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With all the heavy snow falling either out West over Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado or over the Midwest with 4 inches of snow falling at Minneapolis and even the 20% snow cover across America and it’s only mid-October, Is there anything more to all this than just a wacky pattern that appears every once in a while?.
I have been amazed at the heavy snow which by the way isn’t all that astonishing for mid-October in places like Montana and Wyoming but the astonishment came for me, when I see “highs in the teens” and lows below zero this early. Not to mention the rarity of Billings, Montana recieving “4 straight days below freezing” The fact that Polebridge achieved a nightime low of -13 degrees is remarkable for so early. The previous night saw -11 at Utica, Montana.
Denver is another amazing example of just how cold it’s been when they recieved a frigid high of just 26 degrees. This amazes me when you think the high there should be 69 degrees for this time of year!!
Countless records were broken for coldest, so early!
To me, how did we see this event? How unusual really is it? Does this event tell us something about the upcoming winter or perhaps the future of our climate? Is this a sign of a global cooling?
It’s significant in the fact that we have now seen records for BOTH SNOW AND COLD from the Rockies to Midwest and Lakes all the way to East with State College, Pa STILL getting snowfall this morning, surpassing the record for earliest 1″ snowfall which was October 17th yesterday and the amount of snow accummlated still rises, ranging between 6-10 inches in the area around State College. Their own version of the Buffalo October snow event in 2008.
Europe’s central region is getting blasted also by heavy, record breaking snow and cold and yes, like many will point out speedily, we here in Western Europe are enjoying some balmy days as well as Florida getting hit by extreme heat NEVER witnessed before for this late in the year. Check out my other blog here http://markvoganweather.blogspot.com/ as I shall post later on Florida’s remarkable heat. Like I have stated often recently, with extreme cold and snow, will come extreme heat, as the earth needs to balance and find equilibrium. The only thing is, as science is proving on many levels, the thermostat of earth is getting turned down.
I believe and my major point to this post is, I believe we are seeing an increase in cold and snow EARLIER, more and more records appear to be falling on both sides of the summer season, whether it be late summer arrivals with so called “freak April, May or June snowfalls” or “freak September, October snowfalls”. The type of winters that appeared to begin the cycle back in 2007-2008 and perhaps even during the core of 2006-2007 with the extreme flip from warmth in December-January to extreme cold in February-March, there has been a rapid cool down since throughout the year and I see an INCREASE in record snow and cold as well as record or unusual late season snow and cold.
Certainly for the United States and the record Rockies cold and snow of October 2009 and the State College, Pa snow and overall cold across the majority of the US is driven south from Canada. I have stated that I believe Canada may be the first country in the Northern Hemisphere to say goodbye to global warming with cooling summers and rapidly growing colder winters. Major mountain ranges are seeing INCREASED SNOWFALL and this increased snowfall can be a sign of increased water vapor, by cooling down the net temperature of the earth, RAISING the level of water vapor into the global atmosphere as the temperature DECREASES, therefore increasing snowfall, where is most likely to catch the snowfall first? The mountains and there has been clear evidence of this on several continents in BOTH hemispheres!
Yes, you may say, oh but Mark, it’s only a section of Montana, or Pennsylvania, the Scottish Highlands or the Austrian Alps, BUT from small things come greater things and I personally believe the margain is growing wider and the areas seeing this earlier occurance of snow and colder temperatures is growing.
A perfact summertime example of earths atmosphere being colder than usual, is the fact that snows were falling and ski areas remained opened year round in 2008 in the Alps of Europe. It snowed in the Colorado Rockies in July 2009!
Ice stayed on Hudson Bay longer than normal as well as less Arctic Sea Ice melt this summer. Countless records were broken for not warm, but cool throughout the summer of 2009 and I saw less heat waves globally this year than previous, recent summers. Sure, we have seen record heat this summer in areas including South Texas, the Pacific Northwest, parts of Mediterannean Europe, Africa and Australasia, but it’s been more within the typical hot areas, the only exception is western North America, but that was primarily because of just how cold of an air mass there was further east of where the record heat set up. Drop a boulder into a stream, the water flows AROUND that boulder, like a pool of cold air in the atmosphere, the warmer air flows around it. Also the air will flow faster, creating increased heat. Like wind blowing through buildings, wind increases as the space decreases, same with high pressure, the less room high pressure gets, the hotter the air becomes through friction, compression and increasing atmospheric pressures with no room for it to flow.
We are likely seeing this record hot October in Florida because of a counter reaction to how cold the atmosphere is across the vast majority of North America, the typical northward migration of mild air in October which normally covers the USA still, even now, is squashed by very cold air that’s dominated the overall picture throughout this past summer and was eastoblished a few years ago thanks in part to the La Nina of 2008. Same for here in Western Europe, the vast pool of cold air driving into the European Alps is redircting the warmth towards Britain and the low countries of Western Europe. There is still plenty of warm air around, it must go somewhere and if it can’t, you then see record heat develop as well as unusual warmth in unusual places.
The large reaction to the Nina of 2008 is playing a role is the large-scale pattern that’s established now and is very dominant and will likely play a major role in this upcoming winter which I believe will be a real shocker to millions across the world.
In the Midwest and Northern Plains of the United States for example, the winter of 2007-2008 was a much cooler, snowier (record snowy) winter and a shocker to many who enjoyed mild winters therefor a few consecutive years, then came winter 2008-2009 which brought back old time feelings with a longer, colder, snowier winter from the Rockies to Ohio Valley. The trend between 2007-08 and 2008-09 was that basically a strong corridor of cold SHIFTED east and this year with other parameters in place and with the trend between last spring and present day, points to that same corridor of cold now aimed directly between north central Canada and the East Coast of the USA.
These early and late cold/snow episodes are nothing to sniff at and the signs are all around us of large-scale, global changes to a cooling world. Each year for the next 20 years will see increasing snowfall and coverage, that in turn will reflect a vast portion of sun’s energy back to space, therefore creating a very cool world.
In the next 20 years, we shall see new stunning cold records written, a new era of cold is arriving and this winter approaching may be the start to a trend.
I do see a mild period coming within the next couple of weeks which may create a warm or certainly milder spell for Europe and North America as the Arctic Oscillation returns to positive, this will allow the recharging of bitter Arctic air over the pole, by with rapid rebuilding of this air, will comes a major Arctic outbreak to Europe, Asia and North America in December and may last throughout January. The poles will be finding it easier to rebuild Arctic air as ocean temperatures are getting cooler and thus feeding back to the atmosphere which hasn;t really warmed all that much through summer, therefore the air can get cold, easier!
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