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Tue, 27 Sep 2022 15:15 UTC

rainy and cold netherlands

Rainy and cold in late September.

A couple of weeks ago, with a temperature of 13.3 degrees Celsius, it was the coldest September 18th since the start of measurements. In addition, September 27th was one of the coldest ever recorded, with the lowest temperature at 9 degrees Celsius. The previous record dates from 1926, when 10.4 degrees Celsius was recorded in the Dutch municipality of De Bilt.

Meteorologist Wouter van Bernebeek told Dutch news site NU.nl:
Around this time of year it's normal when it's 18 to 19 degrees Celsius. This week, some places will not even reach 10 degrees Celsius.

We have had years with 25 degrees Celsius or more, even in October. In the coming days we will go to 15 to 16 degrees Celsius with fairly cold nights and possibly fog. You really can't call that a late summer.
Currently, maximum temperatures reach 13 degrees Celsius, with the lowest being 9 degrees Celsius with rainfall.

There were also two days in April that broke cold temperature records. On April 1st, the lowest temperature measured was 1.8 degrees Celsius. This broke the record from 1963. It's also the coldest April 1st since 1901, when it was 2.5 degrees Celsius in the Dutch town of Eelde. On April 1st this year, there was also snowfall of up to 17 cm in some parts of the Dutch province of Gelderland. On April 3rd, the lowest temperature measured was -6.3 degrees Celsius, which broke the record of 1909 (-5.5 degrees Celsius).

To stay up to date on the latest extreme weather events, watch our latest SOTT Earth Changes Summary.
 

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Cold September For Europe; Hurricane Activity Trending Down; + UN Says They “Own The Science” On Climate Change…​

October 3, 2022 Cap Allon

Cold September For Much Of Europe

Memories of Europe’s hot summer are now very distant thanks to a string of autumnal blasts.
Descending Arctic air delivered record cold and snow to many nations/regions last month, including the UK, France, Germany, Scandinavia and the Balkans.


Austria​

September 2022 in Austria finished with a temperature anomaly of -0.8C below the multidecadal average.
It was particularly cold in the mountains, where an anomaly of -1.2C below the norm was noted and the now was copious.



Switzerland​

Last month in Switzerland came out at 10C (50F), which is -0.4C below the norm.
September was marked by a warm start followed a sharp, record-busting cool down halfway through.





MeteoNews Schweiz
@MeteoNewsAG

Auf einen warmen Septemberbeginn folgte eine trübe und kühle zweite Monatshälfte. Im landesweiten Schnitt beträgt die Durchschnittstemperatur 10,0 Grad und somit 0,4 Grad unter der neuen Norm (1991-2020). Eine umfassende Bilanz gibt es unter: MeteoNews: Der September fiel ins Wasser (1. Oktober 2022) (gz) https://t.co/BzeiPkGfTv


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4:28 AM · Oct 1, 2022
Germany
As with Switzerland, Germany finished the month of September -0.4C below the multidecadal norm after a frigid Arctic pattern developed midway through the month. Early-season frosts and record low temperatures were the realities for many.


Also largely unreported, Germany received drought easing rains last month. Precipitation was 165% of the 1961-1990 average, which filled river catchment areas and brought the levels of the much documented Rhine back up to normal levels. Another climate catastrophe averted, though unreported, meaning the climate zealots among us remain ill-informed (which is the aim).

Hurricane Activity Trending Down

News reports linking Hurricane Ian to climate change may be plentiful, but all are spurious. If global warming is indeed causing a change in tropical cyclone activity, it should show up in global statistics…

The latest peer-reviewed study (March 2022) of the accumulated wind energy in tropical cyclones since 1990 (when sufficient global data began to be accrued) shows a decrease in hurricane activity. There is an increase in Atlantic activity, but this is matched by an even larger decrease in Pacific activity, due to a shift from El Nino to La Nina conditions during that time.

“So, yes, there is climate change involved in the uptick in Atlantic activity in recent decades. But it’s natural,” writes former NASA scientist Dr Roy Spencer in a recent blog post.


Looking at just the numbers of global hurricanes since 1980, we see no obvious trends:


Global hurricane activity counts by year during 1980-2021.
Even if we did see an increase, the improvements in global satellite monitoring would be responsible for some of that, points out Dr Spencer, who, with his partner Dr John Christy, collate the satellite-based global temperature of the lower troposphere each month (UAH).

“It is impossible to talk about meaningful global statistics, especially trends, before the 1980s due to a lack of satellite data. Ships of opportunity are insufficient for trend calculations, especially since ships try to avoid storms, not sample them,” adds Spencer.

Saying that, some historical research has been conducted: A document-based study of hurricanes impacting the Lesser Antilles since the late 1600s found a downward trend (not statistically significant) in hurricane activity during 1690-2007.

In his 2017 Kindle book Inevitable Disaster: Why Hurricanes Can’t Be Blamed on Global Warming, Dr Spencer looked at major hurricane landfalls in Florida. There is no trend. And even with the recent Hurricanes Ian and Michael added to the dataset, there remains no statistically significant trends in either intensity or frequency of landfalling major hurricanes in Florida:



Major hurricane landfalls in Florida over the last 120 years.

Of course, hurricane damages have increased dramatically during the same period –a proxy often used to dupe the masses– but this entirely down to expansion in coastal infrastructure. Miami had only 444 residents in 1896, and now the metro area has a population topping 6 million. And as a whole, Florida’s population has increased by a factor of over 40 since 1900.

Given that hurricanes will always be with us, what is the best defense against them? Dr Spencer concludes: “Wealth.” Hurricane Ian came ashore with 150 mph sustained winds, but warnings from modern instrumentation led to mass evacuations, and modern building codes drastically reducing the wind damage.

The Great Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 was the most intense Atlantic hurricane to make landfall on record, and although the population of Florida was just 1.3 million back then, some 500 people were reported to have perished in the storms, which would equate to a death toll nearing 3,000 today.

Storms are not only not intensifying, they are killing fewer people, too. Yet the formation insists that we believe in the ‘climate emergency’, a scenario so threatening that it requires the immediate roll-out of poverty-inducing policies to stave off extinction.

Ironically, and in plain view, the upshot of these backwards measures will be a far higher death toll than that of every Hurricane of the past 200 years combined. Again, the best weapon against the destructive force of nature is ‘wealth’. The ability for nations to provide their citizens with cheap and reliable energy raises living standards all-round. It fends off the depths of winter, and keeps the wolf from the door. The evidence is clear on this. Yet our bought-and-paid-for murderous ‘leaders’ are hellbent on pursuing the opposite. Just look to Europe this winter for an example. Watch as the excess deaths soar to a million+ (if they accurate document the figures, that is) as people are unable to heat their homes due to either spiraling costs or outright shortages.

With regards to likes of the WEF and the UN, it’s not that they love the planet, it’s that they hate humanity.


UN Says They “Own The Science” On Climate Change

The aforementioned climate facts are far from ideal when trying to convince folk of an impeding ‘catastrophe’.

Everything single ‘AGW poster boy’ is failing to behave as prophesied; from hurricane activity to polar bear population, from Greenland ice to the Great Barrier Reef — every single one of these failed ‘fear stories’ is ripping their climate scam to shreds.

Their answer…?

Double down on the narrative, and buy it:




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NEW - UN Secretary for Global Comms says they "own the science" on "climate change," and opposing viewpoints have now been pushed down in search results through their partnership with Google. https://t.co/fMaPYsHGUT


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6:38 AM · Oct 2, 2022
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The UN is admitting that it can only accomplish its goals via censorship.

Ideas, scientific or not, should be tossed into the ring for the free-market to determine there validity, worth and popularity NO MATTER THE PERCEIVED CONSEQUENCES. This is democracy–a notion that clearly terrifies the UN. What if people arrive at a different conclusion? Better we pressure the likes of Google –another unelected juggernaut– into purposefully directing the global population down very misleading paths so that we can continue benefit, both in terms of power collation as well as wealth transfers.

They
are having to work very hard to maintain the illusion that carbon dioxide is a world-ending pollutant. They, by their own admission, have had to ‘buy the science’ in order to achieve this, which, if you didn’t know, is called ‘corruption’.

I have no idea what it will take for he duped, highway-gluing, fascist-seeking, eco-terrorizing puppets among us to awake from their mass formation psychosis and admit that they’re nothing but bunch of bored, aimless stooges incapable of manifesting a single critical thought between them.

YOU are aiding in the destruction of our comfortable modern civilization, aimless stooges; that is, EVERYTHING we humans worked two+ centuries to attain. YOU are the cancer on this planet, not CO2, not plant food, not the building blocks of life — YOU.






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Oh, and "Extreme Temperatures" are predominately made up of "Cold Waves", which are increasing.
11:49 AM · Sep 13, 2022
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“Big Dangerous Sunspot”; “A Glitch In The Matrix”; Cold Sept For Sweden; “Hypothermia Risk” In New Zealand; + Global Temp Drops​

October 4, 2022 Cap Allon

“Big Dangerous Sunspot”

One of the biggest sunspots in years has just rotated over the sun’s northeastern limb.
‘AR3112’ has more than a dozen dark cores scattered across 130,000 km of solar terrain:



The image above is a magnetic map of the sun’s surface with a white light photo of AR3112 inset.
What it shows is positive and negative magnetic polarities are bumping together–an explosive mixture that could easily produce an X-class solar flare, points out Dr Tony Phillips over at spaceweather.com, who calls this a “big dangerous sunspot”.
The emergence of AR3112 already fully formed and unstable is set to herald two weeks of high solar activity as the sunspot group transits the solar disk, facing Earth the whole time. ‘The big one’ is a matter of when not if — could Oct, 2022 deliver the ‘kill shot’, the monster X-flare that takes out portions –or all– of the global grid…?
Likely not, but the threat is there.
Stay tuned for updates.


“A Glitch In The Matrix”

Pink auroras are rare. Pulsating auroras are rare, too. On Monday night in Abisko, Sweden, sky watchers witnessed both rarities simultaneously — a show likely bolstered by Earth’s ever-waning magnetic field strength.
“My guides who photographed the display couldn’t believe their eyes,” said Chad Blakley, owner of Lights over Lapland. “They are all saying things like ‘I have never seen anything like this before!’ and one of them described it as ‘a glitch in the Matrix.’

“The best way to describe a pulsating aurora is to imagine the sky as a large checker board,” explained Blakley. “As the pulsating begins, black squares on the board would illuminate as a green aurora. Then, in an instant, all the black squares lose their illumination and the red squares on the imaginary checkerboard immediately glow green.”
In this case, however, the green was pink. Pink auroras appear when solar wind particles penetrate unusually deep in Earth’s atmosphere, striking nitrogen molecules less than 100 km above our planet’s surface, writes Dr Tony Phillips — a crack in Earth’s magnetic field on Oct 3 allowed the particles to reach that low level.
Despite NASA routinely launching rockets into them in an attempt to learn what makes them tick, pulsating auroras remain something of a mystery. In 2018, researchers led by S. Kasahara of the University of Tokyo did conclusively link pulsating auroras to “chorus waves” in Earth’s magnetosphere, but their findings failed to explain the shape of the ‘squares’ and why they blink so quickly.


Possible Cannibal Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) Event​

According to NOAA forecasters, multiple CMEs are heading for Earth. ETA: Tuesday, October 4.
This could be a “Cannibal CME” event.
NOAA have modeled the potential impact below (click here for the video):



Cannibal CMEs form when a fast-moving CME devours one or more slower CMEs ahead of it. The combined cloud contains tangled magnetic fields that can do a good job sparking auroras. Storm levels could reach category G2 if/when the Cannibal arrives, particularly given our planet’s ever-waning magnetic field strength. Additional auroras, perhaps even more pink pulsating ones, are likely.


Cold Sept For Sweden

As was the case for the vast majority of European nations, September 2022 in Sweden had an average temperature below the multidecadal norm — 0.5C below in the Swede’s case, which is in stark contrast to the ‘forever fire and brimstone’ narrative the corporate media continues to sell to the misinformed masses.
The below map comes courtesy of SMHI:



“Hypothermia Risk” In New Zealand

New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) is warning there will be a real hypothermia risk for people and livestock this week as an fierce blast of polar cold invades from the south.
Nearly all eastern and southern lowland areas of the South Island will have an “effective temperature” (a reading which takes into account wind chill and humidity, as well as the normal air temp) of between -5C (23F) and -15C (5F) early Thursday morning, according to NIWA, which will prove record-breaking for many.
The pulse of freezing air is set to engulf the entire country, ripping in from the south on Tuesday evening. The air is “taking a direct line from the Antarctic ice sheet to the South Island”, so says MetService meteorologist, Angus Hines.





NIWA Weather
@NiwaWeather

Spring to winter in a matter of hours for eastern Canterbury. For some, temperatures will drop ⬇️ 15-20°C in less than 18 hours. https://t.co/Ps5ie3RQJB


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3:14 PM · Oct 3, 2022
NIWA principal scientist, Chris Brandolino, has warned people not to underestimate the incoming cold.

“Dress in layers,” he helpfully suggests. “If you don’t have to go out best not to, to avoid the exposure. Wear a hat, most of the heat in your body is lost through your head. Don’t lick lampposts. If you’re cold go somewhere warm. And, of course, get triple boosted.”–I added those last three.



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NIWA Weather
@NiwaWeather

Forecast effective temperature very early Thursday morning (a function of the actual temp & wind speed). Nearly the entirety of the South Island is forecast to "feel" below 0°C, with many feeling anywhere from -15 to -5°C. A real hypothermia risk for people & livestock. https://t.co/VqepcDWgRQ


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5:17 PM · Oct 3, 2022
Brandolino points out that these incoming temperatures would be noteworthy even in mid-July, let alone in October: “There will be issues with livestock. Farmers will have to think about how to reduce those risks,” he said.



The potentially record-smashing temperatures have increased the chances of low-lying snow.

The likes of Christchurch won’t be spared the cold southerly change. Daytime highs are set to struggle to just 10C (50F) on Wednesday and Thursday, with an early Thursday record-challenging low of -1C (30.2F) expected.

Southerlies are forecast to arrive in Wellington on Wednesday, and will drive the mercury to 2C (35.6F), and perhaps lower, early Thursday morning. Such a reading would equal Wellington’s second-lowest October temperature ever recorded.

MetService foresees record-setting temperatures impacting much of the country this week, including in Masterton, which is looking at a high of 7C (44.6F) which would comfortably bust its current record-lowest October max of 8.4C (47.1F); and also in Invercargill, with its forecast high of <6C (42.8F) set to take out its lowest Oct high ever recorded.





NIWA Weather
@NiwaWeather

Hop on-board the polar express . From the belly of the polar region, this surge of cold air will, for a couple days, make it feel like mid-winter in Aotearoa NZ. First stop: Southland around midday Tuesday. https://t.co/mQNOLpfPiq


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3:46 PM · Oct 2, 2022
The ‘freezing pulse’ not only threatens unprecedented rd temps but also heavy snow to swathes of the South Island –down to sea level– as well as settling flurries to the lower and central North Island, including rare October flakes in downtown Wellington.

MetService has put initial heavy snow watches in place for the South Island down to 400m (1,300ft) covering Tuesday night.


Heavy snow in Springfield, inland Canterbury, in August, 2022, which is forecast to get hit again this week.

A second burst of late-season snow is then expected to follow on Wednesday, lasting through Thursday for most — it’s during this second burst that heavy snow is forecast to accumulate at historically low levels for the time of year.


Road snowfall warnings are already in place for much of South Island as well as Remutaka Hill Road and the Desert Road in the North Island. Snow is expected to lower to 200m (660ft) around Wellington on Wednesday night, and there is a possibility it could fall in the CBD on Thursday morning, depending on the wind direction, which would be an incredibly rare feat.





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Here's one model's take on where the snow will fall in the coming days. Wellington City is on a knife edge, if the wind is more southwest then snow is more likely over the eastern hills. If the wind is more southerly then snow could fall in the CBD Thursday morning. https://t.co/h7Gi2PtzoI


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6:17 PM · Oct 3, 2022
It had been reported by stuff.co.nz that accumulating October snow in Christchurch would be the city’s first in 50 years; however, MetService walked back that statement, clarifying that some of the historical data was incomplete — the AGW Party can’t have such inconvenient headlines promulgating among the masses now, can they.


Still, Metservice’s Hines does admit that October snow is “certainly very uncommon”, adding that although “it is possible that it happened during those incomplete years, it hasn’t happened much.” Looking ahead, Hines concludes that “even when the rainy and snowy weather clears, the overnight temperatures are still going to be really cold.”


Global Temp Drops

The Version 6.0 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for Sept, 2022 has come in at 0.24 deg. C above the 30-year baseline. This is the second monthly decline in a row, down 0.04 deg. C from Aug and 0.12 deg. C from July.

We’re also now 0.47 deg. C below the 2016 high, with all indicators pointing to a continuation of this downward trend over the coming months/years as La Nina conditions/historically low solar activity persist (with a few bumps along the way).


Dr Roy Spencer


Substantial monthly declines were noted in two of the six individual regions identified by the UAH dataset — the first being the Southern Hemisphere, with its drop of 0.18 deg. C; and the second was Australia, with its 0.28 deg. C plunge.

The COLD TIMES are returning–despite the mainstream garble…



…and the mid-latitudes are REFREEZING in line with historically low solar activity, cloud-nucleating Cosmic Rays, and a meridional jet stream flow (among many other forcings, including the impending release of the Beaufort Gyre).
 

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Northern Hemisphere Snow Season Off To A Near-Record Start; Cold September Across Scandinavia; October Snow Hits NZ; Antarctic Air Approaches Australia; Record Cold NYC; + 30% Chance Of An X-Flare​

October 5, 2022 Cap Allon

Northern Hemisphere Snow Season Off To A Near-Record Start

Looking at all the available data, the 2022-2023 Northern Hemisphere snow season is off to an impressive start.
The Finish Meteorological Institute’s ‘Total Snow Mass for the NH’ chart –that I track on Electroverse– has yet to plot its first datapoint of the year, but we have Environment & Climate Change Canada (ECCC) and Rutgers data to use in the meantime.
ECCC has a ‘Snow Extent Tracker’ and a ‘Snow Water Equivalent’ (SWE) chart.
Both are showing above-average gains:


ECCC ‘Snow Extent Tracker’ for NH.

ECCC ‘Snow Water Equivalent’ (SWE) Tracker for NH.

This ‘healthy’ growth is supported by the Rutgers Global Snow Lab, which uses a useful 1967-2022 base to draw its departures.
Clear to see, and contradicting the absurd MSM rhetoric, ‘Northern Hemisphere Snow Cover Extent’ had fired above the 56-year Mean as per the latest datapoint and is in fact knocking on the door of the 56-Year Max:


Rutgers Global Snow Lab: ‘NH Snow Cover Extent’.

Turning to NOAA’s ‘Multisensor Snow/Ice Cover’ map, we see that the majority of these early-season accumulations have occurred in Siberia and Northern/Eastern Russia:



This region of the world has endured a historically early onset of winter this year, with ‘blobs’ of Arctic air regularly descending down and lingering over vast areas of Transcontinental Russia (as well as Kazakhstan and Mongolia) for the past 12-or-so weeks.
Again, not a whiff of this reality has been allowed to penetrate mainstream consciousness. But there is still time, MSM — the region’s unusually cold and snowy spell isn’t over yet, not by a long stretch:


GFS Total Snowfall (cm) Oct 5 – Oct 21 [tropicaltidbits.com].


Cold September Across Scandinavia

September was a cool month for much of Europe, including for the continent’s most northern reaches.


Finland​

September 2022 in Finland had an average temperature of approx. 1C below the norm. Readings were slightly cooler than normal in the North, and as much as 2C below the multidecadal average down South.
Maps courtesy of @meteorologit:



Denmark​

September in Denmark had an average temperature of 13.2C (55.8F) which is 0.4C below the norm:





Sebastian Pelt
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September blev 0,4 grader koldere end normalt (13,2 vs 13,6 C) Ingen sommerdage Tre lokale nætter med frost (og endda i træk) Lidt mere solskin og regn end normalt. https://t.co/erjGdAZ8Bx


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6:05 AM · Oct 2, 2022
Norway
September in Norway also came out cooler than average, particularly in the North and South.


Map from @meteorologene:



Sweden​

And finally, and as mentioned in yesterday’s article, Greta also noted a colder-than-average September.

Last month, temperatures in Sweden held 0.5C below the multidecadal base, which is in stark contrast to the ‘forever fire and brimstone’ narrative the corporate media continues to peddle to the misinformed masses.

Map courtesy of SMHI:





October Snow Hits NZ

The forecasts calling for record lows and sea-level snows ACROSS New Zealand haven’t disappointed, at least not so far.

Following cold and snow up and down the South Island on Tues and Weds, the North Island is about to join the ‘freezing’ line.

Wellington, up North, is set for record-breaking October snow down to 200m (660ft), and a ‘snow watch’ has been issued for Wairarapa, including the Tararua Range south of Mount Bruce, and the eastern hills.

Elsewhere, heavy snow warnings remain in place for Banks Peninsula, Southland, Stewart Island, Clutha, Dunedin, Central Otago south of Alexandra, the Southern Lakes District south of Queenstown, and Fiordland from Te Anau southwards until Thursday.


Heavy snow fell in South Canterbury Wednesday, with much more forecast for Thursday.

Continued below
 

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Part two:

New Zealand’s out-of–season polar outbreak is tied to a weak and wavy ‘meridional’ jet stream flow, a natural phenomenon which, itself, is tied to the historically low solar activity Earth has been receiving in recent years.

What we’re seeing in NZ this October is exactly what those who study the sun predicted would occur; that is, a ‘loopy’ jet stream pattern –once considered rare– funneling climatic extremes to the mid-latitudes (both NH & SH) on an increasingly-regular basis:





NIWA Weather
@NiwaWeather

Not too often does the polar jet stream follow such a loopy pathway from Antarctica to Aotearoa New Zealand... This helps to illustrate why it's so cold! Fortunately, the chill will be short-lived. https://t.co/MQYUgIpGkB


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11:32 PM · Oct 4, 2022
For more on this:
Grand Solar Minimum 101: The Future Looks Cold




The Sun is at its weakest state in more than a century, and the impacts on Earth’s weather/climate are unfolding before our eyes, whether we know it or not…


Antarctic Air Approaches Australia

This week’s exceptional chills won’t be confined to just New Zealand. Nearby Australia is also on for numerous batterings of polar cold as the jets lift air directly off Antarctica’s ice sheet and careens it north.

According the latest GFS runs (shown below), ‘blues’ and ‘purples’ are on course to buffet the majority of the Aussie continent.

Here’s Oct 8:


GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) Oct 8 [tropicaltidbits.com].


And Oct 9:


GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) Oct 9 [tropicaltidbits.com].


And below is a glimpse at next weekend, Oct 15:


GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) Oct 15 [tropicaltidbits.com].


Also, additional –and potentially record-breaking– spring snowfall is on the cards for the southeast (including Tasmania):


GFS Total Snowfall (cm) Oct 5 – Oct 21 [tropicaltidbits.com].

Australia’s late-season chills are following what was a colder-than-average winter (BoM), during which a number of locales, including Queensland’s state capital, Brisbane, experienced their coldest winter’s ever recorded.


These, once again, are narrative-jarring facts that the AGW Party is working hard to keep under wraps:


Record Cold NYC

A myriad of daily low temperature records have fallen across the Northeast U.S. this week…

…including in New York City where the NWS climate station at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens struggled to a high of just 52F (11.1C) on Monday, breaking the previous record of 53F (11.7C) set back in 1974 (solar minimum of cycle 20).


For reference, the locale’s average high temp for Oct 3 is 70F (21.1C)


NWS New York NY
@NWSNewYorkNY

Yesterday was a cool one! Record cool in fact, at least for JFK. They broke their record for a minimum high temperature while Newark tied their previous record. Both originally set back in 1974. #NYwx #NJwx https://t.co/Trijglovy2


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Along with New York, many other NE states saw low temperature records fall on Monday and Tuesday, including, but not limited to, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maine, and Virginia.



30% Chance Of An X-Flare

Yesterday, on October 4, a 200,000-km long filament of magnetism in the sun’s southern hemisphere erupted.

Snapping like a rubber band, it hurled part of itself into space:



Debris from the blast might be heading for Earth. SOHO coronagraphs saw hints of a Corocal Mass Ejection (CME) emerging from the blast site–but the data stream stopped before the full CME was visible. The missing data should arrive later today.


Moreover, Behemoth sunspot ‘AR3112’ (shown below) is looking poised to explode:


Around AR3112
Taken by Francois Rouviere on Oct 4, 2022 at Cannes, France.

NOAA forecasters estimate a 65% chance of M-flares and a 30% chance of X-flares today, October 5.

Any eruptions will be geoeffective as the sunspot is almost directly facing Earth.

Stay tuned for updates.

The COLD TIMES are returning, the mid-latitudes are REFREEZING in line with historically low solar activity, cloud-nucleating Cosmic Rays, and a meridional jet stream flow (among many other forcings, including the impending release of the Beaufort Gyre).
 

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Extreme Weather

Very Cold September For The Baltic Nations; Bill Gates Concession?; Christchurch Sees First October Snow In 53 Years; Australia Is Next; + U.S. Forecast First Arctic Outbreak Of The Season​

October 6, 2022 Cap Allon

Very Cold September For The Baltic Nations

September was a cool month for the majority of Europe, including for the Baltic region…


Latvia​

September 2022 in Latvia was very cold — record-challenging, in fact.
The average temperature came out at 10.1C (50.2F), which is an impressive 2.2C below the 1991-2020 norm.
Map courtesy of LVGMC:



Estonia​

Last month in Estonia was also abnormally frigid.
The small Northern European nation, which borders the Baltic Sea, finished September with an average temperature of 10.2C (50.4F) — a full 2C below the multidecadal norm.
The first half of the month was particularly cold, averaging 10C (50F), which is a whopping 4C below normal.





Kairo Kiitsak
@kairokiitsak

September 2022 in #Estonia had an average temperature of 10.2°C which is 2.0°C below normal. Average rainfall was 46 mm which is 79% of the norm. First decade was significantly cold with an average of 10°C (norm 14°C).
6:28 AM · Oct 4, 2022

Lithuania

September 2022 in nearby Lithuania was equally cold.

The country observed an average temperature of 10.6C, which is 2.2C below normal.

Temperatures map courtesy of LHMT:



Elsewhere​

Traversing west, colder-than-average months were also logged in Belgium and The Netherlands.

Belgium logged 14.9C, which is 0.3C below normal.

While The Netherlands registered, which is 0.1C below the multidecadal norm.

Despite the mainstream narrative, the world continues to prove that it is far from on fire.


Bill Gates Concession?

TPTB, via their public stooge Bill Gates, may be conceding some ground re. their Great Reset…?

Actions speak louder than words, and Gates’ purchasing and decommissioning of farm land remains of grave concern, but his recent utterances (heard below) certainly appear to be a curtailing of one of the more extreme aspects of ‘the plan’.

Perhaps this thawing is related to the wave of anger now permeating the populous: this, they have found, is where we push back.


To paraphrase: “We found that changing human desires, at least in this regard, is too difficult … forcibly removing meat from peoples diet doesn’t need to play an absolutely central role anyway … we’ll get them elsewhere.”

–At least that’s how I hear it.

Christchurch Sees First October Sea-Level Snow In 53 Years

Daily highs are holding in the single digits (C) for a third day in a row across New Zealand’s South Island, and many snow warnings and watches remain in place.

Snow is reported to have settled at sea level in Christchurch. The last time that occurred was during the October of 1969, some 53 years ago. Sizable accumulations have also hit further north, in Wellington — the region’s first spring snowfall in more than a decade. While rare October flakes have blanketed parts of Dunedin, too, also at historically low levels.


Icy weather brings snow to Christchurch, Wellington in rare spring blast [Newshub].


SAFE is urging farmers to take urgent action for newborn lambs hammered by these out-of-season polar blasts.

“Every year, lambs born in the late winter and spring are caught out in the cold by icy blasts,” SAFE head of investigations Will Appelbe said, who continues with this little brainwashed nugget: “While this weather event is unique, severe weather events like this are likely to become more common as climate change worsens.”

‘Catastrophic Global Warming means more snow’, I forgot for a minute there — silly me. Below are a few snapshots of what we can expect in the years ahead as plant food continues to bake our planet into dust (logic courtesy of modern day cLiMaTe ScIeNcE).


October snow for first time in years, Otago schools closed, flights cancelled.





Rydall Neil McLeod
@Rydall2000

This is Crazy, it's spring, and on the verge of summer, but mother nature sends snow to most of New Zealand, crazy cold here, some places in NZ are at -4.5 deg ATM, i want sun and summer ...GO AWAY COLD https://t.co/V9BMxU7dl4


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Todd Redpath
@toddrednz

One of the challenges of doing #snow research in New Zealand is the remoteness of our field sites. Until this morning. https://t.co/neSU4JJ15s


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@GwennRJ

Lot of snow ❄️ in #dunedin for spring. Up to sea level #newzealand #snow #newzealandweather https://t.co/spAtgMcvQx


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Australia Is Next
Travelling west, Australia looks next in line to be buffeted by icy Antarctic air masses.

The models have doubled-down, and show ‘blues’ and ‘purple’s engulfing the majority of the Aussie continent starting this weekend.

Below is a look at Oct 8:


GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) for Oct 8 [tropicaltidbits.com].


Here’s Oct 9:

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GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) for Oct 9 [tropicaltidbits.com].


And then Oct 13:


GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) for Oct 13 [tropicaltidbits.com].

Oct 14:


GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) for Oct 14 [tropicaltidbits.com].

Oct 15:


GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) for Oct 15 [tropicaltidbits.com].


The accompanying snow also looks impressive:


GFS Total Snowfall (cm) for Oct 6 – Oct 22 [tropicaltidbits.com].

For more on the actual science behind the Southern Hemisphere’s refusal to warm-up this spring, see below:
Grand Solar Minimum 101: The Future Looks Cold




The Sun is at its weakest state in more than a century, and the impacts on Earth’s weather/climate are unfolding before our eyes, whether we know it or not…


Also, South America is currently enduring a similar setup:


GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) for Oct 11 [tropicaltidbits.com].


And as for the Antarctica itself, the ice sheet has been holding colder than the 1979-2000 base for the majority of the year, according to the Climate Institute at the University of Maine, which –even more inconveniently for the AGW Party– follows what was its coldest 6-month spell in recorded history during the ‘coreless winter’ (April-Sept) of 2021:
In these Days of “Catastrophic Global Warming,” the South Pole just suffered its Coldest ‘Winter’ in Recorded History




With an average temperature of -61.1C (-78F), the South Pole has just logged its coldest 6-month spell ever recorded (April-Sept).


U.S. Forecast First Arctic Outbreak Of The Season

Closing with a look at the Northern Hemisphere, specifically North America, the GFS is hinting at the continent’s first Arctic outbreak proper of the season.


A mass of brutal polar air is threatening to engulf 60+% of the CONUS commencing around Oct 17:


GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) for Oct 17 – Oct 20 [tropicaltidbits.com].


Although in the unreliable time-frame, this is certainly worth keeping an eye on.

Stay tuned for updates.

The COLD TIMES are returning, the mid-latitudes are REFREEZING in line with historically low solar activity, cloud-nucleating Cosmic Rays, and a meridional jet stream flow (among many other forcings, including the impending release of the Beaufort Gyre).
 

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Historic Low Temperature Records Fall In New Zealand During “Power Shortage Warning”; Cold Central Europe; Bird Flu Outbreak Labelled “Unprecedented” and “Scary”; They’re Jabbing Cows With mRNA; + Scheduled Internet Blackout Inbound…​

October 7, 2022 Cap Allon

Historic Low Temperature Records Fall In New Zealand

New Zealand is smashing long-standing low temperature records left, right and center, yet the mainstream media couldn’t care less. They’re quick to jump on heatwaves and wildfires occurring in this part of the world, but it’s crickets when it comes to unprecedented cold.
Cold records have been slain across both islands this week.
Below are just five benchmarks that fell on the North Island on Friday morning, as collated by MetService:


MetService
@MetService
A number of North Island places recorded their coldest ever October temperature this morning (since their station record began) MetService - Te Ratonga Tirorangi ^PL https://t.co/czeMtNMXBy
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3:51 PM · Oct 6, 2022
Many more October record lows are reported to have fallen, including the 1.8C (35.2F) in Auckland and the -3C (26.6F) at Wanaka Airport. Also, rare frosts were reported at Westport.

Accompanying the anomalous lows have been historic spring snows. Very rare flurries fell at sea level on the remote Chatham Island. And, as reported yesterday, Christchurch logged its first sea-level October snow since 1969.

This is a truly newsworthy event, but I’m not naive and there are no prizes for guessing why it’s passing by unreported.

‘Power Shortage Warning’​

This week’s cold was even more bracing thanks to a ‘power shortage warning’. Across the North Island, ‘a national grid emergency’ led to pleas to the public to save power by not charging electronic devices and only heating the room you are in.

The national grid operator issued the warning Wednesday morning, declaring a “North Island emergency”.

The issue has since been resolved, thank fully, in part thanks to the efforts of those restricting their power usage.

“Fortunately we were able to resolve the issue before we had to cut additional demand which would have resulted in some consumers being disconnected,” said Transpower CEO Alison Andrew. “We are grateful to those New Zealanders who took action to reduce their usage.”

Growers Counting Cost Of Polar Blast​

Bannockburn winegrower James Dicey said things were “not great”. His dam was almost completely drained fighting yesterday’s frost, and a helicopter had also been hired, he said.

Cromwell fruitgrower Simon Webb said there was extensive damage to his crop of apricots which “took a big hit”.

While North Otago Federated Farmers president Jared Ross lamented that the cold front was “not ideal” and that he is expecting lambs to have been lost, with the full extent not known until the weekend.


Sam Neill
@TwoPaddocks
It never snows in October. Until one day it does snow in October. And the n I get anxious in October. Most of our vines are in delicate bud in October. Crazy October. https://t.co/35DPiq1QhD
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5:19 PM · Oct 5, 2022
Cold Central Europe
Europe’s temperature data for September continues to trickle in.

Czech Republic​

September 2022 in the Czech Republic finished with an average temperature of 12C (53.6F), which is a full 1C below the multidecadal norm:


Zdenek Nejedly
@ZdenekNejedly
September 2022 in the Czech Republic had an average temperature of 12.0C which is 1.0C below 91-20 normal (close to cold/normal border) In terms of precipitation, it was wet, the monthly total of 80 mm of precipitation represents 133% of the normal. https://t.co/WqcVL77Mif https://t.co/RBkgN2cP4W
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Serbia
The story was similar in Serbia, with temperatures holding below the average there, too:


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Milos Milic
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September 2022 in Serbia relative to 1991-2020: - temperature anomaly from -1.0°C in Vranje to +0.1°C in Sjenica ⬅️ - % of normal precipitation from 74% in Negotin to 282% in Ban. Karlovac ➡️ - 5th wettest in Serbia since 1951, 2nd wettest on 3 stations, 3rd wettest on 3 stations https://t.co/32gBTHJaq8


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9:52 AM · Oct 5, 2022
Poland
September in Poland was very cold, wit the country’s average anomaly coming out at -1.47C below normal.

The coldest conditions were suffered in the Northeast where anomalies of more than -2C were logged:


Meteomodel ❄️
@PogodaMeteo

AutoTweet: Miesięczna anomalia temperatury powietrza w #Polska do 2022-09-30 (nowy okres referencyjny 1991-2020) Źródło: @IMGWmeteo / Ogimet. #pogoda #klimat #temperatura https://t.co/XPfV94Bq8B


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11:53 PM · Sep 30, 2022
Hungary
And finally in Hungary, September had an average temperature of 15.5C (59.9F), which is 0.5C below the multidecadal norm.

In addition –and as was also the case with all the nations mentioned above– last month was a wetter than average month. In fact, for many regions of Hungary (see white dotted areas on bottom right map) it was the wettest September since 1901:


Zdenek Nejedly
@ZdenekNejedly

September in Hungary was 0.5 C below 1991-2020 normal with avg. temp. 15.5 C. In terms of precipitation, it was wet, the wettest month of 2022 so far. For white dotted areas (p. 4) it was the wettest September since 1901. Országos Meteorológiai Szolgálat https://t.co/EANScYawDp


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Historically Wet Australia
Briefly, as we’re on the topic of above average precipitation, history has just been set in Sydney.

Despite the absurd prophesies made in 2007 –by activist-scientist and ‘Australian Of The Year’ Tim Flannery who proclaimed “rains won’t fill Australia’s dams” due to global warming– this year’s accumulated rainfall surpassed 2200mm on Thursday, making 2022 the wettest year on record for the Emerald City with 3 months left to go!


For reference, the previous wettest year was 1950 (2194mm), and previously, 1860 (2110mm).


Bird Flu Outbreak Labelled “Unprecedented” and “Scary”

According to authorities, an outbreak of the highly pathogenic strain of H5N1 influenza (aka bird flu) is showing no signs of relenting.

Some 50 million birds have been culled amid efforts to mitigate the spread of the virus, which continues to spread across the Northern Hemisphere.

More than 2,600 outbreaks have been reported among domesticated flocks, as well as more than 3,500 cases in wild birds from 37 European countries, according to the latest overview of the epidemic from European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).

The strain, a clade of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza (2.3.4.4b) that emerged in the early 2010s, usually follows a seasonal cycle, with infections detected in winter and case numbers dropping off by summer. This year, however, things were different. Mass deaths of seabirds in spring foreshadowed a record-breaking summer, with the number of outbreaks from June to September five times higher in 2022 than during the same period in 2021.

“The severity of the situation and scale of the impact is unprecedented and very, very scary. It’s a huge crisis that could turn into a catastrophe unless we get ahead of it,” said Jeff Knott, director of policy for the UK conservation charity, the RSPB.

My question: Is this another aspect of ‘campaign fear’? A ploy to turn the masses off of eating ‘dirty, disease-riddled’ poultry? Could it be setting the stage for a mass avian vaccination program? Or, is this a genuine threat that we –particularly us homesteaders– need to concern ourselves with.

What is assured, however, is that this is another difficult query to add to the near-insurmountable list of difficult queries we, the truth-seekers, now have to navigate our way through.

They’re Jabbing Cows With mRNA
According to local reports, farmers in New South Wales, Australia are being “forced” to jab their herds with mRNA ‘vaccines’.


One NSW dairy farmer reportedly complied, and of her 200 head of cattle, 35 died instantly.

An email from a concerned neighbor of the dairy farmer reads:

“Dairy herd DNA is altered. Milk is altered and you CONSUME IT! Butter constitution, yoghurt, cheese is altered, MEAT is altered Will chicken and other meats be next? Time to grow your own folks, and maybe develop herds that are private, none tagged, and never vaccinated. Time to set up a community farm association with member/ farmers who are not part of the system, have herds/animals that are not jabbed or tagged so a community of private people can be consumers of organic produced livestock. It’s time to fend for ourselves as an organised community. Watch this space.”

Can anybody in Australia, or elsewhere, confirm this report?

Scheduled Internet Blackout Inbound…?

And finally, I have heard word, however preposterous-sounding, that a scheduled internet shutdown could be on the cards, an event tied to the resetting of the financial system.

It seems like the Federal Reserve and Central Banks are out of money — cash is clearly running low.

My understanding is that something like an XRP, i.e. a blockchain technology, will be the foundations on which the new system will be built. XRP’s focus from its inception has been on ‘cross border payments’ (replacing SWIFT), and it has conducted many a meeting with top level government officials and Central Bankers over the years.

If the internet goes down soon, then this, again to my mind, would signal the rebooting of the financial system and the switching over to the new one.

As Chief Technology Officer of Ripple (XRP) David Schwartz said as clear as day: “We are in the middle of rebuilding the financial system”. And it is being ‘rebuilt’ under the radar yet right under our noses. Bitcoin was never ‘the chosen one’, it was always XRP:


NotFinancialAdvice.Crypto
@NFAdotcrypto

Why do I hold $XRP? This video should make it clear. #Ripple #Crypto #Blockchain https://t.co/kvPf9BROrH


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As financial author Linda P. Jones recently tweeted, “Our financial system changed on September 30, 2022 (citing US Corporation ending, the end of US Gov fiscal year, Vatican returned funds, commercial traders went from short to long silver, CEOs resigned, and 2 banks rumored to be failing) and is still transitioning. If the internet goes down, that’s the switchover,” she concludes.
For better or worse (likely worse), this, I believe, is their plan, and all that us peasants can do is buckle up and hunker down for the ride (and maybe buy some XRP/hope for that grid-destroying X-Flare — to each their own).
 

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Unusually early frost expected in the Northern VA area outside Washington, DC. We lived there much of our early lives, and this is most definitely unusual:


Weekend frost expected for DC suburbs​

Chad Merrill
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The coldest air mass of the season will descend upon the D.C. region this weekend and temperatures will be cold enough to concern those with outdoor gardens and planted flowers.

A sharp cold front will push west to east across the D.C. area between 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. Friday night — temperatures in its wake will quickly fall about 10 degrees as winds kick up. While those temperatures won’t be frosty, the problems will arise overnight Saturday into early Sunday morning.

A combination of clear skies and dry air, along with rather moist ground and calm winds will allow frost to develop north and west of D.C. on Sunday morning. Temperatures will drop to the freezing mark for a few hours close to daybreak on Sunday.

Areas inside the Capital Beltway and along and east of Interstate 95 will be spared any frost, as temperatures only drop to around 40.

The best practice during a Frost Advisory, which is expected to be issued for early Sunday along and west of the Blue Ridge, is to either cover tender vegetation like flowers or bring flower pots inside.

It usually takes a hard freeze with temperatures in the 20s for several hours to cause permanent damage to flowers and crops. That type of cold is responsible for ending the growing season and won’t occur just yet.

Historically, the D.C. area doesn’t have its first frost until the sometime between Nov. 8 and Nov. 12, followed by a hard freeze that ends the growing season just before Thanksgiving.

However, the frost and freeze season is always earlier by a few weeks along and west of the Blue Ridge. The first frost occurs in mid-October, followed by the first autumn freeze just before Halloween.

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Here’s a look at when the first freeze usually occurs. Click to enlarge. (Courtesy Midwest Regional Climate Center)

The pattern going forward through the remainder of the October will bring frequent cold fronts across the D.C. region, with a likelihood for the killing frost or hard freeze to occur earlier than usual this year.
 

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A Novel Look at Global Hurricane Data Reveals No Trend​

October 10, 2022 Cap Allon
Experienced data analyst, 10-year Wall Street veteran, and self-proclaimed “Mrs. Smarty Pants” Zoe Phin of phzoe.com takes a look at the alarmists’ claim that “increasing CO2 emissions are leading to more frequent and intense hurricanes”.
Phin has already tackled Atlantic hurricanes (linked here), finding no trend.
Now, she analyzes the global data.
And while it is true that the number of detected hurricanes has increased, this is due to better sensing technology, writes Phin on her blog.
It stands that there are far better ways to count the frequency of hurricanes besides mere detection. Does it make sense to count a 6-hr Category 3 storm the same as a 42-hr Category 3 storm…?


“Storm 1” and “Storm 2” are bot classified as Category 3, but the Cat3 status is unequal in time.

No, of course not. It doesn’t make sense at all. Such a thing would be misleading. But that is exactly what climate alarmists do.
The best way to tackle this question, according to Zoe Phin, would be to count the hours spent at certain wind speed categories.
And this is exactly what she did.
So, without further ado, here are the results from ‘the best hurricane data in the world’…
[Note: 10yr CMA means 10-Year Centered Moving Average]

Category 1 is cyclic/no-trend:


Category 2 had increased, but dropped during the past 25 years:


Category 3 had increased, but dropped during the past 25 years; while Category 4 is cyclic/no-trend:
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And Category 5 has actually DECREASED:


Featured below is the combined data for Category 1,2,3,4,5 hurricanes.
Overall, it reveals no trend — just natural, cyclical motions:


Zoe Phin’s results will come as no surprise to those privy to the actual data, which routinely contradict the propagandizing bleats released by the IPCC and their MSM lapdogs. And adding support to Phin’s findings, a host of other leading scientists have reached very similar conclusions — that is, that hurricanes have not been getting stronger or more frequent in recent decades.
For example, here’s Klotzbach et al (2018):



And here’s NOAA’s Dr. Ryan Maue, who cites Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. re global cyclone activity since 1970:



The alarmists’ claim is that greenhouse gases create more energy for hurricanes, writes Phin.
Well, she asks, “where exactly is all that extra energy for hurricanes?”

 

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Late-Season Antarctic Outbreak Slams South America; Chilly Bermuda; Wheat Spikes; + China, Japan, And The Koreas Swing From Heat To Record-Smashing Cold And Snow​

October 11, 2022 Cap Allon

Late-Season Polar Cold Grips South America

A spell of record-breaking, late-season cold is continuing to grip vast swathes of the South American continent.
Temperatures have plummeted in North Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Southern Brazil in recent days, with rare October frosts noted at low elevations in Uruguay and Paraguay, in particular.
Paraguay’s capital Asuncion, for example, is registering daytime highs of <15C (<59F), which is around 13C below the multidecadal norm.
Looking ahead, via the latest GFS run (shown below), South America’s chill is only forecast to persist:


GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) Oct 10 – Oct 15 [tropicaltidbits.com].


Chilly Bermuda

September 2022 in Bermuda was a cold one.
The British Island territory finished with an average temperature of 26.8C (80F), which -0.4C below the multidecadal norm.


Wheat Spikes

Wheat futures surged almost 8% on Monday as traders responded to Russia’s barrage of missile attacks on cities across Ukraine which further risk the UN-brokered accord between the nations on an export corridor for Black Sea grains.
Ahead of Russia’s attacks on cities including Kyiv, Dnipro and Lviv, traders had already expected the Black sea exports to come under increasing threat following critical damage to a Russian-built bridge on Saturday that connects Russia with Crimea.
“I think it goes back to the fact nearly 30% of the world’s wheat exports could be in some sort of jeopardy if the Black Sea Export Corridor agreement is not extended,” Larry Shonkwiler of Advance Trading told Agricensus.
“Corn and wheat are all related to the war’s escalation. Traders are starting to wonder if Russia will not renew the safe passage agreement,” said senior grain and oilseed commodity analyst at Futures International Terry Reilly.
The agreement is currently due to run through November 20.


China, Japan, And The Koreas Swing From Heat To Record-Smashing Cold And Snow

Plunging Arctic cold, which has been felling low temperature and snowfall records in Eastern Russia and Mongolia for the past few months, has now descended into China, Japan and the Koreas.
This region of the world has suffered a drastic turnaround, from heat to record-smashing chills in a matter of 24-48 hours.
Hundreds of low temperature records have fallen in Central and Eastern China, with historically-early snowfall observed in many locales, including in Shenyang; while in North Korea, freezing lows have been logged across the country and even near sea level, too — a monthly record of -10C (14F) fell here, at an elevation of 1,300m (4,000ft).
The snow in Shenyang has entered the record books as the second-earliest settling snow since meteorological data began (well-over a century ago). For reference, the city’s earliest-ever snow remains Oct 8, 1969 (so only 1 day earlier).
And elsewhere, by Oct 10, snow in the province’s Zhangwu and Kangping was ankle-deep, reports news.cgtn.com.
With the higher reaches of Anhui Province also reportedly busting records:





Sharing travel
@TripInChina

Tianzhu Mountain in Anhui Province after the snow. https://t.co/xKf3b8ak8P


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Snow is now penetrating regions of Southwest China, too, such as Sichuan Province:





Sui Lixi
@lixi_sui

It has begun to snow in southwest China's #Sichuan Province, these beautiful views were taken in #Jiuzhaigou just after an early snow. #AmazingChina https://t.co/JsKdOdjFbz


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China has suffered a classic ‘swing between extremes‘ (see comparison graphic below) — a natural phenomenon foreseen to increase as historically low solar activity continues to weaken the jet streams and revert their usual straight ZONAL flow to wavy MERIDIONAL ones.

If climate alarmists are dim-witted enough to claim that China’s recent ‘red’ is evidence of catastrophic global warming, then surely they should give some balance and recognize that the now infiltrating ‘blue’ is evidence of global cooling. To their simple minds this is surely only logical; and if not, then what exactly is behind the invading early-season and record-smashing freeze? Or are we to believe that record heat is exaggerated by man’s activities and that equally record-breaking cold is entirely natural?


Rather than offering up an explanation however, most alarmists –those spoon fed their ‘apocalypse’ by a corrupted MSM– aren’t privy to worldly outbreaks of cold, only heat, and so haven’t been given a reason to stop, think and formulate an answer.

If they ever were permitted to pause and use their own minds –a process the factory schooling system has worked hard to stamp out– I’d like to think their answer would sound something like this: The planet experiences pockets of heat and pockets of cold, and these pockets can shift on a dime. It is a waning Sun that is the root cause of these increasingly-violent ‘swings between extremes’, not CO2; and, moving forward, if low solar activity continues its intensification –as forecast– then the extremes should intensify with it, as the planet –overall– cools.
Grand Solar Minimum 101: The Future Looks Cold




The Sun is at its weakest state in more than a century, and the impacts on Earth’s weather/climate are unfolding before our eyes, whether we know it or not…

Grand Solar Minimum and the Swing Between Extremes




Intense bursts of heat will linger in one area, while a teeth-chattering chill will dominate nearby — and then the regions will “switch”. It’s this chopping and changing that will hasten the failure of our modern food production systems — crops will fail, on a large scale, and famine will quickly ensue.

Asia’s record-busting, early-season snows, particularly those depths building in Siberia and NE Russia, have already driven the 2022-23 season’s Total Snow Mass for the Northern Hemisphere to well-above average levels (shown below).

As we’ve witnessed over the past few years now, NH snow cover is clearly increasing — another inconvenience that the AGW Party is having to pull double-shifts in order to explain-away.



[FMI]

The COLD TIMES are returning, the mid-latitudes are REFREEZING in line with historically low solar activity, cloud-nucleating Cosmic Rays, and a meridional jet stream flow (among many other forcings, including the impending release of the Beaufort Gyre).
 
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Arctic Outbreak To Hit North America; Record Cold On Macquarie Island; + Plan To Tax Cow Burps Enrages New Zealand Farmers​

October 12, 2022 Cap Allon

Arctic Outbreak To Hit For North America

An early taste of winter will sweep the eastern half of North America starting this weekend and intensifying into next week.
According to the National Weather Service (NWS) outlook:
“While temperatures will average below normal through this weekend, a major pattern change late next week could support a stretch when temperatures will average below to much below normal. In fact, some longer range guidance is suggesting that sites within the lake snow belts could experience their first accumulating snows at that time.”


GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) Oct 14 – Oct 18 [tropicaltidbits.com].

This polar invasion threatens record low temperatures across vast regions of both the U.S. and Canada.
The extended temperature outlook in Minneapolis, for example, shows very chilly high and low temperatures. Daytime highs here are set to struggle into the 40s and 50s (F), which is approximately -10F to -15F below the multidecadal average.


Heavy Snow In The Forecast​

Splitting persimmon seeds is an age-old way of predicting what the coming winter season has in store. When the seed gets split open, you’ll find one of three shapes inside: a spoon, a fork, or a knife.
The spoon, as folklore has it, is a sign of a heavy snow — lots of snow; the knife is a sign of cold winds that can cut through you; while the fork is a sign of a milder winter with perhaps a little powdery snow.
This year, the overwhelming majority of split seeds have had ‘spoons’ inside, meaning a very snowy winter is on the horizon.
Spoons were also the predominant shape last fall, too, and the winter of 2020-21 went on to deliver above-average snowfall and a brutal Arctic outbreak in February that even rivaled the historic freeze of 1979.
Such weather folklore is fun, at the very least; and, personally, I’d take the shape of a persimmon seed over NOAA and the NWS any day of the week with the latter regularly proven wrong. They were proven woefully wrong last year. NOAA, bolstered by their blind belief in global warming, confidently predicted a warmer than average February of 2021, yet, in reality, the U.S. went on to suffer its coldest February since 1989 during which people, including children, froze to death in their beds, most notably in Texas.


GFS Total Snowfall (inches) Oct 12 – Oct 28 [tropicaltidbits.com].

Northern Minnesota is set see a coating of slush as early as this Sunday.
Mid-to-late October is when the weather starts to change in Western New York, too — the air has already gotten colder and the leaves are falling early across the Buffalo region. Historically, late-Oct is when the first flakes start flying in Buffalo, with the first measurable snow arriving early-to-mid Nov. This year, snow is on the cards next week, on Tuesday, to be precise, with mid-afternoon highs expected to hold in the low-50s.
Elsewhere, Red Lodge Mountain saw its first snow of the season Tuesday morning, and that means ski season is just around the corner. The two inches that fell left Spencer Weimar, assistant general manager of the mountain, looking forward to the coming season, due to start November 25.
While north of border, the Anchorage area also saw its first snow of the season this week, with a Monday afternoon dusting giving way to slick roads early Tuesday. NWS meteorologist Kaitlyn O’Brien said the snowfall ranged from 1 inch in West Anchorage to 4 inches on the Anchorage Hillside. The most snow, 4.2 inches, was recorded in the Eagle River Valley.
Anchorage’s first average snowfall hits Oct 16.


Western Canada ‘Split’ By The Jet Stream​

Western Canada is experiencing a stark temperature divide this week.
Extended summer-like weather is persisting in parts of B.C. and Alberta; while, in contrast, winter-like weather will dominate the north and east where snow watches and warnings are in place.
A ridge in the jet stream will continue to fuel both unusually-high temperatures in B.C. and Alberta AND unusually-cold readings across Northern Canada. Snow squalls are forecast across the N.W.T. and Iqaluit, with Arctic air expected to plunge south and transport record-challenging cold and snow to Manitoba.
Lake-effect flurries are even possible in the Interlake Region mid-to-late week — a rare feat for the time of year
While on the Prairies, a dry pattern will continue to dominate across western areas, while eastern sections can expect more unsettled conditions and November-like temperatures for at least the next 10-or-so days.


Record Cold On Macquarie Island

The month of October has started cool and wet across the majority of Australia.
A string of Antarctic blasts, which brought rare spring frosts and snow to both Australia and New Zealand, also felled a myriad low temperature records as they blew through, including a new monthly low on the remote island of Macquarie (54S).
Last week’s -6C (21.2F) smashed the island’s previous coldest temperature ever recorded — the -4.6C (23.7F) set back in 1969.
Australia can expect further polar cold as this week progresses:


GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) Oct 12 – Oct 14 [tropicaltidbits.com].


Plan To Tax Cow Burps Enrages New Zealand Farmers

As reported by cbc.ca, New Zealand’s government is trying to force through a tax on the gases that farm animals make from burping and peeing as part of a plan to drive human living standards into the gutter–I mean, to tackle cLiMaTe ChAnGe.
NZ farmers, the levelheaded folk they are, immediately condemned the plan. Federated Farmers, the industry’s main lobby group, said this nonsense would “rip the guts out of small town New Zealand” and see farms replaced with trees–which, of course, is exactly what the eco-zealots are gunning for.
Federated Farmers president Andrew Hoggard said farmers had been trying to work with the government for more than two years on an emissions reduction plan that wouldn’t decrease food production.
“Our plan was to keep farmers farming,” Hoggard said. Instead, he said farmers would be selling their farms “so fast you won’t even hear the dogs barking on the back of the ute as they drive off.”
Dairy products, like those those sold to China to make infant formula, are New Zealand’s largest export earner. Farming is vital to the country’s economy. There are just five million people in New Zealand but some 10 million beef and dairy cattle and 26 million sheep.
The aim here, it appears, is to convince the people that the greenhouse gas emissions from NZ farms –via methane from cow burps and the nitrous oxide in their urine– are heating the planet into oblivion, with the only solution being to give up that food source altogether.
And this globalist stooge (Jacinda Ardern – pictured below) is desperately trying to enforce her WEF mandate before the next election comes around where she’ll undoubtedly and unanimously be yanked from office.



The government’s suicidal goal is to make the country carbon neutral by 2050. Part of that plan includes a pledge that it will reduce methane emissions from farm animals by 10% by 2030 and by up to 47% by 2050.
Under the government’s proposed plan, farmers would start to pay for emissions in 2025, with the pricing yet to be finalized.
Once again, a tax is being wielded as a weapon.
Drastically higher production costs will be passed onto the consumer, which will equate to fewer sales, meaning fewer animals, and therefore fewer farms. A tax is a subtler tool than outright banning beef production, but the upshot is the same.
Deluded agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor has called this an exciting opportunity.
“Farmers are already experiencing the impact of climate change with more regular drought and flooding,” said O’Connor–without a shred of evidence to support his claim (see below). “Taking the lead on agricultural emissions is both good for the environment and our economy,” he added–which, again, is an assumption without any grounding.

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The yearly PED (drought data) for all of New Zealand, 1940 – 2022 [NIWA].

Above is the drought data for New Zealand. The flooding data is a little harder to come by. But it stands, according to NIWA, that the wettest year remains 1998, with the wettest month being that of December, 1995.
Also, for good measure, New Zealand’s highest temperature, for North and South Islands, were each recorded in 1973 — 39.2C and 42.4C, respectively; while the highest wind gusts were logged in 1959 on the North Island and in 1970 down south.
In other words, there is no climate emergency — the government’s climate pledges are based on political ideologies, not data.
And ironically, given these times of supposed ‘catastrophic global warming’, NZ farmers are being warned (once again) to protect young livestock from an anomalous Antarctic blast which threatens to bring (yet more) record spring lows and historic snows to both islands.

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Cold Paraguay; Record Lows Logged At Bismark And Parkersburg; Delhi Shivers; + “One-In-50-Year” Frost Decimates NZ Blueberry Crop​

October 13, 2022 Cap Allon

Cold Paraguay

As was the case across much of South America, September 2022 was an anomalously cool month.
Paraguay was very cool, in fact, with temperature anomalies here ranging from -1C to a full -2C below the multidecadal norm.
The below map comes courtesy of DINAC Paraguay:



Record Lows Logged At Bismark And Parkersburg

Despite the mainstream’s “Terrifying Terra Firma Broiling” rhetoric, the U.S. is still managing to bust cold records.
A record low temperature of 17F (-8.3C) was recently noted at Bismarck Airport, ND — tying the same reading for the date set back in 1976 (solar minimum of weak cycle 20).
A fresh record was also set at Parkersburg, WV, on Oct 11 — the second straight day that the city set or tied a new record low. After matching the previous benchmark of 32F (0C) on Oct 10, the following morning’s low of 33F (0.56C) broke the old record of 34F (1.1C) set back in 1945 (solar minimum of cycle 17).
A far frostier Arctic front is now threatening to grip the eastern half of the U.S. over the weekend and into next week. As discussed yesterday, this descending polar cold will likely drive the mercury to record-low levels, and also deliver early-season snow to many states:


Delhi Shivers

Starting back in late-2019, an increasing number of cold weather records have been falling across India.
In Delhi alone, the city suffered its coldest December day in more than a century back in 2019; it registered its chilliest months of October and November in 54 and 71 years, respectively, in 2020; Delhi’s coldest May day in 70 years was logged in 2021, with the following month bringing its lowest June temperature ever; and this year, 2022, Delhi suffered a harsh, persistent winter during which its coldest January and February days in a decade were noted, with nearby locales receiving their first snow since 1958: scenarios that led to the deaths of a record number of homeless people in Delhi — 200 ‘official’ deaths in January alone.
And now, in October, fresh records are falling.
The maximum temperature in Delhi dropped to 23.4C (74.1F) this week, which is more than 10C below the seasonal norm of 33.8C (92.8F). Also, the temperature difference between Friday’s minimum (20.8C/69.4F) and Saturday’s maximum (23.4C/74.1F) was also –at just 2.6C– the smallest temperature range registered in Delhi since 1969.
Over the past weekend, the city also received its second-highest 24-hour rainfall total since 2007 (solar minimum of cycle 23).
Delhi is cooling.
As is India as a whole.
Heavy, early-season snow has already clipped the nation’s northern reaches this month.
States such as Uttarakhand have seen key roads blocked. While in Darma Valley, the last outpost near the Chinese border, 4+ feet of snow has settled, with security personnel having to patrol the area “under extreme circumstances.”





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“One-In-50-Year Frost” Decimates NZ Blueberry Crop
Despite WEF-puppet Jacinda Arden’s desperate attempts to push through a ‘cow burp tax‘ to stave off global warming, the entirety of New Zealand –that’s both islands– has been suffering ‘a year without a spring’ in 2022.

Following a warm winter, spring is now stalling, completely failing to sprung.

Due to a weak and wavy ‘meridional’ jet stream flow –itself caused by low solar activity/Earth’s waning magnetic field– a string of polar air masses have escaped the Antarctic ice sheet and have been tail-whipped north over NZ, and also Australia.

Record lows and historic snows have gripped the region in recent weeks, prompting snowfall warnings and calls for farmers to protect young livestock–ironically.

The latest out-of-season freeze has impacted crops, too, including blueberry orchards.

After sleepless, frosty nights –that saw thermometers plunge to a record-busting -5C (23F)– a Waikato family watched their blueberry crops dying in front of their eyes.

As reported by sunlive.co.nz, Monavale Blueberries, New Zealand’s largest certified organic blueberry orchard, should be full of white flowering bushes and the deafening hum of bees at this time of year. However, a “one-in-50-year” frost has left the shrubs brown, the bees vanished and an estimated 300 tonnes of potential produce destroyed — some 90% of the crop.

“We have never seen anything like this,” said third-generation orchard manger Oliver de Groot.

MetService data confirms this, revealing that -2.9C (26.8F) was the previous coldest October reading on record (since 1972).

“We are all very upset by it,” continued de Groot. “We did what we could and there is nothing else we could have done to prevent it … We grow over 40 varieties of blueberries. The main reason, if an event like this happens we have some that are protected.”

This freeze was so hard that barely anything made it.

Even two helicopters flying from midnight to sunrise couldn’t circulate the air fast enough to keep it above 0C.

“If the frost had been light they may have been able to save more berries,” said de Groot. “However, it got down to -5C (23F) at ground level,” which, for the young, blossoming berries proved devastating.

This cold-induced misery isn’t just confined to the Waikato District.

Far from it.

As Blueberry New Zealand manager Rob Silberbauer reveals, “The general consensus from growers is that they’ve lost between 90 – 100 percent of their rabbiteye crop, and around 40 – 60 percent of their high bush crop.”

Silberbauer said the organisation is trying to help provide growers with technical and emotional support.

“Growers have been struggling with labor, inflation, and COVID restrictions the last two years. They were excited about the prospect that perhaps those difficulties were behind them only for these frosts to decimate their yields and resulting profits for this coming season.”

These frosts have been the final straw for many growers, who are now considering giving-up blueberry growing altogether.

The COLD TIMES are returning, the mid-latitudes are REFREEZING in line with historically low solar activity, cloud-nucleating Cosmic Rays, and a meridional jet stream flow (among many other forcings, including the impending release of the Beaufort Gyre).
 

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“Unusually Cold” Weather To Blast Eastern U.S. Next Week, Winter Predictions Call For “A Cold One”; + Tom Harris: “There Is No Climate Crisis”​

October 14, 2022 Cap Allon

“Unusually Cold” Weather To Blast Eastern U.S. Next Week…​

A blast of Arctic air is set to invade the eastern United States next week, offering an early taste of winter for many, with snow possible for some.
Freezing lows and killer frosts are forecast to extend all the way south to Birmingham, Alabama, with temperatures in the 30s reaching the Gulf of Mexico. Also, flakes are expected to fly across the Great Lakes, Midwest and New England.
The early-season polar cold looks set to descend Monday, lasting about a week. But even thereafter, anomalous chills could stick around during the run-up to Halloween.


GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies Oct 14 – Oct 20 [tropicaltidbits.com].

A minor cold front is hitting parts of the north/northeast now, which, although weak, is still managing to fell a host of cold records, including in Bismark and Parkesburg. This smaller front is paving the way for the more potent blast of cold air to follow.
This second, more robust front will take shape in south central Canada near the international border late Sunday, and by Monday night, temperatures will hold 20F below average in Chicago and across the majority of the Midwest and Great Lakes.
The entire Upper Midwest is expected to dip into the 20s on Monday night, with themometers across the remainder of the Midwest and Great Lakes crashing through the 30s. Kansas City will even dip below freezing, with both Indianapolis and Columbus set to hover around 32F.
The lows will intensify and spread through Wednesday, with readings in the 20s and 30s extending from the Midwest to the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic — such frosts and freezes will end the growing season for these locales.
The chill will continue surging south and east through Tuesday, soon reaching the Gulf and Atlantic coastlines.
Temps in the upper-30s could even make it to the Florida Panhandle.


GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies Oct 17 – Oct 20 [tropicaltidbits.com].
Lake-effect snow could develop, thanks to the comparatively mild waters of the Great Lakes. An inch or more on the eastern shores of lakes Michigan and Erie is likely. There’s also a chance that a few additional flurries make it to Ohio or western Pennsylvania by Tuesday morning, with “upslope” snows also possible on the western side of the Alleghenies in West Virginia.
Some models are hinting at additional lake-effect snow later in the week, too; with late-October currently on course to deliver the season’s first sizable accumulations to Colorado, New Mexico and Northern Texas:

GFS Total Snowfall (inches) Oct 14 – Oct 30 [tropicaltidbits.com].

Across the West, however, next week will bring a rather different story.
Here, a northward bulge in the jet stream will be the dominant feature, causing heat to swell. Hot, dry weather is expected in the Pacific Northwest, with temperatures routinely holding above seasonal norms.
Isaac Newton’s third law states, “for every action, there’s an opposite and equal reaction.”
In a sense, that will be the case in the atmosphere next week. The Arctic outbreak in the East will be countered by a late-season heat dome in the West — i.e., the jet stream is dipping south in the eastern United States, but is riding north in the western half:


GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies Oct 14 – Oct 19 [tropicaltidbits.com].

And to the shills working within the MSM: the West’s incoming heat won’t be due to ‘Anthropogenic Global Warming’, just as the East’s cold won’t be. Rather, this setup is driven by a weak and wavy meridional jet stream flow, a natural phenomenon that we see to be exaggerated during times of low solar activity, such as the historically low output we’re receiving now.



Summer Frosts In The Highlands Of Portugal & Spain, As Record Heat Sweeps Italy: Low Solar Activity & A ‘Meridional’ Jet Stream, Explained


The AGW hypothesis can confidently explain Central Europe’s heatwave; but it fails when it comes to Western Europe’s simultaneous summer freeze. A new theory is needed: ‘low solar activity’.


Eyeing further ahead, that snow forecast for Colorado, New Mexico and Northern Texas later in the month will be accompanied by a more all-encompassing blast of cold, which, according to the latest GFS run, will drive-out the majority of the West’s warmth:


GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies Oct 25 – Oct 28 [tropicaltidbits.com].

…Winter Predictions Call For “A Cold One”

For the third year in a row, a La Niña winter is on the cards for the Northern Hemisphere — driven by colder-than-average sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific.
According to The Old Farmer’s Almanac, this winter will be a frigid one, to say the least: “The eastern half of the U.S. should brace for potentially record-breaking cold to define the season,” reads their forecast. And in addition to the fierce Arctic chills, snowfall across the U.S. is expected to be above average, with North Carolina and New England copping some of the largest anomalies.
The west, although colder-than-average, will see dry conditions prevail, according to AccuWeather, who note that the winter rain and snow track has shifted north, leaving parts of California, Nevada and much of the southwest looking dry.
It’s shaping up to be cold one.
Prepare.

A Word On Europe

According to the warm-mongers at the Copernicus Climate Change Service, which updated its seasonal outlook Thursday, temperatures across Europe will likely be significantly above normal during the peak heating season (Dec through Feb).
Europeans, similar to American’s living on the East Coast, are more likely to experience mild temperatures than a deep freeze this winter, so says the service — a forecast aimed at easing potential heating-fuel concerns as the continent’s energy crisis rolls on.
The service provides its outlook using data from a host of resources, including the UK Met Office and Météo-France — in other words, it can almost certainly be written off as warm-mongering hogwash, or, in this year’s case, blind hopium.
These ‘official’ forecasts for a warmer-than-average winter season will now do the mainstream rounds, and whatever conspires in reality almost won’t matter: “The Science” proclaimed it would be cold, and ‘thy will be done’.
It stands that mainstream forecasts have a horrendous track record, though. Just take NOAA and Feb, 2021. The government agency called for a warmer-than-average month, but in reality, and when circumnavigating NOAA’s lies and obfuscations, the U.S. actually suffered its coldest February since 1989 last year, and its 19th coldest in record books dating back to 1895.


Tom Harris: “There Is No Climate Crisis”

Former climate alarmists, now realist, Tom Harris has called the entire climate movement a scam.
Harris is a former mechanical engineer and is the current executive director of the International Climate Science Coalition.
During a recent interview with Fox News, Harris stated that “there is no climate crisis” and that there is “no consistent correlation between carbon dioxide and Earth’s temperature … at times CO2 was 1300% of today and we were stuck in very cold conditions.”
Harris adds –contrary to the ‘settled science’ narrative– that there are in fact “thousands of scientists (and references) which talk about the fact that there is no foundation to the climate scare, that it is all based on models that don’t work.”
He also labels climate research “a very immature science,” adding that “we don’t even know if it’s going to be warm or cool in the future.” In fact, Harris is open to the possibility of cooling. “Various people who study the Sun, for example Dr Patterson, show that we’re headed into a Grand Solar Minimum around 2060, and that we’ll see gradual cooling over the next few decades.”
Tom Harris advocates preparing for any eventuality, namely by hardening our infrastructure via fossil fuel usage, including coal, and pleas with the establishment “not to turn off our solid, reliable energy source for flimsy wind and solar power.”
For the full 4-minute interview, click below:

The COLD TIMES are returning, the mid-latitudes are REFREEZING in line with historically low solar activity, cloud-nucleating Cosmic Rays, and a meridional jet stream flow (among many other forcings, including the impending release of the Beaufort Gyre).
 

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Supposed to be down to 27 by Wednesday morning here in the NW part of central Arkansas. It was like this a lot when I first moved here in 1977. Severe summers and severe winter for the first ten years or so that I lived here, Then things got much milder for a good while, but now it's getting back to the extremes, only worse because there don't seem to be dependable seasons any more and the day to day and week to week weather is an unpredictable roller coaster.
 
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Supposed to be down to 27 by Wednesday morning here in the NW oart of central Arkansas. It was like this a lot when I first moved here in 1977. Severe summers and severe wintinter for the fisrt ten years or so that I lived here, Then things got much milder for a good whole, but now it's getting back to the extremes, only worse because there don't seem to be dependable seasons any more and the day to day and week to week weather is an unpredictable roller coaster.
This certaintly won't help gardens, fruit trees and berry plants! 27, my gosh!
 

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Yup. I consider 27 a good freeze, not just a frost. Glad I decided to not plant an outdoor fall garden this year. It was because of not getting much rain to speak of, but the early freeze is just another good reason to confine my winter growing to the greenhouse. It freezes in there, too, in January and February, but it still extends my growing season, in both Spring and Fall.

Just spent a couple of minutes repairing the poor typing on my previous post. Can't believe I made that many mistakes!
 
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TxGal

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Oh yeah, that's a hard freeze! The only fall 'garden' I have now is some potatoes I planted in tubs...most haven't come up yet, I'm late getting them in. And I did one tub of carrots, but they're not up yet, either. I still have one very large Juliet cherry tomato with tomatoes on it, but the ones left are going to the chickens over the next few days. That plant likely won't survive the colder weather. Heck, I'm surprised it made it through this summer, we've been so hot and dry even for here.

I'm not much liking how the winter seems to be shaping up. Typos - I thought it was just me, lately I've been correcting almost as much as I type! I was hoping it's the new software on the forum :-)
 
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