Another Colorado ski resort closes because of too much snow

KUSA – It’s a snow report that would inevitably make any powder hound salivate: 20 inches in the last 20 hours, 28 inches in the last 48 and 68 inches in the last week.

It’s a lot of snow – so much snow, in fact, that Monarch Mountain is the second ski resort in two days to say it can’t open due to too much of that white powder.

RELATED: Crested Butte closes because of too much snow

“Monarch Pass is closed all night for avalanche control, preventing Monarch Mountain maintenance, food service and grooming crews from reaching the mountain,” the resort wrote on Facebook Tuesday. “Stay tuned for information on status and conditions for tomorrow, Jan. 11.”

Photos shared on Monarch’s Facebook page show heavy drifts of snow at the resort.

Monarch Mountain joins Crested Butte in having a very, very unique problem.

Crested Butte announced Monday that it would have to close its lifts due to safety concerns arising from too much snow. On Tuesday, they tweeted they were working on getting everything back open.

Record cold and snow spread globally

Record cold and snow have descended upon the planet this Winter and even in the summer in some places. The cold is spreading as the latest satellite data reveals that despite a huge El Nino, global temperatures are not statistically warmer than 1998.

The global warming “pause” continues. See: Death Of Global Temperature ‘Pause’ Greatly Exaggerated – 2016 Not Statistically Warmer Than 1998  & Despite new claims, global warming temperature pause ‘still going strong’  & The Pause Lives on: Global Satellites: 2016 not Statistically Warmer than 1998

Round up of global record cold and snow

Via: https://www.iceagenow.info/

Record cold, then freezing rain in Portland metro

New cold record set in Finland

California – 6½ feet of snow in 72 hours – Homewood ski area has received 79 inches  (200 cm) of snow in the past 72 hours. Continue reading California – 6½ feet of snow in 72 hours

Far colder than normal in Russia

Snowing in New Zealand – In high summer

California – 6½ feet of snow in 72 hours

Siberia Sizzles At 58C Below

20 Dec 2016 – Heavy snowfall in Saudi Arabia – Such snow not seen for many years. Temperature below zero.

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19 Dec 2016 – Snow in the Sahara for the first time since 1979

The Sahara desert sands with snow

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/745567/Snow-Sahara-Desert-first-time-37-years-Algeria

 

18 Dec 2016 – Record low temperatures have been recorded in cities across South Dakota, Iowa and  Minnesota

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http://www.bostonherald.com/news/national/2016/12/the_latest_subzero_temps_set_records_warmer_weather_ahead

Yet Another Attempt To Blame Cold Winters On Global Warming!

By Paul Homewood

 

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Every year it seems we get a new study linking cold winters to global warming and “melting” Arctic ice.

Only last month I debunked the latest attempt, and I assumed this must be the same study. Turned out I was wrong!

This is what Unscientific American has to say about the latest paper:

 

 

The polar vortex in recent years has brought the kind of miserable cold to northern states that made it hard to breathe outside. We’re probably in for more of the same.

That’s the finding of a new study published yesterday in the journal Nature that finds that as the Arctic warms, it is shifting the polar vortex to Europe. That in turn will bring more bursts of frigid cold to North America.

Those temperature drops could lead to miserable days in February and March, the research finds. Conversely, those drops in temperature could offset some of global warming’s effect in those regions, said Martyn Chipperfield, professor of atmospheric chemistry at the University of Leeds and a co-author of the paper.

“Climate change can lead to extremes; it’s not like a regular change, everyone to the same extent at all times and places,” he said. “Despite the overall warming, you can get in places like the Northeastern U.S. extreme cold events. That’s consistent with climate change and global warming.”

The polar vortex is a fast-moving band of air that encircles the frigid Arctic in winter months and traps it there. Its movement is part of a decades long change.

The polar vortex has actually “shifted persistently” away from North America and into Europe and Asia over the last 30 years, researchers found. That results in cooling over North America but warmer winters in Europe.

As global warming decreases sea ice, the sun’s warmth absorbed by the ocean is instead released from the ocean for a longer period of time, which disrupts the vortex.

When the vortex weakens, a growing number of climate scientists argue, the cold Arctic air migrates to lower latitudes, as happened in early 2014 and 2015. The sudden and somewhat prolonged burst of cold broke pipes and water mains and more than doubled energy bills in places like New York and New England as it wreaked havoc across a wide swath of the country.

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The full paper is here.

 

So let’s see …

N. Hemisphere Snow Cover Trend Has In Fact Been Upward Over Past Quarter Century

USA’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) providesdata here on snow cover.

Because global warming is supposed to be leading to less snow, one would think that snow cover in terms of area would be trending downwards over the past 50 or so years. However, the data tell us a very different story.

Surprisingly wintertime snow cover area has actually been trending upwards over the past 50 years and all-year snow cover in the northern hemisphere has been pretty much steady, and even of the rise over the past 25 years!.

The following NOAA chart shows us the northern hemisphere show cover for November:

snow-nov

Clearly the November trend is solidly upwards, with especially great area extents over 5 of the last 6 Novembers. The next chart is for December:

snow-dec

In December as well we see especially vast snow cover over many of the past 15 years – even higher than the winters of the 1970s, when we were being bombarded with warnings of global cooling.

Next we present the data for January, where see no change over the past 48 years:

snow-jan

However in January, over the past 25 years we can make out a rising trend as well. Claims that snow is becoming a thing of the past are very false.

February’s trend tell us the same story: greater snow cover:

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Again here as well the powerfully upward trend is clearly visible since 1990.

The same is true for the autumn months of September and October.

Northern Hemisphere Snow Cover Trend Goes Upward Over Past Quarter Century

USA’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) providesdata here on snow cover.

Because global warming is supposed to be leading to less snow, one would think that snow cover in terms of area would be trending downwards over the past 50 or so years. However, the data tell us a very different story.

Surprisingly wintertime snow cover area has actually been trending upwards over the past 50 years and all-year snow cover in the northern hemisphere has been pretty much steady, and even of the rise over the past 25 years!.

The following NOAA chart shows us the northern hemisphere show cover for November:

snow-nov

Clearly the November trend is solidly upwards, with especially great area extents over 5 of the last 6 Novembers. The next chart is for December:

snow-dec

In December as well we see especially vast snow cover over many of the past 15 years – even higher than the winters of the 1970s, when we were being bombarded with warnings of global cooling.