Just don't tell me the debate's over…
I was casually recording an approaching storm this afternoon when this happened, and I had to change my underwear.
Turn the volume up, watch full screen in HD for the full experience… OMG…
The strike was about 80 metres away (behind the camera, I believe) and marble-sized hail followed from a suspected supercell.
Climate propaganda outfit Forecast the Facts posted this on Twitter:
First snow in Egypt in 112 years. #climatechanged via @gedeon777 pic.twitter.com/j7UWzJvPcb
— Forecast The Facts (@ForecastFacts) December 14, 2013
Shame the picture is actually from a theme park in Japan… Pwned!
Skiing in Jerusalem !!!! pic.twitter.com/REJm5cIewK
— mikeeisenberg (@mikeeisenberg) December 14, 2013
More on the worst storm since the 1950s here.
Plenty of snow…!
From the Weather Isn’t Climate Department. I have relatives on the picturesque island of Jersey, in the Channel Islands, and they have just experienced the worst snow in decades. Jersey is close to the Normandy coast, and the maritime influence of the Atlantic ocean keeps winters generally mild.
However, as the Jersey Evening Post reports, the recent weather is certainly unusual:
ISLANDERS woke to a white-out this morning after Jersey was battered by the worst snow storm in 24 years.
Roads were blocked, power lines ripped down, several pedestrians and motorists were injured by falling trees and much of the Island ground to a halt as blizzards carpeted the Island in six inches of snow and drifts of more than ten feet.
Schools are closed for a second day, the Airport is shut and no buses are running. A decision on whether schools will open tomorrow will be taken at 6 am and will be published here at http://www.thisisjersey.com. (source)
Not a common sight on Jersey
More photos are available at the link.
And here is the weather forecast …
Therefore they should work on Earth too, right? And we should trust their projections to base trillions of dollars of spending which could otherwise be directed towards real problems, right?
Computer models have accurately forecast conditions on Mars and are valid predictors of climate change on Earth, according to a team of US and French astronomers.
They say the computer programs accurately predicted Martian glaciers and other features on Earth’s planetary neighbour.
“Some public figures imply that modelling of global climate change on Earth is ‘junk science,’ but if climate models can explain features observed on other planets, then the models must have at least some validity,” says lead researcher William Hartmann of the Planetary Science Institute.
The team’s findings were presented at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society’s planetary sciences division in Reno, Nevada.
[…]
Hartmann, a senior scientist at the non-profit Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona, says he and his team confirmed the computer models’ effectiveness by using them to forecast conditions on Mars.
New satellite observations of glaciers, ice flows and other features on the red planet showed that the models’ predictions corresponded with what was on the Martian surface, says Hartmann. (source)
Seems a pretty good argument. I mean, apart from the fact that Mars has no vegetation, no animals, birds, insects, bacteria, fish (or humans) or anything other living organism, no oceans or water, an atmosphere made up of 95% CO2, no weather to speak of (except occasional cirrus-like clouds), no precipitation of any significance (except perhaps a few flakes of solid CO2 blowing in the wind), temperatures that rarely exceed 0˚C, takes twice as long to go around the Sun (and is 70-odd million kilometres further from it) has hardly any tectonic or volcanic activity to speak of, or any other myriad complications of the Earth’s climate, it’s almost exactly the same!
Here’s the exclusive ACM climate model result for Pluto. Bloody cold. See, even I can do it!
I will leave readers to contribute any other components of the earth/ocean/atmosphere system of our planet that are absent on Mars.
October in the UK? No, Australia. (ABC)
Another from the Weather Isn’t Climate Department. October is Spring down here in Oz-shire. Snow isn’t unheard of, but it’s pretty rare. Global warming sure is tricky – as we all know it can cause any weather phenomenon you care to mention, so I guess it’s only a matter of time before someone blames climate change.
What did we do before climate change came along? All those extreme weather events happening for millions of years – for no reason at all! Must be the gods. Thank goodness for AGW – now we can blame everything on that. Phew.
Snow has been falling right along the New South Wales ranges, in places that didn’t see snow all winter, for some it is the heaviest in several years.
The heaviest falls on Thursday night and Friday morning have been between the Blue Mountains and Canberra. Snow has been falling in Orange and has been heavy in Oberon, Crookwell and Bowral. As much as 20 centimetres has reportedly settled on the ground in the Crookwell area.
The Canberra area itself also had snow on Thursday, the national capital’s coldest October day since 1968, stay below nine degrees all day.
Snow has also been heavy in the Blue Mountains, even a few centimetres worth settling on the ground in Katoomba. According to locals, it is the heaviest snow in four-or-five years.
Further north, snow has fallen in Glen Innes and Armidale, unusual in winter, very unusual in October. Residents woke to white ground in Glen Innes and the cover has been about five centimetres deep in Guyra. It has been five years since snow has been this evident in Glen Innes.
October snow in Guyra typically only occurs once every five years, but this is unusually heavy, more like a one-in-20-year event for this time of year. (Weatherzone)
Brass monkeys
It certainly felt like it. Another from the Weather Isn’t Climate Department:
The skies are finally clearing in Sydney, allowing it to warm up above average after the coldest weekend in four years.
Today’s sunshine enabled it to reach 19 degrees early in the afternoon, one degree above average, Brett Dutschke, senior meteorologist at Weatherzone, said.
This is noticeably warmer than it got all weekend, which had a 15.6-degree maximum and a wind chill of 10 degrees at times.
Not only was it the coldest weekend since 2008, it was the gloomiest weekend since the start of winter with less than six hours of sunshine. This was quite a contrast to the previous weekend, which had more than three times the amount of sunshine. (source)
More brazen monkeys
More from the Weather Isn’t Climate Department – I can hardly keep up!
It’s all meaningless of course, it’s just weather after all.But you don’t hear the mainstream media, or Tim Flannery, or Clive Hamilton or David Karoly or Will Steffen, all rushing to bleat that this is evidence that “global warming” has slowed, or that such weather “is not consistent” with global warming models.
Whereas, if it was a heatwave on the other hand, as we will no doubt get come summer, all the above will be whining on about how it was “entirely consistent with” projections for climate change.
That’s the great thing about double standards and unfalsifiable hypotheses, right lads?
In New South Wales:
Sydney’s coldest start to August in 14 years
Sydney has shivered through its coldest start to August in over a decade.
On Wednesday, the first morning of the month started out on a cool note, dipping to seven degrees just after 5am. While this was only two degrees below average, it was the coldest first morning of the month in 14 years. (source)
and:
Icy morning in NSW
Parts of New South Wales endured the coldest August morning in 12 years as fog and frost descended on the state.
The Central West Slopes and Plains saw their lowest August temperatures since 2000 this morning. Trangie and Condobolin Airport cooled to -4 degrees, which was eight and seven degrees below average respectively.
Clear skies and light winds last night combined with lingering cold air, following days of persistent southerly winds. This set up allowed heat to radiate away from the surface during the night, providing the ideal conditions for the mercury to plummet this morning. (source)
In South Australia:
Temperatures plunge across SA
August has made a chilly entrance in South Australia.
It has been the coldest August night in Adelaide for 13 years.
The temperature dropped to 2.2 degrees Celsius about 6:20am at the weather bureau at Kent Town and to just 1.3 at Adelaide Airport. (source)
In Queensland:
Coldest morning in years in Brisbane and Bundaberg
It was one of the coldest mornings of the year for Queensland with a few places having their coldest morning in over a decade.
All of Queensland recorded temperatures below the August average except for parts of the Peninsula.
People felt the chill as Brisbane had its coldest morning in four years, dropping to a chilly 4.6 degrees, six below the August average.
Bundaberg Airport was a standout, falling to 3.4 degrees this morning. This was its coldest morning in 17 years and was eight degrees below average.
Mount Isa was very cold, dropping below freezing for only the second time this year and registering its coldest morning in 10 years. It was a staggering 11 degrees below average, reaching minus one.
Blackall in the Central West also recorded its coldest morning in 9 years, dropping to minus two. (source)
All courtesy of Weatherzone.
Brass monkeys
From the Weather Isn’t Climate Department:
It has been a chilly start to August for Adelaide, plunging down to 2.2 degrees this morning, making it the coldest August morning in 13 years.
Just before sunrise, Adelaide dipped down to its lowest August temperature since 1999, when it dropped to 1.7 degrees. This morning’s 2.2 degrees was six below the August average minimum of 8.2 degrees.
This has been a particularly rare morning with Adelaide actually being colder than Canberra.
This freezing morning can be attributed to the combination of several influences. A cold front which passed recently brought a pool of cold air. A large high pressure system then moved overhead which cleared skies and made winds become light.
The city was not the only place which felt the cold. Adelaide Airport recorded 1.3 degrees, their lowest August temperature in 10 years. Elizabeth got down to 0.1 degrees, which is also a 10-year low for August. Noarlunga plunged to 4.2, their coldest August morning since 2006.
It won’t remain too cold all day with a top of 15 degrees expected during the early afternoon. The next few mornings also look like being warmer, due to extra cloud cover and wind bringing temperatures closer to average. (source)
Not quite snowman weather, but still…
From the Weather Isn’t Climate department.
Damn you, global warming:
Perth is on track to have the coldest month on record.
This morning the temperature dipped to 0.4 degrees at 6.24am – and at 8am, it was still only three degrees.
That is the coldest day since July 5, 2010 when 0.3 degrees was recorded in the city.
Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster Matt Boterhoven told WAtoday.com.au that today’s minimum took this month’s tally of cold mornings to 15.
The bureau counts temperatures of less than five degrees as cold mornings.
Mr Boterhoven said the record for cold mornings was 16 in a month, which was reached in July 2010, 2001 and 1998.
He said with forecasts predicting a minimum of two degrees for tomorrow and four degrees on Friday, there was a good chance that record would be beaten.
The days ahead for Perth: Thursday: Partly cloudy. Min 2, max 18. Friday: Partly cloudy. Min 4, max 19. Saturday: Mostly sunny. Min 5, max 20. Sunday: Mostly sunny. Min 5, max 21. (source)
h/t Ice Age Now
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