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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According to the same Rutgers, the current amount of snow in the land areas of the Russian federation = 0. If there was actually any snow, that will have disappeared from the statistics. Snow will be very short-lived when temps have been 8-14 degrees C in the area today at noon!
http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak/geomet/meteo/winfos/TTeuropa.gif
http://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/chart_daily.php?ui_year=2010&ui_day=235&ui_set=0
Tallbloke…I have some of those Swallows!
didnt note the date but they are here in Vic Aus for a couple of weeks at least, back to their little home in my shed:-)
and its fairly nippy and rather soggy here just now:-)
wonderful winter weather, late, but wonderful!
rock on, springtime!
Note that the northern Polar Vortex has completely broken down and the Arctic is currently dominated by high pressure:
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/intraseasonal/z500_sh_anim.shtml
As a result, low pressure areas from the Arctic are now seated over Northern Europe and Asia:
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/intraseasonal/z200anim.shtml
It’s amazing how Global Warming turns on and off with the weather…
D’oh!, like I said, this is the Northern Polar Vortex, which has completely broken down:
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/intraseasonal/z500_nh_anim.shtml
I erroneously linked to the Southern Polar Vortex in my previous post, but the facts remain as stated.
The serious point about these weather snapshots is that here on the English Riviera Officialdom are spending large amounts of tax payers money on advising tourist businesses how to adapt to climate change and ever warming summers. This leads businesses to believe we will become like the French Riviera and may lead them to invest in the wrong sort of tourist facility.
Last few days have been cool, breezy and showery. In fact a typical British summer.
Tonyb
Just The Facts says:
August 24, 2010 at 8:27 am
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But way up in the 10 mb level it is still pretty cold, no?
Wow, but who lit a match in the southern hemisphere?? What a sudden stratospheric warming that was!
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/intraseasonal/temp10anim.shtml
Chris
Norfolk, VA, USA
I bet that will not be news.
There is some snow forecasted for BC and Alaska in the coming days:
http://www.meteoexploration.com/snow/snowmapsUS.html
and there was quite a lot in the Alps this month (See MontBlanc hindcast )
“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.”
Nothing personal, but did you somehow miss the freezing of South America? Is that seasonal cooling weather, or a global cooling climate change? Are you only selecting the seasonal warm weather as a marker for global warming? Is the extent of all the record lows this past winter in the southern hemisphere just seasonal lows?
It appears you are the one that is predictable.
The personal pronoun “its” (e.g., “Russia has seen its first snow accumulation of the season.”) has no apostrophe.
“It’s” is a contraction of “it is”. It’s not the personal pronoun “its”. Get it?
Errors like this raise questions about your credibility. Is it worth it?
Layne Blanchard says: “…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?”
Multiple negative feedbacks.
Marcos says:
August 24, 2010 at 4:50 am
I’ve noticed that leaves have started to change colors in various parts of NYC. strange since its been very warm until this week…
Everything will change Marcos. All those nice good things we cherished the most, they, too will be gone. You know, everything changes each time the big seasons change: From the political revolutions back in the Maunder to the leaves falling you see out there.
This is the “Turn of the Screw” we’ve been waiting for.
Virveli
Would you expect August snow to remain on the ground for very long?
BTW- this patter in Russia-and very similar to 132 years ago. Cycles anyone?
Also Russia and the NH in general suffered in the 1930’s from drought -both hot and cold. Another thing the fires, especially the peat bogs were exacerbated by the Stalinist
era practice of draining the bogs, enhancing the dryness and peat is a good heat source…
Hillary not with standing and her science creds, but I say weather…
Then i guess that negative feedbacks are all we get this year; after a cold winter the spring looked promising but bled out quite rapidly. The end of July and August have not been above normal here in the Netherlands quite the contrary: The last week it looks more like autumn.
It’s windy, chilly and wet for the time of year and if the forecasts are correct it remains like this for at least another week.
savethesharks says: August 24, 2010 at 8:48 am
“But way up in the 10 mb level it is still pretty cold, no?”
Yep, but it appears to be becoming less so. There seems to be some heat over Asia that’s moving on up:
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/intraseasonal/temp50anim.shtml
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/intraseasonal/temp30anim.shtml
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/intraseasonal/temp10anim.shtml
“Wow, but who lit a match in the southern hemisphere?? What a sudden stratospheric warming that was!”
Yes, it would be great if we had a resident atmospheric expert who might be able to shed some more light on such occurrences.
foley hund says: August 24, 2010 at 8:52 am
Sorry, foley hund. I thought the obvious flaw in my “warm weather is climate, cool weather is weather” logic would make it obvious I was being sarcastic.
I am certain ScottBL is being ironic. Trouble is, much warmist hysteria is hard to parody.
In Central Scotland, autumn is indeed early, I suspect because of the long spell of pretty dry weather which broke recently, heavy rain just in time to delay the barley harvest.
Our swallows have not yet flown south, but are fattening themselves furiously for the journey – when I walk the dog I often have to duck because they are so intent on catching insects they don’t seem to see me. Now that is new.
The starlings have gone, and I think that must be remarkable.
Just The Facts says:
August 24, 2010 at 10:13 am
I am not expert but I have witnessed that when you put power off 🙂
The animals here in the NW are gearing up for a big winter too. Geese are already on their sept behavior, the squirls are fattening up and building furiously and some of my seasonal trees are already dropping leaves and my catnip is already fully seeded. The temps have been lovely.. usually this time of year is our hottest, but it feels like late Sept already and my airconditioner pwr bill has been lovely low:) gotta love that.
I thought snow would become a thing of the past?
Mr Lynn says:
August 24, 2010 at 7:31 am
An August ‘dry’ leaf fall (as commonly seen in N. Calif.) is different from the whole tree turning in the late fall.
Only a small percentage of leaves will brown out due to excessive summer heat/dry air as the tree sheds some the load on its ‘power grid’.
When a deciduous tree has its sap go down for the winter, the whole tree shuts down.
It’s the latter condition that signals summer is kaput, and winter not far off.
I got a kick out of it, Scott.
I love reading these weather snapshots. However, I wish folks would keep in mind that readers round the world are reading the posts. What seems obvious to you in identifying your locale is often not so obvious.
There’s a mountain guide in Scotland who put up a fairly serious pledge that, if the medium-range forecast of snow in September came about and any ice climbing routes were doable, he’d take bookings on a ‘no ice no fee’ basis……..
Highly unusual to go ice climbing in October, let alone September……..
We’ll see what happens, but here in the UK, the berries, fruits and pine cones are hugely plentiful, rather early and that often presages a hard winter in folklore…….
The science would say that ecosystems which could sense a coming hard winter and produce more food and seeds that year might evolve an evolutionary advantage if the abnormal cold killed off more seeds than usual………….and the animals could store more food to get them through the hard times as well………
Anyone studying plant physiology down at Accuweather.com??!!
Meanwhile, in Oz, where snow was predicted to be a thing of the past…from the ABC in 2007…
Snow may disappear from Kosciuszko by 2050: CSIRO
A new CSIRO report into climate change is predicting an uncertain future for the New South Wales high country’s Kosciuszko National Park.
The report, commissioned for the NSW Greenhouse Office, says snowfall by the year 2050 will almost be non-existent.
As snowfall decreases there will be less catchment run-off, which would seriously affect the Snowy River and Murrumbidgee catchment areas.
The study’s author, climatologist Ben Preston, says flora and fauna are particularly at risk and he warns the mountain pygmy possum may be extinct within 70 years, along with 200 alpine plant species.
He says global warming will be particularly noticeable in the Snowy Mountains.
“The Snowy Mountains are one of the regions of Australia that are likely to be most vulnerable to the future effects of climate change,” he said.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200701/s1824258.htm
Whats happening in 2010?
Record snow fall for Mount Hotham
Posted Tue Aug 24, 2010 2:00pm AEST
• Map: Mount Hotham 3741
Mount Hotham has recorded its highest August snowfalls in almost a decade.
In the past seven days 51 centimetres of snow have been recorded, taking the tally to 142 centimetres for the month.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/08/24/2991979.htm
Although Mt Hotham is in Victoria, it’s not that far away.
Ken