It was the earliest and heaviest snow in several places since records have been kept dating as far back as 1880.
100 Year Snow Records broken across the South Eastern US on October 31st and November 01st. It was the earliest and heaviest snow in several places since records have been kept dating as far back as 1880. Reduced sunspot count shows Solar hibernation is occurring along with the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) showing a cooling Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Multi-Decadal Oscillation (AMO) Atlantic Ocean temperature is predicted to fall by 2020, which screams of cooling events to take place globally.
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h/t David DuByne
All of this in what NOAA and NCDC will assure us is the Warmest October on record. More proof that Global Warming heats the air which holds more moisture, causing more snow. The Climate Fearosphere was right, all along.
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Isn’t unusual cold weather what always happens when the IPCC predict global warming……….maybe thats the plan after they noticed the correlation – keep predicting a rapid damaging rise in global temperatures and it slows down.
Eric Worrall
re the UK Telegraph article about global warming causing severe winters.
As you can see they are arguing in circles . First they said that global warming would cause warmer winters . When that failed to happen they reversed themselves and said global warming causes colder winters . But there has been no global warming for 17-18 years,yet the winters are still getting colder . As you can see, they know absolutely nothing about climate nor what causes colder winters.
Natural global climate cycles predict colder weather generally for the next 30 years , so some very cold winters and early winters should come as no surprise to anyone .. United States went through similar colder periods 1890-1920 and again 1955-1980. Global warming was not the cause then nor is it today
But of course the science is still settled.
I live in the south, and I’m telling you this was a massive story here. Columbia SC rarely gets snow ever. A suburb to the north recorded 6″ of snow on Nov 1st, smashing the record for earliest snow and largest Nov snow on record. This was every bit as big a deal as Snowmageddon a few years ago.
I grew up in South Carolina (Charleston) and remember, back in the late 70s, a freak snowstorm, maybe 5 – 8″ of snow. As MattN says, it was (and is today) a BIG deal. To kids in the south, skiing always requires a boat… 😉
All I can say is thank goodness this happened. What with all the “run away warming”, we need these extreme cold snaps to keep up from burning up in some fresh, new, fiery hell.
/sarc off.
And just to show that for each and every cold event,, there is an equal and opposite warm event: London absolutely smashed its all time record high temperature for 31st October, being over 23C when the previous record was under 21C.
In the English ‘Midlands’ the Coleshill station recorded a maximum of 20.2 for 1hr only,not sure of a ‘Smashed Record’ for the rest of U.K.
The previous highest for Halloween Day anywhere in the UK was 19.4 C (67 F) at Margate in 1968.
This year, dozens of places were warmer than this, with the highest reading of 23.6 C (74.5 F) at Kew Gardens in London, and also at Gravesend, a little further down the Thames. The record of daily temperature extremes countrywide goes back to the 1870’s so this is quite a dramatic leap for a national daily record in a country with such a dense recording network.
The minimum overnight temperature on 1st November at St. james’s Park in London was 15.8 C (60.4 F), narrowly missing the UK record for the warmest November night (15.9 C at Eastbourne on 3rd November 2005.
A cold front came through thereafter, and so the UK record for November of 21.7 C (71 F), is still safe.
What was the video in the post about? All I see is “This video does not exist.”
John P. Holdren is calling this “yet another wake-up call to the global community that we must act together swiftly and aggressively in order to stem climate change and avoid its worst impacts.”
Oh, wait.
SOLAR ACIVITY … BY THE NUMBERS: During the last two weeks of October, the biggest sunspot in nearly 25 years, AR2192, rotated across the solar disk crackling with strong flares. Spaceweather.com reader Sean Barnes has prepared a summary of the eruptions. There were 26 M-flares, 6 X-flares and, perhaps most astronishly of all, zero Earth-directed CMEs.
November 2:
http://spaceweather.com/
Protons have increased only 1.11. Galactic radiation has decreased.
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/rt_plots/SatEnv.gif
ren the entire sky was filled with “gravity waves” for several hours here today in N. Michigan on the 45th parallel due to protons and electrons that had elevated as your graphic indicates. ACE LE electrons went up as did ACE HE protons at the same time as the GOES data you shown here.
Eventually partly due to your persistence people “might” realize that the solar wind is an important player in our weather and climate system too besides solar irradiance.
Indeed. We were fortunate to have encountered no CMEs when that ‘loaded cannon’ was ‘aimed’ at planet earth.
Perhaps some of the money being tossed to AGW should be diverted to protecting the power grid from a solar episode that equals or supersedes the Carrington event. Wow, by the time we made and installed the shielding devices we would have helped the economy and created jobs! We might also save our species from a near-extinction event.
Astonishing and fortunate, as we learned from the 2012 near-miss. Each CME clears the interplanetary media for it’s successor so if several CME’s had been geoeffective, we might not be blogging right now. We’ll see what activity this region still holds when it rotates around in mid-Nov.
Then there’s the asteroids. Who picked this location, anyway? 😉
Oopa… should have said several VERY LARGE CME’s. Seems to me as an amateur that several ejections from flares followed by the collapse of a massive equatorial magnetic filament would be something to worry about.
Reblogged this on The Next Grand Minimum and commented:
Are we on the cusp of the next Grand Minimum?
As we Americans trudge off to the polls tomorrow, we should keep in mind that the greatest threat to human civilivation is, according to this adminstration, Climate Change. Also note that draconian measures to needlessly reduce carbon “pollution” will be implemented only AFTER the election.
The Adapt 2030 video cited periods of cooling a driver of dynasty change over the past 3500 years. We can only hope.
Thanks for the reminder, Paul. To all in the US – do you want to see more government-funded climate alarmism??? PLEASE – PLEASE, vote like you mean it tomorrow! This may be last chance we have to stop the madness. Thanks in advance.
Mods, thought the previous reply had disappeared but not so. So please remove the duplicate.
Thanks &sorry ’bout that.
Did the folks in SC get the irony of the weather mixed with IPCC policy war games aimed against them?
A reminder, here’s a 200+ year May snow record… http://m.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/arkansas-first-ever-occurrence/11699506
Edward salute Arkansas.
I thought we were supposed to be freaking out about the latest giant sunspot, so we could blame global warming on it. It appears we are just seeing more extreme shifts in temperature in the northern hemisphere due to the melting of arctic sea ice and weakening of the polar vortex:
http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-blogs/climatechange/2014-global-temperatures-in-pe/36472123
Already at a height of about 45 km you will see that over the eastern Siberian isobars to diverge. This shows that the anomalies are associated with the Earth’s magnetic field.
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/strat_a_f/gif_files/gfs_z01_nh_f00.gif
Those are isohypses, lines of equal height, not isobars. Everything on that chart has the same pressure, 1mb, so it’s an isobaric surface.
The heights of isohypses are an indicator of temperature (think of a column of air as a kind of crude thermometer), so we see decreasing temps towards the polar vortex. As expected.
But 1mb is the top of the stratosphere, bordering the mesosphere, which is partially ionized during the day. It’s not weather. Weather happens in the troposphere (1000mb to 200mb).
Troposphere only responds to the polar vortex.
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/blocking/real_time_nh/500gz_anomalies_nh.gif
ren
I think it would be more accurate to say that the troposphere responds to every force that drives the weather, given the laws of motion and thermodynamics, and the conservation of energy and mass. No other layer of the atmosphere can compete with this driver.
Who blamed GW on sunspots? Sunspots block upwelling solar radiation, so they’re actually cooler than the surrounding photosphere. In any case there is only a 0.1% variance in total solar irradiance (TSI) due to sunspot activity. Not enough to have significant effect on GW, IMHO.
The polar vortex is permanent low-pressure area residing over the poles (very cold up there, right?), which occasionally meanders into the mid-latitudes because of Rossby oscillations in the polar jet. So if the polar vortices become less intense, then how does that make things relatively colder in the mid-latitudes?
Jet streams at the border of the vortex restrict most cold air from the Arctic Circle (polar night). When the vortex is displaced air from the Arctic Circle gets to the south. The offset is caused by an obstacle in the form of excess ozone (changes in temperature gradient) on the edge of the vortex.
At a height of 5 hPa (about 35 km) you can see it better.
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/strat_a_f/gif_files/gfs_z05_nh_f00.gif
Are you sure Johanus?
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/strat-trop/gif_files/time_pres_WAVE1_MEAN_JFM_NH_2014.gif
One week before the record first snowfall in Columbia SC, on Sunday Oct 26th, it was 87degF. The historical average high for that day is 73degF.
So just seven days before the record snow, and for the next three days the temperature stayed over 10degF above the historical average.
Then it dropped in just one day to 10degF below the historial average low and snowed.
http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/columbia-sc/29201/october-weather/330679?monyr=10/1/2014
It would be alarmist to claim such an extreme change was an indication of global cooling of the climate. The most that can be observed is that this is weather that is much more variable than historical records indicate is the norm..
The cause is open to dispute.
When I first learned about aviation weather, the instructor said a standard day is 59F and atmosphere pressure is 29.92in/Hg the next thing he says is it rarely is a standard day.
10 degrees above average, so what? that only neans there are an equal number of 10 degrees lower days.
Averages and records are two different things.
. Stop obfuscating.
I wager (a lot) that a 20-degree swing in daily high in “just one day” in S.C. is not only not unprecedented, it’s not even uncommon.
Weather is not climate unless consensus science needs weather to create consensus.
NOAA couldn’t see this two weeks ago?
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/90day/fxus05.html
The joke of course is the CPC and their 6 – 10 day and 8-14 day forecast products centered on 2 November 2014.
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/archives/short_range/2014/10/23/814temp.20141023.fcst.gif
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/archives/short_range/2014/10/23/814prcp.20141023.fcst.gif
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/archives/short_range/2014/10/25/610temp.20141025.fcst.gif
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/archives/short_range/2014/10/25/610prcp.20141025.fcst.gif
@Izen:
Um “much more variable than historical records”? No. The historical records show that the weather has been abnormally placid the last 30 years or so. Look back to the historical records of the founding of the USA and there is a lot more variation of weather compared to recently. Very warm winters. Very frozen winters. “Year without a summer”. Scorching hot summers. Hurricanes that make “absolutely normal storm Sandy” look like a pipsqueek hitting the same New York / New Jersey coastal areas.
No, not as ‘instrumented’ as today, but cerntainly very good historical records.
So, IMHO, what this is showing is that times of high solar activity are times of mild warming and a placid weather environment (with more tornadic wind events but less snow); while times of low solar activity are times of mild cooling and wilder weather events (i.e. more ‘mobile polar lows’ with less tornadoes). In the first case, a relatively cool lagging ocean temperature moderates weather. In the second case, a relatively warmer ocean is driving a lot more heat out to space with much more cyclonic activity and ‘loopy jet stream’.
Once the ocean cools to equilibrium with the new lower solar state, things ought to settle down some again. Oh, and UV heating of the upper atmosphere makes it puffier and we have more mild weather. Right now the atmospheric height has shortened (see Nasa reports) and that concentrates the heat transport vertically. Also, and this is speculation on my part, looks like it involves more turbulent air and more cyclonic air flow activity.
But none of that is “abnormal”. It is just like it was long before most of us were ever around to see it.
Reading that, it isn’t as clear as I’d like… My speculation is that during high solar activity events, the mobile polar lows and polar air masses are less, but large cyclonic activity picks up to move the heat. So more tornadoes and hurricanes, but less snow and frozen air masses (and the rapid transistion when one runs over you…) During low solar activity events, the reverse: BIG arctic air masses traveling further and making more frontal activity weather and snow. But fewer hurricanes and tornadoes. Warm cycles have more cyclonic activity movine hot air up. Cold cycles have more polar air masses moving cold air out / down. Thus different weather effects. In any case, it’s all in the bounds of recorded historical events.
November 1 broke highest November temperature record in the netherlands. 17.4 degrees C.
This does not mean that in Europe will be very warm winter.
It was caused by a ‘Spanish Plume’, Google it.
Reblogged this on Public Secrets and commented:
Global warming — there is nothing it cannot do, including making it snow earlier than it has for 134 years.
The climatic significance of one-day temperature records in a densely populated region such as the Netherlands is virtually nil. And the same applies to snowfall records in the Atlantic seaboard of the USA. Let’s not go overboard with impressions based upon highly variable weather events.
Of course, everyone knows that weather is NOT climate — except the alarmists. And THAT, my friend, is the big problem.
I agree. There’s not too much significance to them, but it’s interesting to hear about national extremes being broken. At least it’s more informative than some comments such as “my tomato plants are late than usual this year”…..
GotToKnow
November 3, 2014 at 6:59 am
“Are snow tires better in snow than 4-wheel drive/all wheel drive??”
I would say yes, because 4wd does not help you stop or turn. Snow tires do. 4wd only helps forward traction in low grip situations.
approx 9-10 inches here in central MAine 11-2 with lot of drifts. my crown vic had a drift sticking off the SIDE of it just under 3feet thick. Heavy wet stuff too, blocks in back with good snow tires I got stuck in driveway after moving 6 feet.
the escape (AWD) with all seasons went thru it fine
was w/o power and on generator for 27 hours.
I’m not sure what you U.S. guys are doing wrong. Yesterday my wife sat in shorts in the garden. The October was one of the hottest on record in Germany. And we had no real winter.
Possibly it is the faith we Germans have in the Energie-Wende and in the energy prices double high as in the US? Or is it the fact that we have increased CO2 output the last two years, and the U:S. have decreased It?
To be fair: Our summer was below average, winter and annual temperature have a clear downward trend the last 20 years and the amount of snow in the alps have increased during that time.
So our hot autumn is just weather. But is early snowfall in the U.S. climate?
Don’t like the weather? Just wait. Let’s talk about *this* winter in Germany in, oh, say, six months.