July Snow in New Hampshire

Washington Governor requests federal farm disaster assistance. Reason: Crop failures due to abnormally cold, wet weather.
http://www.governor.wa.gov/news/news-view.asp?pressRelease=1528&newsType=1

By the way, there is May and June skiing just below the summit of Mt. Washington, in the Tuckerman Ravine, almost every year without fail, and this has been ongoing for at least 80 or 90 years (since the 1920’s). No CAGW needed.
http://timefortuckerman.com/
And here is a live webcam of Mt Washington, with Tuckerman Ravine below and to the left, and Huntington Ravine below and to the right.
http://www.mountwashington.org/weather/cam/ravines/
The snow is gone by now but there are lots of photos posted on the web of snowfields lingering in the ravines right into late June.

Zorro says:
July 4, 2010 at 12:26 am
Is there a message here? You’re describing weather, so what’s new. I believe that not so long ago, there was a white X-mas in the Aussie Alps. The weather is getting more chaotic in terms of extreme events; heat, cold, rain, wind, cyclones, thunderstorms etc.
But the world is cooling, is it? What about trend, could it be less warming? A bit like answering the question How are you? with… Not too bad. What does it mean? Is it bad but it could be worse? Probably not, what people mean is that things are ok but could be better. On the other hand, the tone of voice and/or inflection may indicate that things are in fact quite good. Warming, cooling or warming less than previously? That is the question(s).

Caleb says:
July 4, 2010 at 4:48 am

While looking at weather records I think I may have found a blunder in the Concord, New Hampshire records. The record low for June 30 in Concord was said to be 32 in 2005, but when I looked at the record for June 30, 2005 in Concord, New Hampshire, it said the high was 84 and the low was 61. Somebody goofed somewhere, unless it is just me.

One July 5th several years ago my father drove from Plymouth NH to Cambridge MA very early in the morning. The dew point was very low and conditions were ideal for radiational cooling. He noticed one low spot along I 93 where the grass looked lighter than all the rest and suspected it was frost.
However, the Concord ASOS wouldn’t see an effect like that, though it does get some decent radiational cooling. At my home less than 10 miles away I got:

mysql> select hi_temp, hi_temp_time, lo_temp, lo_temp_time from daily where dt='2005-6-30';
+---------+--------------+---------+--------------+
| hi_temp | hi_temp_time | lo_temp | lo_temp_time |
+---------+--------------+---------+--------------+
|    84.5 | 16:00:00     |    62.3 | 23:50:00     |
+---------+--------------+---------+--------------+

The data is graphed at
http://c-24-91-225-190.hsd1.ma.comcast.net/cgi-bin/wx_fetch?table=raw&year=2005&month=6&day=28&len=7&vars=out_temp&vars=dew_pt
(if you want to poke around, start at http://wermenh.com/wx/query.html )
So, the 32 is completely unbelievable and completely bogus. Is that data from the NWS at Gray ME or the NCDC? It would be an interesting project to try to get that fixed and document the effort.

What I meant was I could remember the scary news about Iceland volcanoes toward the end of the 22-23 solar minimum, not the 23-24. Katla didn’t blow then…
I reposted it with the correction but I guess the moderator didn’t catch it, my oops.

DirkH says:
July 4, 2010 at 9:04 am
“[…]
I think AGW science has fallen prey to this built-in perception bias.”
One might even say: A positive feedback is something very unlikely. It usually doesn’t happen. The professional slush fund climatologists have been spreading their tipping point writings so often that we’re all used to it now. In fact, most of the time nature has other things to do than crafting self-amplifying phenomena.

DirkH says:
“[…] Continuing this train of thought: A positive feedback runs its course, consumes some accumulated potential in the process and is over quickly.”
from here, we can ask the question: What is the potential that the positive feedback posited by the AGW crowd is expected to exploit? Well, as the suggested mechanism is water vapour feedback, the potential exploited can only be the heat differential between air near the surface and surface waters, leading to a higher water vapour carrying capacity of the air and increased evaporation.
Needless to say, this potential must be used up in the process. Anybody already done the numbers or experiments? We should be able to observe the phenomenon on any hot day, anywhere except in very arid places.

Averages when the differences are large have little to no meaning. Sometimes it is cold, sometimes it’s hot. Some people like it, others not.
Sometimes the temperature is highly variable over longer periods, sometimes not so. Neither makes any difference over the long haul.
The real meaning comes when outliers of weather and temperature happen at a time which causes widespread failure of crops.
A difference in temperature at the high end has few if any bad consequences. When there is widespread failure of crops is when the real hurt happens, and can be caused by too much rainfall, too little rainfall, much later than “usual” killing frosts in the spring or much earlier than “usual” killing frosts in autumn.
This “the weather is getting more violent, climate is changing” must be from people who haven’t read much history. Try the Great Drought (which is what it was called in 1930), throughout Midwestern states in the 1930s or the torrential rainfall in CA in the winter of 1862. http://www.redlandsfortnightly.org/papers/Taylor06.htm
A repeat of either would be a huge catastrophe for the US, however greater our present technology.
“Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.” ~ Mark Twain
Absurdities do occur in history when “convential” scientists get it completely wrong. As far as I am concerned, this is one of those times which will have future historians and scientists shaking their heads in wonderment.

Here in Philly, June was pretty warm and next week may top 100 a few days in a row. I remember similar weather in 1987 but I’m just waiting for the proclamations of global warming. Snow in July in NH means nothing, but a
typical heat streak in Philly will be proof of AGW.

Douglas DC says:
July 3, 2010 at 1:10 pm

Timberati- I had a warmist I know tell me exactly that. He packs his “Inconvenient
Truth” next to his Bible..
I wish I was joking…

He has a Bible?

Regg says:
July 3, 2010 at 7:00 pm
To Jimbo, most of the thing you said – have been told by people not believing in AGW. They say that AGW proponents are saying that, but i challenge you to find who really said that, and you’ll be surprised that it is coming from some of the most influent people – yet no scientist – in the anti-agw group.

Regg, I was talking about a ‘hypothetical’ ice age and my speculated Warmist responses. We are not at an ice age yet, it’s about the possible future, so I cannot possibly meet your challenge. Sorry! ;o(

R. de Haan says:
July 4, 2010 at 3:25 am
Washington Governor requests federal farm disaster assistance. Reason: Crop failures due to abnormally cold, wet weather.
http://www.governor.wa.gov/news/news-view.asp?pressRelease=1528&newsType=1
Meanwhile, Christine is giving Patty and Maria pats on their respective butts to go pass that ‘Cap and Trade’ legislation.
Talk about duplicitous …
Christine is salivating all over herself for a possible Federal appointment by the ‘Big ‘O.”