Over the past weekend, temperatures in Italy plunged suddenly by between 10 and 15 degrees, resulting in the country’s coldest September in 50 years and leading to snowfalls much earlier than usual, Italian media reports.
The cold has been particularly intense in Milan and Turin which recorded 5°C and 4°C degrees respectively on the night of Sunday 27 September.
Temperatures also dropped steeply elsewhere – to below 10°C degrees in Tuscany – while hill towns in the central Lazio area witnessed snow over the weekend.
Snow fell on the hills and mountains in the greater Rome area and in the Lazio region as temperatures plummeted over the weekend, reports Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.
Perched among the Simbruini mountains along the border between the regions of Lazio and Abruzzo, Cervara di Roma is located about 70 km (43.6 miles) from Rome.
At an altitude of 1,050 meters (3,444 ft) above sea level, Cervara is the highest historic center in the province of Rome.
https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/september-snow-falls-near-rome.html
Snowfalls were recorded at Monte Livata (near Subiaco), Cervara di Roma, Ciociaria, Campocatino and Forca d’Acero, in the area of S. Donato Valcomino, where Lazio meets the Abruzzo region.
https://www.wantedinmilan.com/news/italys-coldest-september-in-50-years.html
h/t to Ice Age Now
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Are you sure it’s been the coldest September, rather than the coldest September day?
Globally, according to UAH, this was the second warmest September in over 40 years, beaten only buy September 2019.
looks like 3 days 27,28 &29th September
I live in Germany, and don’t understand this surreal alarmism. Italy NEVER AND NEVER did experience its coldest September in 50 years.
This is, with all due respect, absolutely ridiculous. You just need to compare the September month im Milan for 2020:
https://www.wetteronline.de/?pcid=pc_rueckblick_data&pid=p_rueckblick_diagram&sid=StationHistory&diagram=true&iid=16080&gid=16080&month=11&year=2020&metparaid=TXLD&period=4&ireq=true
with its 2010 edition:
https://www.wetteronline.de/?pcid=pc_rueckblick_data&pid=p_rueckblick_diagram&sid=StationHistory&diagram=true&iid=16080&gid=16080&month=11&year=2010&metparaid=TXLD&period=4&ireq=true
and you quickly understand the difference between a cool year and a few snowflakes during a warm year.
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By the way, Spain experienced during June 2019 a REAL cooling, with places in some June days at 30 °C below the usual temperature. Moron de la Frontera near Sevilla in Andalucia is a very good example.
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Exactly in the same vein, it is pure nonsense to elevate some little frosty nights in the German Black Forrest to a big cooling in Germany’s September, as is propagated here since days by the strange German Coolista nicknamed ‘Krishna Gans’.
Germany’s September has shown in several places at least 2 °C over mean. I wrote about that in a previous thread already.
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New Zealand experienced the warmest winter since decades.
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And is the Arctic currently gaining ice: yes of course, what a luck! But this happens every year at the end of September. The question rather is: how much does it gain compared with the years before?
Here is a comparison of the means for 1981-2010, 2015-2019 and various single years, using absolute values:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-rIi_Ml6yinPkUWPDFPz4VEy9BUX4fZL/view
If the Arctic really was gaining ice as pretended: why then did 2019 and 2020 not pass at least above the 2015-2019 mean (1981-2010 is far far away from being reached)?
Even Arctic AND Antarctic together have difficulties to get over that 2015-2019 mean:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YiaEnD5ywRCU4nY9x-OZh1ThLNaC2VNe/view
(source: SIDADS at colorado.edu)
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Where the heck is there a problem to simply say: yes, it’s warming, OK, but how much?
Is it really necessary to focus on small snowfall happening a few times per century in Europe here and there?
Northern CONUS is cooling since years, especially during the winter months. But Europe IS NOT.
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Warming alarmism isn’t good, but… Cooling alarmism is even worse.
J.-P. D.
Oh how strange…
I posted a comment hours ago, and… it is invisible.
Climate Science Collapses | Top Journal Ices the Cake https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVUZ2FOzbyY
Better fly all the kids down to Italy pronto.
With Global Warming(tm) they may otherwise never know what snow is.
+10
Craig from Oz
Ha… They just need to take a flight over to NZ:
https://www.j2ski.com/snow_forecast/New_Zealand/snow_reports.html
And my humble guess is that the NZ snow certainly will last a bit longer than its Italian colleague 🙂
Buona notte
J.-P. D.
Well, their ski season isn’t over yet, is it? It starts in April, when we’re having Spring thaws up here and runs until the snow runs out, usually by October, which is their Spring.
If it’s late in leaving this year, it may be a one-off. If it’s late for several years, it’s a trend. That’s what you have to look for.