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Snow in southern California is even rarer, and these latest falls are starting to bust records.


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Took a snow day since it never snows in Southern California, and spent the day sledding in the backyard.

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Southern California #SNOW sticking to the Joshua Trees below Wrightwood, California. #Blizzard warning above 4,000 feet! @accuweather

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“We don’t often get this cold of air coming into California,” said NWS meteorologist Brooke Bingaman as temperatures in Santa Rosa –for example– dipped to 28F (-2.2C) on Thursday — tying the previous record low for the day set in 2022, 1955 and 1911.
While in LAX, a record low 41F was observed on Thursday — a reading which ties the old record set as recently as 2019.

And it’s only forecast to get colder Friday (and into the weekend):



GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies for Fri, Feb 24 [tropicaltidbits.com].
Note: all but a slither of the SE are suffering severe cold–but guess which region the ‘warm-mongering’ MSM are devoting their ink to.


And snowier:



GFS Total Snowfall (inches) Feb 24 – March 12 [tropicaltidbits.com].


As of the Finish Meteorological Institute’s latest data-point (from Feb 21–so before these latest rounds of heavy snow), total snow mass for the Northern Hemisphere is trending up, holding above the 1982-2012 average, as it has all season, and threatening to take out the standard deviation, too:



[FMI]
Northern Hemisphere Snow Mass Tracks Above 1982-2012 Average, As It Has Done For The Past 7 Years




Clear for all to see–and for all climate alarmists to ignore–Northern Hemisphere snow mass is on the uptick, consistently running well-above the 1982-2012 average used by the FMI.



Portland’s Snowiest Day Since 1943

Portland hasn’t seen this much snow all at once in 80 years.


“This is a big deal,” said NWS meteorologist Tonja Fransen.


Portland International Airport logged 10.8 inches Wednesday, besting the 9.3 inches that fell on a January day in 1956 but not quite reaching the greatest snowfall accumulation in the city;s history — the 14.4 inches from 1943.


Gusty winds hampered clean-up efforts Thursday, and drove already frigid temps of 27F (-2.8C) down to a wind chill of 10F (-12.2C).





Below are Portland’s top 10 snowiest days since record began in 1939 (data courtesy of the NWS, compiled by oregonlive.com):


January 21, 1943: 14.4 inches


February 22, 2023: 10.8 inches


January 26, 1956: 9.3 inches


December 19, 1964: 8 inches


March 8, 1951: 7.6 inches


January 13, 1950: 7.5 inches


November 22, 1977: 7 inches


December 20, 2008: 7 inches


January 27, 1996: 6.6 inches


January 10, 2017: 6.5 inches

Europe’s Looming Arctic Outbreak​

It was another frosty start for me this morning in Central Portugal — the 17th frost I’ve noted this February.


As per the latest GFS run, Portugal’s chill wont lift anytime soon, either.


Anomalous cold is forecast to persists across Western Europe for at least the next two weeks:



Unusual cold forecast from Feb 23 to March 8.


And with regards to that SSW-induced Arctic Outbreak we’ve been tracking, the weather models are doubling-down that ‘something is coming’ to Europe; however, latest runs have nudged those ‘blues’ and ‘purples’ a little to the east so as to engulf nations from France and Germany to the Ukraine and Russia — starting ‘proper’ around March 6:



GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies March 6 – March 9 [tropicaltidbits.com].


Enjoy your weekend!


I’m off out to plow a 1/2-acre plot, readying it for (trial) spring plantings of quinoa, Emmer, sorghum and sweetcorn.


I managed to source a knackered-old Hinomoto compact tractor that a local was renovating. I couldn’t let the opportunity pass and so pillaged the bank to buy it (€1000 for the tractor, two plows and a box — a steal!).


I’m considering uploading videos of our homesteading efforts onto YouTube, to demonstrate to others that such a venture is possible even with ZERO experience. But please let me know if I’d be wasting my time.

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Record Cold In Australia; Summer Snow Hits New Zealand; Flakes In Hollywood; + Greenland Ice Sheet Posts Record-Breaking 11 Gigaton Gain​

February 27, 2023 Cap Allon

Record Cold In Australia​

Australia has been enduring anomalous, record-breaking COLD over the past 12-or-so months, with a visible cooling trend now entering its 10th year (at a rate of -0.132C per decade since 2013–and increasing):


Following the nation’s colder-than-average winter and spring of 2022, and summer of 2022-23–which delivered Australia’s lowest-ever summer temperature–the chill is now threatening to extend into autumn 2023–which starts Wednesday.
Hundreds upon hundreds of long-standing low temperature benchmarks have fallen in recent months; the most recent being the 13.7C (56.7F) observed on Lord Howe Island on Sunday morning — the island’s lowest ever February reading.
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 they are now scrambling for answers:



New Study: Climate Models Got It Wrong, Eastern Pacific Ocean Is Cooling, La Niña Winters Could Keep On Coming


…and could last for five to ten years, the next few decades, or perhaps even “a century or longer”…

Summer Snow Hits New Zealand
Mt Hutt in Canterbury saw its first snow of the year on Sunday — during the summer.
Ski area manager James Mckenzie it’s rare to get this much.
“To get this amount of snow (30cm/a foot) in February … is amazing.”


Summer snow on Mt Hutt.

‘Rime’ covers the ski lifts, delaying the opening.

Flakes In Hollywood​

A rare and exceptional snowstorm struck Los Angeles and Southern California over the weekend, with LA put under its first blizzard warning since 1989.
Snow was even seen around the iconic Hollywood sign:



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Heavy snow has accumulated across California in recent days, even in low-lying areas such as San Bernardino:
Palm Trees and snow in San Bernardino, California. Looks like Global Warming decided to take a year off.
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4:06 PM · Feb 25, 2023


32 outside, 2 ft of snow, guess where I’m at? NY? Minnesota? Colorado? Nope, San Bernardino, California. You read that right I’m in “warm SuNny Southern California!”




4:27 PM · Feb 25, 2023

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“Quite a remarkable storm the last few days with historic amounts of snow down to elevations that rarely see it,” the National Weather Service said, and the disruption has been substantial.
Interstate 5, the major north-south route through California, was closed early Sunday due to ice. While over 200,000 Cali homes lost power during the storm’s peak, with more than 51,000 still out as of Monday morning, according to poweroutage.us. Elsewhere, 140,000 are out in Maine; 60,000 in Oklahoma; and 30,000 in Texas.
The cold has been equally fierce: San Francisco –for example– busted a 132-year low temperature record (39F/4C) on Friday.
The winter storm exited Southern California Sunday morning, but heavy mountain snow is expected to return Monday through Wednesday. Severe chills are also spreading east, making this a true coast-to-storm. At least 3 inches of snow is expected in New York City Monday evening (Feb 27), with far-heavier totals forecast for northern suburbs.
Winter isn’t over yet, America — far from it:


GFS Total Snowfall (inches) Feb 27 – March 15 [tropicaltidbits.com].

Greenland Ice Sheet Posts Record-Breaking 11 Gigaton Gain​

The Greenland ice sheet has fared exceptionally well since 2017, and, despite hapless mainstream proclamations to the contrary, has been holding strong this season, too.
Greenland posted its strongest ever-start to a snow/ice season in 2022, and since then its surface mass balance (SMB) –a calculation used to determine the ‘health’ of a glacier– has been tracking the 1981-2010 mean used by the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI).
Things took a turn back ‘up’ on Friday (Feb 24) when the ice sheet posted whopping 11 gigatons gain in a single day — a new record in DMI books dating back to 1981:


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Below is a look at the accumulated surface mass balance for the 2022-23 season.
Note the record-setting start, followed by the return to the 1981-2010 mean.

For more of a deep-dive into all this, and for a look at the history of establishment obfuscations, click the link below:

How The Greenland Ice Sheet ‘REALLY’ Fared This Year




The MSM’s cherry-picking obfuscations are exposed for all to see.

 

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I'm sorry, @tesco this is not good enough in your Dalmarnock store on a Friday afternoon Lots more shelves with empty boxes throughout the store. Rising prices are bad enough but lack of basic foodstuffs is unacceptable.

Then don’t accept it. Leave it on the shelves and grow your own.

 

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Past Four Months On Antarctica Were Second Coldest Nov-Feb On Record; Australia’s Colder-Than-Average Summer; Frosty Europe; + Fresh Snows And Record Lows Pound The U.S.​

March 1, 2023 Cap Allon

Past Four Months On Antarctica Were Second Coldest Nov-Feb On Record​

Following Monday’s -58.1C (-72.6F) –the lowest global temperature in February 2023, usurping the historically frigid -57.9C (-72.2F) logged at Oymyakon, Siberia earlier in the month– the Dome Fuji Base, Antarctica dropped even lower on Tuesday, posting a very frigid -60.2C (-76.4F) — the Southern Hemisphere’s first sub -60C of 2023.
More impressively, February at the South Pole Station averaged -41.1C (-42F), which is -0.7C below the multidecadal baseline.
This makes the past four months the second coldest Nov – Feb on record (-35.6C/-32.1F) after 1999-2000 (-36.6C/-33.9F).


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Extreme cold (for summer) struck Antarctica in January, too, with anomalous readings well-below -40C a regular feature.
On Jan 29, the infamous Vostok Station posted a staggering 48.7C (-55.7F) — this took out 1989’s historical January low (of -48.5C/-55.3F), making it the station’s coldest-ever summer temperature since its opening back in 1957.
On Jan 30, the Italian-French Concordia Station logged -48.5C (-55.3F) — this tied the station’s lowest-ever January temperature registered just last year. Here are Concorida’s coldest Jan lows in chronological order: -48C on Jan 28, 2012; -48.3C on Jan 31, 2012; -48.5C on Jan 30, 2022; and now -48.5C on Jan 30, 2023 — a trend is emerging.
Switching back to Vostok, the month of December was also extremely frigid with the station averaging -34.1C (-29.4F) — its second-coldest final month of the year since records began (after Dec 1999).
Most tellingly, though, the South Pole Station suffered its coldest-ever coreless winter in 2021 (April-Sept), and has posted colder-than-average months ever-since with the past four months (Nov-Dec) finishing as the second-coldest on record: Nov 2022’s -40.4C (-40.7F)—coldest since 1987; Dec 2022’s -29.1C (-20.4F)—coldest since 2006; Jan 2023’s -31.3C (-24.3F)—coldest since 1995; and Feb 2023’s -41.1C (-42F)–which is -0.7C below the norm. These past four months were Antarctica’s second-coldest Nov-Dec on record.
As previously discussed, for the past seven decades –at least– Antarctica has been defying AGW Party orders and COOLING. This trend has intensified in recent years, with the burgeoning 2023 continuing the move.
Nothing says “Catastrophic Sea Level Rise” like the world’s largest ice sheet, home to 90% of the planet’s surface freshwater, suffering persistent and record-breaking COLD. Nothing says “Global Warming” like the bottom of the world COOLING.

Australia’s Colder-Than-Average Summer​

Swathes of eastern and central Australia have just posted their coolest summers in decades–following what were also colder-than-average springs and winters.
Some of the standouts include Canberra’s coldest summer nights in 38 years and Sydney’s chilliest in 23 years.
The mainstream media is on damage limitation today, throwing every explain-away they can at Australia’s clear COOLING trend.
“The low temperatures were abnormal as climate change now ensures the vast majority of seasons are warmer than past years,” reports king of the warm-mongers abc.net.au. “La Niña” and “easterly winds” are the two main culprits, according to the homogeneous blob of obfuscation that is the MSM — natural factors that somehow overcame the unrelenting “catastrophe” that is AGW.



New Study: Climate Models Got It Wrong, Eastern Pacific Ocean Is Cooling, La Niña Winters Could Keep On Coming


…and could last for five to ten years, the next few decades, or perhaps even “a century or longer”…


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Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and Brisbane were among the key metropolises to endure cooler-than-average summers –despite the UHI effect– with the latter also suffering its coldest-ever winter in 2022.
Air conditioning was barely needed in Canberra with minimums holding at just 11.2C (52.2F) — well below the norm and the lowest since 1985 (solar minimum of cycle 21).
The rare ‘triple-dip’ La Niña finally looks to be weakening, slowly, “and its final demise will bring a return to the climate change induced heat we have become accustomed to in recent years,” continues the blinkered abc.net.au; however, 1) Australia has been cooling for over a decade now, and 2) La Niña’s –see link above– were predicted to decrease in line with global warming not increase, meaning the climate models got it entirely backwards.
The BoM, as they do for every month/season are forecasting above average temperatures in all areas of Australia for spring 2023: “It would be no surprise if next summer was one of the hottest on record for much of Australia,” concludes a desperate abc.net.au.



Let’s be sure to hold the BoM to this forecast.
It’s already looking questionable as March commences:

March 2:

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

March 8:

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

Frosty Europe​

Extreme lows are striking western Europe this week, with a more widespread polar plunge due next week.
A very cold morning was suffered in the Spanish highlands, for example: A low of -15.8C was registered at Molina de Aragon, which takes out the locale’s lowest March temperature on record.
Portugal is shivering, I can attest — as is the Mediterranean, as highlighted yesterday:

Strong Auroras At Historically Low Latitudes; Barcelona Under Snow, Red Alert Issued In Mallorca; California’s Record Snow Year; Greenland SMB Spikes Again; + Antarctica Cools




The planet is cooling and will continue to cool in line with low solar activity…


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Looking ahead, ‘blues’ and ‘purples’ look set to invade the majority of the continent next week:


GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) March 5 to March 8 [tropicaltidbits.com].

GFS Total Snowfall (inches) March 1 to March 17 [tropicaltidbits.com].

Fresh Snows And Record Lows Pound the U.S.​

Fresh snowstorms unloaded on the California mountains Wednesday, adding to the season’s already record-busting totals
The Sierra Nevada was put under blizzard warnings by the National Weather Service, and whiteout conditions soon ensued.
Feet of powder hit the higher elevations, closing roads and plunging the wind chill to -30F (-34.4C) which “could cause frostbite on exposed skin in as little as 10 minutes,” warned the weather service.
Jennifer Cobb and her husband, vacationing in the San Bernardino Mountains, found themselves trapped for a week by a relentless series of storms: “We hear the phantom sounds of plows, but they never come,” said Cobb, 49. “Being stuck up here in this beautiful place shouldn’t be awful, but it is.”
In the mountain town of Crestline, some people unable to drive trudged on foot to the grocery store.
But Michael Johnstone said his family’s store was running low Tuesday on key inventory: “We’re completely out of bread. Milk is getting really light. We’re almost completely out of produce,” Johnstone said. Authorities escorted two full grocery trucks up to the mountain community, he said, but just in time for the new storm to add more snow.
The latest storms aren’t confined to West, with this proving a coast-to-coast event. Heavy snow is delaying the opening for hundreds of schools across the Northeast. While Michigan is again battling with an ice after a storm that left thousands of homes without power. And to the southeast, around Detroit, some customers still lacked power nearly a week after a prior wintry storm.
Record cold temperatures were also noted, and the NWS issued widespread freeze and frost warnings across the state.
Yosemite National Park, closed since Saturday due to heavy, accumulating snow, postponed its planned-Thursday reopening indefinitely. The Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Laboratory near Donner Pass reported that 41.7 feet (12.7 m) had fallen since October, more than in any snow year since 1970 and second only to the 66.7 feet (20.3 m) in 1952.
Many ski resorts suspended operations on Tuesday, hoping to use the day to dig out so they could reopen Wednesday.
Mammoth Lakes, traditionally one of the snowiest places in California, had nearly 4 feet (1.2 meters) of snow over the past three days alone, pushing drifts higher than houses and working crews around the clock to try to keep roads and sidewalks clear.
Similarly to Yosemite, Mammoth has received 41.5 feet (12.6 meters) of snow since October and is expected to break the all-time snow season record of 55.7 feet (17 m) set in 2010-2011.
Sierra snowpack provides about a third of the California’s water supply. The water content of the snowpack is currently 186% of normal to date, and 162% of the April 1 average–when it historically peaks.
Snow is even clipping California’s lower elevations, including its vineyards.
“We saw significant snowfall in the range of four to five inches in the vineyard—the biggest snowfall here in decades,” said Karl Wittstrom, co-owner of Ancient Peaks Winery in Santa Margarita. “It was quite a sight. The last time it snowed in the vineyard was in 2008 (solar minimum of cycle 23), and that was more of a light dusting that just lasted for a few hours.”


Cali vineyards hit with snow and fallen trees.

And down on York Mountain, a small appellation just west of Paso Robles, this is the heaviest snow in some four decades, according to Jordan Fiorentini of Epoch Estate Wines.


Cali vineyards hit with heavy snow.

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Californian’s Still Snow-Stranded; Mallorca Hit By 13-Feet; UK Set For Powerful, Long-Lasting Arctic Outbreak — All As CO2 Emissions Hit Record High​

March 3, 2023 Cap Allon

Californian’s Still Snow-Stranded​

Snow-stranded Californians are still digging out after a “once-in-a-generation” winter storm, with more heavy snow forecast for the weekend.
The state’s popular Yosemite National Park has been closed indefinitely after record-breaking snowfall hit the area.
With Tahoe resorts, such as Palisades, logging a record-breaking 6.4 feet (2 m) of snow in the past 48-hours.
In San Bernardino County, east of Los Angeles, around-the-clock snow removal is underway, though it could take well-over a week to reach some areas, particularly with further feet of snow in the forecast.
California Governor Gavin Newsom recently declared a state of emergency for 13 counties.
The California National Guard has arrived to help with the disaster relief effort underway in the San Bernardino mountains. And Cal Guard helicopters were seen surveying Crestline Thursday, searching for an area to set up sites to distribute supplies.
Many residents remain trapped in their homes, with frozen pipes, collapsed roofs and food shortages the biggest concerns.
Mariam Magana and her family have been snowed in at their Crestline Airbnb for nearly a week: “Our three-day vacation turned into a horrific nightmare,” she said, explaining that their cars have been buried under 7ft of snow.
Mariam has called the county’s emergency line and also California Highway Patrol — but help is yet to arrive.



Another resident shared photos of his nearly six-mile trek through the snow for groceries.
To feed his family of five, he used a sled to transport the supplies.

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I had to walk almost 6 miles to get groceries at the store yesterday to feed our family of five. Our street still hasn’t had a plow come down it. We are safe but I worry for the disabled and elderly that can’t make that walk for food or medicine.





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Heavy snows will return Saturday.
And they won’t be confined to the California mountains, far from it:


GFS Total Snowfall (inches) March 3 – March 19 [tropicaltidbits.com].

The accompanying cold also looks pervasive, forecast to intensify as March progresses:


GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) March 7 – March 18 [tropicaltidbits.com].

Mallorca Hit By 13-Feet​

As touched on earlier in the week, the Mediterranean island of Mallorca has been hit by feet of rare snowfall.
It turns out that a record-setting 13-feet of snow accumulated on the island’s higher elevations –the heaviest totals since at least 1985 (solar minimum of cycle 21)– after winter storm ‘Juliette’ wreaked absolute havoc across the Balearic island.
An unprecedented 3-feet was registered at lower elevations, and the Spanish holiday island has deployed rescue teams to evacuate stranded residents.
Military emergency units from Spain’s mainland arrived in Palma Wednesday with snow plows and heavy equipment. The army is working with local agencies to clear the dozens of blocked roads and reinstate the power to 3,000+ homes.
Spain’s meteorological agency AEMET has confirmed that 13-feet of snow accumulated in the Serra de Tramuntana mountain range by Tuesday night, describing the totals as “extraordinary”.
Many European nations have been hit by heavy accumulating snow this week: Hundreds of cars were stranded in Croatia earlier in the week after a snowstorm halted traffic and effectively cut-off parts of the country.
Similar conditions struck nearby Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia.
And returning to Western Europe, Portugal and the Spain –for example– have been reeling under polar cold conditions for over a month now. Here in Central Portugal, I awoke to the 21st frost since the start of February (at an elevation of 200m/650ft). This is unheard of and is seriously hampering my seed-starting efforts.

UK Set For Powerful, Long-Lasting Arctic Outbreak​

Fortunately for me, Portugal is set for brief respite next week; however, the likes of Scandinavia, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium and France should all brace for a truly invasive Arctic outbreak starting March 6/7.
Latest GFS runs, though still murky, are offering an ever-clearer picture of what’s in store.
As March rolls on, the cold line will encroach furtehr and further south, re-encasing the likes of Portugal and Spain mid-month:


GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) March 6 – March 16 [tropicaltidbits.com].

The snow totals also look exceptional, particularly for southern England, central Germany and the Balkans.
Get ready for ‘Beast From The East II’ hyperbole from the UK tabloids; this time, however, it may be warranted:


GFS Total Snowfall (inches) March 3 – March 19 [tropicaltidbits.com].

All As CO2 Emissions Hit Record High​

Despite decreasing global temperatures and increasing global snowpack, CO2 emissions rose to a record-high last year.
Data from the International Energy Agency reveal the biggest increase came from Asia’s emerging markets, in large part due to coal-fired power.
India’s coal production –for example– increased by 15.10 % to 784.41 Million Ton (MT) during Apr’22-Feb’23, according to the country’s Ministry of Coal, as the East continues its industrial advance, capitalizing on a weak, hamstrung and virtue-signalling West.
“We still see emissions growing from fossil fuels, hindering efforts to meet the world’s climate targets,” said agenda-driving, prosperity-wrecking IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol.
The West has an impending power problem — and the U.S. will arguably suffer the most, due its comparably high demands.
Recent reports from both regional and national grid organizations have raised serious concerns re. vulnerabilities in America’s electric infrastructure system: Supply of electricity is dropping while demand is rising, with worries growing that there won’t be enough energy to meet consumers’ needs, especially during extreme winter storms — which are increasing.
A report from the North American Energy Reliability Corp. said it is “concerned that some areas are highly vulnerable,” and identifies the Midwest and Southeast as having the ‘weakest’ power grids.
The Midcontinent Independent System Operator, or MISO, which manages the grid across 15 states spanning the north, central and southern parts of the country, as well as a Canadian province, has foresees big problems on the horizon: “MISO’s top priority is the reliability for the 45 million Americans who count on us,” spokesman Brandon Morris said. “The power system is undergoing significant change, and that presents both challenges and opportunities.”
‘Significant change’, in a nutshell, means a decommissioning of cheap and reliable fossil fuels in favor of expensive and unreliable renewables — all in the name of saving the planet from human prosperity (i.e. CO2 emissions).
Reports from both MISO and NERC raise questions about the future reliability of the grid amid this transformation. More than 4 gigawatts of nuclear and coal-fired generation has been retired across the MISO grid since winter of 2021 alone. To me, shuttering nuclear exposes all this for what it really is — a controlled demolition of the society. If reducing carbon dioxide is truly your goal then nuclear is by far and and away your best bet–certainly in the short term.
Equally telling, of that 4 gigawatts loss since late-2021, next-to-nothing has been setup to replace it — yet consumer demand for electricity has continued to increase, driven by expanding expanding territories and an ill-conceived push for electric vehicles and furnaces.
This is a serious risk to America.
While the East grows stronger thanks to an uncapped fossil fuel allowance, the West is crumbling.
This is modern warfare:



Also, China and India rejected mRNA ‘vaccines’ — and while that will seem a tenuous link to some, I believe it’s pertinent.

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Then don’t accept it. Leave it on the shelves and grow your own.

More to the point, learn to live without fresh warm season fruits and veggies in winter when you live north of the 40th parallel! We've eaten seasonally for 40 years,,and our health is great. We store cabbage, carrots and beets in the root cellar for "fresh" veggies, and apples and (purchased) oranges for fruit.

Everything else is canned and frozen during the growing season. We're just about out of frozen peas and strawberries now... and by the time the first ripe strawberries are ready in early June, they will taste heavenly!

I do grow some lettuce and spinach in an Aerogarden over the winter, and it makes a welcome treat, but people need to realize that having fresh strawberries, raspberries, tomatoes and cucumbers year round was an undreamed of luxury even just 100 years ago.

Most people have NO clue how complex the supply chain is that usually keeps those bins full in the supermarket, and hoe little it takes to break it.

Summerthyme

 

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Summerthyme, how well I remember picking and canning season from our big garden when I was a little kid! Mom canned green beans and green peas and carrots and beets. Also the folks bought bushels of apples and pears from the experimental farm across town which after all these years I've realized must have been part of the University of Minnesota. We got lots of plums from the orchard Dad planted, but none of the other things ever did well for him. However, a huge amount of our own raspberries, strawberries and blackberries graced the well pit shelves in pint jars in those days. Plus Mom would have our grocer order her lugs of various fruits like peaches, pears, cranberries, and both red and white grapes and she'd can all those in pints, too. Lots of tomato juice, apple juice and Concord grape juice in both quarts and pints.

Tons pf jam and jelly. for all those PBJs that a big family eats!

Potatoes, onions and some carrots were stored on shelves in the basement garage, too.

Citrus was a special treat that came into the stores mainly just over the Christmas holiday season.

Eventually the folks stopped gardening because the mosquitoes became simply too bad to bear, If only we'd known about catnip back then!

 

[northern watch]

From my email inbox The Old Farmer's Almanac March 5 2023

 

[alpha]

Electroverse

Extreme Weather

Exceptionally Low Temperatures Strike The Antarctic Plateau; SoCal Residents: “Help Us!”; Australia’s Cool Feb; + India, the World’s Third-Biggest Producer, To Start Importing Wheat​

March 6, 2023 Cap Allon

Exceptionally Low Temperatures Strike The Antarctic Plateau​

Exceptionally low temperatures continue to strike the Antarctic Plateau.
Vostok recently plunged to -65.2C (-85.4F) — an incredibly very rare reading for early March.
For reference, -65.5C (-85.9F) is the lowest temperature ever recorded in the Southern Hemisphere in February (again at Vostok).



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Annual Antarctic minimum update / 16 On March 3 Vostok recorded -65.3 °C and broke the previous low (-63.1 °C) set on March 2 in the same location The station's monthly record is -75.3 °C reached on March 23, 1982 and March 21, 2020 (see the State of Antarctic Environment )





12:24 AM · Mar 4, 2023



Read the full conversation on Twitter
https://twitter.com/intent/like?ref...to-import-wheat/&tweet_id=1631888219682873344

SoCal Residents: “Help Us!”
Snow-stranded residents in the Southern California are pleading for help.
The situation is becoming increasingly desperate for many with supplies exhausted.
ABC7 Los Angeles recently flew over the Lake Gregory area of Crestline and captured a message written out in the snow:



Despite facing treacherous road conditions and bone-chilling temperatures, aerial footage also revealed dozens of residents lined up at a food distribution center outside a Crestline grocery store which earlier last week had suffered a collapsed roof.
“There’s all these promises of snow plows are coming, our help is on the way … and for five days we’ve seen none of that,” frustrated Crestline resident Agina Sedler said.
Brian Guthrie and his wife have been paving a tunnel from their home to their pantry shed in Arrowbear for days: “Even if we could get out of our driveway, it’s impossible for us to drive 10 feet down the road.”



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@GavinNewsom this is my home in Lake Arrowhead, CA So much for declaring a national emergency. Whoever was contracted made sure there is no entrance or exit. Oh wait, there’s the garage/driveway also, nope, definitely a losing exit/entrance strategy. Help US! SB Mtns





6:26 PM · Mar 3, 2023


In late-February, a wavy ‘meridional’ jet stream flow funneled Arctic air anomalously-far south.
This setup delivered rare blizzards to the likes of San Bernardino where a state of emergency has now been declared.
Lake Arrowhead, nearly 10 miles from Crestline, suffered a seven-day snowfall total of 109 inches (the community’s yearly average is 22 inches), with neighboring Running Springs receiving a whopping 150 inches.
Along with San Bernardino County, Gov. Gavin Newsom has declared states of emergencies in 12 other CA counties.



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This is gonna be a year people talk about for a long time



10:18 AM · Mar 4, 2023
Heavy, disruptive and deadly snow is falling elsewhere across the United States.
Late last week, the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue unit was dispatched to a report of an avalanche at Black Crater, Oregon.Two experienced skiers were caught up in the avalanche, with one succumbing to his injuries.
While in Canada, three German tourists from Bavaria have died in British Columbia — the latest victims in one of the province’s most dangerous avalanche seasons in recent memory.

As predicted, these recent totals are driving Northern Hemisphere snow mass well-above the 1982-2012 average:


NH Total snow mass could peak later this season, delaying the onset of spring.

And looking ahead, America’s snow is refusing to abate, with heavy falls forecast throughout March–particularly in the Midwest:


GFS Total Snowfall (inches) March 6 – March 22 [tropicaltidbits.com].

Canada also won’t be spared:


GFS Total Snowfall (inches) March 6 – March 22 [tropicaltidbits.com].

Australia’s Cool Feb​

Swathes of eastern and central Australia have just posted their coolest summers in decades–following what were also colder-than-average springs and winters.
The temperature data for February 2023 has now been confirmed: A temperature anomaly of -0.20C below the multidecadal average was officially registered, making summer as a whole -0.50C below the norm, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.
Looking ahead, the warm-mongering BoM foresee a hotter than average spring of 2023 in all areas of Australia–as as they do for every month/season–with the government agency providing this blood-red graphic to support their claim:




“It would be no surprise if next summer was one of the hottest on record for much of Australia,” concludes the BoM’s partner in crime abc.net.au. However, the forecast has started off poorly with additional widespread COLD expected to grip much of the country into the second week of March:


GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) March 7 March 9 [tropicaltidbits.com].

For more on Australia’s clear and obvious cooling trend, as well as more on Antarctica’s exceptional run of cold, see below:




Past Four Months On Antarctica Were Second Coldest Nov-Feb On Record; Australia’s Colder-Than-Average Summer; Frosty Europe; + Fresh Snows And Record Lows Pound The U.S.


#GlobalCooling
Israel Chills
Just briefly, February 2023 in Israel was cool and wet.
The nation finished with an average temperature of 12.04C (53.7F), which is 0.79C below the multidecadal average.

India, the World’s Third-Biggest Producer, To Start Importing Wheat​

India, the third-biggest producer of wheat in the world, is expected to start importing the grain due to persistently poor, weather-related harvests and low stocks.
Lower production and the need to boost stocks will likely prompt the Indian government to buy at least 34 million mt of wheat from the open market, according to trade sources who pegged consumption at around 104 million mt.
To help with spiraling domestic prices, back in January the government released 3 million mt of emergency stocks. This successfully eased prices over the past six weeks, but stocks remained historically low and, unlike in January when estimates for the forthcoming crop were at optimistically-high levels, the weather has since deteriorated, holding drier than expected.
Global food security is already creaking.
The third biggest wheat producer in the world taking grain off the market will hardly help.
Farmers across the planet are warning of looming shortages — ‘red alerts’ have been issued.
Prepare.

My own preparations took a setback yesterday evening.
Two foxes broke into one of our chicken coops and decapitated 13 of our birds. Our guard dog, inside with us at the time –due to it still being dusk, with foxes having only previously come at night– didn’t hear the commotion due to the heavy rains.
It was our new 7-week-old puppy that alerted us to the break-in, and our older dog bounded out and managed to save 10 birds that would have otherwise perished. The foxes were cunning, waiting for the heaviest downpour before scaling the 6ft-high permitted fence – -something I didn’t figure was possible.
If anyone has any tips on how fox-proof a chicken coop, or knows of a good trap (I’m past negotiating with these bastards now) please post a comment below.

 

[Martinhouse]

That is such a shame about Cap's chickens, but good to know that about foxes being able to climb that high.

Every chicken enclosure I've ever had has been covered across the top. The only things that ever broke in and killed my birds were raccoons which tore a hole in the wall of the chicken house itself, and a very large dog of the neighbor's which forced it's way into the run, breaking the door and then killing every single one of my chickens just for the fun of it. When this same dog was doing the same thing to a neighbor across the road from me, he was able to shoot the dog, which made this whole "neighborhood" a much nicer place.

 

[jed turtle]

That is such a shame about Cap's chickens, but good to know that about foxes being able to climb that high.

Every chicken enclosure I've ever had has been covered across the top. The only things that ever broke in and killed my birds were raccoons which tore a hole in the wall of the chicken house itself, and a very large dog of the neighbor's which forced it's way into the run, breaking the door and then killing every single one of my chickens just for the fun of it. When this same dog was doing the same thing to a neighbor across the road from me, he was able to shoot the dog, which made this whole "neighborhood" a much nicer place.

I bet there’s an important lesson there somewhere...

 

[Martinhouse]

Jed, it was the same lesson I sent several years prior. Some guy up the road had a big ol' pit mix, weird markings, all white with an all brown head, it ran the neighborhood with a little black half-grown puppy and broke down a corner of my fence and was taking after my free ranging birds when I went out with my 22 rifle. I shot it while it was squeezing out through that corner break and then a neighbor gal helped me heft it onto my wagon and then onto the tailgate of my truck, which then drove it down to the nearby river bank.

Lesson was mainly.....dead chickens make dead dogs. I feel bad that the dogs aren't handled properly, but I felt worse about the guy who shot that dog that was killing his birds, They were a large poor family and really needed those chickens, which were the culls another neighbor who raised chickens for Tyson had given him to raise for meat.

 

[northern watch]

From my email inbox The Old Farmer's Almanac March 6 2023

 

[jed turtle]

Hey, hope our regular posters are ok!

did the grand solar minimum get canceled? Just cause it is spring (almost) DON’t be fooled!

 

[alpha]

Sorry that I've not been posting a lot here lately, the geopolitical and financial distractions have me more focused on my preps than beating the "climate change" dead horse.

I'm afraid that if people still believe all the propaganda regarding cow farts and overpopulation rather than the natural galactic and solar cycles being the source of the symptoms, there's no hope of changing their minds. Witnessing (and experiencing) the adverse results of my attempts to educate several previous friends regarding the Covid "vaccine" and government corruption, I've decided that I'm through being their favorite "Conspiracy Theorist".

I'm going into overdrive now to enhance and maintain everything I've been working on for the past 40 years to provide for, protect and sustain my extended family during the coming times. My life is really very simple now, I once vowed to protect and provide for my wife and children "till death do we part", so others opinions no longer matter.

The farm is as close to being completely self sufficient as it has ever been and my children and grandchildren now have all the resources and knowledge to survive in a 19th century fashion if need be. My energy this Spring and Summer will be devoted to making our pastures more productive for the livestock and building upon our local community relationships since I believe we're going to become very dependent upon one another very soon.

 

[TxGal]

Electroverse has moved to a new website, interesting article below:

Death Toll Rises In San Bernardino: People Found Frozen In Their Homes; UK Hardships; + Swings - Electroverse

'Something is coming'

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DEATH TOLL RISES IN SAN BERNARDINO: PEOPLE FOUND FROZEN IN THEIR HOMES; UK HARDSHIPS; + SWINGS​

MARCH 10, 2023 CAP ALLON

DEATH TOLL RISES IN SAN BERNARDINO: PEOPLE FOUND FROZEN IN THEIR HOMES​

The power is out, thermometers read below zero, and the snow is up to the rafters — and nobody seems to care.

The neighbors of 93-year-old Elinor “Dolly” Avenatti found her bundled up in a chair in front of her fireplace, which had gone cold — dead. Air Force veteran and religious man, Alden Park Thayer, 85, died at his Lake Arrowhead home as the snow drifts piled up to 14 feet outside his windows. His daughter, Lisa Thayer, was by side as he passed singing “How Great Thou Art.” The roads remained impassable, and emergency officials said it would be at least week until they could retrieve Alden’s body.

These are just two tragedies that have befallen the San Bernardino mountains alone during a two-week onslaught of record-setting snow–which total at least eleven, according to authorities — perhaps many more.

It remains unclear exactly how many more lives have been lost due to blizzard-related factors, such as blocked roads, downed power lines or critical medical care that could not be summoned. At a City Council meeting this week in Big Bear Lake, city officials said that more than seven feet of snow had fallen there in 15 days; hospital officials said that “tragedies” had happened because of the weather, citing access to dialysis treatments as a particular concern.

(Times video wouldn't embed for me, sorry, please see it at the link)

“I’m sure they haven’t found everyone yet,” said Rhea-Frances Tetley, who spoke of her neighbor across the street who died last week in her home and was not found for days. “I only was just able to get out of my house yesterday afternoon, and it took two strong men to dig out the driveway,” she said.

Gary DeFrench, a contractor in Crestline, tells of a similar fate for his neighbor, a woman in her 80s, who froze to feath last week. “Some of those people are on roads that are very narrow and way out in the boonies,” he said, adding, “I’m from Cleveland, Ohio, so I’ve seen snow storms. But nothing like this. This is unbelievable.”

Authorities are keen to list the deaths as “natural.” The sheriff’s department, which also serves as the county coroner’s office, said there was little evidence to suggest that the victims died because they might have been trapped in their homes.

But other snowbound locals have called this ridiculous. “That’s absolutely not true,” said Carola Hauer, a Running Springs resident and psychologist, adding that she hoped officials and communities would learn and be better prepared in the future.

“We probably should have raised the emergency flag a little sooner,” she said.

The mounting cold-related tragedies–of which I’ve only documented a small percentage of–come as yet another winter storm barrels into California, threatening to deliver feet of additional snow to the higher elevations, with heavy falls forecast across the Midwest and Northeast, too:


GFS Total Snowfall (inches) March 10 – March 25 [tropicaltidbits.com].

But of course, with these being ‘cold-related’ tragedies they aren’t quite garnering the same mainstream media attention.

There is no balance, only agenda-driving obfuscations…

UK HARDSHIPS​

Similar misery is sweeping the UK, too.

Here, spiraling energy prices, plunging living standards and an unusual March freeze are making existence particularly hard.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1633845848605085700

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According to one report, an additional 100,000 people are expected to die next winter–that’s over and above average winter deaths–due to economic hardships; i.e., having to choose between heating and eating — and that’s assuming the lights stay on, which, as the energy CEOs have warned us, is far from guaranteed, particularly if winter 2023-24 is a cold one.

Below is a comment I read online which I feel perfectly sums up the level of frustration and confusion:

This winter has been by far the most brutal of my life. My heating bill has been incredible! I literally cannot afford to keep my home warm AT ALL. I’m living in the smallest room of my house with an electric heater set on low and even that is costing me around £10 PER DAY. WTF is going on!? How is this allowed!? How is this legal?

My bedrooms, my bathroom all have black mold growing on the walls and ceilings, because it’s so cold any water vapor is condensing on the walls. I’ve live here for years and never had black mold.

Honestly, I do not give a toss about Ukraine. You may hate me for saying that. But I don’t know these people, it’s horrible that the war is happening over there but it isn’t OUR problem. It has nothing to do with us. We should NOT be giving money and weapons to them, painting a target upon our country for no reason and making our own people suffer this brutal winter. We are literally allowing our unelected government to murder and impoverish our own citizens to further the West’s anti-Russian agenda that’s been running for several decades now. For what? Why must we die from cold, illness and starvation for Ukraine? Has anyone here voted to give Ukraine tanks and missiles? Have you voted to increase your power bills 10 times over? Did you vote to get health problems due to black mold? Did you vote Rishi Sunak into office? No? Me either.

The West is crumbling — and not organically.

Access to cheap and reliable energy is under attack; consumption of meat and eggs etc. is being demonized; and bodily autonomy without state intervention is painted as some crazy conspiracy theory.

And a word of warning to all those dutifully abiding by these undemocratic charters, know that your weakness is forwarding an evil anti-human agenda and also lining the pockets of the 0.01%; know too that your cowardice won’t go unpunished.

SWINGS​

Straying off topic a little now, but watch for the pendulum swing from ‘left’ back to ‘right’.

The culture is visibly shifting, the left has gone way too far–even for Hollywood! But be it far-left or far-right, far-anything is bad, and given how doggedly the right has been going after the left’s absurdities of late, and rightly so, an overcompensating shift is all-but assured. Take victory graciously when it comes, and, crucially, be sure to keep that pendulum swing in check — as with the left’s, the right’s hands are far from clean when it comes to evil and human suffering.

These are merely my musing, and maybe they’re off.

Either way, ‘something is coming’.

Enjoy your weekend! I’m off out to finish construction of our new pig enclosure. We have three Kunekune piglets arriving early next month, which we intend to breed. I can already smell the bacon!

 

[northern watch]

From my email inbox, The Old Farmer's Almanac March 13 2023

 

[TxGal]

Rare 'Snow Rollers' Spotted In Northern Ireland; Cold February Across Western Europe; Cool Caribbean; + California: Extreme Drought To No Drought In Four Months Thanks To Historic Snow - Electroverse

...but the ambulance-chasing alarmists are all aboard the next "climate catastrophe": flooding!

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RARE ‘SNOW ROLLERS’ SPOTTED IN NORTHERN IRELAND; COLD FEBRUARY ACROSS WESTERN EUROPE; COOL CARIBBEAN; + CALIFORNIA: EXTREME DROUGHT TO NO DROUGHT IN FOUR MONTHS THANKS TO HISTORIC SNOW​

MARCH 13, 2023 CAP ALLON

RARE ‘SNOW ROLLERS’ SPOTTED IN NORTHERN IRELAND​

Rare snow rollers have been spotted in fields across County Down, Northern Ireland.

These naturally occurring ‘rollers’ form when strong winds blow across a flat, snow-covered field or hillside. According to Royal Meteorological Society (RMETS) three conditions need to be met: the ground must be icy or covered with a snow crust, winds must be strong and gusty, and Snowfall must be wet and at least a couple of inches deep.
The below photo was taken in Annahilt last week after the UK was hit with heavy snow.


Snow rollers usually resemble hay bales, doughnuts or a swiss roll [Adam Mantell].

The heavy, anomalous snow caused major disruption across the UK, even southern parts — many schools and businesses were closed and the power went out in tens of thousands of homes.

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Looking ahead, more of the same is on the cards starting Tuesday with the Met Office issuing fresh warnings for Arctic air and additional accumulating snow for the majority the UK, conditions which threaten to delay the onset of spring:

COLD FEBRUARY ACROSS WESTERN EUROPE

Despite mainstream protestations that Europe has endured a ‘catastrophically warm winter’, the data say otherwise–particularly where Western (and also Eastern) Europe is concerned.

February 2023 in Portugal had an average temperature of 9.94C (49.9F), which is 0.4C below the older 1971-2000 norm used there. It was also an incredibly dry month with just 11% of the usual rains falling.

February in Spain was similarly cool, and with an average of 6.7C (44.1F) held -0.4C below the 1991-2020 norm.


Cool Spain Feb 2023 [AEMET].

Switching to the eastern Mediterranean, last month in Cyprus was -0.5C below the multidecadal norm. The country also set a monthly cold record on the 8th of the month after -12.8C (9F) was registered atop the Trodos mountains.

COOL CARIBBEAN​

Exceptional (relative) cold has been ripping through the Caribbean islands in recent weeks and months.

Most recently, on March 10, a very cool night was suffered on the island of Martinique.

With a low of 12.2C (54F) posted at La Morne Rouge, Martinique suffered its lowest March temperature in recorded history. It was also the second-coldest temperature ever recorded on the island, pipped (by just 0.1C) by the low posted in December 2022.

The data is also in for Feb 2023: Martinique suffered a cooler-than-average month.

Record Cold Caribbean; Colder-Than-Average Novembers For Brazil And Paraguay; State Of Victoria Just Set Its Coldest Summer Temp Ever; UK Freeze Breaks Records; + Ferocious Arctic Blast On Course To Slam U.S. - Electroverse

This isn't hyperbole, North Americans; if the forecast holds true, this will prove a disruptive, life-threatening cold event.

electroverse.co

Elsewhere across the Caribbean, Sint Eustatius also logged its lowest March temperature on record with a reading of 18.2C (64.8F) noted at the island’s airport. While a remarkable 13.1C (55.6F) hit La Romana airport in the Dominican Republic.

Many temperature datasets for February 2023 are in:

Puerto Rico had an average temperature of 77.3F last month, which is -0.7F below the multidecadal norm.

February 2023 across Reunion Island was also colder-than-average.

Headed south, French Guiana –located on the northeast coast of South America– was another very rainy and cool month. With an average temperature of just 25.6C (78.1F) the country finished -0.8C below average.

And switching to the Pacific, New Caledonia had held at 26.6C (79.9F) last month, which is -0.3C below the norm.

CALIFORNIA: EXTREME DROUGHT TO NO DROUGHT IN FOUR MONTHS THANKS TO HISTORIC SNOW​

California’s “worst drought in 1,200 years” is over thanks to historic dumpings of SNOW. However, like the ambulance-chasing glove-puppets that they are, the alarmists are now lamenting the next “climate catastrophe”: flooding.

“Once-in-a-generation snowstorms” have stranded Dr. Tony Phillips in the mountains of the Eastern Sierra. Proprietor of the always excellent spaceweather.com, Dr. Phillips currently has “only 10 sled dogs and a satellite dish to update the website”.

“Everything is okay!” he writes, and work on the web site proceeds “mostly as usual, albeit a little more slowly”.

A record-smashing snowpack has seen California’s multi-year “mega drought” improve significantly. In fact, great swathes of the state, namely central regions, have gone from ‘extreme drought’ to ‘no drought’ in the space of just four months.



This is the issue with nailing your colors to any one particular ‘climate crisis’ mast. Mother Nature is always seeking balance, and climatic equilibrium will always be reached, eventually, one way or another; and so in turn, the placard-brandishing, anti-human puppets (i.e. members of the AGW Party) will always be left with egg on their priggish little faces.

We’ve seen this all before, and on near endless occasions — polar bears, Arctic sea ice, the Great Barrier Reef, and now with California’s drought. Trust in the Earth to find balance, alarmists — no poverty-inducing energy reduction/carbon tax required.

Tremendous snowfall is ripping through the Northern Hemisphere this season, too — not just CA.

The below chart comes courtesy of Environment Canada. It reveals the current amount of water stored by the seasonal snowpack (cubic km) over the Northern Hemisphere land areas (excluding Greenland) versus the 1998-2011 average. Snow depth from the CMC analysis is converted to snow water equivalent using a density climatology obtained from snow survey data.

The chart speaks for itself:



And looking ahead, another powerful atmospheric river is about to add “insult to injury” to the Golden State, so says FOX Weather’s Michael Estime, due to dump additional mountain snow (3+ feet) and torrential rains to the state starting Tuesday:


GFS Total Snowfall (inches) March 13 – March 29 [tropicaltidbits.com].

Many mountain residents remain trapped by this season’s unrelenting snow, with others still unable to even reach their homes given the unplowed roads.


Snowbanks piled up multiple storms in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

The NWS is also warning of “roofalanches”, with reports already coming in of fatalities linked to snow sliding off roofs.

The weight of the wet snow is also collapsing roofs.

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This seemingly ‘endless winter’ isn’t just confined to California, the cold and snow is dragging on across much of North America.

In Missoula, Montana, for example, the stretch of consecutive days with 1 inch or more of snow on the ground is breaking records.

“We’ve had 111 days where we recorded a snow depth of 1 inch or greater,” according to Bob Nester, senior meteorologist at the NWS Missoula Forecast Office. “That ranks third — third longest since 1893.”

The official measurement is taken from the NWS office at Missoula International Airport, but Nester noted that other areas of Missoula –the South Hills, for example– are seeing more snow and lingering cover.

The all-time record for consecutive days with 1 inch or more snow at the NWS Missoula office is 122 days, set during the winter of 1996–97 (solar minimum of cycle 22). The second longest stretch recorded was 115 days, in 1978–79 (solar min of cycle 20).

This winter has been “long and cold,” so says Tyler Clark, a lifelong Missoulian: “It feels like it’s been five months long,” he said. “It started in the first week of November and it hasn’t really let up that much. Just when we think we’re getting some sun, it hammers us again. It’s pretty hard, it melts everything and freezes right away, and it makes a mess.”

Nester adds: “The winter seemed longer because it started earlier. This year’s average temperature was 24.8F for Nov 1 through March 9” — among the coldest winters on record.

And along with an early start, this winter is forecast to run late in these parts, too, into astronomical spring:


GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) March 13 – March 21 [tropicaltidbits.com].


GFS Total Snowfall (inches) March 13 – March 29 [tropicaltidbits.com].

Similarly to the south, a cold front is moving through Texas and stretching along the Gulf Coast states, behind which will be plunging temperatures, set to arrive in Florida by Tuesday.

The likes of Orlando are forecast readings into the 40s and 50s Tuesday night into Wednesday morning, but Wednesday night is set to be the coldest of the week. Be sure to have a jacket handy before heading out the door Thursday morning, warns a local weather report.


GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) March 14 – March 15 [tropicaltidbits.com].

And to finish, here’s the big picture:


GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) March 13 – March 29 [tropicaltidbits.com].


GFS Total Snowfall (inches) March 13 – March 29 [tropicaltidbits.com].

 

[Martinhouse]

TxGal, thanks so much for posting the Electroverse material!

 

[Lone Eagle Woman]

Thanks for posting the Electroverse material everyone. Now went to Electroverse and it seems they have changed their account from electroverse.com to electroverse.info and cannot get into their web page unfortunately. Maybe someone will be able to and post the new material.

 

[TxGal]

TxGal, thanks so much for posting the Electroverse material!

You're welcome :-) I'm still around, just dealing with a lot of homestead/prepping/family health stuff like so many others.

 

[TxGal]

Thanks for posting the Electroverse material everyone. Now went to Electroverse and it seems they have changed their account from electroverse.com to electroverse.info and cannot get into their web page unfortunately. Maybe someone will be able to and post the new material.

You're welcome! They did indeed change their website as I mentioned above, and the link is below. If it won't work for you perhaps you need to clear your cache?:

Electroverse

Documenting Earth Changes During The Next Grand Solar Minimum

electroverse.info

Electroverse articles are among the more difficult ones to post; lots of info from a variety of sources, lots of graphics, and generally they are quite lengthy. All good info, though!

 

[Martinhouse]

I can't imagine how difficult they must be, but I can sort of tell that they are, which makes me doubly appreciative of the effort anyone else puts into them.

Guess I should have been saying "thanks" more often.....I do check this thread every day, and certainly always more than just once!

 

[TxGal]

"Extremely Rare" (Farside) CME; Historically Cold Winter For Siberia; + Latest Storms Push U.S. Snowpack To All-Time High - Electroverse

Earth just dodged a bullet...

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“EXTREMELY RARE” (FARSIDE) CME; HISTORICALLY COLD WINTER FOR SIBERIA; + LATEST STORMS PUSH U.S. SNOWPACK TO ALL-TIME HIGH​

MARCH 14, 2023 CAP ALLON

“EXTREMELY RARE” (FARSIDE) CME​

Something big just happened on the farside of the sun, writes snow-stranded Dr Tony Phillips of spaceweather.com.

On March 13, SOHO coronagraphs recorded a halo coronal mass ejection (CME) leaving the Sun at over 3000 km/s:



Such extreme speeds makes this CME “extremely rare” — a fast-mover that occurs only once every decade-or-so.

NASA modelling shows it heading almost directly away from Earth.

This is a good thing. We dodged a bullet.

(There's a tweet from Space Weather here that will not copy over for me; please go to the website above to see it)

Energetic particles accelerated by shock waves in the CME created luminous speckles when they hit SOHO’s digital camera:



And while not Earth-directed, NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite still detected the particles reaching us–all from the CME’s backside. Imagine what a frontside blast would have been like, continues Dr Phillips.



Earth’s ever-waning magnetic field funneled the particles toward the poles where a type of radio blackout is underway–a polar cap absorption (PCA) event. Note the red areas in the below map. Airplanes flying over these regions will have likely found issues with their shortwave radios not working due to the ionizing effect of in-falling protons.



This PCA could persist for a day or more. You can monitor its progress via NOAA, linked here.

HISTORICALLY COLD WINTER FOR SIBERIA​

The winter of 2022-23 has been historically cold across Central and Eastern Russia.

The Yakutia and the Far East, for example, suffered seasonal anomalies of -4C below the average.

Record-breaking freezes have swept the majority of Siberia since November last year. And even a milder Western portion of the country (i.e. European Russia) couldn’t stop the vast 17.1 million km² nation from suffering an overall anomaly of -0.5C below the multidecadal norm.

And for all the MSM’s alarmist headlines re. Europe’s mild winter, 1) western Europe has held relatively cool this season (I’ve been living it), and 2) it was only central Europe and a portion of the east that registers anomalously high temperautres — and area that covers a little over 1 million km2. Doing the math: Russia is 17x larger and suffered a winter anomaly of -0.5C = cooling.

Frigid winters were also suffered to the south of Russia, across the likes of Mongolia and Kazakhstan; and similarly in Western Asia, country’s such as Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan all endured miserable, deadly, energy-sapping cold seasons.

And most recently, Turkey, located a nudge to the west, just posted a very chilly February. Last month finished with an average temperature of 3.35C which is 0.74C below average.

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 - Electroverse

Asians freezing-to-death isn't deemed newsworthy by western media outlets. It would harm 'The Narrative' -- as facts often do.

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Fierce Freeze Persists In Siberia; All-Time Cold Records Continue To Fall Across Japan; Snow In Mallorca; + South Pole's Clear Cooling Trend - Electroverse

"Singularity or new climatic phase?"

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LATEST STORMS PUSH U.S. SNOWPACK TO ALL-TIME HIGH​

The snowpack across the Western U.S. is at historic levels thanks to the most-recent deluge of snow.

Starting in the Sierra Nevada mountains, the snow exceeded all-time records this week.

According to data from the CDWR, the Southern Sierras–from San Joaquin and Mono counties to Kern county–have a snowpack 257% greater than the average for the time of year, and 247% larger than the average for the snowpack peak on April 1.

Central Sierra and Northern Sierra also have hugely inflated snowpacks, at 218% and 168% of the average, respectively.



In an aerial view, a vehicle and people navigate a snowy roadway lined with snowbanks piled up from new and past storms in the Sierra Nevada mountains, in the wake of an atmospheric river event, on March 12, 2023 in Mammoth Lakes, California. The snowpack has reached record-breaking levels.PHOTO BY MARIO TAMA/GETTY IMAGES

“As of this weekend, the Southern Sierra now appears to have largest snowpack in recorded history. Not just for the calendar date, but for *any* date!” tweeted Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA and the Nature Conservancy.

CDWR charts reveal that this year has overtaken the 1982-1983 season — the previous record-holder.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1635003782366113792

View: https://twitter.com/Weather_West/status/1635003782366113792

“There is a tremendous amount of snow this year, so that’s very encouraging,” said Donald Bader, the Lake Shasta area manager for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, who is optimistic re. California’s water storage.

However, this is a world of agendas and dogged narratives that we exist in, and record-breaking snowfall is no match for such forces: “All that snow is going to melt eventually … and California has never experienced such a large snowpack in the context of a several-degree F warmer climate that we now have regionally,” tweeted Swain, side-stepping how such a large snowpack could ever occur in the first place amidst a supposedly ‘several-degree F warmer climate’.

The fear-milking establishment is also warning that California’s snowpack won’t help the drought situation very much, claiming that the thaw, rather than see the melting snow soak into the soil and replenish the groundwater, will instead flows over the arid ground, causing flash flooding, before draining into the ocean.

Newsweek claims the drought “will maintain its grip on the state”, despite the all-time record-breaking snow. But as we discussed yesterday, vast regions of California have already gone from extreme drought to no drought (in just four months):



The likes of Sugar Bowl Resort has been experiencing insane totals of late:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1630954977568124928

View: https://twitter.com/sugarbowlresort/status/1630954977568124928

Mammoth, too, has been slammed by what seems like a never-ending series of monster storms.

As a result, its seasonal totals have touched 600 inches at the Main Lodge, with additional dumpings on the horizon.

The Main Lodge’s all-time record stands at 668 inches, and breaking this is more than feasibly, perhaps even by the end of March: OpenSnow is tracking multiple storms over the next 10 days alone that could deliver upwards of 50 inches.



Dodge Ridge Mountain Resort, located near Pinecrest, busted its all-time season snowfall record on Monday.

A whopping 654″ of snow has hit so far this season, prompting the resort to release this statement:

“Records are meant to be broken! As of today March 13th we have officially broken our recorded all-time season snowfall record, previously set in the 10/11 season at 643”! Now sitting at 654” on the season this has truly been a winter we’ll all remember for a long time to come! Looks like we’re going to need to rename the T-Bar!”



Of course, this seasons unprecedented totals aren’t just confined to California.

As of March 13, a record 42.4% of the U.S. is covered by snow.

Utah’s statewide mountain snowpack –for example– was at 22.9 inches Monday, according to federal Natural Resources Conservation Service data. That figure is only 0.2 inches shy of the state’s all-time record for mid-March, set in 1997 (solar minimum or cycle 22):



This graph shows mountain snowpack collection as of Monday afternoon (in black) compared to the averages since 1980. The level of 22.9 inches is 0.2 inches below the all-time record for March 13, which was set in 1997. (Photo: Natural Resources Conservation Service)

This season’s snowpack is all-but assure of surpassing the all-time record, particularly given the forecast: Another atmospheric river event arrives in Utah Tuesday, one that prompted the NWS to issue winter storm warnings for mountain ranges in northern and southern Utah with 3 feet of snow accumulating in parts of the Wasatch Mountains by Thursday morning.

 

[TxGal]

Still haven't found anything anywhere from Ice Age Farmer, sadly. Below is a podcast from Oppenheimer, should anyone be interested. I can't deal with yelling early in the morning, so 'buyer beware.'

Nor’easter Dumps Heavy Snow, Cuts Power To 250,000 - Major Flooding And Snow In The Cali - Wormholes

View: https://youtu.be/4Q_74_ek2Rw
Run time is 13:19

No synopsis provided except as suggested by the title, and the links below:

Nor’easter dumps heavy snow, cuts power to hundreds of thousands https://tinyurl.com/5n862nms
1,000's of flights canceled as winter storm moves into Northeast https://tinyurl.com/y6rcmw7z
Piscataqua River Bridge backed up, multiple tractor-trailers get stuck https://tinyurl.com/bdbmsjnx
Strong Nor'easter storm knocks out power to nearly a quarter of a million customers https://tinyurl.com/msbf42x2
Power Outage US https://poweroutage.us/
New Hampshire snow totals by town https://tinyurl.com/2baz3yp8
Highway 101 washes out in SoHum https://tinyurl.com/2p8wu4bb
Evacuation orders issued for Santa Cruz Mountains due to flash floods https://tinyurl.com/4rfx3ys9
Video shows widespread flooding in Salinas Valley, CA https://tinyurl.com/5ennu3je
High Risk for Excessive Rainfall in California; Nor'easter Brings Heavy Snow to New England https://www.weather.gov/
GFS Model Total Snow US https://tinyurl.com/ywt46bsw

 

[Southside]

Electroverse

Extreme Weather

Record Cold In Australia; Summer Snow Hits New Zealand; Flakes In Hollywood; + Greenland Ice Sheet Posts Record-Breaking 11 Gigaton Gain​

February 27, 2023 Cap Allon

Record Cold In Australia​

Australia has been enduring anomalous, record-breaking COLD over the past 12-or-so months, with a visible cooling trend now entering its 10th year (at a rate of -0.132C per decade since 2013–and increasing):


Following the nation’s colder-than-average winter and spring of 2022, and summer of 2022-23–which delivered Australia’s lowest-ever summer temperature–the chill is now threatening to extend into autumn 2023–which starts Wednesday.
Hundreds upon hundreds of long-standing low temperature benchmarks have fallen in recent months; the most recent being the 13.7C (56.7F) observed on Lord Howe Island on Sunday morning — the island’s lowest ever February reading.
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 they are now scrambling for answers:



New Study: Climate Models Got It Wrong, Eastern Pacific Ocean Is Cooling, La Niña Winters Could Keep On Coming


…and could last for five to ten years, the next few decades, or perhaps even “a century or longer”…

Summer Snow Hits New Zealand
Mt Hutt in Canterbury saw its first snow of the year on Sunday — during the summer.
Ski area manager James Mckenzie it’s rare to get this much.
“To get this amount of snow (30cm/a foot) in February … is amazing.”


Summer snow on Mt Hutt.

‘Rime’ covers the ski lifts, delaying the opening.

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Flakes In Hollywood​

A rare and exceptional snowstorm struck Los Angeles and Southern California over the weekend, with LA put under its first blizzard warning since 1989.
Snow was even seen around the iconic Hollywood sign:


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Heavy snow has accumulated across California in recent days, even in low-lying areas such as San Bernardino:
Palm Trees and snow in San Bernardino, California. Looks like Global Warming decided to take a year off.
https://twitter.com/CollinRugg?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1629588595270098944|twgr^f3db8f7fd11b1bcaf1a371de4a741939b3d6a0da|twcon^s1_&ref_url=https://electroverse.co/record-cold-australia-summer-snow-new-zealand-flakes-in-hollywood-greenland-smb-gains/
link to twitter

4:06 PM · Feb 25, 2023


32 outside, 2 ft of snow, guess where I’m at? NY? Minnesota? Colorado? Nope, San Bernardino, California. You read that right I’m in “warm SuNny Southern California!”




4:27 PM · Feb 25, 2023

Read the full conversation on Twitter

“Quite a remarkable storm the last few days with historic amounts of snow down to elevations that rarely see it,” the National Weather Service said, and the disruption has been substantial.
Interstate 5, the major north-south route through California, was closed early Sunday due to ice. While over 200,000 Cali homes lost power during the storm’s peak, with more than 51,000 still out as of Monday morning, according to poweroutage.us. Elsewhere, 140,000 are out in Maine; 60,000 in Oklahoma; and 30,000 in Texas.
The cold has been equally fierce: San Francisco –for example– busted a 132-year low temperature record (39F/4C) on Friday.
The winter storm exited Southern California Sunday morning, but heavy mountain snow is expected to return Monday through Wednesday. Severe chills are also spreading east, making this a true coast-to-storm. At least 3 inches of snow is expected in New York City Monday evening (Feb 27), with far-heavier totals forecast for northern suburbs.
Winter isn’t over yet, America — far from it:


GFS Total Snowfall (inches) Feb 27 – March 15 [tropicaltidbits.com].

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Greenland Ice Sheet Posts Record-Breaking 11 Gigaton Gain​

The Greenland ice sheet has fared exceptionally well since 2017, and, despite hapless mainstream proclamations to the contrary, has been holding strong this season, too.
Greenland posted its strongest ever-start to a snow/ice season in 2022, and since then its surface mass balance (SMB) –a calculation used to determine the ‘health’ of a glacier– has been tracking the 1981-2010 mean used by the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI).
Things took a turn back ‘up’ on Friday (Feb 24) when the ice sheet posted whopping 11 gigatons gain in a single day — a new record in DMI books dating back to 1981:


[DMI]

Below is a look at the accumulated surface mass balance for the 2022-23 season.
Note the record-setting start, followed by the return to the 1981-2010 mean.

For more of a deep-dive into all this, and for a look at the history of establishment obfuscations, click the link below:

How The Greenland Ice Sheet ‘REALLY’ Fared This Year




The MSM’s cherry-picking obfuscations are exposed for all to see.

The video above showing 2 week snowfall totals is COMPLETE B/S!
We got 1 inch in S suburbs of Chicago. It shows 15+ inches. LOL!

 

[TxGal]

Adapt 2030 had two interviews/podcasts up about growing food quickly. Given the weather and economic conditions, they might be useful to some:

(1/2) Growing Your Own food Very Very Quickly (Marjory Wildcraft)​

View: https://youtu.be/P1ZlymVNb2g
Run time is 33:01

No synopsis provided except as suggested by the title.

(2/2) Growing Your Own Food Quickly (Marjory Wildcraft 2/2)​

View: https://youtu.be/mbVS7UY4F4c
Run time is 33:07

No synopsis provided except as suggested by the title

 

[TxGal]

The video above showing 2 week snowfall totals is COMPLETE B/S!
We got 1 inch in S suburbs of Chicago. It shows 15+ inches. LOL!

People need to know this! Thanks for posting what you've seen for your area.

 

[summerthyme]

The video above showing 2 week snowfall totals is COMPLETE B/S!
We got 1 inch in S suburbs of Chicago. It shows 15+ inches. LOL!

That's the FORECAST for the next two weeks.

Summerthyme

 

[Southside]

That's the FORECAST for the next two weeks.

Summerthyme

This is EXACTLY what was underneath.

And we show NO(significant) SNOW for the next 10 days.

GFS Total Snowfall (inches) Feb 24 – March 12

 

[jed turtle]

Delete

 

[jed turtle]

Well, the last 3 posts from Summertyme were weirdly identical and none with any reply...

 

[TxGal]

Minor CME Sparks Geomagnetic Storm; Yet Another Arctic Outbreak Inbound For North America; + Dr Kolb: "Severe U.S. Winter Fueled By Hunga Tonga Volcanic Eruption" - Electroverse

Dr Kolb also wonders why there has been little attention from the MSM re. Tonga.

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MINOR CME SPARKS GEOMAGNETIC STORM; YET ANOTHER ARCTIC OUTBREAK INBOUND FOR NORTH AMERICA; + DR KOLB: “SEVERE U.S. WINTER FUELED BY HUNGA TONGA VOLCANIC ERUPTION”​

MARCH 15, 2023 CAP ALLON

MINOR CME SPARKS GEOMAGNETIC STORM​

A nothingburger coronal mass ejection (CME) just hit Earth’s magnetic field (March 15 at 04:15 UT), yet it sparked a geomagnetic storm.

Currently, a G1 storm is in process, however, conditions favor the development of even stronger G2-class storms in the hours ahead. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras, so says Dr Tony Phillips of spaceweathernews.com.

As discussed many times before, Earth’s ever-waning magnetosphere –likely occurring inline with a magnetic pole shift and perhaps low solar activity (as well as other poorly understood forcings)– is resulting in even minor impacts having a larger than usual affect.

Our planet’s magnetic field strength is weakening, down some ≈20% from the 1800s.

This waning 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 magnetic poles– the overall field strength weakens and its protective shield against potentially harmful space energy is reduced. This means 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.

The weakening is accelerating.

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 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 rabbit hole.

Migrating magnetic poles indicate that another ‘flip’ aka ‘reversal’ or ‘excursion’ may be on the cards, and ‘soon’.
Such an event would bring apocalyptic shifts in the geography and climate, it would seem like the ‘end of times’. Proxy records reveal regular upheavals in ancient past, the most notable being the ‘Laschamp excursion’ of approx. 42,000 years ago, although research suggests that these reversals/excursions actually occur on a much shorter periodicity, of 6,000 years — and we’re due.

FARSIDE SUNSPOTS

Earlier this week, Earth dodged a bullet:

"Extremely Rare" (Farside) CME; Historically Cold Winter For Siberia; + Latest Storms Push U.S. Snowpack To All-Time High - Electroverse

Earth just dodged a bullet...

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The source of this truly monstrous farside CME, the one that if it had been Earth-directed would have sent us back to the stone age, is revealed by helioseismic maps (shown below) — the culprit was one of two large active regions on the farside of the sun:



Both regions will rotate around to the Earthside of the sun next week, bringing them into our planet’s “strike zone.”
Stay tuned — a long duration X9+ flare will bring about the effective ‘end of days’, particularly given our plant’s weak magnetic field and also our modern, cotton-balled civilizations complete and utter dependence on the electrical grid.

YET ANOTHER ARCTIC OUTBREAK INBOUND FOR NORTH AMERICA​

It is beyond a joke now. It was, for a short while, somewhat amusing to throw Western America’s brutal winter in the faces of those mind-controlled, virtue signalling narcissists that are AGW Party members, but with winter now extending into spring, delaying the planting, things aren’t anywhere close to funny.
Even after all that’s come before, below is what the North American continent STILL has in store over the next week-or-so.
That is, more Baltic cold…


GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) March 16 to March 21 [tropicaltidbits.com].

And further record-setting snows…


GFS Total Snowfall (inches) March 15 to March 21 [tropicaltidbits.com].

Next is a glimpse at the following week, i.e. the onset of astronomical spring, which takes us to April:


GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) March 24 to March 29 [tropicaltidbits.com].


GFS Total Snowfall (inches) March 21 to March 31 [tropicaltidbits.com].

Continue to rug up America, winter isn’t done with you yet.

On a side note: Similarly cold conditions are persisting across the Iberian Peninsula, and all. For me in Portugal, I am unwilling to put my corn in the ground with overnight lows continuing to dip to around 4C (39F), and there is no real let-up forecast for the remainder of March, at least. I’m waiting for temperatures to hold above 10C (50F). To anyone with experience in this, am I correct to wait?

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DR KOLB: “SEVERE U.S. WINTER FUELED BY HUNGA TONGA VOLCANIC ERUPTION”​

So, the Western United States is experiencing a truly severe winter, breaking a multitude of records that include extreme cold and deep snowpack — an event Peter Kolb, PhD Forest Ecologist Adjunct Professor, says was amplified by the record-high mesospheric eruption of Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai back on Jan 15, 2022.

“Well, everybody has noticed, of course that we have a record, severe winter with record snowpack,” began Dr Kolb in a recent interview with KGVO.

“Definitely, the snowpack exceeds what was here in the winter of 1996-1997 [solar minimum of cycle 22]. We’ve had three separate spells of subzero weather with 10 below zero. We set a record cold again up in Evaro and a lot of places in western Montana. So why does this occur? And as a forest ecologist, of course, I’m interested in trees and how they grow and forest communities, but what affects forests communities, of course, is the weather.”

Dr Kolb has been studying the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai for some time, particularly its effects on Earth’s atmosphere.
He points to that Jan 15 record-high ejection of particulates, “the highest in the atmosphere of any volcano in history.”
“Not only that, it blew something like a trillion tons of water into the upper atmosphere … increasing the water vapor in the Stratosphere by 10%. We talk about greenhouse gases increasing by one or two one-hundredths of a percent causing global climate change, and here we had a volcano that increased the water content of the stratosphere by 10%.”
Dr Kolb says he has been mystified about the lack of coverage the Hunga Tonga volcano and its impacts have garnered from both the global scientific community and mainstream media alike.

“So when the Tonga volcano blew and through all this water into the atmosphere, I go ‘Holy smokes, you know, all the literature everything I’ve read about atmospheric modeling and atmospheric gases. Why isn’t everybody jumping up and down going, oh my god, you know, this is huge’?” he asked. “There’s this massive vapor cloud, especially over the southern hemisphere that has reflected an enormous amount of solar energy right back out to space and it hasn’t come back to the earth.”

Dr Kolb ties the long cold winter suffered across much of North America to Hunga’s mega-eruption, also pointing to the forecast cool and wet spring to come. His views can also be extrapolated to the explain the cool winter, spring and summer to hit Australia, and also the extreme Baltic conditions experienced across Asia this season, particularly in Siberia and Western Asia.

“We reached a super low period in solar output, and then you have this vapor cloud put on top of it,” said Dr Kolb. “So that has created a prolonged La Nina effect. Less solar energy, more moisture coming in here, and also we’ve had now two or three years of super cold Pacific Decadal Oscillation. So the prediction for the spring and summer is cool and wet.

So it’s all these things coming together with the volcano, the solar output and the interactions with the atmosphere.”
Dr Kolb provides the following graphics which reveal the stark southern hemisphere cooling in the upper atmosphere…

 

[TxGal]

Bicoastal Snowstorms Pummel U.S.; Feet Of Additional Snow Pound The European Alps; Moscow Drifts; + Polar Radio Blackout *Finally* Subsiding - Electroverse

A sign of the times...

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BICOASTAL SNOWSTORMS PUMMEL U.S.; FEET OF ADDITIONAL SNOW POUND THE EUROPEAN ALPS; MOSCOW DRIFTS; + POLAR RADIO BLACKOUT *FINALLY* SUBSIDING​

MARCH 16, 2023 CAP ALLON

BICOASTAL SNOWSTORMS PUMMEL U.S.​

More than half a million Americans were without power at one point Wednesday, after bicoastal snowstorms prolonged the winter of 2022-23.

In California, some 40 of the state’s 58 counties have been put under a state of emergency as another atmospheric river hits; while switching coasts, over 4 feet of mid-March snow settled in parts of New York, New Hampshire and Massachusetts.

The nor’easter delivered mounds of snow, downed power lines and toppled trees — it closed hundreds of schools and businesses and put New York state and multiple counties in New Jersey under states of emergency.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1636154869772959744

View: https://twitter.com/brm90/status/1636154869772959744

California is experiencing its eleventh atmospheric river since December.

And looking ahead, “the extended range outlook from the Climate Prediction Center forecasts another atmospheric river arriving next week,” according to the National Weather Service, and backed up by latest GFS runs:


GFS Total Snowfall (inches) March 16 – March 31 [tropicaltidbits.com]

Heavy snow is sweeping Colorado, too. Feet are hitting the mountains, with disruptive flurries now reaching the Denver metro area, threatening to impact the Thursday morning and afternoon commutes.

A winter weather advisory went into effect starting at 3PM Wednesday for mountain communities, including in Rocky Mountain National park. Advisories are also in effect for Rabbit Ears Pass where the heaviest snow was seen Wednesday.



Windy and cold conditions will remain in Denver through the weekend, with further snow possible in Denver Sunday.

By the end of this event, well-over 2 feet of snow will have accumulated across Colorado’s higher elevations, including the Elkhead and Park Mountains, the Sawatch Mountains, and Colorado’s San Juans.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1636195077851586561

View: https://twitter.com/DenverChannel/status/1636195077851586561

Not to miss out the Midwest, another powerful storm is expected to dump several inches of snow across the northern Plains and Upper Midwest to close out the week, adding to what is already the 8th snowiest winter in the Minneapolis area.


This week’s snow is forecast to jump the winter of 2022-23 into 5th place, displacing 1916-17 (the Centennial Minimum).

The temperatures will prove disruptive, and all, ranging from the low to mid-20s from Billings, Montana and Casper, Wyoming, through South Dakota. While farther north, the mercury will hold in the upper teens in Bismarck and Fargo, North Dakota.

The snowfall will increase in the Upper Midwest into Thursday, while the storm will be winding down for the likes of the Dakotas and Rockies. A swath of snow is expected to develop from central and northeastern Nebraska all the way through northwestern Iowa, Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin on Thursday, with overnight flurries set to continue in eastern Minnesota, including Minneapolis and Duluth, as well as northern Wisconsin and Michigan‘s Upper Peninsula.
Winter weather alerts stretch from the Plains to the Upper Midwest, and run through the weekend for many.

Winter storm warnings stretch from northeastern Nebraska through southeastern South Dakota, northwestern Iowa, southwestern, central and northeastern Minnesota, northern Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

Northeastern Minnesota will see a foot of snow and blizzard conditions, with northern Wisconsin and the UP of Michigan seeing higher totals. Marquette, Michigan, for example, could pick up over 2 feet by the time the system exits over the weekend.


After these latest rounds of snow, ECCC may need to draw a new chart.

“It’ll be cold [too] — cold for March,” says Paige Marten, a NWS meteorologist — thanks Paige.

​

FEET OF ADDITIONAL SNOW POUND THE EUROPEAN ALPS​

It’s snowing again in the Alps. The latest dumpings are arriving hot on the heels of the huge snowfalls in France as well as ski areas in Austria, Italy and Switzerland last weekend.

This week’s snow is proving more widespread than the weekend falls, reports inthesnow.com, with areas further east posting substantial accumulations even down to the valley floor.


Obergurgl on March 14

Last weekend’s snowstorm brought 1.5 meters (5 feet) to ski areas in the northern French Alps.

Avoriaz, Cervinia, La Rosiere and Tignes were among the resorts posting the biggest jumps in their upper slope base depths (at 1m/3.3ft each). As a result, the avalanche danger has been increased to level 4 (of 5) on many slopes.

MOSCOW DRIFTS​

“The closer to summer, the higher the snowdrifts” reports Russian weather website hmn.ru

Heat is in no hurry to settle in the capital region, continues the site, as thick clouds continue to deliver snow to Moscow’s streets.

This week has seen the city’s snow cover grow again, holding the snowpack higher than usual for the time of year. Last year, snow depth was 16 cm (6.3 inches) on March 14; this year, however, March 14 delivered a depth of 40 cm (15/7 inches).

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POLAR RADIO BLACKOUT *FINALLY* SUBSIDING​

Following March 13’s “extremely rare” farside CME, shortwave radios inside the Arctic Circle are working again after a 3-day blackout.

The blackout is called a “polar cap absorption event” or PCA, explains Dr. Tony Phillips of spaceweather.com, caused by energetic protons accelerated toward Earth by the violent coronal mass ejection (CME).

Those protons are now ebbing, meaning normal propagation of shortwave radio signals can resume.

​

MINOR CME IMPACT SPARKS NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN LIGHTS​

Had Monday’s CME not been a farside event, had the discharge instead been Earth-directed, it would have caused untold disruption.

The electrical grid that our modern civilization has become utterly dependent on would be no more, at least on the sun-facing side of the planet, with it perhaps being years before the power could be reestablished, particularly in rural areas — that is, if society doesn’t completely fold in on itself during the ensuing blind Biblical-like panic.
Earth’s magnetic field is weakening, has been since the 1800s.

Coronal mass ejections striking our atmosphere are having a larger and larger impact.

Monday’s CME would have proved catastrophic if Earth-direct. This is shown by even minor ejections, such as that which struck our magnetosphere on March 15, sparking geomagnetic storms and also strong auroras over both ends of our planet.

That is, the North:


Roman Banas photographed these red auroras near Bydgoszcz, Poland: “You could see the rays with the naked eye,” says Banas. “It was strongest around midnight.”

And the south:


Almost 18,000 km away from Poland, a remarkably similar filled the skies above Lake Ellesmere, New Zealand.

Photographer Mike White: “A strong glow persisted for an hour or so on the southern horizon with occasional periods of bright rays extending upwards.”

Being days away from the March equinox, this is the time of year when Northern and Southern Lights can be seen at the same time. Nearly equal amounts of darkness allow sky watchers in both hemispheres equal opportunity to witness auroras, explains Dr. Phillips.

The CME that struck Earth on March 15 was caused by a magnetic filament erupting on the Sun (shown below) almost 4 days earlier. Though weak, its arrival sparked a series of alternating G1 and G2-class geomagnetic storms — a sign of the times.

 

[Lone Eagle Woman]

This makes sooooo much sense that all of this crazy winter weather and precipitation can be at least partly contributed to that Hunga Tonga Volcanic Eruption. Then along with the solar minimum - lack of sunspots that is occurring. But think this Dr. Kolb is right on the mark.

 

[northern watch]

 

[northern watch]

 

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[SousJo]

Yep. We've got a cold snap headed our way this weekend. Supposed to rain too. Cold and wet is the worst. I've mulched the garden deep, I've got seedlings going in trays to replant if necessary, about all I can do now is pray. A few local farmers have a head start on their corn, bet they're praying too.

Tree crops east of the Rockies could get iffy. I hear there's already blooms all the way up to Pennsylvania in spots.