Extreme Temperatures
Coronet Peak is in the midst of a three-day spring snow storm with 15cm of fresh snow on Tuesday morning.
Short term variations, local record hots and colds, don't mean much, that's just weather. What matters is long term global trend lines over decades, centuries, millennia, eons, epochs.
Expanded record of temperature change since the end of the last glacial period
The only 'normal' in climate is constant change
Some places are hotter than average and some places are cooler than average on any particular day (I don't use 'normal' because the only 'normal' in climate is constant change).
Researchers at the University of New Mexico believe it was the RECORD COLD WEATHER that caused the hundreds of thousands of birds to fall from the NM skies earlier this month, due to a lack off edible insects and hypothermia.
For weeks social media was ablaze with speculation and theories, and it being social media, one cause was permitted to take-flight: the California wildfires. However, objective science has now spoken and, as usual, it completely contradicts the mainstream narrative.
According to UNM Ornithology PhD students Jenna McCullough and Nick Vinciguerra, who were busy collecting samples around the Sandia Mountains while the parrots on SM were blindly tweeting #climatebreakdown!, the historic Arctic front that rode anomalously-far south on the back of a meridional jet stream flow was the primary cause of the deaths.
Just Count the Cold-Records that Fell over the Past 24hrs
"The day after the [early-September snow]storm, I was contacted via email by my supervisor, Mariel Campbell, the collections manager of the Genomic Resources Division of the Museum of Southwestern Biology, about birds dead and acting weird in Tijeras," said Jenna McCullough.
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Comment: See also:
- NASA announces Solar cycle 25 has begun, will be weakest since records began in 1755
- Professor Nils-Axel Mörner: 'The approaching grand solar minimum and little ice age conditions'
- Professor Valentina Zharkova: "We entered the 'modern' Grand Solar Minimum on June 8, 2020"
- New scientific study finds we could be entering the next Grand Solar Minimum
- Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Interview with Laura Knight-Jadczyk and Pierre Lescaudron
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Siglufjörður, dressed in white this morning.
Siglufjörður, dressed in white this morning.
You may remember that part of the popular TV series Trapped, directed by Baltasar Kormákur, was filmed in Siglufjörður on days when the town was under a thick blanket of snow.
The forecast is for continued snow showers in Siglufjörður and the neighboring town of Ólafsfjörður.
It is noted that currently there is rainfall in the region in the form of wet snow.
"The snow cover did not have time to form," the agency's correspondent reports.
According to the Ural Hydrometeorological Center, on Monday night the air temperature in Yekaterinburg dropped below zero. On September 21, cloudy weather with clearings and light rain is expected in the city. The thermometer will reach plus 5-7 degrees.
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A dusting of snow is seen near the summit of Mount Fuji on Sept. 21, 2020.
A dusting of snow is seen near the summit of Mount Fuji on Sept. 21, 2020.
According to the city, cooler temperatures prevailing over the four-day long weekend that started on Sept. 19 turned rain that had been falling on the mountain into snow, leaving a light sprinkling of the white stuff near the peak.
Mount Fuji's first observed snowfall in 2019 came on Oct. 23, over a month later than this year. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, on average the mountain gets its first snow on Sept. 30.
Photo used for illustrative purposes only.
Yes, snow... in September. Which means it may just be time to pull out your hats, scarves and mittens.
A meteorologist for MétéoMedia, Sophie Colombani, tweeted "Snow this morning on the side of the Réserve faunique des Laurentides" on Saturday, September 19. She also noted that Montreal's temperature dropped to 2 C the previous night.
En attendant l'équinoxe d'automne, des automobilistes ont eu un avant-goût de l'hiver ce matin dans le parc des Laurentides 🙃❄️ #neige #météoqc pic.twitter.com/z8ROKbf5XN
— meteomedia (@meteomedia) September 19, 2020
It fell in the night of September 18, district governor Zamir Sydykov said.
The local authorities and farmers estimate the amount of crops covered by snow.
"Snow has fallen in Taldy-Bulak and Kopuro-Bazar. Herders managed to drive cattle from pastures. Crops remained unharvested however. The rural municipalities are evaluating the caused damage," the governor said.
Comment: Additional details from the same source later on in the day:
The Too-Ashuu, Ala-Bel, Kok-Bek and Otmok passes on Kyrgyzstan's major roads were cleared from snow allowing resumption of traffic, the Ministry of Transport and Roads announced.
The snow fell overnight on those passes. The snow cover reached 10-15cm in some places, causing traffic jams.
The passes were cleared from snow and the roads were treated to prevent icing.
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A sign on the road to Les Menuires and Val Thorens reads "Special equipment required"
A sign on the road to Les Menuires and Val Thorens reads "Special equipment required"
As well as high winds causing chairlifts and gondolas to be closed for safety reasons, heavy precipitation - both snow and rain - raised the avalanche warning to level 5, denoting the highest level of risk, in many French destinations.
The linked resorts of Tignes and Val d'Isère were among the worst affected. With the avalanche risk at 5, visitors to Tignes were asked to stay indoors until around 11am on Thursday morning until given the all-clear. The ski area for both resorts was closed all day, with no lifts running, and the road to Bourg St Maurice was closed until late afternoon.
Comment: To read more about the true drivers behind our planet's climate, see:
- The Seven Destructive Earth Passes of Comet Venus
- Volcanoes, Earthquakes And The 3,600 Year Comet Cycle
- Has Nibiru/Planet X Been Sighted?
- Forget About Global Warming: We're One Step From Extinction!
- How the sun affects temperatures on Earth: Interview with Professor Valentina Zharkova
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