Solar Grand Solar Minimum part deux
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Martinhouse
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We're going to be having overnight lows way down in the mid 20s in the coming days. I have bedding plants that should have been in the ground a week ago and I've put it off until this last cold spell is past. At least I hope it's the last.
I've gotten ten empty mineral tubs from a gal who works at our feed store and then bought and scrounged enough dirt, compost, etc., to fill them. They will be mainly lettuces, kale, cabagge and collards, mostly for the chickens and rabbits. Some I may dehydrate and rub into powder to add to my own food. Also I'm digging up all the dandelions I can find to move into containers of very rich soil. This will grow some monstrous dandelion leaves which is a nearly effort-free way to produce some excellent nutrition. I'm hoping dandelions will be able to more or less ignore the GSM.
I'm trying to set up all my planting so that I'm able to quickly cover things at night if we get any more of the spells that get cold enough to damage some of what I'll be planting.
This erratic weather is getting harder and harder to deal with and especially to plan ahead for. To borrow part of a phrase, "The Grand Solar Minimum sure ain't for sissies!"
I've gotten ten empty mineral tubs from a gal who works at our feed store and then bought and scrounged enough dirt, compost, etc., to fill them. They will be mainly lettuces, kale, cabagge and collards, mostly for the chickens and rabbits. Some I may dehydrate and rub into powder to add to my own food. Also I'm digging up all the dandelions I can find to move into containers of very rich soil. This will grow some monstrous dandelion leaves which is a nearly effort-free way to produce some excellent nutrition. I'm hoping dandelions will be able to more or less ignore the GSM.
I'm trying to set up all my planting so that I'm able to quickly cover things at night if we get any more of the spells that get cold enough to damage some of what I'll be planting.
This erratic weather is getting harder and harder to deal with and especially to plan ahead for. To borrow part of a phrase, "The Grand Solar Minimum sure ain't for sissies!"
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Martinhouse
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BenIan, I think sometimes a wind can help keep a frost from settling right on the plants, but I'm not sure about wind chill that much lower than a temp that is barely above freezing.
If anyone knows about this, I'd sure like them to share any info!
If anyone knows about this, I'd sure like them to share any info!
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TxGal
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I've learned the hard way to not plant tomatoes before tax day up here. That's just my personal experience. We get serious cold snaps here. I've tried covering them, etc., but it's always the 'surprise' drops in temps that get me.
The cold front just blew through. We were at 72, temp is down to 58 and will be 40 by morning with wind chills in the 30s. Ugh.
Martinhouse, we're doing the same thing with tubs. It's a great use of resources and it was kind of your feed store lady is giving you some, they're pretty darn tough.
The cold front just blew through. We were at 72, temp is down to 58 and will be 40 by morning with wind chills in the 30s. Ugh.
Martinhouse, we're doing the same thing with tubs. It's a great use of resources and it was kind of your feed store lady is giving you some, they're pretty darn tough.
RememberGoliad
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Plants can't feel the windchill like warm-blooded critters can. No matter how hard you blow on a glass of water, if it's 34 degrees it ain't gonna freeze. Now, that said, tomatoes do not like much below 45, so....
It just blew through here (NW of Kerrville, Tex. by some miles) and it's rearranging the stacks of stuff I have in the yard. If it'd blown this hard during the late morning, we'd have a few hens laying the same egg several times!
Came through dry....so far. Of course, that's the story of our last IDK how long. We usually get 8-12" of snow per year, this year not a flake. Been plenty cold enough, down to 12 I believe, right before Christmas, but no precipitation.
Strangely, no freeze predicted here for this week. Well, I just checked and Sunday night shows 31 for a low. That is new since this afternoon.
Had to corral the goats into the garden for a few days. Discovered a hog-sized hole in the fence furthest from the house and while they hadn't found it yet, it was only a matter of time. Didn't want them seeing me monkeying with the fence there, either, since that'd draw attention to that place, so I locked 'em up in the deer-fenced garden. All tilled up but nothing planted yet, so I'm only out a half hour of rototiller running. If it wasn't for that, there'd be stuff planted, so I guess things work out
Thanks Tx for posting! I'm not a regular on this thread but that's only because I see another squirrel and off I go charging elsewhere and barking like a fool. Then when THIS squirrel chatters at me, I'll get regular for a while....until another squirrel.... LOL! But don't think I don't appreciate your work on this!
RememberGoliad
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Another point I should make, and it's important enough to be standalone and not part of my ramble above, is that I'm starting to see new growth on my wild, but protected by us, patches of mullein. In a few weeks here, it'll be time to harvest and dry my supply of leaf. Some of y'all followed DW's saga last winter, and she's thriving on freshly-dried mullein tea daily, keeps her lungs clear and the gunk flowing.
Martinhouse
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TxGal, I know those cattle tubs are tough but my nephew told me the ones he had brittled and crumbled after about a year. But I found that Miracle-Gro bags seem to last forever hanging in the sun, so since I save everything possible that could be of use some day, I've been able to cut apart enough of the large-size bags that I will clip around the tubs, white inside showing, with binder clips. Bags are big enough cut open the long way to wrap all the way around the whole outside of the tub plus tuck down inside to below the dirt line so that will keep out the UV. Each tub has a drain hole drilled on the side a few inches above the bottom.
I wish I could afford blocks and boards to raise them above ground level, but I do at least put them on strips of discarded black tarps that were used to cover semi truck loads until they became too worn to be repaired.
I wish I could afford blocks and boards to raise them above ground level, but I do at least put them on strips of discarded black tarps that were used to cover semi truck loads until they became too worn to be repaired.
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TxGal
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Martinhouse, that's interesting about your tubs, most of ours last pretty well, at least a few years before we spot a crack at the bottom (which for gardening is great)...ours aren't brittle at all. Must be the brand we buy. Great ideas, though!
We got through the storms okay last evening. Wasn't fun, had a lot of rain and wind, but I'm hoping tree damage is minimal. Kinda figured anything that was going to go went in the last two storms, the big ice storm that knocked out our power for 5 days, and then a straight-line wind storm of an estimated 80 mph. Pastures are squishy, though...mud season.
We got through the storms okay last evening. Wasn't fun, had a lot of rain and wind, but I'm hoping tree damage is minimal. Kinda figured anything that was going to go went in the last two storms, the big ice storm that knocked out our power for 5 days, and then a straight-line wind storm of an estimated 80 mph. Pastures are squishy, though...mud season.
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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 ALLONBICOASTAL 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.
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.
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.ruHeat 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).
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.
I would think order of vulnerability would be the eggplants then cucumbers, peppers and tomatoes. Just throw some old sheets, towels, tarps, etc. over them - don't let the baby plants touch the coverings though, leave a gap. I usually just take my tomato cages and lay them down sideways over the baby plants and that usually gives a good frame to drape coverings over them. Then weigh the tarps, etc. down with rocks, logs, or whatever so the wind doesn't blow them off.
I'm in central Maryland and an old neighbor that used to live behind me always said "Never plant before St. Patty's day, but that being said if you don't lose a few plants to frost every year, you aren't planting soon enough." In other words you can always replant (well in a normal, non-solar minimum, non volcano belching water vapor into the atmosphere-year LOL).
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From my email inbox The Old Farmer's Almanac March 17 2023
BenIan
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I try not to plant to early but I'm on the Gulf coast...I've only seen one frost/freeze this late and that was in 1992 or 1993 when it snowed in early April. I can cover a few things, and will, but I've got way too much in the ground to cover it all.
Cover a few of each type plant, so if they are wrong, and you actually get a frost, you'll have some of each veggie early while waiting for the replacement plants to mature.
That said, I suspect your soil temps are warm enough that the air temp within a couple feet of the ground will be enough warmer that even an official 32° reading won't hurt them. However, if you DO get hit, get up before sunrise and spray the plants with water... it prevents the secondary damage that the sun hitting frozen foliage causes. We've saved sweet corn with this method a couple times.
Meanwhile, we're hoping the heavy rain we're getting will melt the 14" of snow from the last storm. DS built a cold frame for one of the 8 foot square raised beds yesterday, but we'd have to shovel it off to install it!
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Deadly Avalanches In Europe; Cold Februaries For Dominica And Barbados; Brits In The Cold And Dark Due To Soaring Energy Prices-As Gov Seeks To *Further* Extend Life Of Aging Coal Power Plants - Electroverse
The UK is doomed, but not by the hand of Russia or the existential threat that 'catastrophic global warming' is claimed to be; rather by its own hand, by its own weakness, gullibility, and pathetic placating to the globalist elites.
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DEADLY AVALANCHES IN EUROPE; COLD FEBRUARIES FOR DOMINICA AND BARBADOS; BRITS IN THE COLD AND DARK DUE TO SOARING ENERGY PRICES–AS GOV SEEKS TO *FURTHER* EXTEND LIFE OF AGING COAL POWER PLANTS
MARCH 17, 2023 CAP ALLONDEADLY AVALANCHES IN EUROPE
Following the impressive European snows, avalanches are hitting.Earlier this week, a 28-year-old Dutch skier was killed near the ski resort of Nendaz, Switzerland.
The victim had been skiing off-piste with two friends on in an area known among Freeriders as ‘Stairway to Heaven’ when the avalanche was triggered. His friends located the man, dug him out, and contacted search and rescue, which tried resuscitation, to no avail.
On Wednesday, a separate, massive avalanche hit near the Col de Gentianes, also Nendaz.
The 1,300 feet wide slip led to an extensive search and rescue effort involving eight rescue helicopters and several search dogs. Ten skiers were caught up in the avalanche, but all were able to free themselves — all but one; tragically, the extended search and rescue efforts found a Russian skier, aged 58, for whom help came too late.
Wednesday’s fatal avalanche in the Swiss Alps.
The avalanche danger in the Swiss Alps, at Level 4 (of 5) in many parts: “The situation remains tense and dangerous; be very careful,” wrote the Institute for the Study of Snow and Avalanches (WSL) on Twitter.
COLD FEBRUARIES FOR DOMINICA AND BARBADOS
The Caribbean has been holding anomalously cool for months now, and February proved no different.Last month, Dominica, a mountainous Caribbean island nation with natural hot springs and tropical rainforests, closed with an average temperature of 25.15C, which is 0.35C below the multidecadal norm.
Likewise in Barbados, February 2023 had an average temperature of 25.8C, which is 0.3C below norm.
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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BRITS IN THE COLD AND DARK DUE TO SOARING ENERGY PRICES…
New research reveals that more than half of people living in Scotland are spending their time in the cold and dark for fear of rising household bills during the ongoing ‘cost of living crisis’.The report found that 51% of people across the country are having to keep lights and heating switched off, despite the recent sharp drop in temperatures, in a bid to save money.
With some 64% of Generation Z who work from home having to do so in the cold, with the lights off, while those aged 65 and over the most concerned about the energy issues, highlighting the cross-generational impact the crisis is causing.
Gas and electricity bills have soared over recent months and the UK government’s Energy Bills Support Scheme is set to end at the end of March, putting further pressure on households.
Commenting on the findings, Steve Mariner, Group Sales & Marketing Director at Barratt Developments, said: “The cost of living crisis is continuing to affect people across the country. It’s worrying to hear of people living in the cold and dark to save money on bills.”
Separate research on 2,000 Brits found that there has been a rise in consumers returning to the things that their grandparents did to save money on utility bills, such as bringing back thermals and draft excluders: 58% of respondents said they are wearing thermal tops and bottoms to avoid putting on the heating, with many turning-off radiators in under-used rooms (57%), buying draft excluders (40%) for the bottom of doors, and others putting up heavy curtains over doors and windows (41%).
This is the once prosperous United Kingdom, bowing to the anti-human climate mob and suffering the consequences.
…AS GOV SEEKS TO *FURTHER* EXTEND LIFE OF AGING COAL POWER PLANTS
Britons, as well as citizens across much of the developed world, are seeing their living standards plunge due to irrational concerns of a collapsing climate/ecosystem due to ‘too much human prosperity’ (i.e. CO2 emissions).Fears of the end of the world have been pounced upon and milked by a blood-thirsty cabal of power-hungry totalitarians; pure evil hellbent on the pursuit of unhappiness and globalization, with which comes a demotion of the middle class to the status of proles.
Using the UK again as the example, the country has completely lost its way and the plot.
From COVID to the climate, people have shown themselves to be vacuous, unquestioning husks of human begins, blindly compliant sheep that have bought The Narrative hook line and sinker without the processing of a single critical thought.
They follow the script handed down by the globalists, which is fed to them by a puppet regime and its MSM lapdogs — a government now under increasing pressure to balance both the wills of its masters and quell dissent among its citizenry.
Case in point: To avoid disaster next winter, the UK National Grid is seeking to keep its aging coal power plants on standby for another year. This is in order to ensure sufficient electricity supplies as current renewable technology continues to prove ‘net zero’ nothing but a suicidal, peasant-bashing pipe dream.
This, at least, is the aim of the National Grid; however, the plants’ operators, EDF and Drax, said they are unlikely to be able to meet the request.
Britain has set itself a target to close its coal-fired power plants by October 2024, but EDF and Drax brought that deadline forward to Sept 2022. The UK government worked a deal to keep the plants open for the 2022-23, and it was a good job they did, as during an anomalous freeze in early March the plants were called upon to support the country’s high heating demand.
The UK now wants these plants to remain open for next winter (2023-24), but both EDF and Drax have poured cold water on this.
EDF is planning to close its two remaining coal units at the West Burton A plant on March 31, 2023, claiming in a statement, “There are a number of workforce and operational reasons that mean extending the life of West Burton A again is very challenging” (which sounds like pre-negotiation spiel in order to rip a weak, hapless government of more tax payer cash).
Drax, similarly, said its coal units will close at the end of March 2023 as planned: “With a number of certifications expiring on the coal-fired units, the units would not be able to operate compliantly for winter 2023,” Drax said in a statement.
Britain has a target of net zero by 2050. But net zero isn’t zero. When you boil it down, all ‘net zero’ means is that if you’re wealthy enough to offset your carbon emissions then you can continue doing whatever the hell you like, living as exuberantly as you fancy. This is how Bill Gates et al. justify their globe trotting adventures via private jet. And, as always, it will be us proles that suffer — the 99% will limit their already meager ‘carbon footprint’ in order sell the offset so as to afford necessities, like food.
This worsening ‘cost of living crisis’ is preparing people for a bleak future of lacking and, ultimately, poverty.
The UK is utterly doomed, but not by the hand of Russia or the existential threat that ‘catastrophic global warming’ is claimed to be; rather by its own hand, by its own weakness, gullibility, and pathetic placating to the globalist elites. And all it seems the sheeple are capable of doing, psychologically bludgeoned as they are, is stand idly by and meekly curtain twitch the shifting paradigm from their unheated, unlit homes.
TxGal
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America Breaks Hundreds Of Low Temperature Records; European Frosts; + Coronal Hole - Electroverse
Rug up America. And cover those crops.
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AMERICA BREAKS HUNDREDS OF LOW TEMPERATURE RECORDS; EUROPEAN FROSTS; + CORONAL HOLE
MARCH 20, 2023 CAP ALLONAMERICA BREAKS HUNDREDS OF LOW TEMPERATURE RECORDS
A full-blown Arctic Outbreak gripped much of the U.S. over the weekend — one that continues to be felt.Hundreds of low temperature records were felled on Sunday alone.
The below graphic depicts those to have fallen from 7:00 AM on March 19 to 6AM March 20 (UTC):
The breadth of the cold is noteworthy, with daily record lows falling from Idaho to Florida.
This was the descending mass of polar air responsible:
GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) March 17 – 20 [tropicaltidbits.com].
And there’s more where that came from, due to hit early next week…
GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) March 25 – 28 [tropicaltidbits.com].
…with impressive spring snowfall totals to boot:
GFS Total Snowfall (inches) March 20 – April 5 [tropicaltidbits.com].
As has been well documented, it simply won’t stop snowing across the Western U.S. with all-time benchmarks tumbling across the likes of California and Utah. Here, avalanches are commonplace and buildings are buckling under the weight of the snow.
A string of snowstorms pounded California in January and then again in March, bringing monstrous totals and causing widespread damage, power outages, and monstrous totals.
Below is a before and after shot of the ski lifts at Bear Valley:
(Facebook post I can't bring over)
While in Tahoe, it’s proven impossible for residents to stay on top of snow clearing, leading to collapsed roofs.
While in Tahoe, long time ski film maker Scott Gaffney has been posting incredible images of accumulations there:
(Instagram post I can't bring over)
This is the story across California’s higher elevations.
That is, record-smashing snowfall totals, from UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab to Kirkwood Mountain Resort, from Bear Valley to Mammoth–with the latter posting 618 inches at its base (Main Lodge) so Lord only knows what’s up top.
Similarly in Utah, Alta ski resort has received some 681 inches to date.
While neighboring Snowbird has close to 625 inches with the resort already extending its season.
(facebook post I can't bring over)
Solitude and Brighton in Cottonwood Canyon are also boasting huge numbers.
Solitude has 623 inches, but its Brighton for the win with its whopping 699 inches — with yet more to come.
Insta: @scottgaffski
March 20 may mark the vernal equinox, and so the onset of spring, but its winter-like lows and record-breaking cold that are the prevailing weather conditions sweeping the United States.
The Twin Cities, for example, just wrapped up its coldest St. Patrick’s Day weekend since the early 1990s. And even in the Southeast, temperatures are set to hit sub-freezing levels Monday morning, with parts of Tennessee dipping below 20F (-6.7C).
“Record-breaking cold across the Southeast Monday morning to lead to widespread and potentially harmful freezing temperatures,” the Weather Prediction Center (WPC) announced Sunday.
Rug up America.
And cover those crops.
EUROPEAN FROSTS
Very cold conditions are persisting across areas of Europe, particularly the Iberian Peninsula and the south/southeast.In Italy, for example, frosts are still sweeping the nation’s low elevations, even in Sicily — incredibly rare mid/late-March.
Recently, freezing lows have been registered here, with -0.6C (30.9F) posted in the usually mild Noto area.
Looking ahead, conditions are threatening to turn colder for the majority of the continent by the end of March:
GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) March 27 – 29 [tropicaltidbits.com].
With the likes of the UK expecting spring snow, with additional feet forecast across the Alps:
GFS Total Snowfall (cm) March 26 – April 4 [tropicaltidbits.com].
Deadly Avalanches In Europe; Cold Februaries For Dominica And Barbados; Brits In The Cold And Dark Due To Soaring Energy Prices-As Gov Seeks To *Further* Extend Life Of Aging Coal Power Plants - Electroverse
The UK is doomed, but not by the hand of Russia or the existential threat that 'catastrophic global warming' is claimed to be; rather by its own hand, by its own weakness, gullibility, and pathetic placating to the globalist elites.
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CORONAL HOLE
The Sun was relatively inactive over the weekend. Sunday saw just 38 spots peppering the Earth-facing solar disk, with activity confined to the farside.Today, however, a large hole has opened in the sun’s atmosphere. One that’s spewing a stream of solar wind toward Earth.
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory photographed the structure on March 20:
This is a “coronal hole”, explains Dr Tony Phillips of spaceweather.com — a region in the sun’s atmosphere where magnetic fields open up and allow solar wind to escape. It looks dark in the above ultraviolet image because the glowing-hot gas normally contained there is missing.
The solar wind from said hole will reach Earth later this week, on either March 23 or 24, only a few days after the vernal equinox. Expect a good display of high-latitude auroras.