From the “weather is not climate” department…
Apparently, Nature is weighing in some support for action in Sacramento to end California’s economically punishing anti-carbon law. We saw earlier this winter some significant snowfall in Los Angeles, but Hollywierd continues to suffer the cold shoulder and chill wind of nature even as spring is well underway.
Today the National Weather Service issued the following advisory, cautioning potential snowfall in LA county in the Antelope Valley and Santa Barbara, with snow accumulations of up to 4-7 inches possible:
Message: NOAA-NWS-ALERTS-CA20110408105400WinterWeatherAdvisory20110409040000CA.LOXWSWLOX.611659150894b39c2a4df414a15dd389 from w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
Sent: 10:07 PDT on 04-08-2011
Effective: 03:54 PDT on 04-08-2011
Expires: 21:00 PDT on 04-08-2011
Event: Winter Weather Advisory
Alert:
…A COLD LATE SEASON STORM WILL BRING SNOW TO THE MOUNTAINS AND PORTIONS OF THE ANTELOPE VALLEY…
.AN UNSEASONABLY COLD UPPER LOW OVER CENTRAL CALIFORNIA EARLY THIS MORNING WILL TRACK SOUTHWARD ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WHILE MOISTURE WITH THIS SYSTEM IS SOMEWHAT LIMITED…THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BECOME UNSTABLE DUE TO THE EXTREMELY COLD AIR ALOFT. THIS SHOULD ALLOW FOR NUMEROUS SHOWERS TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS AND THE ANTELOPE VALLEY LATER THIS MORNING AND THIS AFTERNOON…CONTINUING THROUGH THIS EVENING. THERE WILL ALSO BE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS…SOME OF WHICH MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL. SNOW LEVELS WILL RANGE FROM 2500 TO 3000 FEET…WHICH WOULD BRING ACCUMULATING SNOW INTO THE HIGHER PORTIONS OF THE ANTELOPE VALLEY…PARTICULARLY IN THE FOOTHILLS. SNOW WILL LIKELY IMPACT TRAVEL ON INTERSTATE 5 OVER THE GRAPEVINE… PORTIONS OF HIGHWAY 14 BETWEEN THE SANTA CLARITA VALLEY AND THE ANTELOPE VALLEY…HIGHWAY 33 IN VENTURA AND EASTERN SANTA BARBARA COUNTIES…AND PORTIONS OF HIGHWAY 138 IN THE ANTELOPE VALLEY.
…WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM THIS MORNING TO 9 PM PDT THIS EVENING…
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOS ANGELES/OXNARD HAS ISSUED A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SNOW…WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM THIS MORNING TO 9 PM PDT THIS EVENING.
* TIMING: SHOWERS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE IN COVERAGE BY LATE MORNING…THEN NUMEROUS SHOWERS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS.
* SNOW ACCUMULATIONS: ACCUMULATIONS OF 4 TO 7 INCHES ARE EXPECTED.
* SNOW LEVELS: 2500 TO 3000 FEET.
* IMPACTS: SNOW WILL CAUSE SLIPPERY DRIVING CONDITIONS ON INTERSTATE 5 ACROSS THE GRAPEVINE…PORTIONS OF HIGHWAY 14 THROUGH THE SOLEDAD PASS AND HIGHWAY 33 IN VENTURA COUNTY.
Instructions: A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY MEANS THAT PERIODS OF SNOW WILL CAUSE TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES. BE PREPARED FOR SLIPPERY ROADS AND LIMITED VISIBILITIES…AND USE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING.
Target Area:
Los Angeles County Mountains excluding the Santa Monica Range Ventura County Mountains
I wish no evil on anyone, but …
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As a life long resident of LA City, I know that snow is normal in the mountains of Los Angeles County, even in spring.
Mt. Waterman ski resort goes back to 1939. Mt Pinos is a favorite for cross-country skiing, and it had an alpine ski resort in the ’60s. Both are in LA County. Snow is nothing new here.
We had snow here several times last April (see LA Times 4/12/2010 and 4/29/2010), hitting the Grapevine and Antelope Valley.
In 1957, Fresno (a little north of LA County but not in the mountains) got 1.75 inch hail in May. In 1960, Perris (in the flat lands east of LA County) had 2.75 inch hail in September. In 1966, Barstow (in the desert northeast of LA County), there was three-quarter inch hail in May. Shall I go on?
Vuk etc. says:
April 8, 2011 at 11:02 am
“In contrast England is basking in a ‘summer type’ heatwave.”
What does that mean in London? Eighty degrees Fahrenheit? What about York? Sixty-five degrees Fahrenheit? When does the sun sit in York today? Three in the afternoon? Did you know that with the exception of Alaska, Americans never see the sun as low in the sky as it was today in York? Let’s not even talk Edinburgh. Brits have to travel abroad to experience sunshine or summer.
Is it possible to contact A Watts by email? Re: there is an urgent need to have a link to UHA aqua satellite + the other satellite data graph real time (not the actual AMSU site graphs). I presume the data can be converted to a simple temps versus time from 1979 to today. The warmists do not like it at all.
As CA is cold, the highly amplified upper air pattern will bring a good chance for 70s ot near 80 and dewpoints near 60F all the way north to Minneapolis this weekend with the threat of tornadoes. Gonna be an exciting one potentially. Oh, and the last vestiges of parking lot snow piles are finally just about gone after the 5th snowiest winter on record with a near record amount of days with over 4″ on the ground. But the grass is now greening, the trees are budding. Sorry Oregon!
Re previous there is a link on WUWT which is
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/wti/mean:12/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:1979/offset:-0.15/mean:12/plot/gistemp/from:1979/offset:-0.24/mean:12/plot/uah/mean:12/plot/rss/mean:12
But its completely missing current AMSU data. The current data -0.4C complete changes that plot if you get my gist. It must be real time with AMSU (well at least a day old)
And here we have a pretty scary picture but normal of what is coming.
http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sfc_daily.php?plot=ssa&inv=0&t=cur
Something really weird seems to be going on over on facebook today. I can’t post articles from this website there. It is blocking them with some comment about how this is an abusive site or something. What is going on? I turned in a complaint to them but they have not acted on it.
CLIMATE CHAOS!!!!!!!
Bill Sumruld says:
April 8, 2011 at 4:06 pm
Something really weird seems to be going on over on facebook today. I can’t post articles from this website there. It is blocking them with some comment about how this is an abusive site or something. What is going on? I turned in a complaint to them but they have not acted on it.
Yes, I have had the same thing happen at Goddards and one other sceptic blog, some warmist must be peed off
I was scraping frost off my windshield in Portland, Oregon this morning. “Solid” evidence of global warming?
Tom Harley says:
April 8, 2011 at 4:35 pm
Bill Sumruld says:
April 8, 2011 at 4:06 pm
Google owns Facebook and Google has actively joined the AGW Ministry of Truth team… so expect no end of censorship.
Back on topic, I’m expecting someone – Ed Begley? – to suggest that that isn’t snow… Charlie Sheen is partying on the summits. [sarc]
The people supplying the grant money to the CO2 fraud crowd are not in a fact fight as with this blog and others. They are in a political war, and they fight like it is a death struggle. If you want to win it is best to fight with that in mind at all times.
This thing the Apache now know well as should you too.
Odd how post are going away.
Johann says:
April 8, 2011 at 3:43 pm
And here we have a pretty scary picture but normal of what is coming.
http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sfc_daily.php?plot=ssa&inv=0&t=cur
Interesting cold water all along the Peruvian coastline
Nothing to see here folks, keep moving along…..
It’s just – RSCD. Regionally Selective Climate Disruption
Here are our local condition at Cypress Mountain, Vancouver. The site of last year’s Olympics. You can see we have had 119 cm (4 feet) of fresh snow in the past week. Total snowfall for the year 1319 cm (43 feet). Snow depth at mid mountain 628 cm (21 feet).
That’s right, we have 21 feet of snow mid mountain, 15 minutes from downtown Vancouver, in April. Sunburns all around after a great day on the slopes.
If this is what we can expect from Global Warming, it has my vote. BRING IT ON!!
Cypress Weather Centre
April 8, 2011 at 6:00pm
Weather Conditions: Sunny!
Base Temperature: 3 C
Visibility: Unlimited
Winds: Calm
New Snow – Mid Mtn. (7 days): 119 cm
Total Snow Fall (Season): 1319 cm
Snow Depth – Mid Mtn.: 628 cm
http://cypressmountain.com/new-conditions.asp
Is this the same snow that was supposed to be a thing of the past?
Oh, that’s Global Warming snow: Melts on the news, not in your lane.
Success at linking this to Facebook, but Goddards and Heartland sites still flagged as abusive, probably because I never use Google…
SNOW LEVELS: 2500 TO 3000 FEET.
Is Hollywood paying attention? At some point the light will come on that monies to be made from global warming scare movies might head south, along with this snow line.
ferd berple says:
April 8, 2011 at 7:03 pm
Cypress Mountain, Vancouver. The site of last year’s Olympics
What a difference a La Nina makes.
“Hell Knows no fury like a Woman’s Scorn!”
Is Mother Nature angry?
Like a Indiana Jones Movie, Virgin Lips may need to return the Hollywood and the North Country awards to gain her favor.
What say Yee, Mother Nature?
It will be a another cold day at Creekview.
Amino Acids in Meteorites says:
April 8, 2011 at 8:14 pm
What a difference a La Nina makes.
Quote of the week Nomination.
You’d of thought that Hollywood got the general idea when they didn’t get a summer last year. They need more snow to clear thier sinues.
Cue the Universal Studios “Snow Day” snow machines….
In April…no less.
Anybody check what is going on in Olympicville in BC? Some poster wrote 4 feet of snow in the last week?
That damn PNA….the whip snapped the opposite direction….
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/pna/pna.shtml
Chris
Norfolk, VA, USA
Meanwhile, in the Arctic, the Catlin survey team seem to be having to spend a lot of time digging through the ice to get to the water to sample it (http://www.catlinarcticsurvey.com/2011/04/01/creating-sampling-holes/).
Trawling through their website has so far failed to locate any references to open water which so hampered their previous trips.
Viewing the 2007/2011 side by side comparison of Arctic ice cover (http://home.comcast.net/~ewerme/wuwt/cryo_compare.jpg) suggests that ice is far more concentrated this year with a fairly sharp gradient at the edges, leading me to expect that the total ice extent will decline much more slowly this year. Of particular note is Hudson bay, which was late in icing over at the start of the season, and seems to be similarly tardy in melting this Spring.
As to the warmth in the UK, the met office, through the BBC weather reports, are so emboldened by their new supercomputer that they have confidently predicted a barbecue ……. wait for it …… weekend!!