There’s a surprising number of unexpected snows occurring this summer in the northern hemisphere, here’s a compendium of news reports and video from Montana, Wyoming and Idaho, as well as Germany, Austria, Italy, and Slovenia.
26 Aug 2018 – August to end with a taste of winter as snow blankets the Northern Rockies
Winter weather advisories have been issued by the National Weather Service for parts of the Rockies of Montana and Wyoming, where the NWS said a few inches of wet snow is possible early Monday into early Tuesday above 6,000 feet in elevation.
Accumulating snow is expected in the highest peaks of northwestern Wyoming, southern and western Montana and adjacent portions of Idaho.
But don’t worry. That’s normal. “Snow is not uncommon in the higher elevations of the northern Rockies in late August,” says weather.com.
Of course, they’re the same people who keep on harping about “global warming.”
Which is it?
https://weather.com/storms/winter/news/2018-08-26-winter-weather-advisory-snow-montana-wyoming
Snowfall a month earlier than usual.
26 Aug 2018 – Amazing photos on social networks show snow in both countries, with the temperature dropping as much as 15 degrees.
Winter landscapes reign in Salzburg. According to WetterOnline, it snowed at an altitude of less than 1000 m above sea level. For example, the inhabitants of the ski town of Bad Gastein, south of Salzburg, sundered their eyes with astonishment on Sunday because green lawns and trees were covered with a 5-cm layer of snow. Caps and jackets had to be taken out by the inhabitants of Obertauern, Rauris, Sankt Jakob in Defereggental or Hintertux, where the first snow dropped a month earlier than usual.
However, the biggest attack of winter occurred in Austria, where 40 cm of snow fell down from Saturday to Sunday,
Cold polar winds bring early snow in Italy
30 cm of snow in Badia valley
10 cm in Cortina d’Ampezzo in the Dolomites
“From short sleeves to snowshoes,” reads the headline. “This is Christmas time!”
“This after a month of African heat,” says Dr Poletto. “Is little ice age beginning?”
28 Aug 2018 – Snow closed the road to Mangart and whitened Kredarico.
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Kredarica has already snow, while rain and snow mix on Vršič. According to the traffic information center (PIC), the road to Mangart is closed due to the snow covered road. Precipitation will get worse during the day
The Triglav Lodge at Kredarica, which stands at an elevation of 8,251 feet (2,515 m), is the highest mountain hut in Slovenia and the highest meteorological station in the country.
Is snow at this elevation in Slovenia unusual? I don’t know. But I’m thinking that Slovenians need not worry about global warming this year.
http://www.rtvslo.si/okolje/novice/sneg-zaprl-cesto-na-mangart-in-pobelil-kredarico/464169
Solar minimum is impacting NH jet stream with winter-like storm fronts. Add in a cooling Atlantic and you get both short term regional cooling and declining global UAH at the same time….and for another year for solar and another 30 years for AMO.
The temperature distribution of the North Atlantic surface can mean strong autumn blizzards in eastern Canada.
Right now we have a “Rex Block” off the west coast that is mixing arctic air with air that just came ashore over Baja California. Result: precipitation
Tropopause Height
This post and the comments document early snows, following generally hot dry weather across N. America and Europe this summer. Last winter there were unusually cold temperatures across N.America and Europe, as there currently in Australia.
And check out the hurricane season. So far it has largely failed to show.
The extremes in temperature and the lack of hurricanes are a symptom of a low level of atmospheric moisture. Low levels of atmospheric moisture are a result of generally cool sea surface temperatures.
What’s the cause? A quiet sun? Follow-on from last winter’s La Nina? Onset of the cool phase of the AMO?
Perhaps all of the above.
In other words the opposite of what happened in the 1990s.
Under a quiet sun arctic air just doesn’t stay there.
High of 60F forecast today and rain here and N/NW of us here in the Big Horns plus snow in the mountains. Hoping it will put out some of the fires. Can’t wait. Smoke sucks.
Of course the Sun has nothing to do with it. Eh, Lief, and co? 🙂
When I lived and worked in Yellowstone Natl Park between 1980-1984 (Canyon Village, Mammoth, Old Faithful, Lake Hotel) I experienced snowfall every month of the year while back packing over a 1000 miles within the park. The locals have a saying that states, ‘There are three seasons in Yellowstone, July, August and winter.’ Snow in August is expected and no surprise in the high Rocky Mountains.
https://www.rt.com/usa/359170-yellowstone-snowstorm-september-photos/
I worked for the fish hatchery there in the summer of 1954. It snowed on July 4. But that was when you could feed the bears.
Just heard the Farmer’s Almanac is calling for a very cold and snowy winter. Let us see how their algorithm matches up to the Climatologists’.
OMG, you’re all missing the obvious! It has gotten so hot from CO2 and AGW that it wrapped around and became SNOW! We’re all DOOMED!
Stock the pantry and the freezer, Dan!
I am a tad puzzled about the excitement over these forecasts. A satellite photo from 19th of August shows fresh snow on the mountains of western Montana, and in Wyoming’s northwest even onto the eastern Unitas in the southern part of the state. I recall we had several very cool days so I wasn’t surprised about the snow at higher elevations. Seems a bit like August 2010.
This swathe of cold weather and early snow across the NH is a clear sign of the onset of Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming, as per the model predictions. It is all down to our CO2 emissions changing the climate.
The warmer it gets, the more we will be beleaguered with snow, ice and cold weather. It could get so warm that the growing season is shortened at both ends, causing crop failure and civic unrest.
The Farmers Almanac is chiming in with the CAGW predictions too, with their forecast of a bitterly cold, teeth-chattering winter this year – which will be more evidence, were it needed, of a warming world.
Here in Scotland, it is so warm that the trees are already showing their autumnal colours, and the unseasonal warmth is causing a bitterly cold wind to whistle across the hills. It is even warm enough this afternoon for a log & coal fire in the grate.
Oh dear, I think the warmist indoctrination is getting to me… }:o(
Ja. Ja.
It is cooling.
Globally.
It also called climate change…..
This is the “shortest” summer that I remember, low temps and rains.
It is not really that unusual to get snow in the Canadian Rockies in late August.
I’m still waiting for the usual suspects to show up to lecture us all, on how weather is not climate.
El Niño does not develop.
Leaves already beginning to turn in central Colorado, from empire to Silverthorn up to steamboat springs. I just drove up there Saturday for heated grip work on the new can am. It was a random tree or small section of Aspen, sporadic, but I’ve yet to see such early turns. August 25
And the climate cycles continue… Our major Holocene warm period comes to a close, nudging down toward the next cool period “valley.” But looking at the trend (Greenland ice cores), the next one might be worse than the Little Ice Age. Unless the Holocene starts on another uptrend in the next millennium, it may well be on its way out — starting the next glacial period of the current Ice Age. And, despite our technology, (and perhaps because of our fragile infrastructure), civilization may not survive the coming cold. We’re likely talking 5,000 years or more to get fully into the next glacial period, unless psychopaths like former CIA Director Brennan get their wish — cooling down the planet “like volcanoes do.” Their SAI program could accelerate the deadly end of the Holocene. Alarm is only good if it’s based on facts and reality. The Warming Alarmism helped to ruin in real alarm with the “Boy Cried Wolf” effect.
We need to prepare for whatever comes, but warming is always a good thing — especially in an Ice Age.
Freezing temperatures in New South Wales and Victoria.
What is meant by “which is it?” Sorry for my english.