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.
Yet they told us to expect warmer, less snowy winters. They just forgot to tell us about summer snow in the US of A!!!
CAGW………………..the hypothesis that bends the data to fit the hypothesis. No matter what happens, they will run and run the models and pick the ‘results’ as they see fit. Future generations will wonder how the human race left science in favour of voodoo and chicken entrails disguised as computer models.
Yep, the IPCC said there should be “fewer cold outbreaks” (well they did say during “NH winters” so maybe this doesn’t apply, lol)
Yesterday at dawn 19 degrees F at dawn at my place with 10″ of snow on the ground. Buffalo, WY. In the last 20 years do not recall any such weather this early.
I’m on vacation in the Yellowstone area. First snowfall of the year near Gardiner, Montana — see picture below. Not that I’m complaining. It’s beyond beautiful up here, but everyone says this was a very cold summer. At the next place, the Centennial mountains in SW Montana, it was 10 degrees the night before last.
Everything is warming up again, but it’s a harbinger of an early winter. That much said, eastern Oregon and eastern Washington have had a very hot summer — record heat in eastern Washington, in fact.
http://i.imgur.com/i2mU9kV.jpg
I might add that skeptics ought to try not to be drawn into the ongoing conflation of climate and weather that has come to characterize the desperation of the AGW crowd. This is especially true in the U.S., where we have very big normal swings in weather.
Last year, within a five-month period, I personally experienced a swing of 135 degrees (F) in SE Oregon. This is not a constant occurrence there, yet nor is it unusual. In the region east of the Cascades and south of the Columbia River, there have been temperatures over 80 degrees recorded in every month of the year, and snowfall in 11 of 12 months.
There have been periods in June and July where there was snowfall in the morning and 90 degrees in the afternoon. Rivers and lakes dry up, and then flood on varying schedules ranging from a couple of years to a decade or more. The United States has a volatile normal climate, and so do many of its individual regions.
So don’t sit there and gloat over a cold winter, because before you know it there’ll be a record warm one. Let the other side pull that kind of b.s.
This is why I love the eastern half of Oregon. It is such a testament to creation! Hot, cold, wet, dry, snow, ice, lava, ash, boiling water, ice cold water, we’ve got it all. Not to mention wildlife. Oh my liven Lord! I have personally witnessed a bull moose fall in love with a cow herd! The only issue now is to rid the territory of non-native wolves.
Ah yes, the dreaded Canadian wolves. We had a good laugh about that. No Canadian wolves! Hey, I don’t like wolves at all.
It is likely the native wolf population in Wallowa County was an isolated gray wolf group, likely smaller in both pack numbers and individual size than its northern brothers and sisters. Wallowa County had an abundance of game but only if wolf packs and individual animals were small in size (likely a circular feedback loop). While members of the pack would wander off and the come back, the population would tend to become inbred due to the extreme isolation of the county. The present population, if left alone to live or die, will likely follow suit. But knowing our government, they will likely force new genetic stock into the packs, keeping the pack and individuals bigger than they would otherwise be here in NE Oregon.
It is in that sense that I say the current pack is not native to NE Oregon.
It is also the case that wolf heads and skin were sought after by native American Indians as head dresses, who thought the hunting ability of the wolf would somehow transfer to the wearer of the head and skin. Whether the Nez Pierce tribe that used Wallowa County as their hunting grounds killed wolves and wore such head dresses I don’t know. But Plains Indians surely did as there is photographic proof of this.
Finally, it would also be the case that Indians would be keen on keeping ungulate populations up in Wallowa County. Since Indians have a rich history in environmental engineering to support game populations, it is not unreasonable to suggest that wolf populations may have been controlled, IE kept low, in order to keep ungulate game abundant. I would have.
Truth – but I don’t think anything would convince the alarmists if indeed it is getting colder. We could get snow in July in Iowa with new glaciers growing and they’d still shout “warming!”
Eventually, the facts will prevail. You can b.s. people about lots of things for a long time, but it evenbtually catches up. The answer to b.s. should not be more of it.
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.
As the owner of both an electric car and a one-ton diesel pickup truck, let me say that cold temps (depending on the details) don’t favor either vehicle, although with a diesel you have to get below about 10 degrees before you’re in danger of gelling the fuel if you leave it out in the cold without taking precautions. EV range definitely declines in winter too.
But “not work at all?” Hasn’t happened in my EV. That was reserved for the night last winter when I left the truck outside in -30F without plugging in the block heater or adding the anti-gel additive to the fuel. Look, I am not any kind of “EVangelist,” but facts are facts.
I was sitting in the warn sunshine on my patio drinking a morning coffee in Vancouver on 9/11/14, thinking of my brother in Calgary, Alberta who was suffering a power outage and a fallen tree in his yard. On TV the mid-day anchor on the CBC news was interviewing a meteorologist and suggested that such a strange weather event must be due to climate change. The meteorologist, based in Yellowknife, rolled her eyes and carried on. Shortly the anchor said, “but the polar seas are now more open and some suggest that this is causing the jet stream shift, don’t you think that climate change is the cause?”. The meteorologist said, “well climate change is always a consideration but I think this situation is just one of those freak weather events”. The Toronto based news anchor didn’t know what my brother is fully familiar with, ‘If you worry about what the weather is doing in Calgary you will quickly go crazy!’
idk if its the change in layout or something but these comments today have been 10/10.
Dame Julia Slingo (head of the UK MetOffice), (for ’twas she) in her lecture at the Institute of Physics (London UK – just) last week, vampishly ‘informed’ us that there was no real warming pause because European summers had been getting warmer – so there!
Well, I know the EU pretends to be a ‘global power’ (but has anyone noticed?), but claiming the only climate that matters is that over Europe is perhaps a tad rich?
Thanks to the warm The September are big energy savings in Poland.
It certainly wouldn’t be happening if the planet was indeed dangerously warming!!!!
But this snow is actually good news. It exposes the climate change charlatans for what they are… modern day snake-oil salesmen trying to flog a dangerous man-made global warming potion!
As for the comment the Presidents are crying… they are, but not about the weeather