From the National Weather Service:
“An early-season winter storm is expected to develop across eastern North Dakota into northern Minnesota beginning Wednesday night, as colder air filters into the region. Rain developing during the day on Wednesday will mix with or change to snow by Thursday morning, with the possibility for six inches or more of accumulation by Thursday morning.
SHORT RANGE FORECAST DISCUSSION
NWS HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL PREDICTION CENTER COLLEGE PARK MD
339 PM EDT WED OCT 03 2012
VALID 00Z THU OCT 04 2012 - 00Z SAT OCT 06 2012
...HEAVY PRECIPITATION POSSIBLE OVER PARTS OF THE UPPER
MISSISSIPPI VALLEY......TEMPERATURES WILL BE NEAR 25 DEGREES BELOW AVERAGE
FOR PARTS OF THE NORTHERN HIGH PLAINS AND 10 TO 15 DEGREES BELOW
AVERAGE FOR THE NORTHERN PLAINS SOUTHWARD TO PARTS OF THE SOUTHERN
HIGH PLAINS..."
http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/discussions/hpcdiscussions.php?disc=pmdspd
Of course if this were a heat wave ready to pounce, the media and the alarmosphere would immediately call it “dirty weather” and related to “global warming”.
I wonder if the Weather Channel will name this event?
h/t to Gordon Fulks
I hope they got their crops all in.
Mariss says:
October 3, 2012 at 6:54 pm
“I think the Weather Channel should name Albert after the Nobel Prize winning scientist Al Gore…”
The greatest accomplishment of the current generation of CAGW climate scientists was to elevate Al Gore to be a Nobel laureate. He even got HALF of the Nobel prize money – the IPCC had the split the other half! Ha ha ha ha…
I bet it is rotten snow with lots of undetectable, well hidden heat inside.
Wunderground is projecting that Wichita, KS will break the 1952 record low for this Friday of 31 degrees. No complaints, I’m ready for some cool global warming.
Gary Hladik says:
October 3, 2012 at 6:18 pm
Oh noes!!! It’s Karbon-Kaused Klimate Kaos!!!
Love this. Reminds me of the newspaper headline in Miracle on 34th Street.
Kris Kringle Krazy? Kourt Kase Koming! ‘Kalamity’ Kry Kiddies
In fact I once posted a parody of part of the Miracle on 34th Street here. It had to do with AGW.
“You mean it’s like, If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again?” “Yes”. “I thought so.”
“I believe, I believe, it’s silly but I believe”
“I was wrong when I told you that Susie. You must believe in global warming and keep on doing it. You must have faith in it.”
“Faith is believing when common sense tells you not to.”
This was standard operating procedure for late September and early October when I was growing up in southwestern Montana in the 1960s. There are some days when I wonder if I should have sold my snowmobile when the series of droughts began in the mountain west in the late 1970s.
Phil says:
October 3, 2012 at 10:30 pm
MIght be worth re-reading this comment by Dr. Brown. It seems prescient.
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Thanks for the reminder and the link to Dr. Browns comment.
There has been so much presented here on WUWT over the past years that should be revisited from time to time. WUWT is like an encyclopedia on climaterelated issues it would be nice to compile the better posts and comments into an actual “encyclopedia” for a future resource for historical and academic reference when this sad era of academic and political scamming is finally closed out, hopefully to never be repeated again in future generations.
I don’t know what to call such an “encyclopedia” as there have been so many who have spent an enormous effort to bring the real truth to light. History has been made and should be compiled into some form of official documentation that would in fact be as great in volume as an encyclopedia.
http://bemidji.org/pages/ChamberWebcams/
Let’s see what this posts as.
I like the Paul Bunyan statute with the snow on it!
Max
I wonder if the Weather Channel will name this event?
“Algore #238?” The “Great Debate” Storm? “EarlyOctSnowBlow”? “CanadaStopIt #33547”?
I can see snow in the Big Horn Mountains right now in Big Horn county Montana.
The cold front hit the northern Texas Panhandle at 0415 Central Daylight Time. We were in the upper 80s yesterday and should not get past 65 today, with peak winds of 45 miles an hour. A second round is due on Friday to drop temps even farther. Typical autumn weather.
No, the Weather Channel is not naming it although they were talking about it. They said it does not meet the criteria for affecting enough people in a large enough area. I guess the named ones will be the ones that primarily hit large cities or dense populations. I guess ma and pa on the farm or living in the woods of northern Minnesota don’t count. They hastened to reassure anyone who happened to be watching that there are actual meteorological standards a storm has to reach for naming too.
But it sound to me like the name gimmick is mainly that – a gimmick to make people in places like Chicago feel important when they get snowed on.
My bad . . . it was Sept 29.
Look at bottom of page:
http://truckingblog.wordpress.com/category/winter-driving/
Phil says I didn’t see that comment when it first appeared. (I’m a slow reader with a quick brain, very frustrating.)
Nice to see that rgb has finally seen that what Ian W, E.M.Smith, a few others and I have been saying for years about enthalpy has validity.
DaveE.
They need to move the Presidential debate there.
wayne says:
October 3, 2012 at 8:02 pm
But is it enough to get the Minnesotans For Global Warming all fired up again?
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That would be just about all of us come February.
If it’s still there 10/18/2012, shout. I suspect it will melt!
Just great – I’m off for 10 days of conferences in Minneapolis next week.