reader “agimarc” writes: As with the Lower 48 states, spring is late and cold here in central Alaska. Fairbanks reported a record low of 2 degrees F above zero Sunday, breaking the previous record of 8 from 1924.
Here in Anchorage, looks like we are around 3 – 4 weeks late with ice of local lakes and snow off the ground. Winter was not particularly hard, but it all changed with a very cold April. And at this point it does not appear things will be warming up soon. So much for manmade global warming due to carbon dioxide emissions.![usak_yestlows_i5_points[1]](http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/usak_yestlows_i5_points1.png?quality=75)
Story here: http://www.adn.com/2013/04/29/2883299/interior-alaska-sees-record-breaking.html
Yes, have a look at the image at right.
Here is a complete list of record lows for Alaska in the past 7 days, 996 new record lows were set (click low temp and details tab):
http://wx.hamweather.com/maps/climate/records/7day/usak.html?cat=maxtemp,mintemp,snow,lowmax,highmin,
And the cold is now creeping into the USA, look at the difference between Denver and Kansas City:
Expect a whole new crop of record lows for the USA, and some serious issues to develop with agriculture in the nation’s breadbasket as a result.
This in contrast to last year at this time of 49% of the corn crop planted and the five year average of 31%
The Weather Channel picked the wrong year to name winter storms, the snow and cold may be their Achilles Heel (h/t to Steve Goddard):
Winter Storm Achilles: Snow and Cold Kick Off May | Weather Underground
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Pamela Gray says:
May 1, 2013 at 6:22 pm
Missing CO2 created water vapor here in NE Oregon! Down to 18% humidity under clear skies and ANOTHER freeze warning tonight. My long red hair is standing up like it has been wired to Frankinstein’s static electricity machine! The lilac buds frooze. My poor dogs don’t dare sniff the local text messages on fire hydrants because their noses get snapped!
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Thanks for that! I needed a laugh.
That is, however, formally known to as pee mail 🙂
When its frozen, its like getting that darn notice on your door knob from FedEx when your not home. You know somethings there, but you can’t quite get it yet. .
Might be time to start looking at those recordsfor the last day of snow for many cities soon.
My hunch is the rapid reaction in Arctic sea ice recovery, as it relates to the loss due to the storm in early October, and the shifting PDO, are a few of the cold culprits.
Go Penguins! NHL playoffs >
garymount says:
May 1, 2013 at 2:42 pm
Wayne Delbeke says:
May 1, 2013 at 12:51 pm
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I watched that CBC weather report and they included the term “Wacky” in their on screen visuals. So they are still trying to push the CAGW theme.
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Yeah – the CBC is so far to the left you have to look to your right to see them. 😉
Since there has been NO statistically significant warming trend over the past 16 years and 4 months, I love how the CAGW grant whores have resorted to ranking years rather than discussing the LACK of a warming trend.
Using this new and improved childish ranking system, one could also say that since Homo sapiens started walking the Earth 200,000 years ago, the past 16 years are ranked 1st through 16th for the MOST man made CO2 emissions with no global warming trend in 200,000 years and the last 10 years can be ranked 1st through 10th for the MOST manmade CO2 emissions with a FALLING global temperature trend…..
When grant whores have to resort to ranking years rather than discussing the LACK of warming trend with record manmade CO2 emissions, you know it’s the beginning of the end is near for this silly theory.
Who doesn’t like to take stories like this and send them to our “warmist buddies” just to kick em in the ribs now and than?
Granted its just as bad as claiming “a warm spell” is the end of the world and because of evil man, but shrug, we probably as a species have not evolved as much as we want to believe….
Cave men saw “terrible storms” as proof of evil and bad things caused by “the flavor of the month deity”. Now we have large segments of our population saying that “terrible storms” are proof that “evil carbon from man” is destroying the world. The more we change, the more it seems we just stay the same with irrational beliefs about the world and how the world revolves around us.
Y’know, if this IS global cooling, Texas is gonna turn into a pretty sweet place to live. Well, sweeter than it is already! And we’re gonna have all that oil and gas that those yankees up north are gonna have to keep paying us for. heh.
wws, Guess you never heard of the Bakken formation, the Utica shale or what’$ going on in Pennsylvania? Or that Calumet & MDU Resources are building a refinery in N. Dakota. That Canada should just pump their oil their own refineries in the east and stop importing crude, because by five years from now we cannot make room for it.
http://www.politifact.com/ohio/statements/2013/apr/29/ohio-oil-and-gas-association/ohio-oil-and-gas-association-touts-40000-new-ohio-/
Eyal Porat says Saudi snow is hail. Take a look at this report and you will see it definititely snowed in Saudi. http://www.straight.com/blogra/376666/snow-saudi-arabia
Here in Dubai we have had a week of rain. Rain occurs here but it is really unusual for it to happen late April / early May.
Correction. This video of Saudi snow is not from this week but is a previous example from 2008
However, there are plenty occasions when it has snowed there – this one from January 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAPxZlefqAc
CodeTech says:
May 1, 2013 at 1:20 pm
“Canada switched to Metric in the 70s, and the worst part was that they did a “total immersion” conversion. You literally woke up one morning with all the street signs and weather reports and everything switched. It was not a good time.”
It seems that “total immersion” didn’t really work as intended. You refer to temperatures as degrees C, but when you discuss depth of snow you refer to “feet” and “inches.”
NOT politically correct now, is it?
Murray in Melbourne says:
May 1, 2013 at 4:03 pm
“How many countries in the world use fahrenheit officially?? One? Time to get with it USA!!”
Are you saying there is a consensus around Centigrade and those of us who stick to fahreheit are “deniers?”
Oh dear. That post went into “moderation.” Presumably because I used a “banned word!”
[Yeah. Misspelling Fahrenheit will get you very time. 8<) Mod]
Ha! Ha! So cold here in Wales that a radio tagged cuckoo ( called David) flew to Ceredigion in Mid Wales , then turned back and flew to France!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-22338715
Cuckoo takes European holiday
http://www.bbc.co.uk
A Ceredigion cuckoo returning from migration in Africa takes a holiday in France to avoid the British weather.
“How many countries in the world use fahrenheit officially?? One? Time to get with it USA!!”
Farenheit used mercury in his thermometers and devised a scale which was very accurate, had a constant zero ( freezing point of a saturated solution of brine) and is far better than the Celcius scale.
“Expect a whole new crop of record lows for the USA, and some serious issues to develop with agriculture in the nation’s breadbasket as a result.”
Bread? They grow cornahol now. Resourceguy suggests $5 gasoline. With no cornahol, there will be NO gasoline. The government demands gasoline must contain 10% alcohol. No alky, no gas.
I have been growing perennials in my garden for many years here in Denver. As a Denver native, I have grown accustomed to spring snow storms for as long as I can remember.
However, our snowstorms in the spring are warm, wet affairs. You can expect the plants to enjoy the extra boost of moisture when this occurs, basically shrugging of the chills by the next morning.
This is the first time my Virginia Bluebells have experienced frost damage. The Bleeding Hearts are already history, although they always struggle in the spring. As I write this, I’m hoping I can salvage some of my lupine with sheets and lamps. There is severe frost damage on the early leaves, something I have never seen on lupine before.
We are definitely experiencing a cold, wet spring of unusual extent this year. The last few storms are something we normally experience in Feb or even Jan.
I wonder if all of this is a indication we are entering a Dalton or Maunder type cooling period? The sun is definitely lazy during this cycle and it seems more than coincidence we are seeing cool, damaging springs. Only time will tell.
I enjoyed the reference to Stearns and Rogers in 73 or 74. Only someone living here prior to the 80s would have those memories. Same for Celebrity Sports Center.
Here n southern Minnesota we will set a record cold high today as well as all-time May snowfall (was 2″) total with 8″ of snow on the ground and another 5-8″ on the way. We even get a visit from The Weather Channel talking about “climate extremes”. Ugh.
May 1, southern South Dakota (an hour south of Sioux Falls)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v620/mikesnow/P1080349_zpsc563d76a.jpg
Well, that’s caused by last fall’s sea-ice melt, dontcha-know?
These regional cold areas are just a start of many cold periods ahead.
Solar sunspot activity is at the lowest level since 1900. During the decades of 1880, 1890 and 1900 the average sunspot numbers [NSO] were 45.2, 55.1 and 42.6. During 2000 decade they were 49.6. During the last 10 years the average sunspot number was 29.3. When the average decadal solar level drops to about 40-50 , cooler weather sets in. Low solar sunspot numbers seem to correlate with low global surface temperatures especially when ocean and solar cycles are both in sync and declining. Low solar cycles typically come in threes, so it is possible that low sunspot numbers may exist for several decades into the future There are 11, 22, 70-80, 200 year and even longer solar cycles. There are 30, 60, 120 year and even longer climate cycles that emerge from sun/ocean interface. The minimums of the longer solar cycles are deeper and more severe or colder than the short ones.
The last 6 solar minimums were about 1290-1350,1400-1520, 1640-1710 , 1790-1830, 1880-1915 .Every 120-185 years we seem to have the start of a major minimum and a colder period that lasts for 30-90 years .There seemed to have been a cold temperature trough every 120 years as it was very cold in 1550, 1670, 1790, 1910 [.predicting 2030 as cold trough period?] .It looks like we may be entering one of those 120-180 year cycle colder temperature periods either now[1880+120=2000 or by 2060[ 1880+180=2060]. If sunspots go to zero by 2015 , the much colder winters will set in.
Warming is Global. A computer program run is all it takes to prove that it’s warming. The computer program output overrides thermometers, as thermometers are faulty.
Cooling is always regional. All eyewithness reports of extraordinary cold are unscientific anecdotal cherry-picked evidence. And probably forged anyway.
Unheard of major snow in Iowa this morning. Now we are starting to get to the point where late planting could effect corn yields, particularly if the cold wet ground remains as germination of seed can be effected.
Chad Wozniak says:
May 1, 2013 at 10:54 am
Like I keep telling folks . . . water freezes into ice when you heat it! /sarc
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Yeah, but you gotta get the CO2 really hot first then it absorbs so much heat it snows.
Or something like that.
cn
RHS: “Funny thing about Denver is the high on Monday was nearly 80! The snow fall will be hard to measure since the ground is still warm.”
I saw 68 on Monday and I got 6 inches of measurable stuff on my deck. 5 inches of it is still there now.
Seems that this late cold weather may diminish crop yields in the midwest. Could be worse than last years drought, though it is too early to say for sure.
However, last year’s drought is not consonant with global warming because a warmer globe means higher levels of humidity, not drought. We know that this is true, because that is what the confraternity of climate modelers and global warmers say. This is confirmed by other, more believable scientists.