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The official death toll has now climbed above 70 –and is expected to continue climbing– after 2 million homes endured one of the worst winter storms on record without power, and thousands upon thousands of Christmas travelers became stranded.
At least 28 Americans perished in Buffalo alone.
Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown called this freeze the worst of most residents’ lifetimes: “All of the numbers have not caught up at this time,” he said, referring to the death toll. “We know that the [Erie] county number is larger.”
Military police have been brought in to help manage Buffalo’s traffic after “the blizzard of the century” hit the region — this is how State Governor Kathy Hochul described it, but such rhetoric is becoming increasingly common in recent times: a “historic” snowvember battered the region last month, which Hochul called, “one for the record books … one to tell your grandkids about.”
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Blizzard conditions have still been sweeping through portions of New York. More snow continues into Monday. #NYwx #LakeEffectSnow More details: Buffalo Blizzard & New England Flash Freeze https://t.co/qrPgMnxBLL
12:00 AM · Dec 26, 2022
The original global warming hypothesis called for linearly and evenly rising temperatures and less snowfall — but this isn’t what we’re seeing, not by a long shot. Rather than scrap their failed theory, however, the agenda-driving ‘climate arm’ of the globalists (the IPCC) merely shift the goalposts, and then proceed to gaslight all those that notice.
“Catastrophic warming is making the Arctic (but not the Antarctic) heat faster,” is the Marxists claim, “which is disturbing the jet stream via a process that doesn’t make any scientific sense — and that is why Americans are freezing to death in their cars and in their own beds in 2022 despite decades of this CO2-induced disastrous broiling — so you best pay your carbon tax and reduce your living standards because, you know, the planet hates you.”
WeatherNation
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A blizzard followed by extreme cold led to frozen docks and piers on the Lake Michigan shoreline in St. Joseph, MI. #MIwx #ice https://t.co/kNDsHqYCcQ
4:00 PM · Dec 27, 2022
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No this isn't an ice rink, this was a road on Sunday in Leavenworth, WA WSDOT vehicles couldn't even get to the road, so they had to bring out a Sno-Cat to assess the conditions. @wsdot said it best: "Excellent for hockey, not that great for driving" #WAwx https://t.co/j4RWZbOXeO
8:00 PM · Dec 27, 2022
“It is [like] going to a war zone, and the vehicles along the sides of the roads are shocking,” commented Hochul on this most-recent freeze, explaining that emergency personnel were going from car to car searching for survivors, often finding frozen bodies inside and even in nearby snow banks, too, as desperate drivers sought refuge on foot.
As well as New York, cold-related deaths have also been reported in Vermont, Ohio, Missouri, Wisconsin, Kansas, and Colorado.
But stories of lucky escapes are also coming in.
A Maryland man was on his way to visit relatives with his two daughters when their SUV became trapped in Buffalo.
After spending hours with the engine running he made the desperate choice to risk the freezing, howling storm in order to find shelter. He carried his six-year-old daughter on his back while his 16-year-old clutched their Pomeranian puppy and followed her father’s footprints through the snow drifts.
“If I stay in this car I’m going to die here with my kids,” the man recalled thinking, adding that he broke down and cried when he finally walked his family through the shelter doors. “It’s something I will never forget in my life,” he said.
Global warming update, 2022.
Looting has also been commonplace.
“This isn’t people stealing food and medicine and diapers,” said Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gragmalia. “They’re destroying stores. They’re stealing televisions, couches, whatever else they can get their hands on. They’re opportunists.”
The owner of a small family-run shop in East Buffalo said looters broke into his general store on Christmas Day.
“They took everything. People took toys, electronics and speakers,” he said, estimating that up to $50,000 worth of equipment was stolen. The man said he called the police, “but they told me they were too busy rescuing the elderly”.
With regards to the records, they have been falling at an astonishing rate, with daily, monthly and even all-time low temperature benchmarks falling — amounting to the hundreds.
The story has been the same north the border, too, with the recent -53.4C (-64.1F) logged at Rabbit Kettle being confirmed as Canada’s coldest December temperature in recorded history.
But it was central provinces that bore the brunt of this week’s snow. Ontario’s Prince Edward County, along Lake Ontario, declared a state of emergency and had to take snow plows off the streets because they getting stuck.
The low solar activity-induced ‘meridional’ jet stream flow (nothing to do with CO2) even delivered rare snow to Mexico City — for only the third time on record (the previous two occasions being January 12, 1967 and March 5, 1940).
Among the dead was a woman found buried under a heavy pile of snowfall. This is the leading causes of deaths, according to local officials — people being buried underneath thick piles of snow sliding off rooftops.
Many parts of the country have reported three times their average snowfall for the season already.
The accumulations are proving unrelenting, and come hot-on-the-heels of last week’s all-time record-breaking totals:
The Mountain looks like a snow cone in the middle of the ocean — an odd site:
Azores, What Else!
@AzoresWhatElse
Photo by @carlosdocarmoiso Serra de Santa Bárbara com a montanha do Pico coberta de neve, hoje de manhã. Já não vou a tempo, mas desejo a todos umas festas felizes, e um excelente ano novo de 2023!
#snow #mountains #liveauthentic #winter #visitportugal #nikon … https://t.co/grcYR8C56e
11:53 AM · Dec 27, 2022
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US Arctic Outbreak Fells Hundreds Of Records, Death Toll Hits 72 (And Rising); Rare Snow Hits Mexico City; Historic Accumulations In Japan Kill At Least 20; + Flurries Coat The Azores
December 28, 2022 Cap AllonUS Arctic Outbreak Fells Hundreds Of Records, Death Toll Hits 72 (And Rising)
A record-setting Arctic Outbreak has forced the AGW Party to publish damage limitation stories in the hope of convincing an increasingly confused public that global warming means more extreme freezes, and that it always did…The official death toll has now climbed above 70 –and is expected to continue climbing– after 2 million homes endured one of the worst winter storms on record without power, and thousands upon thousands of Christmas travelers became stranded.
At least 28 Americans perished in Buffalo alone.
Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown called this freeze the worst of most residents’ lifetimes: “All of the numbers have not caught up at this time,” he said, referring to the death toll. “We know that the [Erie] county number is larger.”
Military police have been brought in to help manage Buffalo’s traffic after “the blizzard of the century” hit the region — this is how State Governor Kathy Hochul described it, but such rhetoric is becoming increasingly common in recent times: a “historic” snowvember battered the region last month, which Hochul called, “one for the record books … one to tell your grandkids about.”
WeatherNation
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Blizzard conditions have still been sweeping through portions of New York. More snow continues into Monday. #NYwx #LakeEffectSnow More details: Buffalo Blizzard & New England Flash Freeze https://t.co/qrPgMnxBLL
12:00 AM · Dec 26, 2022
The original global warming hypothesis called for linearly and evenly rising temperatures and less snowfall — but this isn’t what we’re seeing, not by a long shot. Rather than scrap their failed theory, however, the agenda-driving ‘climate arm’ of the globalists (the IPCC) merely shift the goalposts, and then proceed to gaslight all those that notice.
“Catastrophic warming is making the Arctic (but not the Antarctic) heat faster,” is the Marxists claim, “which is disturbing the jet stream via a process that doesn’t make any scientific sense — and that is why Americans are freezing to death in their cars and in their own beds in 2022 despite decades of this CO2-induced disastrous broiling — so you best pay your carbon tax and reduce your living standards because, you know, the planet hates you.”
WeatherNation
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A blizzard followed by extreme cold led to frozen docks and piers on the Lake Michigan shoreline in St. Joseph, MI. #MIwx #ice https://t.co/kNDsHqYCcQ
4:00 PM · Dec 27, 2022
https://twitter.com/intent/like?ref...0785widget=Tweet&tweet_id=1607843908997750785
WeatherNation
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No this isn't an ice rink, this was a road on Sunday in Leavenworth, WA WSDOT vehicles couldn't even get to the road, so they had to bring out a Sno-Cat to assess the conditions. @wsdot said it best: "Excellent for hockey, not that great for driving" #WAwx https://t.co/j4RWZbOXeO
8:00 PM · Dec 27, 2022
“It is [like] going to a war zone, and the vehicles along the sides of the roads are shocking,” commented Hochul on this most-recent freeze, explaining that emergency personnel were going from car to car searching for survivors, often finding frozen bodies inside and even in nearby snow banks, too, as desperate drivers sought refuge on foot.
As well as New York, cold-related deaths have also been reported in Vermont, Ohio, Missouri, Wisconsin, Kansas, and Colorado.
But stories of lucky escapes are also coming in.
A Maryland man was on his way to visit relatives with his two daughters when their SUV became trapped in Buffalo.
After spending hours with the engine running he made the desperate choice to risk the freezing, howling storm in order to find shelter. He carried his six-year-old daughter on his back while his 16-year-old clutched their Pomeranian puppy and followed her father’s footprints through the snow drifts.
“If I stay in this car I’m going to die here with my kids,” the man recalled thinking, adding that he broke down and cried when he finally walked his family through the shelter doors. “It’s something I will never forget in my life,” he said.
Global warming update, 2022.
Looting has also been commonplace.
“This isn’t people stealing food and medicine and diapers,” said Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gragmalia. “They’re destroying stores. They’re stealing televisions, couches, whatever else they can get their hands on. They’re opportunists.”
The owner of a small family-run shop in East Buffalo said looters broke into his general store on Christmas Day.
“They took everything. People took toys, electronics and speakers,” he said, estimating that up to $50,000 worth of equipment was stolen. The man said he called the police, “but they told me they were too busy rescuing the elderly”.
With regards to the records, they have been falling at an astonishing rate, with daily, monthly and even all-time low temperature benchmarks falling — amounting to the hundreds.
The story has been the same north the border, too, with the recent -53.4C (-64.1F) logged at Rabbit Kettle being confirmed as Canada’s coldest December temperature in recorded history.
But it was central provinces that bore the brunt of this week’s snow. Ontario’s Prince Edward County, along Lake Ontario, declared a state of emergency and had to take snow plows off the streets because they getting stuck.
Rare Snow Hits Mexico City
The exceptionally freeze plunged south of the border, too, into Mexico.The low solar activity-induced ‘meridional’ jet stream flow (nothing to do with CO2) even delivered rare snow to Mexico City — for only the third time on record (the previous two occasions being January 12, 1967 and March 5, 1940).
Historic Accumulations In Japan Kill At Least 20
Widespread and historic snowfall –totaling more than 10-feet in some parts– has blanketed swathes of Japan, killing at least 20 and injuring more than 100, with thousands more without power.Among the dead was a woman found buried under a heavy pile of snowfall. This is the leading causes of deaths, according to local officials — people being buried underneath thick piles of snow sliding off rooftops.
Many parts of the country have reported three times their average snowfall for the season already.
The accumulations are proving unrelenting, and come hot-on-the-heels of last week’s all-time record-breaking totals:
Flurries Coat The Azores
“Snow at Pico Mountain is a rare thing,” so says Renato Goulart, a well-known and experienced tour guide on the Azores–an archipelago in the mid-Atlantic, an autonomous region of Portugal.The Mountain looks like a snow cone in the middle of the ocean — an odd site:
Azores, What Else!
@AzoresWhatElse
Photo by @carlosdocarmoiso Serra de Santa Bárbara com a montanha do Pico coberta de neve, hoje de manhã. Já não vou a tempo, mas desejo a todos umas festas felizes, e um excelente ano novo de 2023!
#snow #mountains #liveauthentic #winter #visitportugal #nikon … https://t.co/grcYR8C56e
11:53 AM · Dec 27, 2022
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alpha
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Northern portions of the country experienced snowfall overnight Monday and into Tuesday morning as a polar depression descended into the region which was met with suitable moisture, so writes the National Centre of Meteorology.
loveworld
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#BREAKING #SAUDIARABIA SAUDI ARABIA :#VIDEO SNOW ON THE MOUNTAINS OF TABUK, NORTHERN SAUDI ARABIA! #BreakingNews #UltimaHora #Tabuk #Snowfall #Neige #Nevadas #Neve #Nieve https://t.co/jpMOb3pENV
11:45 AM · Dec 28, 2022
The accumulating flakes attracted tourists from across the country.
Moreover, and despite the ravages of ‘catastrophic climate broiling’, Saudi Arabia, bolstered by increasing snow events in recent years, is planning to transform mountain tourism with its own ski resort, scheduled to be built by 2026.
Nothing says ‘global warming’ like a ski resort in Tabuk.
د. صالح بن محمد بن صالح الراجحي
@salehmalrajhi1
Saudi Arabia Tabuk province Snow storm last night https://t.co/h2LQAEVPg0
5:12 AM · Dec 27, 2022
Accumulating snow has even hit near Al Madina Al Munawara, located in the middle of Saudi Arabia:
ForexS
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Global warming?!!! Snow in Al Madina Al Munawara in the middle of Saudi Arabia https://t.co/ALVgw53zr0
2:25 AM · Dec 28, 2022
Heavy Flurries Hit SW China
Northwest China has been enduring deadly, recording breaking conditions in recent weeks (link below), but that Arctic cold has now extended anomalously-far south.
This week, southwest China has been hit by freezing lows and heavy snows.
Accumulations in eastern Yunnan, for example, climbed above 20cm (7.8 inches); similar totals were noted in western Hunan, too, as well as in Guizhou — rare for December. In fact, across Guizhou Province, this is the heaviest snowfall since January 2011.
Yuduo Town, in southwest China’s Guizhou Province after the heavy snow.
The mercury has plunged in Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan as well as Jammu and Kashmir.
In the hill state of Himachal Pradesh, thermometers have crashed below 0C (32F). Keylong in Lahaul valley, for example, recently logged a record-busting low of -7.9C (17.8F), with Kusumseri seeing -5C (23F), Kalpa noting -3.6C (25.5F), and Manali shivering through -0.6C (30.1F).
Fierce cold and heavy snow sweep Himachal Pradesh.
The homeless population in Delhi, in particular, is suffering, with many deaths already reported.
Intense cold waves last winter claimed the lives of some 300 people in Delhi alone — a new record.
Over the past 30-days, the Lower 48 busted a total of 76 all-time low temperature records, according to NOAA. Data only extends through Dec 25, meaning this number is expected to increase given that the big freeze extended to Dec 28 for many.
Some of the standouts, at least for me, include the low of -42F in Midwest, WY — the locale’s coldest reading since record-keeping began in 1939; the low of -35F in Antelope, MT — 9F colder than the site’s previous all-time record low set in 2008 (solar minimum of cycle 23); and the high of just -18F in Rockwell City, IA — 2F lower that the previous record set in 1905.
Kansas broke many all-time ‘low-max’ readings from the 1910s, including at Kingman and Wallace. Staying in KS, Sedan and El Dorado both set new low temp records in books dating back to 1893. Conception, MO and Asdown, AR did likewise.
Additionally, over the same time period, the United States felled 126 monthly low temperature records, as well as a whopping 1053 daily benchmarks. All of this despite questionable US station citing (i.e. the ignored Urban Heat Island effect).
No wonder portions of Niagara Falls froze over:
Anadolu Images
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Niagara Falls partly freezes as temperature dips in US Niagara Falls partly freezes as temperature dips in US ️: Lokman Vural Elibol https://t.co/0caMHHuzT1
2:41 AM · Dec 28, 2022
Little wonder 70+ American’s perished, with many freezing to death in their cars:
This isn’t what the Global Warming Party prophesied.
And despite the party’s ever-desperate obfuscating efforts, their science simply doesn’t stack up.
It is low solar activity that is weakening the jet stream, reverting its usual straight ‘zonal’ flow to a wavy ‘meridional’ one, and this, the Sun, fully explains their poverty-inducing ‘climate crisis’, not CO2, not you.
Reject The Narrative.
Snow In Saudi Arabia; Heavy Flurries Hit SW China; Deadly Cold Wave Sweeps India; + US Set 76 New *All-Time* Low Temperature Records Over The Past 30-Days (to Dec 26)
December 29, 2022 Cap AllonSnow In Saudi Arabia
Freezing conditions and snow have covered the Al-Lawz region of Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.Northern portions of the country experienced snowfall overnight Monday and into Tuesday morning as a polar depression descended into the region which was met with suitable moisture, so writes the National Centre of Meteorology.
loveworld
@LoveWorld_Peopl
#BREAKING #SAUDIARABIA SAUDI ARABIA :#VIDEO SNOW ON THE MOUNTAINS OF TABUK, NORTHERN SAUDI ARABIA! #BreakingNews #UltimaHora #Tabuk #Snowfall #Neige #Nevadas #Neve #Nieve https://t.co/jpMOb3pENV
11:45 AM · Dec 28, 2022
The accumulating flakes attracted tourists from across the country.
Moreover, and despite the ravages of ‘catastrophic climate broiling’, Saudi Arabia, bolstered by increasing snow events in recent years, is planning to transform mountain tourism with its own ski resort, scheduled to be built by 2026.
Nothing says ‘global warming’ like a ski resort in Tabuk.
د. صالح بن محمد بن صالح الراجحي
@salehmalrajhi1
Saudi Arabia Tabuk province Snow storm last night https://t.co/h2LQAEVPg0
5:12 AM · Dec 27, 2022
Accumulating snow has even hit near Al Madina Al Munawara, located in the middle of Saudi Arabia:
ForexS
@ForexSTx
Global warming?!!! Snow in Al Madina Al Munawara in the middle of Saudi Arabia https://t.co/ALVgw53zr0
2:25 AM · Dec 28, 2022
Heavy Flurries Hit SW China
Northwest China has been enduring deadly, recording breaking conditions in recent weeks (link below), but that Arctic cold has now extended anomalously-far south.
This week, southwest China has been hit by freezing lows and heavy snows.
Accumulations in eastern Yunnan, for example, climbed above 20cm (7.8 inches); similar totals were noted in western Hunan, too, as well as in Guizhou — rare for December. In fact, across Guizhou Province, this is the heaviest snowfall since January 2011.
Yuduo Town, in southwest China’s Guizhou Province after the heavy snow.
Deadly Cold Wave Sweeps India
A harsh cold wave continues to grip northern India, with the freezing conditions forecast to intensify over the coming days.The mercury has plunged in Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan as well as Jammu and Kashmir.
In the hill state of Himachal Pradesh, thermometers have crashed below 0C (32F). Keylong in Lahaul valley, for example, recently logged a record-busting low of -7.9C (17.8F), with Kusumseri seeing -5C (23F), Kalpa noting -3.6C (25.5F), and Manali shivering through -0.6C (30.1F).
Fierce cold and heavy snow sweep Himachal Pradesh.
The homeless population in Delhi, in particular, is suffering, with many deaths already reported.
Intense cold waves last winter claimed the lives of some 300 people in Delhi alone — a new record.
US Set 76 *All-Time* Low Temperature Records Over The Past 30-Days
It has been a historically snowy and frigid month of December for many Americans, and the record books reflect that.Over the past 30-days, the Lower 48 busted a total of 76 all-time low temperature records, according to NOAA. Data only extends through Dec 25, meaning this number is expected to increase given that the big freeze extended to Dec 28 for many.
Some of the standouts, at least for me, include the low of -42F in Midwest, WY — the locale’s coldest reading since record-keeping began in 1939; the low of -35F in Antelope, MT — 9F colder than the site’s previous all-time record low set in 2008 (solar minimum of cycle 23); and the high of just -18F in Rockwell City, IA — 2F lower that the previous record set in 1905.
Kansas broke many all-time ‘low-max’ readings from the 1910s, including at Kingman and Wallace. Staying in KS, Sedan and El Dorado both set new low temp records in books dating back to 1893. Conception, MO and Asdown, AR did likewise.
Additionally, over the same time period, the United States felled 126 monthly low temperature records, as well as a whopping 1053 daily benchmarks. All of this despite questionable US station citing (i.e. the ignored Urban Heat Island effect).
No wonder portions of Niagara Falls froze over:
Anadolu Images
@anadoluimages
Niagara Falls partly freezes as temperature dips in US Niagara Falls partly freezes as temperature dips in US ️: Lokman Vural Elibol https://t.co/0caMHHuzT1
2:41 AM · Dec 28, 2022
Little wonder 70+ American’s perished, with many freezing to death in their cars:
This isn’t what the Global Warming Party prophesied.
And despite the party’s ever-desperate obfuscating efforts, their science simply doesn’t stack up.
It is low solar activity that is weakening the jet stream, reverting its usual straight ‘zonal’ flow to a wavy ‘meridional’ one, and this, the Sun, fully explains their poverty-inducing ‘climate crisis’, not CO2, not you.
Reject The Narrative.
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
SuspiciousObserver and Randall Carlson both have videos about the coming polar flip for our solar system. Apparently Mars just flipped, as have all of the outer planets, and also Venus. Only the earths poles haven't flipped, yet.
Also not mentioned by the royal priesthood of scientists is the dust cloud that has entered our solar system and recently passed the earth, what it is no one really knows what it is made up of, the dust that is, but one person pointed out that science is quickly losing interest in dark matter and are now trying to figure out this space dust.
This dust cloud is having a negative effect on our Sun, causing it to dim, the more it dims the more likely there will be a micro nova, and most are saying this micro nova is going to happen within the next five years.
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In recent years, the Sun has been at its weakest state in more than a century. This is revealed by the sunspot count (shown below)–a great barometer for solar activity.
Sunspot count from solar cycle 12 to the start of solar cycle 25.
The Sun’s output ebbs and flows on a roughly 11-year cycle.
As visualized above, the most recent solar cycle (24) finished up closely matching those of ‘The Centennial Minimum’ (≈1880-1914), the previous multi-cycle period of low output, aka a ‘Grand Solar Minimum’ (GSM).
Grand Solar Minimums themselves can also range in depth and length, and, crucially for all of Earth’s inhabitants, these factors determine the severity of the accompanying ‘global cooling’.
The Centennial Minimum was a relatively modest GSM.
Conversely, one of the strongest on record was the ‘Maunder Minimum’ (1645-1715). The MM, as documented by NASA, sent Europe and North America into a “deep freeze”:
“From 1650 to 1710, temperatures across much of the Northern Hemisphere plunged when the Sun entered a quiet phase now called the Maunder Minimum. During this period, very few sunspots appeared on the surface of the Sun, and the overall brightness of the Sun decreased slightly. Already in the midst of a colder-than-average period called the Little Ice Age, Europe and North America went into a deep freeze: alpine glaciers extended over valley farmland; sea ice crept south from the Arctic; and the famous canals in the Netherlands froze regularly—an event that is rare today.”
The above facts are no longer permitted in mainstream scientific debates, and calling them out sees you instantly dismissed as a conspiracy theorist. History, however, will view this censorship very poorly, and will see it as an illustration of the power of propagandizing.
Discovery, it would appear, is no longer welcome in the field of climate science, we apparently know all that there is to know. But in reality, this suppression is a necessity if the AGW train is to keep on rolling. It stands that the return of a cyclically waning Sun would instantly flush alarmists’ claims of never-ending temperature increases down the proverbial pan.
To add complexity, however, while Earth’s overall temperature trends colder during prolonged bouts of low solar activity, not all regions experience the chill. As visualized in NASA’s ‘Maunder Minimum Reconstruction Map’ (shown below), areas such as the Arctic, Alaska, and the North Atlantic actually warm during spells of otherwise ‘global’ cooling.
This appears to chime with what we’re seeing today, and, unlike the baseless ‘Polar Amplification Theory’, could explain why the Arctic is warming while the Antarctic is cooling.
Temp change between 1780 (a year of normal solar activity) and 1680 (a year within the depths of the Maunder Minimum) — NASA.
The Sun also goes through Grand Solar MAXIMUMS — periods of unusually high solar activity.
The most recent maximum, ‘The Modern Maximum‘, ran through the years 1914 –the end of the Centennial Minimum– to 2007.
Global temperatures increased during this period (aka “catastrophic global warming”) and they have only recently, after a multi-year lag –tied to ocean inertia– started to come back down (-0.54C since 2016 (as of Nov 2022), according to the UAH, and falling).
Returning to previous Grand Solar Minimums, ‘The Dalton Minimum’ was another key one.
It ran from 1790 to 1820 — and is clearly identifiable in the sunspot chart below:
Sunspot count–from solar cycle 12 to the start of solar cycle 25.
Like the deeper Maunder before it, the Dalton brought about a period of lower-than-average global temperatures.
Historical documentation reveals that the Oberlach Station in Germany, for example, experienced a 2C decline over just 20 years, which devastated the country’s food production. Therefore, modern notions that a GSM would decrease temperatures by just 0.01-0.02C are another ‘explain-away’ fallacy. However, this mainstream admission –that GSMs result in cooling– could be seen as a positive, because we’re no longer arguing if the phenomena exists or not, we’re now only debating its impact.
The most immediately noticeable is the reduction of energy entering the jet streams which changes the jet’s usual strong and straight ZONAL flow to a weak and wavy MERIDIONAL one — and depending on which side of the stream you’re on, this means you’re either in for a spell of anomalously cold or warm weather and/or a period of unusually dry or wet conditions:
This is a phenomenon long-predicted by those who study the Sun, and it’s one forecast to intensify as the Grand Solar Minimum continues its deepening. All of us are now watching this play out in real-time, whether we know it or not.
Along with low solar activity’s impact on the jet streams, other ‘global cooling’ mechanisms include: the great conjunction, cloud-nucleating Cosmic Rays, and also The Beaufort Gyre—and its immense impact on the Gulf Stream, and therefore the climate overall.
But faced with these realities, I still question what it will take for the IPCC and their MSM lapdogs to admit that what they’ve been pedaling for the past 30+ years was based on a warped ideology, and not science. Logic has now been twisted so as to mean that Arctic outbreaks (renamed Polar Vortexes) are a direct result of global warming, i.e. warming = cooling, which is a perfect example of what Orwell dubbed “doublethink”: the acceptance of contrary opinions or beliefs at the same time, especially as a result of political indoctrination.
I worry that the draconian future Orwell described is fast materializing; I fear the climate will be the least of people’s concerns in the coming years, as we seem to be destroying civilization all by ourselves: digital IDs, CBDCs, carbon taxes, energy shortages, ration cards…
‘Global Warming’ or ‘Climate Change’ is the excuse for these poverty-inducing, freedom-restricting measures, but rather than a man-made phenomenon capable of being taxed away, the so-called ‘Climate Crisis’ can be fully explained by a natural and cyclical ‘buckling’ of the jet streams (Zonal flow to Meridional flow) caused by historically low solar activity:
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Grand Solar Minimum: The Future Looks Cold
December 30, 2022 Cap AllonIn recent years, the Sun has been at its weakest state in more than a century. This is revealed by the sunspot count (shown below)–a great barometer for solar activity.
Sunspot count from solar cycle 12 to the start of solar cycle 25.
The Sun’s output ebbs and flows on a roughly 11-year cycle.
As visualized above, the most recent solar cycle (24) finished up closely matching those of ‘The Centennial Minimum’ (≈1880-1914), the previous multi-cycle period of low output, aka a ‘Grand Solar Minimum’ (GSM).
Grand Solar Minimums themselves can also range in depth and length, and, crucially for all of Earth’s inhabitants, these factors determine the severity of the accompanying ‘global cooling’.
The Centennial Minimum was a relatively modest GSM.
Conversely, one of the strongest on record was the ‘Maunder Minimum’ (1645-1715). The MM, as documented by NASA, sent Europe and North America into a “deep freeze”:
“From 1650 to 1710, temperatures across much of the Northern Hemisphere plunged when the Sun entered a quiet phase now called the Maunder Minimum. During this period, very few sunspots appeared on the surface of the Sun, and the overall brightness of the Sun decreased slightly. Already in the midst of a colder-than-average period called the Little Ice Age, Europe and North America went into a deep freeze: alpine glaciers extended over valley farmland; sea ice crept south from the Arctic; and the famous canals in the Netherlands froze regularly—an event that is rare today.”
The above facts are no longer permitted in mainstream scientific debates, and calling them out sees you instantly dismissed as a conspiracy theorist. History, however, will view this censorship very poorly, and will see it as an illustration of the power of propagandizing.
Discovery, it would appear, is no longer welcome in the field of climate science, we apparently know all that there is to know. But in reality, this suppression is a necessity if the AGW train is to keep on rolling. It stands that the return of a cyclically waning Sun would instantly flush alarmists’ claims of never-ending temperature increases down the proverbial pan.
To add complexity, however, while Earth’s overall temperature trends colder during prolonged bouts of low solar activity, not all regions experience the chill. As visualized in NASA’s ‘Maunder Minimum Reconstruction Map’ (shown below), areas such as the Arctic, Alaska, and the North Atlantic actually warm during spells of otherwise ‘global’ cooling.
This appears to chime with what we’re seeing today, and, unlike the baseless ‘Polar Amplification Theory’, could explain why the Arctic is warming while the Antarctic is cooling.
Temp change between 1780 (a year of normal solar activity) and 1680 (a year within the depths of the Maunder Minimum) — NASA.
The Sun also goes through Grand Solar MAXIMUMS — periods of unusually high solar activity.
The most recent maximum, ‘The Modern Maximum‘, ran through the years 1914 –the end of the Centennial Minimum– to 2007.
Global temperatures increased during this period (aka “catastrophic global warming”) and they have only recently, after a multi-year lag –tied to ocean inertia– started to come back down (-0.54C since 2016 (as of Nov 2022), according to the UAH, and falling).
Returning to previous Grand Solar Minimums, ‘The Dalton Minimum’ was another key one.
It ran from 1790 to 1820 — and is clearly identifiable in the sunspot chart below:
Sunspot count–from solar cycle 12 to the start of solar cycle 25.
Like the deeper Maunder before it, the Dalton brought about a period of lower-than-average global temperatures.
Historical documentation reveals that the Oberlach Station in Germany, for example, experienced a 2C decline over just 20 years, which devastated the country’s food production. Therefore, modern notions that a GSM would decrease temperatures by just 0.01-0.02C are another ‘explain-away’ fallacy. However, this mainstream admission –that GSMs result in cooling– could be seen as a positive, because we’re no longer arguing if the phenomena exists or not, we’re now only debating its impact.
THE MECHANICS
Low solar activity impacts Earth’s weather/climate via a number of different mechanisms.The most immediately noticeable is the reduction of energy entering the jet streams which changes the jet’s usual strong and straight ZONAL flow to a weak and wavy MERIDIONAL one — and depending on which side of the stream you’re on, this means you’re either in for a spell of anomalously cold or warm weather and/or a period of unusually dry or wet conditions:
This is a phenomenon long-predicted by those who study the Sun, and it’s one forecast to intensify as the Grand Solar Minimum continues its deepening. All of us are now watching this play out in real-time, whether we know it or not.
Along with low solar activity’s impact on the jet streams, other ‘global cooling’ mechanisms include: the great conjunction, cloud-nucleating Cosmic Rays, and also The Beaufort Gyre—and its immense impact on the Gulf Stream, and therefore the climate overall.
But faced with these realities, I still question what it will take for the IPCC and their MSM lapdogs to admit that what they’ve been pedaling for the past 30+ years was based on a warped ideology, and not science. Logic has now been twisted so as to mean that Arctic outbreaks (renamed Polar Vortexes) are a direct result of global warming, i.e. warming = cooling, which is a perfect example of what Orwell dubbed “doublethink”: the acceptance of contrary opinions or beliefs at the same time, especially as a result of political indoctrination.
I worry that the draconian future Orwell described is fast materializing; I fear the climate will be the least of people’s concerns in the coming years, as we seem to be destroying civilization all by ourselves: digital IDs, CBDCs, carbon taxes, energy shortages, ration cards…
‘Global Warming’ or ‘Climate Change’ is the excuse for these poverty-inducing, freedom-restricting measures, but rather than a man-made phenomenon capable of being taxed away, the so-called ‘Climate Crisis’ can be fully explained by a natural and cyclical ‘buckling’ of the jet streams (Zonal flow to Meridional flow) caused by historically low solar activity:
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
What I'm finding surprising is more and more people are talking about the coming flip, SuspiciousObservers has multiple videos on this topic. It seems to becoming more and more main stream news instead of fringe news.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-G54Nipmts
RT 8:08 - Josh Rogans YT channel
Joe Rogan SHOCKED to Learn Earth’s Magnetic Poles Are FLIPPING.
Imagine what it would be like for the electric grid across the world to go out at once… not only that, GPS, satellites, and wireless services all go down as well. Is this an attack from some unknown entity?
No, it’s actually the Earth itself, the magnetic field it generates to protect the planet and all living things on it has flipped.
This isn’t some doomsday science fiction either, the Earth’s magnetic field is going to flip, it's only a matter of when and how can we be ready when it does?
RT 8:08 - Josh Rogans YT channel
Joe Rogan SHOCKED to Learn Earth’s Magnetic Poles Are FLIPPING.
Imagine what it would be like for the electric grid across the world to go out at once… not only that, GPS, satellites, and wireless services all go down as well. Is this an attack from some unknown entity?
No, it’s actually the Earth itself, the magnetic field it generates to protect the planet and all living things on it has flipped.
This isn’t some doomsday science fiction either, the Earth’s magnetic field is going to flip, it's only a matter of when and how can we be ready when it does?
jed turtle
a brother in the Lord
I am surprised that it has taken this long to get the attention it deserves, as short of all out nuclear war, this is the biggest news I know of.
alpha
Veteran Member
Electroverse
Extreme Weather
The UK broke long-standing cold records last month, and heavy snow clipped most parts, particularly the highlands of Scotland.
So much snow accumulated, in fact, that a powerful avalanche was triggered on Ben Nevis late last week; an event that plunged one climber some 2,000 feet to his death on the mountain’s North Face, while seriously injuring another.
40 rescuers from Lochaber and Glencoe mountain rescue teams were sent after the alarm raised around 3.30pm on Friday.
Bad weather meant it took eight hours to get the casualties off the mountain.
“The wind conditions meant that the helicopter couldn’t get in so the teams found the pair on top of the snow and stretchered them off the mountain,” said Donald Paterson, leader of Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team.
“They must have fallen 600 metres (1968ft) and the chap who survived was very lucky. Though badly injured he dodged a bullet while his friend didn’t. Sadly, so often, that is the luck of the draw. We wish to extend our condolences to the deceased’s family and friends at this difficult time.”
It was the tenth fatality that Lochaber MRT has dealt with in what is now a record breaking year (2022) of call outs.
As hinted at above, a fierce freeze is gripping far Eastern Europe…
Western/Central Europe’s warmth more-than matched by Eastern Europe’s freeze [tropicaltidbits.com].
…one that will spread west as January progresses.
With the cold set to extend West as January progresses [tropicaltidbits.com].
More notable, however, will be the extreme cold’s extent eastwards, with practically ALL of Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan (all the ‘stands, in fact) as well as large parts of China to be gripped by temperature anomalies of as much as 30C below the winter norm.
All-time cold records will be felled, and across a vast area, too.
However, with weather stations few and far between in this part of the world –at least compared to the small yet densely populated Central Europe– global warming alarmists won’t be privy to sheer, jaw-dropping scale of Eastern Europe’s/Asia’s Arctic freeze.
They will compare Asia’s apples to Europe’s oranges –if at all– and so will incorrectly ‘even the score’–at best.
But just look below at what’s looming for a land mass easily 10x the size of Central Europe:
GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) Jan 15 – Jan 18 [tropicaltidbits.com].
Stay tuned for updates.
India’s key Mughal road, which connects much of the Jammu region with southern Kashmir, is set to be closed for the entire winter owing to recent exceptional snowfall, officials announced on Sunday.
Traffic on the road was suspended on Thursday after over three feet of snow accumulated.
Heavy snowfall in Kashmir.
“The possibility of resuming traffic on the Mughal road after the recent heavy snowfall looks bleak as more snow is expected in the coming days,” said Tariq Khan, of the Mechanical Engineering Department.
Heavy snow has been clipping this region of the world in recent days and weeks, including in neighboring Pakistan:
Saqib Mughal official
@saqibmughalh1
#snowfall #Murree #PakistanZindabad #hunza #rain #Islamabad #karachi #viral #tiktokpakistan Happy snow fall https://t.co/Sc6Y4scTfd
12:57 AM · Dec 31, 2022
Sydney Failed To Reach 32C First Time (1859-2022)
It was a cold 2022 across Australia:
The country suffered a colder-than-average winter (coldest ever for some locales, including Brisbane), a colder-than-average autumn, and a record-cold start to summer (which brought the country’s coldest-ever summer temperature).
Focusing on Sydney, the Habour City just shivered through a cool December, capping off what has been an exceptionally-cool year. For the first time in weather books dating back to 1859, Sydney failed to reach 32C (89.6F) throughout the entire year — this despite the city’s ever-increasing urban heat island (UHI) effect.
Anomalous cold dragged up from the Antarctic gripped swathes of the country in December, not just Sydney, and busted hundreds of low temperature records throughout the month — most notably in Queensland and New South Wales.
And looking ahead (see below), ‘blues’ will continue to be the theme moving forward as a rare third La Nina (cooling) combined with something of a ‘volcanic winter‘ (caused by Hunga-Tonga’s mesospheric eruption) extend through the summer:
GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) Jan 3 – Jan 6 [tropicaltidbits.com].
For more on how climate models got it wrong re. cooling in the eastern Pacific, click below:
Back in 2017, NASA’s airborne Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) mission had documented a drop of more than 2.7F (1.5C) in water temperature off Greenland’s west coast.
This stark cooling, as explained by the OMG team, was the result of natural ocean and atmospheric patterns that effectively “flip a switch” between warmer and cooler currents flowing along the coast.
Since the switch may stay in the same position for decades, the team felt lucky to observe the dramatic change — especially when they saw how it affected Greenland’s largest glacier, Jakobshavn. The glacier had been shrinking for years, but the influx of colder water revived Jakobshavn, causing it to grow and advance toward the ocean for first time since the Industrial Revolution.
“It was a fortunate opportunity for NASA to observe a rare phenomenon around Greenland as the North Atlantic Ocean was undergoing a shift towards colder waters after being in a warm phase for nearly 20 years,” said OMG program scientist, Vinogradova-Shiffer — a natural ‘warm phase’ that correlates neatly with the increased melting observed between the late-90s to 2017.
Since then, Greenland’s surface mass balance (SMB) –a calculation used to determine the ‘health’ of a glacier– has been above average for five out of the last seven years, and most recently, at the start of the 2022-23 season, the SMB posted record-breaking growth in books dating back to 1981….
Electroverse
@Electroversenet
Now I don't mean to be a #ClimateCrisis party pooper, but Greenland's SMB --a calculation used to determine the 'health' of a glacier-- has never been higher in books dating back to 1981. In other words, the Ice Sheet has never-before gained so much mass this early into a season: https://t.co/9NUV2MRcp6
5:49 AM · Dec 5, 2022
…reading’s that continued the turnaround of the ‘Total Mass Balance’, too, which commenced in 2021 and really go going in 2017.
Total Mass Balance (not including 2022’s datapoint, which extends the growth).
For more on that:
Don’t fall for the obfuscation and propaganda; don’t agree to the transfer of your wealth and prosperity for an imaginary crisis.
If anything, the data points to a cooling planet in line with waning solar activity — a Grand Solar Minimum:
UK Avalanche Kills One; Extreme Freeze To Engulf All Of Russia; Mughal Road Blocked By 3-Feet Of Snow; Sydney Failed To Reach 32C In 2022 (First Year In Books Dating Back To 1859); + Greenland’s Jakobshavn Glacier Continues To Grow
January 2, 2023 Cap AllonUK Avalanche
The New Year has brought unseasonable warmth to Central Europe –the result of a low solar activity-induced ‘meridional’ jet stream flow, not a taxable human excretion– but this localized treat looks set to be short lived as polar air prepares to descend down from what continues to be an exceptionally chilly Scandinavia/NW Russia.The UK broke long-standing cold records last month, and heavy snow clipped most parts, particularly the highlands of Scotland.
So much snow accumulated, in fact, that a powerful avalanche was triggered on Ben Nevis late last week; an event that plunged one climber some 2,000 feet to his death on the mountain’s North Face, while seriously injuring another.
40 rescuers from Lochaber and Glencoe mountain rescue teams were sent after the alarm raised around 3.30pm on Friday.
Bad weather meant it took eight hours to get the casualties off the mountain.
“The wind conditions meant that the helicopter couldn’t get in so the teams found the pair on top of the snow and stretchered them off the mountain,” said Donald Paterson, leader of Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team.
“They must have fallen 600 metres (1968ft) and the chap who survived was very lucky. Though badly injured he dodged a bullet while his friend didn’t. Sadly, so often, that is the luck of the draw. We wish to extend our condolences to the deceased’s family and friends at this difficult time.”
It was the tenth fatality that Lochaber MRT has dealt with in what is now a record breaking year (2022) of call outs.
Extreme Freeze To Engulf ALL Of Russia
As hinted at above, a fierce freeze is gripping far Eastern Europe…
Western/Central Europe’s warmth more-than matched by Eastern Europe’s freeze [tropicaltidbits.com].
…one that will spread west as January progresses.
With the cold set to extend West as January progresses [tropicaltidbits.com].
More notable, however, will be the extreme cold’s extent eastwards, with practically ALL of Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan (all the ‘stands, in fact) as well as large parts of China to be gripped by temperature anomalies of as much as 30C below the winter norm.
All-time cold records will be felled, and across a vast area, too.
However, with weather stations few and far between in this part of the world –at least compared to the small yet densely populated Central Europe– global warming alarmists won’t be privy to sheer, jaw-dropping scale of Eastern Europe’s/Asia’s Arctic freeze.
They will compare Asia’s apples to Europe’s oranges –if at all– and so will incorrectly ‘even the score’–at best.
But just look below at what’s looming for a land mass easily 10x the size of Central Europe:
GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) Jan 15 – Jan 18 [tropicaltidbits.com].
Stay tuned for updates.
Mughal Road Blocked By 3-Feet Of Snow
India’s key Mughal road, which connects much of the Jammu region with southern Kashmir, is set to be closed for the entire winter owing to recent exceptional snowfall, officials announced on Sunday.Traffic on the road was suspended on Thursday after over three feet of snow accumulated.
Heavy snowfall in Kashmir.
“The possibility of resuming traffic on the Mughal road after the recent heavy snowfall looks bleak as more snow is expected in the coming days,” said Tariq Khan, of the Mechanical Engineering Department.
Heavy snow has been clipping this region of the world in recent days and weeks, including in neighboring Pakistan:
Saqib Mughal official
@saqibmughalh1
#snowfall #Murree #PakistanZindabad #hunza #rain #Islamabad #karachi #viral #tiktokpakistan Happy snow
fall https://t.co/Sc6Y4scTfd
12:57 AM · Dec 31, 2022
Sydney Failed To Reach 32C First Time (1859-2022)
It was a cold 2022 across Australia:
The country suffered a colder-than-average winter (coldest ever for some locales, including Brisbane), a colder-than-average autumn, and a record-cold start to summer (which brought the country’s coldest-ever summer temperature).
Focusing on Sydney, the Habour City just shivered through a cool December, capping off what has been an exceptionally-cool year. For the first time in weather books dating back to 1859, Sydney failed to reach 32C (89.6F) throughout the entire year — this despite the city’s ever-increasing urban heat island (UHI) effect.
Anomalous cold dragged up from the Antarctic gripped swathes of the country in December, not just Sydney, and busted hundreds of low temperature records throughout the month — most notably in Queensland and New South Wales.
And looking ahead (see below), ‘blues’ will continue to be the theme moving forward as a rare third La Nina (cooling) combined with something of a ‘volcanic winter‘ (caused by Hunga-Tonga’s mesospheric eruption) extend through the summer:
GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) Jan 3 – Jan 6 [tropicaltidbits.com].
For more on how climate models got it wrong re. cooling in the eastern Pacific, click below:
Greenland’s Jakobshavn Glacier Continues To Grow
In recent years, Greenland’s largest glacier (Jakobshavn) has been growing for the first time since at least 1850.Back in 2017, NASA’s airborne Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) mission had documented a drop of more than 2.7F (1.5C) in water temperature off Greenland’s west coast.
This stark cooling, as explained by the OMG team, was the result of natural ocean and atmospheric patterns that effectively “flip a switch” between warmer and cooler currents flowing along the coast.
Since the switch may stay in the same position for decades, the team felt lucky to observe the dramatic change — especially when they saw how it affected Greenland’s largest glacier, Jakobshavn. The glacier had been shrinking for years, but the influx of colder water revived Jakobshavn, causing it to grow and advance toward the ocean for first time since the Industrial Revolution.
“It was a fortunate opportunity for NASA to observe a rare phenomenon around Greenland as the North Atlantic Ocean was undergoing a shift towards colder waters after being in a warm phase for nearly 20 years,” said OMG program scientist, Vinogradova-Shiffer — a natural ‘warm phase’ that correlates neatly with the increased melting observed between the late-90s to 2017.
Since then, Greenland’s surface mass balance (SMB) –a calculation used to determine the ‘health’ of a glacier– has been above average for five out of the last seven years, and most recently, at the start of the 2022-23 season, the SMB posted record-breaking growth in books dating back to 1981….
Electroverse
@Electroversenet
Now I don't mean to be a #ClimateCrisis party pooper, but Greenland's SMB --a calculation used to determine the 'health' of a glacier-- has never been higher in books dating back to 1981. In other words, the Ice Sheet has never-before gained so much mass this early into a season: https://t.co/9NUV2MRcp6
5:49 AM · Dec 5, 2022
…reading’s that continued the turnaround of the ‘Total Mass Balance’, too, which commenced in 2021 and really go going in 2017.
Total Mass Balance (not including 2022’s datapoint, which extends the growth).
For more on that:
Don’t fall for the obfuscation and propaganda; don’t agree to the transfer of your wealth and prosperity for an imaginary crisis.
If anything, the data points to a cooling planet in line with waning solar activity — a Grand Solar Minimum:
alpha
Veteran Member
Electroverse
Articles Extreme Weather
Starting in Norway, anomalies of between 1C and 5C below normal were suffered, with the nationwide anoamly averaging out at a stark 2.9C below the multidecadal norm — making it Norway’s coldest December since the exceptionally chilly 2012.
Map courtesy of @Meteorologene:
Similarly in Sweden, last month was Arctic and delivered temperature anomalies of between 1C and 4C below average.
Map by SMHI:
December in also Finland held colder-than-average, barring a thin strip along the eastern border.
Finnish Meteorological Institute:
And finally in Denmark –which is officially part of Scandinavia (as is Iceland and Greenland, for that matter)– the final month of the year closed with an average temperature of just 1.5C, which is a substantial 1.3C below the multidecadal average:
Sebastian Pelt
@SebastianTV2dk
December endte med en middeltemperatur på 1.5 C. Det var dermed den koldeste december i Danmark i 10 år, og samtidig -1.3 C under klimanormalen (1991-2020). Flere frostdøgn, isdøgn og døgn med snedække end normalt. Lidt mere nedbør og lidt mere sol end normalt. #dkvejr https://t.co/tMKDaMAmxD
5:25 AM · Jan 2, 2023
A Busy Month For Sunspots
December was a relatively busy month on the Sun.
Senol Sanli, based in Turkey, stacked 26 days of solar images (Dec 2 – 27) from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory:
There were 24 sunspot groups last month, a handful were quite large, but the vast majority were small, posing little risk of flaring. “[The spots] were congested in two bands on opposite sides of the sun’s equator,” said Sanli.
The congestion of dark cores saw the monthly sunspot number reach its highest value in 7 years:
December was most-certainly an active month, but it was nothing to write home about.
This is clear when looking at the updated (Jan 3, 2023) solar cycles comparison chart, courtesy of solen.info (shown below). Solar Cycle 25 (SC25) is still on course to be another historically weak cycle, markedly lower than SC21, SC22 and SC23, and comparable to SC24–the weakest cycle in more than a century:
Solar Cycle 25 progression (green line) compared to 24, 23, 22 & 21 [updated Jan 3, 2023 — solen.info]
While December’s sunspot count was up, solar flux was down. As touched on above, there may have been more minor spots, but they failed to produce any substantial flaring.
As has been my contention since 2018, I see SC25 as being comparable to SC24, with its Solar Maximum occurring sooner than expected — likely sometime even next year (2024).
It is the following cycle (so SC26) where I fear the real trouble could begin, where sunspots will be at a premium, and where even the establishment lifts the censorship on those three ‘agenda-wrecking’ words: Grand Solar and Minimum.
However, contrary to all proclamations of the alarmists, who called for correlating planetary disasters and a decrease in biodiversity, the planet is greening, now some 15% greener than it was in the year 2000. This is an enormous increase, an area larger than the United States.
This is a good thing, it should be assumed… right…? It should be information that is celebrated and hastily passed on to the many poor souls, in-particular children, who are losing sleep over malevolently-sown beliefs that the planet has mere years left to run before its annihilation.
The most remarkable greening, according to NASA, has occurred, and is continuing to occur in semi-arid areas, which is most-certainly contrary to the alarmists’ claim that the deserts would expand and biodiversity would shrink as the planet cooked.
One of the reasons for this is that plants have, in recent ‘low-CO2’ times, evolved larger pores in order to feed on the ever-decreasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide. These larger pores also mean the plants lose more water to evaporation, which, as a further upshot, has required them to adapt in other ways to dryer conditions.
And now that CO2 levels have started increasing again, plants are not only better equipped to take advantage of the higher levels of carbon dioxide (larger pores), they have also evolved to survive, and indeed thrive, in dryer environments. We are seeing plants ‘infiltrating’ deserts at a prestigious rate, harboring new life and increasing biodiversity as they go.
Perhaps Mother Earth allowed the proliferation of humans because we were increasing CO2 levels. Carbon dioxide was at around 150ppm before we came along, a level nearing the point where complex life cannot be sustained.
Mother Earth –or Nature– shouldn’t be underestimated, at least is my point. The planet isn’t anywhere near as fragile/in need of our input as the controlling elites have convinced the useful-idiots and pop-scientists among us is the case.
Earth is more than capable of regulating its own biomes and of supporting life during even the most tumultuous and genuinely catastrophic events of the historical past, with The Younger-Dryas being the most recent (approx. 12,000 years BP). This event brought about a sharp return to glacial conditions (a 20C cooling over a short period of time) which temporarily reversed the climatic warming following the previous ice age and brought about the extinction of many mega-fauna, including mammoths.
Conditions today are a comparative picnic to the bleak struggles of even the relatively recent past, and increasing CO2 should be viewed as a good thing. This isn’t hard to get your head around if you poses the ability to think critically. Those governed by propaganda, on the other hand, as most people are thanks to a compliance-breeding factory-schooling system, then, well, you may have a hard time accepting that.
But it stands, if catastrophic global warming is your belief, then why is biodiversity increasing? Why are the deserts greening?
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Scandinavia’s Cold December; A Busy Month For Sunspots; + If Global Warming Is Real And ‘Catastrophic’, Why Are The Deserts Greening?
January 3, 2023 Cap AllonScandinavia’s Cold December
Along with the UK, Ireland, Iceland and the Baltic countries, Scandinavia was another region of Europe to suffer a far colder-than-average December of 2022.Starting in Norway, anomalies of between 1C and 5C below normal were suffered, with the nationwide anoamly averaging out at a stark 2.9C below the multidecadal norm — making it Norway’s coldest December since the exceptionally chilly 2012.
Map courtesy of @Meteorologene:
Similarly in Sweden, last month was Arctic and delivered temperature anomalies of between 1C and 4C below average.
Map by SMHI:
December in also Finland held colder-than-average, barring a thin strip along the eastern border.
Finnish Meteorological Institute:
And finally in Denmark –which is officially part of Scandinavia (as is Iceland and Greenland, for that matter)– the final month of the year closed with an average temperature of just 1.5C, which is a substantial 1.3C below the multidecadal average:
Sebastian Pelt
@SebastianTV2dk
December endte med en middeltemperatur på 1.5 C. Det var dermed den koldeste december i Danmark i 10 år, og samtidig -1.3 C under klimanormalen (1991-2020). Flere frostdøgn, isdøgn og døgn med snedække end normalt. Lidt mere nedbør og lidt mere sol end normalt. #dkvejr https://t.co/tMKDaMAmxD
5:25 AM · Jan 2, 2023
A Busy Month For Sunspots
December was a relatively busy month on the Sun.
Senol Sanli, based in Turkey, stacked 26 days of solar images (Dec 2 – 27) from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory:
There were 24 sunspot groups last month, a handful were quite large, but the vast majority were small, posing little risk of flaring. “[The spots] were congested in two bands on opposite sides of the sun’s equator,” said Sanli.
The congestion of dark cores saw the monthly sunspot number reach its highest value in 7 years:
December was most-certainly an active month, but it was nothing to write home about.
This is clear when looking at the updated (Jan 3, 2023) solar cycles comparison chart, courtesy of solen.info (shown below). Solar Cycle 25 (SC25) is still on course to be another historically weak cycle, markedly lower than SC21, SC22 and SC23, and comparable to SC24–the weakest cycle in more than a century:
Solar Cycle 25 progression (green line) compared to 24, 23, 22 & 21 [updated Jan 3, 2023 — solen.info]
While December’s sunspot count was up, solar flux was down. As touched on above, there may have been more minor spots, but they failed to produce any substantial flaring.
As has been my contention since 2018, I see SC25 as being comparable to SC24, with its Solar Maximum occurring sooner than expected — likely sometime even next year (2024).
It is the following cycle (so SC26) where I fear the real trouble could begin, where sunspots will be at a premium, and where even the establishment lifts the censorship on those three ‘agenda-wrecking’ words: Grand Solar and Minimum.
If Global Warming Is Real And Catastrophic, Why Are The Deserts Greening?
Carbon dioxide, as per the official measurements, is rising–and from historically low levels. Let’s agree on that.However, contrary to all proclamations of the alarmists, who called for correlating planetary disasters and a decrease in biodiversity, the planet is greening, now some 15% greener than it was in the year 2000. This is an enormous increase, an area larger than the United States.
This is a good thing, it should be assumed… right…? It should be information that is celebrated and hastily passed on to the many poor souls, in-particular children, who are losing sleep over malevolently-sown beliefs that the planet has mere years left to run before its annihilation.
The most remarkable greening, according to NASA, has occurred, and is continuing to occur in semi-arid areas, which is most-certainly contrary to the alarmists’ claim that the deserts would expand and biodiversity would shrink as the planet cooked.
One of the reasons for this is that plants have, in recent ‘low-CO2’ times, evolved larger pores in order to feed on the ever-decreasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide. These larger pores also mean the plants lose more water to evaporation, which, as a further upshot, has required them to adapt in other ways to dryer conditions.
And now that CO2 levels have started increasing again, plants are not only better equipped to take advantage of the higher levels of carbon dioxide (larger pores), they have also evolved to survive, and indeed thrive, in dryer environments. We are seeing plants ‘infiltrating’ deserts at a prestigious rate, harboring new life and increasing biodiversity as they go.
Perhaps Mother Earth allowed the proliferation of humans because we were increasing CO2 levels. Carbon dioxide was at around 150ppm before we came along, a level nearing the point where complex life cannot be sustained.
Mother Earth –or Nature– shouldn’t be underestimated, at least is my point. The planet isn’t anywhere near as fragile/in need of our input as the controlling elites have convinced the useful-idiots and pop-scientists among us is the case.
Earth is more than capable of regulating its own biomes and of supporting life during even the most tumultuous and genuinely catastrophic events of the historical past, with The Younger-Dryas being the most recent (approx. 12,000 years BP). This event brought about a sharp return to glacial conditions (a 20C cooling over a short period of time) which temporarily reversed the climatic warming following the previous ice age and brought about the extinction of many mega-fauna, including mammoths.
Conditions today are a comparative picnic to the bleak struggles of even the relatively recent past, and increasing CO2 should be viewed as a good thing. This isn’t hard to get your head around if you poses the ability to think critically. Those governed by propaganda, on the other hand, as most people are thanks to a compliance-breeding factory-schooling system, then, well, you may have a hard time accepting that.
But it stands, if catastrophic global warming is your belief, then why is biodiversity increasing? Why are the deserts greening?
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Scandinavia’s Cold December; A Busy Month For Sunspots; + If Global Warming Is Real And ‘Catastrophic’, Why Are The Deserts Greening?
January 3, 2023 Cap Allon
Scandinavia’s Cold December
Along with the UK, Ireland, Iceland and the Baltic countries, Scandinavia was another region of Europe to suffer a far colder-than-average December of 2022.
Starting in Norway, anomalies of between 1C and 5C below normal were suffered, with the nationwide anoamly averaging out at a stark 2.9C below the multidecadal norm — making it Norway’s coldest December since the exceptionally chilly 2012.
Map courtesy of @Meteorologene:
Similarly in Sweden, last month was Arctic and delivered temperature anomalies of between 1C and 4C below average.
Map by SMHI:
December in also Finland held colder-than-average, barring a thin strip along the eastern border.
Finnish Meteorological Institute:
And finally in Denmark –which is officially part of Scandinavia (as is Iceland and Greenland, for that matter)– the final month of the year closed with an average temperature of just 1.5C, which is a substantial 1.3C below the multidecadal average:
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December endte med en middeltemperatur på 1.5 C. Det var dermed den koldeste december i Danmark i 10 år, og samtidig -1.3 C under klimanormalen (1991-2020). Flere frostdøgn, isdøgn og døgn med snedække end normalt. Lidt mere nedbør og lidt mere sol end normalt. #dkvejr https://t.co/tMKDaMAmxD
5:25 AM · Jan 2, 2023
A Busy Month For Sunspots
December was a relatively busy month on the Sun.
Senol Sanli, based in Turkey, stacked 26 days of solar images (Dec 2 – 27) from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory:
There were 24 sunspot groups last month, a handful were quite large, but the vast majority were small, posing little risk of flaring. “[The spots] were congested in two bands on opposite sides of the sun’s equator,” said Sanli.
The congestion of dark cores saw the monthly sunspot number reach its highest value in 7 years:
December was most-certainly an active month, but it was nothing to write home about.
This is clear when looking at the updated (Jan 3, 2023) solar cycles comparison chart, courtesy of solen.info (shown below). Solar Cycle 25 (SC25) is still on course to be another historically weak cycle, markedly lower than SC21, SC22 and SC23, and comparable to SC24–the weakest cycle in more than a century:
Solar Cycle 25 progression (green line) compared to 24, 23, 22 & 21 [updated Jan 3, 2023 — solen.info]
While December’s sunspot count was up, solar flux was down. As touched on above, there may have been more minor spots, but they failed to produce any substantial flaring.
As has been my contention since 2018, I see SC25 as being comparable to SC24, with its Solar Maximum occurring sooner than expected — likely sometime even next year (2024).
It is the following cycle (so SC26) where I fear the real trouble could begin, where sunspots will be at a premium, and where even the establishment lifts the censorship on those three ‘agenda-wrecking’ words: Grand Solar and Minimum.
If Global Warming Is Real And Catastrophic, Why Are The Deserts Greening?
Carbon dioxide, as per the official measurements, is rising–and from historically low levels. Let’s agree on that.
However, contrary to all proclamations of the alarmists, who called for correlating planetary disasters and a decrease in biodiversity, the planet is greening, now some 15% greener than it was in the year 2000. This is an enormous increase, an area larger than the United States.
This is a good thing, it should be assumed… right…? It should be information that is celebrated and hastily passed on to the many poor souls, in-particular children, who are losing sleep over malevolently-sown beliefs that the planet has mere years left to run before its annihilation.
The most remarkable greening, according to NASA, has occurred, and is continuing to occur in semi-arid areas, which is most-certainly contrary to the alarmists’ claim that the deserts would expand and biodiversity would shrink as the planet cooked.
One of the reasons for this is that plants have, in recent ‘low-CO2’ times, evolved larger pores in order to feed on the ever-decreasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide. These larger pores also mean the plants lose more water to evaporation, which, as a further upshot, has required them to adapt in other ways to dryer conditions.
And now that CO2 levels have started increasing again, plants are not only better equipped to take advantage of the higher levels of carbon dioxide (larger pores), they have also evolved to survive, and indeed thrive, in dryer environments. We are seeing plants ‘infiltrating’ deserts at a prestigious rate, harboring new life and increasing biodiversity as they go.
Perhaps Mother Earth allowed the proliferation of humans because we were increasing CO2 levels. Carbon dioxide was at around 150ppm before we came along, a level nearing the point where complex life cannot be sustained.
Mother Earth –or Nature– shouldn’t be underestimated, at least is my point. The planet isn’t anywhere near as fragile/in need of our input as the controlling elites have convinced the useful-idiots and pop-scientists among us is the case.
Earth is more than capable of regulating its own biomes and of supporting life during even the most tumultuous and genuinely catastrophic events of the historical past, with The Younger-Dryas being the most recent (approx. 12,000 years BP). This event brought about a sharp return to glacial conditions (a 20C cooling over a short period of time) which temporarily reversed the climatic warming following the previous ice age and brought about the extinction of many mega-fauna, including mammoths.
Conditions today are a comparative picnic to the bleak struggles of even the relatively recent past, and increasing CO2 should be viewed as a good thing. This isn’t hard to get your head around if you poses the ability to think critically. Those governed by propaganda, on the other hand, as most people are thanks to a compliance-breeding factory-schooling system, then, well, you may have a hard time accepting that.
But it stands, if catastrophic global warming is your belief, then why is biodiversity increasing? Why are the deserts greening?
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The Version 6.0 global average lower tropospheric temperature reading for December 2022 has come in at 0.05 deg. C vs the multidecadal average.
Despite the ever-loudening cries of ‘catastrophic Earthly hotty-hot’ and the increasingly-draconian policy decisions that accompany them, this is the third sharp global temperature drop in as many months; drops that continue the overall downward trend observed since 2016’s peak (now down approx. 0.66C deg. C from then).
In simpler terms, it’s get harder and harder for the establishment’s anti-human narrative to be maintained.
A continuation of Earth’s cooling trend is highly probable over the coming months –with the odd bump along the way: climate is cyclic, after all– as low solar activity, La Nina, and the aftereffects of Hunga Tonga’s record-setting mesospheric eruption continue to have an infinitely-larger influence over our climate than a natural byproduct of human existence (see how that works).
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The violent eruption a few hours ago of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai volcano captured by satellites GOES-West and Himawari-8. via @wonderofscience https://t.co/QExkCpvcXa
10:12 AM · Jan 17, 2022
According to the 15x NASA/NOAA AMSU satellites that measure every square inch of the lower troposphere (where life resides), planet Earth cooled drastically during the fourth quarter of 2022: from 0.32C above the multidecadal baseline in October, to 0.17C in November, to now just 0.05C in December.
Again, to simplify this for your average spoon-fed alarmist, Earth was warmer back in the late-1980s:
[Dr Roy Spencer]
The various regional departures from the 30-year average are tabled below (scroll down to Dec 2022 in bold):
Note that four of the six individual regions held cooler than the average last month: the Southern Hemisphere (-0.03C), the Tropics (-0.35C), the USA (-0.21C) and Australia (-0.38C).
Note also that the Arctic saw a reading of 0.80C above the average in Dec 2022, which, paradoxically, is actually expected during prolonged spells of low solar activity. As visualized below in NASA’s ‘Maunder Minimum Reconstruction Map’, areas such as the Arctic, Alaska and the North Atlantic actually warm during bouts of otherwise ‘global’ cooling:https://i0.wp.com/electroverse.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/image-20.png?ssl=1
Temp change between 1780 (a year of normal solar activity) and 1680 (a year within the depths of the Maunder Minimum) — NASA.
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Earth’s Average Temperature Dropped *AGAIN* In December, Now Down 0.66C From 2016 Peak
January 4, 2023 Cap AllonThe Version 6.0 global average lower tropospheric temperature reading for December 2022 has come in at 0.05 deg. C vs the multidecadal average.
Despite the ever-loudening cries of ‘catastrophic Earthly hotty-hot’ and the increasingly-draconian policy decisions that accompany them, this is the third sharp global temperature drop in as many months; drops that continue the overall downward trend observed since 2016’s peak (now down approx. 0.66C deg. C from then).
In simpler terms, it’s get harder and harder for the establishment’s anti-human narrative to be maintained.
A continuation of Earth’s cooling trend is highly probable over the coming months –with the odd bump along the way: climate is cyclic, after all– as low solar activity, La Nina, and the aftereffects of Hunga Tonga’s record-setting mesospheric eruption continue to have an infinitely-larger influence over our climate than a natural byproduct of human existence (see how that works).
Space Explorer Mike
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The violent eruption a few hours ago of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai volcano captured by satellites GOES-West and Himawari-8. via @wonderofscience https://t.co/QExkCpvcXa
10:12 AM · Jan 17, 2022
According to the 15x NASA/NOAA AMSU satellites that measure every square inch of the lower troposphere (where life resides), planet Earth cooled drastically during the fourth quarter of 2022: from 0.32C above the multidecadal baseline in October, to 0.17C in November, to now just 0.05C in December.
Again, to simplify this for your average spoon-fed alarmist, Earth was warmer back in the late-1980s:
[Dr Roy Spencer]
The various regional departures from the 30-year average are tabled below (scroll down to Dec 2022 in bold):
| YEAR | MO | GLOBE | NHEM. | SHEM. | TROPIC | USA48 | ARCTIC | AUST |
| 2021 | Jan | +0.13 | +0.34 | -0.09 | -0.08 | +0.36 | +0.50 | -0.52 |
| 2021 | Feb | +0.20 | +0.32 | +0.08 | -0.14 | -0.65 | +0.07 | -0.27 |
| 2021 | Mar | -0.00 | +0.13 | -0.13 | -0.28 | +0.60 | -0.78 | -0.79 |
| 2021 | Apr | -0.05 | +0.06 | -0.15 | -0.27 | -0.01 | +0.02 | +0.29 |
| 2021 | May | +0.08 | +0.14 | +0.03 | +0.07 | -0.41 | -0.04 | +0.02 |
| 2021 | Jun | -0.01 | +0.31 | -0.32 | -0.14 | +1.44 | +0.64 | -0.76 |
| 2021 | Jul | +0.20 | +0.34 | +0.07 | +0.13 | +0.58 | +0.43 | +0.80 |
| 2021 | Aug | +0.17 | +0.27 | +0.08 | +0.07 | +0.33 | +0.83 | -0.02 |
| 2021 | Sep | +0.26 | +0.19 | +0.33 | +0.09 | +0.67 | +0.02 | +0.37 |
| 2021 | Oct | +0.37 | +0.46 | +0.28 | +0.33 | +0.84 | +0.64 | +0.07 |
| 2021 | Nov | +0.09 | +0.12 | +0.06 | +0.14 | +0.50 | -0.42 | -0.29 |
| 2021 | Dec | +0.21 | +0.27 | +0.15 | +0.04 | +1.63 | +0.01 | -0.06 |
| 2022 | Jan | +0.03 | +0.06 | -0.00 | -0.23 | -0.13 | +0.68 | +0.10 |
| 2022 | Feb | -0.00 | +0.01 | -0.02 | -0.24 | -0.04 | -0.30 | -0.50 |
| 2022 | Mar | +0.15 | +0.27 | +0.02 | -0.07 | +0.22 | +0.74 | +0.02 |
| 2022 | Apr | +0.26 | +0.35 | +0.18 | -0.04 | -0.26 | +0.45 | +0.61 |
| 2022 | May | +0.17 | +0.25 | +0.10 | +0.01 | +0.59 | +0.23 | +0.19 |
| 2022 | Jun | +0.06 | +0.08 | +0.04 | -0.36 | +0.46 | +0.33 | +0.11 |
| 2022 | Jul | +0.36 | +0.37 | +0.35 | +0.13 | +0.84 | +0.56 | +0.65 |
| 2022 | Aug | +0.28 | +0.32 | +0.24 | -0.03 | +0.60 | +0.50 | -0.00 |
| 2022 | Sep | +0.24 | +0.43 | +0.06 | +0.03 | +0.88 | +0.69 | -0.28 |
| 2022 | Oct | +0.32 | +0.43 | +0.21 | +0.04 | +0.16 | +0.93 | +0.04 |
| 2022 | Nov | +0.17 | +0.21 | +0.12 | -0.16 | -0.51 | +0.51 | -0.56 |
| 2022 | Dec | +0.05 | +0.13 | -0.03 | -0.35 | -0.21 | +0.80 | -0.38 |
Note that four of the six individual regions held cooler than the average last month: the Southern Hemisphere (-0.03C), the Tropics (-0.35C), the USA (-0.21C) and Australia (-0.38C).
Note also that the Arctic saw a reading of 0.80C above the average in Dec 2022, which, paradoxically, is actually expected during prolonged spells of low solar activity. As visualized below in NASA’s ‘Maunder Minimum Reconstruction Map’, areas such as the Arctic, Alaska and the North Atlantic actually warm during bouts of otherwise ‘global’ cooling:https://i0.wp.com/electroverse.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/image-20.png?ssl=1
Temp change between 1780 (a year of normal solar activity) and 1680 (a year within the depths of the Maunder Minimum) — NASA.
Discard establishment statements and data-collations for they are agenda-driven and, unlike the UAH, are subject to obvious tampering, discrepancies and obfuscations — such as the ignored Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect.
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National meteorological agencies and institutes are confirming the chill, with countries across both hemispheres posting anomalously-cold final months of 2022.
NOAA has yet to release December 2022’s temperature data for the U.S. (due soon), but it is all-but assured of being another colder-than-average month –barring some audacious tampering– after the satellites posted a -0.21C anomaly.
Similarly above the border, Environment Canada has yet to disclose the official national average, but regional departures from the norm are in.
Prince George, for example, logged an extremely cold December, posting an average of -7.4C below the climatological norm, with Edmonton not fairing much better, suffering an average of -6.8C below the norm.
It was milder across Eastern Canada, but not enough to offset the West’s record-setting freeze–particularly that experienced in British Columbia; as touched on above, B.C. shivered through truly Arctic conditions last month, cold that has persisted into the New Year, too.
A ski lift at Big White Resort in Okanagan remains completely encased in ice after back-to-back snow/ice-storms hit over the Christmas holiday. Photos show the seats, ropes, tower, and terminals of the Falcon Chair trapped within a dazzling-white tomb.
“It’s a very unique thing,” the resort’s vice president Michael J. Ballingall said. “When you get that moisture in the snow, it just sticks to everything like the cotton candy at a fair … People don’t always realize the impact of Mother Nature.”
Stay tuned for updates re. North America.
December capped off an anomalously-cool year across Australia:
The Aussie continent posted a colder-than-average-winter (coldest-ever for the likes of Brisbane), its coldest spring in decades (coldest-ever November for many locales, including Forbes and Ivanhoe), and on Dec 9 set its lowest-ever summer temperature (the -7C /19.4F at Perisher Valley).
Perisher’s freeze assisted New South Wales in enduring its fifth-coldest December in books dating back to the 1800s; it also ‘helped’ the Aussie continent close the month with an anomaly of -0.85C below the multidecadal norm.
The AGW Party is keen to blame Australia’s persistent and historic cold on a rare third-consecutive La Niña. Fair enough. But what they fail to mention is that their global warming hypothesis decreed El Niño to be the dominant ENSO pattern moving forward.
La Niñas, on the other hand, are tied to planetary cooling.
This real-world observation shocked the climate modelers, who themselves admit that they are now scrambling for answers:
Likewise, large parts of Europe shivered through an anomalously-cold December 2022.
This is of course long forgotten now that central nation’s are enjoying a week or two of unusual warmth. But as I go into here, a small pocket of the world experiencing unseasonable heat (driven by a low solar activity-induced ‘meridional’ jet stream flow, byt the way, not CO2) doesn’t offset the truly Arctic conditions encasing other, far-larger regions of the planet.
What this obfuscation and cherry-picking does do, however, is expose the mainstream’s desperate warm-mongering agenda.
Continuing, all of Scandinavia suffered a cold December, as I reported Tuesday.
And so did the UK. Despite a milder close to the month, Dec 2022 finished with a CET of -1.3C below the historical norm; a negative temperature anomaly matching Central England’s Decembers of 1739, 1757, 1780 and 1939.
Nearby Ireland was also frigid, posting a December temperature anomaly of -1.4C below the older 1981-2010 norm.
Jumping to Lithuania, a nationwide average of -2.6C was logged there, which is -1.5C below the norm. Additionally, snow remained on the ground for many Lithuanians throughout the month, even after a comparatively mild final week, too.
Map courtesy of LHMT:
December 2022 in Latvia finished with an exceptionally cold average of -3.1C, which is a full -2C below normal.
Map by LVGMC:
While Estonia posted -2.6C, which is -1.6C below normal.
And finally, at least far as Europe goes, traversing back West we find the Netherlands (using De Bilt as the reference) had an average temperature of 3.6C, giving an anomaly of -0.6C.
Graph by KNMI:
December 2022 in Japan had an anomaly of 0.45C below the multidecadal norm (see map below).
It was also historically snowy across the country, with daily, monthly and even many all-time benchmarks falling.
Hong Kong also shivered through the final month of the year.
An average reading of 16.6C held the region -1.6C below its seasonal norm.
Data courtesy of the HK Observatory:
While in South Korea, the average temperature came out at a frigid -1.4C, which is a significant 2.5C below the average.
Map by the KMA:
Antarctica appears to be cooling…
The continent suffered its coldest-ever ‘coreless’ winter (April-Sept) in 2021, and then continued that cooling trend throughout 2022, posting a string of colder-than-average months (including its coldest Nov since 1987), as well as its latest -60C (-76F) on record.
The data is now in for 2022 as a whole and, unsurprisingly, the year finished colder than normal.
The South Pole Station ended the year with an annual average of -49.5C, which is -0.4C below the norm.
A cooling Antarctica is a big headache for the AGW Party. It blows apart their ‘Polar Amplification’ theory, which claims that ‘global warming’ produces disproportionate heating at the poles against the planetary average.
This is the best they can come up with to explain why the Arctic is warming when temperatures most-everywhere else are either remaining flat or cooling–as per the rural datasets, not necessarily the UHI-affected urban stations that warmists love to cite.
But this explain-away doesn’t make sense given that the Antarctic is cooling, of course.
It also doesn’t explain the increasingly-meridional or ‘wavy’ jet stream flow that we’re seeing, which is responsible for the observed intensifying swings-between-extremes in our weather, i.e. heatwaves and Arctic Outbreaks.
Despite the AGW Party trying its darnedest to link this wavy jet stream phenomenon to a warming Arctic, it is also present in Southern Hemisphere, so that goes and blows that thinking apart, too. But the establishment doesn’t seemed bothered by logic or data, as proven by University of Michigan professor emeritus of environment and sustainability Donald Scavia’s statement:
“In the past there was a very strong gradient of cold air at the poles and warmer air south of the poles. That gradient kept the cold where it is … As the poles are warming faster than the rest of the planet, that gradient weakens, allowing the cold air currents to dip south.”
But as pointed out by the late Dr. Tim Ball, former climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg, Scavia’s statement is “utter rubbish” — Antarctica is cooling yet the jets are still weakening, so a different forcing must be to blame (the Sun)
The polar amplification theory is “wrong in every aspect, from the basic assumption to the interpretation,” continued Ball. “In fact, a gradient makes things move. It doesn’t ‘keep the cold where it is.”
Disproportionately warming poles would actually reduced the temperature difference between them and the lower latitudes, and would therefore reduce extreme weather events, not intensify them, as the AGW Party claims.
After all, weather and extreme weather events are driven by the temperature gradient between latitudes. A warming Arctic would result in less intense cold outbreaks and a lesser intrusion of cold Arctic air colliding with warm moist air in warmer regions.
Climate alarmists have their science backwards, concluded Ball before his passing in September, 2022.
More on all that here:
Also, the Antarctic sheet ice is growing, according to the official data, again destroying the establishment’s baseless notions.
This week’s storm is one for the history books in communities across South Dakota and SW Minnesota.
Armour, for example, reported 26 inches as of 4:30pm on Jan 3.
Don Huebner, who has lived in Armour since 1985, he can’t recall another snowfall event this large.
“I live across the street from where I work,” Huebner said., but the walk was “tough, [the snow] way over my knees,” he said.
Elsewhere, Winner posted 16+ inches on Tuesday, besting its previous one-day snowfall record for January, set on Jan 19, 1988.
Heavy snow was reported in many other regions, too, including Pipestone:
Snow in Pipestone as of early Tuesday morning [Julie Carrow].
It’s Twin Cities’ snowiest start to winter the Twin Cities in some three decades. And just four days into the month, it’s already the snowiest January in five years.
As of noon Wednesday, January 4, accumulations at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport –the official climate site for the Twin Cities– touched 12.2 inches — a new daily records.
More impressively, the season’s snowfall is already standing at 45.5 inches, versus the average (by this date) of 20.4 inches, making this the region’s snowiest start to a winter since 1992. The average for an entire season is 51.2 inches.
Switching attention West, to California, snow was coming down at a rate of 7″ per hour at Palisades Tahoe on New Year’s Eve and 7.5″ per hour at the UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab, with the former breaking its all-time 12-hour snowfall record…
Digging out at Palisades Tahoe.
…and there is far more where all that came from, according to the latest GFS run, and across a vast area, and all:
GFS Total Snowfall (inches) Jan 5 – Jan 21 [tropicaltidbits.com].
The COLD TIMES are returning…
Frigid Decembers For North America, Australia, Parts Of Europe, And Asia; Cold 2022 For The South Pole; Historic Snowfall In SD And MN; Twin Cities’ Snowiest Start To Winter In 30-Years; + More To Come
January 5, 2023 Cap AllonFrigid Decembers For North America, Australia, Parts Of Europe, And Asia
As shown by the 15x NASA/NOAA AMSU satellites (that measure every square inch of the lower troposphere), Earth cooled in December, down to a reading of just 0.05C above the multidecadal baseline (the planet was warmer back in the late-1980s).National meteorological agencies and institutes are confirming the chill, with countries across both hemispheres posting anomalously-cold final months of 2022.
North America
NOAA has yet to release December 2022’s temperature data for the U.S. (due soon), but it is all-but assured of being another colder-than-average month –barring some audacious tampering– after the satellites posted a -0.21C anomaly.Similarly above the border, Environment Canada has yet to disclose the official national average, but regional departures from the norm are in.
Prince George, for example, logged an extremely cold December, posting an average of -7.4C below the climatological norm, with Edmonton not fairing much better, suffering an average of -6.8C below the norm.
It was milder across Eastern Canada, but not enough to offset the West’s record-setting freeze–particularly that experienced in British Columbia; as touched on above, B.C. shivered through truly Arctic conditions last month, cold that has persisted into the New Year, too.
A ski lift at Big White Resort in Okanagan remains completely encased in ice after back-to-back snow/ice-storms hit over the Christmas holiday. Photos show the seats, ropes, tower, and terminals of the Falcon Chair trapped within a dazzling-white tomb.
“It’s a very unique thing,” the resort’s vice president Michael J. Ballingall said. “When you get that moisture in the snow, it just sticks to everything like the cotton candy at a fair … People don’t always realize the impact of Mother Nature.”
Stay tuned for updates re. North America.
Australia
December capped off an anomalously-cool year across Australia:The Aussie continent posted a colder-than-average-winter (coldest-ever for the likes of Brisbane), its coldest spring in decades (coldest-ever November for many locales, including Forbes and Ivanhoe), and on Dec 9 set its lowest-ever summer temperature (the -7C /19.4F at Perisher Valley).
Perisher’s freeze assisted New South Wales in enduring its fifth-coldest December in books dating back to the 1800s; it also ‘helped’ the Aussie continent close the month with an anomaly of -0.85C below the multidecadal norm.
The AGW Party is keen to blame Australia’s persistent and historic cold on a rare third-consecutive La Niña. Fair enough. But what they fail to mention is that their global warming hypothesis decreed El Niño to be the dominant ENSO pattern moving forward.
La Niñas, on the other hand, are tied to planetary cooling.
This real-world observation shocked the climate modelers, who themselves admit that they are now scrambling for answers:
Parts Of Europe
Likewise, large parts of Europe shivered through an anomalously-cold December 2022.This is of course long forgotten now that central nation’s are enjoying a week or two of unusual warmth. But as I go into here, a small pocket of the world experiencing unseasonable heat (driven by a low solar activity-induced ‘meridional’ jet stream flow, byt the way, not CO2) doesn’t offset the truly Arctic conditions encasing other, far-larger regions of the planet.
What this obfuscation and cherry-picking does do, however, is expose the mainstream’s desperate warm-mongering agenda.
Continuing, all of Scandinavia suffered a cold December, as I reported Tuesday.
And so did the UK. Despite a milder close to the month, Dec 2022 finished with a CET of -1.3C below the historical norm; a negative temperature anomaly matching Central England’s Decembers of 1739, 1757, 1780 and 1939.
Nearby Ireland was also frigid, posting a December temperature anomaly of -1.4C below the older 1981-2010 norm.
Jumping to Lithuania, a nationwide average of -2.6C was logged there, which is -1.5C below the norm. Additionally, snow remained on the ground for many Lithuanians throughout the month, even after a comparatively mild final week, too.
Map courtesy of LHMT:
December 2022 in Latvia finished with an exceptionally cold average of -3.1C, which is a full -2C below normal.
Map by LVGMC:
While Estonia posted -2.6C, which is -1.6C below normal.
And finally, at least far as Europe goes, traversing back West we find the Netherlands (using De Bilt as the reference) had an average temperature of 3.6C, giving an anomaly of -0.6C.
Graph by KNMI:
Asia
December 2022 in Japan had an anomaly of 0.45C below the multidecadal norm (see map below).It was also historically snowy across the country, with daily, monthly and even many all-time benchmarks falling.
Hong Kong also shivered through the final month of the year.
An average reading of 16.6C held the region -1.6C below its seasonal norm.
Data courtesy of the HK Observatory:
While in South Korea, the average temperature came out at a frigid -1.4C, which is a significant 2.5C below the average.
Map by the KMA:
Cold 2022 For The South Pole
Antarctica appears to be cooling…The continent suffered its coldest-ever ‘coreless’ winter (April-Sept) in 2021, and then continued that cooling trend throughout 2022, posting a string of colder-than-average months (including its coldest Nov since 1987), as well as its latest -60C (-76F) on record.
The data is now in for 2022 as a whole and, unsurprisingly, the year finished colder than normal.
The South Pole Station ended the year with an annual average of -49.5C, which is -0.4C below the norm.
A cooling Antarctica is a big headache for the AGW Party. It blows apart their ‘Polar Amplification’ theory, which claims that ‘global warming’ produces disproportionate heating at the poles against the planetary average.
This is the best they can come up with to explain why the Arctic is warming when temperatures most-everywhere else are either remaining flat or cooling–as per the rural datasets, not necessarily the UHI-affected urban stations that warmists love to cite.
But this explain-away doesn’t make sense given that the Antarctic is cooling, of course.
It also doesn’t explain the increasingly-meridional or ‘wavy’ jet stream flow that we’re seeing, which is responsible for the observed intensifying swings-between-extremes in our weather, i.e. heatwaves and Arctic Outbreaks.
Despite the AGW Party trying its darnedest to link this wavy jet stream phenomenon to a warming Arctic, it is also present in Southern Hemisphere, so that goes and blows that thinking apart, too. But the establishment doesn’t seemed bothered by logic or data, as proven by University of Michigan professor emeritus of environment and sustainability Donald Scavia’s statement:
“In the past there was a very strong gradient of cold air at the poles and warmer air south of the poles. That gradient kept the cold where it is … As the poles are warming faster than the rest of the planet, that gradient weakens, allowing the cold air currents to dip south.”
But as pointed out by the late Dr. Tim Ball, former climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg, Scavia’s statement is “utter rubbish” — Antarctica is cooling yet the jets are still weakening, so a different forcing must be to blame (the Sun)
The polar amplification theory is “wrong in every aspect, from the basic assumption to the interpretation,” continued Ball. “In fact, a gradient makes things move. It doesn’t ‘keep the cold where it is.”
Disproportionately warming poles would actually reduced the temperature difference between them and the lower latitudes, and would therefore reduce extreme weather events, not intensify them, as the AGW Party claims.
After all, weather and extreme weather events are driven by the temperature gradient between latitudes. A warming Arctic would result in less intense cold outbreaks and a lesser intrusion of cold Arctic air colliding with warm moist air in warmer regions.
Climate alarmists have their science backwards, concluded Ball before his passing in September, 2022.
More on all that here:
Also, the Antarctic sheet ice is growing, according to the official data, again destroying the establishment’s baseless notions.
Historic Snowfall In SD And MN
This week’s storm is one for the history books in communities across South Dakota and SW Minnesota.Armour, for example, reported 26 inches as of 4:30pm on Jan 3.
Don Huebner, who has lived in Armour since 1985, he can’t recall another snowfall event this large.
“I live across the street from where I work,” Huebner said., but the walk was “tough, [the snow] way over my knees,” he said.
Elsewhere, Winner posted 16+ inches on Tuesday, besting its previous one-day snowfall record for January, set on Jan 19, 1988.
Heavy snow was reported in many other regions, too, including Pipestone:
Snow in Pipestone as of early Tuesday morning [Julie Carrow].
Twin Cities’ Snowiest Start To Winter In 30-Years
It’s Twin Cities’ snowiest start to winter the Twin Cities in some three decades. And just four days into the month, it’s already the snowiest January in five years.As of noon Wednesday, January 4, accumulations at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport –the official climate site for the Twin Cities– touched 12.2 inches — a new daily records.
More impressively, the season’s snowfall is already standing at 45.5 inches, versus the average (by this date) of 20.4 inches, making this the region’s snowiest start to a winter since 1992. The average for an entire season is 51.2 inches.
Switching attention West, to California, snow was coming down at a rate of 7″ per hour at Palisades Tahoe on New Year’s Eve and 7.5″ per hour at the UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab, with the former breaking its all-time 12-hour snowfall record…
Digging out at Palisades Tahoe.
More To Come
…and there is far more where all that came from, according to the latest GFS run, and across a vast area, and all:
GFS Total Snowfall (inches) Jan 5 – Jan 21 [tropicaltidbits.com].
The COLD TIMES are returning…
Melodi
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The interesing thing is this sort of extreme weather; for example, Europe going from record cold to record warm temperatures in a couple of weeks; may be connected to global periods of massive weather change. But more often than not, they occur towards the beginning and the end of the little Ice Ages or even the longer full Ice Ages.
In the early 14th century, the Great Famine was caused not just because things were getting colder (which they were) but because farming was nearly impossible because of the swings back and forth (often in a short period). Between heat and cold, wet and dry weather, and often at unexpected times of the year. Food supplies improved as soon as things finally got colder, and they stayed there because people could adjust to the new reality by changing crops and moving the seasonal chores.
The Younger Dryas towards the end of the last Great Ice Age is another example. Things started warming for about 1,000 years; that caused a huge climate flip back into cold (probably when so much ice melted, flooding caused a change in overall jet stream patterns). Then for unknown reasons suddenly flipped back into the overall warming we've had for the last 12,000 years or so. I say mostly because we haven't had another flip into a Great Ice Age - Yet, anyway.
In the early 14th century, the Great Famine was caused not just because things were getting colder (which they were) but because farming was nearly impossible because of the swings back and forth (often in a short period). Between heat and cold, wet and dry weather, and often at unexpected times of the year. Food supplies improved as soon as things finally got colder, and they stayed there because people could adjust to the new reality by changing crops and moving the seasonal chores.
The Younger Dryas towards the end of the last Great Ice Age is another example. Things started warming for about 1,000 years; that caused a huge climate flip back into cold (probably when so much ice melted, flooding caused a change in overall jet stream patterns). Then for unknown reasons suddenly flipped back into the overall warming we've had for the last 12,000 years or so. I say mostly because we haven't had another flip into a Great Ice Age - Yet, anyway.
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Currently, the Cali pack is measuring 179% of the historical average, boosted by recent record-setting snowstorms.
Statewide snowpack is even 70% of the April 1 average, and is matching the best water year on record (1982-1983):
The snow was coming down at a rate of 7″ per hour at Palisades Tahoe on New Year’s Eve and 7.5″ per hour at the UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab, with the former breaking its all-time 12-hour snowfall record:
Digging out from the record-breaking snow at Palisades Tahoe.
California is on course for even more snow through the weekend.
But state water officials remain all doom and gloom –no surprises there– even though the year’s first official measurements of snow and water content in Phillips, a town east of Sacramento, found levels to be well-above average for this time of year.
“While we see a terrific snowpack –and that in and of itself may be an opportunity to breathe a sigh of relief– we are by no means out of the woods when it comes to drought,” said Karla Nemeth, director of the state’s Department of Water Resources.
This week’s expected storm system is on course to be very cold and will increase the snowpack further:
GFS Total Snowfall (inches) Jan 6 – Jan 22 [tropicaltidbits.com].
California’s above-average precipitation this water year (commencing Oct 1) has seen state climatologist Mike Anderson concede that “things are looking pretty good … certainly a lot better than we have been in past years.”
For reference, the past three years have been California’s driest since 1986 (solar minimum of cycle 21).
It’s been holding incredibly cold across Scandinavia over the past month+, and accompanying the chill has been heavy, disruptive snow, particularly in Norway.
Despite round-the-clock efforts of the city’s plowing crews, Olso commuters were urged to work from home Thursday and Friday after heavy snow brought much of the capital’s transport to a standstill.
Some 30 bus routes were cancelled Thursday morning, with those still running either delayed or rerouted due to the treacherous conditions.
“There are extremely challenging driving conditions, and it will be a challenging day today,” said Øystein Dahl Johansen, press officer for Ruter, Oslo’s public transportation authority.
Ruter asked people to avoid travel if possible, and also to allow plenty of time to complete their journey:
Ruter
@Ruter
På grunn av vær og føreforhold er en rekke busslinjer innstilt i Oslo og deler av Viken i dag. Vurder om du må reise, benytt T-banen og hold deg oppdatert i Ruter-appen og på Ruter – kollektivtrafikk i Oslo og Akershus. Presserom https://t.co/iwO5ksxZ58
12:14 AM · Jan 5, 2023
“Those who have the opportunity are encouraged to have a home office, keep up to date, use the subway and consider whether you have to travel at all today,” added Johansen.
The below tweet shows clearing operations Wednesday afternoon, which ultimately turned out to be something of a ‘bootless errand’ given the far-heavier flurries that settled overnight and into Thursday morning.
BBC Weather
@bbcweather
Heavy snow in southern Norway and Oslo caused travel problems yesterday. Snow has eased today, but more heavy snow expected tonight and tomorrow Oslo - BBC Weather | Matt https://t.co/0qGZb0Qxip
3:35 AM · Jan 5, 2023
Scandinavia’s Cold December; A Busy Month For Sunspots; + If Global Warming Is Real And ‘Catastrophic’, Why Are The Deserts Greening?
If a land mass of approx. 1.1 million km2 currently holding warm (central Europe) is due to ‘catastrophic global warming’, then what’s the freezing land mass of well-over 20 million km2 to the east caused by? Also global warming, I presume…?!
That’s the level of reckless ignorance we’re dealing with here; poverty-inducing ignorance; suicidal compliance and blind belief.
Here’s the temperature outlook for Europe:
GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) Jan 7 [tropicaltidbits.com].
And here’s Asia (excluding the far east) — an area at least 20x bigger:
GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) Jan 16 [tropicaltidbits.com].
It’s a non-contest.
Starting in Western Russia, this is intense cold even by hardy Russian standards. Lows of -30C (-22F) are forecast for Moscow by the weekend, perhaps even lower.
While headed east, Siberia, Kazakhstan (all of the ‘stans, in fact), Mongolia and China (as well as Japan and the Koreas–not quite shown on this map) are on course to be invaded by fierce, record-challenging polar cold — again.
Indeed, these regions have been no stranger to anomalously-frigid conditions in recent weeks.
Northern China, for example, endured lows of -50C (-58F) back in December, with Beijing suffering its lowest reading since the 1970s.
November was also exceptionally cold in this part of the world. More than 20 provincial areas of China were put under ‘extreme cold warnings’, with Xinjiang issuing the country’s first ‘red alert’ since the deadly cold wave of 2008 (solar minimum of cycle 21). The warning was warranted, too: record-breaking lows bottoming-out at -48.6C (-55.5F) hit in late-Nov, cold which froze-to-death thousands upon thousands of livestock as well as seven unfortunate construction workers near the city of Altay.
Record cold has also touched Siberia of late, as well as Mongolia and South Korea; while all-time snowfall records have been slain across Japan — to name just four other regions.
Looking again at the above GFS forecast, similarly-deadly conditions look set to return, but over an even larger region.
Stay tuned for updates.
On Tuesday, Jan 3 the very active region produced a probable X-class eruption on the farside of the Sun, followed on Friday, Jan 6 by a confirmed X1.2-flare on the Earthside:
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the eruption just before 0100 UT this morning (Jan 6):
The explosion inflated a dome of glowing-hot plasma which hovered above the blast site for more than an hour. But so far, no coronal mass ejection (CME) has been observed emerging from the area, points out Dr Tony Phillips of spaceweather.com.
A pulse of X-rays and extreme UV radiation from the flare ionized the top of Earth’s atmosphere, causing a shortwave radio blackout across South Pacific (see map below). Ham radio operators, mariners and aviators may have noticed unusual propagation effects at frequencies below 30 MHz for as much as an hour after the flaring.
Given the size and apparent complexity of AR3182, there’s a good chance the explosions will continue into the days ahead — just as the region turns to face Earth.
To reiterate, a strong Earth-facing X-flare has the capacity to send our civilization back to the Stone Age.
AR3182 is worth paying attention to — let’s put it that way.
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California’s Snowpack Highest In 40 Years; Heavy Snow “Causes Chaos” In Oslo; Extreme Freeze Begins Across Vast Areas Of Russia/Asia; + X-Flare Watch
January 6, 2023 Cap AllonCalifornia’s Snowpack Highest In 40 Years
Snowpack across California’s mountains is at the highest level in 40 years — with more heavy snow in the forecast.Currently, the Cali pack is measuring 179% of the historical average, boosted by recent record-setting snowstorms.
Statewide snowpack is even 70% of the April 1 average, and is matching the best water year on record (1982-1983):
The snow was coming down at a rate of 7″ per hour at Palisades Tahoe on New Year’s Eve and 7.5″ per hour at the UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab, with the former breaking its all-time 12-hour snowfall record:
Digging out from the record-breaking snow at Palisades Tahoe.
California is on course for even more snow through the weekend.
But state water officials remain all doom and gloom –no surprises there– even though the year’s first official measurements of snow and water content in Phillips, a town east of Sacramento, found levels to be well-above average for this time of year.
“While we see a terrific snowpack –and that in and of itself may be an opportunity to breathe a sigh of relief– we are by no means out of the woods when it comes to drought,” said Karla Nemeth, director of the state’s Department of Water Resources.
This week’s expected storm system is on course to be very cold and will increase the snowpack further:
GFS Total Snowfall (inches) Jan 6 – Jan 22 [tropicaltidbits.com].
California’s above-average precipitation this water year (commencing Oct 1) has seen state climatologist Mike Anderson concede that “things are looking pretty good … certainly a lot better than we have been in past years.”
For reference, the past three years have been California’s driest since 1986 (solar minimum of cycle 21).
Heavy Snow “Causes Chaos” In Oslo
It’s been holding incredibly cold across Scandinavia over the past month+, and accompanying the chill has been heavy, disruptive snow, particularly in Norway.Despite round-the-clock efforts of the city’s plowing crews, Olso commuters were urged to work from home Thursday and Friday after heavy snow brought much of the capital’s transport to a standstill.
Some 30 bus routes were cancelled Thursday morning, with those still running either delayed or rerouted due to the treacherous conditions.
“There are extremely challenging driving conditions, and it will be a challenging day today,” said Øystein Dahl Johansen, press officer for Ruter, Oslo’s public transportation authority.
Ruter asked people to avoid travel if possible, and also to allow plenty of time to complete their journey:
Ruter
@Ruter
På grunn av vær og føreforhold er en rekke busslinjer innstilt i Oslo og deler av Viken i dag. Vurder om du må reise, benytt T-banen og hold deg oppdatert i Ruter-appen og på Ruter – kollektivtrafikk i Oslo og Akershus. Presserom https://t.co/iwO5ksxZ58
12:14 AM · Jan 5, 2023
“Those who have the opportunity are encouraged to have a home office, keep up to date, use the subway and consider whether you have to travel at all today,” added Johansen.
The below tweet shows clearing operations Wednesday afternoon, which ultimately turned out to be something of a ‘bootless errand’ given the far-heavier flurries that settled overnight and into Thursday morning.
BBC Weather
@bbcweather
Heavy snow in southern Norway and Oslo caused travel problems yesterday. Snow has eased today, but more heavy snow expected tonight and tomorrow Oslo - BBC Weather | Matt https://t.co/0qGZb0Qxip
3:35 AM · Jan 5, 2023
Scandinavia’s Cold December; A Busy Month For Sunspots; + If Global Warming Is Real And ‘Catastrophic’, Why Are The Deserts Greening?
Extreme Freeze Begins Across Vast Areas Of Russia/Asia
It is indeed warm in central Europe, alarmists, we get it. But what about the record-setting freeze to the east which is beginning to engulf the majority of transcontinental Russia and the wider Asian continent as a whole?If a land mass of approx. 1.1 million km2 currently holding warm (central Europe) is due to ‘catastrophic global warming’, then what’s the freezing land mass of well-over 20 million km2 to the east caused by? Also global warming, I presume…?!
That’s the level of reckless ignorance we’re dealing with here; poverty-inducing ignorance; suicidal compliance and blind belief.
Here’s the temperature outlook for Europe:
GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) Jan 7 [tropicaltidbits.com].
And here’s Asia (excluding the far east) — an area at least 20x bigger:
GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) Jan 16 [tropicaltidbits.com].
It’s a non-contest.
Starting in Western Russia, this is intense cold even by hardy Russian standards. Lows of -30C (-22F) are forecast for Moscow by the weekend, perhaps even lower.
While headed east, Siberia, Kazakhstan (all of the ‘stans, in fact), Mongolia and China (as well as Japan and the Koreas–not quite shown on this map) are on course to be invaded by fierce, record-challenging polar cold — again.
Indeed, these regions have been no stranger to anomalously-frigid conditions in recent weeks.
Northern China, for example, endured lows of -50C (-58F) back in December, with Beijing suffering its lowest reading since the 1970s.
November was also exceptionally cold in this part of the world. More than 20 provincial areas of China were put under ‘extreme cold warnings’, with Xinjiang issuing the country’s first ‘red alert’ since the deadly cold wave of 2008 (solar minimum of cycle 21). The warning was warranted, too: record-breaking lows bottoming-out at -48.6C (-55.5F) hit in late-Nov, cold which froze-to-death thousands upon thousands of livestock as well as seven unfortunate construction workers near the city of Altay.
Record cold has also touched Siberia of late, as well as Mongolia and South Korea; while all-time snowfall records have been slain across Japan — to name just four other regions.
Looking again at the above GFS forecast, similarly-deadly conditions look set to return, but over an even larger region.
Stay tuned for updates.
X-Flare Watch
Newly-emerging sunspot AR3182 poses an ongoing threat for strong solar flares.On Tuesday, Jan 3 the very active region produced a probable X-class eruption on the farside of the Sun, followed on Friday, Jan 6 by a confirmed X1.2-flare on the Earthside:
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the eruption just before 0100 UT this morning (Jan 6):
The explosion inflated a dome of glowing-hot plasma which hovered above the blast site for more than an hour. But so far, no coronal mass ejection (CME) has been observed emerging from the area, points out Dr Tony Phillips of spaceweather.com.
A pulse of X-rays and extreme UV radiation from the flare ionized the top of Earth’s atmosphere, causing a shortwave radio blackout across South Pacific (see map below). Ham radio operators, mariners and aviators may have noticed unusual propagation effects at frequencies below 30 MHz for as much as an hour after the flaring.
Given the size and apparent complexity of AR3182, there’s a good chance the explosions will continue into the days ahead — just as the region turns to face Earth.
To reiterate, a strong Earth-facing X-flare has the capacity to send our civilization back to the Stone Age.
AR3182 is worth paying attention to — let’s put it that way.
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From my email inbox The Old Farmer's Almanac January 7 2023
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Articles
All 2,000 of my electroverse.net articles (my previous website–that was heavily censored and eventually demonetized) have mysteriously and suspiciously vanished; I cannot locate them, and neither can my hosting service.
Thanks to the Wayback Machine I am still able to read a good number of them, and will, over time, be updating a few of the most pertinent and re-publishing them on electroverse.co.
This is one (dated June 30, 2022):
Spain and Portugal have witnessed a drastic cool down, with even rare summer frosts suffered in the highlands.
Remarkable minimums for the time of year have been registered, including yesterday’s 4C (39.2F) at Burgos; the 10C (50F) at Bilbao Airport; the 10.5C (50.9F) at Granada; the 9.7C (49.5F) at Beja and the 2.3C (36.1F) at Xinzo de Limia.
Contrastingly, we note the anomalous heat simultaneously sweeping more central regions of the continent.
Tuesday, June 28 was a historic day in the “eternal city” of Rome. The MSM is raving about a reading of 40.8C (105.4F) logged at Rome Macao, which is said to be the highest “reliable” temperature ever recorded in downtown Rome. Additional record highs were also set across Italy on Tuesday, including Campobasso’s 37.4C (99.3F) and Ronchi dei Legionari’s 36.7C (98.1F).
However, rather than serving as an illustration of ‘catastrophic climate heating’, as proponents of the AGW Party would have you believe, Europe’s stark temperature divide –between summer frosts and record June heat– is the result of a slumberous Sun.
Low solar activity impacts Earth’s climate via a number of different mechanisms. The most notable of which is the reduction of energy entering the jet streams — this reverts the jets’ standard straight ZONAL flow to a weak and wavy MERIDIONAL one:
In times of meridional flow, a region’s weather is determined by which ‘side’ of the stream it’s on. If it is located ‘above’ the stream (in the NH) then it’s in for a spell of unseasonably cold conditions–open to influxes of Arctic air; while conversely, if the locale is ‘under’ the jet stream then it is set for anomalously hot conditions–subject to air masses dragged up from the tropics.
A wavy jet stream flow also increases the prevalence of swings between extremes. That is to say, intense bursts of heat will linger in one area, while a teeth-chattering chill will dominate nearby. These regions are also then open to flipping on a dime.
Staying in Europe, Portugal experienced a burst of intense heat in early/mid-June, while central nations were noted to be freezing. But now, barely a week later, record lows are being challenged across the country with summer frosts gripping the highlands, while central Europe bakes in an early-season heatwave.
And looking ahead, yet another ‘swing’ is forecast to take place, when these regions once again ‘switch’:
Currently, Western Europe is cool while Central regions are anomalously hot.
Proponents of the global warming hypothesis are very confident at explaining Rome’s record heat: “rising CO2 levels increase the global temperature making heatwaves more likely”. However, when it comes to the record cold currently infecting Western Europe, the official explanation turns murkier and rather lackluster: “climate change” is the blanket terminology used, with no mechanism offered to explain it.
Given the prevalence of this meridional flow in recent years, the AGW Party have, at times, attempted explanations that still maintain their CAGW juggernaut. Depressingly, this is how modern science works, findings are reverse engineered. Powerful entities (multinational conglomerates/governing bodies) identify their desired results and task (pay) researchers to fit the pieces together in order to obtain the ‘correct’ outcome. This can often see scientists jamming square pegs into round holes. However, as soon as that outcome has the branding ‘science says’ slapped upon it, then it can’t be touched, it’s as good as Gospel.
Still, today’s scientific ‘consensus’ –not a scientific word by the way– has pulled together a weak explanation for this observed uptick in meridional flows; one that isn’t widely agreed upon, but one that is still used by the MSM to explain-away those pesky and increasingly-regular polar outbreaks.
The ‘consensus’ states that “because the Earth’s polar regions are warming more quickly than the rest of the world, the temperature contrast that drives jet streams has decreased (making for weaker streams)”.
‘Polar Amplification’ is the theory, but for it to work BOTH poles need to be warming, which simply isn’t the case.
Official data reveals that East Antarctica, which covers two thirds of the continent, has cooled 2.8C over the past 40-or-so years, with West Antarctica cooling 1.6C. Climate alarmists love long-term trends, and to them, forty years is regarded as a long-enough time-frame from which to draw significant climatic conclusions. But the evaluation of the past 4-decades can result in only one summation: that Antarctica is cooling simultaneously with a weakening of the southern jets, blowing apart that mainstream explain-away.
Moreover, this Antarctic cooling has actually been intensifying in recent years.
As discussed in more detail here, between April and September 2021 the South Pole’s temperature averaged a penguin-hugging -61.1C (-78F) — the locale’s coldest six-month spell ever recorded, and a period that comfortably usurped the South Pole’s previous coldest ‘coreless winter‘ on record, the -60.6C (-77F) from 1976 (solar minimum of weak cycle 20).
Furthermore, the entire year of 2021 (not just the winter) was also a record-breaker.
The South Pole averaged just -50.5C (59F) throughout 2021, making it the continent’s coldest year since 1987 (solar minimum of cycle 21) and also the third coldest on record in weather books dating back to 1957.
The unusual chill has extended through 2022, too.
For more on that, see the links below:
So to conclude, the establishment’s explain-away theory that warming poles are to blame for a weak and wavy jet stream flow –and in turn the correlated violent swings between extremes in the weather (dubbed ‘climate change’ by the establishment)– is, to put it mildly, complete and utter BS.
Antarctica is undoubtedly COOLING, and so are the regions surrounding the continent.
The southernmost tip of South America, for example, has in “the most recent decades” seen its climate deteriorate to the coldest sea surface temperatures of the last 10,000 years (Bertrand et al., 2017); while additional studies show that not only has the sea ice around Antarctica been advancing in recent decades –in tandem with Southern Ocean cooling (Fan et al., 2014)– but also that the entire Southern Hemisphere’s sea ice extent has been creeping northwards since the 1970s (Comiso et al., 2017).
And now, a new study (Salame et al., 2021) reports that Southern Hemisphere sea ice has been creeping so far northwards since 2000 that it now extends well into the 54°S southern Chilean fjords, or up to 100 km further north than the NSIDC’s previous extension limit estimates (55°S).
I’ll leave you with my favorite image of the past few years, which serves as a powerful example of dirty mainstream media tricks, obfuscations and outright lies: everywhere is warming twice as fast as everywhere else:
Reject the politicized cries of “climate emergency!”, they are not rooted in science.
Instead, prepare for the next big freeze: climate is cyclic, after all, never linear, and the COLD TIMES are returning…
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Explained: Low Solar Activity And A ‘Meridional’ Jet Stream Flow
January 9, 2023 Cap AllonAll 2,000 of my electroverse.net articles (my previous website–that was heavily censored and eventually demonetized) have mysteriously and suspiciously vanished; I cannot locate them, and neither can my hosting service.
Thanks to the Wayback Machine I am still able to read a good number of them, and will, over time, be updating a few of the most pertinent and re-publishing them on electroverse.co.
This is one (dated June 30, 2022):
Explained: Low Solar Activity And A ‘Meridional’ Jet Stream Flow
Unusual summer chills have been gripping Western Europe over the past 7-10 days.Spain and Portugal have witnessed a drastic cool down, with even rare summer frosts suffered in the highlands.
Remarkable minimums for the time of year have been registered, including yesterday’s 4C (39.2F) at Burgos; the 10C (50F) at Bilbao Airport; the 10.5C (50.9F) at Granada; the 9.7C (49.5F) at Beja and the 2.3C (36.1F) at Xinzo de Limia.
Contrastingly, we note the anomalous heat simultaneously sweeping more central regions of the continent.
Tuesday, June 28 was a historic day in the “eternal city” of Rome. The MSM is raving about a reading of 40.8C (105.4F) logged at Rome Macao, which is said to be the highest “reliable” temperature ever recorded in downtown Rome. Additional record highs were also set across Italy on Tuesday, including Campobasso’s 37.4C (99.3F) and Ronchi dei Legionari’s 36.7C (98.1F).
However, rather than serving as an illustration of ‘catastrophic climate heating’, as proponents of the AGW Party would have you believe, Europe’s stark temperature divide –between summer frosts and record June heat– is the result of a slumberous Sun.
Low solar activity impacts Earth’s climate via a number of different mechanisms. The most notable of which is the reduction of energy entering the jet streams — this reverts the jets’ standard straight ZONAL flow to a weak and wavy MERIDIONAL one:
In times of meridional flow, a region’s weather is determined by which ‘side’ of the stream it’s on. If it is located ‘above’ the stream (in the NH) then it’s in for a spell of unseasonably cold conditions–open to influxes of Arctic air; while conversely, if the locale is ‘under’ the jet stream then it is set for anomalously hot conditions–subject to air masses dragged up from the tropics.
A wavy jet stream flow also increases the prevalence of swings between extremes. That is to say, intense bursts of heat will linger in one area, while a teeth-chattering chill will dominate nearby. These regions are also then open to flipping on a dime.
Staying in Europe, Portugal experienced a burst of intense heat in early/mid-June, while central nations were noted to be freezing. But now, barely a week later, record lows are being challenged across the country with summer frosts gripping the highlands, while central Europe bakes in an early-season heatwave.
And looking ahead, yet another ‘swing’ is forecast to take place, when these regions once again ‘switch’:
- But next week, Western Europe will be hot while Central regions will be unusually cold.
- Currently, Western Europe is cool while Central regions are anomalously hot.
- But next week, Western Europe will be hot while Central regions will be unusually cold.
- Currently, Western Europe is cool while Central regions are anomalously hot.
Currently, Western Europe is cool while Central regions are anomalously hot.
Proponents of the global warming hypothesis are very confident at explaining Rome’s record heat: “rising CO2 levels increase the global temperature making heatwaves more likely”. However, when it comes to the record cold currently infecting Western Europe, the official explanation turns murkier and rather lackluster: “climate change” is the blanket terminology used, with no mechanism offered to explain it.
Given the prevalence of this meridional flow in recent years, the AGW Party have, at times, attempted explanations that still maintain their CAGW juggernaut. Depressingly, this is how modern science works, findings are reverse engineered. Powerful entities (multinational conglomerates/governing bodies) identify their desired results and task (pay) researchers to fit the pieces together in order to obtain the ‘correct’ outcome. This can often see scientists jamming square pegs into round holes. However, as soon as that outcome has the branding ‘science says’ slapped upon it, then it can’t be touched, it’s as good as Gospel.
Still, today’s scientific ‘consensus’ –not a scientific word by the way– has pulled together a weak explanation for this observed uptick in meridional flows; one that isn’t widely agreed upon, but one that is still used by the MSM to explain-away those pesky and increasingly-regular polar outbreaks.
The ‘consensus’ states that “because the Earth’s polar regions are warming more quickly than the rest of the world, the temperature contrast that drives jet streams has decreased (making for weaker streams)”.
‘Polar Amplification’ is the theory, but for it to work BOTH poles need to be warming, which simply isn’t the case.
Official data reveals that East Antarctica, which covers two thirds of the continent, has cooled 2.8C over the past 40-or-so years, with West Antarctica cooling 1.6C. Climate alarmists love long-term trends, and to them, forty years is regarded as a long-enough time-frame from which to draw significant climatic conclusions. But the evaluation of the past 4-decades can result in only one summation: that Antarctica is cooling simultaneously with a weakening of the southern jets, blowing apart that mainstream explain-away.
Moreover, this Antarctic cooling has actually been intensifying in recent years.
As discussed in more detail here, between April and September 2021 the South Pole’s temperature averaged a penguin-hugging -61.1C (-78F) — the locale’s coldest six-month spell ever recorded, and a period that comfortably usurped the South Pole’s previous coldest ‘coreless winter‘ on record, the -60.6C (-77F) from 1976 (solar minimum of weak cycle 20).
Furthermore, the entire year of 2021 (not just the winter) was also a record-breaker.
The South Pole averaged just -50.5C (59F) throughout 2021, making it the continent’s coldest year since 1987 (solar minimum of cycle 21) and also the third coldest on record in weather books dating back to 1957.
The unusual chill has extended through 2022, too.
For more on that, see the links below:
So to conclude, the establishment’s explain-away theory that warming poles are to blame for a weak and wavy jet stream flow –and in turn the correlated violent swings between extremes in the weather (dubbed ‘climate change’ by the establishment)– is, to put it mildly, complete and utter BS.
Antarctica is undoubtedly COOLING, and so are the regions surrounding the continent.
The southernmost tip of South America, for example, has in “the most recent decades” seen its climate deteriorate to the coldest sea surface temperatures of the last 10,000 years (Bertrand et al., 2017); while additional studies show that not only has the sea ice around Antarctica been advancing in recent decades –in tandem with Southern Ocean cooling (Fan et al., 2014)– but also that the entire Southern Hemisphere’s sea ice extent has been creeping northwards since the 1970s (Comiso et al., 2017).
And now, a new study (Salame et al., 2021) reports that Southern Hemisphere sea ice has been creeping so far northwards since 2000 that it now extends well into the 54°S southern Chilean fjords, or up to 100 km further north than the NSIDC’s previous extension limit estimates (55°S).
I’ll leave you with my favorite image of the past few years, which serves as a powerful example of dirty mainstream media tricks, obfuscations and outright lies: everywhere is warming twice as fast as everywhere else:
Reject the politicized cries of “climate emergency!”, they are not rooted in science.
Instead, prepare for the next big freeze: climate is cyclic, after all, never linear, and the COLD TIMES are returning…
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Well we’ve known since the late 1990s that governments can do ”weather wars”, so I suspect the warm weather in southern Ukraine just might be a manipulation by “who knows who“ to keep the ground muddy to stall the highly anticipated Russian tank offensive
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A bone-chilling -62.1C (79.8F) was registered in Dzalinda last night (-61.9C shown below, but it dropped a little further). This is Siberia’s coldest temperature since at least 2002, and usurps Dzlalinda’s January record of 62C set in 1942 (for ref, the all-time low of -64C was registered here back in the 1880s).
Nearby, a fierce -60.3C (-76.5F) was logged in Olenek, which the locales’s first -60C since 1969, and its coldest reading since at least 1959.
Elsewhere, -59.8C (-75.6F) was suffered in Suhana, -59.7C (-75.5F) in Delyankir, and -59.5C (-75.1F) in Oymyakon.
Looking west, extreme cold is also infiltrating European-Russia.
Here, a remarkable -45C (49F) has been observed, with similar chills beginning to extend into the likes of Ukraine and Belarus, too — contrasting Central Europe’s winter warmth.
For reference, Ukraine’s coldest-ever recorded temp is the -41.9C (43.4F) set in Luhansk on Jan 8, 1939; while in Belarus, its the -42.2C (44F) in Slavnom from Jan 17, 1940.
As well as west, 2023’s Arctic Outbreak is also spreading both eastward and southward. Much of Asia will be in the grips of historic lows for the foreseeable, with polar cold descending as far south as Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan, too…
GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies for Jan 11 [tropicaltidbits.com].
…and also into southwest China by the weekend:
GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) Jan 15 [tropicaltidbits.com].
The powerful X1.98-flare of Sunday, January 9 did something rare — it jerked Earth’s magnetic field.
With thanks to Dr Tony Phillips of spaceweather.com, here is a composite of magnetometer recordings from Boulder, Colorado; Honolulu, Hawaii; and Fredericksburg, Virginia:
The jerk, circled in yellow, began at 18:46 UT and was detected by many magnetic observatories across the dayside of Earth at the time of the X-flare.
The phenomenon is officially known as a ‘magnetic crochet.’
Radiation from the flare ionized the top of Earth’s atmosphere and caused currents to flow 60 km to 100 km above Earth’s surface. These currents, in turn, briefly altered Earth’s magnetic field.
Thankfully, everything returned to normal a few minutes later, but it shows what the Sun is capable of — particularly given our planet’s ever-waning magnetic field strength, which has weakened ≈20% from the 1800s, with this weakening accelerating.
Earth’s waning magnetosphere is due to two key factors: 1) low solar activity, and 2) our planet’s migrating magnetic poles.
As Earth loses its dipole magnetic shape –due to the shifting of its poles– the overall field strength weakens and its protective shield against potentially harmful space energy is reduced, meaning every enhancement of the solar wind, every crossing of the Sun’s current sheet, and every CME has a larger and larger impact than it ordinarily would, both directly on the upper atmosphere, and also indirectly through the ionosphere’s equator-traveling waves that come from the aurora.
In the year 2000, we knew the field had lost 10% of its strength since the 1800s; another 5% was lost by 2010; further accelerations occurred in recent years, 2015 and 2017, but we laymen were not privy to any additional loss data–with guesses on why that might be quickly sending you down a conspiracy rabbit hole.
Migrating magnetic poles indicate that another ‘flip’ aka ‘reversal’ may be on the cards soon.
Such an eventuality would spell scenes akin to the ‘end of times’, as proxy records reveal has occurred in the ancient past — the most notable being the ‘Laschamp excursion’ of approx. 42,000 years ago (although research suggests that these reversals (or ‘excursions’) can occur on a much shorter periodicity of 6,000 years, meaning we’re due).
This is a reality that even mainstream science is slowly waking up to:
Also rather fortuitously, Sunday’s X-flaring did not hurl a coronal mass ejection (CME) toward Earth; the blast was intense enough, but it was too brief/impulsive to lift ejecta out of the Sun’s atmosphere.
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A promising start of 2023 for our Sun as she has just produced the second strongest solar flare (X1.98) of the current Solar Cycle. Incoming sunspot region 3184 was its source. The solar flare was impulsive and little to no ejecta likely left the Sun. https://t.co/mE5fJOI9kl
2:44 PM · Jan 9, 2023
We got lucky, this time.
Three large sunspots (AR3181, 82 and 84) remain on the Earth-facing solar disk, all with unstable ‘delta-class’ magnetic fields capable of strong explosions. NOAA forecasters warn that there is a 35% chance of X-flares today, Jan 10.
To reiterate, and to simplify–although many factors are involved: if, or rather when, a long-lasting solar X9+ flare hits us directly, it’s game over for a large portion of Earth’s power grid: This means chopping wood instead of watching Netflix; it’s raising chickens in place of ordering-in; and that’s interacting with your loved-ones by candlelight of an evening rather than separately becoming captured and controlled by mindless internet clickbait.
I suppose it’s not all bad then; at least not for those properly prepared.
Bring it on heavens, I’m ready for it…
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Siberia’s Coldest Temperature Since 2002, Host Of Records Felled ACROSS Transcontinental Russia; + X1.9-Flare ‘Jerks’ Earth’s Magnetic Field
January 10, 2023 Cap AllonSiberia’s Coldest Temperature Since 2002, Host Of Records Felled ACROSS Transcontinental Russia
The 13.1 million km2 land mass that is Siberia has just logged its coldest temperature since 2002, with many more older, localized records being felled, too — and with an intensification and expansion of the Arctic Outbreak still to come.A bone-chilling -62.1C (79.8F) was registered in Dzalinda last night (-61.9C shown below, but it dropped a little further). This is Siberia’s coldest temperature since at least 2002, and usurps Dzlalinda’s January record of 62C set in 1942 (for ref, the all-time low of -64C was registered here back in the 1880s).
Nearby, a fierce -60.3C (-76.5F) was logged in Olenek, which the locales’s first -60C since 1969, and its coldest reading since at least 1959.
Elsewhere, -59.8C (-75.6F) was suffered in Suhana, -59.7C (-75.5F) in Delyankir, and -59.5C (-75.1F) in Oymyakon.
Looking west, extreme cold is also infiltrating European-Russia.
Here, a remarkable -45C (49F) has been observed, with similar chills beginning to extend into the likes of Ukraine and Belarus, too — contrasting Central Europe’s winter warmth.
For reference, Ukraine’s coldest-ever recorded temp is the -41.9C (43.4F) set in Luhansk on Jan 8, 1939; while in Belarus, its the -42.2C (44F) in Slavnom from Jan 17, 1940.
As well as west, 2023’s Arctic Outbreak is also spreading both eastward and southward. Much of Asia will be in the grips of historic lows for the foreseeable, with polar cold descending as far south as Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan, too…
GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies for Jan 11 [tropicaltidbits.com].
…and also into southwest China by the weekend:
GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) Jan 15 [tropicaltidbits.com].
X1.9-Flare ‘Jerks’ Earth’s Magnetic Field
The powerful X1.98-flare of Sunday, January 9 did something rare — it jerked Earth’s magnetic field.With thanks to Dr Tony Phillips of spaceweather.com, here is a composite of magnetometer recordings from Boulder, Colorado; Honolulu, Hawaii; and Fredericksburg, Virginia:
The jerk, circled in yellow, began at 18:46 UT and was detected by many magnetic observatories across the dayside of Earth at the time of the X-flare.
The phenomenon is officially known as a ‘magnetic crochet.’
Radiation from the flare ionized the top of Earth’s atmosphere and caused currents to flow 60 km to 100 km above Earth’s surface. These currents, in turn, briefly altered Earth’s magnetic field.
Thankfully, everything returned to normal a few minutes later, but it shows what the Sun is capable of — particularly given our planet’s ever-waning magnetic field strength, which has weakened ≈20% from the 1800s, with this weakening accelerating.
Earth’s waning magnetosphere is due to two key factors: 1) low solar activity, and 2) our planet’s migrating magnetic poles.
As Earth loses its dipole magnetic shape –due to the shifting of its poles– the overall field strength weakens and its protective shield against potentially harmful space energy is reduced, meaning every enhancement of the solar wind, every crossing of the Sun’s current sheet, and every CME has a larger and larger impact than it ordinarily would, both directly on the upper atmosphere, and also indirectly through the ionosphere’s equator-traveling waves that come from the aurora.
In the year 2000, we knew the field had lost 10% of its strength since the 1800s; another 5% was lost by 2010; further accelerations occurred in recent years, 2015 and 2017, but we laymen were not privy to any additional loss data–with guesses on why that might be quickly sending you down a conspiracy rabbit hole.
Migrating magnetic poles indicate that another ‘flip’ aka ‘reversal’ may be on the cards soon.
Such an eventuality would spell scenes akin to the ‘end of times’, as proxy records reveal has occurred in the ancient past — the most notable being the ‘Laschamp excursion’ of approx. 42,000 years ago (although research suggests that these reversals (or ‘excursions’) can occur on a much shorter periodicity of 6,000 years, meaning we’re due).
This is a reality that even mainstream science is slowly waking up to:
Also rather fortuitously, Sunday’s X-flaring did not hurl a coronal mass ejection (CME) toward Earth; the blast was intense enough, but it was too brief/impulsive to lift ejecta out of the Sun’s atmosphere.
SpaceWeatherLive
@_SpaceWeather_
A promising start of 2023 for our Sun as she has just produced the second strongest solar flare (X1.98) of the current Solar Cycle. Incoming sunspot region 3184 was its source. The solar flare was impulsive and little to no ejecta likely left the Sun. https://t.co/mE5fJOI9kl
2:44 PM · Jan 9, 2023
We got lucky, this time.
Three large sunspots (AR3181, 82 and 84) remain on the Earth-facing solar disk, all with unstable ‘delta-class’ magnetic fields capable of strong explosions. NOAA forecasters warn that there is a 35% chance of X-flares today, Jan 10.
To reiterate, and to simplify–although many factors are involved: if, or rather when, a long-lasting solar X9+ flare hits us directly, it’s game over for a large portion of Earth’s power grid: This means chopping wood instead of watching Netflix; it’s raising chickens in place of ordering-in; and that’s interacting with your loved-ones by candlelight of an evening rather than separately becoming captured and controlled by mindless internet clickbait.
I suppose it’s not all bad then; at least not for those properly prepared.
Bring it on heavens, I’m ready for it…
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Sydney is on the verge of recording its longest spell of days below 30 degrees Celsius (86F) in 140 years, since 1883.
The Harbour City has warmed since its pre-Christmas record cold spell, but Tuesday’s maximum of 26.6C at Observatory Hill marked the 323rd consecutive day under 30C — already the longest stretch in three decades.
And with daily highs forecast to remain comfortably below 30C for the remainder of the week, the run of sub-30C days will be extended to at least 327 — the most since the all-time record of 339 days set in 1883 (the onset of The Centennial Minimum).
Even Australia’s warm-mongering network, ABC, is struggling to obfuscate-away from this influx of persistent, record-breaking cold: A rare year without ‘hot’ weather, is their compromise, adding: Considering Sydney’s weather station averages 15.2 days above 30C each year, to record nearly an entire year without reaching 30C is exceptionally rare.
But they then immediately spoil things with this agenda-driving drivel: What makes this run even more irregular is in a global warming world the number of days where the temperature reaches 30C has been increasing during recent decades.
ABC spends the opening paragraphs relaying the data, but then devotes much of the rest of the article to ‘damage limitation’.
The data doesn’t lie, though:
Sydney’s last 30C was on Feb 21, 2022, and throughout all of 2022, the city failed to log even a single day above the Bureau of Meteorology’s threshold for what it considers a “hot” day, which for non-tropical coastal regions is 32C (89.6F).
This means that the great and sprawling metropolis that is Sydney, with its strong urban heat island effect, has not officially been “hot” in over a year now, with 2022 the first year since records began (1859) to hold below that BoM threshold (32C).
As the below graph reveals, the number of days above 30C in Sydney has been in free-fall since 2019:
Even that all-time 1883 record of 339 days of <30C is under threat, as eastern Australia isn’t forecast much in the way of ‘heat’ into the month of February: Sydney: A year without a summer…?
Most recently, between Jan 1 to Jan 8, São Paulo –one of the world’s most populated cities– logged a maximum-average of just 24C (75.2F), which, according to Brazil’s National Institute of Meteorology (Inmet), is the coolest start to a year since 1982’s 23.7C (74.7F).
For reference, the city’s historical average for the month of January is 28.6C (83.5F).
Inmet is keen to ‘blame’ this anomalous cooling on an abundance of cloud cover, which is fine and makes logical sense.
My issue, however, is that every explanation for cooling always turns out to have a natural cause, whereas every explanation for heat is carefully framed within the ‘global warming’ narrative–at least where the MSM is concerned: A string of anomalously hot days would never be explained by a lack of cloud over, for example, which, curiously, is a reality recently observed in the UK:
Returning to São Paulo, just 36 minutes of sunshine was logged between Jan 5 and Jan 8.
According to the city’s Climate Emergency Management Center (CGE) –-I didn’t know such a waste of time, effort and money existed– the average temperature on Monday, Jan 9 was just 20.2C, although temperatures are set to “gradually rise [over the coming days],” according to the CGE), “with heavy rain showers … returning from the second half of January”.
At California’s Mammoth Mountain main lodge, snow removal crews were dealing with three feet of fresh snow on Jan 10, which comes hot on the heels of the historic dumpings seen at the turn of the year.
Despite the blizzard-like conditions, Bill Benkwitt, who has been skiing these slopes for 50-years, was out.
“This is the most intense, longest-lasting snow I’ve ever seen,” said Benkwitt. “I mean it’s incredible, so God knows how much will be here by tomorrow.”
Tuesday morning’s additional three feet saw Mammoth pause its operations.
“We’ve been able to be open for the last few weeks but today we decided to close for the safety of our guests and employees,” Mammoth Mountain Communication Director Lauren Burke told CBS 8.
The amount of snow that has already fallen this year is staggering.
“Since we opened November 5th, we have received about 315 inches of snow, already surpassing last year’s numbers,” added Burke.
2010/11’s all-time record for snow (668.5 inches) is on course to be challenged.
“There’s a lot of big snowfall months ahead of us so this could be a record-breaking season. Definitely, a record-breaking 30 days, that’s for sure,” concluded Burke.
A worker uses a snowblower to carve out a path at Mammoth Mountain Resort on Jan 9, 2023.
Looking at California’s statewide snowpack, the best start to a season in 40-years is marching on.
As of Monday, the snow water equivalent increased to 199% of normal for the date, according to the California Department of Water Resources. However, ‘water experts’ are reluctant to signal too much optimism, because, I don’t know, ‘fear is sexy’?
“It’s great that we’ve been getting these storms, but we really can’t predict how long this will keep up,” Jeanine Jones, Interstate Resources Manager at DWR, told KTLA.
Jones added that the series of drenching storms might be too much of a good thing.
“We’re happy that we’re getting snowpack and we’re happy that we’re getting these storms. But we would like them to be suitably spaced out so we’re not having the flood risk,” she whined.
The forecast for the coming days and weeks is looking very snowy along the crucial Colorado River basins — Southern California’s primary source of drinking water.
Snow water equivalent in the Rockies is generally tracking similarly to that of Calis.
As it is in Utah, where state water experts there have said, “We’re about as wet as we can get.”
All of Utah’s basins are sitting at 150% of normal, with statewide snowpack climbing to 176%.
“It’s really positive,” said Jordan Clayton, supervisor of the Natural Resources Conservation Service’s Utah Snow Survey. “This is the fifth best start in our year for water supply in the period we’ve had records,” he added.
A partially buried speed limit sign in Millcreek Canyon, Tues, Jan. 3, 2023 [Kristin Murphy, Deseret News].
North America’s snow is helping push Total snow mass For the Northern Hemisphere’s further above the 1981-2012 average:
[FMI]
The final month of 2022 across the Lower 48 averaged-out at 33.28F, which is 1.06F below the multidecadal norm.
This continues December’s ‘non-trend’ even in propagandizing, UHI-ignoring datasets extending back to 1895:
Also, the year 2022 as a whole –again according to our friendly warm-mongering government agencies– finished with an average temperature of 53.40F. This puts it 18th in the list of warmest year on record and 0.12F above the multidecadal norm.
NOAA writes that 2022 ranks “in the warmest third of the record” — I guess ’18th’ wasn’t juicy enough for them.
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(3 of 6) #2022 annual (January–December) U.S. temperature was 53.4°F — 1.4°F above avg — ranking in the warmest third of the record. Record drought gripped much of the U.S. in 2022 @NOAANCEI @ametsoc #StateOfClimate #AMS2023 https://t.co/2ARjuKAITs
11:06 AM · Jan 10, 2023
It remains a mystery how the warmists have been convinced that Earth is heating in oblivion.
The power of propaganda, I suppose; the blind acceptance of trusting, compliant sacks of meat and bones.
Accept your experimental jab-jab-jab, the telescreens instructed, without questions; and while you’re at it, willingly accept a drastically lower living standard, and all, you know, for the sake of lineally and exponentially rising global temperatures:
The sheep are walking us all over the cliff.
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January 11, 2023 Cap AllonSydney’s Longest Spell Of Days Below 30C In 140-Years
It was a cold 2022 across Australia, with many daily, monthly and even all-time records felled — 2023 has started in the same chilly vein.Sydney is on the verge of recording its longest spell of days below 30 degrees Celsius (86F) in 140 years, since 1883.
The Harbour City has warmed since its pre-Christmas record cold spell, but Tuesday’s maximum of 26.6C at Observatory Hill marked the 323rd consecutive day under 30C — already the longest stretch in three decades.
And with daily highs forecast to remain comfortably below 30C for the remainder of the week, the run of sub-30C days will be extended to at least 327 — the most since the all-time record of 339 days set in 1883 (the onset of The Centennial Minimum).
Even Australia’s warm-mongering network, ABC, is struggling to obfuscate-away from this influx of persistent, record-breaking cold: A rare year without ‘hot’ weather, is their compromise, adding: Considering Sydney’s weather station averages 15.2 days above 30C each year, to record nearly an entire year without reaching 30C is exceptionally rare.
But they then immediately spoil things with this agenda-driving drivel: What makes this run even more irregular is in a global warming world the number of days where the temperature reaches 30C has been increasing during recent decades.
ABC spends the opening paragraphs relaying the data, but then devotes much of the rest of the article to ‘damage limitation’.
The data doesn’t lie, though:
Sydney’s last 30C was on Feb 21, 2022, and throughout all of 2022, the city failed to log even a single day above the Bureau of Meteorology’s threshold for what it considers a “hot” day, which for non-tropical coastal regions is 32C (89.6F).
This means that the great and sprawling metropolis that is Sydney, with its strong urban heat island effect, has not officially been “hot” in over a year now, with 2022 the first year since records began (1859) to hold below that BoM threshold (32C).
As the below graph reveals, the number of days above 30C in Sydney has been in free-fall since 2019:
Sydney only recorded seven days above 30C in 2022, well-below the long-term 15.2 days average.
Even that all-time 1883 record of 339 days of <30C is under threat, as eastern Australia isn’t forecast much in the way of ‘heat’ into the month of February: Sydney: A year without a summer…?
Coldest Start To A Year Since 1982 In São Paulo, Brazil
Brazil has been another country to suffer anomalous chills in recent months.Most recently, between Jan 1 to Jan 8, São Paulo –one of the world’s most populated cities– logged a maximum-average of just 24C (75.2F), which, according to Brazil’s National Institute of Meteorology (Inmet), is the coolest start to a year since 1982’s 23.7C (74.7F).
For reference, the city’s historical average for the month of January is 28.6C (83.5F).
Inmet is keen to ‘blame’ this anomalous cooling on an abundance of cloud cover, which is fine and makes logical sense.
My issue, however, is that every explanation for cooling always turns out to have a natural cause, whereas every explanation for heat is carefully framed within the ‘global warming’ narrative–at least where the MSM is concerned: A string of anomalously hot days would never be explained by a lack of cloud over, for example, which, curiously, is a reality recently observed in the UK:
Returning to São Paulo, just 36 minutes of sunshine was logged between Jan 5 and Jan 8.
According to the city’s Climate Emergency Management Center (CGE) –-I didn’t know such a waste of time, effort and money existed– the average temperature on Monday, Jan 9 was just 20.2C, although temperatures are set to “gradually rise [over the coming days],” according to the CGE), “with heavy rain showers … returning from the second half of January”.
Historic Snow In Western U.S. Helps Drive Northern Hemisphere Snow Mass *Further* Above 1981-2012 Average
Additional major storm systems are pounding California, Nevada and other western states.At California’s Mammoth Mountain main lodge, snow removal crews were dealing with three feet of fresh snow on Jan 10, which comes hot on the heels of the historic dumpings seen at the turn of the year.
Despite the blizzard-like conditions, Bill Benkwitt, who has been skiing these slopes for 50-years, was out.
“This is the most intense, longest-lasting snow I’ve ever seen,” said Benkwitt. “I mean it’s incredible, so God knows how much will be here by tomorrow.”
Tuesday morning’s additional three feet saw Mammoth pause its operations.
“We’ve been able to be open for the last few weeks but today we decided to close for the safety of our guests and employees,” Mammoth Mountain Communication Director Lauren Burke told CBS 8.
The amount of snow that has already fallen this year is staggering.
“Since we opened November 5th, we have received about 315 inches of snow, already surpassing last year’s numbers,” added Burke.
2010/11’s all-time record for snow (668.5 inches) is on course to be challenged.
“There’s a lot of big snowfall months ahead of us so this could be a record-breaking season. Definitely, a record-breaking 30 days, that’s for sure,” concluded Burke.
A worker uses a snowblower to carve out a path at Mammoth Mountain Resort on Jan 9, 2023.
Looking at California’s statewide snowpack, the best start to a season in 40-years is marching on.
As of Monday, the snow water equivalent increased to 199% of normal for the date, according to the California Department of Water Resources. However, ‘water experts’ are reluctant to signal too much optimism, because, I don’t know, ‘fear is sexy’?
“It’s great that we’ve been getting these storms, but we really can’t predict how long this will keep up,” Jeanine Jones, Interstate Resources Manager at DWR, told KTLA.
Jones added that the series of drenching storms might be too much of a good thing.
“We’re happy that we’re getting snowpack and we’re happy that we’re getting these storms. But we would like them to be suitably spaced out so we’re not having the flood risk,” she whined.
The forecast for the coming days and weeks is looking very snowy along the crucial Colorado River basins — Southern California’s primary source of drinking water.
Snow water equivalent in the Rockies is generally tracking similarly to that of Calis.
As it is in Utah, where state water experts there have said, “We’re about as wet as we can get.”
All of Utah’s basins are sitting at 150% of normal, with statewide snowpack climbing to 176%.
“It’s really positive,” said Jordan Clayton, supervisor of the Natural Resources Conservation Service’s Utah Snow Survey. “This is the fifth best start in our year for water supply in the period we’ve had records,” he added.
A partially buried speed limit sign in Millcreek Canyon, Tues, Jan. 3, 2023 [Kristin Murphy, Deseret News].
North America’s snow is helping push Total snow mass For the Northern Hemisphere’s further above the 1981-2012 average:
[FMI]
December Temperature Data Is In
As we’re in the U.S., the official temperature data for December is in, courtesy of NOAA.The final month of 2022 across the Lower 48 averaged-out at 33.28F, which is 1.06F below the multidecadal norm.
This continues December’s ‘non-trend’ even in propagandizing, UHI-ignoring datasets extending back to 1895:
Also, the year 2022 as a whole –again according to our friendly warm-mongering government agencies– finished with an average temperature of 53.40F. This puts it 18th in the list of warmest year on record and 0.12F above the multidecadal norm.
NOAA writes that 2022 ranks “in the warmest third of the record” — I guess ’18th’ wasn’t juicy enough for them.
NOAA
@NOAA
(3 of 6) #2022 annual (January–December) U.S. temperature was 53.4°F — 1.4°F above avg — ranking in the warmest third of the record. Record drought gripped much of the U.S. in 2022 @NOAANCEI @ametsoc #StateOfClimate #AMS2023 https://t.co/2ARjuKAITs
11:06 AM · Jan 10, 2023
It remains a mystery how the warmists have been convinced that Earth is heating in oblivion.
The power of propaganda, I suppose; the blind acceptance of trusting, compliant sacks of meat and bones.
Accept your experimental jab-jab-jab, the telescreens instructed, without questions; and while you’re at it, willingly accept a drastically lower living standard, and all, you know, for the sake of lineally and exponentially rising global temperatures:
The sheep are walking us all over the cliff.
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The bitter cold is stretching as far west as Eastern Europe and as far east as SE China, and is holding temperatures as much as 55F (30C) below the multidecadal norm.
The rural northern Siberian town of Dzalinda (Zhilinda) plunged to -79.8F (62.1C) this week: the locale’s lowest January temperature ever recorded, and the lowest in all of Siberia since at least 2002. It is suspected, via the models, that a few spots dipped even lower, but with a lack of thermometer stations in this part of the world, these won’t be confirmed.
Arctic Outbreaks in Asia have become both more prevalent and intense in recent years, which is a headache for the AGW Party. A lack of weather stations –most notable across Siberia, Mongolia and the ‘stans– is The Agenda’s only saving grace here, it’s the only thing stopping the trusting, compliant masses from realizing that Central Europe’s two-weeks of winter warmth is nothing compared to the deadly freeze pervading across an area 20-times the size situated a mere thousand-or-so miles to the east.
Just half-dozen official Russian stations dipped below -60C this week, but if this region had the coverage of even Central Europe, let alone Europe as a whole, the fallen low temperature records would amount to the thousands — that’s how fierce and widespread this injection of polar cold has been: a large swath of Arctic air has descended from the southern Barents Sea, through Scandinavia, to the Sea of Okhotsk, down through transcontinental Russia, into the western and central Asia, and also over the north of Japan — and there’s still more where that came from.
Despite the reality, though, we have to contend with absurd, ‘narrative-maintaining’ nonsense published by legacy media outlets: “Such cold has become uncommon in recent decades because of human-caused climate change,” reads one recent ‘damage limitation’ article from the Washington Post regarding Asia’s record-breaking onslaught: “Global warming decreases the frequency and intensity of cold air outbreaks, but it does not eliminate them.”
GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies for Jan 12 [tropicaltidbits.com].
GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) Jan 15 [tropicaltidbits.com].
It is possible for extreme cold in Siberia to spill into the eastern United States with, on average, a two-week delay.
This scenario actually played out just before Christmas, when hundreds of cold-records, including twenty all-time record-lows, fell across a large portion of North America (not just the east); baltic conditions which stranded tens-of-thousands of Holiday travelers, freezing around one-hundred of them to death.
Weather models are already picking up on the possibility of Siberia’s polar cold sweeping westward and so into the US, but the picture is murky. Key to this shift could be the development of high pressure over western North America, which would need to block storms from hitting California and create a pathway for the Russia’s extreme freeze to cross into the Western Hemisphere.
Returning to Asia, the snow is proving just as troublesome as the cold.
In Kazakhstan, highways have been blocked by accumulations in the feet; schools have been closed across Tajikistan; trees and electricity pylons in Uzbekistan are crashing to the ground under the weight of snow; while officials in Kyrgyzstan are pleading with apartment-dwellers to close windows to basements to avoid water pipes freezing.
Even vast swathes of Turkmenistan –typically regarded the warmest country in the region– is blanketed in white.
At least 60 roads are shut in Kazakhstan, with authorities instructing motorists in the worst hit regions not to travel at all until the weather eases. As well as the issues caused by drifting snow, plunging temperatures “could lead to the risk of vehicle fuel systems freezing,” national road management service Kazavtozhol said in a statement after temperature crashed into the -30s.
The global economic woes and cripplingly-high cost of ‘winter’ diesel has compounded the issue–but, you know, the planet needs saving so needs must, i.e. the people must suffer: Motorists, seeking to economize, have opted for the cheaper ‘summer’ fuel, which can freeze at temperatures as high as -5C (23F).
In Tashkent, workers have been battling to clear the streets amid the risk of cracking tree limbs under the weight of the snow, overhead heating pipes buckling, and store awnings collapsing.
Many households across the country are at the onset of a truly miserable, genuinely life-threatening spell of anomalous cold. The capital, Dushanbe, is unused to the mercury slipping below the freezing mark, particularly for such sustained period.
While in Kyrgyzstan, people have starting fueling their stoves with household waste.
Health officials here have pleaded with stove-owners to refrain from indiscriminately burning anything at hand, and have urged the public, particularly those with respiratory conditions, against going outside so as to avoid breathing in the poisonous air.
“I would like to appeal to the population living in the private sector [residential areas] not to use fabric waste, tires, and plastic for heating. Burning those items releases carcinogens into the environment,” said the government’s department for disease prevention in a public appeal.
Yesterday (Jan 11), temperatures plunged as low as -38C (-36.4F) in Kazakhstan, -27.2C (-17F) in Uzbekistan, -22.4C (-8.3F) in Turkmenistan and -26.6C (-15.9F) even further south, in Iran…
Iranians have been told to turn down their heating, wear warmer clothes and use thicker curtains as the gas-producing nation struggles to meet record energy demand — a repeat of previous winters when Iran had to halt energy exports to Turkey to meet its own domestic needs after western Asia/southeastern Europe was gripped by historic Arctic blasts.
Gas consumption hit a record 660 million cubic meters for Tuesday.
On Wednesday, Oil minister Javad Owji made an appeal to the people: Iran was on the brink of reaching “peak gas consumption.”
Schools, banks and government offices are currently closed in Iran, and working hours have been cut in at least 15 provinces in an effort to curtail energy usage.
Iran’s oil and gas reserves are vast, the second-largest on the planet, but the country has suffered from decades of chronic underinvestment. This is a scenario which has also played out across the west as ‘green’-hamstrung politicians continue to do the bidding of their totalitarian masters and, intentionally or not, continue to lurch us all towards a future of high energy prices and ultimately fuel poverty during what I have been convinced is a controlled demolition of society, aka ‘The Great Reset’.
After unusual warmth struck during the first two-weeks of the season, alarmists decreed winter a no-show in Europe. But what these climate ambulance-chasers continually underestimate is Mother Nature’s ability to regulate and balance herself.
This week, a powerful snowstorm blanketed the Alps — late, yes, but not never.
The snow started falling on Monday, and is forecast to continue to sweep across the continent over the coming days and weeks, from Europe’s mountainous peaks down to its valley floors. .
Already, the change has been dramatic:
MORZINE, FRANCE: The resort welcomes snow after last week’s high temps reduced the slopes to grass.
A healthy 3 feet of snow is forecast over the French Alps by Friday, but this prediction may be an underestimation. The region comfortably eclipsed the expected totals for the first half of the week: Glacier 3,000, located near Gstaad in Switzerland, for example, recorded 2 feet of fresh snowfall during the first 24 hours of the storm alone, almost double what was predicted.
Despite the warm-mongering mainstream media headlines, the majority of European slopes are actually open, with tourism officials saying bookings, overall, remain on par with last years.
GSTAAD, SWITZERLAND: Glacier 3,000 receives 2 feet of fresh snowfall in 24 hours: a welcome relief.
Wim Thiery, a professor of climate science at the University of Brussels and firm member of the AGW Party, explains that the same jet stream that pulled brutal air from the Arctic into the U.S. has now fanned warm air from subtropical zones into Europe.
Fine.
However, Thiery then removes his ‘scientific hat’ and dons one aimed at appeasing his establishment backers.
Seemingly discarding his previous statement entirely, Thiery goes off about the ravages of climate change, offering no explanation as to the mechanism, and instead calling on people to cut their use of cheap and reliable fossil fuels.
“By the end of the century [it’s] just going to be over,” Thiery prophesizes, “skiing in the Alps as we know it,” he clarifies: “In the future, these problems will get worse because the snow will continue to melt as long as the climate warms.”
It’s important to hold warmists like Thiery to account–as has been done with countless others over the years. The AGW Party do not get to erase their many, many, many failed predictions of the past — from snow cover to polar bears; from the Greenland ice sheet to Great Barrier Reef coral cover — they do not get to airbrush their ‘catastrophic’ failures from the history books.
In fact, let’s hold Wim Thiery to account right now!
Latest GFS runs are calling for something of an Arctic invasion into Europe beginning this weekend and lasting through the remainder of the month; conditions that are set to bury much of the continent (even the UK) under tremendous volumes of SNOW which, as we’re seeing in the U.S. (particularly the west), will fire nationwide snowpacks, from Spain to Ukraine; from Scotland to Turkey (and North Africa, too), well-above their multidecadal averages:
GFS Total Snowfall (cm) Jan 12 to Jan 28 [tropicaltidbits.com].
As mentioned above, winter in Central Europe was merely late, Thiery, not never.
Moreover, let’s look at total snow mass for the Northern Hemisphere as a whole.
As it has done for the past 5-or-so years, NH cover is tracking above both the 1982-2012 average and standard deviation, according to data from the NSIDC, ECCC and the Finish Meteorological Institute (FMI) — and rising:
FMI
Food inflation/shortages in the United States? Can’t be. America exported a record-smashing $36.4 billion-worth of agricultural exports (grain, soybeans, etc.) to China in 2022.
Higher global commodity prices and China’s robust buying were the main factors behind the record export value, with that figure of $36.4 billion surpassing the previous year’s record, making China the U.S.’s largest export market for the second consecutive year, according to USDA data.
Soybeans accounted for nearly 50% of US agri exports to China at a record $16.4 billion, surpassing the previous year by 16%.
Corn to China exceeded $4.8 billion, down from a record in 2021 but still the second-highest level in history.
With U.S. sorghum exports to China hitting a record $2.2 billion, nearly tripling over the last 2 years with China scooping-up 90% of America’s total sorghum export volume. Sorghum proved an attractive, better-priced alterative to Chinese feed producers.
Worth nothing, China has accumulated 65% of the world’s corn and 53% of global wheat exports. It is also the main importer of barely and oilseed. The CCP’s continued expansion into North Africa is also worth examining.
Does China know what’s coming? Or is it merely battling to feed its vast population? According to USDA figures, the country is home to 20% of the global pop. but has just 7% of usable arable farmland.
Higher CO2 concentrations are helping, however:
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Extreme Freeze Intensifies Across Asia–Iranian’s Told “To Bundle Up”; “More Snow Than Forecast” Buries European Slopes–Even More To Come; + U.S. Agri Exports To China Smash Records
January 12, 2023 Cap AllonExtreme Freeze Intensifies Across Asia
In Siberia, and as discussed on Wednesday, temperatures have plunged to their lowest levels in at least two decades: around minus-80F (-62C). This exceptional cold is now projected to persist, intensify and expand across the majority of Asia.The bitter cold is stretching as far west as Eastern Europe and as far east as SE China, and is holding temperatures as much as 55F (30C) below the multidecadal norm.
The rural northern Siberian town of Dzalinda (Zhilinda) plunged to -79.8F (62.1C) this week: the locale’s lowest January temperature ever recorded, and the lowest in all of Siberia since at least 2002. It is suspected, via the models, that a few spots dipped even lower, but with a lack of thermometer stations in this part of the world, these won’t be confirmed.
Arctic Outbreaks in Asia have become both more prevalent and intense in recent years, which is a headache for the AGW Party. A lack of weather stations –most notable across Siberia, Mongolia and the ‘stans– is The Agenda’s only saving grace here, it’s the only thing stopping the trusting, compliant masses from realizing that Central Europe’s two-weeks of winter warmth is nothing compared to the deadly freeze pervading across an area 20-times the size situated a mere thousand-or-so miles to the east.
Just half-dozen official Russian stations dipped below -60C this week, but if this region had the coverage of even Central Europe, let alone Europe as a whole, the fallen low temperature records would amount to the thousands — that’s how fierce and widespread this injection of polar cold has been: a large swath of Arctic air has descended from the southern Barents Sea, through Scandinavia, to the Sea of Okhotsk, down through transcontinental Russia, into the western and central Asia, and also over the north of Japan — and there’s still more where that came from.
Despite the reality, though, we have to contend with absurd, ‘narrative-maintaining’ nonsense published by legacy media outlets: “Such cold has become uncommon in recent decades because of human-caused climate change,” reads one recent ‘damage limitation’ article from the Washington Post regarding Asia’s record-breaking onslaught: “Global warming decreases the frequency and intensity of cold air outbreaks, but it does not eliminate them.”
GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies for Jan 12 [tropicaltidbits.com].
GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) Jan 15 [tropicaltidbits.com].
It is possible for extreme cold in Siberia to spill into the eastern United States with, on average, a two-week delay.
This scenario actually played out just before Christmas, when hundreds of cold-records, including twenty all-time record-lows, fell across a large portion of North America (not just the east); baltic conditions which stranded tens-of-thousands of Holiday travelers, freezing around one-hundred of them to death.
Weather models are already picking up on the possibility of Siberia’s polar cold sweeping westward and so into the US, but the picture is murky. Key to this shift could be the development of high pressure over western North America, which would need to block storms from hitting California and create a pathway for the Russia’s extreme freeze to cross into the Western Hemisphere.
Returning to Asia, the snow is proving just as troublesome as the cold.
In Kazakhstan, highways have been blocked by accumulations in the feet; schools have been closed across Tajikistan; trees and electricity pylons in Uzbekistan are crashing to the ground under the weight of snow; while officials in Kyrgyzstan are pleading with apartment-dwellers to close windows to basements to avoid water pipes freezing.
Even vast swathes of Turkmenistan –typically regarded the warmest country in the region– is blanketed in white.
At least 60 roads are shut in Kazakhstan, with authorities instructing motorists in the worst hit regions not to travel at all until the weather eases. As well as the issues caused by drifting snow, plunging temperatures “could lead to the risk of vehicle fuel systems freezing,” national road management service Kazavtozhol said in a statement after temperature crashed into the -30s.
The global economic woes and cripplingly-high cost of ‘winter’ diesel has compounded the issue–but, you know, the planet needs saving so needs must, i.e. the people must suffer: Motorists, seeking to economize, have opted for the cheaper ‘summer’ fuel, which can freeze at temperatures as high as -5C (23F).
Many households across the country are at the onset of a truly miserable, genuinely life-threatening spell of anomalous cold. The capital, Dushanbe, is unused to the mercury slipping below the freezing mark, particularly for such sustained period.
While in Kyrgyzstan, people have starting fueling their stoves with household waste.
Health officials here have pleaded with stove-owners to refrain from indiscriminately burning anything at hand, and have urged the public, particularly those with respiratory conditions, against going outside so as to avoid breathing in the poisonous air.
“I would like to appeal to the population living in the private sector [residential areas] not to use fabric waste, tires, and plastic for heating. Burning those items releases carcinogens into the environment,” said the government’s department for disease prevention in a public appeal.
…Iranian’s Told “To Bundle Up”
Iranians have been told to turn down their heating, wear warmer clothes and use thicker curtains as the gas-producing nation struggles to meet record energy demand — a repeat of previous winters when Iran had to halt energy exports to Turkey to meet its own domestic needs after western Asia/southeastern Europe was gripped by historic Arctic blasts.Gas consumption hit a record 660 million cubic meters for Tuesday.
On Wednesday, Oil minister Javad Owji made an appeal to the people: Iran was on the brink of reaching “peak gas consumption.”
Schools, banks and government offices are currently closed in Iran, and working hours have been cut in at least 15 provinces in an effort to curtail energy usage.
Iran’s oil and gas reserves are vast, the second-largest on the planet, but the country has suffered from decades of chronic underinvestment. This is a scenario which has also played out across the west as ‘green’-hamstrung politicians continue to do the bidding of their totalitarian masters and, intentionally or not, continue to lurch us all towards a future of high energy prices and ultimately fuel poverty during what I have been convinced is a controlled demolition of society, aka ‘The Great Reset’.
“More Snow Than Forecast” Buries European Slopes–Even More To Come
After unusual warmth struck during the first two-weeks of the season, alarmists decreed winter a no-show in Europe. But what these climate ambulance-chasers continually underestimate is Mother Nature’s ability to regulate and balance herself.This week, a powerful snowstorm blanketed the Alps — late, yes, but not never.
The snow started falling on Monday, and is forecast to continue to sweep across the continent over the coming days and weeks, from Europe’s mountainous peaks down to its valley floors. .
Already, the change has been dramatic:
MORZINE, FRANCE: The resort welcomes snow after last week’s high temps reduced the slopes to grass.
A healthy 3 feet of snow is forecast over the French Alps by Friday, but this prediction may be an underestimation. The region comfortably eclipsed the expected totals for the first half of the week: Glacier 3,000, located near Gstaad in Switzerland, for example, recorded 2 feet of fresh snowfall during the first 24 hours of the storm alone, almost double what was predicted.
Despite the warm-mongering mainstream media headlines, the majority of European slopes are actually open, with tourism officials saying bookings, overall, remain on par with last years.
GSTAAD, SWITZERLAND: Glacier 3,000 receives 2 feet of fresh snowfall in 24 hours: a welcome relief.
Wim Thiery, a professor of climate science at the University of Brussels and firm member of the AGW Party, explains that the same jet stream that pulled brutal air from the Arctic into the U.S. has now fanned warm air from subtropical zones into Europe.
Fine.
However, Thiery then removes his ‘scientific hat’ and dons one aimed at appeasing his establishment backers.
Seemingly discarding his previous statement entirely, Thiery goes off about the ravages of climate change, offering no explanation as to the mechanism, and instead calling on people to cut their use of cheap and reliable fossil fuels.
“By the end of the century [it’s] just going to be over,” Thiery prophesizes, “skiing in the Alps as we know it,” he clarifies: “In the future, these problems will get worse because the snow will continue to melt as long as the climate warms.”
It’s important to hold warmists like Thiery to account–as has been done with countless others over the years. The AGW Party do not get to erase their many, many, many failed predictions of the past — from snow cover to polar bears; from the Greenland ice sheet to Great Barrier Reef coral cover — they do not get to airbrush their ‘catastrophic’ failures from the history books.
In fact, let’s hold Wim Thiery to account right now!
Latest GFS runs are calling for something of an Arctic invasion into Europe beginning this weekend and lasting through the remainder of the month; conditions that are set to bury much of the continent (even the UK) under tremendous volumes of SNOW which, as we’re seeing in the U.S. (particularly the west), will fire nationwide snowpacks, from Spain to Ukraine; from Scotland to Turkey (and North Africa, too), well-above their multidecadal averages:
GFS Total Snowfall (cm) Jan 12 to Jan 28 [tropicaltidbits.com].
As mentioned above, winter in Central Europe was merely late, Thiery, not never.
Moreover, let’s look at total snow mass for the Northern Hemisphere as a whole.
As it has done for the past 5-or-so years, NH cover is tracking above both the 1982-2012 average and standard deviation, according to data from the NSIDC, ECCC and the Finish Meteorological Institute (FMI) — and rising:
FMI
U.S. Agri Exports To China Smash Records
Food inflation/shortages in the United States? Can’t be. America exported a record-smashing $36.4 billion-worth of agricultural exports (grain, soybeans, etc.) to China in 2022.Higher global commodity prices and China’s robust buying were the main factors behind the record export value, with that figure of $36.4 billion surpassing the previous year’s record, making China the U.S.’s largest export market for the second consecutive year, according to USDA data.
Soybeans accounted for nearly 50% of US agri exports to China at a record $16.4 billion, surpassing the previous year by 16%.
Corn to China exceeded $4.8 billion, down from a record in 2021 but still the second-highest level in history.
With U.S. sorghum exports to China hitting a record $2.2 billion, nearly tripling over the last 2 years with China scooping-up 90% of America’s total sorghum export volume. Sorghum proved an attractive, better-priced alterative to Chinese feed producers.
Worth nothing, China has accumulated 65% of the world’s corn and 53% of global wheat exports. It is also the main importer of barely and oilseed. The CCP’s continued expansion into North Africa is also worth examining.
Does China know what’s coming? Or is it merely battling to feed its vast population? According to USDA figures, the country is home to 20% of the global pop. but has just 7% of usable arable farmland.
Higher CO2 concentrations are helping, however:
alpha
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Electroverse
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Remarkable lows have been logged in recent weeks/months across the likes of Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Northern China; now that freeze is both encasing north regions (Siberia) and also pushing unusually-far south, even touching the Indian Ocean.
On Thursday, remarkable lows of -26.2C (-15.2F) and -29C (-20.2F) were registered in Turkmenistan and Iran, respectively. With the cherry, according to preliminary data I have, taken by Uzbekistan, where two monthly lows have fallen: Nurata’s -29.2C (-20.6F) and Syr Daya’s -27.2C (-17F).
Central Asia’s cold is also stretching as far west as Europe, and as far east as Japan.
It is extending as far south as the Indian Ocean, too:
As per the IMD, the fiercest of the cold wave conditions will return to Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh and Delhi from Sunday, lasting deep into next week, with North Rajasthan reeling under ‘severe’ cold wave conditions during the same time frame.
For reference: the IMD declares a ‘cold wave’ when the minimum temperature of a location drops 4.5C to 6.4C below its average; a ‘severe cold wave’ is issued when the departure from normal is more than 6.4C.
Given the forecast, the IMD has issued an orange alert across all of the aforementioned states and territories, urging residents to ‘be prepared’ for disruptive cold weather.
Alerts have also been issued in the Himalayan states of Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and also the Central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, with reports suggesting extreme levels of cold could hit these regions.
The New Year has already started off cold in India, this is merely an intensification. According to reports, this month is on course to finish as one of the coldest Januarys in history for Northwest India, certainly the coldest since the turn of the millennium.
Authorities have told NW Indians to take safety measures, including drinking plenty of warm fluids, eating a diet rich in Vitamin C, keeping your skin moisturized using oil or cream, and wearing warm clothes before stepping out (thanks authorities!).
Indians are ill-prepared for such a freeze, both mentally and infrastructure-wise.
Known for its hot, tropical weather, record-breaking cold is becoming more and more prevalent across India in recent years, according to the data. The IMD indicates that “there has been a 1.6-fold increase in cold wave days in India in the last decade”.
Houses across the country, even in sprawling metropolises such as Delhi, are not built to withstand such freezing lows. Many among Delhi’s 30-million people have nothing but heavy clothes and bonfires to fend off the biting cold, and many hundreds of residents perish each winter with that number growing as the seasonal cold worsens (as per IMD data).
The country has activated its alert system due to a fast-approaching cold front that is expected to “strongly impact more than half of the country with a plunge in thermometers” starting this weekend.
China’s meteorological department has urged local authorities to prepare for frigid lows and heavy snows.
The department has also called for the protection of agriculture areas, and has instructed residents of northern provinces in particular to avoid venturing out onto the streets.
Xinjiang, Hebei, Chongqing and Hunan regions are expected to be impacted by exceptionally low temperatures, while north and northeastern parts will be impacted by both snow- and sand-storms.
Wu said the front will arrive early on Sunday morning, sending a blast of strong, cold air south.
Northern and eastern areas will see temperatures drop sharply over the weekend, and by Monday, the mercury in Taipei could dip below 12C (53.6F), with lows in the northern plains sinking to 8C (46.4F)
Wu has labelled this a “strong continental cold air mass” (cold is relative), and has urged the public to take measures to stay warm.
Taking December in Kazakhstan (a huge nation comparative in size to Central Europe), it held extremely frigid throughout the month, particularly in the East.
According to the Kazach Hydromet Service, monthly temperature anomalies were historically low, coming out at between -3C and -5C below the multidecadal average across a vast portion of the country.
However, and as I’ve discussed previously, this region of the world has very few weather stations –at least when compared to the likes of Central Europe– so the sweeping and persistent nature of the cold doesn’t make the headlines.
To put it bluntly, few in the west care about Kazakhstan… (but I do!):
Europe’s swing-between-extremes is bad news for its crops. The recent balmy weather has effectively undone the hardiness acquired by plants during the continent’s fierce mid-December freeze, and has begun triggering growth, according to analysts.
Taking France, the EU’s biggest grain producer, next week’s sudden drop in temperatures is set to impact crops sown last autumn, as well as more delicate varieties like early-sown spring barley, Jean-Charles Deswarte of crop institute Arvalis said.
“We shouldn’t be alarmist but the scenario to be feared is one like 2011-2012,” he said, referring to the season when a February cold snap caused extensive damage to French grains. That winter, almost all French winter wheat and barley were in good shape ahead of February, then, bam!, one harsh cold spell decimated the country’s fields.
Looking to Germany, a warm two-weeks has seen crops gain little protective snow cover, raising worries that, after surviving December’s cold snap okay, the country’s luck is about to expire: “The warm weather means wheat is looking good, but if sudden and deep frosts occur we could have a problem because of the almost total lack of snow,” said one German grain analyst.
Similar concerns are held in Poland, too: Snow in the south is alleviating worries there, but in central and northern parts, “crops are fully exposed to frosts,” said Wojtek Sabaranski of analysts Sparks Polska.
Looking at the latest GFS run (shown below), Western/Central Europe is about to see a reversal of fortunes, another ‘swing’ back to something rivalling the disruptive polar outbreak of mid-December — due to commence Jan 16 (for most).
Spain’s Meteorological Agency AEMET warns that temperatures will fall sharply on Monday, producing snow across the county’s high and mid elevations.
“A cold and humid flow from the northwest over the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands” is expected, writes the agency.
Spanish meteorologists also foresee the cold weather continuing beyond next week, with January potentially ending with the effects of a ‘polar vortex’.
“In recent weeks, the polar vortex has remained stronger than ever or, at least, stronger than what had been observed up to now,” explained experts from Meteored. “The consequences are difficult to predict … (the phenomenon has been linked to a greater probability of descensions of Arctic air) … but the truth is, it’s not possible to know where these cold air masses are going”.
In December, North America and Western Europe were hit; since then, it’s been Eastern Europe and Asia.
The MSM is keen to get its apocalyptic ‘no snow’ stories out now, while they still can — they know full-well what’s coming:
This will prove an astonishing turnaround for the continent’s snowpack.
Over the course of just a few days, the likes of Spain, France, Germany, Austria and Switzerland go from below-average snow cover to average/above-average: Good news for winter sports fans: Bad news for those agenda-driving, power-hungry, poverty-inducing and anti-human rats flying into Davos (with this year’s totalitarian jamboree running from Jan 16-Jan 20)…
Stay tuned for updates.
Portions of the West will continue freezing over the coming days–as they have been for the past few weeks. Likewise, Central-Northern states will suffer pockets of anomalous cold, as will much of the Southeast this weekend, including Florida.
However, where ‘nationwide’ Arctic Outbreaks are concerned, the GFS is picking up ‘the next one’, due later in the month.
Crashing down through Western Canada, temperature departures of as much as -28C below the winter norm will grip large swathes of the CONUS starting Monday, Jan 24 and will have engulfed most states by Friday, Jan 27:
GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) Jan 24 – Jan 27 [tropicaltidbits.com].
The accompanying snow be equally impressive, and disruptive:
GFS Total Snowfall (inches) Jan 13 – Jan 29 [tropicaltidbits.com].
Note, these model runs are still reaching out to an unreliable time-frame — so stay tuned for updates.
Also note, North America’s snow extent has been trending up in recent decades, contrary to The Narrative:
As has Northern Hemisphere winter snow cover, for that matter:
Explain that, alarmists…
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January 13, 2023 Cap AllonAsia’s Record-Breaking Arctic Outbreak Reaches Indian Ocean
Asia’s cold spell is continuing to drop jaws, take names and fell records.Remarkable lows have been logged in recent weeks/months across the likes of Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Northern China; now that freeze is both encasing north regions (Siberia) and also pushing unusually-far south, even touching the Indian Ocean.
On Thursday, remarkable lows of -26.2C (-15.2F) and -29C (-20.2F) were registered in Turkmenistan and Iran, respectively. With the cherry, according to preliminary data I have, taken by Uzbekistan, where two monthly lows have fallen: Nurata’s -29.2C (-20.6F) and Syr Daya’s -27.2C (-17F).
Central Asia’s cold is also stretching as far west as Europe, and as far east as Japan.
It is extending as far south as the Indian Ocean, too:
Alerts Issued In India…
Temperatures across Northwest India are plummeting, with monthly and even all-time records under threat, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD) and as reported by local media outlets.As per the IMD, the fiercest of the cold wave conditions will return to Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh and Delhi from Sunday, lasting deep into next week, with North Rajasthan reeling under ‘severe’ cold wave conditions during the same time frame.
For reference: the IMD declares a ‘cold wave’ when the minimum temperature of a location drops 4.5C to 6.4C below its average; a ‘severe cold wave’ is issued when the departure from normal is more than 6.4C.
Given the forecast, the IMD has issued an orange alert across all of the aforementioned states and territories, urging residents to ‘be prepared’ for disruptive cold weather.
Alerts have also been issued in the Himalayan states of Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and also the Central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, with reports suggesting extreme levels of cold could hit these regions.
The New Year has already started off cold in India, this is merely an intensification. According to reports, this month is on course to finish as one of the coldest Januarys in history for Northwest India, certainly the coldest since the turn of the millennium.
Authorities have told NW Indians to take safety measures, including drinking plenty of warm fluids, eating a diet rich in Vitamin C, keeping your skin moisturized using oil or cream, and wearing warm clothes before stepping out (thanks authorities!).
Indians are ill-prepared for such a freeze, both mentally and infrastructure-wise.
Known for its hot, tropical weather, record-breaking cold is becoming more and more prevalent across India in recent years, according to the data. The IMD indicates that “there has been a 1.6-fold increase in cold wave days in India in the last decade”.
Houses across the country, even in sprawling metropolises such as Delhi, are not built to withstand such freezing lows. Many among Delhi’s 30-million people have nothing but heavy clothes and bonfires to fend off the biting cold, and many hundreds of residents perish each winter with that number growing as the seasonal cold worsens (as per IMD data).
…China
A nation more suited to dealing with influxes of polar cold is China — but it’s also about to be walloped again.The country has activated its alert system due to a fast-approaching cold front that is expected to “strongly impact more than half of the country with a plunge in thermometers” starting this weekend.
China’s meteorological department has urged local authorities to prepare for frigid lows and heavy snows.
The department has also called for the protection of agriculture areas, and has instructed residents of northern provinces in particular to avoid venturing out onto the streets.
Xinjiang, Hebei, Chongqing and Hunan regions are expected to be impacted by exceptionally low temperatures, while north and northeastern parts will be impacted by both snow- and sand-storms.
…And Taiwan
Concluding in Taiwan, meteorologist Daniel Wu is warning of a cold air mass arriving in the country on Sunday.Wu said the front will arrive early on Sunday morning, sending a blast of strong, cold air south.
Northern and eastern areas will see temperatures drop sharply over the weekend, and by Monday, the mercury in Taipei could dip below 12C (53.6F), with lows in the northern plains sinking to 8C (46.4F)
Wu has labelled this a “strong continental cold air mass” (cold is relative), and has urged the public to take measures to stay warm.
Persistent Chills
Asia’s cold isn’t fleeting, either, the region’s anomalous freeze, particularly in northern and central parts, has been around for months — and while I’ve done my best to document it on Electroverse, my reporting has been in no way exhaustive.Taking December in Kazakhstan (a huge nation comparative in size to Central Europe), it held extremely frigid throughout the month, particularly in the East.
According to the Kazach Hydromet Service, monthly temperature anomalies were historically low, coming out at between -3C and -5C below the multidecadal average across a vast portion of the country.
However, and as I’ve discussed previously, this region of the world has very few weather stations –at least when compared to the likes of Central Europe– so the sweeping and persistent nature of the cold doesn’t make the headlines.
To put it bluntly, few in the west care about Kazakhstan… (but I do!):
Big Freeze To Return To Europe (Just In Time For Davos)
Following a few weeks of unusual warm (aka ‘catastrophic global warming), polar cold is about to return to Europe, with heavy snow forecast for Davos, Switzerland starting Jan 16 — so just in time for the arrival of King Klaus.Europe’s swing-between-extremes is bad news for its crops. The recent balmy weather has effectively undone the hardiness acquired by plants during the continent’s fierce mid-December freeze, and has begun triggering growth, according to analysts.
Taking France, the EU’s biggest grain producer, next week’s sudden drop in temperatures is set to impact crops sown last autumn, as well as more delicate varieties like early-sown spring barley, Jean-Charles Deswarte of crop institute Arvalis said.
“We shouldn’t be alarmist but the scenario to be feared is one like 2011-2012,” he said, referring to the season when a February cold snap caused extensive damage to French grains. That winter, almost all French winter wheat and barley were in good shape ahead of February, then, bam!, one harsh cold spell decimated the country’s fields.
Looking to Germany, a warm two-weeks has seen crops gain little protective snow cover, raising worries that, after surviving December’s cold snap okay, the country’s luck is about to expire: “The warm weather means wheat is looking good, but if sudden and deep frosts occur we could have a problem because of the almost total lack of snow,” said one German grain analyst.
Similar concerns are held in Poland, too: Snow in the south is alleviating worries there, but in central and northern parts, “crops are fully exposed to frosts,” said Wojtek Sabaranski of analysts Sparks Polska.
Looking at the latest GFS run (shown below), Western/Central Europe is about to see a reversal of fortunes, another ‘swing’ back to something rivalling the disruptive polar outbreak of mid-December — due to commence Jan 16 (for most).
Spain’s Meteorological Agency AEMET warns that temperatures will fall sharply on Monday, producing snow across the county’s high and mid elevations.
“A cold and humid flow from the northwest over the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands” is expected, writes the agency.
Spanish meteorologists also foresee the cold weather continuing beyond next week, with January potentially ending with the effects of a ‘polar vortex’.
“In recent weeks, the polar vortex has remained stronger than ever or, at least, stronger than what had been observed up to now,” explained experts from Meteored. “The consequences are difficult to predict … (the phenomenon has been linked to a greater probability of descensions of Arctic air) … but the truth is, it’s not possible to know where these cold air masses are going”.
In December, North America and Western Europe were hit; since then, it’s been Eastern Europe and Asia.
The MSM is keen to get its apocalyptic ‘no snow’ stories out now, while they still can — they know full-well what’s coming:
This will prove an astonishing turnaround for the continent’s snowpack.
Over the course of just a few days, the likes of Spain, France, Germany, Austria and Switzerland go from below-average snow cover to average/above-average: Good news for winter sports fans: Bad news for those agenda-driving, power-hungry, poverty-inducing and anti-human rats flying into Davos (with this year’s totalitarian jamboree running from Jan 16-Jan 20)…
Stay tuned for updates.
U.S. To Be Pummeled Again Later In The Month
Finishing in the U.S., the models are also suggesting a return of baltic conditions here, too.Portions of the West will continue freezing over the coming days–as they have been for the past few weeks. Likewise, Central-Northern states will suffer pockets of anomalous cold, as will much of the Southeast this weekend, including Florida.
However, where ‘nationwide’ Arctic Outbreaks are concerned, the GFS is picking up ‘the next one’, due later in the month.
Crashing down through Western Canada, temperature departures of as much as -28C below the winter norm will grip large swathes of the CONUS starting Monday, Jan 24 and will have engulfed most states by Friday, Jan 27:
GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) Jan 24 – Jan 27 [tropicaltidbits.com].
The accompanying snow be equally impressive, and disruptive:
GFS Total Snowfall (inches) Jan 13 – Jan 29 [tropicaltidbits.com].
Note, these model runs are still reaching out to an unreliable time-frame — so stay tuned for updates.
Also note, North America’s snow extent has been trending up in recent decades, contrary to The Narrative:
As has Northern Hemisphere winter snow cover, for that matter:
Explain that, alarmists…
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Impressive totals have been posted across Gwangwon as well as surrounding provinces, including the 55.9 cm (1.8 ft) in the Misiryeong mountain ridge, and the 52.3 cm (1.7 ft) at Hyangrobong hill.
Vehicles became stranded for some time on a highway near the coastal county of Goseong, with drivers struggling to steer their cars out of accumulated snow for a number of hours before police, fire, and the military came to their aid.
Roads in Sokcho and Yangyang were also blocked.
Gangwon Governor Kim Jin-Tae held a virtual emergency meeting on Sunday, instructing officials across the province’s cities and counties to begin “all-out works to remove snow from the roads”.
Looking ahead, colder-than-average temperatures are forecast for the remainder of the week.
Flurries are also hitting North Korea, particularly eastern regions.
While further east, sea-effect snow is extending into Japan, with the likes of Hokkaido and Honshu expecting accumulations registering in the multiple feet to build Sunday through Tuesday.
Extreme, record-slaying cold is persisting across Siberia as well as the wider Asian continent.
Over the weekend, a remarkable -62.4C (-80.3F) was officially registered in Tongulakh. This is a new all-time low for the locale, and also marks Russia’s coldest January temperature since 1982.
The extreme freeze is set to linger, too.
In fact, Tongulakh rivalled that record-low this morning (Monday) with a reading of -62.3C (-80.1F); while the likes of Selagoncy –to pick another locale at random– plunged to -61C (-77.8F) in the early hours, its lowest temp since the early-1990s.
Low temperature benchmarks have been falling across Transcontinental Russia in recent days/weeks, and it stands, if this part of the world had similar station coverage to, say, Central Europe then the number of fallen records would run into the thousands.
And on that topic…
According to residents of the eastern Siberian village of Essey, the mercury recently plunged to -75C (-103F)
This would be a new worldwide low for a location outside of Antarctica; however, there is no Central Siberian Department for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring (UGMS) station in Essey, meaning the reading can’t be officially verified.
“We cannot confirm or deny,” said Dmitry Ulyanov, lead forecaster at UGMS.
The closest UGMS weather stations to Essey is located a hundred miles away. It registered a mere -53C (-63.4F) at the time of the big freeze.
“A photograph from Naberezhnaya Street [showed] -72C, and even three degrees lower — it is -75C,” said Essey resident Andrey Miroshko, who is confident in the reliability of his village’s weather station. “Today it reads 64C,” he added.
Russian Climb on Twitter picked up on the story:
Russianclimb
@russianclimb
Today the temperature -73C was registered in small town in Krasnoyarsk region. This is the strongest cold snap in the memory of local residents. Houses are heated with firewood or electricity
4:33 AM · Jan 12, 2023
Yakut village, Oymyakon –aka the ‘Pole of Cold’– maintains the official all-time low (-71C/-95.8F) in books dating back to 1926.
Across the likes of Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan, as well as Kazakhstan and Mongolia, longstanding records are falling.
Nokkundi in Pakistan, for example, logged a low of -10C (14F) over the weekend, which matches the locale’s all-time lowest temperature ever recorded, with monthly lows also neared/bested in Pangjur (Pakistan) and Zabol (Iran).
Historic lows have also been set in Turkmenabat, second largest city of Turkmenistan. Its Sunday reading of -25.4C (-13.7F) comfortably bested the previous all-time low of -23.8C (-10.8F) set 123 years ago, on Jan 22, 1900 (The Centennial Minimum).
While in India, snow has also been building, triggering an avalanche near Baltal, along the Srinagar-Kargil-Leh highway:
मोहिनी टिक्कू
@Mohinee__20
Massive snow avalanche near Baltal, Zojila, on Srinagar-Kargil-Leh highway ... https://t.co/ZlQ4BDAEc6
12:53 AM · Jan 16, 2023
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Heavy Snow In South Korea; Russia Logs Coldest January Temperature Since 1982; Arctic Air Hits Europe, Delivers Feet Of Snow; + Cooling Australia
January 16, 2023 Cap AllonHeavy Snow In South Korea
On Sunday alone, more than 100 traffic accidents were reported amid heavy snowfall in South Korea’s Gangwon province.Impressive totals have been posted across Gwangwon as well as surrounding provinces, including the 55.9 cm (1.8 ft) in the Misiryeong mountain ridge, and the 52.3 cm (1.7 ft) at Hyangrobong hill.
Vehicles became stranded for some time on a highway near the coastal county of Goseong, with drivers struggling to steer their cars out of accumulated snow for a number of hours before police, fire, and the military came to their aid.
Roads in Sokcho and Yangyang were also blocked.
Gangwon Governor Kim Jin-Tae held a virtual emergency meeting on Sunday, instructing officials across the province’s cities and counties to begin “all-out works to remove snow from the roads”.
Looking ahead, colder-than-average temperatures are forecast for the remainder of the week.
Flurries are also hitting North Korea, particularly eastern regions.
While further east, sea-effect snow is extending into Japan, with the likes of Hokkaido and Honshu expecting accumulations registering in the multiple feet to build Sunday through Tuesday.
Russia Logs Coldest January Temperature Since 1982
Extreme, record-slaying cold is persisting across Siberia as well as the wider Asian continent.Over the weekend, a remarkable -62.4C (-80.3F) was officially registered in Tongulakh. This is a new all-time low for the locale, and also marks Russia’s coldest January temperature since 1982.
The extreme freeze is set to linger, too.
In fact, Tongulakh rivalled that record-low this morning (Monday) with a reading of -62.3C (-80.1F); while the likes of Selagoncy –to pick another locale at random– plunged to -61C (-77.8F) in the early hours, its lowest temp since the early-1990s.
Low temperature benchmarks have been falling across Transcontinental Russia in recent days/weeks, and it stands, if this part of the world had similar station coverage to, say, Central Europe then the number of fallen records would run into the thousands.
And on that topic…
Unofficial -75C (-103F)
According to residents of the eastern Siberian village of Essey, the mercury recently plunged to -75C (-103F)This would be a new worldwide low for a location outside of Antarctica; however, there is no Central Siberian Department for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring (UGMS) station in Essey, meaning the reading can’t be officially verified.
“We cannot confirm or deny,” said Dmitry Ulyanov, lead forecaster at UGMS.
The closest UGMS weather stations to Essey is located a hundred miles away. It registered a mere -53C (-63.4F) at the time of the big freeze.
“A photograph from Naberezhnaya Street [showed] -72C, and even three degrees lower — it is -75C,” said Essey resident Andrey Miroshko, who is confident in the reliability of his village’s weather station. “Today it reads 64C,” he added.
Russian Climb on Twitter picked up on the story:
Russianclimb
@russianclimb
Today the temperature -73C was registered in small town in Krasnoyarsk region. This is the strongest cold snap in the memory of local residents. Houses are heated with firewood or electricity
4:33 AM · Jan 12, 2023
Yakut village, Oymyakon –aka the ‘Pole of Cold’– maintains the official all-time low (-71C/-95.8F) in books dating back to 1926.
To The South
Siberia’s polar blast has descend south, too — even touching the Indian Ocean.Across the likes of Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan, as well as Kazakhstan and Mongolia, longstanding records are falling.
Nokkundi in Pakistan, for example, logged a low of -10C (14F) over the weekend, which matches the locale’s all-time lowest temperature ever recorded, with monthly lows also neared/bested in Pangjur (Pakistan) and Zabol (Iran).
Historic lows have also been set in Turkmenabat, second largest city of Turkmenistan. Its Sunday reading of -25.4C (-13.7F) comfortably bested the previous all-time low of -23.8C (-10.8F) set 123 years ago, on Jan 22, 1900 (The Centennial Minimum).
While in India, snow has also been building, triggering an avalanche near Baltal, along the Srinagar-Kargil-Leh highway:
मोहिनी टिक्कू
@Mohinee__20
Massive snow avalanche near Baltal, Zojila, on Srinagar-Kargil-Leh highway ... https://t.co/ZlQ4BDAEc6
12:53 AM · Jan 16, 2023
continued...
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Part two...
Arctic Air Hits Europe, Delivers Feet Of Snow
Fierce, wintry conditions are ravaging swathes of Europe just days after the MSM labeled the season a ‘no-show’.
Snow is falling in the UK, with the Met Office issuing weather warnings for snow and ice as temperatures plummet below -15C (5F) across parts of Scotland.
Rare flurries hit the western Isle of Barra this morning:
@BarraIsland
This doesn’t happen very often!
Roads are slippy so take care. Schools are closed, no public transport. Beautiful though! And looks like there is still plenty snow in the sky. @Barra_Weather @IslesWeather #Isleofbarra #snow https://t.co/STAd19Ivaj
3:37 AM · Jan 16, 2023
Heavy snow is also pounding mainland Europe, with feet clipping the continent’s higher elevations: Mother Nature is giving the cultist, anti-human scumbags flying into Davos a friendly wintry welcome (let’s pray their private jets don’t skid off the runway).
According to reports, the roads around Davos have 5,000 troops patrolling them, with anyone attempting to get anywhere near the ‘non-governmental lobbying event’ checked and fingerprinted (I hope the elites feel the love that Joe Public has for them).
Davos attendees believe that wealth gives them the right to control the direction of humanity. And while technically –and depressingly– true (via their acquisitions of big business, the legacy media and global governments), there remains one obstacle in the elites’ way: some 8-billion innocent souls that feel and know deep down that ‘something’ is very wrong.
We are some 8-billion fast-reducing souls (admittedly–with their measures beginning to ‘work’) but still, we are an 8-billion strong army vs only a handful of pampered elites, and they should know that rope is cheap to come by, with gallows easy to assemble.
The usual hypocrisy is on show as King Klaus and his merry-band-of-frauds thunder their way in to a sleepy Swiss town, visually announcing “do as we say, not as we do” as they hit the runways and helipads — hypocrisy that legacy media lapdogs and sycophantic alarmists-alike find suspiciously easy to ignore.
Hilariously, what’s arriving in tow with the global cabal is heavy, agenda-wrecking snow:
Paul Newnham
@paulnewnham
Arrived to a beautiful winter snow flurry. #Davos #WEF https://t.co/BQDjmE8oEC
11:29 AM · Jan 15, 2023
And there’s much more where that came from:
GFS Total Snowfall (cm) Jan 16 – Feb 1 (tropicaltidbits.com).
All this snow is only going to increase Northern Hemisphere mass over the coming days and weeks, total mass which is already, as of Jan 13 (the latest datapoint), punching above not only the 1982-2012 average but the standard deviation, too:
FMI
Historic coverage across Asia is bolstering this season’s NH snowpack, as are the extensive, persistent and record-smashing accumulations registered in the Western United States.
California’s snowpack, for example, has blown past 337 inches which surpasses the state’s previous all-time high for the time of year. In some spots, totals are even covering second story windows, turning homes into igloos.
Neil Lareau
@nplareau
I’ve given up on measuring snow depth, but these upper windows are starting to look more utilitarian and less decorative/aesthetic. #Truckee problems.. https://t.co/Nkr5glqHDP
9:08 PM · Jan 14, 2023
https://twitter.com/intent/like?ref...8786widget=Tweet&tweet_id=1614444353879158786
WeatherNation
@WeatherNation
Snow continues to pile up near Lake Tahoe! This was the scene on Saturday evening: https://t.co/zFiUnthxa4
7:00 AM · Jan 15, 2023
“We’re going to be shoveling for months,” so said Clark Tapia, owner of Old Faithful Property Management who has a group of 30 men working round the clock, and, as we see across Europe and Asia, there is much more on the cards:
GFS Total Snowfall (inches) Jan 16 – Feb 1 (tropicaltidbits.com).
This chimes with that we’re seeing globally, at least via the satellite data –not necessarily the UHI-skewing, agenda-driving mainstream obfuscations (more on those below)– with temperatures for the lower global atmosphere currently sitting at just 0.05C above the multidecadal baseline, which is down significantly from the 2016 peak.
As discussed by Dr Roy Spencer, who recently conducted a thorough analysis (linked here): “I’m convinced that there is spurious warming in the temperature data [due to the urban heat island (UHI) effect]” — i.e. what the establishment has labeled a ‘global warming trend’ is in fact the result of selective temperature station-siting/data-collation and the expansion of urban areas.
There is no global warming, let alone any ‘Climate Emergency’.
Earth is cooling.
AGW is a prosperity-limiting, poverty-inducing scam.
Wake up, already.
Part two...
Arctic Air Hits Europe, Delivers Feet Of Snow
Fierce, wintry conditions are ravaging swathes of Europe just days after the MSM labeled the season a ‘no-show’.
Snow is falling in the UK, with the Met Office issuing weather warnings for snow and ice as temperatures plummet below -15C (5F) across parts of Scotland.
Rare flurries hit the western Isle of Barra this morning:
@BarraIsland
This doesn’t happen very often!
Roads are slippy so take care. Schools are closed, no public transport. Beautiful though! And looks like there is still plenty snow in the sky. @Barra_Weather @IslesWeather #Isleofbarra #snow https://t.co/STAd19Ivaj
3:37 AM · Jan 16, 2023
Heavy snow is also pounding mainland Europe, with feet clipping the continent’s higher elevations: Mother Nature is giving the cultist, anti-human scumbags flying into Davos a friendly wintry welcome (let’s pray their private jets don’t skid off the runway).
According to reports, the roads around Davos have 5,000 troops patrolling them, with anyone attempting to get anywhere near the ‘non-governmental lobbying event’ checked and fingerprinted (I hope the elites feel the love that Joe Public has for them).
Davos attendees believe that wealth gives them the right to control the direction of humanity. And while technically –and depressingly– true (via their acquisitions of big business, the legacy media and global governments), there remains one obstacle in the elites’ way: some 8-billion innocent souls that feel and know deep down that ‘something’ is very wrong.
We are some 8-billion fast-reducing souls (admittedly–with their measures beginning to ‘work’) but still, we are an 8-billion strong army vs only a handful of pampered elites, and they should know that rope is cheap to come by, with gallows easy to assemble.
The usual hypocrisy is on show as King Klaus and his merry-band-of-frauds thunder their way in to a sleepy Swiss town, visually announcing “do as we say, not as we do” as they hit the runways and helipads — hypocrisy that legacy media lapdogs and sycophantic alarmists-alike find suspiciously easy to ignore.
Hilariously, what’s arriving in tow with the global cabal is heavy, agenda-wrecking snow:
Paul Newnham
@paulnewnham
Arrived to a beautiful winter
snow flurry. #Davos #WEF https://t.co/BQDjmE8oEC
11:29 AM · Jan 15, 2023
And there’s much more where that came from:
GFS Total Snowfall (cm) Jan 16 – Feb 1 (tropicaltidbits.com).
All this snow is only going to increase Northern Hemisphere mass over the coming days and weeks, total mass which is already, as of Jan 13 (the latest datapoint), punching above not only the 1982-2012 average but the standard deviation, too:
FMI
Historic coverage across Asia is bolstering this season’s NH snowpack, as are the extensive, persistent and record-smashing accumulations registered in the Western United States.
California’s snowpack, for example, has blown past 337 inches which surpasses the state’s previous all-time high for the time of year. In some spots, totals are even covering second story windows, turning homes into igloos.
Neil Lareau
@nplareau
I’ve given up on measuring snow depth, but these upper windows are starting to look more utilitarian and less decorative/aesthetic. #Truckee problems.. https://t.co/Nkr5glqHDP
9:08 PM · Jan 14, 2023
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WeatherNation
@WeatherNation
Snow continues to pile up near Lake Tahoe! This was the scene on Saturday evening: https://t.co/zFiUnthxa4
7:00 AM · Jan 15, 2023
“We’re going to be shoveling for months,” so said Clark Tapia, owner of Old Faithful Property Management who has a group of 30 men working round the clock, and, as we see across Europe and Asia, there is much more on the cards:
GFS Total Snowfall (inches) Jan 16 – Feb 1 (tropicaltidbits.com).
Cooling Australia
And finally, Australia is cooling, according to the satellites — at a rate of -0.132C per decade since 2013:
This chimes with that we’re seeing globally, at least via the satellite data –not necessarily the UHI-skewing, agenda-driving mainstream obfuscations (more on those below)– with temperatures for the lower global atmosphere currently sitting at just 0.05C above the multidecadal baseline, which is down significantly from the 2016 peak.
As discussed by Dr Roy Spencer, who recently conducted a thorough analysis (linked here): “I’m convinced that there is spurious warming in the temperature data [due to the urban heat island (UHI) effect]” — i.e. what the establishment has labeled a ‘global warming trend’ is in fact the result of selective temperature station-siting/data-collation and the expansion of urban areas.
There is no global warming, let alone any ‘Climate Emergency’.
Earth is cooling.
AGW is a prosperity-limiting, poverty-inducing scam.
Wake up, already.
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On Monday, a low of 1.5C (34.7F) was registered at Indio Hatuey; just 0.9C from Cuba’s official all-time low set in 1935.
Record cold has also swept the eastern town of Guantanamo: the 9.9C (49.8F) it logged (at the airport) is the locale’s lowest temperature ever recorded; while a new record low, of 7.4C (45.3F), was also observed at La Jiquima.
Other fallen benchmarks are listed below, courtesy of INSMET Cuba:
INSMET Cuba (METEOROLOGÍA)
@InsmetC
Esta madrugada fue notablemente fría a lo largo y ancho del país, con 36 reporte por debajo de los 10°C,el valor más bajo el reportado por Indio Hatuey en Matanzas, con1.5°C de Temperatura Mínima, en Guantánamo constituye posible récord absoluto para esa localidad @citmacuba https://t.co/8QlbWfWiVF
8:42 AM · Jan 16, 2023
Updated INSMET data reveals temperatures have tumbled even lower.
Bainoa actually dropped to 3.1C, with records also falling in Colon and Santo Domingo, to name just two others.
While we’re in the Caribbean, the December temperature data is in for Barbados.
According to the Barbados Meteorological Service, last month had an average temperature of 25.6C (78.1F), which is a substantial 1.2C below the multidecadal norm.
Also, the year 2022 (as a whole) finished -0.45C below normal.
Records Fall Across India, Pakistan and Iran, As Gas Shortages Hit
Many locales have suffered record low temperatures for a third day in a row, as per IMD data, which is impacting farmers in Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan –to name just three regions– where widespread frosts have been ravaging crops:
Weatherman Navdeep Dahiya
@navdeepdahiya55
Freezing morning continues in Plains of North India. Most farmers from #Punjab #Haryana #Rajasthan have reported widespread #Frost in the farms during the early morning, Visuals are from Bathinda, Rewari, Siwani. Temperature continue to stay Sub-zero for 3rd day in a row. https://t.co/oRwu37uFIc
10:08 PM · Jan 16, 2023
With regards to the records, while daily and monthly lows are falling, all-time benchmarks are also being challenged, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD).
This morning (Jan 17), Alwar logged -0.5C (31.1F), which is just 0.3C from the locale’s coldest temperature ever recorded.
Likewise in Fatehpur, Rajasthan, the -3.7C (25.3F) suffered on Jan 16 is one of the city’s lowest readings in history.
Churu’s -2.7C (27.1F), Hisar’s -1.3C (29.7F), Gurgaon’s 0.1C (32.2F), Narnaul’s 1.5C (34.7F), and Rohtak’s 1.8C (35.2F) are also worth noting, as is Delhi’s -0.8C (30.6F) –set at the historic Safdarjung station– which isn’t far off the state’s all-time low set in 1935.
@LiveWxIndia
@LiveWxIndia
India has been no stranger to extreme cold in recent years, with official IMD data confirming that the country is cooling. Even the country’s great sprawling metropolises, such as Delhi with its ignored urban heat island effect, has seen decreasing temps: “there has been a 1.6-fold increase in cold wave days in India in the last decade,” so says the IMD.
To combat its decreasing temperatures/increasing demand, India is boosting its coal imports. Severe cold towards the end of December triggered sudden surges in electricity usage which resulted in blackouts. It also made forecasting coal and power requirements difficult.
Record domestic output has helped, but stocks are still far below federal guidelines that recommend at least 24 days’ buffer supply: “Even now, about 31% of the total coal-based capacity is facing critical coal shortages,” said Abhishek Rakshit, a Senior Research Analyst at Wood Mackenzie.
As a result, India will have to increase imports by 50-60% in April-December 2023, according to Hetal Gandhi, Director of Research at CRISIL Market Intelligence and Analytics, if they are to “avert a possible crisis”.
Pakistan
Looking to neighboring Pakistan, polar air has descended into southern regions where temperature drops this severe are considered rare. Even across Sindh province, which is considered Pakistan’s warmest region, frosts have been reported.
The southern coastal city of Karachi has endured some of its coldest temperatures ever. A station at Jinnah Terminal registered 4.3C (39.7F), reports the Pakistan Met Office; although several suburban areas plunged far lower, according to Pak Weather (Pakistan’s private automated weather station network), with Pak posting photos of rare frosts across the city’s outskirts.
“Pak Weather team already recorded 0.7C through highly calibrated and accurate devices at Malir Cantt region [of Karachi]”, the network tweeted, with temperatures forecast to continuing falling throughout the week, on course to challenge the city’s all-time record low of 0C (32F) observed during the January of 1934, according to Met data.
Karachi residents say this winter season has been exceptionally cold, but has been made even tougher by natural gas shortages and load-shedding. There is simply no gas to cook, complain the locals. Even at times city authorities say the gas flow –i.e. at the three promised meal times of breakfast, lunch, and dinner– it often isn’t there, and people are suffering.
Looking ahead, Pakistan’s Meteorological Department (PMD) says the country’s cold wave will persist: “Mainly cold and dry weather is expected in most parts, while very cold in Balochistan, upper Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Kashmir, and Gilgit Baltistan.”
Residents of Balochistan, including Quetta city, have watched their thermometers plummet below -10C (14F) this week, which has frozen and burst water pipes, compounding the wintry misery.
Iran
More than a hundred-thousand Iranians were also left without gas to heat their homes over the weekend, just as historically-frigid conditions engulfed the country, the state broadcaster reported.
Gas deliveries were cut to some 90,000 residential users in the north-eastern province of Razavi Khorasan overnight Saturday. Supplies were also disrupted in at least four other northern provinces and several districts.
Officials have confirmed that the country is experiencing “freezing temperatures unseen in the last decade, which has driven demand for the heating fuel to record highs.”
Cooling has been the story of the past few years in this part of the world, yet authorities, perhaps hamstrung by green ideals and fairytales of ever-rising temperatures, have failed to prepare.
As I reported last year (over at electroverse.net–site now mysteriously down), Iran was forced to cut the gas supply to its neighbor Turkey in order to secure its own domestic supply as bone-chilling lows and feet of snows descended across the Middle East.
This year, Iran –a gas-rich nation– is reducing its exports to Iraq, rather than Turkey (Erdoğan likely cut a deal).
Iraq is heavily dependent on Iranian gas to operate its power plants.
Since early this month, Iran has reduced its natural gas exports to Iraq to about 7 million cubic meters per day, said Iraqi Electricity Ministry spokesman Ahmed Mousa: “We need between 30 to 50 million cubic meters a day from Iran … Therefore, the reduction has affected our ability to meet the demand and has increased power outages across the country.”
Iraq has lost some 5,000 megawatts from its national grid, which produces about 16,000MW.
As a result, the country’s Electricity Minister is scheduled to visit Tehran this week to ‘discuss’ the issue.
کوروش
@MadeinTehran
Snow For Iran ! ️ https://t.co/QlKj4FSxaY
7:21 PM · Jan 15, 2023
Although gas-rich, Iran has itself been cut off, by Turkmenistan to the north.
Iran relies on Turkmenistani deliveries to supply its northern regions: “We are gas independent,” said Iran’s Oil Minister Javad Owjibut, “[but] we are at the peak of gas consumption. Our first priorities are domestic, so sustainable consumption is required.”
Consumption cutting measures have included the closure of schools, state-run offices and privately owned businesses across Tehran province. Owjibut has also called on people to avoid travel to the city of Mashhad, home to Iran’s holiest pilgrimage shrine.
Heavy snow has also impacted the nation’s roads, with a key route in Isfahan province shut after more than 2 m (6.6 ft) accumulated last week. Officials said the road will likely not be reopened until spring.
NUFDI
@NUFDIran
Civil resistance in #Iran takes many shapes. #Iranians in #Tehran sing the national revolutionary song “Barayeh” (For) amidst the winter snow. The revolutionary fire against the Islamic Republic burns bright. #IranRevolution2023 https://t.co/VbIWlroykU
8:28 PM · Jan 15, 2023
Heavy Snow Transforms European Landscapes
Snow has returned to Europe this week, in time to greet those greasy control-freaks flying into Davos.
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Historic Cold In Cuba; Records Fall Across India, Pakistan And Iran, As Gas Shortages Hit; Heavy Snow Transforms European Landscapes; + 33 Feet And Counting: California Town Buried In Snow
January 17, 2023 Cap AllonHistoric Cold In Cuba
Record-breaking chills are currently sweeping Cuba.On Monday, a low of 1.5C (34.7F) was registered at Indio Hatuey; just 0.9C from Cuba’s official all-time low set in 1935.
Record cold has also swept the eastern town of Guantanamo: the 9.9C (49.8F) it logged (at the airport) is the locale’s lowest temperature ever recorded; while a new record low, of 7.4C (45.3F), was also observed at La Jiquima.
Other fallen benchmarks are listed below, courtesy of INSMET Cuba:
INSMET Cuba (METEOROLOGÍA)
@InsmetC
Esta madrugada fue notablemente fría a lo largo y ancho del país, con 36 reporte por debajo de los 10°C,el valor más bajo el reportado por Indio Hatuey en Matanzas, con1.5°C de Temperatura Mínima, en Guantánamo constituye posible récord absoluto para esa localidad @citmacuba https://t.co/8QlbWfWiVF
8:42 AM · Jan 16, 2023
Updated INSMET data reveals temperatures have tumbled even lower.
Bainoa actually dropped to 3.1C, with records also falling in Colon and Santo Domingo, to name just two others.
While we’re in the Caribbean, the December temperature data is in for Barbados.
According to the Barbados Meteorological Service, last month had an average temperature of 25.6C (78.1F), which is a substantial 1.2C below the multidecadal norm.
Also, the year 2022 (as a whole) finished -0.45C below normal.
Records Fall Across India, Pakistan and Iran, As Gas Shortages Hit
India
Starting in India, extreme ‘cold wave’ conditions are enduring across the Northern plains–in particular.Many locales have suffered record low temperatures for a third day in a row, as per IMD data, which is impacting farmers in Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan –to name just three regions– where widespread frosts have been ravaging crops:
Weatherman Navdeep Dahiya
@navdeepdahiya55
Freezing morning continues in Plains of North India. Most farmers from #Punjab #Haryana #Rajasthan have reported widespread #Frost in the farms during the early morning, Visuals are from Bathinda, Rewari, Siwani. Temperature continue to stay Sub-zero for 3rd day in a row. https://t.co/oRwu37uFIc
10:08 PM · Jan 16, 2023
With regards to the records, while daily and monthly lows are falling, all-time benchmarks are also being challenged, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD).
This morning (Jan 17), Alwar logged -0.5C (31.1F), which is just 0.3C from the locale’s coldest temperature ever recorded.
Likewise in Fatehpur, Rajasthan, the -3.7C (25.3F) suffered on Jan 16 is one of the city’s lowest readings in history.
Churu’s -2.7C (27.1F), Hisar’s -1.3C (29.7F), Gurgaon’s 0.1C (32.2F), Narnaul’s 1.5C (34.7F), and Rohtak’s 1.8C (35.2F) are also worth noting, as is Delhi’s -0.8C (30.6F) –set at the historic Safdarjung station– which isn’t far off the state’s all-time low set in 1935.
@LiveWxIndia
@LiveWxIndia
India has been no stranger to extreme cold in recent years, with official IMD data confirming that the country is cooling. Even the country’s great sprawling metropolises, such as Delhi with its ignored urban heat island effect, has seen decreasing temps: “there has been a 1.6-fold increase in cold wave days in India in the last decade,” so says the IMD.
To combat its decreasing temperatures/increasing demand, India is boosting its coal imports. Severe cold towards the end of December triggered sudden surges in electricity usage which resulted in blackouts. It also made forecasting coal and power requirements difficult.
Record domestic output has helped, but stocks are still far below federal guidelines that recommend at least 24 days’ buffer supply: “Even now, about 31% of the total coal-based capacity is facing critical coal shortages,” said Abhishek Rakshit, a Senior Research Analyst at Wood Mackenzie.
As a result, India will have to increase imports by 50-60% in April-December 2023, according to Hetal Gandhi, Director of Research at CRISIL Market Intelligence and Analytics, if they are to “avert a possible crisis”.
Pakistan
Looking to neighboring Pakistan, polar air has descended into southern regions where temperature drops this severe are considered rare. Even across Sindh province, which is considered Pakistan’s warmest region, frosts have been reported.
The southern coastal city of Karachi has endured some of its coldest temperatures ever. A station at Jinnah Terminal registered 4.3C (39.7F), reports the Pakistan Met Office; although several suburban areas plunged far lower, according to Pak Weather (Pakistan’s private automated weather station network), with Pak posting photos of rare frosts across the city’s outskirts.
“Pak Weather team already recorded 0.7C through highly calibrated and accurate devices at Malir Cantt region [of Karachi]”, the network tweeted, with temperatures forecast to continuing falling throughout the week, on course to challenge the city’s all-time record low of 0C (32F) observed during the January of 1934, according to Met data.
Karachi residents say this winter season has been exceptionally cold, but has been made even tougher by natural gas shortages and load-shedding. There is simply no gas to cook, complain the locals. Even at times city authorities say the gas flow –i.e. at the three promised meal times of breakfast, lunch, and dinner– it often isn’t there, and people are suffering.
Looking ahead, Pakistan’s Meteorological Department (PMD) says the country’s cold wave will persist: “Mainly cold and dry weather is expected in most parts, while very cold in Balochistan, upper Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Kashmir, and Gilgit Baltistan.”
Residents of Balochistan, including Quetta city, have watched their thermometers plummet below -10C (14F) this week, which has frozen and burst water pipes, compounding the wintry misery.
Iran
More than a hundred-thousand Iranians were also left without gas to heat their homes over the weekend, just as historically-frigid conditions engulfed the country, the state broadcaster reported.
Gas deliveries were cut to some 90,000 residential users in the north-eastern province of Razavi Khorasan overnight Saturday. Supplies were also disrupted in at least four other northern provinces and several districts.
Officials have confirmed that the country is experiencing “freezing temperatures unseen in the last decade, which has driven demand for the heating fuel to record highs.”
Cooling has been the story of the past few years in this part of the world, yet authorities, perhaps hamstrung by green ideals and fairytales of ever-rising temperatures, have failed to prepare.
As I reported last year (over at electroverse.net–site now mysteriously down), Iran was forced to cut the gas supply to its neighbor Turkey in order to secure its own domestic supply as bone-chilling lows and feet of snows descended across the Middle East.
This year, Iran –a gas-rich nation– is reducing its exports to Iraq, rather than Turkey (Erdoğan likely cut a deal).
Iraq is heavily dependent on Iranian gas to operate its power plants.
Since early this month, Iran has reduced its natural gas exports to Iraq to about 7 million cubic meters per day, said Iraqi Electricity Ministry spokesman Ahmed Mousa: “We need between 30 to 50 million cubic meters a day from Iran … Therefore, the reduction has affected our ability to meet the demand and has increased power outages across the country.”
Iraq has lost some 5,000 megawatts from its national grid, which produces about 16,000MW.
As a result, the country’s Electricity Minister is scheduled to visit Tehran this week to ‘discuss’ the issue.
کوروش
@MadeinTehran
Snow For Iran ! ️ https://t.co/QlKj4FSxaY
7:21 PM · Jan 15, 2023
Although gas-rich, Iran has itself been cut off, by Turkmenistan to the north.
Iran relies on Turkmenistani deliveries to supply its northern regions: “We are gas independent,” said Iran’s Oil Minister Javad Owjibut, “[but] we are at the peak of gas consumption. Our first priorities are domestic, so sustainable consumption is required.”
Consumption cutting measures have included the closure of schools, state-run offices and privately owned businesses across Tehran province. Owjibut has also called on people to avoid travel to the city of Mashhad, home to Iran’s holiest pilgrimage shrine.
Heavy snow has also impacted the nation’s roads, with a key route in Isfahan province shut after more than 2 m (6.6 ft) accumulated last week. Officials said the road will likely not be reopened until spring.
NUFDI
@NUFDIran
Civil resistance in #Iran takes many shapes. #Iranians in #Tehran sing the national revolutionary song “Barayeh” (For) amidst the winter snow. The revolutionary fire against the Islamic Republic burns bright. #IranRevolution2023 https://t.co/VbIWlroykU
8:28 PM · Jan 15, 2023
Heavy Snow Transforms European Landscapes
Snow has returned to Europe this week, in time to greet those greasy control-freaks flying into Davos.
continued ...
alpha
Veteran Member
Electroverse
Part two ...
Even in and around the UK, heavy snow has been reported, in Scotland:
Richard Franks
@richardpfranks
Leckmelm near Ullapool in the north west Highlands just now. I’d say at least 15cm of fresh snow and it continues to fall. Not seen snow like this in Scotland for some time #uksnow @UKSnowUpdates @BBCScotlandNews @Scotland @VisitScotland @TravWriters @RoughGuides https://t.co/9kztVItqZS
4:09 AM · Jan 17, 2023
And in Ireland:
M M
@mauramullarkey
Snow flurries up on the Conor Pass in Kerry today #Kerry #ConorPass #Ireland #Snow @MetEireann January 16 2023 It’s one of the highest mountain passes in Ireland. This narrow, twisting road runs for 12kms between Dingle and Kilmore Cross https://t.co/MGVvpD6fe1
8:29 AM · Jan 16, 2023
And even in southwest England:
Pens Pause
@pens_pause
Just in case you don’t know what snow looks like #cornwall #snow https://t.co/NtDCfcHmuL
1:29 AM · Jan 17, 2023
There has been feet of accumulating powder across the Alps, too, including in Davos–which has led to the quiet retraction of all those AGW Party funded fire and brimstone articles, which is pretty comical…
sonja van den ende
@SonjaEnde
Heavy police presence in Davos, Switzerland, where they have snow, by the way, according to Western media, people can't go in winter sports. The annual event of the rich and powerful of the earth (mostly Western) called the WEF Heavy police presence in Davos, Switzerland,.. | Sonja van den Ende | VK https://t.co/IIPY4DVZOD
2:51 AM · Jan 16, 2023
https://twitter.com/intent/like?ref...0785widget=Tweet&tweet_id=1614893088865910785
Russian Market
@runews
Lots of snow in Davos and pretty cold -12°C You should update the below tweet https://t.co/iYRHvXfXcz https://t.co/4ayAXnsy86
12:07 PM · Jan 16, 2023
Staying in the Alps, and further dismantling the torturous, anti-human ‘climate emergency’ agenda, the temperature data from 12 mountain stations shows no winter warming in over 30 years and only slight warming since the early-1970s.
Looking at the reliable winter data available from the Swiss, German and Austrian meteorological services, researcher Günther Aigner found only ‘modest warming’ since 1971: “There’s an astonishing contrast between official measurements and public opinion,” said Aigner. “The linear trend shows a slight increase of only 0.7C — which is not statistically significant.”
Moreover –and as touched on above– ignoring the historically-cold era of the 1970s, the records show zero warming for the past 30 years. And more than that, as Aigner points out, the mean winter temperature for the 12 mountain stations actually shows a decrease of some 2C from 1992 to 2011.
Cries of a ‘snowless Alps’ are nothing but climatic ambulance-chasing; as were the headlines regarding Aussie bushfires a few years back; and reports of the Great Barrier Reef ‘bleaching’ event — with all three doomsday scenarios now miraculously having ‘fixed’ themselves without human intervention.
It stands that regional snowfall can vary immensely year-to-year, meaning it isn’t a great ‘climate barometer’.
Take Davos-2018, for example, when six feet of snow settled in as many days.
And this year, just look at California…
Mammoth Lakes, California has received 119 inches of snow during the past week alone, which takes the season’s total (since Nov 2) to over 400 inches — a new all-time record.
UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab
@UCB_CSSL
24 hr: 21.5" (54.5 cm) 48 hr : 42.7" (108.5 cm) 7-day : 90.7" (230.5 cm) We are now 204% of average precipitation to this point in the water year (Oct 1 - Sept 30) and we have 92% of our average peak seasonal #Snow Water Equivalent (SWE). #CAwx #CAwater #Weather https://t.co/kO6tyoCjuF
11:42 AM · Jan 15, 2023
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Looking ahead, long term weather models are showing the increasing possibility for colder weather over much of North America.
Throughout the first half of January, the jet stream has held the fiercest of the polar cold over Russia and Asia; however, long-range models hint that a change is on the cards. Closing out the month, models show the jet stream trending into an amplified pattern, which should give more opportunities for extreme Arctic air to dip south, deep into North America.
Latest model runs show the possibility of a winter wallop, perhaps even a full-blown ‘Arctic Outbreak, by the end of the month, as visualized by The Weather Network graphic below:
Wavy ‘meridional’ jet stream plunging south, dragging polar cold down through Canada and deep into the CONUS.
Stay tuned for updates.
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Even in and around the UK, heavy snow has been reported, in Scotland:
Richard Franks
@richardpfranks
Leckmelm near Ullapool in the north west Highlands just now. I’d say at least 15cm of fresh snow and it continues to fall. Not seen snow like this in Scotland for some time #uksnow @UKSnowUpdates @BBCScotlandNews @Scotland @VisitScotland @TravWriters @RoughGuides https://t.co/9kztVItqZS
4:09 AM · Jan 17, 2023
And in Ireland:
M M
@mauramullarkey
Snow flurries up on the Conor Pass in Kerry today
#Kerry #ConorPass #Ireland #Snow @MetEireann January 16 2023 It’s one of the highest mountain passes in Ireland. This narrow, twisting road runs for 12kms between Dingle and Kilmore Cross https://t.co/MGVvpD6fe1
8:29 AM · Jan 16, 2023
And even in southwest England:
Pens Pause
@pens_pause
Just in case you don’t know what snow looks like #cornwall #snow https://t.co/NtDCfcHmuL
1:29 AM · Jan 17, 2023
There has been feet of accumulating powder across the Alps, too, including in Davos–which has led to the quiet retraction of all those AGW Party funded fire and brimstone articles, which is pretty comical…
sonja van den ende
@SonjaEnde
Heavy police presence in Davos, Switzerland, where they have snow, by the way, according to Western media, people can't go in winter sports. The annual event of the rich and powerful of the earth (mostly Western) called the WEF Heavy police presence in Davos, Switzerland,.. | Sonja van den Ende | VK https://t.co/IIPY4DVZOD
2:51 AM · Jan 16, 2023
https://twitter.com/intent/like?ref...0785widget=Tweet&tweet_id=1614893088865910785
Russian Market
@runews
Lots of snow in Davos and pretty cold -12°C You should update the below tweet https://t.co/iYRHvXfXcz https://t.co/4ayAXnsy86
12:07 PM · Jan 16, 2023
Staying in the Alps, and further dismantling the torturous, anti-human ‘climate emergency’ agenda, the temperature data from 12 mountain stations shows no winter warming in over 30 years and only slight warming since the early-1970s.
Looking at the reliable winter data available from the Swiss, German and Austrian meteorological services, researcher Günther Aigner found only ‘modest warming’ since 1971: “There’s an astonishing contrast between official measurements and public opinion,” said Aigner. “The linear trend shows a slight increase of only 0.7C — which is not statistically significant.”
Moreover –and as touched on above– ignoring the historically-cold era of the 1970s, the records show zero warming for the past 30 years. And more than that, as Aigner points out, the mean winter temperature for the 12 mountain stations actually shows a decrease of some 2C from 1992 to 2011.
Cries of a ‘snowless Alps’ are nothing but climatic ambulance-chasing; as were the headlines regarding Aussie bushfires a few years back; and reports of the Great Barrier Reef ‘bleaching’ event — with all three doomsday scenarios now miraculously having ‘fixed’ themselves without human intervention.
It stands that regional snowfall can vary immensely year-to-year, meaning it isn’t a great ‘climate barometer’.
Take Davos-2018, for example, when six feet of snow settled in as many days.
And this year, just look at California…
33 Feet And Counting: California Town Buried In Snow
Researchers at the UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab have logged record-smashing volumes of snow this season. This is the theme across California’s higher elevation and has led to the approval of an emergency declaration by thrown-under-the-bus Biden.Mammoth Lakes, California has received 119 inches of snow during the past week alone, which takes the season’s total (since Nov 2) to over 400 inches — a new all-time record.
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Looking ahead, long term weather models are showing the increasing possibility for colder weather over much of North America.
Throughout the first half of January, the jet stream has held the fiercest of the polar cold over Russia and Asia; however, long-range models hint that a change is on the cards. Closing out the month, models show the jet stream trending into an amplified pattern, which should give more opportunities for extreme Arctic air to dip south, deep into North America.
Latest model runs show the possibility of a winter wallop, perhaps even a full-blown ‘Arctic Outbreak, by the end of the month, as visualized by The Weather Network graphic below:
Wavy ‘meridional’ jet stream plunging south, dragging polar cold down through Canada and deep into the CONUS.
Stay tuned for updates.
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Belgium’s higher elevations, including Signal de Botrange, which perches at an altitude of 694 meters (2276 feet), were blanketed white on Tuesday, with a change in the air noted.
Likewise, the Alps, the Pyrenees and also a slew of lower-elevated regions, plains and valleys have received copious amounts in recent days — even southern England, twenty-three years after the Independent announced the end of snow in Britain:
This year, 2023, following similarly-ludicrous cries of a ‘failed winter’, the season is biting back with a vengeance.
The big freeze is showing no signs of abating, either, particularly in Central and Western nations, although the East looks on course for another walloping as the calendar flips to February: The snow, which has already transformed Europe’s landscapes, is set to continue for the foreseeable, well-into the month of February, perhaps longer.
The forecast totals look exceptional, particularly for Scandinavia, northern Spain, central nations and eastern Turkey:
But “children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” said the AGW Party shill back in the year 2000 (more on that later).
To Europe’s east, transcontinental Russia continues to face fierce, record-setting chills.
Tongulah has, for the third time this week, bested its all-time low temperature benchmark.
With a minimum of -62.7C (-80.9F) registered during the early hours of Wednesday morning, the Siberian village has again usurped its all time low and has again marked the coldest January temperature in all of Russia since 1982.
The historic cold –and resulting gas shortages– continue to impact much of Asia and the Middle East — as discussed yesterday:
Looking ahead, models are suggesting Asia’s Arctic outbreak might flow east and drive down into western North America.
As of now, though, that remains a wait and see.
Delhi logged its eighth cold wave day on Wednesday, the most in the month of January in at least 12 years, according to data available on the India Meteorological Department website.
Severe cold weather conditions are also prevailing across Punjab and Haryana, to name just two regions, with minimum temperatures holding well-below the average in most locales, with records also continuing to fall.
I’ve discussed India and the surrounding nations a lot in recent days — for a catch up click the link above, and also that below:
California has never been snowier at this time of year — but it isn’t the only state dealing with record-busting totals.
More than 2 feet recently fell over a two day period across parts of northern Arizona, smashing a single-day snowfall record: The Flagstaff Airport measured 14.8 inches on Sunday, annihilating its previous record of 8.9 inches that had held for some 45 years.
As snow continued to fall, accumulations eventually reached 30 inches at the airport by Tuesday morning.
The area impacted by the latest snowstorm was vast, said meteorologist Benjamin Peterson, with everywhere above 5,500 feet from the northern rim of the Grand Canyon stretching east to the White Mountains finding themselves coated in a thick layer of snow.
Despite plows working nonstop, many roads in these regions remain closed.
Additionally, Northern Arizona University canceled classes Monday through Wednesday due to the snow, delaying the start of the school’s spring semester. Likewise, Flagstaff Unified School District closed schools on Tuesday as flakes continued to fall and road conditions remained challenging.
Another snowstorm is in the forecast later this week, which is set to deliver another 6 inches to Flagstaff, with the snow extending down toward the Valley by Friday morning, said Peterson.
While in Minden, NV –to pick another locale at random– the 6 inches that recently accumulated there has pushed its January snow total to 8.05 inches, topping the previous snowiest Jan on record: 1909’s 7.9 inches (during The Centennial Minimum).
HadCRUT is the dataset of monthly instrumental temperature records formed by combining the sea surface temperature records compiled by the Hadley Centre of the UK Met Office and the land surface air temperature records compiled by the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia — the latter being employers of Dr David Viner, infamous for his agenda-driving and provenly false, “children just aren’t going to know what snow is” statement.
For decades, the CRU has been labeled fraudulent, regularly suspected of tampering data to fit the wishes of their totalitarian backers, which, as stated on their website, consists of external contracts and grants from academic funding councils, government departments, intergovernmental agencies, charitable foundations, non-governmental organizations, commerce and industry–all of which could be argued have a vested interest in promoting the idea that man is behind everything climatic change, with many, particularly ‘intergovernmental agencies, charitable foundations and non-governmental organizations’ set up solely for that purpose, i.e., without global warming, the IPCC, for example, would cease to exist.
As recently examined on notrickszone.com, from 2009 to 2019 some 90 peer-reviewed scientific papers were published on the global warming “pause” observed between 2000 to 2014 — it was real, and it was a great inconvenience to the AGW Party.
During that “haitus”, the HadCRUT3 global temperature trend was a statistically irrelevant 0.03C per decade (Scafetta, 2022). Inexplicably, that figure was increased to 0.08C per decade by the time HadCRUT4 was published, with the dataset’s overseers, namely the handful of ‘researchers’ at the University of East Anglia (also embroiled in the ‘Climate Gate’ debacle, btw), conveniently adding 0.1C to 0.2C to the recent anomalies.
The CRU didn’t stop their, in the most recent HadCRUT5, that 2000-2014 temperature trend has been adjusted up yet again, almost doubled, in fact, to 0.14C per decade. Within the last decade, a 15-year temperature trend has been adjusted from a “pause” to strong warming.
This isn’t how science is supposed to function — if the data doesn’t fit the theory, you change the theory, not the data.
Below is the HadCRUT3 vs HadCRUT4:
My conclusion:
Global warming is indeed manmade, literally!, we made it up–or at least exaggerated/extended a natural, solar-induced period of warming from approx. 1980 to the early-2000s (the Modern Solar Maximum).
Claims that solar activity is no longer matching the global temperature record–and so isn’t as-great-a climatic influencer as carbon dioxide–are based on fraudulent and fabricated findings.
If low solar activity persists, as the majority of credible forecasters suggest it will, then I expect a harsh wakeup call to smack the masses square in the face sometime within the next few years, as the unforgiving cold of winter consistently worsens, as the relentless snow becomes too much for authorities to deal with, as rolling blackouts hit during the coldest of nights, and as the spring thaw refuses to arrive in time for crops to sprout within a timely window.
This is the future I foresee, not one of lineally-rising temperatures caused by the byproduct of human prosperity (i.e. CO2).
See how that works?
Also see, the same shills informing us that the Earth is burning to crisp will also still confidently decree that the mRNA shots are “safe and effective”. These charlatans are cut from the same shepherd-fearing cloth. Being ‘part of the team’ is held above objective truth, continuing to receive funding/grants is the be-all-and-end-all, and it seems those with the deepest pockets also have the most malevolent, controlling intentions when it comes to us proles.
They are academic funding councils, government departments, intergovernmental agencies, charitable foundations, non-governmental organizations, commerce and industry. They are the WEF, the WHO, the WMO, the IPCC, et al. They are the controlling families that founded the Federal Reserve back in 1913, and who have successfully infiltrated the United Nations and Western governments alike, installing puppet regimes in the Ukraine, for example, and also triumphantly ‘getting their man’ into Canada, the U.S., France and most recently the UK, to name just four so-called democratic countries.
Truth, however, is to be found in the Electric Universe, via a quiet tapping-in to the Birkeland currents that connect everything around us. Answers are there. Truth is not found within the aforementioned controlling, unelected elites that, despite their publicly stated philanthropic MO, aim to strip mankind of any generationally-earned health and prosperity so as to extend their own reach, power and profit.
Hell leads that way — that is, by following their evil. Worryingly, though, the young have been utterly seduced by it, with ‘victimhood’ evolving into the new religion, supported by a similarly-brainwashed/hijacked education system.
“You’re destroying my world!” cry the young and hoodwinked, insisting that their access to cheap and reliable energy –the backbone of their health and prosperity– be immediately removed. This line of stupidity is seeing humanity sign its own death warrant, which is literally the case when it comes to ‘the jab’. Even with unexplained excess deaths soaring globally in vaccinated countries, mainstream media explain-aways are keeping the lid on things for now, but the storm is brewing…
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Arctic Air Encases Europe; Russia’s Freeze Intensifies (-80.9F); Eight Cold Wave Day Hits Delhi; Record Snow Strikes Arizona And Nevada; + Busted: HadCRUT Data Tampering
January 18, 2023 Cap AllonArctic Air Encases Europe
Europe continues to cool and the continent’s snow continues to build — with an intensification on the cards.Belgium’s higher elevations, including Signal de Botrange, which perches at an altitude of 694 meters (2276 feet), were blanketed white on Tuesday, with a change in the air noted.
Likewise, the Alps, the Pyrenees and also a slew of lower-elevated regions, plains and valleys have received copious amounts in recent days — even southern England, twenty-three years after the Independent announced the end of snow in Britain:
This year, 2023, following similarly-ludicrous cries of a ‘failed winter’, the season is biting back with a vengeance.
The big freeze is showing no signs of abating, either, particularly in Central and Western nations, although the East looks on course for another walloping as the calendar flips to February: The snow, which has already transformed Europe’s landscapes, is set to continue for the foreseeable, well-into the month of February, perhaps longer.
The forecast totals look exceptional, particularly for Scandinavia, northern Spain, central nations and eastern Turkey:
But “children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” said the AGW Party shill back in the year 2000 (more on that later).
Russia’s Freeze Intensifies (-80.9F)
To Europe’s east, transcontinental Russia continues to face fierce, record-setting chills.Tongulah has, for the third time this week, bested its all-time low temperature benchmark.
With a minimum of -62.7C (-80.9F) registered during the early hours of Wednesday morning, the Siberian village has again usurped its all time low and has again marked the coldest January temperature in all of Russia since 1982.
The historic cold –and resulting gas shortages– continue to impact much of Asia and the Middle East — as discussed yesterday:
Looking ahead, models are suggesting Asia’s Arctic outbreak might flow east and drive down into western North America.
As of now, though, that remains a wait and see.
Eight Cold Wave Day Strikes Delhi
Delhi logged its eighth cold wave day on Wednesday, the most in the month of January in at least 12 years, according to data available on the India Meteorological Department website.Severe cold weather conditions are also prevailing across Punjab and Haryana, to name just two regions, with minimum temperatures holding well-below the average in most locales, with records also continuing to fall.
I’ve discussed India and the surrounding nations a lot in recent days — for a catch up click the link above, and also that below:
Record Snow Hits Arizona and Nevada
California has never been snowier at this time of year — but it isn’t the only state dealing with record-busting totals.More than 2 feet recently fell over a two day period across parts of northern Arizona, smashing a single-day snowfall record: The Flagstaff Airport measured 14.8 inches on Sunday, annihilating its previous record of 8.9 inches that had held for some 45 years.
As snow continued to fall, accumulations eventually reached 30 inches at the airport by Tuesday morning.
The area impacted by the latest snowstorm was vast, said meteorologist Benjamin Peterson, with everywhere above 5,500 feet from the northern rim of the Grand Canyon stretching east to the White Mountains finding themselves coated in a thick layer of snow.
Despite plows working nonstop, many roads in these regions remain closed.
Additionally, Northern Arizona University canceled classes Monday through Wednesday due to the snow, delaying the start of the school’s spring semester. Likewise, Flagstaff Unified School District closed schools on Tuesday as flakes continued to fall and road conditions remained challenging.
Another snowstorm is in the forecast later this week, which is set to deliver another 6 inches to Flagstaff, with the snow extending down toward the Valley by Friday morning, said Peterson.
While in Minden, NV –to pick another locale at random– the 6 inches that recently accumulated there has pushed its January snow total to 8.05 inches, topping the previous snowiest Jan on record: 1909’s 7.9 inches (during The Centennial Minimum).
Busted: HadCRUT Data Tampering
HadCRUT is the dataset of monthly instrumental temperature records formed by combining the sea surface temperature records compiled by the Hadley Centre of the UK Met Office and the land surface air temperature records compiled by the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia — the latter being employers of Dr David Viner, infamous for his agenda-driving and provenly false, “children just aren’t going to know what snow is” statement.For decades, the CRU has been labeled fraudulent, regularly suspected of tampering data to fit the wishes of their totalitarian backers, which, as stated on their website, consists of external contracts and grants from academic funding councils, government departments, intergovernmental agencies, charitable foundations, non-governmental organizations, commerce and industry–all of which could be argued have a vested interest in promoting the idea that man is behind everything climatic change, with many, particularly ‘intergovernmental agencies, charitable foundations and non-governmental organizations’ set up solely for that purpose, i.e., without global warming, the IPCC, for example, would cease to exist.
As recently examined on notrickszone.com, from 2009 to 2019 some 90 peer-reviewed scientific papers were published on the global warming “pause” observed between 2000 to 2014 — it was real, and it was a great inconvenience to the AGW Party.
During that “haitus”, the HadCRUT3 global temperature trend was a statistically irrelevant 0.03C per decade (Scafetta, 2022). Inexplicably, that figure was increased to 0.08C per decade by the time HadCRUT4 was published, with the dataset’s overseers, namely the handful of ‘researchers’ at the University of East Anglia (also embroiled in the ‘Climate Gate’ debacle, btw), conveniently adding 0.1C to 0.2C to the recent anomalies.
The CRU didn’t stop their, in the most recent HadCRUT5, that 2000-2014 temperature trend has been adjusted up yet again, almost doubled, in fact, to 0.14C per decade. Within the last decade, a 15-year temperature trend has been adjusted from a “pause” to strong warming.
This isn’t how science is supposed to function — if the data doesn’t fit the theory, you change the theory, not the data.
Below is the HadCRUT3 vs HadCRUT4:
My conclusion:
Global warming is indeed manmade, literally!, we made it up–or at least exaggerated/extended a natural, solar-induced period of warming from approx. 1980 to the early-2000s (the Modern Solar Maximum).
Claims that solar activity is no longer matching the global temperature record–and so isn’t as-great-a climatic influencer as carbon dioxide–are based on fraudulent and fabricated findings.
If low solar activity persists, as the majority of credible forecasters suggest it will, then I expect a harsh wakeup call to smack the masses square in the face sometime within the next few years, as the unforgiving cold of winter consistently worsens, as the relentless snow becomes too much for authorities to deal with, as rolling blackouts hit during the coldest of nights, and as the spring thaw refuses to arrive in time for crops to sprout within a timely window.
This is the future I foresee, not one of lineally-rising temperatures caused by the byproduct of human prosperity (i.e. CO2).
See how that works?
Also see, the same shills informing us that the Earth is burning to crisp will also still confidently decree that the mRNA shots are “safe and effective”. These charlatans are cut from the same shepherd-fearing cloth. Being ‘part of the team’ is held above objective truth, continuing to receive funding/grants is the be-all-and-end-all, and it seems those with the deepest pockets also have the most malevolent, controlling intentions when it comes to us proles.
They are academic funding councils, government departments, intergovernmental agencies, charitable foundations, non-governmental organizations, commerce and industry. They are the WEF, the WHO, the WMO, the IPCC, et al. They are the controlling families that founded the Federal Reserve back in 1913, and who have successfully infiltrated the United Nations and Western governments alike, installing puppet regimes in the Ukraine, for example, and also triumphantly ‘getting their man’ into Canada, the U.S., France and most recently the UK, to name just four so-called democratic countries.
Truth, however, is to be found in the Electric Universe, via a quiet tapping-in to the Birkeland currents that connect everything around us. Answers are there. Truth is not found within the aforementioned controlling, unelected elites that, despite their publicly stated philanthropic MO, aim to strip mankind of any generationally-earned health and prosperity so as to extend their own reach, power and profit.
Hell leads that way — that is, by following their evil. Worryingly, though, the young have been utterly seduced by it, with ‘victimhood’ evolving into the new religion, supported by a similarly-brainwashed/hijacked education system.
“You’re destroying my world!” cry the young and hoodwinked, insisting that their access to cheap and reliable energy –the backbone of their health and prosperity– be immediately removed. This line of stupidity is seeing humanity sign its own death warrant, which is literally the case when it comes to ‘the jab’. Even with unexplained excess deaths soaring globally in vaccinated countries, mainstream media explain-aways are keeping the lid on things for now, but the storm is brewing…
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From my email inbox The Old Farmer's Almanac January 18 2023
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We had our first snow in our part of the Irish Midlands last night, and it stayed on the ground until early afternoon. It may snow again tonight, but it is supposed to get really cold again, about 25 to 28 F. This is our second deep cold snap this Winter. Some years we don't get any freezing weather or snow; others can have real snow storms. Our previous freeze was interesting because it broke records for December. The real snow and hard freezes tend to happen in January or February.
We get real blizzard conditions a couple of times a decade (usually with The Beast From the East, which is the weather pattern we have this year - cold air blows down from Scandinavia rather than the usual flow from the Atlantic).
I've noticed the mainstream news, especially from the US, has reported the European weather this year as "mild," but really, it has been a swing between extremes from mild to deep freeze back to mild (but with very high winds) and then freezing again. The warmer spells help keep down energy costs (or, in Germany, from blackouts), but last year was a really mild year, at least in Ireland; no snow here in the middle of the country, and only a few nights below freezing.
We get real blizzard conditions a couple of times a decade (usually with The Beast From the East, which is the weather pattern we have this year - cold air blows down from Scandinavia rather than the usual flow from the Atlantic).
I've noticed the mainstream news, especially from the US, has reported the European weather this year as "mild," but really, it has been a swing between extremes from mild to deep freeze back to mild (but with very high winds) and then freezing again. The warmer spells help keep down energy costs (or, in Germany, from blackouts), but last year was a really mild year, at least in Ireland; no snow here in the middle of the country, and only a few nights below freezing.
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The region’s largest country, Nicaragua, has felled low temperature benchmarks: Polar air encased the town of Jinotega on Jan 17, dropping the mercury to 8.6C (47.5F) — the locale’s lowest temperature ever recorded.
The severe freeze gripping Siberia, Central/Western Asia and the Middle East is extending eastward.
The likes of China, the Koreas and Japan are about to face another walloping of intense wintry cold starting this weekend.
Already the frigid temperatures are setting in across Northern China.
The northernmost city of Mohe, for example, saw its official thermometers sink below -45C (-49F) this morning (Jan 19), but looking ahead, temperature south of -50C (-58F) are in the forecast which would prove China’s first such reading since back in 1969.
Shifting attention a little south, to Myanmar (aka Burma), all-time records are already being felled there–or at least tied.
The western town of Hakha plunged to -6C (21.2F) on Wednesday, Jan 17, which matches Myanmar’s all-time national record low previously set in 1990, 2008 and 2021 — Myanmar appears to be cooling.
Freezing, record-breaking temperatures of as low as -33C (-27.4F) continue to grip Afghanistan and neighboring nations.
This week, 100 Afghans –at the very least– as well as some 100,000 livestock are confirmed to have perished, according to officials on January 18, as the country’s humanitarian crisis is compounded by wave after wave of descending Arctic cold.
Kabul, as well as a host of other provinces, have suffered record-low temperatures since the New Year, with the central city of Ghor posting an all-time record low of -33C (-27.4F).
More than half of Afghanistan’s 38 million people are facing hunger, with nearly 4 million children suffering from malnutrition, according to aid agencies.
The nation is also short on energy, which is also the case across many Western Asian/Middle Eastern countries this winter:
“This winter is by far the coldest in recent years,” said Mohammad Nasim Muradi, the head of Afghanistan’s meteorology office. “We expect the cold wave to continue for another week or more,” he added.
Below, Afghan men warm themselves around a bonfire at a market in Mazar-i-Sharif:
Afghan girls collect firewood for their homes in the Kuz Kunar district of Nangarhar Province:
And lastly, men receive treatment for frostbite in Herat after being rescued from the cold:
Juxtaposing this real and genuine suffering we have a silly little Swedish girl, pawn of the anti-human elites, acting like the world is ending due, in no uncertain terms, to human prosperity (aka CO2 emissions).
This week we saw Greta posing for a photo op with German law enforcement after her “arrest” at a coal mine in Lützerath:
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The fake “arrest” of Greta Thunberg in Germany today. It's all a theater https://t.co/7PbwgURHF5
5:27 PM · Jan 17, 2023
Major Winter Storm Clatters Plains, Midwest
A major winter storm that dropped feet of snow over the Rockies and Plains on Wednesday is trekking through the Upper Midwest, where a foot could still accumulate through Thursday.
Parts of Colorado and Nebraska picked up 2 feet of snow by late Wednesday evening. And, still, some 8 million Americans remain under winter weather alerts that stretch from Colorado through the plains and into the Great Lakes.
Taking Denver, the 9.1 inches that settled at the city’s International Airport (as of 5:45 PM Weds) ties the 1989 record for the Top 5 largest one-day January snowfalls on record. Furthermore, Denver’s snow has already comfortably exceeded its January average of 7 inches.
Many roads across the likes of Colorado and Nebraska have been impacted, with snow removal teams working through the night trying to clear major roadways such as Interstate 80 in Nebraska and Interstate 70 in Colorado.
Troopers in eastern Colorado reported reduced visibilities and a major pile-up not far from Denver on Wednesday. According to reports, 9 semi-trucks and 12 passenger vehicles were involved.
Miraculously, there were no serious injuries, but the mess saw the 150 mile long interstate closed for hours:
Colorado State Patrol
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I 70 is still shut down for safety reasons. Unknown timeframe when it will reopen. Troopers on scene believe it will take until morning to clear crash. Alternate routes not encouraged in the area because they will still be dangerous due to high winds and slick roads. https://t.co/Z5ZrNv3lvk
5:47 PM · Jan 18, 2023
The freeze is also continues to impact Colorado’s highest elevations.
The 6 additional inches that settled at Steamboat yesterday (Jan 18) has already brought this season’s snowpack above the past three years. The resort is not only on course to post its snowiest winter ever recorded, besting the 489 inches of 2007-08 (solar minimum of cycle 24), but is on pace to exceed 500 inches, and all.
Unusual cold is impacting Florida, too, where a record number of manatees have sought refuge at Blue Spring State Park. The 729 sea cows currently there breaks the previous record of 721.
Looking ahead, more heavy, disruptive snows and anomalous lows are on the cards, and across a wide area, too:
GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) Jan 28 [tropicaltidbits.com].
GFS Total Snowfall (inches) Jan 19 – Feb 4 [tropicaltidbits.com].
And re. Asia’s historic Arctic Outbreak shifting east and into western North America –as has been mentioned in previous articles– latest GFS runs are picking up on the possibility of this playing out as the calendar flips to February.
Temperatures in Alaska and Western/Central Canada by early-Feb look truly fierce, and there are hints that this polar cold will descend south –and so into the CONUS– on the back of a weak and wavy ‘meridional’ jet stream flow:
Still, this season’s gains are proving exceptional:
(Left) Cumulated SMB (in mm) from the Mar 1, 2022 to today (Jan 19, 2023)--confusingly, reds/oranges represent snow/ice gains. (Right) Same as Left) but in respect to the 1981-2010 average from Mar 1 to the today (Jan 19, 2023).
According to firn and ice-core records, current SMB has been comparable to that of the past 800 years, with Antarctica seemingly immune to the ‘ravages of global warming’.
This is a sore point for the AGW Party given that 90% of Earth’s surface fresh water is safely locked-up in the ice sheet, not going anywhere any-century soon.
In fact, a 10% increase in snow accumulation has occurred across coastal regions since 1850, with official data revealing that East Antarctica, which covers two thirds of the continent, has cooled 2.8C over the past 40-or-so years, with West Antarctica cooling 1.6C.
Also, while the past 800 year’s SMB has –overall– been comparable to todays, periods of very high accumulation are noted, in the 1370s and 1610s, which fits with past Grand Solar Minima: the end of the ‘Wolf’ and the onset of the ‘Maunder’, respectively.
Climate models claim that the Antarctic ice sheet will rapidly lose mass over the next century; however, these agenda-driving tools have been claiming such nonsense for decades, and yet this is the state of Antarctica’s SMB in 2023:
Time series of the anomaly of cumulated Antarctic ice sheet (AIS) Surface Mass Balance (SMB) in GT (Gigatons). The gray shading area represents the 1981-2010 standard deviation around the 1981-2010 average.
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January 19, 2023 Cap AllonCentral America Endures Record Cold
Anomalous chills are being felt in Central America this week.The region’s largest country, Nicaragua, has felled low temperature benchmarks: Polar air encased the town of Jinotega on Jan 17, dropping the mercury to 8.6C (47.5F) — the locale’s lowest temperature ever recorded.
China Forecast First -50C Since 1969
The severe freeze gripping Siberia, Central/Western Asia and the Middle East is extending eastward.The likes of China, the Koreas and Japan are about to face another walloping of intense wintry cold starting this weekend.
Already the frigid temperatures are setting in across Northern China.
The northernmost city of Mohe, for example, saw its official thermometers sink below -45C (-49F) this morning (Jan 19), but looking ahead, temperature south of -50C (-58F) are in the forecast which would prove China’s first such reading since back in 1969.
Shifting attention a little south, to Myanmar (aka Burma), all-time records are already being felled there–or at least tied.
The western town of Hakha plunged to -6C (21.2F) on Wednesday, Jan 17, which matches Myanmar’s all-time national record low previously set in 1990, 2008 and 2021 — Myanmar appears to be cooling.
At Least 100 Killed In Afghanistan’s Big Freeze
Freezing, record-breaking temperatures of as low as -33C (-27.4F) continue to grip Afghanistan and neighboring nations.This week, 100 Afghans –at the very least– as well as some 100,000 livestock are confirmed to have perished, according to officials on January 18, as the country’s humanitarian crisis is compounded by wave after wave of descending Arctic cold.
Kabul, as well as a host of other provinces, have suffered record-low temperatures since the New Year, with the central city of Ghor posting an all-time record low of -33C (-27.4F).
More than half of Afghanistan’s 38 million people are facing hunger, with nearly 4 million children suffering from malnutrition, according to aid agencies.
The nation is also short on energy, which is also the case across many Western Asian/Middle Eastern countries this winter:
“This winter is by far the coldest in recent years,” said Mohammad Nasim Muradi, the head of Afghanistan’s meteorology office. “We expect the cold wave to continue for another week or more,” he added.
Below, Afghan men warm themselves around a bonfire at a market in Mazar-i-Sharif:
Afghan girls collect firewood for their homes in the Kuz Kunar district of Nangarhar Province:
And lastly, men receive treatment for frostbite in Herat after being rescued from the cold:
Juxtaposing this real and genuine suffering we have a silly little Swedish girl, pawn of the anti-human elites, acting like the world is ending due, in no uncertain terms, to human prosperity (aka CO2 emissions).
This week we saw Greta posing for a photo op with German law enforcement after her “arrest” at a coal mine in Lützerath:
Dr. Eli David
@DrEliDavid
The fake “arrest” of Greta Thunberg in Germany today. It's all a theater https://t.co/7PbwgURHF5
5:27 PM · Jan 17, 2023
Major Winter Storm Clatters Plains, Midwest
A major winter storm that dropped feet of snow over the Rockies and Plains on Wednesday is trekking through the Upper Midwest, where a foot could still accumulate through Thursday.
Parts of Colorado and Nebraska picked up 2 feet of snow by late Wednesday evening. And, still, some 8 million Americans remain under winter weather alerts that stretch from Colorado through the plains and into the Great Lakes.
Taking Denver, the 9.1 inches that settled at the city’s International Airport (as of 5:45 PM Weds) ties the 1989 record for the Top 5 largest one-day January snowfalls on record. Furthermore, Denver’s snow has already comfortably exceeded its January average of 7 inches.
Many roads across the likes of Colorado and Nebraska have been impacted, with snow removal teams working through the night trying to clear major roadways such as Interstate 80 in Nebraska and Interstate 70 in Colorado.
Troopers in eastern Colorado reported reduced visibilities and a major pile-up not far from Denver on Wednesday. According to reports, 9 semi-trucks and 12 passenger vehicles were involved.
Miraculously, there were no serious injuries, but the mess saw the 150 mile long interstate closed for hours:
Colorado State Patrol
@CSP_News
I 70 is still shut down for safety reasons. Unknown timeframe when it will reopen. Troopers on scene believe it will take until morning to clear crash. Alternate routes not encouraged in the area because they will still be dangerous due to high winds and slick roads. https://t.co/Z5ZrNv3lvk
5:47 PM · Jan 18, 2023
The freeze is also continues to impact Colorado’s highest elevations.
The 6 additional inches that settled at Steamboat yesterday (Jan 18) has already brought this season’s snowpack above the past three years. The resort is not only on course to post its snowiest winter ever recorded, besting the 489 inches of 2007-08 (solar minimum of cycle 24), but is on pace to exceed 500 inches, and all.
Unusual cold is impacting Florida, too, where a record number of manatees have sought refuge at Blue Spring State Park. The 729 sea cows currently there breaks the previous record of 721.
Looking ahead, more heavy, disruptive snows and anomalous lows are on the cards, and across a wide area, too:
GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) Jan 28 [tropicaltidbits.com].
GFS Total Snowfall (inches) Jan 19 – Feb 4 [tropicaltidbits.com].
And re. Asia’s historic Arctic Outbreak shifting east and into western North America –as has been mentioned in previous articles– latest GFS runs are picking up on the possibility of this playing out as the calendar flips to February.
Temperatures in Alaska and Western/Central Canada by early-Feb look truly fierce, and there are hints that this polar cold will descend south –and so into the CONUS– on the back of a weak and wavy ‘meridional’ jet stream flow:
Antarctic Ice Sheet Posts Record SMB Gains
Surface mass balance (SMB) is a good barometer for the ‘health’ of a glacier, but readings can vary wildly over Antarctica.Still, this season’s gains are proving exceptional:
(Left) Cumulated SMB (in mm) from the Mar 1, 2022 to today (Jan 19, 2023)--confusingly, reds/oranges represent snow/ice gains. (Right) Same as Left) but in respect to the 1981-2010 average from Mar 1 to the today (Jan 19, 2023).
According to firn and ice-core records, current SMB has been comparable to that of the past 800 years, with Antarctica seemingly immune to the ‘ravages of global warming’.
This is a sore point for the AGW Party given that 90% of Earth’s surface fresh water is safely locked-up in the ice sheet, not going anywhere any-century soon.
In fact, a 10% increase in snow accumulation has occurred across coastal regions since 1850, with official data revealing that East Antarctica, which covers two thirds of the continent, has cooled 2.8C over the past 40-or-so years, with West Antarctica cooling 1.6C.
Also, while the past 800 year’s SMB has –overall– been comparable to todays, periods of very high accumulation are noted, in the 1370s and 1610s, which fits with past Grand Solar Minima: the end of the ‘Wolf’ and the onset of the ‘Maunder’, respectively.
Climate models claim that the Antarctic ice sheet will rapidly lose mass over the next century; however, these agenda-driving tools have been claiming such nonsense for decades, and yet this is the state of Antarctica’s SMB in 2023:
Time series of the anomaly of cumulated Antarctic ice sheet (AIS) Surface Mass Balance (SMB) in GT (Gigatons). The gray shading area represents the 1981-2010 standard deviation around the 1981-2010 average.
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packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
The first minute or so about major earth disasters happening every 6,000 years is quite interesting.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k87ncuPpy8k
RT 7:51 - SuspiciousObserveres
RT 7:51 - SuspiciousObserveres
Earth Disaster is Coming | The Great Impact
jed turtle
a brother in the Lord
It is unlikely that more than 1-5% of the global population could or would survive such an event. Douglas Vogt is convinced that the plasma discharge from the sun during such an event would vaporize the top 800 feet of the ocean on the sun-facing side of the Earth, creating the sudden enormous source of water vapor in the Upper atmosphere that would quickly rain back down as the next Ice Age, and then The oceans from the dark side of the Earth would quickly roar into the depression of the lowered ocean levels on the sunlit side of the Earth, so that the overall result would be ocean levels dropping down to some 400 feet below current levels, which explains why and how we find remnants of villages and even cities on the seabed around the world to 400’ lower than today. Small wonder the elite are having DUMBS built around the Earth a mile or two deep, whose predecessors that had provided safe haven in each of the previous 12,000 year events. They know, probably from ancient records and maybe even generational knowledge of previous events and familiarity of where previous underground passages and caves still exist.
”cave men” indeed...
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During the early hours of Friday, January 20 the official weather international station of Mohe dropped to -50C.
This is the first time in since Februay 15, 1969 that China has officially logged such as benchmark.
Jim yang
@yangyubin1998
【Breaking News】Mohe National Weather Station recorded - 50.0C at 7:48 (UTC+8) this morning! This is the first time that China has recorded - 50C since February 15, 1969.
8:09 PM · Jan 19, 2023
For reference, China’s lowest-ever January temperature remains the – 51.5C set in Fuyun, Xinjiang; however, this record is under threat, as a further intensification of the cold is expected into the weekend.
Stay tuned for updates.
The slew of MSM articles promoting Central Europe’s winter warmth are nothing but cheap, cherry-picking obfuscations. To the east, the region of Asia enduring persistent and historic cold is some 20x the size of Central Europe. Kazakhstan alone is comparable in size, with this 1,000,000+ km2 nation shivering through one of its coldest winters on record.
Compounding the misery, Western Asia –in particular– is suffering a deadly energy shortage with residents across the likes of Iran, Iraq and Turkmenistan (most of the ‘stans, in fact) suffering rolling blackouts as temperatures plunge below -30C (-22F).
In Afghanistan, hundreds of people are reported to have frozen to death in temperatures not seen for half a century.
While Uzbekistan’s president has said he is “tormented” by his nation’s failed ability to cope with the energy demand, exclaiming, “Why is this happening in the capital? Why didn’t we prepare in advance?”.
Desperate Uzbeks are turning to stealing gas, and are being shot as a result. Gas boilers are also exploding due to frozen pipes, killing people. This is not considered newsworthy in the west, for it would no doubt harm ‘The Narrative’ — facts often do.
Though desperate, Uzbek officials had turned down an offer from Russia to reverse-flow extra gas supplies to Uzbekistan in return for the handover of assets including the country’s gas transmission system. However, given the worsening crisis that deal may be back on the table (a scenario I’m sure Putin hoped would play out in Europe this winter; however, and as global energy CEOs recently forewarned, Europe’s real energy woes are due to hit next year).
“[The] energy crisis in Central Asia is so bad that families with children are forced to sleep in the cars because the latter are warmer than the houses,” writes Bishkek-based ethnographer Asel Doolotkeldieva.
While shifting north, into Russia, the Siberian village of Tongulah broke its all-time record low temperature on three occasions this week, bottoming out at -62.7C (-80.9F) on Weds, Jan 18 (Russia’s lowest January temperature since 1982).
Also worth noting, residents of the eastern Siberian village of Essey are adamant that their thermometers plunged to -75C (-103F). This would have been a new worldwide low for a location outside of Antarctica, Essey lacks an official UGMS station, meaning the reading could not be verified.
This part of the world –that is to say the majority of Asia— suffers from poor weather station coverage–which is just as well for the warmists as the busted records would list in the thousands if thermometer coverage was on par with, say, Central Europe.
Average-wise, Russian towns and cities, such as Norilsk, the world’s northernmost city, are suffering anomalies of more than -14C below the January norm, which in the case of Norlisk is also 2C below its coldest January average on record — as recently tweeted by Zdenek Nejedly:
Zdenek Nejedly
@ZdenekNejedly
https://t.co/Qif15f5JKb
6:43 AM · Jan 19, 2023
Asia’s freeze is unprecedented, widespread and long-lasting, but the legacy media is keen to keep western citizens in the dark, focusing instead on winter’s late start in Europe–winter that is now well underway, by the way, and returning with a vengeance.
The snow is back:
Jono Grant
@jonogrant
“There’s no snow this season in the alps” https://t.co/Oj85qyNTiy
10:15 AM · Jan 16, 2023
As is the cold:
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China Suffers -50C (-58F) For First Time In 54 Years; The Russian Towns And Cities Enduring All-Time Record Cold; Kyrgyzstan’s Lake “That Never Freezes Over” Just Froze Over; + Arctic Blasts For Europe And North America
January 20, 2023 Cap AllonChina Suffers -50C (-58F) For First Time In 54 Years
China did it, the forecasts were accurate: The northern city of Mohe has logged China’s first -50C since 1969.During the early hours of Friday, January 20 the official weather international station of Mohe dropped to -50C.
This is the first time in since Februay 15, 1969 that China has officially logged such as benchmark.
Jim yang
@yangyubin1998
【Breaking News】Mohe National Weather Station recorded - 50.0C at 7:48 (UTC+8) this morning! This is the first time that China has recorded - 50C since February 15, 1969.
8:09 PM · Jan 19, 2023
For reference, China’s lowest-ever January temperature remains the – 51.5C set in Fuyun, Xinjiang; however, this record is under threat, as a further intensification of the cold is expected into the weekend.
Stay tuned for updates.
The Russian Towns And Cities Enduring All-Time Record Cold
The majority of Asia has been holding exceptionally-cold in recent weeks and months — the depth freeze cannot be overstated.The slew of MSM articles promoting Central Europe’s winter warmth are nothing but cheap, cherry-picking obfuscations. To the east, the region of Asia enduring persistent and historic cold is some 20x the size of Central Europe. Kazakhstan alone is comparable in size, with this 1,000,000+ km2 nation shivering through one of its coldest winters on record.
Compounding the misery, Western Asia –in particular– is suffering a deadly energy shortage with residents across the likes of Iran, Iraq and Turkmenistan (most of the ‘stans, in fact) suffering rolling blackouts as temperatures plunge below -30C (-22F).
In Afghanistan, hundreds of people are reported to have frozen to death in temperatures not seen for half a century.
While Uzbekistan’s president has said he is “tormented” by his nation’s failed ability to cope with the energy demand, exclaiming, “Why is this happening in the capital? Why didn’t we prepare in advance?”.
Desperate Uzbeks are turning to stealing gas, and are being shot as a result. Gas boilers are also exploding due to frozen pipes, killing people. This is not considered newsworthy in the west, for it would no doubt harm ‘The Narrative’ — facts often do.
Though desperate, Uzbek officials had turned down an offer from Russia to reverse-flow extra gas supplies to Uzbekistan in return for the handover of assets including the country’s gas transmission system. However, given the worsening crisis that deal may be back on the table (a scenario I’m sure Putin hoped would play out in Europe this winter; however, and as global energy CEOs recently forewarned, Europe’s real energy woes are due to hit next year).
“[The] energy crisis in Central Asia is so bad that families with children are forced to sleep in the cars because the latter are warmer than the houses,” writes Bishkek-based ethnographer Asel Doolotkeldieva.
While shifting north, into Russia, the Siberian village of Tongulah broke its all-time record low temperature on three occasions this week, bottoming out at -62.7C (-80.9F) on Weds, Jan 18 (Russia’s lowest January temperature since 1982).
Also worth noting, residents of the eastern Siberian village of Essey are adamant that their thermometers plunged to -75C (-103F). This would have been a new worldwide low for a location outside of Antarctica, Essey lacks an official UGMS station, meaning the reading could not be verified.
This part of the world –that is to say the majority of Asia— suffers from poor weather station coverage–which is just as well for the warmists as the busted records would list in the thousands if thermometer coverage was on par with, say, Central Europe.
Average-wise, Russian towns and cities, such as Norilsk, the world’s northernmost city, are suffering anomalies of more than -14C below the January norm, which in the case of Norlisk is also 2C below its coldest January average on record — as recently tweeted by Zdenek Nejedly:
Zdenek Nejedly
@ZdenekNejedly
https://t.co/Qif15f5JKb
6:43 AM · Jan 19, 2023
Asia’s freeze is unprecedented, widespread and long-lasting, but the legacy media is keen to keep western citizens in the dark, focusing instead on winter’s late start in Europe–winter that is now well underway, by the way, and returning with a vengeance.
The snow is back:
Jono Grant
@jonogrant
“There’s no snow this season in the alps” https://t.co/Oj85qyNTiy
10:15 AM · Jan 16, 2023
As is the cold:
continued...
alpha
Veteran Member
part two ...
Issyk-Kul is located in the northeastern part of the Central Asian nation.
As well as boasting majestic, other-worldly scenery, the lake is of intrigue to scientists as its waters never freeze due to the sheer depth of the lake and its natural warmth — hence the name Issyk-Kul, which translate as “warm lake”.
But on Jan 14, thick ice formed across the body of water, with bemused locals saying, “we have never seen anything like it”:
Reuters
@Reuters
The Issyk-Kul lake in northern Kyrgyzstan, which never freezes due to the lake's depth and natural warmth of water, has frozen due to extreme cold temperatures https://t.co/a0L86uwuVv
7:40 PM · Jan 16, 2023
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VOA Pashto
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د سختې یخنۍ په وجه د "Issyk-Kul" جهیل چې د نړۍ اووم ژورپروت جهیل بلل کېږي کنګل شوی دی. په قرغیزستان کې دې جهیل ته د نژدې سیمې اوسیدونکي ادعا کوي چې د لومړي ځل لپاره ددې جهیل د کنګل کیدو شاهدان دي. #voasocial #voapashto #voaafghanistan #Kyrgyzstan #Issyk_kul #Winter https://t.co/gSzKtWJwHu
10:19 AM · Jan 15, 2023
“In some places the ice was 1.5 meters (5ft) thick,” one local told Reuters.
Temperatures south of -30C (-22F) have engulfed this region of late — historically low levels rarely endured here.
And Asia’s big freeze is showing no signs of abating, either.
Below is the outlook for central Russia on Saturday, Jan 21–with Mongolia and northernmost China to the south.
The light pinks indicate temperature anomalies of as much as -30C below the winter average.
GFS outlook: Extreme freeze forecast to persist across Siberia (Jan 21).
Arctic air masses are predicted to continue extending to the southeast, too, with Kazakhstan (all the ‘stans, in fact), as well as the likes of Iraq and Iran, and even parts of India enduring more of the same in the days and weeks ahead (with Delhi having already endured its eighth ‘cold wave’ day this month, the most in at least 12 years, with a third of the month left to run).
Polar cold –as hinted at above– is also clipping Western and Central Europe this week, with much more on the cards…
The GFS is slow to propagate this morning, but here’s what the available data is showing, starting with Europe:
GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) for Jan 31 – Feb 4 [tropicaltidbits.com].
Note the continent’s snowfall totals, which look truly astonishing:
GFS Total Snowfall (cm) for Jan 20 – Feb 4 [tropicaltidbits.com].
And here’s North America:
GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) for Jan 29 [tropicaltidbits.com].
GFS Total Snowfall (cm) for Jan 20 – Feb 4 [tropicaltidbits.com].
Enjoy your weekend!
I’m off out to sow more summer crops, including melons and cucumbers.
It’s been chilly here in Central Portugal of late, but I’m keen to get a head start on this year’s plantings. We have a lot of seeds sprouting already (thanks to our new polytunnel). While on the livestock front, our pregnant ‘mama’ (or ‘momma’) goat is about to drop. At the third time of asking, we’re praying she gives us a girl (for future milking).
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Kyrgyzstan’s Lake “That Never Freezes Over” Just Froze Over
Staying in Asia, Kyrgyzstan’s famous Issyk-Kul lake has done something miraculous: Extreme cold conditions this past weekend saw the “lake that never freezes over” freeze over.Issyk-Kul is located in the northeastern part of the Central Asian nation.
As well as boasting majestic, other-worldly scenery, the lake is of intrigue to scientists as its waters never freeze due to the sheer depth of the lake and its natural warmth — hence the name Issyk-Kul, which translate as “warm lake”.
But on Jan 14, thick ice formed across the body of water, with bemused locals saying, “we have never seen anything like it”:
Reuters
@Reuters
The Issyk-Kul lake in northern Kyrgyzstan, which never freezes due to the lake's depth and natural warmth of water, has frozen due to extreme cold temperatures https://t.co/a0L86uwuVv
7:40 PM · Jan 16, 2023
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VOA Pashto
@VOAPashto
د سختې یخنۍ په وجه د "Issyk-Kul" جهیل چې د نړۍ اووم ژورپروت جهیل بلل کېږي کنګل شوی دی. په قرغیزستان کې دې جهیل ته د نژدې سیمې اوسیدونکي ادعا کوي چې د لومړي ځل لپاره ددې جهیل د کنګل کیدو شاهدان دي. #voasocial #voapashto #voaafghanistan #Kyrgyzstan #Issyk_kul #Winter https://t.co/gSzKtWJwHu
10:19 AM · Jan 15, 2023
“In some places the ice was 1.5 meters (5ft) thick,” one local told Reuters.
Temperatures south of -30C (-22F) have engulfed this region of late — historically low levels rarely endured here.
And Asia’s big freeze is showing no signs of abating, either.
Below is the outlook for central Russia on Saturday, Jan 21–with Mongolia and northernmost China to the south.
The light pinks indicate temperature anomalies of as much as -30C below the winter average.
GFS outlook: Extreme freeze forecast to persist across Siberia (Jan 21).
Arctic air masses are predicted to continue extending to the southeast, too, with Kazakhstan (all the ‘stans, in fact), as well as the likes of Iraq and Iran, and even parts of India enduring more of the same in the days and weeks ahead (with Delhi having already endured its eighth ‘cold wave’ day this month, the most in at least 12 years, with a third of the month left to run).
Polar cold –as hinted at above– is also clipping Western and Central Europe this week, with much more on the cards…
Arctic Blasts For Europe And North America
Finishing with the latest GFS runs for Europe and North America, fierce freezes are on the cards for both.The GFS is slow to propagate this morning, but here’s what the available data is showing, starting with Europe:
GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) for Jan 31 – Feb 4 [tropicaltidbits.com].
Note the continent’s snowfall totals, which look truly astonishing:
GFS Total Snowfall (cm) for Jan 20 – Feb 4 [tropicaltidbits.com].
And here’s North America:
GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) for Jan 29 [tropicaltidbits.com].
GFS Total Snowfall (cm) for Jan 20 – Feb 4 [tropicaltidbits.com].
Enjoy your weekend!
I’m off out to sow more summer crops, including melons and cucumbers.
It’s been chilly here in Central Portugal of late, but I’m keen to get a head start on this year’s plantings. We have a lot of seeds sprouting already (thanks to our new polytunnel). While on the livestock front, our pregnant ‘mama’ (or ‘momma’) goat is about to drop. At the third time of asking, we’re praying she gives us a girl (for future milking).
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part two ...
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Kyrgyzstan’s Lake “That Never Freezes Over” Just Froze Over
Staying in Asia, Kyrgyzstan’s famous Issyk-Kul lake has done something miraculous: Extreme cold conditions this past weekend saw the “lake that never freezes over” freeze over.
Issyk-Kul is located in the northeastern part of the Central Asian nation.
As well as boasting majestic, other-worldly scenery, the lake is of intrigue to scientists as its waters never freeze due to the sheer depth of the lake and its natural warmth — hence the name Issyk-Kul, which translate as “warm lake”.
But on Jan 14, thick ice formed across the body of water, with bemused locals saying, “we have never seen anything like it”:
Reuters
@Reuters
The Issyk-Kul lake in northern Kyrgyzstan, which never freezes due to the lake's depth and natural warmth of water, has frozen due to extreme cold temperatures https://t.co/a0L86uwuVv
7:40 PM · Jan 16, 2023
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د سختې یخنۍ په وجه د "Issyk-Kul" جهیل چې د نړۍ اووم ژورپروت جهیل بلل کېږي کنګل شوی دی. په قرغیزستان کې دې جهیل ته د نژدې سیمې اوسیدونکي ادعا کوي چې د لومړي ځل لپاره ددې جهیل د کنګل کیدو شاهدان دي. #voasocial #voapashto #voaafghanistan #Kyrgyzstan #Issyk_kul #Winter https://t.co/gSzKtWJwHu
10:19 AM · Jan 15, 2023
“In some places the ice was 1.5 meters (5ft) thick,” one local told Reuters.
Temperatures south of -30C (-22F) have engulfed this region of late — historically low levels rarely endured here.
And Asia’s big freeze is showing no signs of abating, either.
Below is the outlook for central Russia on Saturday, Jan 21–with Mongolia and northernmost China to the south.
The light pinks indicate temperature anomalies of as much as -30C below the winter average.
GFS outlook: Extreme freeze forecast to persist across Siberia (Jan 21).
Arctic air masses are predicted to continue extending to the southeast, too, with Kazakhstan (all the ‘stans, in fact), as well as the likes of Iraq and Iran, and even parts of India enduring more of the same in the days and weeks ahead (with Delhi having already endured its eighth ‘cold wave’ day this month, the most in at least 12 years, with a third of the month left to run).
Polar cold –as hinted at above– is also clipping Western and Central Europe this week, with much more on the cards…
Arctic Blasts For Europe And North America
Finishing with the latest GFS runs for Europe and North America, fierce freezes are on the cards for both.
The GFS is slow to propagate this morning, but here’s what the available data is showing, starting with Europe:
GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) for Jan 31 – Feb 4 [tropicaltidbits.com].
Note the continent’s snowfall totals, which look truly astonishing:
GFS Total Snowfall (cm) for Jan 20 – Feb 4 [tropicaltidbits.com].
And here’s North America:
GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) for Jan 29 [tropicaltidbits.com].
GFS Total Snowfall (cm) for Jan 20 – Feb 4 [tropicaltidbits.com].
Enjoy your weekend!
I’m off out to sow more summer crops, including melons and cucumbers.
It’s been chilly here in Central Portugal of late, but I’m keen to get a head start on this year’s plantings. We have a lot of seeds sprouting already (thanks to our new polytunnel). While on the livestock front, our pregnant ‘mama’ (or ‘momma’) goat is about to drop. At the third time of asking, we’re praying she gives us a girl (for future milking).
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From my email inbox The Old Farmer's Almanac January 20 2023
Lone Eagle Woman
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Very interesting as of late with all if the snow and cold. Tons of snow up in the Yellowstone and Teton Rockies. Should be a nice green summer. Global Cooling in progress!
And yet, here we are in north-central New York state... the ground is bare (we're SICK of mud!), we haven't seen anything colder than mid teens, and we've had more rain than snow. Yesterday was 30 degrees and rain... it's playing hell with all our old injuries, and is terrible weather for outwintering the cattle.
In years past, it wasn't unusual to see several weeks of minus 20 to minus 30 (Fahrenheit! ) here, and the first year DS owned this property, he plowed snow 4-5 hours a day and had 30 foot banks beside the driveway!
Every time I look at one of the Jetstream maps, we're JUST on the "warmer than normal" side of the wave!
Summerthyme
In years past, it wasn't unusual to see several weeks of minus 20 to minus 30 (Fahrenheit! ) here, and the first year DS owned this property, he plowed snow 4-5 hours a day and had 30 foot banks beside the driveway!
Every time I look at one of the Jetstream maps, we're JUST on the "warmer than normal" side of the wave!
Summerthyme