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
E.M.Smith (02:23:33) :
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
Full moon tomorrow. Second most distant lunar Apogee of 2009 is on wednesday 10th.
This may just be coincidence, but I’ve found quite a few coincidences between lunar orbit maxima/minima and siesmic/volcanic events going back through the records.
For example the Asian Tsunami occurred at full moon one day before the second most distant apogee of 2004.
My parent’s home in Vermont (southern part of the state) had a freeze in mid May. That has not happened in the 23+ years we have had the place.
At what point does enough of a patter develop that its no longer ‘weather’ but instead ‘climate’?
I have been snowed upon every month of the year. Summer snows were in the mountains so not really that strange, but to have to return home on a July 4th camping trip because of a blizzard is not a lot of fun.
I have been stationed here in Okinawa Japan, a subtropical Island south of Mainland Japan,for quite a few years. I know what hot and humid is after living here, usually June brings mid 80’s to lower 90’s temperatures. This year it is still in the mid 70’s to low 80’s during the day, at night it drops into the low to mid 60’s(Brrr). Not bad, but I am a big fan of hot weather. This past week was filled with low thick gray clouds that would release tons of rain evry other hour or so. When it was nhot raining the air was to chilly to be comfortable. I do not understand why winter persists here,(this is typical for winter time, sometimes we get really cold days lower 40’s in the winter, but usually on average it is between upper 50’s to lower 70’s. Maybe the Earth’s seasons are changing to occure at different months, something to look into, sort of doing what we do every year moving our clocks forward and backwards. Maybe we had an extra leap year somewhere in nature, but our calender did not pick up on it? I dunno anything is possible.
Thomas Gough (00:25:53) :
Good call, Thomas, certainly not Aviemore.
Cairngorm Mountain? Yes.
Here is the live link to the Cairngorms Mountain Webcam at 1080m elevation.
Andrew P (02:03:20) : and Thomas and Rys Jaggar
Okay, so you corrected the altitude by 400m and yes Rys you are desperately reaching for the historic record to show that June snow all over the world is really just normal. Normal is a word your sect is generally loathe to use these days and it is definitely a synonym for notably below normal that your leaders order you to use only as a last resort. The blow up of Krakatoa in the late 19th Century, too was normal but its part of the folklore in the “East Indes” and gave the whole world pink sunsets for 20 years. I’m predicting your faithful will be spouting the word normal and be talking about the slipping jet stream a lot more in the coming years. After all a million years of ice age is also normal and I suspect the jet stream had slipped south too.
Incidentally, I’ve been waiting in vain for the World Glacier Monitoring Service to get out something later than preliminaries for 2006 and 2007:
http://www.geo.unizh.ch/wgms/
How hard can it be to do this. You must have all the numbers for 2006 and 2007 and even for 2008. If not your data would be buried in the 2009 snows.
Despite the general global warming fear, everybody I know (even those who believe in AGW) is hoping for a nice warm summer.
A year or three back, I read a news release by on or another AGW group from the UK which remarked to the effect that ‘global warming’ would result in —get this— ‘global cooling.’
The thrust of that screed was such that because Man had caused the Earth to get warmer than it was ~supposed~ to get, that the result would be that at some point the Earth would get colder that it was ~supposed~ to get.
Of course, they didn’t say what the climate was ~supposed~ to be …
Now, I can just hear the dire proclamations issuing forth from their frothing mouths that because of all that CO2, we are going to get way, way cooler as a result.
Got that? CO2 got us into this mess BOTH WAYS!!
Bwaaaa HAAAAA! HAAAAA! HAAAAA! HAAAAAAAAAAA!
:-))
Stand by for some idiot theory which defines a ‘break-over point’ where the quantity of CO2 causes a reverse effect, i.e., ‘global cooling,’ and no matter what you can’t stop it — unless of course Man resorts to a complete cessation of industry. Got that?
[snip – ad hom]
There was 3.2 cm of snow in Calagary, Canada, this past week -end . This is a rare event as the last time this happenedwas in 1951. There are frost warnings in many parts of Alberta .
My own analysis shows that the combined low or cool readings of the PDO , AMO and the pattern of the polar jet stream are identical to those cold periods of 1950,1956 and the 1970’s when similar cold conditions existed. The SST anomalies along the western and eastern coasts of North America are 0.5 C degrees cooler.
Don’t you know? It is cold because of global warming! And they AGW blind sheep even have some convoluted logic to prove it. It has something to do with the arctic sending melting and thus spreading colder air south. Seriously, I’m not making this up about them.
In short, this is the AGW stand: If it is too warm = proof of global warming. If it is too cold = proof of global warming.
We had snow in the Pennines in Derbyshire this week (above 600m) …
I have just switched on the heating (Cambridge, uk) tp chase away the chill. I’m now reading up on the predictions by the MET office that we were heading for a hot “barbecue” summer.
If only ….
“It’s not a balloon: It’s a Zeppelin!!! Step outside.”
For those under a June snow, lets not forget that the days begin to shorten again in about 2 weeks.
” 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.”
Correlation is not causation.
If it gets any warmer….
Get a load of this article, full of alarmism, and inaccuracies. If you can stand to read this, you see a point made by a guy named Plimer in a book that he published, about the Medieval Warm period being warmer than present. But the writer of the article is quoting the IPCC’s AR4 2007 saying the Medeival warm period was not so warm.
OT I think, but I thought it interesting especially since record low are being reported globally, this article was posted 11 hrs ago, Hhhhhm. More propaganda. The writer also stoops so low as to say the “skeptics” are like the Church when they were persecuting in masse any one that oppsed their views. The skeptics is the old church now????
http://webdiary.com.au/cms/?q=node/2861
[snip – religious reference]
Snow here in the UK, this link is for a picture of Hartside Pass at around 1900 feet.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cumbria/content/images/2009/06/05/june_snow_hartside_470x353.jpg
Remember weather is not climate, but snow in England in June even at 1900 feet is not normal.
I wonder how this will effect the summer wheat there. Here in Northern Indiana, a cool, very wet Spring has forced many farmers to forgo corn planting, and instead plant beans. However, many fields still have standing water, which means they will likely remain fallow this year.
With the dollar falling, many investors will seek out commodities to hedge thier portfolios. Corn prices could begin to creep-up again. Perhaps we’re in the beginning of a commodities bubble similar to the one we saw in 2006- to mid 2008.
This area (which includes Minnesota, Montana and the Canadian Prairie Provinces) has been well below normal for six months now – it would certainly rival the coldest 6 month period on record.
Here is Bismarck’s temperatures, just down the road from Dickinson, over the past year.
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/global_monitoring/temperature/tn72764_1yr.gif
If you want to see the same charts for your location over the past year, 90 days or 30 days, you can probably find a city close by at this page.
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/global_monitoring/temperature/global_temp_accum.shtml
“I am always curious about how the weather is like in the 60’s and 70’s while the average temperature was colder than today (I was bornt in the late 70’s). ”
Well, young whippersnapper, I was in highschool during the ’60’s (not, I hasten to add, for the whole decade), and we were good here in Jersey for two or three foot+ snowfalls during a typical winter. I recall reading that the ’60’s was the snowiest decade of the twentieth century in the US.
PDO and AMO both deeply negative, which is where we would seem to be headed in ten or so years.
The coldest winters I can remember here were in the late ’70’s. In January of 1977, Newark Airport hit -10 F on two successive mornings (normal low is 23). Interesting that this was right after the PDO shifted positive, the AMO remaining in the tank.
” Hell_is_like_newark”
I can only assume you are referring to Newark, Delaware, or one of the 19 other Newarks in the US, not to mention the two in England.
Humph! I can criticize Newark, NJ, just like I can criticize my family members. But if you’re an Outsider, you’re gettin’ on the fightin’ side of me.
If you’re ever in the vicinity, I can take you to some excellent Spanish and Portuguese restaurants; also to a classic Jewish deli that has pastrami to die for.
Same storm in the headline article bringing snow to WY & MT this AM also. Looks like we will be running 5-10 deg below normal all week here in Denver.
It snowed in Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, southern Alberta (including Calgary) and southern Saskatchewan. ALL-TIME June minimum temperature records were set at several stations in southern Alberta, Canada. These are at stations with 50-100 yr + of data, and by “June,” I mean for any date in the month.
smallz79: The timing of the seasons are not changing astronomically – believe me: astrophysicists understand these things.