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130 year record low temperature in Vladivostok, Russia

Robert Felix
iceagenow.info
Thu, 02 Oct 2014 16:43 UTC
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Snow in the Perm region. The autumn weather breaks records.
Earlier than normal snowfall in the Perm region.

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2 Oct 2014 - Snowfall in early October in the Perm area "is not the norm for the region," said Andrew Shikhova, of the Regional Center for Geographic Information Systems.

Another record was broken in Vladivostok, which registered the lowest absolute minimum air temperature in more than 130-year history of weather observations.

Tuesday morning in the seaside capital was only plus one degree Celsius.
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U.S. Drought Monitor: California drought covers 100% of state

Richard Heim, NCDC/NOAA
Droughtmonitor.unl.edu
Thu, 02 Oct 2014 08:00 UTC
U.S. Drought Monitor for California as of September 30, 2014:

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Snowflake

16 inches of snow falls in Bulgaria

Robert Felix
Ice Age Now
Sun, 28 Sep 2014 14:56 UTC
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Mount Musala
Also, first snow of the season in Turkey - No big deal, but a far cry from the global warming crisis that the con men are trying to make us believe.

27 Sept 2014 - The most snow is in Rila in the high mountains, where the snow reached depths of 30-40 centimeters (12 to 16 inches) in places. This was announced by the weatherman TV-MET Simeon MATEV on "24 Hours".
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Southern Canada, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota baked in record heat

Jon Erdman
Weather.com
Fri, 26 Sep 2014 10:56 UTC
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Actual high temperatures on Sept. 25, 2014.
When you think of 90-degree-plus record heat in late September, I'll bet Canada doesn't pop in your head first.

Contours of actual highs on Sept. 25, 2014 with record heat circled in Montana, North Dakota and southern Canada.

Highs Thursday soared into the 90s as far north as southern Saskatchewan and southern Manitoba, smashing daily temperature records.

Estevan, Saskatchewan topped out just under 94 degrees. The provincial capital of Regina had its warmest day of the year (91.6 degrees F or 33.1 degrees C). Eight other Canadian cities soared above 90 degrees in Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

Record highs were set as far north as Thompson, Manitoba (79.7F or 26.5C), just under 500 miles north of Winnipeg.

South of the border, both Williston, North Dakota, and Miles City, Montana (97), sweated through their record hottest day so late in the season, according to weather historian Christopher Burt and senior meteorologist Stu Ostro.

Rapid City, South Dakota (92), reached the 90s two weeks after their earliest snowfall on record.

Comment: Listen to a recent BlogTalkRadio discussion on earth changes and the recently released book by SOTT.net editors Pierre Lescaudron and Laura Knight-Jadczyk, Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection.

SOTT Talk Radio show #70: Earth changes in an electric universe: Is climate change really man-made? (With transcript)

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Bizarro Earth

Upcoming weather pattern changes for the U.S. - Summer or Winter?

Linda Lam
Weather.com
Sat, 27 Sep 2014 22:12 UTC
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Enjoy the warmth in parts of the Midwest and Northeast this weekend as a temperature shift is on the way. Parts of the northern Plains and southern Canada saw record hot temperatures so late in the season at the end of this past week. Williston, North Dakota and Miles City, Montana both saw the mercury soar to 97 degrees this past Thursday.

Record high temperatures are also in the forecast for parts of the Northeast through Sunday, where highs are expected to climb into the 80s.

Conversely, below-average temperatures will be found in much of the West through this weekend. Changes, however, are on the way heading towards next weekend. There are indications that an upper-atmospheric trough will build into the East, while an upper-atmospheric ridge builds into the West. The past few days we have had a ridge in the East and a trough in the West.

Forecast Highs and Departure from Average

This pattern change will bring temperatures that are 20-30 degrees colder for some locations from the northern Plains. Temperatures will also be cooler in parts of the Midwest and Northeast, where highs will go from the 70s and 80s this weekend, to the 50s and 60s next weekend.

As it cools down in the East, the warmth will make a comeback along the West coast, with highs 15-20 degrees warmer by next weekend. Los Angeles will go from highs in the 70s to highs in the 90s and average high temperatures for early October should be in the low 80s.
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Snowflake Cold

1,695 low max records broken or tied from Sept 11 to Sept 20, one broken by 25F - NOAA report


Sunshinehours.wordpress.com
Sat, 27 Sep 2014 23:36 UTC
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NOAA - 1695 Low Max Records Broken or Tied From Sept 11 to Sept 20. One record broken by 25F

Wow. One record was broken by 25F!!!! 1695 Low Max Records Broken or Tied From Sept 11 to Sept 20 according to the NOAA. A "Low Max" means that the maximum temperatures for the day was the lowest it has ever been. This indicates daytime cooling. Above is a screenshot showing location and the biggest difference between old record and new record.
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Russian national television film warns of cooling...Scientist calls Arctic model runs "Far from ideal"!

P.Gosselin
NoTricksZone
Fri, 26 Sep 2014 02:46 UTC
Andrey Proshutinsky
© Woods Hole Oceanographic InstitutionAndrey Proshutinsky.
In today's post you will find a Russian National Television film below, viewed only 70 times so far at Youtube, where Russian scientists express doubt on the IPCC's version of the CO2 story, and warn of a coming cold period. It is the kind of film alarmists do not want the public to see. It is dubbed over in English

In fact Russian scientists warn that the recent Arctic melt may actually forbode a coming cold. It's happened before.

In yesterday's post here I wrote about how Max-Planck-Institute Arctic scientist Dirk Notz said he would not bet on the Arctic ice decreasing in the years ahead, saying in a nutshell that there are just too many poorly understood factors and play.

In his response Notz brought up Andrey Proshutinsky (photo above), a senior Russian scientist at the Department of Physical Oceanography at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. I sent him an e-mail for comment, and I'm very pleased to say he replied (my emphasis):
Dear Pierre,

I am sorry for delay with my response. I just got your message because of traveling.

Answering your question I can say that the situation with Arctic ice changes is highly uncertain. Our observational record is too short, models are not perfect and initial conditions used for model runs are also very far from ideal. We speculate that Greenland ice melt could be a factor influencing Arctic-Subarctic processes but how it will work is not clear yet. More observations and modeling studies are needed.

Thanks,

Andrey"
His advisories are unmistakable: 1) initial conditions for model runs are "very far from ideal" and that 2) "the observational record is too short", and thus taken together ought to be a very loud and clear message to policymakers who are in a rush to declare the science settled and to build a phony climate thermostat.
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Snowflake Cold

September in Romania - "Snow as in the dead of winter"

Robert Felix
iceagenow.info
Thu, 25 Sep 2014 14:20 UTC
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Bucegi Plateau
"Winter weather in September."

Romania, 24 September 2014: All Bucegi Plateau was covered yesterday morning, with a thick layer of snow five inches deep, at over 2,000 meters altitude, temperatures down to - 2 degrees Celsius and snow as in the dead of winter.

Rainfall stopped at dawn, but the wind blew hard and increased, with a speed exceeding 100 km / h and the Busteni cable did not work.
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Frozen barley crops will raise craft beer prices higher in N. America


foxbusiness.com
Mon, 22 Sep 2014 21:39 UTC
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Beer prices in North America may rise next year as brewers and maltsters face higher costs after cold, wet weather damaged Canadian barley crops and left farmers and tipplers crying in their beer.

Canada, the world's second-biggest exporter of malting barley, was already harvesting its smallest crop since 1968, before a recent dump of snow and freezing temperatures in Alberta, the biggest barley-growing province.

The shortage will hit craft brewers the hardest, since they typically keep less malt inventory on hand than larger breweries that are also better able to absorb costs.

"Prices (going) up means our costs go up and beer prices ultimately go up," said Neil Herbst, co-owner of Edmonton-based Alley Kat Brewery. "Any small brewery is going to be exposed."

With supplies tight, the premium maltsters pay for high-quality malting barley has grown and that cost will pass along to brewers who are not protected by long-term supply contracts.

Craft brewers, the small breweries that are independently owned, typically have shorter-term supply contracts than big brewers to buy malt, which is a product made from germinating and drying cereal grains.
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Snowflake Cold

Signs of the Ice Age - summers shorten in Norway

craigm350
weatheraction.wordpress.com
Tue, 23 Sep 2014 21:24 UTC
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When it was warmer in the past decade we were told the shortening winters and longer summers were a sign of man made global warming. Now it seems Summers are shortening in the Northern Hemisphere with early snow on both sides of the Atlantic just as the marionettes march world wide to warn of us of the dangers of a [non] warming world many of whom were either not born or too young to remember when we had a wild jet stream. [emphasis added]
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