Massive early cold wave – Nearly an inch of snow at Rapid City. This is the earliest recorded snowfall going back to 1888.
Source: NOAA
Mount Rushmore from NWS Rapid City Twitter Feed:
A television Meteorologist in Sioux Falls, SD had this to say:
Way too early for this. Even the Presidents look like they are crying…
The national Weather Service in Rapid City posted this on Twitter a few minutes ago, it shows their view outside the window looking at their radiosonde launch station
According to a newspaper report from the Sioux Falls Argus Leader, eight inches of snow have reportedly fallen in the Black Hills area. This beats the previous early snowfall record set on Sept. 13, 1970, when 0.7″ of an inch of snow fell at Rapid City, SD.
Elsewhere, 8″ of snow were reported in Downtown Custer, 6″ were reported five miles south of Hill City, and 4-5″ inches were reported in Hill City, Sioux Falls Argus Leader reported. Mount Rushmore reported 7″ of snow, and Sundance, Wyoming reported 4″. The map below shows accumulations.
SNOW REPORTS LISTED BY AMOUNT INCHES LOCATION ST COUNTY TIME ------ ----------------------- -- -------------- ------- 8.00 DOWNTOWN CUSTER SD CUSTER 0800 AM 7.00 MOUNT RUSHMORE SD PENNINGTON 0810 AM 7.00 1 ENE DOWNTOWN CUSTER SD CUSTER 0605 AM 6.00 5 S HILL CITY SD PENNINGTON 0815 AM 6.00 8 NW TERRY PEAK SD LAWRENCE 0750 AM 6.00 2 SSE DEERFIELD RESERVO SD PENNINGTON 0740 AM 5.00 5 ENE DOWNTOWN CUSTER SD CUSTER 0600 AM 5.00 JOHNSON SIDING SD PENNINGTON 0530 AM 4.50 HILL CITY SD PENNINGTON 0852 AM 4.00 1 ENE SUNDANCE WY CROOK 0800 AM 4.00 2 SSE DEERFIELD RESERVO SD PENNINGTON 0400 AM 3.00 7 SW DOWNTOWN RAPID CIT SD PENNINGTON 0800 AM 2.50 1 W DOWNTOWN RAPID CITY SD PENNINGTON 0815 AM 2.00 6 E DEVILS TOWER JUNCTI WY CROOK 0842 AM 2.00 9 ENE DEVILS TOWER JUNC WY CROOK 0840 AM 2.00 ALADDIN WY CROOK 0835 AM 2.00 6 W BEULAH WY CROOK 0824 AM 2.00 5 W WHITEWOOD SD LAWRENCE 0820 AM 2.00 2 W DOWNTOWN SPEARFISH SD LAWRENCE 0815 AM 2.00 3 ESE DOWNTOWN GILLETTE WY CAMPBELL 0750 AM 2.00 4 S DOWNTOWN RAPID CITY SD PENNINGTON 0600 AM 1.50 BEULAH WY CROOK 0855 AM 1.30 12 SW MOSKEE WY WESTON 0800 AM 1.00 FOUR CORNERS WY WESTON 0827 AM 1.00 1 N DOWNTOWN RAPID CITY SD PENNINGTON 0815 AM 1.00 LEAD SD LAWRENCE 0745 AM 0.90 1 NW PIEDMONT SD MEADE 0730 AM 0.90 1 ESE DOWNTOWN RAPID CI SD PENNINGTON 0600 AM
Source: NWS Rapid City
Freeze warnings for many northern U.S. locations have also been issued, including Spokane, WA and Duluth, MN.
I expect we will see many many cold records set.
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The northeast isn’t too balmy either (44 in Ottawa, ON). I’m beginning to get suspicious of the decline in Arctic ice reported these days.
The last two years the Arctic ice has rebounded.
Bob Clark
Here in Nebraska, I had my r-12 refrigerant running last week. This week, I’m wearing a hoody inside. Happy to own a snowblower.
Here in Nebraska, I had my r-12 running last week. This week, I wear a hoody inside.
Thx for all the great comments folks. In spite of the cold temps I’m warm just from laughing at the comments… great stuff… keep it coming
Hey maybe the professor in Seattle in the early 70’s was right after all, ICE AGE COMING in three years he said (He’s only out by a negligible 40 years after all), remember him? Anyone?
Yep I remember him, think he works in the Administration now I think, remember the Reader’s Digest article too. Think he’s a global we are all going to die sweating to death now. Think I need to lay off the brandy before reading posts especially when replying to them.
Snow biggie. Just a bunch of fluffy white stuff.
Hottest ever fall !!
It is Fall over there , isn’t it…. not winter yet ?
Green Bay, Wisconsin reporting area in noaa.gov for Sept 12th had a list of twelve weather stations with new record low highs in central and northern Wisconsin. Most broke old records by several degrees and two of them by eight degrees. Three of the old records dated back to 1902.
On a very sad note that I expect the President to do, is to make all weather data TOP SECRET RUFF.
That way, the President will be able to prosecute USA citizens, by death without trial, who violate his executive order and maintain absolute obedience in the purity of the President for all time.
“In the Chain Of Command Their can be NO Ambiguity. Violators will be KILLED at the pleasure of the President of the United States of America.”
Of this, there is evidence.
Anthony, your ‘favorite’ weatherman, WGN’s Tom Skilling, says that this is the “chilliest September 12 in 112 years!”
http://chicagoweathercenter.com/blog/author/tom-skilling
It sure has been bloody cold in Chicago! The extremely cold mass of water in Lake Michigan has suppressed summer temps all along.
So where are the usual suspects to tell us this is only weather?
David?
Certainly you can burn one of your sock puppets for this.
I wondered if there was a connection between the polar vortex and the increases in arctic ice the last two years. If there is a connection then we would expect there to be another extreme instance of the polar vortex this Winter.
Bob Clark
Last night this area (SW MO) broke a 120+ year record for cold temps.
I would like to nominate Mother Nature for a Nobel. She has done something that all those warmer-mystics could not, or would not, do. She came up with an experiment that falsified GW, AGW, and the idea that CO2 could be a cause for warming… that is, if there were any warming. It wasn’t a difficult experiment. She just let nature do its thing and then didn’t dummy-up the data.
South-west? Springfield area? I need to ask a friend of mine how summer is going there…
A very cold winter in the US combined with warm ocean temps makes for a pretty stormy winter season in the UK. Hopefully it will not be as bad as last year.
Well, to us farmers, predicted yields are one thing, actual yields are another. We get more of the first than the second. A lesson that may prove hard for many others too. Brett Keane
Corn and Wheat futures are down. This suggests crop damage is not considered significant.
Still, I blame global warming 🙂
http://futures.tradingcharts.com/chart/CN/M
http://futures.tradingcharts.com/chart/CW/W
http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/commodities/futures/
It’s due to the death spiral of arctic ice!
Ah, right, slight problem there.
Freeze My Be-geez
Thank God we’ve got global warming for without it we’d simply freeze
As the temperature climbs we set chilling records lower degree by degrees
In the bright sunlight you can see ice crystals if you happen to sneeze
Ice in the air with snow in your hair and now you’ve started to wheeze
Before we know it we’ll all have a cold or some other chilling disease
After all winter did start a few days ago and we do have a northerly breeze
Just yesterday enough snow fell that it’s deep enough to reach your knees
With snow pilling up it covers the cars by spring it may cover the trees
It’ll take a while for this snow to melt so we’ll have a late planting of peas
When spring does bring a warming Sun we’ll no longer have to say please
The environmentalists will trout out the mantra harping their expertise
But where the hell is global warming its cold enough to freeze my be-geez
Almost a year ago we had this.
Climate as per IPCC is 30 years or more of weather data, not 23 years.
It would appear that since 2000, whenever there is an extra warm SST or a major hot spot in the North Pacific Ocean (20-65 N), south of Alaska , during the summer and fall, North America including United States may experience a very cold winter . The extra warm SST in the North Pacific happened in 2000,2003,2006, 2010, 2012 and 2013. There were below average winter temperatures in 2001,2004,2007,2008, 2009, 2010, 2011,2013 and 2014. It looks like we may potentially have a below average cold winter as this part of the North Pacific is at its warmest yet. It may be that the extra warm air gets into the high Arctic causing jet stream blocking, SSW events and Arctic vortex distortions. This is what happened last winter.
Frequency of cold events may increase, still, with the right priors Bayesian probability of warming is going up steadily, for frequentist interpretation of probability is clearly wrong.
/sarc
Late snowfalls are now just a thing of the past.
Does anyone know if it’s all melted yet?
Snow and ice is no more due to global warming.
The snow is gone in my Calgary neighbourhood – we live at low elevation near the river. The trees are mostly still green, with a few starting to turn yellow. The problem was a heavy wet snowfall when the deciduous trees still had all their leaves – the weight of the snow caused major damage to trees, with large limbs torn off and occasionally whole trees downed. Some power failures occurred as electrical wires were taken down by the trees.
The city is a mess with all the downed trees, especially in the older neighbourhoods but we will clean it up quickly. We are pretty much recovered from the mid-2013 flood* that inundated the near-river communities and some of the downtown – I understand it was the most expensive natural disaster in Canadian history (we do not count the burning of Toronto by the Yanks circa 1814 – that was urban renewal).
This latest snow event can be attributed to natural weather fluctuation in Calgary – we are located near the Rocky Mountains and our weather is highly variable. People here say “If you don’t like the weather, wait 15 minutes…”. Circa 1985 we had minus 40 degrees at Halloween (degrees F or C – faites vos choix) – racing with the kids from house to house for treats, hot choc and rum toddies…
Although I believe that the global warming scare promoted by the IPCC is hysterical nonsense, based on a ridiculously high estimate of Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity to CO2 (ECS), for which there is NO supporting scientific evidence and ample evidence to the contrary, this latest snow event itself proves nothing – except “Don’t park your car under a tree”.
* A note regarding the mid-2013 Calgary flood:
We had tens (maybe hundreds) of thousands of volunteers show up for many weeks to help clean flooded basements of river mud – that saved many millions of dollars and months of time. Our MP (Member of Parliament of Canada) asked me to find some homes to clean up for a work team she had available – it turned out to be Mrs. Stephen Harper (wife of the Prime Minister of Canada), four MP’s and many friends – and they worked really hard in the mud all day – with no camera crews in sight. Finally we have a federal government with decency and competence, after many decades of Liberal thievery and incompetence.
Love this City and this Country!
Bah, humbug. The map says my area is to be in the 50’s for its lows. That isn’t cold. The long term low averages for us is in the high 40’s this time of the year. I’ll enjoy the warmth.
Too, a long cold hard eyed look at the long term trend if colder , the effect of that on the range of electric cars ect. . Locations that now have days of say 20F will be say as low as 10F or 15F. If the car is left out side and the trip home is say 25 miles, may not work at all.
Say a suprise cold front drops the temp. fast say around 9:00 when people are just at work. They just did not recharge the night before because the NWS got the next day weather wrong. Stuck half way home just after dark with the out side temp. say 5F. and just when the owner remembers he did not gas up too.
Things like the real world.