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Several inches of snow could also hit higher parts of Idaho, western Montana, western Wyoming, northeast Utah, and northern Colorado into Tuesday, according to the Weather Channel.
With temperatures running 10 to 20 degrees colder than average at times, snow levels are forecast to fall to between 5,000 and 6,500 feet.
Where's all that vaunted global warming?!!
Thanks to Dean Koehler, Craig Adkins and Gordon Broussard for this link
© Snow Report SASutherland this morning.
This week residents were warned to stay indoors to escape the wrath of the worst storm Cape Town had seen in 30 years. Gale force winds, rain, and now a thick blanket of snow has covered certain areas.
The storm that battered the city throughout Wednesday moved inland to Matroosberg, turning the torrential downpour into snow. Employees and guests at Matroosberg lodge awoke to a 10 cm of snow.
"The amount of snowfall we received is a lot for this time of the year. We have had people from Cape Town calling all day to come see it and enjoy," lodge manage Didi de Kock said.
This is partly thanks to the fact that resorts will open for their winter or summer ski seasons on five continents this weekend.
Fresh snow has also fallen or is reported to be due to fall over the weekend in the Alps, Western North America, Africa, Australia, New Zealand and south America, so it's a snowy June picture on ski slopes worldwide.
About half a dozen ski areas are still operating in each of Europe and North America (with Val d'Isere and Whistler Blackcomb due to re-open for summer glacier skiing this weekend and Mammoth pictured still open since last season) and the Gassan spring and summer ski area in Japan, Asia is also open in the northern hemisphere.
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NASA satellite measurements show the polar ice caps have not retreated at all.
However, new data released by NASA reveals that the Earth's polar ice caps have not receded at all since satellite measurements began in 1979.
Considering that the late 1970s marked the end of a 30-year cooling trend, the polar ice caps were quite likely more extensive at that time than they had been since at least the 1920s.
This indicates that not only is polar ice not receding, it is now quite possibly at its greatest extent in at least 97 years.
Thanks to Dale for this link
Light blue line shows 2017 ice extent
© Spence Denny ABC Radio conducted an icy pole test in Adelaide to see how cold it was this morning.
Duty forecaster Paul Bierman confirmed the city had its equal coldest June 1 on record, a temperature not seen since 1943.
"The minimum temperature at Kent Town got down to 2.9 degrees at 6:44am this morning. It has already started to warm up slightly, we're up to 3.3 degrees," he said just before 8:00am.
He said a cold front that moved across the state earlier in the week combined with overnight light winds and clear skies to produce the chilly morning.
"[We're going to have] very cold mornings right through until at least next Sunday ... around 3 or 4C," Mr Bierman said.
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In the early days of Global Warming, the theories predicted that the upper atmosphere would heat due to increases in CO2. Well, that didn't happen. One recent article by NASA says that the Thermosphere (above 100,000 ft) has cooled in recent years due to decreased solar activity and a reduction in ultraviolet light. That certainly seems reasonable. Another article stated that if the lower atmosphere warms, the upper atmosphere must cool, which makes no sense to me.
Other articles posit that as CO2 increases the level at which radiation escapes to space also increases and the upper atmosphere warms. That also made no sense to me.
I decided to take a look at temperatures aloft and reasoned that the difference between day and night temperatures in the upper atmosphere might reveal whether the nighttime atmosphere is cooling faster or slower than in previous years. If cooling slower the temperature curves at 00z and 12z would tend to converge and if cooling faster the curves would diverge. Simple, right?
Comment: And Summer is just a few weeks away:
Ski resorts open on six continents as snow falls or remains on slopes worldwide
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