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Sea ice extent for Svalbard was above average yesterday and has been since 17 July, despite "record-breaking" sea surface temperatures in June.
Extreme Temperatures
Sea ice extent for Svalbard was above average yesterday and has been since 17 July, despite "record-breaking" sea surface temperatures in June.
Mt Hutt received 70 cm (28 inches) of snow in the last 24 hours.
So far, the south-west of both islands was hit by the highest precipitation, with the majority of snow falling on the South Island and only a trace of snow on the North Island. The storm is supposed to last until Wednesday and bring more snow to all ski areas before it clears. The low-pressure system is expected to stay in the area for the week.
Mt Hutt received the lion-share of this snow dump, with 70 cm (28 inches) of snow falling at the base area of this Canterbury region ski area. It is estimated that more than 1m (39 inches) fell at the summit, but the heavy snowfalls mean that avalanche danger is considerable, and the resort is closed today. Mt Hutt's mountain crew will be working throughout the day and night to get the resort ready to open tomorrow, Tuesday, July 25, 2023.
Fresh snow at Marmolada, Dolomiti, Italy.
The Marmolada ridge sits at 3,265 m (10,712 ft) and is known as the 'Queen of the Dolomites' (in Italian "La Regina delle Dolomiti"). Punta Penia is the highest peak in the Marmolada range, stretching out to 3,342 m (10,964 ft). The video below and pictures above were taken at Punta Penia.
Dolomiti Superski is part of IKON Pass and IKON passholders get seven days of unrestricted access to any of the 15 resorts in the ski area. Base Pass and Base Pass Plus holders get five days of access without any blackout days.
Comment: Meanwhile at the same time came some images on social media of snowfall in the Alps:
What do you do when not enough people die to suit your religion? Distort the axis and hope no one notices.
Welcome to government-science, where one of top journals in the world uses graphic design tricks for political convenience. In this graph from the paper, 10 excess deaths from the heat looks "bigger" than 50 excess deaths from cold. Isn't the whole point of a graph so we can compare the bars "at a glance"?
Björn Lomborg corrected this with chart on right. Doesn't that tell a different story?
Thanks to Patrick Moore @EcoSenseNow:
The journal Lancet published the chart on left with unequal Y-Axis to downplay fact that cold causes 10X more deaths than heat in Europe. ...This is disgraceful for a supposedly scientific journal.
Björn Lomborg's version shows us exactly how important heat deaths are. It's no small thing. The news outlets are filled with heatwave porn trying to scare people about normal weather, while politicians try to justify spending billions to "cool" the world. These graphs hide the crime — increasing the cost of energy will kill far more than mythical cooling could ever save.
Welcome to government-science, where one of top journals in the world uses graphic design tricks for political convenience. In this graph from the paper, 10 excess deaths from the heat looks "bigger" than 50 excess deaths from cold. Isn't the whole point of a graph so we can compare the bars "at a glance"?
Björn Lomborg corrected this with chart on right. Doesn't that tell a different story?
Thanks to Patrick Moore @EcoSenseNow:
The journal Lancet published the chart on left with unequal Y-Axis to downplay fact that cold causes 10X more deaths than heat in Europe. ...This is disgraceful for a supposedly scientific journal.
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A digital billboard displays the temperature in downtown Phoenix on Monday, July 17, 2023.
A digital billboard displays the temperature in downtown Phoenix on Monday, July 17, 2023.
Nighttime has offered little relief from the brutal temperatures. Phoenix's low of 95 F on Monday was its highest overnight low ever, toppling the previous record of 93 F set in 2009. It was the eighth straight day of temperatures not falling below 90 F, another record.
It's "pretty miserable when you don't have any recovery overnight," said National Weather Service meteorologist Matt Salerno.
Comment: See also:
- Record-breaking heat wave blasts Southeast Asia
- Temperature extremes: Heatwave to snowfall - Argentina's heat and cold records broken in 5 days
- Chile heat wave exacerbates forest fires, causes public health risk
- Amid 24-hour darkness, Alaskan Arctic town reaches 40F (4.4C), setting all-time winter 'heat' record
- Planetary-scale 'heat wave' discovered in Jupiter's atmosphere
- No warming in US for at least 17 years according to rarely referenced urban heat-free database
The remote Sanbao township in the Turpan depression of Xinjiang saw temperatures climb up to 52.2C.
Sunday's temperature broke the previous record of 50.3C, measured in 2015 near Ayding in the depression, a vast basin of sand dunes and dried-up lakes more than 150 metres below sea level.
China has been hit by a series of climate disasters this year with ongoing heatwaves shattering record after record, extreme rainfall prompting floods and landslides and tropical storm Talim making landfall on Monday.
The record 50C temperature comes after China's Mohe, in Heilongjiang province, recorded temperatures of minus 53C in January amid an extreme cold spell.
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Sea surface temperatures around parts of Florida and the Bahamas are warmer than 90 degrees Fahrenheit, shown here in shades of purple.
Sea surface temperatures around parts of Florida and the Bahamas are warmer than 90 degrees Fahrenheit, shown here in shades of purple.
Sea surface temperatures around Florida have reached the highest levels on record since satellites began collecting ocean data. And the warming is happening much earlier than normal - yet another example of ocean heat being amplified by the human-caused climate crisis and the extreme weather it brings.
Comment: Just over a month ago there was an 'unheard of' marine heatwave off UK and Irish coasts , could the two be related?At least in the case of the event near Ireland, the most reasonable explanation seems to be that this heat may have been emanating from the depths of the ocean: 19,000 previously unknown undersea volcanoes revealed by satellite data
"We didn't expect this heating to happen so early in the year and to be so extreme," Derek Manzello, a coordinator at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Coral Reef Watch, told CNN. "This appears to be unprecedented in our records."
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Snow fell near Pennask Summit of the Okanagan Connector Wednesday afternoon.
Snow fell near Pennask Summit of the Okanagan Connector Wednesday afternoon.
Snow fell near Pennask Summit on Highway 97C, the Okanagan Connector, on Wednesday afternoon.
Chris Moench was on his way to go fishing in Kamloops and shared a photo. It shows slush on the road surface and snow covering the grass along the highway at about 4:15 p.m.
A severe thunderstorm warning was issued by Environment Canada for the area earlier in the day.
Moench said some people had pulled over and were playing in the snow. He said by the time he got to the Highway 5A turnoff at Aspen Grove, the snow had turned to rain.
DriveBC webcams images showed the snow the fell near Pennask Summit had mostly melted by 5 p.m.
A video grab.
The tourists were stranded at Chandratal since Saturday due to blockade of road in the region.
On Tuesday, a rescue team comprising the Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) and Border Roads Organisation (BRO) personnel, local youths and officials led by Kaza ADC Rahul Jain moved towards Chandratal from Losar, but heavy snow on the Losar-Chandratal road disrupted their access to the site.
The BRO started the snow clearing operation on the road on Tuesday and were able to restore only 12km of road from Losar towards Chandratal.
According to officials, 25-km-long road is still covered under thick blanket of snow upto Chandratal, where up to 4 feet of snow has been reported.
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Tufted puffins in October 2016.
Tufted puffins in October 2016.
The study draws on data from four citizen science projects to examine coastal birds from central California, US, to Alaska, US, between 1993 and 2021.
"This is truly a global data set that asked a global-sized question: Does a warming world significantly impact marine birds, among the top predators in the nearshore marine environment?" says paper co-author Julia Parrish, a professor of aquatic and fishery sciences at the University of Washington, US.
"We find a dramatic delayed effect," she adds.
Comment: The data is showing that Earth isn't warming, it's cooling; but there are indeed marine heatwave events occurring, alongside a variety of other unusual and rare phenomena, that reveal our planet - and the solar system at large - is undergoing a significant, and potentially catastrophic, shift:
- 'Unheard of' marine heatwave off UK and Irish coasts poses serious threat
- Lake Michigan deep water is warming and scientists don't know why - NOAA
- Sudden ocean oxygen spike coincided with Permian extinction, anoxia then followed
- Powerful Solar storm has unusually strong impact on Earth, delays SpaceX rocket launch, stalls oil rigs in Canada
Comment: Meanwhile down in Antarctica, which is in the middle of winter, record cold temperatures have been documented. The claim that 'sea ice extent continues to plummet' there is likely to be untrue (see Tony Heller's tweet).
Some researchers propose that the higher than average sea surface temperatures could be due to less cloud cover than usual, whereas higher than usual water temperatures overall may be, in some instances, due to increased activity of submarine volcanoes: 'Unheard of' marine heatwave off UK and Irish coasts poses serious threat