I just can’t get enough of that global warming news. Yosemite looks just like a snow globe.
At a time when Yosemite National Park is typically preparing for the summer season, the mountains and granite monoliths surrounding the majestic valley are coated in fresh white powder. If you were standing atop Half Dome today, you might feel as if you were in the center of a snow globe.
The winter-like conditions arrived when a moisture-rich storm swept the Sierra on Wednesday through early Friday morning, blasting higher elevations with powder. There’s more snow expected Saturday through Monday.
Wait a minute! Snow on Memorial Day? How can that be? I thought snowfalls were a thing of the past.
But wait! The global warming news gets even better.
Snow began falling at Denver International Airport early Monday afternoon, hours earlier than forecasters had predicted, forcing meteorologists to increase their projections for snowfall in the Mile High City.
“Right now there is currently a snow shower at Denver International Airport,” said Natalie Sullivan, meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Boulder. She said a band of snow arrived at DIA much earlier than originally expected.
“We’re looking at the potential of 1 to 2 inches of snow in Denver now,” Sullivan said. The NWS had predicted as recently as Monday morning that it wouldn’t start snowing in Denver until 1 a.m. Tuesday.
And what about the mountains?
Heavy wet snow is forecast for the foothills and mountains Monday. A winter storm warning and a snow advisory is in place for the foothills and mountains until midnight Tuesday, according to the NWS.
The mountains will get between 8 inches and 18 inches of snow, Sullivan said. The foothills west of Denver could get between 5 inches and a foot of snow. Castle Rock could get up to 6 inches of snow.
“It will be getting worse,” Sullivan said of driving conditions. Icy and snowpacked conditions are expected in the mountains.
It’s almost Memorial Day. This shouldn’t be happening. Somehow the members of the Church of AGW will find some way to blame this on global warming. Remember, they’ve moved the goal posts since we’ve passed the ten years that Pope Albert I of the Church of AGW gave us, now rocket scientist AOC has given us twelve years.
But wait! There’s more.
It is the middle of May and things are looking more like winter than spring. Winter apparently is not finished with parts of the Northeast, nor the West or Europe. In many places around the northern hemisphere its the latest start of spring on record. Cold air coming in from Canada is likely to cause a mix of snow and rain in higher elevations of New Hampshire, Vermont and much of northern Maine by the 14th of May, CNN meteorologist Gene Norman said. That means we will have have had 9 months of winter weather in some parts of the United States as well as in Europe and Russia. (See below.)
On the 15th of May we read a potent, winter-like storm is poised to slam into the western USA, bringing several feet of snow to the Sierra and soaking rain to coastal and valley areas. A dangerous stretch of severe weather is forecast to wallop 18 states in the central USA over the next several days and into next week. In the Sierra, “total snow accumulations of 12 to 18 inches, with localized amounts up to 35 inches, are expected,” the National Weather Service in Sacramento said. Also on the 15th a foot of snow for New Hampshire and heavy snowfall and cold in Corsica, Bosnia and Croatia. Portions of Washington and Oregon saw the latest spring start on record, while parts of Kansas and Oklahoma saw the latest arrival of spring in 38 years, says weather.com.
But, as one of my commenters said, The AGW crowd will say that this was the warmest May on record.
The problem is its not getting warmer—its getting colder and that is already affecting the agricultural sector. It is not just cooling temperatures, we also have record breaking precipitation that is flooding huge areas of the United States farm belt. Its the cold and wet weather combined that is threatening us, not in some far off future but this year. Bad weather in the American breadbasket portend rising food prices and less food to export to the hungry corners of the world.
The planet is not warming up it’s cooling down.
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Did you know that France just experienced its lowest May temperature in two centuries?
Temperatures have collapsed over the whole of France following the influx of arctic air and, on May 6th, set cold records at numerous locations. In Romorantin, 85 meters above sea level in the Loire, a famous producer of grapes for white wine, the temperature collapsed to a dangerous (geoengeeringfor vines) of -3.8 ° C.
I wrote about that last week.
A significant Arctic blast is affecting almost entire Europe and parts of northern Africa. Some regions are dealing with heavy snow, below-freezing temperatures and late-season frost. Temperatures plunged close to and below zero in many places, with many record low temperatures reported. Another blast of cold expected from May 11 to 18.
Temperatures plunged as far south as southern Italy. Global warming is on hold for the rest of our lifetimes and even those of our children. No telling how long the deep freeze will last but we do know that the Grand Solar Minimum is just starting. We can expect climate chaos but not warming.
But I thought the “science was settled”.
Remember, AGW is a religion and the members of that cult are fanatics. They could be huddled in parkas on the 4th of July in Washington DC and claim that the cold was caused by global warming.
Back in the 70’s we were supposed to be worried about global cooling. Newsweek had a cover story on it. Now, in spite of all these cold temperatures in the Spring we’re supposed to think the planet is warming when, in fact, it is cooling and it is because of that big yellow ball in the sky. That is what causes the climate to change not coal fired plants and not SUVs.