By Steven Goddard
Russia has seen it’s first snow accumulation of the season.
http://www.snow-forecast.com/maps/static/europe/last3days/snow
According to Rutgers Global Snow Lab, Russia doesn’t normally receive snow until the second week in September.
http://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/chart_dclim.php?ui_day=251
More is forecast for the next week, as well as in Norway and Sweden. Southeast Greenland is expecting heavy snow.
http://www.snow-forecast.com/maps/static/europe/next3to6days/snow
Much of The UK and Ireland are expecting cold weather during the next week, as is Moscow. Temperatures on the Greenland ice sheet will be dipping down to near -25C. Nice August weather!
http://www.snow-forecast.com/maps/static/europe/132/lapse
No doubt the news media will be talking about the Moscow heat wave for at least two more weeks. Absolute, undeniable proof of “global” warming.
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The Russian heat wave is estimated to have cost their economy $15 billion. Put in perspective, the US national debt increases by more than double that every week.
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I read every post through with great interest. But I am bothered virtually every day by “it’s” used as the possessive of “it”. Anthony, “it’s” means “it is”. Always has. I hope always will! Puleeze…..write “its” as the possessive form!!!
Since this note is meant directly for Anthony I don’t mind if it gets removed by a moderator.
IanM
The sooner snow falls in Siberia, the colder the HN winter will be….
NH (northern hemisphere), not HN.
need more koffee…..
Too true Verity, Spring arrived very late this year, (even as the media was reporting that the spring is arriving two weeks early due to human induced climate change) After they reported this, the UK had a total whiteout national snow coverage. Now we have Autumn arrive a few weeks early.
I think it could be natural climate change. Y’know, the type that the alarmists are all “denialist” about.
It has been several years since we had a day in the 30’s Celsius up here in Northern UK.
In other words, an unprecedented and catastrophic heatwave followed by snowfall in August means that the climate is perfectly fine, nothing to worry about.
I for one can’t see anything alarming about it. I mean, it’s not like we’ve also had catastrophic flooding, mudslides, extensive coral bleaching, and new temperature records being set right left and centre all at the same time, right?
Meanwhile the temperature in Arctic has reached the melting point. Interesting…
Scott BL says:
August 24, 2010 at 4:46 am
LOL! You’re so predictable. I can’t believe I have to explain this to you WUWT guys again!
Seasonal cooling, like early snow in Russia, is weather, not climate!
Seasonal warming, however, like Russia just experienced this summer, is a strong climate signal, a clear indicator of global warming, and not weather at all. The burning in Russia is also a forcast of the doom that awaits us for our abuse of Gaia. And for our rampant consumerism, too. And air conditioners. And SUVs. Evil, evil SUVs.
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Lol rotflmao funny, you’re being sarcastic, Right?
2 degrees c. last night in southeat B.C. I know, I know “weather not climate”…… just darn cold weather instead of that wonderful global warming I was promised.
Al Gore was in Russia?
Someone on WUWT noted a month or so ago that swallows were leaving for points south over the English Channel, around two months earlier than usual. The old guy in the boat noted it was the earliest he’d seen them leave since 1947. Another old guy I met last year told me his family was snowed in at a farm outside Howarth, West Yorkshire during that year, in June.
Brace for another cold NH winter.
Larus says:
August 24, 2010 at 6:42 am (Edit)
In other words, an unprecedented and catastrophic heatwave followed by snowfall in August means that the climate is perfectly fine, nothing to worry about.
Correct. Except the heat waves and floods are not unprecedented. They’ve happened every decade somewhere in the world since Noah unexpectedly found himself in the ark building trade.
The BBC’s weather presenter on Breakfast News this morning stated that there was a risk of frost in the rural South West of England tonight. I was so shocked I had to rewind the PVR to hear it again. WTF. It’s August for heavens sake (stonger words used at the time). Maybe in the northern reaches of Scotland but never heard of it in the S.West at this time of year (though no doubt someone on here from the UK may say otherwise).
Overnight temps were supposed to be around 10C according to her weather map. I shall be contacting my friend in Somerset (S.W.) tomorrow to see if there is any local reports about it.
We’ve already noticed that our lime and sycamore trees are dropping their leaves as we have a continual battle to get rid of them in Autumn. Looks like it’s here already in Yorkshire.
Ref – Ian L. McQueen says:
August 24, 2010 at 6:22 am
“I read every post through with great interest. But I am bothered virtually every day by “it’s” used as the possessive of “it”. Anthony, “it’s” means “it is”…”
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Huuuuuum….. Ahhhhhhhh….. I think your spot on!
Cost 15 billion dollars? I can’t find business journals from Russland. From what i gathered, that was 15 billion calculated by lost of wheat exports and some fire fighting expenses?
The wheat is still there. It now has a higher price. Just less of it.
Do russians purchase fire insurance?
It’s all anecdotal. Here in eastern Massachusetts the leaves on the locust trees have been turning and falling for a couple of weeks, but maybe that’s because of the month-long drought we’ve been suffering from, until this weekend; got a lot of rain Sunday and Monday, but the grass had all turned brown, and even with the dam below us, the Sudbury River was too low for us to get the canoe out past the lillies and muck.
My 96-year-old mother in Maryland says that when you get a very hot summer, you’re sure to get a very cold winter. She thinks ‘global warming’ is ‘a crock’.
Re Ian L. McQueen’s complaint (August 24, 2010 at 6:22 am): That’s Steve, not Anthony, misusing it’s (the contraction of ‘it is’) for the possessive of it. I have raised the issue before, but got yelled at for picking nits.
/Mr Lynn
In Switzerland we have trees turning and a bumper crop of autumn mushrooms, about three weeks early.
The Swiss tell me this is the type of weather (repeat WEATHER) they used to get in the 1960s.
In Soviet Russia, snow shovels you!
Folks are already talking of the “Feel of Fall” in the air. Birds flock 1 month ahead of normal.
The Sun is still doing it’s Rip Van Spotless act. I suppose that if NASA sent another 3 probes up, it would find the upper atmosphere still 1/3 shrunken from normal, as the last time they tried this (2008?).
The Moscow Neutron Monitor ( http://cr0.izmiran.rssi.ru/mosc/main.htm ) has halted it’s slide downwards. This particular station leads all the others, and all other follow suit eventually in pattern.
So, the question of continued Hemispheric Winter Hopscotch appears answered… rather early.
Smokey says:
August 24, 2010 at 5:28 am
@ur momisugly dolormin,
Keep telling yourself what is being observed is anything other than natural variability. It’s always fun watching someone get all hyper over the black cat fallacy.
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Right on, Smokey.
Chris
Norfolk, VA, USA
2010 08 19 78 11 0 0 -999 A6.9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2010 08 20 77 11 0 0 -999 A6.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2010 08 21 76 0 0 0 -999 A5.6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2010 08 22 75 0 0 0 -999 A4.9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2010 08 23 75 0 0 0 -999 A4.9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Spotless streak over. the 19th and 20th rather strangely having zero area. I’ll take it as 5 days spotless. Cute.
If Napoleon were alive this is when he would be invading Russia.
An observation:
When Dr. Richard Keen presented temp records several months back, I noted that the 1930s were not only the period with the greatest number of highs, but also had a great number of lows.
Similar to stock market chart behavior? Where volatility precedes a change of direction? Fascinating thought, but what would be the mechanism?
http://icecap.us/images/uploads/TempExtremeDecadesm.jpg
Alert, Nunavut day highs 32F, night lows 26, snow (google Alert Nunavut Weather -weather underground) – not much but I guess it got missed by the snow mappers – or Environment Canada, whose lousy weather records of late may have missed it.
rbateman says:
August 24, 2010 at 7:45 am
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Even on the east coast of the USA that has baked for the summer, a very unusual [for this time of the year] and vigorous upper level low has taken the place of the ridge and is bringing a taste of it.
Also eyeballing Danielle lose the convection in her sails right now….that definitely was not predicted.
F 10.7 down at 75. This ain’t no 1954, for sure.
http://www.leif.org/research/F107%20at%20Minima%201954%20and%202008.png
Maybe ya’ll are on to something!
And maybe its time for Svensmark to write a sequel.
Chris
Norfolk, VA, USA
Mr Lynn says:
August 24, 2010 at 7:31 am
> It’s all anecdotal. Here in eastern Massachusetts the leaves on the locust trees have been turning and falling for a couple of weeks, but maybe that’s because of the month-long drought we’ve been suffering from, ….
Locust trees are about the first to give up when late summer is dry. I noticed some color in other trees yesterday in New Hampshire, a bit surprising, and makes me wonder if the trees have accumulated enough sugar already to keep them happy over the winter. That or if the heat and dry weather is stressing more than just locusts.
The blackberries on my Mt Cardigan property are just incredible. Last summer was cool and cloudy, berries didn’t ripen until September. I made three batches of jam a couple weeks ago and picked and made another batch Sunday, all from a much smaller area than I gathered from last year. While it’s been fairly dry up there, it hasn’t been dry enough to slow down the plants. Ferns are also happy, whereas around home near Concord the grass is brown, some ferns around the house started out really well but the fronds withered a month or so ago.
It’ll be interesting to see how the different conditions affect the foliage this year.