Alaska’s Fourth Cold Winter In A Row; Low Temperature Records Continue To Fall Down Under; May Snow Hits Europe, Even Spain; + Record Frosts Sweep The Ukraine And Russia
Alaska’s Fourth Cold Winter In A Row
Alaska was once considered the canary in the AGW coal mine; however, after four colder-than-average winters on the trot, culminating in a historically cold winter season of 2022-23, The Last Frontier has most certainly lost that status — the catastrophists are having to look elsewhere for their narrative-supporting cherry picks.
According to NOAA data, and despite the agency’s official forecasting which consistently called for “warmer-than-average” seasons, the past four winters have seen a stark cooling trend emerge across Alaska.
The Old Farmer’s Almanac also dropped the ball. Their forecast foresaw a “much milder than normal winter” during 2022-23, with below average snowfall. That was wrong on both fronts. Much of Alaska saw historic snowfall, over 100 inches, while in Anchorage, a new record was set for lingering snow which remained on the ground well-into April.
April was also a historically cold month across the state, posting an average temperature of 16.3F, which is a substantial 9.9F below the multidecadal norm and made for Alaska’s fourth coldest April in 99-years of NOAA record-keeping.
The snow has now continued into of May, felling yet more records as it settles.
Low Temperature Records Continue To Fall Down Under
Icy polar air mass continue to be the dominant feature across much of Australia — most recently, in the West; however, looking ahead to the second-half of this week, a continent-wide Antarctic outbreak looks set to move in.
Australia is cooling, with the proof in the pudding: The past 6 seasons have been colder-than-average Down Under, with a growing list of towns and cities posting their coldest seasons in recorded history (such as Brisbane last winter).
May 2023 is continuing that cooling trend and has, even early in the month, seen a myriad of locales logged their lowest-ever May temperatures–including, but not limited to, Cooma, Omeo, Bombala, and Canberra; while Sydney, with its 7.1C (44.8F) last Sunday, set its coldest temperature this early into autumn for 85 years, since 1938.
Over the weekend it was the West’s turn to shiver.
Swathes of Western Australia just endured their coldest May mornings in at least two decades. Both Sunday and Monday mornings saw Broome–for example–dip to 11.5C (52.7F), marking its chilliest autumn reading since 1999.
As hinted at above, Australia’s ‘blues’ are set to expand and intensify during the second half of the week (see below).
By this weekend (May 20 and 21), the polar outbreak will have engulfed the vast majority of the 7.7 million km² continent. The winter-like conditions are also on course to deliver additional early-season snow to Tasmania, Victoria, NSW and Queensland.
Despite the multidecadal propaganda campaign, Australia, like Alaska, simply refuses to play AGW ball; the very opposite is playing out, the country is unambiguously cooling.
May Snow Hits Europe, Even Spain
Meteorological summer may be just around the corner, but the higher elevations of Europe are receiving relentless and unusually-heavy snowfalls — and the legacy media, despite all of its ‘snowless winter screamers’, has fallen tellingly silent.
Across the French Alps, the likes of Tignes and Les 2 Alpes received immense dumpings to begin the month of May, with totals rising further since then; while most recently, it has been Austria’s turn to see a late-season pounding, with Hintertux–for example– reporting half a meter (1.64 ft) of fresh snow over the past few days alone.
Europe’s heavy May snow isn’t just confined to the Alps.
Swathes of Scandinavia have received an out-of-season burial of late, and so too have the mountains of northern Spain where in recent days–and following absurd MSM warm-mongering regarding an early season heatwave–inches of snow have accumulated.
An injection of polar cold has gripped parts of the Iberian Peninsula of late, cold that saw “freak snowfall” accumulate in the likes of La Raya, a mountainous area within the principality of Asturias in NW Spain — as reported by Reuters:
And no, this isn’t evidence of a “cLiMatTe BrEaKdOwN”, you lost and unthinking meaning-seeking alarmists, this is the long-predicted upshot of a weak and wavy ‘meridional’ jet stream caused by an extended period of historically low solar activity:
Looking ahead, much of Europe can expect additional cooling and much-needed precipitation –including Portugal (hurrah!)— as Europe’s higher elevations continue to claw back, and then some!, the deficit left by an anomalously-dry winter.
Predictably in turn, establishment media falls silent.
Record Frosts Sweep The Ukraine And Russia
The Ukraine is another European nation to register unusually-cold and snowy conditions of late. Record breaking frosts have also swept transcontinental Russia.
Historic low temperatures hit Yubileinaya, Yakutia where the mercury dipped well-below seasonal norms. On May 13, thermometers plunged to -24.5C (-12.1F) here, besting the locale’s previous May of -24.1C (-11.4F) set 70 years ago, in 1958.
Heavy snow has also been a theme.
Recent days have seen accumulations grow across the likes of Taimyr–for example–a peninsula in northern Russia. And even in mid-May, the snow cover in Norilsk is holding above 35cm (1.15ft), and in Khatanga, exceptional snowdrifts almost a meter high (3.3ft) remain.
While traversing West, and back into Europe, overnight lows in the Ukraine are routinely crashing below the norm by 6-12C, lows that are breaking records in a number of towns and cities.
To name just two…
In the southwest city of Izmail, a low of 3.6C (38.5F) was witnessed on May 13 — the locale’s coldest May reading since 1976 (solar minimum of cycle 20); and in the central city of Kryvyi Rih, a freezing -0.5C (31/1F) was noted over the weekend — a new May low, breaking the previous record set in 1988 (solar minimum of cycle 21).
Much of Europe, and indeed Russia, are forecast similarly-frigid conditions as the second-half of May gets underway.
The MSM continue to ignore the colder than average, waxing lyrical instead about how hot it will be later in the week.
Now that is the Alaska like it is supposed to be!!!
BRRRR!!!
” much-needed precipitation –including Portugal (hurrah!)”
Metcalfe County KY here…ya’ll can have all you want. We are Eye deep in mud cuz it has rained day after day after week after…you get the idea.
https://www.futura-sciences.com/planete/dossiers/volcanologie-14-juillet-volcans-revolution-654/page/4/
Not only is Europe getting record smashing snows and record breaking lows, but even Michigan here in the USA had a freeze last night on Monday morning, May 15th. In addition, Pennsylvania had another late season frost last night, May 15th. This upcoming steep climatic cooling will kill us all soon. It’s gonna get much worse!
When the cooling really sets in, what will kill a lot of people will be the lack of reliable energy, specifically electricity. Our betters are busy sabotaging cheap energy sources and replacing them with Quixote windmills, solar panels mixed with pixie dust, and maybe some unicorn farts, all in the name of saving the planet from the evil human induced global warming.
A main problem with many folks is a genuine loss of awareness, definite memory hiccups & a foolish reliance on MSM information leading to a denial of this appalling incoming cold & yo- yo type weather. Here in Australia’s South 120K inland from the coast, the weather is showing an unremitting & definitive downward slide into permanently colder weather. Folks who are aware are stocking up big on firewood in rural areas while they can & even the denialists are fervently buying in wood which is getting harder to source due to illogical laws & regs. $205 per metre is not uncommon & this price is definitely not for a cubic metre but less.
At any given time there are many areas of the continent suffering from anomalous fingers of cold snaking their way throughout. Coupled with mice/rat infestations in rural areas it is getting more challenging to grow ones food.
Here in Victoria, Australia, the forecast top temperature for tomorrow the 17th are expected to break the lowest top temp record for the day – currently it is 11C where I am whilst the average high is 16C
A quote from Germany Green Party chairman Omid Nouripor after not being able to defend their whimsical climate mitigation proposals and consequent rejection by the electorate:
According to him The Greens were not ‘given favourable winds from Berlin’ and then states ‘but we won’t let ourselves be dictated by polling’ .
BUT WE WON’T LET OURSELVES BE DICTATED BY POLLING.
BUT WE WON’T LET OURSELVES BE DICTATED BY POLLING
BUT WE WON’T LET OURSELVES BE DICTATED BY POLLING
This perfectly sums up the mindset of climate activism and perhaps even the state of Western ‘democracy’.
People you have been warned.
CTV in Canada has it that some record highs in the past two days in British Columbia constitutes global warming. In Alberta we are having a glorious warm spring after a brutally cold early fall (-40 deg) and last year spring was a month late. We planted seedlings last Friday – the earliest in many years. This growing season might be longer than normal for a change.
There has been precious little precipitation until May and forest fires are burning everywhere. CTV predicts (sort of) that in BC there might be a record amount of forest burned this year. Huh. First, it might not, and second, seriously? Going back to when?? Check realclimatescience.com
The there are always forest fires and this year nearly all of them, again according to CTV, are caused by humans, not warm dry weather. The bias (and ignorance) is pathetic.