From the “weather is not climate” department, post by Mike Lorrey:
I woke up today to find a couple inches of snow accumulating on my deck, and was thinking about setting up a nice picture there with some of the birds that visit and some of the easter eggs the family has been making this week, when my sixth grade teacher, Catherine Lacombe, who lives down the street from me on Eastman Lake, sent me this link to a picture she took this morning of a Loon caught on the lake in the blizzard. Apparently the Loon was taking navigational and seasonal advice from Al Gore, and wasn’t very amused at all the white stuff coming down. (click on the picture above to get a high res version uploaded by Cathy to The Weather Channel)
This Easter Blizzard is part of the storm system thats providing rain to much of the east coast today, but for northern New England, has converted to snow, sleet, and ice from western Vermont and New Hampshire this morning up to the most northeastern Maine by this evening. We in the north country are usually happy to get snow for Christmas, and thrilled to have it for Thanksgiving, but Easter weekend?
Jim Cole says: April 23, 2011 at 3:38 pm
And Jim, that’s a GREAT story. Stranded in a Northeast blizzard and a 40 year marriage. Maybe we could make a movie…
Off topic – sorry – Tip & Notes is full,
Some journalism on Globe International – heavyweight financiers of CAGW political junkets and lobbying:
Lobbyists who cleared ‘Climategate’ academics funded by taxpayers and the BBC
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/8469883/Lobbyists-who-cleared-Climategate-academics-funded-by-taxpayers-and-the-BBC.html
It’s not uncommon for the Denver area to get snow all the way until June. It melts pretty quickly though. In fact, even though La Nina has left us windy and dry, we had about 6 inches of snow last week and probably a few more inches tonight.
I’ve seen it snow in July at 7200 feet, basically the foothills and only 30 miles from Denver.
This is the last weekend for skiing, even though the mountains are still getting pounded by snow. I think Breckenridge said it was a record for them with 511 inches so far and more on the way.
Remember, you are to expect earlier springs due to global warming and more snow and cold in winter due to global warming. It’s ‘climate change’ when it’s warm and weather when it’s cold.
Fred from Canuckistan says:
April 23, 2011 at 3:08 pm
Where is Al Gore ?
Check photo again. Lower left quadrant. (Sorry, lovely bird. That wasn’t nice.)
There was a decent sized snow in the Boston area in the second week of May back in 1977. 8-10″ of wet heavy snow where I lived (10 miles west of the city). Somebody put together a 30 yr. anniversary snow map:
http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/6977/may1977snowgi7.png
Wow, 17″ in Catskill NY. It was a big deal because all the leaves were out, catching the snow and causing massive tree-limb destruction. The most ever in my neighborhood. NY must have been a disaster zone. But that was back when the big fear was global cooling, soon to be the new fear I suspect.
Amino Acids in Meteorites says:
April 23, 2011 at 2:38 pm
MEMO:
yes.
yes.
yes.
yes.
J. Hansen
Warmer = warmer
Colder = warmer
More snow = warmer
Less snow = warmer
Got it yet?
This is beginning to look a lot like Anthropogenic Global Cooling.
Keep Smiling 🙂
Jeff
We got about 4″ this past week in SE Minnesota. Temps have been below normal for almost 2 weeks and have been as much as 12C below average. Might finally get to normal tomorrow.
Jeff Wiita says:
April 23, 2011 at 6:20 pm
This is beginning to look a lot like Anthropogenic Global Cooling.
Indeed it does, though the Anthropogenic forcing part was/is promised to be warmest evah. Something like a colder than normal cold cycle coming on.
So, there is a contradiction going on here. It cannot be the warmest ever and colder than normal cold at the Global scale. There is but one Earth.
Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) is a fundamental particle like a quark.
Since AGWs are part of everything they cause everything.
AGW is the elusive “God particle” they’ve been looking for.
Believers in and promoters of AGW can absorb strange God-like qualities from working too much with the individual God particles by writing too many papers and getting too many grants. It’s a danger often seen manifested in this field of science(religion).
So thank you God-particles, AGW causes everything. Now we know why.
MattN says:
April 23, 2011 at 6:12 pm
Climate change means simply, that as CO2 warms the climate, we get very cold spots and more snow in these spots. Didn’t you see the inconvenient movie “Day After Tomorrow”?
This can be shown in your oven. Sometimes, when we cook an Easter ham, part of the ham doesn’t cook. That is why we have to turn the ham as it cooks. As the oven heats, it produces cold spots (sometimes). It is called “disproportionating equilibria” or “separation of enthalpies”, or “demixing”. The same thing happens when you take salt water and let it sit for a while. After an hour or so, zones of fresh water appear (sometimes).
That is why I recommend turning he ham as the oven heats. (Same with a turkey).
AGW “climatologists” are very familiar with turkeys.
Here in Vermont (I’m just here for the weekend) we had about 3 ” of snow and it still hasn’t melted. It is on thing to have snow on Easter, it is something else when Easter falls on the April 24, the second latest it can fall.
I remember snow in Bristol, England (mild west coast climate) in May when I was a boy. Would have been about early 70s.
But the troposphere is warm.
FergalR says: April 23, 2011 at 4:32 pm
Off topic – sorry – Tip & Notes is full.
Some journalism on
Globe International – heavyweight financiers of CAGW political junkets and lobbying. . .
The Telegraph has done some serious investigative journalism here.
Good tip.
Sorry, but I have no sympathy whatsoever for our American friends caught in the snow this weekend. We’ve had neverending cold here in northwestern Alberta, running 10 degrees C below average practically the entire month. Overnight temps of -10C are comon and we are running out of firewood AGAIN. Finally this holiday weekend, we’re enjoying some balmy weather. Hopefully it will aid the melting of our still abundant snow, yet more spring snow storms are forecast for late next week. This kind of weather is common for March, not so much April. As for winter, I’ve had enough.
bubbagyro says:
April 23, 2011 at 7:26 pm
An oven cooking a ham at 400F has cold spot of … oh … 375F?
So an AGW +5F oven cooks a ham at 405F has cold spots of 380F.
AGW was supposed to be an Earth many degrees C above normal.
That warms both the ‘warm spots’ and the ‘cold spots’
Cold spots matching the 70’s cooling period were NOT supposed to happen.
Back to the ham in the AGW oven:
It has warms spots of 398F and cold spots of 373F.
Oops. Wrong oven.
Don says:
April 23, 2011 at 3:26 pm
“This is the lastest Easter in almost 60 years. ”
That’ll be because of that global warming they’ve been on about.
/sarc
Elizabeth (not the queen) says:
April 23, 2011 at 9:17 pm
we are running out of firewood AGAIN,/i>
Feynman had an interesting view on fire wood.
Harsh winter, cold spring nets late opening for golf courses
‘The ground is pretty frozen. And what’s not frozen is pretty wet’
“From 1990 to 1999, we were always open in early April. The latest in that period was April 18.
“But when you look at the last decade, we didn’t open until May 10 in 2002, May 8 in 2003 and May 12 in 2004.
“So much for global warming.”
See the full article in the Edmonton Journal (Alberta, Canada)
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/Harsh+winter+cold+spring+nets+late+opening+golf+courses/4645111/story.html
Not a blizzard. In the northeast that requires:
Blizzard
(abbrev. BLZD)- A blizzard means that the following conditions are expected to prevail for a period of 3 hours or longer:
* Sustained wind or frequent gusts to 35 miles an hour or greater; and
* Considerable falling and/or blowing snow (i.e., reducing visibility frequently to less than ¼ mile)
The older definition required temps below 20F or so too, and that may still be required in the midwest..
This is very common, nothing unusual at all. Don’t you all remember that famous song: ♫♪”I’m dreaming of a white Easter…”♪♫
I expect that after a few years of global cooling they will go back to spreading alarmism about the coming ice age.
That at least makes sense, though, because the next ice age is coming. The Holocene is already one of the longest interglacials in the last million years, and it is most unlikely that it will last another thousand years. It could (start to end) tomorrow. It may have already started to end. The twentieth century appears to be a grand maximum century as far as the sun is concerned, and solar cycle 24 looks as though the grand maximum is very likely to be over.
We have a lot of heat stored away in the ocean from the warm cycle, but if we are in the first solar cycle of an extended minimum, or even if solar behavior regresses back to the lower levels of activity that were more typical over the last several thousand years, we can expect some cooling to begin. At some point the Earth’s climate will become unstable (again) — sustained by warming as long as it stays warm, but if it cools below some critical point we’ll tip into rapid and prolonged cooling. A Maunder type minimum might be all that it takes. I think we’re getting out there to where any 100 year period of highly reduced solar activity could trigger an irreversible cycle of average cooling (as one or another such minimum will eventually do in the next thousand years).
Are we unstable in this way yet? Sitting at the end of a grand solar maximum and without anything like a reliable theory of solar activity capable of extrapolating a century into the future, it is hard to say. Without a clear understanding of why ice ages are happening in the first place — one capable of actually predicting them and explaining them — it is even harder. Then one is thrown back on Bayes; given the past data alone, we might well be. If the sun had remained quiet at the end of the Maunder minimum for another fifty years, we might have cooled enough that even the maximum wouldn’t have succeeded in seriously warming the planet; feedback from high-albedo glaciation might have started an irreversible process that was only delayed by the warm cycle.
We really should fear the cold, not the heat. In the warm cycle since the Dalton minimum, the population of the Earth has increased by 5.5 billion people, and food for at least a couple of billion of them is grown on land that would rapidly become incapable of sustaining meaningful summer agriculture if we merely returned to the climate conditions associated with the Maunder minimum. Worst case scenarios for global warming don’t really kill anyone, certainly not anyone en masse and over a very short timeframe. Even modest real global cooling could cause megadeaths to gigadeaths from plain old starvation in as little as two or three years of successive crop failures due to anomalous frosts in the great breadbaskets of Canada and the Great Plains of the US, in Siberia, in the Ukraine, or frost conditions at all in tropical countries where the migration of frost intolerant food plants into (thousand year) marginal climate zones makes their contribution to the food supply vulnerable.
People should really read things like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer
This wasn’t even the Little Ice Age — it was the Dalton minimum, coupled with a succession of volcanic events that probably caused heterodyning aerosol-based cooling, hardly a “unique and non-reproducible” series of events. Cycle 24 is looking like it might well be on the same order as the Dalton minimum, with a peak well under 100 in sunspot number. We’re better equipped with a heat budget accumulated by the grand maximum, but if cycle 25 is equally low or lower, we will be in serious trouble.
That’s one of the many things that irritates me tremendously about the abuse of numbers by the AGW establishment. They aren’t just doing a disservice to science in general, they are preparing the world for the wrong disaster. Even if they are correct, or partly correct, a warm Earth isn’t to be feared, but embraced. Fear the cold. It will kill people in vast numbers, right now if it comes, even if it only comes for a few years.
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