41 records broken in province in past 2 days, with Clinton dipping below -10 C
CBC News · Posted: Oct 10, 2019 11:40 AM PT | Last Updated: October 10
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Parts of British Columbia are enduring record-breaking chill.
Environment Canada says the temperature at Vancouver International Airport dipped to 0.7 C Monday morning.
“That’s the coldest Oct. 10 in 123 years, so this is pretty significant,” said Environment Canada meteorologist Matt MacDonald.
It was the second record in two days for Vancouver, which saw thermometers dip to 0.8 C Wednesday, wiping out the old record of 2.8, which had stood since 1960.
The weather office says clear skies and a cold front helped set several other winter-like records across B.C.
“We’ve broken a total of 41 temperature records across B.C. in the last 2 days,” said MacDonald.
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Is Al Gore currently visiting Canada?
It occurs to me that when Al finally passes away, hell really WILL freeze over!
Weather, but a lot more of it is implied by a number of coincident cycle declines. Game on.
The Climate Models predicted this …
This CBC article is about weather, and yet there’s not one mention of “climate change”, “climate crisis”, “climate emergency”, “extreme weather events” etc. etc. What’s going on? CBC is supposed to be pounding the climate message and frightening the population with allusions to the really, really unprecedented bad weather that’s just happening now and will only get worse, and the seas that will rise up and destroy us. That, after all, is their mandate, but reading this article, anyone would think that the CBC is a reputable media organization that reports the news in a straightforward and factual way.
But, let’s make allowances. They must be having difficulty grasping the fact that human-caused global warming leads to extreme cold. Give them a few days to digest this intellectually challenging concept, and hopefully they will be back doing their jobs, scaring the population with dire warnings of doom and disaster if we don’t get to “carbon neutrality” by 2025.
I’m in Vancouver and it’s the honest Evah I tell you! LOL! Damn CO2. Hot cold whatever just pay pay pay.
It really is sad the way the alarmist trolls actually believe that showing it has been warming since the end of the Little Ice Age is sufficient to prove that first off, CO2 is the sole cause, secondly that it’s going to get real bad someday.
Those living in area subject to a carbon tax who are suffering from cold weather should sue the government for cold-related damages on the grounds that the cold weather was the result of government policy.
What is their defense? (pick one):
The taxes did nothing to reduce temperatures
The taxes resulted in reduced temperatures (which makes them liable)
Or, the taxes reduced temperatures, but an inconsequential amount
If number one, they have no basis for continuing the tax
If the second, they pay for damages
If the third, they must either eliminate the tax or tell voters they must raise taxes more for a meaningful change. I would hope the latter would be political suicide.
There’s a lot more cold coming next week too.
Bit as Michael Mann has told us, such cold periods are exactly what we should expect from global warming …
When I grew up there was just good weather and bad weather.
Nobody had yet tried to assign some bizarre cause that could be be solved by taxation and deprivement of some at the expense of others.
Disclaimer: Pollution is another matter- stop breeding like mice!
The northern extent of grain growing is starting to move south.
https://www.iceagenow.info/early-snow-and-frost-stall-canadian-harvest/
Just shows that cold air develops over land via radiational loss & isn’t “stopped” by temporarily open water in the Arctic Ocean (in fact that may increase snowfall). Snow is now covering large areas of northern N America and Siberia.
Seems every day from now till spring will be a record-breaker for the CBC…amping up the fear is the whole point.
It was a climate emergency in Manitoba.
” A single tree fell on a house and one person was injured”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/one-person-injured-by-falling-tree-after-storm-pummels-southern-manitoba-1.5319360
Oh, and there was a freak accident as well. When three freaks in van ran into three freaks in a truck.
Aw, the humanity.
” By Saturday morning, 50 to 60 millimetres [1.96 -2.3 inches is the new climate emergency number BTW] of precipitation — mostly snow […]” -CBC
“I haven’t seen anything like it before. I know a lot of Winnipeggers haven’t either,” –Winnipeg Mayor Brian Bowman
When did Canadians become pussies?
In my day we walked to school in minus 55 degrees, naked with cold porridge in our hands for lunch — uphill, through fifteen feet of snow. And where pissed off because recess was too short and we hadn’t finished building the snowman.
These kids today…
Off topic:
I didn’t know how to address this to WUWT so I’ll try poring it here.
It’s a supposed scientific article stating that the devastating volcanic events in the earth’s history, and which caused global extinction, produced less co2 that humans do at the moment.
The point seems to me to be fatuous, in that it was other things like airborne mercury which caused the damage – not co2.
It’s written by phys.org
Surely it’s fantasy…
A 500 strong team of scientists!
https://www.google.com/amp/s/phys.org/news/2019-10-humanity-emissions-times-greater-volcanoes.amp
McBryde
We had some bigger eruptions during the last centuries.The biggest one occured in 1257, and was followed by numerous eruptions (over 30), somewhat smaller though.
All these in the sum produced incredible amounts of aerosols (mainly SO2 and derivates), but can’t compete with Mankind’s CO2 emissions.
Over a century, volcanic CO2 accounts to no more than 3 % of ours.
I should add that the article implies that it was the carbon dioxide that caused extination and, as we produce 10x more, we are certainly headed for same
= silly
“Vancouver had…” so what?
BC’s emissions have been steadily rising since 2010 (government stats) in the face of a carbon tax imposed years earlier. So a carbon tax is a bust unless it’s so large it busts the populace
It’s time for Southern Canada and Northern CONUS to get prepared for repeated intrusions of the polar vortex.
Do not ask me why this guy is so increasingly noticeable.
The winters in BC for the last 10 years have been a lot like they were in the 60 and 70s. So their excuse that it’s because of warming polar air is manufactured crisis BS. Always moving the goal posts and not predicted
Of course, City of Vancouver rushed to declare “climate emergency” among the first in the world. Vancouver is the virtue-signalling capital of the world, going back at least 20 years.
Not to be outdone, Edmonton, one of the coldest big cities in the country (if not the coldest), declared climate emergency soon thereafter.
BTW – Canada is THE coldest country on the planet. Most of the year, in most of the country, it is really effin cold…
But but but – global warming…
maarten
“BTW – Canada is THE coldest country on the planet. Most of the year, in most of the country, it is really effin cold…”
Aha. Sure? I am not.
Here is the top20 of the absolute temp averages over whole Canada (Nunavut of course included):
1936 2 -17.53
1950 1 -16.65
1982 1 -16.58
1957 1 -15.80
1954 1 -15.63
1943 1 -15.21
1935 1 -15.00
1916 1 -14.95
1979 2 -14.95
2019 2 -14.85
1969 1 -14.82
1888 1 -14.62
1912 1 -14.54
1930 1 -14.52
1971 1 -14.48
1907 1 -14.43
1929 1 -14.17
1996 1 -14.16
1920 1 -14.12
1970 1 -14.11
Only one month coming from this XXIst century…
And here is a chart showing you the temp anomalies wrt 1981-2010 for Canada since 1979:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QZiWxXPxHrU5iEpXyedPWcMjbNdcNT29/view
Trend since 1979: +0.35 °C / decade…
Source: raw data from
ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/daily/
BC ‘s carbon tax “benefit” is a fraud . When the carbon tax was imposed by a Liberal Government in 2008
natural gas commodity prices were about $10. . Currently the cost of the carbon tax exceeds the commodity price of natural gas . Picture going out and buying anything and the tax cost is more than the thing you are buying .
Here is how it looks today ;
Commodity cost of natural gas $ 1. 59 per GJ
Carbon tax cost $ 1. 98 per GJ
The notion that a carbon tax is a price signal working to reduce demand is utter nonsense .
It is a tax grab going to general revenues and does SFA to change the earths temperature .
One of the conditions of imposing a carbon tax in BC was that if other competing jurisdictions
didn’t jump off the same cliff then it would be abandoned .
Washington State voted against the stupidity and if the Federal Conservatives get in
a national carbon tax proposed by Liberals is toast .
Oh and just to add insult to injury in British Columbia Vancouver area the price of gasoline
is over $1.62 per litre or in English it’s over $6.00 per USA gallon .
The highest by a mile in North America .
British Columbia is run by socialists worse than California .
The prosperity comes via laundered money fleeing China and the middle east .
Mr. Dress Up the Prime Minister for another week is a commie lover and has abandoned any balanced immigration to flood Vancouver with rich Asians who have paid very little in tax while driving real estate through the roof .
I do not understand the statement about the October 9th record:
“It was the second record in two days for Vancouver, which saw thermometers dip to 0.8 C Wednesday, wiping out the old record of 2.8, which had stood since 1960.
Vancouver has coldest Oct. 9 in nearly 60 years”
because if the record in 1960 was broken, by TWO degrees C, then what year was 0.7 C (or colder) recorded on an October 9th? If it was, say 1912, then it was the coldest in 97 years, not 60.