[on Jan 1, 2015] “In Rome, arctic-inspired winds brought temperatures as low as minus eight degrees Celsius,” says this video by David DuByne. “Palermo woke up under a white blanket,”Dozens of cars are trapped in snows towards Tripoli.”
Meanwhile in Norway, they had to remove snow from below the chairlifts because there was too much snow. One worker said they’ve had more snow in the past two days than they’ve had in the last two years combined.
“These are the same conditions that were experienced during the Dalton and Maunder Minimums,” says David.
In Rome, arctic-inspired winds brought temperatures as low as minus eight degrees Celsius. Palermo woke up under a white blanket. Dozens of cars are trapped in snows towards Tripoli.
Documentary of what Happened during the Little Ice Age 1600-1850’S https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzvyT…
Italy Snows
http://www.euronews.com/2014/12/31/bl…
Southern Italy is experiencing unusually wintry weather. In Rome, arctic-inspired winds brought temperatures as low as minus eight degrees Celsius. For the first time in almost 20 years, cities such as Palermo woke up under a white blanket. It even reached as far as Sardinia.
Greek Snows
Experts estimate that the cold will continue until the New Year, and snow is expected even in coastal areas. Due to the intense snowfall in many parts of the country, the use of snow chains has become necessary in many places.
Reportedly, dozens of cars are trapped for the last 2.5 hours near the tunnel of Artemisium, in the direction towards Tripoli, due to the snow.
http://en.protothema.gr/dozens-of-car…
Romania Snows
Heavy snowfalls and blizzard affected 18 counties in Southern and South Eastern Romania. Many national roads and three highways were closed while large numbers of villages were left without electricity.
Romania issued a code red blizzard warning for three counties as the country was hit by thick snow and high winds on Monday (December 29). Thirty-three passengers on one bus journeying between the Moldovian capital Chisinau and Romania’s Bucharest had to be rescued by emergency services when the vehicle tipped over as visibility neared zero in Buzau.
http://www.euronews.com/2014/01/25/sn…
Turkey Snowfalls
The heavy snowfall is expected to cause major disruption in Bilecik city and the surrounding area, Sakarya, Kocaeli, Bursa, Eskişehir in Marmara region; Çankırı in the Central Anatolia region; Rize and Artvin in the Black Sea region; Bitlis, Şırnak, Mardin, Batman, and Siirt in the Southeastern Anatolia region.
http://www.dailysabah.com/nation/2014…
Norway Removes excessive snows from slopes
20 Dec 2014 – “During the last two days we’ve got more snow than we had in the last two years together,” says a victorious Vegar Sårheim. “I had never believed we would experience this.”
We have received about 1.5 meters of snow in a short period of time. And the forecast until Christmas is that there will come much more. So once we have cleared away this snow, we will face a fantastic Christmas.
http://www.firda.no/Dette_skisenteret…
Ukraine 7 Russian Snows Dec 18-30
Cold weather has killed 37 people in Ukraine so far this month as temperatures reached minus 23 Celsius in parts of the former Soviet republic. Night temperatures are expected to drop to -28C in northern, central and eastern Ukraine this week. The cold snap followed heavy snowfall which left some areas covered with as much as 53 cm (21 inches) of snow. Cars were blocked for 18 kilometres (11 miles) overnight on Saturday on the main road between the capital Kiev and Lviv, officials said.
Blizzards near the western Ukrainian city of Brody
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pictu…
http://www.reuters.com/video/2014/12/…
http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/cae69…
http://www.euronews.com/tag/snowfall/
http://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=2244834
h/t to David at http://iceagenow.info
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RSS numbers are out for Dec.
2014 ties with 2007 for only the 6th warmest year
http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2015/01/03/rss-data-rubbishes-hottest-year-claims/
In in the mountains in NE Victoria at the moment (not far from Ms HotWhopper actually) One if the worst bushfire areas in the world. The local (Murdoch) papers are calling it the worst bushfire CONDITIONS in 30 years, not the worst fires. 2007 and 2009 were unbelievably bad bushfire years. 1983 was horrendous as well. All had areas burned measured in the millions of acres. The current fires are hundreds of miles away and they are minor in comparison although the conditions get worse through to late Feb. Conditions are a product of good growth of forests over a few years, increasing fuel load – living trees and shrubs, ground litter & dead trees and lack of controlled burn off in populous areas. Combine that with hot dry north winds off the arid interior and there are your conditions. It’s normal cycle of events here. Hope the conditions don’t turn into bad fires causing loss of life & property. Its sensationism by news Ltd, per normal tabloid stuff. Neither news ltd nor fairfax (local CAGW flag wavers) have used the Global Warming boogeyman yet. Most fires here are deliberately caused by numbskulls, accidentally caused by numbskulls and some by lightning.
“A WOMAN has been charged over 40 deliberately-lit fires in Victoria’s north. ARSON squad detectives arrested a 49-year-old Tatura woman after emergency crews were called to a grass fire in Tatura, near Shepparton, about 3.20am on Friday …” news.com.au Jan 02, 2015.
http://www.news.com.au/national/breaking-news/woman-charged-over-vic-fires/story-e6frfku9-1227173012881
I have not seen this covered in news outlets yet, however, I suspect even though she is charged with 41 fire related offenses, she will be let off with a warning! Of course, she should be locked up, like any other dangerous person.
Every time someone says the white stuff I think of Hollywood.
This is easy to figure out
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It’s all science.
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Water has to release heat to form snowflakes.
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Where does that heat go?
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It goes in the air = global warming.
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Proof that snow causes global warming.
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Then people go outside and shovel that snow, which is hard work, so they sweat and release heat and CO2 from their bodies = more global warming.
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Proof that shoveling snow causes global warming.
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Those who curse the snow while shoveling it release even more heat, and even more carbon dioxide.
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More carbon dioxide = more global warming.
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Proof that cursing accelerates global warming.
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All this took a lot of thinking, and now my brain is overheated = even more global warming.
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Proof that thinking about the climate causes global warming.
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I’m driving to my doctor for more tranquilizers .. oops, driving releases more CO2 = more warming.
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It seems that everything causes global warming.
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We’re all doomed.
Has the Pope acquired the ‘algore’ effect? We’ll need a few more data points in the ‘go forward’….but he’s off to a good start! Here’s a recent papal decree:
Pope Francis Turning Focus to Climate Change
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/global-warming-pope-climate-change-encyclical/2014/12/29/id/615307/
a skeptic? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/11323131/Holy-smoke-and-mirrors-over-the-Pope-and-that-climate-treaty.html
They both have been canonized as a “Pope” by their respective adherents.
Why not? Two churches are stronger than one.
Must be a best of 1900 post. Everyone knows snow is a thing of the past.
So the Pope has joined Obama and his administration to control all with climate change. Makes one feel warm and toasty inside while freezing outside. There is hope for change, but not soon enough to save us from these dictatorial heads of state and religion.
Hitler had his Pope too, Pius XII.
David Socrates (Jan3 11.26 am ) has contributed a chart of anomalies of NH snow cover (Rutgers Univ) up to 1997 , based on a 1972 -1976 base period. He suggests that this contradicts conclusions that might be drawn from dbstealey’s chart posted immediately before , conclusions that indicate a slight increase in snow cover in recent years .
I did a quick calculation of a 1972-96 mean from dbstealey’s chart : 45.3 million sq km and then measured the anomalies for several years covered by the Rutgers chart and later tears (1997- 2013 ) not given in the chart supplied by DS .(Hope this makes sense).
Year Anomaly ( units of million sqkm)
1989 – 1.6
1990 – 0.8
1992 – 1.0
1994 + 0.8
1996 0.0
1997 – 0.6
2003 + 2.0
2007 -1.0
2010 + 2.65
2013 + 2.4
So it looks as if the 90s were a period of negative anomaly , as indicated in the Rutgers chart , but that the last 10 or 15 years have seen a move to positive anomaly.
It would be interesting to know if Rutgers have updated their chart to include the last 18 years.
My estimates are obviously quick and amateurish , but I wanted to correct, or at least question, the impression that might have been given that DS’s posting of the Rutgers chart contradicts dbstealey’s suggestion of a return to ” normal” snow conditions in recent years. I think that both are correct , but are not really talking about the same time period. So onus, perhaps, is on Rutgers to update their info.
Actually I was wrong to imply both approaches are valid .The Socratic method of using a running base mean will tend to hide any ongoing increase in snow cover , as the base mean increases, if Rutgers update using the same methods.. The absolute data from dbstealey is more visually informative.
You forgot to notice that dbstealey’s chart only covered three months out of the year. The charts I provided show the data for all 12 months.
Here in Melbourne, Australia, we are having a very mild summer and it has been driving the hand-wringing, warmist Age newspaper and our snout-firmly-in-AGW-funding-trough Bureau of Meteorology mad. Finally, we just had two (a whole two!) hot days on the 2nd and 3rd of January. BOM forecast 39c for 2/1/15, we briefly got 38c. Not deterred BOM forecast 41c for 3/1/15. The Age went into overdrive and even included a cheeky front page text box telling everyone to “get ready for 43c” in large bold typeface…We got 37c.
Today, 4/1/15, we are back to mild, wet low-20’s weather. But I don’t think this will stop BOM & the Age from giving us IT’S GOING TO BE THE HOTTEST JANUARY EVAH! And if it isn’t, we all know they will give us “climate disruption” instead. Two sides of the same old broken record. When will they give it a rest?
Pope comes out in favour of Global Warming.
Next week temperatures in Rome drop to -8˚C.
Is ‘someone’ trying to tell him something?
Charles Nelson; I think the articles say that the Pope is planning on making said statement. Which of course brings us to the proverb; “do you want to make God laugh? Tell Him your plans”
michael
Divine intervention.
Tripoli isn’t on the coast, it’s at some distance, at an elevation of 650 metres (over 2,000 feet). Snow wouldn’t be quite as unusual as on the actual coast of the southern Pelopponese. Snow in Norway, snow in the mountains, it’s not necessarily a new Ice Age.
Hawaii is cold this week. Very cold. 59 at sea level. And before you laugh remember that the temperature in our houses are the same as outside. Luckily , in spite of county efforts to make them illegal, we have a fireplace. A real one. Built during cold period of the last Pacific Multidecadal Cycle. Its back.
Well at least you can escape the cold in Arizona…
http://www.news.com.au/travel/world-travel/us-grand-canyon-turned-into-winter-wonderland-thanks-to-large-snowfall/story-e6frfqc9-1227173717658
…or maybe not.
Oh, and it’s not just Europe. We got snow south of Los Angeles in the high desert area of Temecula. It didn’t stick around for long, but it’s pretty rare. Look closely and you may see some solar panels under snow… http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-southern-california-snow-20141231-htmlstory.html
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Much more global warming, and the entire Mediterranean might freeze over.
A few years ago the monte carlo simulations, projections, predictions (best descriptor unknown to me) were cited to describe Earth’s atmosphere (weather and/or climate) when the average global temperature had risen by several Celsius degrees. Has that happened? Was this temperature supposed to show up before 2015? Or was it out around 2070 or beyond.
Many of the positions taken by the commenters above seem to be based on the assumption that there has been a significant temperature increase, expected 50 to 75 years from now, having taken place prior to 2015.
In the many charts (temperature, ice, snow, storms, and so on) presented I see quite a lot of variability and consistency in that variability. I do not see a 3 or 4 K rise in temperature. Did I miss it?
Someone mentioned that all this arguing is like trying to determine how many angels can dance on the head of a pin when proof of angels is still lacking.
I do think some of the maps and charts are interesting, one being
Ice on the Great Lakes, January 3
I live in northern french alps, very few snow here and the worst begin for a winter season since 88/89. All low elevation resorts are closed or only partially opened thanks to very very hard daily work, and still no snow scheduled for the coming week, due to returning mild températures…
Just arrived home, driving Innsbruck in Austria to Kassel in Germany ( 644 km ) 22 hours a trip that normally takes 4-6 hours ( Depending on the traffic) for those that don’t know, there is no speed limit on the German Autobahn , snow and more snow, also the end of holiday traffic helped, with campers and trailers and drivers that come out once a year.
Nothing says warming like cooling. ☺
Unusual temperature distribution at a height about 27 km above the Arctic Circle.
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/strat_a_f/gif_files/gfs_t10_nh_f00.gif
There will also be an attack of winter in Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
Snow in Malta that same day most unusual
Has anyone checked the orbit around the sun? There have been 15 ice ages in the last 2 million years. With interstadials or interglacials lasting around 10-15 k years. They have put down the apparent regularity of ice ages and warmer periods, some warmer than now to the orbit. There’s bugger all we can do to change that. Not all the globe was affected by ice or glaciers, the southern hemisphere other than the higher altitudes missed most in comparison to the Northern hemisphere. Welcome an increase of 2 C folks, at least we get rain, better than blizzards and never ending winters.
Let’s see – January will be colder (than usual for this month) across much of North America (especially Central and Eastern regions, down to northern Mexico). Calgary is pretty cold and snowy too. Absolutely no sign of global warming – we could really use some.
Europe and Russia are also expected to be much colder than usual in January, Not only that, but Russia only won Silver in the World Junior Hockey Championships, barely losing the Gold Medal game 5-4 to…(wait for it…) Canada! A very good game – in fairness I’d say both teams won.
Today is Russian (Orthodox) Christmas, so kindly call or email all your Russian friends and wish them a Merry Christmas. I emailed my friend and former interpreter Nikolai the Great early this morning (this time of year I call him Saint Nik). God bless us every one.
Best, Allan
Correction: Yesterday was Russian Christmas Eve, today is Orthodox Christmas.
So Merry Christmas! С Рождеством!
It is -52C in Igarka.
достаточно холодно, чтобы заморозить гайки от локомотивом!
[Cold enough to freeze the nuts off a locomotive!]