The Ice Age Cometh! Forget Global Warming!

Not just Europe suffers an unusually cold month of May, also the US:

A historic and long-duration snowstorm is set to unleash feet of powder on the higher elevations of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Oregon and Washington state this week, with unprecedented inches settling at lower-elevations, too.

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AccuWeather meteorologists say that snowfall of this volume over such an extensive area is highly unusual.

Daily high temperatures have plummeted a whopping 40-60 degrees Fahrenheit from their Monday peak, and could tumble even further as the weekend approaches:

Canada:

Large parts of British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan are also on for impressive totals through the remainder of the month:



GFS Total Snowfall May 19 – May 31 [tropicaltidbits.com].

A return to near-zero temperatures was observed overnight, a stark contrast to the daytime highs of 30C (86F) witnessed this past weekend (another example of the Grand Solar Minimum and the Swings between Extremes).

North America’s unprecedented May chill doesn’t look to be shifting anytime soon:

Australia:

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Swathes of Australia are shivering through a record-breaking cold snap, with the frosty mornings set to continue across eastern parts through the weekend.
In addition, not only was this the city’s (Sidney's) coldest run of May nights in 54 years, it was “the coldest run of nights this early in the year in 66 years,” a Bureau of Meteorology spokesperson said.


And India:

India’s capital city Delhi usually experiences scorching temperatures in May.

Yesterday, however, a high of just 23.8C (74.8F) was registered — the city’s coldest May reading since 1951, and one some 16 degrees Celsius below the seasonal average.

The recent rains have also been record breaking.

According to the India Meteorological Department, the previous 24-hour rainfall record for the month of May was the 60mm received back on May 24, 1976. But Wednesday, May 19, 2021 just busted that benchmark.

2021 European Cold Spring Does Not Mean Climate Change Is Fake,” reads a recent Forbes headline.

I like what Cap says: "But surely, by now, in the year 2021, if ‘Catastrophic Global Heating’ was indeed a real thing, shouldn’t it be more obvious? Genuinely, why hasn’t the constant need for the theory to be pointed out to people become redundant?"
 
It seems that after more than one year of covidiocy people have lost even the ability to observe the weather :-(
This area will see a significate dip to the 30's F* with continued unsettled weather pattern gyrations.
access_time 10:28 AM PDT on May 21, 2021 (GMT -7) | Updated 7 seconds ago
54° | 39°
37 F LIKE 29°Mostly Cloudy
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Gusts 15 mph
Today's temperature is forecast to be WARMER than yesterday......


Meanwhile:
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0° overnight and 1° right now where we live. This is unusual for this part of Australia. I went outside to take a look and saw white frost everywhere. Extremely extremely cold. I am enjoying it for now though as didn’t get to travel last year due to covid but now been travelling to mountain ranges where the ski season is yet to open ie not many peeps and plenty of snow to play with.
 
Some tweets:

- Whilst much of Europe (and elsewhere!) seems to be experiencing lower than usual temperatures as well as a more turbulent than usual May, over in the Arctic temperatures are much higher than usual; 20-24C in some regions. I'm presuming because of the meandering jet stream? (shown here in April).

Scott Duncan on Twitter - who promotes global warming, so bear that in mind - provides more interesting visuals showing what's happening in Europe and the Arctic.

- Over in Mongolia a temperature swing of 20C

- Some are predicting a continuation of the 'Greenland blocking pattern' that has apparently caused this cool spring (even if the end of winter/beginning of spring was unseasonably warm in some area!):

- Plus the world's largest iceberg breaks off in Antarctica. Note that calving (ice bergs growing/breaking off) is associated with global cooling. There's also the effect that undersea volcanoes may be having on the area - see story of the iceberg here.

 
I'm presuming because of the meandering jet stream? (shown here in April).
On this site Global Jet Stream Map - Netweather they have an interactive map that allows one to move a globe, move the time and see what the jet stream looks like. Below is an example with a screenshot showing the situation for May 22, at 20:00 GMT
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A forecast for the expected behaviour of the jetstream in the coming days for the North Atlantic and surrounding areas can be found here Jetstream Forecast - Jetstream Map Updated Four Times Daily - Netweather.tv
 
Have you noticed the "sliding values" ?

Using the below tweet, when you look at the temperature scale.... notice that orange is a mere 10°C [50°F], and red only 17°C [62.6°F].... Why ? It just "screws with your mind".

I mean, neither 10°C nor 17°C are temperatures deserving the associations of orange or red colors. The thing is, that the same thing has happened in German TV Weather illustrations: They do the same thing. 30 years ago, you would not assign red colors to temperatures below 30°C, not even below 25°C or 20°C. Today the color scale has been lowered by a lot ! I also notice it here, in this daily updated link for MAX temperatures in Europe (or see illustration below), that temperatures around 23°C are already marked as red.

But that's not any remarkable heat ! Yet, it makes it all look unusual hot....

Talk about psychological voodoo...



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The following shows the impact that this year's weather has had on growth when compared to last year.

Charles Dowding is an Englishman who grows and sells vegetables in his local area for a living. He's also become pretty popular on Youtube for his successful method of growing that involves using lots of compost and few, if any, additional chemicals in the form of pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers.

As you can see in this post, last year's jet stream was tight and circular leading to stable and mild weather across much of Europe, whilst this year's has been meandering and has resulted in erratic weather patterns with more extreme high and low temperatures.

The difference in growth is rather startling and it's not often i come across an image the makes the point so well. It shows how fragile the growing season is and, were summer to be weak in some way, or should autumn and winter come earlier than expected, the impact this will have on harvest and the food supply could likely be significant. Even more so were this to happen a few years in a row (as has actually been happening).

As was the case throughout Europe this year, a mild end to winter and early start to spring that is punctuated by damaging frosts can be almost as bad for crops, if not worse, than an overall cool spring that causes a slow and weak start to growth.

The video blurb states:
I show the results of low spring temperatures, in contrast to the high ones of 2020. The differences are dramatic. Growth was so slowed by the cold nights of April, that it has been slow to re-establish until just recently. At Homeacres SW England zone 6-8 with normally mild springs, and last frost mid May. April 2021 saw 16 frosts compared to the average 5, and a minimum temperature average in April of -0.2C (average 4C), although days were almost average temperature of 13.4C. May had four frosts up to 7th May, and temperatures are so far just 1.4C below average in May, but April's nights did the damage. April 2020 had four frosts and nights averaged 5.2C, days were average 18C! May 2020 had four frosts with day temperature average of 17.5C up to mid May. In 2021, not one day has been that warm.

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The following shows the impact that this year's weather has had on growth when compared to last year.

Charles Dowding is an Englishman who grows and sells vegetables in his local area for a living. He's also become pretty popular on Youtube for his successful method of growing that involves using lots of compost and few, if any, additional chemicals in the form of pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers.

As you can see in this post, last year's jet stream was tight and circular leading to stable and mild weather across much of Europe, whilst this year's has been meandering and has resulted in erratic weather patterns with more extreme high and low temperatures.

The difference in growth is rather startling and it's not often i come across an image the makes the point so well. It shows how fragile the growing season is and, were summer to be weak in some way, or should autumn and winter come earlier than expected, the impact this will have on harvest and the food supply could likely be significant. Even more so were this to happen a few years in a row (as has actually been happening).

As was the case throughout Europe this year, a mild end to winter and early start to spring that is punctuated by damaging frosts can be almost as bad for crops, if not worse, than an overall cool spring that causes a slow and weak start to growth.

The video blurb states:


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So very true, thank you for posting this! Here in the SW England, we have had such a cool May, heavy cloud and constant rain. Whilst our garden is slightly protected and not suffered too much from the frosts, the rain this month has brought the slugs out in abundance. This time last year, runner beans, French beans and peas/mange touted looked pretty similiar to the growth seen in the May 2020 photos above....this year, any growth has been decimated by those slugs, so I now have to resow EVERYTHING! I can only hope for a warm couple of months in order to catch up, but things do look more promising for June.
 
but things do look more promising for June.
Well, yesterday up in the north of the UK, in Scotland, they were powder snow skiing!

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From Electroverse:

Scots are suffering a rare late-spring Arctic blast this week as an unusual chill continues to engulf the majority of the European continent.

Inches upon inches of rare and record-breaking late-May snow settled across the higher parts of Scotland, with additional and exceptionally rare flurries descending on low-lying areas, too.

I also like this picture of Ben Nevis, which looks like a scene from Mount Everest:

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As we approach June, forecasters are anticipating yet more Arctic outbreaks.

Next week, the Met Office is predicting “snow, hail and thunder” to rock Scotland. This is the same Met Office that recently claimed extreme cold was a thing of the past, and also that snow will vanish from Britain by 2040 due to the “climate emergency/crisis/breakdown” aka “global heating” aka “terrifying terra firma broiling.”

These were the temp anomalies in Europe yesterday:

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Stay warm everyone!
 

Isolated Thunderstorm Dumps Snow, Hail Over Maunakea’s Mid-Level https://bigislandnow.com/2021/05/25/isolated-thunderstorm-dumps-snow-hail-over-maunakeas-mid-level/
An isolated severe thunderstorm dumped snow and one-fourth-inch sized hail over the 9,000-foot mid-level section of Maunakea on Saturday, May 22.
The area, known as Halepōhaku, is a facility frequented by those visiting Maunakea. No damage or injuries were reported but the Maunakea Rangers from the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Center for Maunakea Stewardship (CMS) want to remind visitors that dangerous wintry weather can break out with little warning at any time.

According to forecasters at the Mauna Kea Weather Center, it is rare for widespread snow to reach the mid-level area of the mountain and for the summit to remain bare.



The coldest temp our stations have recorded so far this morning is in the Mackenzie Basin with -10.5°C!
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British Isles Weather @nvangelder03
2:22 AM · May 27, 2021
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Imagine a snowstorm this extreme in the UK, over 10ft of snow from one storm in southeast greenland, that's gonna take some serious melting to reach net negative. You can see how much weight it's applying to the ice sheet by that thin negative SMB in the middle where it's sank.

ARSO vreme @meteoS
10:39 PM · May 25, 2021
Especially in the north, an unusually cool morning for the end of May, the lowest measured temperature (°C): Chalk -5.5 Zelenica -2.1 Jezersko -1.2 Logarska Dolina -0.7 Zgornja Radovna +0.7 Gačnik and Bovec 1.6 #NenavadnoVreme
Keraunos@KeraunosObs
11:37 PM · May 23, 2021
In this month of May, to date, only 3 days have been above the normal of the national thermal indicator (8-10 May). Spring (March-April-May) will very likely end up colder than normal in France (-0 .6 ° C on May 23). Graph via @infoclimat
 

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The difference in growth is rather startling and it's not often i come across an image the makes the point so well. It shows how fragile the growing season is and, were summer to be weak in some way, or should autumn and winter come earlier than expected, the impact this will have on harvest and the food supply could likely be significant. Even more so were this to happen a few years in a row (as has actually been happening).

Same situation here in southwest Germany. The difference in terms of growth compared to last year at the same time is quite noticeable. The air temperatures are also still very chilly when the sun is not shining and at night. Could very well be, if it continues like that, that this year becomes the first year "without summer" in recent times. I would bet what we are seeing is the beginning of some sort of ice age.
 
We again had the repeat of temperature dropping to -1 °C overnight and currently it is 1 °C outside. No snow though as there’s not enough humidity but its definitely snowing in the mountains as can feel the icy thin air. This is a lot lot colder than the same time last year.
 
Finally some nice weather here in west Germany!
In the last few days it was around 23-24 degrees C and should go to 27 tomorrow! ☀️
Then some storm apparently coming but it won´t go under 22 in the following 10 days.
Nights are still cold at 12 degrees...
 
Lower Austria. We had weeks of cloudy skys, low temperatures and very often rain and storms. Peoples mood were really down. Now it looks like the temperatures will rise and we will get some sunny days with temperatures rising up to more than 20° C, which should be normal for this time of year.
 
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