From NTD Television
Snow Covers Sichuan State Highway 318 in Summer
While people in other regions of China, are enduring the hot summer, a bizarre scene of drifting snow covered the Zheduo Mountain section of the Sichuan State Highway 318 on Wednesday.
The snowfall measured more than 12 inches deep. The temperature was less than 32 degrees Fahrenheit.
Heavy snow and fog almost paralyzed traffic on the state highway—as vehicles moved bumper to bumper on the snow-covered road.
While the snowfall was creating a traffic jam, some people enjoyed the unusual sight, and got out of their cars to take pictures.
[Tourist]:
“I came from Nanjing City of Jiangsu Province. I’ve come to Sichuan for a tour. I never saw snow in July. It is indeed rare. Even in winter, I rarely saw snow in Nanjing.”
Meteorologists offer two reasons for the sudden snowfall in summer. The first is the altitude of Zheduo Mountain, which is more than 13,000 feet high. The second reason is the continuous rain with low temperatures in the region.
hat-tip to reader Sonya and Ice Age Now
Global warming makes snow in China in July? Ok, got it.
/sacr
Ice Age now link is not working correctly.
They must be burning a huge amount of coal in that region.
interesting….btw i keep hearing on the radio news (ABC, CNN) about hot weather in the eastern U.S. but of course i hear nothing about mild weather we’re having in California the last few weeks – highs in the low 80’s max….i stepped outside about 11 PM a few nights ago and i could see my breath…must have been in the 40’s for a low…crazy weather….
I remember (1996 iirc), when I lived near Canberra (Australia) I was driving to work on November 22nd ( that’s very much into summer down here) and it was snowing !!
A true Kodak moment, pity I didn’t have a camera.
Amino Acids in Meteorites says on July 16, 2011 at 4:15 pm
OK, clearly you are an unreconstructed anthropogenic climate disruption supporter.
Surely you must have realized that the climate scientists’ consensus is that anthropogenic climate disruption is real and will doom us all if those evil humans do not stop disrupting climate, and this case only proves it!
Can’t be snow. Everyone knows that snow is caused by Warming, and everyone knows that China is officially exempt from Warming. That’s why they’re exempt from the requirements to destroy their economy to eliminate the Warming.
Must be cornflakes or something.
I don’t believe you that that the temperature was less than 32°F. Don’t you know by know that global warming has increased the freezing point of water. That is how global warming causes more snow.
I do hope they haven’t lost their chilli crop…
it’s at 13,000 feet!
snow is common at 13,000 feet all over the world, no matter how late into summer it is.
http://sichuanchef.com
http://bamboogardendining.com/History.aspx
keeperofthederp says:
July 16, 2011 at 5:37 pm
Why are the people who live there saying it’s unusual then?
我们是注定
(Wǒmen shì zhùdìng)
Yet even more weather is not climate news…
In BC — the southwest coast of Canada that is — we have had the coldest, wettest, spring/summer ever(?). You wouldn’t know it from the press though. Ask any “ordinary” person and they will tell you it has been very, very cold. Environmental Canada on the other hand — the official source of all things weather, says it is reallllllllllly waaaaaaaaaaay hotter than ever before. My sources in EC tell me they know that it is colder than anything seen for 100 years, but they have to tow the line. I am told that the “normal” temps put up each day on the website are being set by looking at the current real temp and inputting something a few degrees warmer, but not too much. It has to be something close. Definitely not the real historical normal, which is around 28. Yesterday, they claimed normal was 20 degrees! Ya right. I just returned from a trip up the valley, and the creeks and rivers are all very swollen. No beach at all at the lake. The run-off is excessive.
There is a heavy snow-pack above 5000 feet, and it is dreary and cold all around. I understand that LA is suffering much the same fate. Cool and wet. As the west coast goes, so does the nation. But the focus is on the heat in the south of the US. I wonder if they are separating the humidex from real temps any more?
‘..continuous rain with low temperatures..’
and it’s not the Rockies we are talking about.
Brilliant!
I’m sure if NOAA could get their models involved, they could make it all go away.
I like this quote from NOAA regarding their models…..
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SNODAS Model Adjustments:
A model adjustment was done on July 5 across much of the West. With the exception of the Northern Rockies and the Yellowstone region, water was conservatively removed from the snowpack to account for rapid melt. Because much of the remaining snowpack is in heavily forested regions (Sierra Nevada, Cascades, etc.) and observing stations are usually in forest clearings, in some cases the model was left to melt at a slightly slower rate than the observations to more closely follow a likely snowpack depletion pattern under heavy forest cover. In the Northern Rockies and the Yellowstone region, the model was melting the snowpack faster than what was observed at several SNOTEL sites. Therefore, water was added back into the model, particularly at the highest elevations.
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Rapid melt ?
Just about every news outlet that covered the snow melt said the exact opposite.
Many were grateful that the snow melt was slowed, due to cooler temperatures.
Heavily forested regions my ass.
I guess the skiers/boarders out there are were weaving their way through dense trees during the 4th…
And our taxes pay for this.
Brilliant !
The second reason is the continuous rain with low temperatures in the region.
The key is stuck weather patterns.
Same thing happened in Russia last year, now it would seem that the weather patterns are even more stationary than ever. Have y’all been watching this progression that started in 2008?
The first sign of it was weather fronts that stretched 2,000, then 3,000 miles in latitude.
The only reports we have of weather east of the Mississippi from the early 1800’s was that of the Lewis & Clark Expedition. They spoke of the oppresive scorching heat of the Plains, then the miserable damp of the Pacific Northwest.
keeperofthederp says:
“it’s at 13,000 feet!”
The interview was with a tourist in the area, who said “I came from Nanjing City of Jiangsu Province. I’ve come to Sichuan for a tour. I never saw snow in July. It is indeed rare. Even in winter, I rarely saw snow in Nanjing.”
But if you understand this point, she looks around 25-30 years old and the (estimated) past 10+ years of her life solar activity has been in decline and the10-20 or so years before that, solar activity was increasing and reaching it’s peek, then you can under stand why she believes that snow at 13,000 feet in that area is an unusual event for her.
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Meteorologists offer two reasons for the sudden snowfall in summer. The first is the altitude of Zheduo Mountain, which is more than 13,000 feet high. The second reason is the continuous rain with low temperatures in the region.
UNQUOTE
So high altitude, moisture and low temperatures causes snow fall.
I see.
Thank you.
One question – when was the area under study moved into such a snowy place without notice?
Who authorised it?
She or he must be punished.
We cant’ have people causing global freezing without proper authorisation.
It does make the AGW story very thingy and that will never do.
TrueNorthist says:
July 16, 2011 at 6:11 pm
I wonder if they are separating the humidex from real temps any more?
ABC World News Tonight interviewed a meteorologist who did his very best to blur the two.
Even with the forecast, you couldn’t tell which he was referring to.
In the UK summer has been colder and wetter than usual for much of the time.
On the BBC weather forecast for this weekend [From the UK Met Office] the presenter said “Think ‘Autumn’ “!
There was snow skiing at Arapahoe Basin (Colorado) on the 4th of July this year. Here in south eastern Washington state, snow drifts along open ridges in the Blue Mountains at 4,000 feet finally melted during the second week of July. This is the second time I have observed this since the mid 1960s.
@rbateman
It’s still miserable damp in the Pacific Northwest :(( Our summer ration seems to be about 1 day a week so far where I live. (We don’t call it the Olympic Rain Forrest for nothing.) I Understand the Cullen family has opened a bed and breakfast in Forks where they haven’t seen the sun since last September. ( I think I’m exaggerating, but don’t bet your farm on it! )
The Ill Tempered Klavier says:
July 16, 2011 at 7:54 pm
Here in NW Calif., we have had the strangest Thunderstorms. They don’t seem to move, but stay parked all day. No flow. Yesterday had one in Yreka and one in Redding. At the end of the day they just dissipate, but no movement. We had our (Weaverville) turn today.
Remember the movie “The Day the Earth Stood Still”?
anticlimactic says:
July 16, 2011 at 7:36 pm
In the UK summer has been colder and wetter than usual for much of the time.
On the BBC weather forecast for this weekend [From the UK Met Office] the presenter said “Think ‘Autumn’ “!
I was in the UK at the beginning of the month and in Windsor Great Park the Holly bushes all had berries as did the Rowan trees, sycamore trees had bunches of brown winged seeds and pine trees had dropped many cones. This was in the first days of July.
So yes – think autumn.
Boy, when the alarmists claim Chinese “aerosols” have a cooling effect, they’re not kidding!
Next time we get a heat wave, I’m gonna throw some Chinese coal in my wood stove.