Europeans Stunned As Winter Strikes In Mid July! Snow Down To Only 1500 Meters …”Extremely Rare”

Europeans Stunned As Winter Strikes In Mid July! Snow Down To Only 1500 Meters …”Extremely Rare”

http://notrickszone.com/2016/07/14/europeans-stunned-as-winter-strikes-in-mid-july-snow-down-to-only-1500-meters-extremely-rare/

Here in the north German flatlands, my wife this morning commented that it felt like fall this morning. Indeed it was a bit nippy outside. As already forecast here, snow hit the German higher elevations, but with snow falling to as low as 1500 early this morning, so reports meteorologist Dominik Jung in a press release at wetter.net here. Here’s an excerpt: ======================================= Camping in the snow? What a summer! Snow fell this morning down to elevations of only 1500 meters. Photo: wetter.net. Wiesbaden (wetter.net) 14 July 2016 – have you ever thought of camping in the snow and in the middle of July? As warned already on Monday by wetter.net, this forecast came true in the Alp countries of Switzerland and Austria! The snowfall elevation really dropped over night. In some places early this morning snowflakes were falling at 1500 meters. For mid July such a low elevation snowfall is extremely rare. Clearly snow is not real unusual in June or late August at these elevations, but in July it is truly an unusual event to witness. This summer is not only behaving like fall, but even like winter. Not only did snow fall in Switzerland, but also in Austria. The popular Großglockner high Alps pass was in parts covered by snow this morning. And it is still snowing. Most people were certainly expecting something totally different this summer vacation. Summer 2016 is doing whatever it wants. Just days earlier in Austria the mercury were at levels between 30 and 35°C, but now it is snowing down to elevations of 1500 meters in mid July.” ============================ Jung writes that the cool weather has also gripped parts of Germany and is accompanied by heavy rains in the regions near Poland. The cause of the cold spell is a low situated over Poland. Not only Switzerland and Austria were surprised by winter, but so were parts of northern Italy. Severe Weather at Facebook here also posted a photo of snow blanketing the Alps in Northern Italy yesterday, well below the tree line. Incredible!  

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July snowfall in three states: Snow reported in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming

Via: http://iceagenow.info/july-snowfall-three-states/

Snow reported in parts of Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming.

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Welcome to Idaho! Snow at Lost Trail Pass on 11 Jul 2016. (Idaho DOT)

Snow reported as low as 6,490 feet elevation.

Weren’t we being warned that global warming would drive ski areas out of business by now?

See video and more photos:
https://weather.com/forecast/regional/news/summer-snow-cold-montana-photos

Cold and Snow in July – Higher elevations of Montana and Wyoming could see snow to start the week.

The snow was reported at elevations as low as 6,500 feet. Snow has fallen in the northern Rockies to start this week.

A taste of winter weather swept into the northern Rockies Sunday into early Monday where snow was reported in parts of Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming. Above 10,000 feet in Yellowstone National Park, there was enough new snow to build a snowman.

 

Look what we found on top Mt. Washburn (elev. 10,268 ft) in Yellowstone Nat’l Park this morning.

 It was enough to close Beartooth Pass Monday on the Wyoming side, typically open from late May through mid-October, cutting off the most direct route from Red Lodge, Montana, to Yellowstone National Park.

 

A light coating of snow could be seen on an Idaho DOT webcam at Lost Trail Pass Monday morning.

Snow at Lost Trail Pass in Idaho. (Idaho DOT)

This Montana DOT webcam at Big Hole Pass in the southwestern part of the state showed snow covering the ground Monday morning at an elevation of 7,400 feet.

Snow in Montana on Monday morning. (Montana DOT)

Snow fell at elevations as low as 6,500 feet in the hills around Grangeville, Idaho, on Sunday evening.

 

Brundage Ski Resort near McCall, Idaho, also saw some snowfall.

 

 

In Wyoming, snowflakes were spotted on a camera at Rendevous Peak near Jackson.

 

Study: Canada’s extreme winters ‘within range of normal variations’ – ‘Speaks to the apparent slowdown in the rate at which the Earth is heating up’

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/canadas-extreme-winters-within-range-of-normal-variations-study/article30637250/

Remember the polar vortex?

The term entered popular awareness during the winter of 2013-14, which brought biting cold to much of the country and saw record low temperatures around the Great Lakes region.

Now climate scientists at Environment and Climate Change Canada who have been studying the phenomenon to see whether something unusual was behind it have an answer: Such an extreme winter is within the range of normal for Canada.

The result has broad implications because it speaks to the apparent slowdown in the rate at which the Earth is heating up. The slowdown, or global warming “hiatus” as it is sometimes called, is a smaller-than-expected increase in global average surface temperature since about the year 2000. Observations suggest the planet is getting warmer, but not as quickly as predicted.

The Canadian study, published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change, reinforces the idea that natural variability is behind the hiatus, too, since very cold winters in one region tend to drag down the global average. It implies that things could just as easily swing the other way in the future, causing temperatures to rise even faster than climate models predict. Such a reverse swing may be behind the searing heat that people are currently experiencing in the American southwest.

“Our findings don’t undermine the influence that humans have been having on the climate,” said John Fyfe, a senior research scientist at the Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis in Victoria. “But we shouldn’t be surprised to find that human-induced climate change is overlaid on top of a level of internal variability that can be quite large in magnitude and persistent.”

According to Dr. Fyfe, that persistence helps explain why a cluster of cold winters can crop up in close succession, as occurred with three out of the five winters between 2009 and 2014.

The study challenges a theory, put forward in 2014, that the cold winter of 2013-14 was triggered by an unusual warming in the western tropical Pacific that year.

Using the federal government’s own climate-system model, which runs on a dedicated supercomputer, Dr. Fyfe and a collaborator ran 200 detailed simulations of the Earth’s atmosphere, looking at the kinds of fluctuations that arise from year to year. They then zeroed in on four of those that most closely reproduced the kind of extreme winter conditions that occurred in North America during 2013-14.

What they …

Record Snow in Alaska – Brazil coldest in 22 years – Argentina buried in snow – South Africa snows

Record cold and snowfalls for the past week as collected by http://iceagenow.info/

Snow in Russia on June 13 – Today in Tiksi it snowed.

South Africa – Snow around the country

Surprise snow in Russia

Brazil – Coldest in 22 years – Waterfall freezes.

Em Urupema, cachoeira congelou

Nature continues to mock Ukrainians – In June it snows – Kyiv, June 10 – “The snow falls in the summer,” says nahnews.org.

Surprise snow in Mexico – Snow in June in Creel.

Record snowfall in Barrow, Alaska – Shatters old daily snowfall record for June 9.

More than 2 meters of snow in Argentina – School classes suspended.

Misiones, Argentina – One of the coldest autumns in 30 years – Global warming news from Argentina, homeland of Bernie Sander’s friend Pope Francis.

Argentina – Nearly 1,500 trucks waiting to enter Chile– The international crossing Cristo Redentor has been closed since June 1 due to heavy snowfall.

Snow Stranded Argentina truckers being robbed and beaten:  The international crossing continues closed by snow.

More snow for California – Almost mid June! – WINTER weather advisory.

Snow expected six days in a row at Mt Rainier In mid June.

Snow in Washington Cascades – More than 6 inches (15 cm) of snow likely above 6000 feet.

Snowfall on Mt Washington, NH – If you’d like to find wintry conditions this late in the season, look no further than at Mt Washington, New Hampshire

South American Ski Resorts Digging Out From Close to 10 Feet of Snow

Snow in Alaska – Winter – WINTER – storm watch. On June 9.

Snow in Lapland – Video – Rare June snow covered summer lawns and flower beds.

Snow Strikes China’s Northernmost Province – Video – Analysts say it is unusual to see snow at this time of year.

Lowest May temp on record for Lithgow, NSW Australia

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‘Never before seen’ spring snowfall in the Caribbean islands – & Colorado Ski Resort snowiest in 50 years – Snow chaos in Germany

Via: http://iceagenow.info/

‘Never before seen’ spring snowfall in the Caribbean islands (Update: This article from the Dominca News Online was an April Fool’s joke. See: UPDATE: It Did Not Snow in Guadeloupe)

PHOTO: ‘Residents film the falling flakes on Thursday’

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315,000 Lose Power in Midwest, Northeast as Wind & Heavy Snow Hit

Eight inches of snow was recorded near Negaunee in northwestern Michigan, just over 7 inches fell in Wisconsin near Twin Lakes, and 5.5 inches of snow was seen in Minnesota near Leonidas Saturday as the storm swept through, according to The Weather Channel. Parts of Western Pennsylvania could see 8 to 10 inches.
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Colorado Ski Resort sees second snowiest march on record – Snowiest in 50 years

Snow chaos in Germany on April Fools Day