After several decades of extremely dry weather, residents in southern regions of Morocco finally woke up this morning to an unusual snowfall that currently impacted Ouarzazate, Taroudant and even Zagora, which has not experienced snowfall for fifty years.
Several photos and videos have been posted on social media depicting the cities covered with a huge layer of snow. Despite the freezing cold temperatures, many residents went outside to enjoy the unexpected snowfall.
El Houcine Yoabd, in charge of communication at the National Meteorology, told the media outlet le 360, that it has snowed in these regions due to a mass of air coming from Northern Europe.
“We are under the influence of a very low pressure of altitude, with very cold temperatures that can reach 0 or even 1 degree,” Yoabd said.
He also added that these drops in temperature accompanied by rainfall and snowfall in several parts of Morocco are expected to continue until next Thursday.
New weather alert released by the National Directorate of Meteorology on Monday forecasts temperatures ranging between -04 and 1°C and maximum of 5 to 9 °C in Ouarzazate.
These heavy snowfalls made travel absolutely impossible as the roads were blocked. There will be also delays in air traffic.
A video posted on social media shows a man from Tinzouline, a town 15 kilometres from Zagora expressing his joy over the snowing atmosphere.
Just because temperatures are rising doesn’t mean the world isn’t cooling. As the earth decends into the next glacial cycle we can expect more extreme storms, colder colds and hotter hots as the Climate becomes more unstable. In ten years, the snow won’t melt in Toronto during the summers.
/sarc
Snarcasm aside, we certainly could be in the beginning stages of a decades-long period of cooling, but it could take as much as a decade to be fully recognized, especially by those with Warmist blinders on.
As Tamino (Grant Foster) and Hansen et al. recently pointed out, the enormous heat surge in 2016 could give those inclined to do so ample opportunity to claim in the coming years that another ‘pause’, or even ‘cooling’ has begun – this time starting 2016.
After all, it took the late Bob Carter just 8 years to claim in 2006 that global warming had “stopped” in 1998: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3624242/There-IS-a-problem-with-global-warming…-it-stopped-in-1998.html
Tamino did quite a simple but clever analysis. He extended the current observed warming trend in the annual data, since 1970, outwards to 2050. Ignoring natural variability and just assuming that each year would simply follow trend (+0.02/yr) he found that trend alone doesn’t surpass the 2016 annual record until 2027!
Adding randomised natural variability he found a high probability (73%) that the 2016 record would not be beaten for at least another 8 years. We’d to wait 9-10 years before the probability that the 2016 record would be broken became more likely that not.
Remember, this assumes that the 1970-2017 warming trend (+0.18C/dec) continues UNABATED throughout that period. Such was the anomalous warming reported in 2016. Look forward to further ‘pause’ stories in the coming years; just note that the start date is continually creeping forward…
Tamino’s article is here: https://tamino.wordpress.com/2018/01/31/global-warming-the-relentless-trend/
In 1982 I drove with my ten year-old son from Fez to Marrakesh but got lost, big time, and ended up in Ouarzazate … it was a harrowing night of mountain driving, so I am surprised to learn it doesn’t snow there.
https://youtu.be/Xnsv8TbPMiU
https://youtu.be/GGRZ09MbyiQ
+10 interesting
https://youtu.be/iXu-rqhGp6c
Try again with the aiming at Paris and London. They need it most.
New CIMP6 Solar Forcing data set
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https://youtu.be/P022zR3DWMg
We need to know much more of our past and where we come from to know our future. We really have our priorities wrong.
https://youtu.be/eiSP1cYpI-0
Snow in southern Morocco yesterday, snow in northern Florida last month, several subzero outbreaks east of the Rockies, all reminders that winter weather outside the tropics can be highly unpredictable.
Yet here in Salt Lake City, home of the “Greatest Snow on Earth” if Utah license plates are to be believed, January was unusually mild, with 27 days having high temperatures above 40 F (+4.5 C), and 13 days with high temperatures above 50 F (+10 C). We did have two snowstorms during the four days with highs below 40 F, but most of it melted within a few days. Good thing we don’t have the Winter Olympics here this year–there wouldn’t be much to ski on.
There have been other winters which have been mild in the east and brutally cold in the west, but since the east coast is more heavily populated, the global-warming scare-mongers jump on any mild winter weather there to warn us that Greenland’s ice cap will suddenly melt and flood coastal cities, while ignoring April blizzards in Colorado. But if the populated areas are unusually cold and snowy, the global-warming scare-mongers go into hibernation and wait for Punxsutawney Phil to see his shadow.
The truth is, the mass of air over the area within the Arctic Circle doesn’t vary much. If a polar air mass pushes south somewhere, it has to be replaced by air pushing north from the tropics over some other longitude. Wherever the polar air mass pushes south will have unusually cold winter weather, and some other area where tropical air is drawn northward will have unusually mild weather.
When winter temperatures can rise or fall by 20 C or more within a day or a week, why should anyone worry about whether the “average” temperature (whatever that is) rises by 1 C in a century?
So, whoever is under a mild air mass shouldn’t complain about global warming, but enjoy driving to work on dry roads and not having to shovel snow.
Snow in Johannesburg in 2006. Snow in The Atacama Desert in Chile in 2006, and 2011, 2013, 2017 – driest place on Earth, no snow in living memory until 2006. Snow in Kuwait January 2016, first time EVER.
Snap out of it, people. Things are changing right under Algore’s nose and he still thinks he can run that scam of his.
Is anyone archiving pictures of these events, by any chance?
And of course we nor the children were never to see ice by now, let alone in Africa. Go home Simon and co, you get old quickly.
Actual weather has nothing to do with climate.
Think of it this way: weather is a single voter.
Climate Science is knowing that Hilary is going to win.
There is a delightful implication that when it warms, it warms uniformly, so odd occurrences cannot occur.
Anyone who has been regularly in the outdoors rather than cooped up blogging or modelling knows that is nonsense.
Snow occurs in Morocco when the Azores High temporarily disappears. Jet stream anomalies etc.
Record snow occurs in the Upper Rhone valley on SW winds, which brings Foehn to northern Swiss alpine valleys. January 2018 saw record warmth in Geneva and extremely heavy snowfall in the Swiss Alps. Meteo Schweiz if you will not believe me…..Ice Age, Ice Age was not being chanted at Cointrin airport…..the flowers were blooming instead.
The world is not identical to NE USA, which had a cold snap. California is having a dry winter. UK is having an average one. No Beast from the East in London 2018….Genghis Khan is long dead….