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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Larus says:
August 24, 2010 at 6:42 am
In other words, an unprecedented and catastrophic heatwave followed by snowfall in August means that the climate is perfectly fine, nothing to worry about.
There are plenty of things to worry about – poverty, wars, and real pollution are a few of the biggies, but there are certainly always more personal things to worry about like finances, or health, or ones’ love life. Indeed, some people aren’t happy if they aren’t worried about something every moment of the day. It seems like a terrible way to go through life, but, hey, different strokes.
On the list of things to worry about though, climate is about the dumbest because there is absolutely nothing we can do about it except adapt. If you absolutely must worry about it, worry about cooling rather than warming, as cooling is far more dangerous to man and to life in general.
I wonder if folklore and anecdotal reports from ordinary people on a widely read blog (WUWT !) could be considered peer-reviewed? Didn’t use it’s more than once.
@ur momisugly tallbloke says:
August 24, 2010 at 7:09 am;
‘Twas I who mentioned the early flight of the swallows, we’ve not seen any swooping around in the south of England for over a month now, nary a one. This has been the subject of much comment locally
Last Saturday, 21 Aug. my daughter pointed out a magnificent skein of geese, possibly 80 or more in a most impressive V-formation, heading south out over the English Channel. They won’t be back until next year. An ornithologist (not just a run-of-the-mill birdwatcher) I met at the Pagham Harbour Reserve Centre told me that he was concerned that the birds he was seeing leaving England had not had enough time between breeding and their departure to have gained enough weight to survive their journey. He stated that his concern was shared by almost all of his ornithological colleagues.
I’m a gardener and I encourage hedgehogs to populate my garden. I have built five hedgehog houses which are located in appropriate places in my back garden. Today, when I went to check them I found that three of them already had quite substantial nests built in them. The possible inhabitants are so voraciously hungry right now that they will emerge from hiding to eat the food put out for them when I am only a matter of feet away from them. It would appear that they are all desperate to gain weight in preparation for their hibernation.
The natural signs that I am observing, day by day, indicate to me that this Winter is going to start earlier than usual with a good chance that it will be quite severe at times.
Bbbbbbut, Moscow has its hottest summer, everrrrrrrrrrrr!
How can this be?
What, you mean, a block typical of early autumn, happening two months two early, actually caused the great heat?
Thanks for the information. I was not sure whether the early ‘fall’ presaged an early Autumn, or whether it was just the result of the extended dry spell.
Now that we’ve had some rain, maybe we can look forward to another colorful New England October—before another long, cold New England winter.
/Mr Lynn
Looking at the trends and the charts from an offhand perspective, this winter is starting to worry me. I thought that it appeared Atlantic might remain warm and keep the winter from being too bad for people along the coast, but it appears its being displaced by some mechanism we do not understand. The lack of hurricanes (some weather phenomena just wrecking Danielle when it shouldn’t), heat not coming into land like it normally should, and other stuff that is not typical even for a la nina event.
This might be a bad winter people, bundle up along the east coast too in the US. I have a bad feeling….
Normally this would be me joking and thinking tis great to prove AGW wrong, but I would rather have that argument then the winter that is appearing to come so early.
“Would you expect August snow to remain on the ground for very long?”
No Steve, especially with the temperatures in the 8-14 C range, I’d expect any possible August snow in these areas in Northern Russia to have disappearead pretty much as soon as it fell down.
Had the snowfall actually been recorded by e.g. Rutgers, this event would have been slightly newsworthy.
Layne Blanchard says: 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?
1935 + 60 = 1995
So a roughly 60 year PDO cycle would have both the mid 1930’s and the mid 1990’s as hot (and they were). AT the flip (which we just had a few years back) the Jet Stream becomes more “loopy” with bulges dipping way down where it is hot and way up where it is cold. If under a southern bulge (like in California recently) you get abnormal cold. If under a northern bulge (like on the East Coast of the USA) you get abnormal warmth. (I call this effect the “lava lamp world” as stored ocean heat blobs head for the poles to be radiated away into space, giving ‘abnormal highs’ as they rush poleward; only to return as big very cold blobs headed toward the equator to pick up another load of heat, but freezing until they get there…)
During the other phase, we have a flatter jet stream that does not show blobs of heat rushing to the poles to radiate away. A more leisurely vertical circulation taking equatorial heat up rather than poleward en-mass. So surface temps are more ‘average’. That would be the 1980s pattern, more or less.
At least, that’s the mental model I’ve built for myself as a thought toy…
no global warming in australia huge snow falls in snowy mountains very cold in sydney
Forests aflame in the West
From Oregon, 750 miles down the coast to Santa Barbara, timber and range lands dried out by abnormally hot weather were ablaze. Forest rangers, deploying themselves desperately, counted 400 separate fires….. In the West Coast’s worst fires in 30 years, at least 8 people were killed and many thousands of acres of rich timber were lost for generations. (“Life” magazine photo essay. September 19, 1955!)
The Sangre De Cristo Mountains in Northern New Mexico have the world’s tallest Aspen trees. Those groves grew up after gigantic forest fires cleared out in the pine trees in the late 19th century.
If fires like that happened today, every greenie in Santa Fe would blame it on global warming.
Virveli
So you believe that the snow didn’t occur in Russia?
Steve,
I believe Virveli’s point about the snow event was that it wasn’t large enough to even register on this year’s Rutgers snow map. Thus, the conclusion to draw is that Rutgers snow maps do not work as a metric for measuring when the first snow occurs.
Nice weather update Steve. Nothing to do with climate, but I guess the whole “snow in Florida proves AGW is wrong” routine is always going to capture the hearts and minds of the faithful…
R. Gates
Hot weather events are climate. Cold weather events are just weather.
There is always evidence to be found – just like any other religion.
This early snow is due to “global warming”. Trus me I’m a politician.
Al of St Gore
This early snow is due to “global warming”. Trust me I’m a politician.
Al of St Gore
As far as the early seasons are concerned, yes it is happening and I have noticed it over many years. I can remember this maybe starting probably 30 years ago, we would have an early season, it is probably what many people might call cyclic.
Nothing to worry about, quite normal.
From what I have been reading in ancient history, earth had a close encounter with a large comet and we are just getting back to normal.
For the people in the UK, the swallows arrived back in OZ around three to four weeks ago.
Nothing to worry about, if you prepare for the worst, you could get the best, it is just about getting on with life and surviving to teach your offspring how to live a good life.
We, as a people, can survive, as we have before.
How many thousands of years ?
While USA is left operating and thinking like a third world nation .where money makes all the decisions now .The end result is Gulf stream no longer functions causing
a possible new Ice age.
Both USA and UK are so broke they now function as Banana Republics where money makes all the decisions.
The gulf stream has lost it’s loop in the gulf of Mexico
I dont know if it is true but check out the link below…………the article starts like this…
Our planet is experiencing a real life version of the movie “The Day After Tomorrow” right now. Record breaking heat (up to 39-40C or 100-104F in Moscow) and drought in Russia, heat and flooding in large parts of Asia (China, Pakistan, etc.), and killing cold temperatures in South America are all reflective of a rapidly changing global weather pattern that is caused by dramatic changes in the Gulf Stream and the North Atlantic Current (also called the North Atlantic Drift) and the Norway Current/etc.
http://www.rense.com/MexicoAlreadyDead.html
how knows …..may be the asteroids will get us first………