Accuweather: Rockies, Plains See Coldest November Weather in Decades. Coldest, as in 30 to 50 degrees F below normal from Wyoming to Texas.
Northern Wisconsin Town Gets 4+ Feet of Snow in Mid-November. No, that’s not a misprint – 4+ feet (50.3 inches, to be precise). And it was the first snow of the season.
Sault St. Marie, MI: 2 Feet of New Snow. Ispeming, MI, area: 3 Feet of Snow on the Ground. That’s a months’ worth of snow in a single day for those areas. And long-term forecasts say any break in the cold weather won’t happen for at least a week.
Erie, PA: Over a Foot of Snow. Yeah, that’s a record, too. And parts of Ohio and western New York also were predicted to get hit yesterday as well.
What do Burlington, CO; Casper, WY; Denver, CO; Livingston, MT; Riverton, WY; Amarillo, TX; Lubbock, TX; Childress, TX; and Goodland, TX, Have in Common? They all broke low-temperature records for either daily high, daily low, or both this week.
Yep. Global warming is obviously at work here. What else could possibly explain record early cold weather and snowfalls after a much cooler-than-normal summer; a nearly two-decade pause in any conceivable data supporting the global warming fund-soliciting-fairy tale thesis; recent snow in Baghdad and Cairo for the first time in 60 to 100 years; and generally declining temperatures since the 1930s?
Maybe we could roast the Right Reverend Al the Goreacle on a spit over an open fire, to melt some of that fat off him, to burn for fuel, to regain some of that Globull Warming. How Inconvenient!
1887 – A cold snap with cold air coming out of Canada meets a load of warm, moist air in the Great Plains, starts to rumble, and forms a blizzard that blows through the Midwest all the way to New York City, dumping colossal snow along the way and literally burying New Yorkers on their way to work. People froze to death, it was so cold, and they went to work because if you didn’t, you lost your job. My grandfather made a note in his journal when the blizzard hit Wisconsin.
January 1888 – Another blizzard hits the Midwest and east with no warning.
January 1967 – same thing happens, blows through the midwest with little to no warning, burying cars in my home town 250 miles to the south of Chicago, but leaving almost nothing in the cornfields. (I have pictures.) This blizzard hit Chicago with a ‘snowstorm’ warning, and shut the entire city down. Buried cars at stoplights, clogged streets, shut down the airports, etc.
January 1976 – I was in England watching the BBC news report in the hotel’s lounge. The Mississippi River had frozen. The videos showed tugs and barges frozen in place in the ice.
1978-79 winter – a record 90 inches of snow hit the Chicago area in three storms, shutting down both Midway and O’Hare airports, CTA transportation, and made it impossible to clear the sidewalks. Parked cars were buried where they sat. When Streets & San came along to clear the side streets, some cars had to be pulled out of their snowbanks. The snow was loaded into dumptrucks and thrown into the Chicago River.
1991 Hallowe’en Blizzard hits the upper midwest while kids are out trick or treating.
1993 – a blizzard starts in the Gulf of Mexico and moves north and east, hits the midwest then goes off to the east coast, hitting Washington, DC, hard, shutting down businesses and emptying the streets. I stayed home until it passed, but my correspondents in our DC office called me from home and said ‘don’t send us anything, we’re stuck at home’. That was labeled the ‘Storm of the Century’.
New Year’s Eve 12/31/1998 – I looked out of my east window at the street and saw snow falling heavily, called the maintenance guy about shoveling the sidewalk. By next morning 3 feet of snow had clogged the streets in all directions, and he didn’t have any salt for the sidewalks so I sent him up to the hardware store to get some and helped him shovel.
February 2006 – I stayed late at work to finish my postings, and left when the weather report said the snow was piling up. I got most of the way home but discovered the snowplows were behind me instead of ahead of me, and stopped at a restaurant on the highway to get some hot soup and hot cocoa. That place was packed with stranded motorists waiting for the roads to be plowed out, but snow was drifting so much that they couldn’t keep up.
November 2007 – I have to drive to the Christmas Party through a blinding snowstorm to the party location. The wind was blowing off the lake so hard I could not keep the windshield clear. I almost turned around and went home, and by the time I got to the party, the storm had picked up velocity and snow and I was nearly knocked down by it in the parking lot. So I said ‘F-T-S, I’m retiring.’
February 2011 – A blizzard begins at 7PM with light snow, comes southeast toward Lake Michigan creating gale force winds and thundersnow with lightning, and heavy lake effect snow. A CTA flexbus jacknifes on northbound Lake Shore Drive, blocking all traffic behind the bus, stranding motorists, who were finally rescued by the Fire Department. All airports were shut down. I woke to find 4 feet of snow drifted up against my storm door, had to wait for my neighbors to dig me out. I have pictures of this, too. Some people did not heed warnings and decided to run errands, and got stuck in the snow, freezing to death because no one could get to them. If the weather guys say ‘Don’t go out in it’, then DON’T GO OUT IN IT!
February 2012 – The wind chill froze my pipes. I had to call someone to come and thaw them.
That summer 2012 in the north was winter in the southern hemisphere. There was snow in the Atacama desert, which is the driest place on EArth, and snow in Brazil.
April 2014 – Extremely late spring meant no food for the migrating birds. Snow fell on April 14. The freeze didn’t thaw for two more weeks. I had redwing blackbirds, brownheaded cowbirds, and boat-tailed grackles – all common birds that do not go to feeders – at my feeding station, because they could not find food elsewhere.
These episodes seem to be getting closer and closer together, and the jet stream appears to be losing its normal westerly flow in summer in the northern hemisphere. So now you have to ask is this a permanent change, or is it another weather cycle?
Snow storms that keep us indoors aren’t so bad, but are they increasing in volume and occurrence, or is it just the weather?
I think it’s picking up in numbers and snow load, which is great for skiers and snowboarders and snowbirds, but if you don’t particularly care for it, you’re kind of screwed.
Let us not forget the Armistice Day Blizzard of 1940 which killed approx 160 in the mid-west
Here in Vegas, it’s snowed on Mt. Charleston twice already. The first time was in late August, which is usually hotter than the back gates of the Hot Place.
All I know is, it has been so cold I can’t get my kites to fly! Not enough hot air for lift. 😀 (This is for DrKnow if he’s trolling.)
Fricking frigid this week in the Denver area (14 below Wed morning) and I’ve been stuck inside with 3 dogs that desperately need a long walk. They are all pretty much naked and can’t be out for more than a couple of minutes. In desperation, we took them to PetSmart the other night to get some exercise.
After a beautiful fall too. This does not portent well for a nice winter.
Yep. Got some in-laws in SE Wyoming. Their low the other night: -18 F. In mid-Nov.
Must be that “global warming”.
I hear you guys!
It got so cold here on the central coast of California, that we had to wear socks with our sandals 😀
I’m glad Al Gore invented the internet, but not so happy about him inventing global warming. It’s freaking cold in Colorado.
The radical communists gravitated to the radical environmental causes during their communist defeat.
They have morphed the term “Global Warming” to “Climate Change.” Yep…they can change their stripes and sayings.
Just ask yourself…What ever happened to all of the hard core communists? They went somewhere…and I read about them daily, and their propaganda is forced down my throat.
not for nothing, but we had snow in Baghdad in ’04, ’05, ’07 and ’09. might have been there other years too but i was not.
Don’t look to me; I stopped believing that global warming crap a long time ago.
I mean, if anyone still buys this crap, I know of some good oceanfront property in Kansas to sell you, dirt-cheap. Or maybe a nice ski resort in Hawaii?
I have never believed in ‘global warming’. It seemed like a scam to me, a way to get attention and generate money.
And when I was in my decluttering mode last week, I came across magazines from 2005 and 2006 that I had saved for some reason. One of them was a n 2006 issue of ‘Sierra’, the Sierra Club’s publication. There on the cover was the headliner: an article about Al Gore and what a ‘star’ he was.
Unfortunately for those people, their pandering episode didn’t last long, did it?
I’m waiting for more ‘giant iceberg calving’ reports on Antarctic glaciers, some of which are sitting on volcanically active hot zones.
Since 2005, there have been lots of quakes on the fault that leads from the Saudi peninsula down the African coast to Antarctica. Lots of quakes. More to come, and it’s a volcanically active fault line. This should be interesting.
“Or maybe a nice ski resort in Hawaii?” You mean like this one?
http://www.hawaiiinfoguide.com/hawaii_skiing.htm
So, there I was, in my car, minding my own business, not even knowing who was talking on the radio, but nearly wrecked the car when someone referred to the folks selling this load of crap as “climate scientologists” because they make their offerings with religious fervor, it’s all based on something other than science, and it’s promoted by Hollywood!
Evidently that thought has been around a while. Here is just one of several articles from a quick search on the phrase: http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexepstein/2013/11/07/the-church-of-climate-scientology-rationalizes-some-of-the-worst-policies-in-our-history/
OK, everyone else has probably already heard the term, but it was new to me. And hilarious.
Okay, please post a spew alert when you do this, OWB. Climate scientology?!?
Whod’a thunk it?
Well, thanks to online live streaming, I can keep up with weather in the old hometown tonight, and if the current temperature levels continue through Thursday, as is predicted, a 111-year-old record (22F in 1903) will have been broken.
Global warming, my fat Aunt Harriet.
Oh, did I tell you guys (also thanks to internet news posts) that this past winter in the southern hemisphere (summer in the northern latitudes), there was snowfall AGAIN in the Atacama Desert in South America?
This is the 3rd year running, and the radio telescope array down there had snow drifted deep against the base of each telescope. It isn’t heat that makes a desert; it’s lack of moisture.