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
Ian W says:
April 8, 2011 at 6:37 pm
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
Interesting indeed – new upwelling? A double-dip La Nina?
More snow is as a result of a warmer climate. Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past. Reduced snow extent is a sign of global warming. Increased snow extent is a sign of global warming. Less snowfall must be a sign of a cooler climate? My head hurts! R. Gates, where are you?
I suspect that the last few years has reduced the extent of news stories related to Spring coming earlier and earlier. ;O)
I am a proud agnostic.
But if there WAS a God, he/she/it apparently has a very good sense of humour and irony…
Google does not own Facebook. Google owns Doubleclick and Youtube.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products
Douglas, me too. We had three inches the other day.
My grandmother would not plant a single garden seed or row of onion sets until after May 7th. On May 1st she would roll out the paper towels (or kitchen flour sacks if someone had used up the paper towels), dampen them, and place the seeds carefully in rows. Then she would roll up the paper towels and place them in an old glass restaurant-size mayo jar and screw on the lid. Come May 8th, she would gingerly plant the softened seeds into the garden rows. Why did this wise woman do such a thing? She understood weather pattern variation. This planting method smoothed out the vagaries of such variations and allowed her to overcome both wet/dry, and warm/cold AGW, without even knowing such a thing existed.
Were she alive today, she would have thrown a dishpan full of ice cold water on the bloviating Al Gore, stuck a wet bar of soap in his mouth, and then send him to the corner chair to contemplate his lye and tallow contrition. After an hour of that, she would have driven him to the local priest for an on-the-knees confession. To make matters worse, Father Quigley understood weather pattern variation and its affects on steelhead, salmon, and trout runs. Needless to say, Al would have had several Our Fathers and Hail Marys to get through before allowed off his knees.
The California legislature has a track record for going to extremes. Look for an added climate tax on snow tires and collision insurance.
Bill Sumruld says:
April 8, 2011 at 4:06 pm (Edit)
“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, we started noticing this yesterday, its not just you. This appears to be a new tactic of the warmists, to tag all skeptic articles shared on FB as abusive. We encourage all of our readers to share our articles on FB and to file appeals with each submission. When Anthony gets back we’ll see about a more permanent solution, but it is important that everybody get on the warpath with shares and appeals on Facebook.
“Peter Plail says:
April 9, 2011 at 12:07 am
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.”
That is not surprising. See the site below. It shows the Northern Hemisphere snow cover at about 1.5% higher than the recent 15 year average as of April 1. And as we know, whenever there is a blanket of snow on the ground, it is very hard for any surface temperature to get too much above freezing, generally speaking. And for the same reason, I will predict that at least for April, the rate of loss of Arctic sea ice will be slower than normal.
http://stevengoddard.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/screenhunter_87-apr-03-08-40.gif
Also note what happened to the average Arctic temperatures over the past month:
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/meant80n.uk.php
Regarding the Facebook “abusive site” problem: I am going to start making a point of flagging alarmist pages and sites as abusive. As the latest tactic is an attempt to gag open discussion (childish in the extreme), it should be even-handed.
Short vid clip taken yesterday at the Poppy Fields showing the snow falling. This is a 2750ft according to GPS. There’s not very many poppies this year.
irony…
Wade says:
April 9, 2011 at 6:03 am
Al Gored says:
April 8, 2011 at 5:37 pm
Google owns Facebook and Google has actively joined the AGW Ministry of Truth team… so expect no end of censorship.
Google does not own Facebook. Google owns Doubleclick and Youtube.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products
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I stand corrected. Wonder why Facebook has joined the AGW censorship team then?