Via weather.com and NOAA:
Several inches of snow are possible in parts of the Cascades and northern Rockies starting this weekend. Snow levels could fall to as low as 5,000 feet by Sunday. Campers in this region should prepare for cold temperatures. Snow is in the forecast starting this second weekend of June in the higher elevations of the mountain West, as an unseasonably cold air mass infiltrates the northwestern United States. The cold air will build in beneath a strong southward dip in the jet stream, or upper-level trough, that will develop this weekend as a result of a weather pattern flip.
National Weather Service Sacramento CA
1039 PM PDT Sat Jun 10 2017
…Late Season Snow Over Northern Sierra and Lassen Park This Weekend…
.A cool weather system will bring late season snow to the mountains of northern California this weekend. Snow levels are expected to drop to near 5000 feet late tonight into Sunday. Although snow levels could be locally lower, the main snow
accumulations are expected above 5500 feet. There could be around 5-10 inches of snow across Lassen Park with 1-4 inches possible over the Sierra. Motorists traveling across the Sierra on Sunday should be prepared for winter driving conditions.
While this is not unprecedented, the last time I can remember having winter weather and snow in the Sierra Nevada was right after Mt. Pinatubo filled the atmosphere with particulates, and caused global cooling.
Over in Nova Scotia, unusually thick pack ice is trapping ships 🚢 and preventing their rescue by ice breakers.
http://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/mobile/thick-arctic-ice-pack-traps-boats-triggers-rescue-operation-off-newfoundland-1.3448987#
In the second last paragraph they talk about a polar bear carcass washed ashore.
Apparently thick ice threatens them. Just like thin sea ice also threatens them. So both too little and too much sea ice is bad for this species. Poor old poleys – they must be living on a knife edge.
Try Newfoundland’Labrador. No pack ice problems off Nova Scotia.
Hudson Bay has been running a minus temp for 3 days now, while Baffin Bay area and waters to the south were running minus temps since early May. I would think that explains in part why Greenland is still running a huge above average SMB. I am certainly curious as to how that 140 Gt is going to behave during the Greenland melt season which is now at hand. I can not help but think that we are witnessing a pivotal point in the longer term trend with the many signs nature is giving over the last 5 or 6 years.
Hudson Bay temps, …https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/primary/waves/overlay=sea_surface_temp/orthographic=-69.33,47.66,497/loc=-85.962,59.584
Talking of snow.
Large parts of northern Russia have been having below average temps for a month or more. Which has allowed the snow cover extent in Eurasia to be running above average over this time. lt would be interesting to find out if this extended snow cover is a factor, which has kept this area of Russia cooler then average over this time.
Come to sunny South Australia:
Surprisingly, this was not caused by the all-powerful CO2 god:
High pressure usually means light winds, cold usually means increased consumption of electricity. How are the windmills coping?
The windmills are raking in the subsidies no problem there.
Because this doesn’t fit the narrative of global warming/climate change, it must be described as “unusual weather.”
And “unusual weather” is projected to occur more often due to global warming/climate change.
Therefore this fits the narrative of global warming/climate change.
Go to this site
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/extremes/cei/graph
and check extreme weather trends for yourself. The “Without Tropical Cyclone Indicator” looked like a cherry pick red flag to me, so I selected “With Tropical Cyclone Indicator”, and got a slight, insignificant NEGATIVE trend in extreme weather.
Our wonderful CBC radio grabs everything possible to promote the global warming story, For the past long while they’ve been going on about the great warmth affecting the Arctic and region, Today the story was that climate change has caused alders and willows to grow farther north than usual and that beavers are now damming streams / rivers with the effect of making fishing much more difficult. Who can tell me the truth of what is really happening in the north of Canada?
Ian
Dress warm.
Bring good rain gear.
Don’t be surprised if it snows.
What mosquitos? Their mosquitos are rated by liters per hour.
Fishing is terrific.
Waterfowl hunting is the best in a century.
Don’t feed the bears.
Basically, the same North Canada forecast as the last fifty years; except the waterfowl hunting really is good.
Ian
Quite right. The bias in the report was palpable. They omitted to mention that there are already alders and willows growing as far north as Tuktoyuktuk 100 km north of Inuvik. They are just stunted by the cold. The cold froze out the beavers but now it is warming as before.
They also neglected to mention that all that vegetation frozen in the permafrost that is going to melt and make methane, grew right where it is presently entombed in ice.
There were no frogs in the high Arctic. A leopard frog showed up at the foot of my sister’s garden and croaked alone through three summers. A sign it is livable again. With warmth, life returns to the Arctic. As before, and as it will again.
Heck. When I lived in Leadville Co back in the 70’s it on the 4th of July one year.
During the Oroville Dam “crisis” part of the concern was that the High Sierras had 200% of the normal snow coverage. That in “the hottest year on record”. Passing strange.
Hanrahan:
Indeed. Purest fraud.
Unless it snows in the mega city heat islands, it will not be noticed by the politically correct and impaired lemmings.
San Francisco Bay Area, 6pm Sunday had a nice rain fall. A small system passed over head. Heading East.
In my job in Virginia I often drove through storms but learned to abhor being snow bound crossing the Sierra into California.
I wrote a comment this morning and no one questions or opposes what I wrote. All I’ve seen is comments of people’s local weather or places they’ve been. With very little insight to why these weather patterns have changed. What was called Winter months for the Northern Hemisphere have moved into the Spring months with later Summer and Fall months over the last several years. When you look at the past with the warming and cooling paterns lasting a few hundred year’s each and how long it took to reach their peaks before the next change, we really know nothing about why those occurred, when our science only goes back a few hundred year’s of observations. We have the hypothesis of Solar Cycles that can be seen in flora and fauna changes. We have seen the Magnetic Poles move since their discoveries. We have equipment in space to monitor all kinds of changes to Earth and other planets and the Sun. And still it’s all just guesses by scientists for the majority of what is going on. You can take any single data group and form a theory by what it says. But if it’s not correlated with all the other data from other studies we have nothing to really understand what is going on. The cause and effect that creates other causes and effects… With millions of pieces the complexity of the puzzle is forever changing. Yet the main drivers of our climate changes are not on top of Earths surface or it’s atmosphere. It starts with the Sun and our Solar System that drives our Magnetic Core that creates our magnetosphere and Atmosphere. Change one of those ever so slightly and it changes our climate.
As I wrote earlier and will elaborate them There was a Solar Geomagnetic Reversal 12/29/2013 the position of the Earth in it’s orbit when these occur changes our orbit do to how close or far away Earth is from the Sun. The Earth has been in a positive celestial north for so long it’s as if it’s now fixed. Take 2 magnets and one represents the Sun and the other our Earth. At a distance the effect is slight. Move them closer and you get an attraction or a repulsion. The planets and the Sun are in a magetic chain that shift billions of miles that are like fractions on the solar system scale. But those fractions are enough to change the Solar Radiation that passes through our atmosphere. I told about the widening of the Trench by 18 feet that moved Japan by 8 feet and changed the Axis of the North Pole by several degrees to as much as 10 degrees…that creates more Wobble because the South Pole didn’t change. The Magnetosphere protects us from some of the Solar Radiation and yet the Magnetic Poles have been moving faster in the last decade than anytime since they were discovered. Our Atmosphere follows the Magnetosphere and now the Axis Pole and those Magnetic Poles are now farther apart than at anytime since they were discovered. By those observations the Equator is wobbling more with the tilt of the new Axis. The Atmosphere is now following the new Magnetosphere farther away from true north and south axis. If you visualize the outer Atmosphere has an Equator it has now tilted with these changes over the past decade. The topography of Earth has changed with the movement of Japan and that of the mountains after the earthquake in the Alps and Himalayas after the tsunami that started in the India Trench that moved those plates. The Atmospheres Jet Streams changed with these changes because the widening of the trenches didn’t create as much subduction or orogeny to compensate for their growth. And as the air travels over the new topography it effects our weather and therefore our climate. Previous patterns were more westerly, that are now more easterly like when the Little Ice Age occurred to only effect the eastern America’s the Atlantic and Europe with it’s harshest weather during the Revolutionary War…Again after a Solar Minimum and Solar Magnetic Reversal. Does anyone have data that shows where the Magnetic Poles were during that time frame?
[Please check the accuracy of the effect of the Japanese earthquake shift on axis shift: The measurable shift was much less than “tenths of one degree” .mod]
Moderator
It was 2011 when I read about it in a CNN article and I assume I changed 10 centimeters to degrees from years of not really thinking about it. The NASA site says 17 centimeters. Thanks for the heads up correction. i don’t do this as a profession, it’s more a personal education/hobby since my early teens 1970s when all this AGW was AGC and progressed to CC now.
https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/japanquake/earth20110314.html
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/12/japan.earthquake.tsunami.earth/index.html
“should prepare for cold temperatures”
Temperatures are not cold, they are low–in this case. Cold is an informal measurement of the temperature, as are “quite cold”, “very cold”, “damn cold’, and “really really cold”. Marks on a thermometer are precise measures of temperature. Air is cold; temperatures are low.
I remember getting snowed on in June in the Rockies back in the 1970’s.
We’ve lived in Redding for 12 years and this is absolutely the latest date that any snow has still been on the Klamath summits. Still a touch on Bully Choop (almost 7,000′) and Shasta Bally (6,200’+) on the west side of town at Whiskeytown N.R.A. Mt. Shasta to the north is spectacular with all it’s snow. Gorgeous up at the Bunny Flat parking area. Lots of snow on the north sides of the Yolla Bolly coast ranges too. Much snow in the Trinity Alps.
Just what you’d expect with global warming!
It was snowing when I visited Glacier International in mid-July some years back. It’s just the prevailing weather pattern at that latitude and elevation, with the winds coming off the northern Pacific.
Locally it snowed here near Twain Harte, Ca. at about 4000′ but didn’t stick. Had some nice thunderstorms and rain roll through yesterday evening.
This morning at 6 it was cloudy and 40. Pretty unusual. 90’s by Friday, though.
NWS predicting near record temps next Monday for the Central Valley.
Back in I think it was the first week of June 2011, I was about 3000 feet up in the foothills of the San Bernadino Mountains in Southern California, and we got hit with a freak snow shower. It was magical as I was at a camp with about 150 kids from South Central L.A. who had never seen snow before.
Why did you show them snow? Al Gore’s snow predictions would have been just a wee bit correct if we kept the urbanites sequestered.
In Canada, the ever alarmist CBC is using scare tactics to justify the great climate scam. It is probably one of their way to support the freshly minted political king maker former self-declared climatologist Andrew Weaver. The deadline is not 2100 but now 2050. be afraid, be very afraid… and pass the money.
For instance, their latest http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/climate-change-in-b-c-here-s-how-2050-could-look-1.4146580 is showing how spending billions now to mitigate a climate model’s fantasy predictions will save us tens of billions later compared to the do nothing scenario… Imagine a dentist advocating you pull all your teeth now to get some revolutionary denture contraption supposed to save you dental expenses 30 years from now… Snake oil.
CBC’s Vancouver based meteorologist Johanna Wagstaffe is quoting some ad-hoc report that includes among other wide ranging claims, one about the sea level rise that reaches new depth of deception: they claim sea level is supposed to rise 30 cm in the next 30 years around the city of Vancouver, prompting all sort of expenses and restrictions on the population.
She is giving credence to a potential rate rise of 1 cm per year… While tide gauges show sea level in Vancouver to be 0.45 mm/y +/- 0.22mm over the past 100 years or so!
http://sealevel.info/MSL_graph.php?id=822-071
Beyond the complicit agitprop journalist, it is really sad to see a good Earth Sciences scientist like John Clague switch from advocating proper monitoring and research on Southern British Columbia seismic faults to become a propagandist of the climate craze. Clague must know that the only way a one foot sea level rise will occur in the next 30 years is through a major earthquake that will have nothing to do with CO2 emissions…
Sunny Ways, my friends, sunny ways… Shame indeed.
We live just north of Sparks, NV. I don’t know how to post pictures, but we had over 2 inches on the ground. We just moved here from So Cal, so it was a treat, even if it is 12 June 2017. Wondering what winter will be like….
We’re at 5700 ft altitude.
A week from now, the forecasted high is 95° F. Just in time for summer!
Yosemite River rescuer from Oz warns of real threat from “climate change”, ie high water levels from melt of record snow in the Sierras:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/drowning-fears-rivers-surge-snowmelt-051714030.html
Last night, NBC news reported on the “heat wave” in the East. (People are wimpier now because the current heat wave definition is very much cooler than I remember.) They labelled the west “Cool”. No mention of snow, nothing. Dishonesty is so prevelant it’s difficult to watch any news.
A friend who leans progressive once used the retort “facts are facts” and I replied that withholding some facts and hyping others is technically known as propaganda.
Reminds me of late Spring ’76 … the same year we’d had sea level snow here in the Bay Area Feb. We were freezing the last day of school. High was something like 55 F.
The jet stream will now move to Europe.
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/strat_a_f/gif_files/gfs_z100_nh_f48.png
“Bathtub slosh”?
In 8 days it will be very hot in the west and cooler in the east. Snow in the mountains can quickly melt.
Eight day forecast for where I live in the Intermountain West is for a pleasant high of 83 degrees F. Pretty typical late June WX. But we’ve had unseasonal hail, snow and cold fronts.
35° this am at 6600ft in the west central Rockies of Colorado.