As snow falls over New Jersey and other parts of the mid-Atlantic states, the Northeast USA is not the only region being visited early by old man winter.
Winter visits early. (Illustration photo, source: NOAA).
Heavy snows have also hit China, hitting Peking with full force, according to German online Bild daily, which writes:
Snow Alarm in China! The capital Peking has been paralyzed by a winterstorm. […] The situation is worse in the countryside regions of North China. In the Yanqing region 47 cm of snow fell in just a few hours, entire villages have been cut off, thousands are without power and heat. […] A group of Japanese tourists got caught in drifting snow while on the Great Wall; three women froze to death.”
Winter also paid an early visit last weekend in England, reports the Daily Mail, with snow falling in the South and West Country, including in Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire and Devon. The Mail writes that “the snowfall was England’s fifth in nine days amid an early winter”. and that “temperatures plunged to -5.6C last night at Aboyne, Aberdeenshire, with -4.3C Redesdale Camp, Northumberland, and -0.9C at Brize. The Weather Service says temperatures are up to 5°C below normal.
Snow was also reported in Gloucestershire and Dorset, with “up to six inches in Somerset in Bath, Frome, Midsomer Norton and the Mendip Hills” The Mail quotes. Charlie Powell, forecaster at the Met Office:
It has been incredibly cold recently and the snow was caused by an area of low pressure coming in from the North West.”
And adds:
More snow is due on higher ground in the North by Friday, with mainly below-average temperatures expected for the whole of November.”
Britain’s early winter is being enhanced by a mid-Atlantic high pressure preventing mild south-westerly winds from reaching Britain, and is pumping in Arctic air from Greenland.
So much for snow being a thing of the past at the middle latitudes. Indeed winter is making early appearances not only locally, but globally. Odd signs of warming, wouldn’t you say?
Fox News video from Staten Island. 10 cm of snow on top of the rubble leftover from Sandy.
http://video.foxnews.com/v/1955038146001/winter-storm-deals-another-nasty-blow-to-northeast
Do you guys think the record melting season in the Arctic might have something to do with this? There’s a lot of open water up there, pumping heat and moisture into the atmosphere (particularly the Barentsz and Kara Seas, and Baffin Bay as well).
Come to think of it, that must why we had them harsh snowy winters back in the 60s and 70s – back when the Arctic was ice covered. The heat and moisture must of snuck out from under the ice. Hmmm
Pierre, please check spam, I have a reply to Neven.
You might be right, Pierre. But I learned in school that the cold in Europe came from the East mainly (Siberia), not from the North. But now with that big semi-permanent low over the Barentsz/Kara Sea region during the start of the freezing season…
Perhaps there’s a connection, perhaps not. We’ll know after a couple more melting seasons. That is, if they are as drastic as 2007/2012.
The snow was a bit early here in Sweden too, but it didn’t last long and now the temperatures are up again.
I don’t think that more snow is evidence against GW, or even earlier winters etc., it is that it was not predicted by the models except with hindsight that casts doubt on those AWG prophets of doom and the authoritative IPCC.
More warmth could logically cause more moisture in the air which then gets dumped in the areas that are cold enough to do it.
Unfortunatey it could become a new paradigm, and everyone blaming the cold and snow on AGW.
I suspect AGW is not falsifiable so any change can be made to fit.
We don’t need evidence AGAINST CO2AGW; THEY need evidence to show that the null hypothesis (natural, cyclical change) does not explain current events.
Early snowfalls could be evidence FOR global cooling, which I think many of us expect. But if no cooling happens, that is still no evidence for CO2AGW.
Evidence FOR CO2AGW would be, for instance, if the statistical properties of CO2 rise would, with a time lag, appear in the temperature record (which they don’t), or if there were a significant correlation between the two (it’s very weak). Or if GCM’s had proven predictive skill (which they don’t have).
O/T This might be of interest to British readers; Energy commissioner Oetttinger blames Rupert Murdoch for UK’s Euro scepticism.
http://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article110828289/Grossbritannien-von-allen-guten-Geistern-verlassen.html
(Well basically he’s even partially right, as Rupert is really a godsend. Maybe he’ll be prohibited from smuggling the truth into the EU? 😉 )
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