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Snowflake Cold

Global cooling: Second largest 2-month temperature drop in history recorded by NOAA satellite

Anthony Watts
Watts Up With That
Fri, 01 May 2020 10:35 UTC
NOAA temperature drop
In April, 2020, the Northern Hemisphere experienced its 2nd largest 2-month drop in temperature in the 497-month satellite record.

The Version 6.0 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for April, 2020 was +0.38 deg. C, down from the March, 2020 value of +0.48 deg. C.

The Northern Hemisphere temperature anomaly fell from +0.96 deg. C to 0.43 deg. C from February to April, a 0.53 deg. C drop which is the 2nd largest 2-month drop in the 497-month satellite record. The largest 2-month drop was -0.69 deg. C from December 1987 to February 1988.

The linear warming trend since January, 1979 has now increased to +0.14 C/decade (but remains statistically unchanged at +0.12 C/decade over the global-averaged oceans, and +0.18 C/decade over global-averaged land).

Various regional LT departures from the 30-year (1981-2010) average for the last 16 months are:

Comment: See also:

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Fire

Wildfires critical in Siberia and Russian Far East, follow 'abnormally warm winter and arid spring'


The Siberian Times
Sat, 02 May 2020 10:57 UTC
Wildfires Siberia
© Trans-Baikal Volunteer Forest FirefightersWildfires in Siberia
People are flouting coronavirus lockdown and starting fires, warn officials.

Disturbing pictures and video shows the scale of wildfires engulfing Siberia and the Russian Far East after the winter snow melt.

With the government's focus on coronavirus, President Vladimir Putin called for vigilance over the annual challenge from forest and steppe fires worsening due to climate warming.

Emergencies Minister Evgeny Zinichev warned in a video conference with the president that a combination of factors now poses a threat to many regions of Russia.

Comment: Just to emphasize how warped the weather patterns have become, in Australia: Melbourne's wettest April since 1960, cold temperatures dropping to record levels

And for more, check out SOTT radio's: As well as SOTTs monthly documentary Earth Changes Summary - March 2020: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs:



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Cow

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: How many collapses can be on the horizon


Adapt 2030
Fri, 01 May 2020 20:04 UTC
Beef prices rise
© YouTube/Adapt 2030 (screen capture)
Looking at the horizon of life, protein shortages in both beef and pork send prices to record levels, precious metals fetching premiums well over spot price and Scotia Bank in the metals business since 1684 closes and RippleNet central bank digital currency in play. Should I even mention wheat planting in the USA at 1909 levels?


Comment: COVID-19 lockdown = Auto-genocide? Food shortages likely as US farmers dump MOUNTAINS and LAKES of food

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Snowflake Cold

Parts of Australia have coldest start to May EVER as icy front from Antarctica hits - bringing blizzards, heavy snow - up to 40 inches recorded

Shive Prema
Daily Mail
Fri, 01 May 2020 18:15 UTC
Snow blankets a road in Mount Buller in Victoria with footprints seen on the path. Blizzard conditions are expected across all of the state’s Alpine region, bringing up to 50cm of snow by the weekend
Snow blankets a road in Mount Buller in Victoria with footprints seen on the path. Blizzard conditions are expected across all of the state’s Alpine region, bringing up to 50cm of snow by the weekend
Parts of Australia will shiver through the coldest-ever start to May with temperatures below zero as an icy front originating from Antarctica sweeps the country.

People in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, ACT, South Australia and even Queensland woke up to chilly temperatures on Friday morning - and it's set to get even colder over the next week.

'At the moment, we have a very cold outbreak across the south east from well south of the country from the Antarctic,' the Bureau of Meteorology's Dean Narramore said.

'It's one of those cases where all of the ingredients are coming together for a very cold outbreak.

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Blue Planet

Why the largest-ever Arctic ozone hole just closed

John Roach
Accuweather
Thu, 30 Apr 2020 17:25 UTC
The total column ozone field
© Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service, ECMWFThe total column ozone field

An ozone hole over the Arctic that was the largest ever recorded there has closed, according to the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS). And its beginning and end have nothing to do with climate change, global warming or a reduction in air pollution because of the coronavirus pandemic.

It has to do simply with the weather.

CAMS monitored the rather unusual ozone hole that formed over the Arctic this spring and was reported closed April 23. Ozone holes are more common over the Antarctic every year, according to CAMS, but "the conditions needed for such strong ozone depletion are not normally found in the Northern Hemisphere."
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Arrow Down

Huge sinkhole in post office parking lot swallows car in Oxford, Mississippi


Magnolia State Live
Fri, 01 May 2020 13:25 UTC
A sinkhole formed in the back parking lot of the Oxford Post Office, causing an employee’s car to fall into it.
© David Walton | United States Postal ServiceA sinkhole formed in the back parking lot of the Oxford Post Office, causing an employee’s car to fall into it. According to the Oxford Police Department no injuries were reported.
A sinkhole emerged in the back parking lot of the Oxford (Mississippi) Post Office on Thursday morning, damaging one vehicle in the process.

The incident took place around 6 a.m., according to witnesses. The vehicle belonged to a post office employee, but was empty at the time it fell in and no injuries were reported, according to Oxford Police Chief Jeff McCutchen.

McCutchen noted the size of the sinkhole was at least "12 feet by 12 feet," if not larger, and similar to the sinkhole that emerged on Highway 6 East before the Chucky Mullins Drive exit in 2015.

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Alarm Clock

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: The world postures for food shortages


Adapt 2030
Thu, 30 Apr 2020 11:40 UTC
Queuing for food in US 2020
© YouTube/Adapt 2030 (screen capture)
Daily headlines warn of food shortages and constraints, you should heed the warnings and grow your own. As the economy evaporates messages continue to fill the airwaves that stability will return next month, all the while elites slither off to their bunkers as the 2024 planetary alignment is set to bring extreme volcanism and global liquefaction. FYI: Romania has halted all grain shipments, Russia followed, what country is next?


Comment: The coronavirus crisis, in addition to earth changes affecting crop growth, and the losing value of currency which is set to get much worse in Western nations in particular, have made the production, availability, purchasing and distribution of food - a MAJOR global issue the likes of which we haven't seen in generations.

See related articles: It is always best to be prepared. See also: And do have a listen to the SOTT Talk Radio show that was devoted to this subject:

Surviving the End of the World (as we Know it)

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Cloud Precipitation

Melbourne's wettest April since 1960, cold temperatures dropping to record levels

Paul Sakkal
TheAge.au
Thu, 30 Apr 2020 20:53 UTC
Mt Buller
© Teddy LaycockSnow blankets Mt Buller on Thursday after a cold snap hit Victoria.
Melbourne has had its wettest April since 1960 and its wettest start to the year since 1924, as unseasonably low temperatures brought snow to the state's ski resorts.

More rain has fallen on the city in the first four months of the year than in the whole of last year, bringing much-needed relief to parched farmland on its outskirts.

Some 138 millimetres of rain fell in Melbourne in April, with the city set for 15 millimetres on the first day of May. In April 1960, 195 millimetres fell in Melbourne.

Comment: See also: Czech Republic facing worst drought in 500 years

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Hardhat

Scientists report terrifying ice lumps that could be the largest hailstones recorded

Tessa Koumoundouros
Science Alert
Thu, 30 Apr 2020 18:54 UTC
One of the hailstones from the storm in Argentina.
© Victoria DruettaOne of the hailstones from the storm in Argentina.
The hailstone is so massive it even stunned meteorologists.

"It's incredible," said meteorologist Matthew Kumjian from Penn State University in the US. "This is the extreme upper end of what you'd expect from hail."

The hefty ice lump smashed down from a supercell thunderstorm in Argentina two years ago, in the heavily populated town Villa Carlos Paz. In a recently published study, Kumjian and colleagues have concluded the hailstone is possibly the largest ever recorded - estimated to be up to 23.7 centimetres (over 9 inches).

However, as its dimensions were only gleaned from video evidence (below, 11 seconds in), and not direct measurements, they can't conclusively say it's the largest to be recorded.

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Cloud Precipitation

Hailstones, the size of tennis balls, wreck havoc in Chhattisgarh, India

Shashi Sharma
International Business Times
Thu, 30 Apr 2020 18:38 UTC
Several houses have been destroyed by the hailstorm in Chhattisgarh's Pendra-Marwahi district.
Several houses have been destroyed by the hailstorm in Chhattisgarh's Pendra-Marwahi district.
Massive rains, accompanied by hailstorm wreaked havoc on the residents of Chhattisgarh's Pendra-Marwahi district last week. Tennis ball-sized hailstones landed everywhere, resulting in loss of property and damage to the crops. Videos and photos of big hailstones made the rounds on social media. People shared pictures of cars and sheds damaged in the hailstorm.

Even though the rain brought relief to the people, many people living in mud houses and huts had to face difficulties due to the hailstorm. A white layer of hailstones started appearing everywhere. Pictures shared on Twitter showed a car was badly damaged and a shed destroyed by the hailstones.

"A hailstorm in #Chhattisgarh - just look at the size of the hailstones and the damage it has caused! This was a couple of days in the Pendra area of the state!" a Twitter user Ananth Rupanagudi wrote on Twitter along with pictures of the hailstones and the damage caused by them.

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