Above: Photo taken at eye level of a sign already elevated because of seasonal snow issues. See below for photo of sunken boats in Valdez harbor due to snow loading.
The Valdez Alaska Dispatch writes:
All the experts say the effects of climate change will be felt most in Alaska, home of the ex-governor who contends climate change is no big deal.
Good thing she wasn’t in Valdez this week when the citizenry got buried under a record snowfall. We’re not talking about your ordinary little dump here. That was in Copenhagen, where world leaders were meeting to discuss what to do about global warming and the Bloomberg news service was warning that Barack Obama and the rest would “face freezing weather as a blizzard dumped 10 centimeters (4 inches) of snow on the Danish capital overnight.”
Valdez, Alaska got more than four inches per hour at the height of the snowstorm that began there Monday and ran through the week. By the time the citizens of Alaska’s only oil port finally caught a break, the snow was piled 5 feet, 8 inches deep.
Yes, you read right.
Five feet, 8 inches; over the head of your average American woman, up the nose of your average American man. The National Weather Service called it record.
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So much snow that snow loads sunk one boat in the harbor while other owners try to keep up with snow removal.
From NBC TV in Washington DC:
History has been made in Washington, DC also. The snow has already broken the 1 day record for DC. The old record of 11.5″ on December 17,1932 is now in 2nd place since National Airport has over 15″ with snow still falling. This storm is now in 6th place all-time and the February 1983 storm total of 16.6″ may yet be eclipsed.
h/t SPPI
Things here in the Pac NW are setting up for another cold snap me thinks… All that cold in AK is shifting South. Look for another cold ridge to form as far South as N. Cal. (possibly) 8>)
Record cold in Switzerland. “La Brévine” in the Jura is a valley which acts like a bowl for the cold air. With -34.2 °C they recorded the coldest December temperature since 2001 when it was -37.8°C.
Lucerne -16.1°C, the lowest in December sind 1931.
Meteo Switzerland expects a temperature upswing by almost 20°C byi Tuesday.
you know, there is a difference between weather and climate? That we have winter storms in the US in December, doesn´t mean there is no GW. 😉
As it’s buried (= snowed under) in a thread below, it gives me great pleasure to repost the link to this timely cartoon, which appeared in yesterday’s TIMES:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00661/TTM191901CC_RGB_ONL_661678a.jpg
photon without a Higgs (09:41:14) :
“Joe Bastardi (from 12/11/09) on ‘the triple crown of cooling’— ocean currents, solar activity, volcanic activity”
Yes, Solar activity, volcanoes, ocean currents and I believe geomagnetic field, they all have contribution, forget CO2 (it’s all a political propaganda, and believe me, I do know one when I see it).
Where the Sun may be heading is not a pretty scenario for next 20-30 years,
http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/LP-project1.gif http://www.vukcevic.co.uk/GandF.htm)
but the geomagnetic may save us from the worst. I’ve just started looking into oceans’ currents; here is first chapter of my initial attempt http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/41/83/04/PDF/NATA.pdf
We all have to do our bit in our own way, may not be right most of the time, but there is always a chance to come up with something worthwhile.
For most of the taxpayers may be – the people vs. power.
Thousands stranded by Eurostar as chief executive ‘cannot guarantee’ when service will resume.
It is thought that the “extremely acute” wintry conditions in northern France caused snow to build up underneath the trains.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/6851657/Thousands-stranded-by-Eurostar-as-chief-executive-cannot-guarantee-when-service-will-resume.html
“Climate change” of course is MSM code for manmade climate change, and is the ultimate fallback position of liars, since anything and everything can be blamed on it.
What hubris, and total idiocy to believe man is in any way responsible for such a snow storm. No wonder the MSM is going down the tubes.
The importance of weather events like these can not be known until we “adjust for homogeniety”…under strict peer-reviewed guidelines-of course.
photon without a Higgs (09:41:14) :
Sorry, second link is: http://www.vukcevic.co.uk/GandF.htm
Robert van der Veeke (09:35:39) :
And on top this, no pizza-deliveries because of the road-conditions, oh noes.
Wouldn’t be good for some areas the US—Brett Favre is on tv tonight.
Hey children!
It is Climate Change, not Global Warming. We just need some Climate Hope also, to make the picture perfect.
Minus 19C in Denmark last night.
Coldest in 8 years.
Could this be the start of a rapid cooling. Seems like there has been some good size recent activity.
http://www.sveurop.org/gb/news/news.htm
18 inches of fluffy white warming in Southern New England last night. Something about a record snowfall for December in the news.
Various websites and news reports are making a lot of the 2010 prediction for record temps. I’m no expert, but just comparing ENSO numbers and assuming it and SOI are reliable indicators for global temperature forecasts, it does appear 2010 may very well rise to or exceed recent years, including 2005 and 2007.
Are there instances in the past where strong El Nino does not translate to high global temps?
vukcevic (10:32:17)
Very interesting thoughts, I am particularly impressed with the close correlation between the Hudson Bay Area Mag Flux and the North Atlantic Temp Anom. Have you any clues as yet to the blips in circa 1950 and 1965?
Please keep pursuing this.
Interesting that no one has mentioned that Piers Corbyn predicted this weather last month.
It’s a great planet! I wouldn’t live anywhere else!
Don’t you silly people realise “Climate Change” means unlikeable weather. So that will be the new catch cry beware UW. To be serious Monckton made the comment that the solar activity is coming back does anyone have a reference?
The Philadelphia area hed 24 inches of algore between yesterday and this morning.
I just finished digging my car out.
MikeO (11:44:09) :
Don’t you silly people realise “Climate Change” means unlikeable weather. So that will be the new catch cry beware UW. To be serious Monckton made the comment that the solar activity is coming back does anyone have a reference?
http://www.solarcycle24.com has daily data, trend charts etc etc. The current burst of sunspots is the first really decent set of numbers of this cycle. ISS of 46 on one day I think and about 10 days now of continuous activity. This is most likely IT.
Dirk (10:27:11) :
“Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get.”
-Lazarus Long in Time Enough For Love
by Robert A. Heinlein
We had boats tipping & capsizing last winter in southwestern BC. The roof of a large public swimming pool facility also collapsed under the weight of (heavy, wet, very deep) snow. It pretty-much snowed round-the-clock for 3 weeks. I remember snowshoeing around the roof of my car only a day after shoveling it out of a similar scenario …more than once. I also remember a guy trying to “shovel” his sporty BMW out with a tennis racquet. (In case it isn’t obvious, he did not succeed.) The great thing about the lack of snowplowing turned out to be snowshoeing up & down the mountain to go sea-kayaking. Good memories.
THE SIBERIAN EXPRESS IS COMING
Siberian Express brings Arctic blast across the States by Steph Ball
Over the last few days high pressure has been continuing to build across Siberia bringing unusually cold weather.
On Wednesday weather warnings were issued by Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry after forecasters predicted a fall of temperature to –55C
(-67F). On Saturday night the temperature in Ojmjakon, Siberia actually fell to -60.2C (-76F). January temperatures across the larger Siberian cities normally range from –15C to –39C (5 to -38F).
Over the last few days this cold air building over the Polar regions of Canada and Siberia, has now been sent southwards across the States in a phenomenon commonly known as the “Siberian Express”.
The Siberian Express is a meteorological term in the United States which describes the plunge of an extremely cold air mass. When high pressure extends north from the extreme western states of the US into northern Siberia it allows this Arctic blast to surge southeast wards across Canada and central and eastern parts of the US, sometimes as far as the Deep South. It often brings with it significantly below-average temperatures.
Over the last few days and into the weekend, the Siberian Express has been felt as far south as the Gulf Coast. Most of south Mississippi, as far east as the western Florida Panhandle, was placed under a winter weather advisory on Saturday. Freezing temperatures were forecast as well as snow. Up to 7.5cm (3 inches) of snow fell across southern Mississippi during the day, before the storm headed east bringing snowfalls across Alabama and Georgia.
Across both the US and Siberia, the cold weather is forecast to intensify over the coming days.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world/news/20012008news.shtml
(Occassionaly they cut the crap about climate and just give us the near-time weather forecast, which one could actually believe)
Give CRU and IPCC time and this NH wide snow event will be disappeared the same way the MWP was disappeared. Remember, this is the warmest decade EVEAH!