast.
Story here:
http://www.montanasnewsstation.com/Global/story.asp?S=8454678&nav=menu227_7
Lobsterman: ““Global warming is having the opposite effect for us”
Costs up, prices down
Water temperature played a big part in the last minute scramble that closed the season with temperatures falling so low the lobsters were not crawling.
In order for the lobsters to crawl into a trap the water has to be at least over the 40-degree mark and Crouse said the spring season has hardly any times when the conditions are right.
“Our spring is just not viable,” he said. “Global warming is having the opposite effect for us and we are seeing the temperatures of the water stay lower for longer.”
Story here:
http://www.novanewsnow.com/article-220834-Costs-up-prices-down.html
Aspen to reopen this June for Skiing
Story here:
http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=93380&catid=188
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“Seattle has coldest first week of June since 1891”
And it doesn’t look like the second week will be any different. Still raining and still under 50f.
My wife and I are supposed to go camping from the 20th to the 23rd out on the Olympic peninsula, if it’s this cold we’ll be huddling in the tent the whole time.
Hmm, maybe the cold is a good thing 😉
Please send some of that east! D.C. is about ready to melt. Too bad there’s air-conditioning or Congress would be long gone which would be some compensation.
Last year at this time on the front range of Colorado, it was really, really hot for at least a month. This year, we are running our furnaces at night. That’s not a trend, that’s just the way it is.
However, it occurs to me that if the current cooling continues, and with the politically manufactured energy crisis we are having to endure, we are in big trouble.
As I was driving home yesterday I heard a radio report from the East Coast. I am paraphrasing, but I’ll try to get the report as accurate as possible from memory:
Reporter: “The sweltering temperatures in New York has some experts suggesting that this is a strong indication of global climate change”
Supposed expert: “This is raising some eyebrows, because these temperatures are so elevated at such an early point in the season, that this is a strong indicator of the effects of climate change.”
I thought my head was going to explode. I can’t tell you how many anecdotal stories I shared with AGW proponents this winter from all over the world, and then the NOAA maps, and then the actual declining temperature results, and here’s what I hear: “Anecdoatal evidence isn’t science…” “One month doesn’t mean anything…” “One year doesn’t mean anything…” “Ten years doesn’t mean anything…”
But, by God, we get a sweltering weekend out East, and it’s indicative of “climate change.” Pay no attention to the West Coast or the last 6 months. Nothing to see there. Move along…
Oh, and sorry about the double-comment, but I had intended to add that, since I know Anthony has better things to do than spend a lot of time looking at the GISS temps, I do have updated charts and observations of the data here: http://digitaldiatribes.wordpress.com/2008/06/09/june-2008-update-on-global-temperature-giss/ for anyone interested.
Okay, these stories are little more than unaverage events and anecdotes. After all, according to AGW believers, these things weren’t supposed to happen.
I think keeping an eye on what the arctic ice cap does this summer (trend) may provide clues if these anomalies are part of a bigger northern cooling trend.
I still hate anecdotes.
Classic La Nina/Cold PDO
I miss Arizona. By early March I was wearing short sleeves to work and by May the pool about the right temperature.
Now that I’m in Seattle I’m having to run the heat at night in the third floor apartment I’m temporarially staying in. And wear PJ’s and use the blanket. It’s freaking COLD! And it’s freaking JUNE! I should be questioning my sanity for moving to this town on account of almost no homes having air conditioning while trying to figure out how to be comfortable sleeping in a hot house. Now I’m only left with questioning my sanity for moving here on account of the politics of the town. And the rain.
Darn you Al Gore! I want my global warming, and I want it now.
Something tells me I won’t be hunting elk in short sleeves this year (I actually would occasionally strip down to the short sleeves in the afternoon while elk hunting in AZ, even at 7000′ elevation).
If I’m not mistaken, Seattle /Washington state is huge nest for green wackos and Birkenstock-wearing granola earters. Hopefully this chill will cool their AGW fever a couple of degrees.
How is the local media coping with this inconvenient situation?
Arctic sea ice is at about the same level as last year.
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/current.365.jpg
Shouldn’t sea ice be increasing as the PDO gets cool?
In Valdez Alaska things are looking decidedly chilly and unseasonal. Lots of snow on the mountains around town down to levels I have not seen in the past 18 years of living here. At least it has melted in the valley. Mostly. In the Thompson pass not only is there lots of snow still, but so much that it actually looks like not all of it will melt this season.
I can’t help remembering what I tell my geology students when we go up on the high school roof to look around…”15,000 years ago where you are standing was buried under 3,000 feet of ice.”
It will be interesting to see how the Arctic ice pack is this summer compared to last year. So far it is 200,000 square kilometers more than 2007.
October 12/13, 2006 – Buffalo and environs, in a band stretching to Rochester, NY, experienced 2 feet of heavy wet snow. It is still referred to as the October surprise storm. Brought down tens of thousands of trees, most still having their leaves which gave more surface area for the wet snow to cling to. This is the type of event that prompts most people to seek an explanation for why the weather was so extreme. The simplest explanation of it just being something that happened, though true, is never satisfying. And of course the AGW converts were pointing to this as an example of how AGW causes extreme weather events. Must be nice to have a theory which allows for every event to serve as proof of the theory’s validity.
BarryW,
Agreed, I actually wimped out and did not run last night, but then, I’m old now so …
It has been REALLY hot this week, supposed to break tonight, then temps return to normal.
“Lobster Season Has Slowed to a Crawl”
Today’s GFS/MRF has a winter-type trough setting up over the Pacific in day 9/10.
“Shouldn’t sea ice be increasing as the PDO gets cool?”
Not necessairily, or at least not all at once. If the PDO remains fixed in a negative mode for 20-30 years, then yes it is likely that over time sea will increase. But currently, very warm North Atlantic Waters are keeping the Greenland coast and some of the artic circle ice free. It is rare to see all of our oceans all cooling at the same time (not a nice thought).
It could turn out that the current PDO will flip back to warm in a few years. We will just have to wait and see.
Here in Norway it has been much warmer and drier than usual for almost 3 weeks now, after a cold mid-May. It isn’t cold everywhere, but the development is indeed interesting.
It’s the soot landing on the snow causing the Arctic sea ice melts. If/when the Chinese and Euros install scrubbers on their factories the Arctic will rebound within a year. The only question is do we want the Arctic ice back?
Negative feedback over the vast area mitigated by black carbon, when the Sun is in remission, might lead to more climate change then the econazi have bargained for.
The other day in BC, Canada we tied a record low temperature of 11.1 C not seen since June 6th 1954. It’s been unseasonably cold and rainy here.
http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=c9138be9-b23b-41c4-bfea-97a6f45fda02
Carston…
It looks like Norway and most of Europe is headed into a cooler spell now, though.
More cold anecdotes (snow photos) from eastern Washington’s WSU this morning:
http://www.wsutoday.wsu.edu/pages/Publications.asp?Action=Detail&PublicationID=12357&PageID=
OTOH, Texas is having a heat wave….
Looking at just the first 9 days of June, the average monthly temperature is running between 5 and 9 degrees above normal! At Austin Camp Mabry, the average temperature so far is 88.4 degrees, which is 9.1 degrees above normal. This is running well above the hottest June on record that occurred in 1998, when the average temperature was 86.4 degrees. This is quite remarkable! The temperature has already reached or exceeded 100 degrees 8 times this year. Going back to 1897, this ties for the 4th most 100+ degree readings for May and all of June.
Full article here:
http://www.statesman.com/sitelife/content/sitelife/persona.html?plckPersonaPage=PersonaBlog&plckUserId=1920536&newspaperUserId=1920536&sid=sitelife.statesman.com
Currently on the northeast coast of Florida, it is 68 degrees.
Last year, though, we were pretty warm when the Okefenokee swamp burned in May.
Spokane, WA just saw it’s coldest record low ever for June 10th, 36*F.
And the first time in records (going back to 1881)…that snow has ever fallen in June!
Wow! And it’s 11 days from summer?!!
May be for the East Coast….this evidence is OVERPOWERING.