Sultry arctic air has pushed out the indigenous cold air, which is now fleeing to the south. Peoples of the northern hemisphere: will you not open your hearts to welcome the arctic air climate refugee??!!
Living in the snow belt south of lake Erie for most of my life I was used to not seeing the grass all winter. Have lived in Wyoming for the past 21 years and last year was the first time we did not see the grass all winter here. This year may be a repeat. By the way, folks who have lived here much longer have to go back to the 80’s to recall similar circumstances.
Like the old “Hands a cross America” stunt.
Hands a cross the Arctic.
N. Oreskes, M. Mann, J. Wishart, J. Cook, S. Lewandowsky can stand at the pole. Shoot, it might even make Jock happy to finally reach the North Pole.
TomBR
December 28, 2017 7:51 am
Griff’s deluded and il-informed comments are always good for a chuckle or two….but this one was a classic: Time magazine as a cited source….which included material from the Washington Post for support ???
Really?
Stunning research there Griff. Big-time deep stuff.
Next time, why not go all out and give us something from McPaper (USA Today) as your support citation. Throw in a paragraph from AP’s Seth Borenstein to totally impress us.
I’ll remember that, “McPaper” to go along with McJobs.
Russ R.
December 28, 2017 8:29 am
Blame Russia! Siberia is the cradle of cold air masses that are created by lack of sunlight, distance from heat distributing ocean currents, and low humidity which is the real GHG. This allows clear cold nights to efficiently radiate any warmth to space. Those cold air masses move slowly because of the extreme density of the air. But they eventually move and bump into the low pressure coming off the Gulf of Alaska, which pushes it North skirting most of Alaska. It now dives South into the Rockies and Midwest.
A perfect re-enactment of the weather patterns that created the great glaciers, of the periodic ice ages that will be our great climate challenge when one returns at some future point. The midwest is covered with glacial ridges from the forming and retreating of these great behemoths of the past.
So not climate change. Normal weather patterns that have challenged the northern hemisphere for millennia.
We only think it is unusual because we see less of these patterns during warm periods. When enough snow and ice builds up on the land areas of Siberia and Northern Canada, it becomes the dominant pattern for a winter that could extend through most of the year.
Craig Moore
December 28, 2017 8:51 am
http://cmpmontana.com/BigforkWebcam
People are already driving to the Garden Bar infirmary in Bigfork for treatment of their snow snake bites.
J Mac
December 28, 2017 9:25 am
Brrrrrrr!
Put another log on the fire…….
It has warmed up to 40F in the Great NorthWet (Seattle/Tacoma WA) and is raining off the beautiful 4″ of snow that fell on Christmas eve. Ugh!
I told you guys :
on average we already started globally cooling,
since about 20 years ago
looking at minima it is not much, but it is beginning to add up now
(by my count ca. -0.01K per annum since 2000)
I have some interesting results from Anchorage. Let me know if anyone is interested to see them.
henryp ==> I wrote a piece about Alaskan climate some time ago here. If your data is “comment short” put it here or else email it to me at my first name at i4 decimal net.
American friends, while you are sitting buried under mountains of snow, time to contemplate empting your b-c wallets, unless you’ve done already. Judging by this interactive chart b-c in the near future is on downhill slope (disclosure: have no, had no and do not intend to have any holding)
kip Hansen
…always wanted to ask you?
are you in any way related to the Hansen who started the AGW nonsense?
If yes, how/?
it seems no one is interested in Alaska
but here is a tip
How would you divine (average) the solar polar field strengths from 1973 – 2014?
It’s now called the John Holdren Vortex. It is an event where cold is caused by global warming and the Obama WH waves it off only after being called out by fact checkers on the science. It’s a vortex of pseudoscience that blows over quickly.
lyndon
December 28, 2017 2:31 pm
Surely Canada and other northern countries would encourage global warming
Steve Zell
December 28, 2017 3:46 pm
Whenever some northern area gets a mild winter, alarmists there are quick to blame “global warming” and worry that the Greenland ice cap will melt and flood coastal cities. But a warm spell in winter is usually due to mild air moving northward from the tropics toward the pole, but since the total mass of air over the North Pole is roughly constant, that has to be balanced by a southward movement of cold air at some other longitude.
My sympathies go out to those shivering in brutally cold temperatures east of the Rockies, but here in Salt Lake City it’s sunny and 45 F (about +7 C), heading to 50 F (+10 C) tomorrow, and the nearby ski resorts are complaining about too little snow.
I really don’t mind being able to drive around on dry roads during Christmas week, but I’m not going to “blame” the mild winter (so far) and the wildfires in California on “global warming”. Hopefully the jet stream will flatten out soon, and send a nice January thaw to the Midwest and Northeast. You guys deserve a break!
I think I finally have all this “caGW” stuff figured out.
When Ma’ Gaia gets cold, she puts on her CO2 blanket.
When Ma’ Gaia gets hot, she throws off her CO2 blanket.
(Or puts in a call to Eros…)
The butcher next door in Embarrass, MN, was injured when he backed into his meat grinder. He said it didn’t hurt much, but he got a little behind in his orders.
Jerry Henson
December 28, 2017 6:41 pm
Vukcevic @ur momisugly 8:58 am
The French were simply using Americans to fight their long term enemy
“on the cheap”. Sent a few officers and guns and multiplied their effect
by using our troops to fight their enemy. The effect did help the us Colonials
but only delayed the defeat of the French.
I do appreciate the Historical effect, but it was mainly to insure that we
would continue to ship wheat to France.
The LIA caused very weak cereal crop production, and the French must
have their daily bread.
CJ Fritz
December 28, 2017 7:03 pm
“The end of winter”… I despise that phrase. I am in NE MN “the icebox of the nation” where it is currently -15F outside which is actually a bit warmer than it has been. Christmas day, we were at -30F when I woke in the morning! Not that this is an unusual occurrence, the timing is just a bit early. My solution to this biting cold is to throw more wood in the stove and smile, it’s 74F in my little cabin right now, and I am doing just that! Living in the middle of a forest in this northern climate, I have seen extremes of all sorts, and it has been that way for as long as I can remember. I would predict that barring some gigantic catastrophe such as the eruption of a super-volcano, or nuclear annihilation, that it will stay this way for the foreseeable future regardless of how much doom-saying or hand-wringing the climate change crowd displays. There will always be extreme weather, there is nothing un-natural about it. Find something more important to worry about.
Great website. Long time reader, first time commenter.
Have a happy new year everyone!
CJ ==> Welcome aboard, sir.
Myself, I’ve only recently retired from sailing the Caribbean for the last dozen years while doing humanitarian work there — and settled back into the old family home in the Mid-Hudson Valley of NY State. Had almost forgotten how cold it could be here. Just this afternoon, I had to drive down the road to “rescue” visiting family from Florida who has decided to go for a walk — in single digit temperatures with a strong breeze blowing – wind chill about 10 below.
In the north-east it is deeper low. It can be the cause of strong wind in the east of North America.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/850hPa/overlay=mean_sea_level_pressure/orthographic=-97.74,52.30,684/loc=-73.392,43.655
Sultry arctic air has pushed out the indigenous cold air, which is now fleeing to the south. Peoples of the northern hemisphere: will you not open your hearts to welcome the arctic air climate refugee??!!
“… arctic air climate refugee??!!”
Sounds like it’s time to build a wall. 🙂
Living in the snow belt south of lake Erie for most of my life I was used to not seeing the grass all winter. Have lived in Wyoming for the past 21 years and last year was the first time we did not see the grass all winter here. This year may be a repeat. By the way, folks who have lived here much longer have to go back to the 80’s to recall similar circumstances.
Oe you might like to ski from New Mexico to India….
http://www.natice.noaa.gov/pub/ims/ims_v3/ims_gif/ARCHIVE/NHem/2017/ims2017361.gif
Kip, you can now walk on frozen ground from Dallas to Northern India.
I think a relay would be a really good publicity stunt
BTW, you’d better button up your vest when you reach Ottawa. It was -30C this am with a wind chill of -37C.
GAry ==> Really? Heading north up-and-over? Let’s get some Greenpeas to try it — keep ’em out of our hair for a while….
Give all the greenies a sled and team of dogs. Then send out rescue squads for the dogs.
Like the old “Hands a cross America” stunt.
Hands a cross the Arctic.
N. Oreskes, M. Mann, J. Wishart, J. Cook, S. Lewandowsky can stand at the pole. Shoot, it might even make Jock happy to finally reach the North Pole.
Griff’s deluded and il-informed comments are always good for a chuckle or two….but this one was a classic: Time magazine as a cited source….which included material from the Washington Post for support ???
Really?
Stunning research there Griff. Big-time deep stuff.
Next time, why not go all out and give us something from McPaper (USA Today) as your support citation. Throw in a paragraph from AP’s Seth Borenstein to totally impress us.
I’ll remember that, “McPaper” to go along with McJobs.
Blame Russia! Siberia is the cradle of cold air masses that are created by lack of sunlight, distance from heat distributing ocean currents, and low humidity which is the real GHG. This allows clear cold nights to efficiently radiate any warmth to space. Those cold air masses move slowly because of the extreme density of the air. But they eventually move and bump into the low pressure coming off the Gulf of Alaska, which pushes it North skirting most of Alaska. It now dives South into the Rockies and Midwest.
A perfect re-enactment of the weather patterns that created the great glaciers, of the periodic ice ages that will be our great climate challenge when one returns at some future point. The midwest is covered with glacial ridges from the forming and retreating of these great behemoths of the past.
So not climate change. Normal weather patterns that have challenged the northern hemisphere for millennia.
We only think it is unusual because we see less of these patterns during warm periods. When enough snow and ice builds up on the land areas of Siberia and Northern Canada, it becomes the dominant pattern for a winter that could extend through most of the year.
http://cmpmontana.com/BigforkWebcam
People are already driving to the Garden Bar infirmary in Bigfork for treatment of their snow snake bites.
Brrrrrrr!
Put another log on the fire…….
It has warmed up to 40F in the Great NorthWet (Seattle/Tacoma WA) and is raining off the beautiful 4″ of snow that fell on Christmas eve. Ugh!
I told you guys :
on average we already started globally cooling,
since about 20 years ago
looking at minima it is not much, but it is beginning to add up now
(by my count ca. -0.01K per annum since 2000)
I have some interesting results from Anchorage. Let me know if anyone is interested to see them.
henryp ==> I wrote a piece about Alaskan climate some time ago here. If your data is “comment short” put it here or else email it to me at my first name at i4 decimal net.
American friends, while you are sitting buried under mountains of snow, time to contemplate empting your b-c wallets, unless you’ve done already. Judging by this interactive chart b-c in the near future is on downhill slope (disclosure: have no, had no and do not intend to have any holding)
With record -37F yesterday, Minnesotans will be wishing for even more warming
http://www.m4gw.com/
kip Hansen
…always wanted to ask you?
are you in any way related to the Hansen who started the AGW nonsense?
If yes, how/?
it seems no one is interested in Alaska
but here is a tip
How would you divine (average) the solar polar field strengths from 1973 – 2014?
sorry. wrong graph.
question should have been\; How would you divine (average) the solar polar field strengths from 1971 – 2014?
henryp ==> “are you in any way related to the Hansen who started the AGW nonsense?” No, not as far back as my family genealogy goes.
Are you sending me data?
Aim for London and Paris next time.
In January, time will come for Paris.
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/strat-trop/gif_files/time_pres_TEMP_ANOM_OND_NH_2017.png
It’s now called the John Holdren Vortex. It is an event where cold is caused by global warming and the Obama WH waves it off only after being called out by fact checkers on the science. It’s a vortex of pseudoscience that blows over quickly.
Surely Canada and other northern countries would encourage global warming
Whenever some northern area gets a mild winter, alarmists there are quick to blame “global warming” and worry that the Greenland ice cap will melt and flood coastal cities. But a warm spell in winter is usually due to mild air moving northward from the tropics toward the pole, but since the total mass of air over the North Pole is roughly constant, that has to be balanced by a southward movement of cold air at some other longitude.
My sympathies go out to those shivering in brutally cold temperatures east of the Rockies, but here in Salt Lake City it’s sunny and 45 F (about +7 C), heading to 50 F (+10 C) tomorrow, and the nearby ski resorts are complaining about too little snow.
I really don’t mind being able to drive around on dry roads during Christmas week, but I’m not going to “blame” the mild winter (so far) and the wildfires in California on “global warming”. Hopefully the jet stream will flatten out soon, and send a nice January thaw to the Midwest and Northeast. You guys deserve a break!
I think I finally have all this “caGW” stuff figured out.
When Ma’ Gaia gets cold, she puts on her CO2 blanket.
When Ma’ Gaia gets hot, she throws off her CO2 blanket.
(Or puts in a call to Eros…)
Yep, Its a strange sort of blanket that keeps you warm when its cold, but lets you cool down when it hot. 😉
But hey, the old “CO2 blanket” analogy has so much going for it….. NOT.
A baker in Embarass, Minnesota left the back door to his bakery open and his buns froze.
The butcher next door in Embarrass, MN, was injured when he backed into his meat grinder. He said it didn’t hurt much, but he got a little behind in his orders.
Vukcevic @ur momisugly 8:58 am
The French were simply using Americans to fight their long term enemy
“on the cheap”. Sent a few officers and guns and multiplied their effect
by using our troops to fight their enemy. The effect did help the us Colonials
but only delayed the defeat of the French.
I do appreciate the Historical effect, but it was mainly to insure that we
would continue to ship wheat to France.
The LIA caused very weak cereal crop production, and the French must
have their daily bread.
“The end of winter”… I despise that phrase. I am in NE MN “the icebox of the nation” where it is currently -15F outside which is actually a bit warmer than it has been. Christmas day, we were at -30F when I woke in the morning! Not that this is an unusual occurrence, the timing is just a bit early. My solution to this biting cold is to throw more wood in the stove and smile, it’s 74F in my little cabin right now, and I am doing just that! Living in the middle of a forest in this northern climate, I have seen extremes of all sorts, and it has been that way for as long as I can remember. I would predict that barring some gigantic catastrophe such as the eruption of a super-volcano, or nuclear annihilation, that it will stay this way for the foreseeable future regardless of how much doom-saying or hand-wringing the climate change crowd displays. There will always be extreme weather, there is nothing un-natural about it. Find something more important to worry about.
Great website. Long time reader, first time commenter.
Have a happy new year everyone!
CJ ==> Welcome aboard, sir.
Myself, I’ve only recently retired from sailing the Caribbean for the last dozen years while doing humanitarian work there — and settled back into the old family home in the Mid-Hudson Valley of NY State. Had almost forgotten how cold it could be here. Just this afternoon, I had to drive down the road to “rescue” visiting family from Florida who has decided to go for a walk — in single digit temperatures with a strong breeze blowing – wind chill about 10 below.
Thanks for the WARM welcome! We could use a little warmth up here right now. 🙂
Geomagnetic activity is low and decreases (solar wind speed drops).
http://services.swpc.noaa.gov/images/satellite-env.gif?time=1514532964000
Circulation in the atmosphere will not change. Meandering jet stream.
been colder and more snowy in the UK than usual, but now its back to normal. 3C, grey and raining….where’s my vitamin D pills?
The cold from Canada and snowstorms reach the Great Prairies.
http://files.tinypic.pl/i/00953/w6gj4ryxc227.jpg
Temperature in Canada.
http://files.tinypic.pl/i/00953/g2tdq430bf3y.png
Well…
I could not live there!
Will Erie snow again?
http://files.tinypic.pl/i/00953/cxkanfdikt4t.png