Updated with a photo, Daryl Ritchison writes:
If you want pictures of the Dickinson snow, here are a couple of pictures sent from a viewer of mine. They reported 1.5″ as these pictures were being taken. The one with the lilac blooming (at right in photo above) is interesting because most years the lilac have finished blooming three weeks ago, but the spring has been so cold in this area that most phenological events are running about 2-3 weeks behind schedule.
More here from the TV station web site: http://www.kxma.com/weather
From the “weather is not climate” department, this report from TV station KXMC in North Dakota:
KXNewsTeam
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) Snow has fallen in Dickinson in June, the first time in nearly 60 years the city has seen snow past May.
National Weather Service meteorologist Janine Vining in Bismarck says there were unofficial reports of a couple of inches of snow in Dickinson on Saturday.
Vining says snow in North Dakota in June is uncommon, though it’s not unheard of. She says other parts of the state have seen June snow within the past 10 years.
Williston and Bismarck had received only rain as of mid-Saturday, but Vining said snow was possible in those cities later in the day.
Twins Elizabeth (left) and Jeanette McGregor play in the snow in Aviemore
“But wait there’s more snowy June weather worldwide:”
Here’s another one for the collection:
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/002200906061502.htm
“…It is for the first time in four decades that the Valley has experienced snowfall in June…”
No, not “soft hail.” The AGW-correct term for snow is “crystallized warming.” Personally, I prefer “Gorefall.”
Weather events are meaningless when discussing climate change, errr…unless of course the event is a hot one, like a new record high. Then it’s yet another sign of global warming!
C’mon Anthony, this is nothing more than “natural variability”!
Certainly you know that.
But it sure seems like we’ve been having lots of natural variability lately. 😉
Thomas Gough,
You are absolutely right.
But on the other side of the token, this weather event is unusually cold when compared to what was projected by them highly refined GC models. I mean, didn’t them models project that Scotland was supposed to be (or could be, would be, might likely be, very likely may well be,…) like the Caribbean by now?
Yes, agree with Thomas, the photo must have been taken at the top of the funicular station (Ptarmigan), but not in Aviemore itself which is down in the strath. The snow level was down to 700m yesterday morning, and looks like it is about 1100m this morning – http://www.cairngormmountain.co.uk/ (and click on webcam2 which is located at the Ptarmigan).
All I can say, is we’re experiencing pretty typical British weather.
Last weekend was gorgeous, warm sunshine, 20-24C (But still dropped down to ~10C at night)
This weekend, it’s back to cold & rain!
The wife’s sat here, doing some paperwork, with a halogen heater on, we’ve lit our coal fire a couple of evenings too.
“Flaming June”
“you do not want responsibility for the thermostat! You only know it’s right when the complaints are evenly split”
Sounds like the sort of thing Obama needs on his desk right now.
Here in Kiwiland i purchased a season ski pass this year and its already had 6 days use. Funny thing is the season doesn’t normally start for another couple of weeks. In my town we’ve had several weeks of good hard frosts yet traditionally we get the first one in July. Bring it on global warming!
I was in Austria in July 1981 when a famous snowstorm brought over a foot of snow to the Alpine valleys on the 15th of the month. Several thousand sheep up on their summer grazing grounds were lost and it was a prelude to one of the longest and hardest winters they had experienced (1981/2), when the snow arrived in the last week in October in the valleys and didn’t properly disappear until late April.
The other way round, in 1989 in Scotland, the winter was a total wash-out. Almost no snow until March, then it hung around until May up top and then, in June, significant snowfall down to 1500ft. Why it happened I don’t know, but it was just a blip in a very mild 24 month period.
These things happen every so often.
And it’s clear that the Arctic is very much warmer than average just now, so clearly what we are seeing is an odd distribution of temperature variations across the NH………
Odd, there are 4 newly active volcanoes on this report this week:
http://www.volcano.si.edu/reports/usgs/
For a total of 20 active (that meet their criteria for inclusion) .
That seems rather like a large percentage increase (and maybe like a large total number…). Does anyone know if they have any trend or anomaly maps?
Having 20 volcanos active just might have some cooling effect…
Speaking of tomatoes EM Smith many years ago I worked with some agricultural scientists and one of these chaps visited the US and became particularly interested in a variety of toms grown in your fine country. He was dead keen to get some seeds back to NZ to start a breeding program however stringent quarantine regs. put a kybosh on that happening anytime quickly. The solution – he swallowed them. Very novel I thought.
Wikipedia gives a helpfully long view, about Japan:-
The Early and Middle Jōmon periods saw an explosion in population….during the prehistoric Holocene Climatic Optimum (between 4000 BC and 2000 BC), when temperatures reached several degrees Celsius higher than the present. …. After 1500 BC, the climate cooled, and populations seem to have contracted dramatically. Comparatively few archaeological sites can be found after 1500 BC.
rbateman (23:42:37) :
Another look at solar activity:
your site is pretty interesting – you should annotate the data a bit for the uninitiated – or provide links to wiki or something.
From there I went here:-
http://cosmicrays.oulu.fi/webform/query.cgi?startdate=1964/05/07&starttime=00:00&enddate=2009/06/07&endtime=08:43&resolution=Automatic choice&picture=on
??
I can attest to the plummeting temperature in NW England. One day 23C and the next 10C dropping even lower in the evening. From T shirt to sweat shirt in less than 24 hours. But then, that’s fairly typical of British weather. No wonder it’s a popular topic of conversation when breaking the ice (sic) with strangers.
Sorry my link to the ohulu cosmic ray monitor doesn’t seem to work properly
If you go to the site http://cosmicrays.oulu.fi/
There’s a widget – fill in a start date, 1964 is the earliest and shows how unusual this is. Then tick the box for a graph – et voila
Here in Northern Ireland June has gone from scorch to shiver in a couple of days. Temperatures reached 27C (31C in my walled in garden) on 2nd in Lisburn, Co. Antrim but failed to reach 14C on 6th. The hot days were accompanied by comparitively low relative humidity (around 40%) which made them very pleasant.
For the Europeans:
http://www.accuweather.com/world-bastardi-europe-blog.asp?partner=accuweather
Joe’s forecast for the rest of the year.
I don’t mean to suggest that entries like this should not be made here on WUWT, because I do find them interesting, but please let us all acknowledge that this is anecdotal. One weather event or system, no matter how extreme, is not climate. I get enough of this from the alarmist in the MSM who really don’t know the difference.
“…halogen heater on, we’ve lit our coal fire…”
Egads! Climate criminal!
Here is a panorama of other unusual cool events around the world!
Snow in Cumbria, England http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1191089/Its-June–snowing-From-sweltering-shivering-just-week-happen-great-British-summer.html
Snow in Kashmir, India http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/002200906061502.htm
Or as they say in Finland PERKELE!!
Snow and frost advisary in Finland. http://www.yle.fi/uutiset/news/2009/06/overnight_frost_in_store_across_finland_785430.html
E.M.Smith (02:23:33) :
The volcanoes that appear to be the ones most likely to change atmosphere conditions are Chaiten, http://www.seablogger.com/?cat=22 and Redoubt. http://scienceblogs.com/eruptions/2009/06/dome_grows_waiting_continues_a.php
OTOH, these fissures in Saudi Arabia have opened recently, http://scienceblogs.com/eruptions/ and there was an earthquake in South Wales yesterday. http://www.iris.edu/seismon/bigmap/index.phtml
Man proposes, nature disposes, usually with ice, though sometimes with fire.
And it is interesting to note where much of that temperature variability comes from. Where I am in Europe, it gets much warmer during the day than the night, in a cycle that seems to be linked to the Sun rising.
So solar forcing is not in the AGW models – right?
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You can’t tell the difference between climate and weather, silly fools.
If it warms, its climate. If it cools, its weather.
…I have a ‘fantasy garden’ I’d like to plant some day when I have a couple of million dollars to spare and a ranch (yeah, right…). It would have a planted sundial and a planted (rough climate) thermometer. By looking at the garden you would know the time, temperature range (roughly) and date. (There are sundials that give date information… size is precision… I’d need a large garden 😉 but certain flowers form in certain date ranges. Again a mixed planting would give more precision. There are also some flowers that only open at certain time / temperature points… but that’s getting a bit geeky ;-)..E.M.Smith
Here is a reference to a time-measuring ‘floral clock’…http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2007/05/carolus_linnaeus_floral_clocks.php