Record-Cold Sweeps Europe As “Intense Snow” Continues To Pound Italy And Spain; Almanac Predicts Cold, Snowy Winter For U.S.; New August Low For Rapa Island; + X-Flare ‘Glancing Blow’ Inbound
Record-Cold Sweeps Europe…
July proved a very cold month across the majority of Europe, despite MSM story-tellings to the contrary.
Added to the list of nations that endured/enjoyed below-average months (reported last week) we have Belarus, Belgium, and the Netherlands with their Julys of 0.3C, 0.3C and 0.2C below the multidecadal norm, respectively.
Staying in the Holland, the cool July has now spilled over into August, too.
With a daily-high of just 14.4C (57.9F) in Maastricht on Sunday, the Netherlands set its coldest August 6 ever recorded, comfortably besting the old benchmark–the 14.8C (58.6F) measured in Deelend back in 1987 (solar minimum of cycle 21).
A host of locales across the country also posted their coldest-ever August 6, including De Bilt. Its high of just 15.8C (60.4F) pipped the town’s previous record–the 15.9C (60.6F) from 1941.
The cold is persisting into the new week, too. Below is a look at Europe’s forecast temperature anomalies for Monday, August 7–as per a latest GFS run:
Note that ‘weather’ encases much of the continent, with a bout ‘global warming’ setting in to the east.
…As “Intense Snow” Continues To Pound Italy And Spain
All of this anomalous cold has resulted in heavy summer snow accumulating across the continent’s higher elevations, which has been the case for weeks now.
Additional dumpings pounded the likes of Italy and Spain over the weekend just gone, “an atypical phenomenon,” so reports Italian news outlet leggo.it.
“The abrupt drop in temperatures,” Leggo continues, “brought heavy snow to the Dolomites. This morning, Saturday 5 August, the completely whitewashed peak of the Civetta is clearly visible from the Val di Zoldo. An intense snowfall that has led many to think, ‘are we on August 5th or December 5th?'”.
Carlo Budel, manager of the Capanna di Punta Penia–situated on the NE Italian mountain of Marmolada–posted proof of the rare summer snow on Facebook (shown below).
MSM, this is your story re. Europe right now: record COLD and summer SNOW. Check your bias. Report honestly. Do your job.
August Low On Rapa Island
Record-cold swept Rapa over the weekend.
Temperatures on the tiny southernmost French Polynesia island sank to 8.9C (48F), tying its coldest-ever August reading set back in 1963 (solar minimum of cycle 19).
Saturday’s low has also gone down as the second-coldest temperature on records (after the 8.5C/47.3F) of Sept 5, 1972.
Almanac Predicts Cold, Snowy Winter For U.S.
The Farmers’ Almanac has released is extended 2022-23 winter forecast.
Unlike the Old Farmers’ Almanac, which bases its weather predictions on a combination of animal signals, chicken bones, pig spleens, and other weather lore, the Farmers’ Almanac bases its outlook on a “mathematical and astronomical formula” dating back to 1818 that takes sunspot activity and other astronomical anomalies into account.
The outlook is calling for “unreasonably cold” and “snowy” conditions across much of the United States.
Significant winter storms are expected, particularity later in the season when blizzards could sweep over the north central states — such as Minnesota and Wisconsin — in the first week of March, according to the almanac.
The east coast is also set to see more snow than last year.
Winter isn’t forecast to release its icy grip until late-March, and it will be a fight. Farmers’ Almanac experts say there will be wild temperature swings throughout March before stormy weather sets in across the country taking us into a slow-to-start spring.
Time will tell, but the Farmers’ Almanac has an uncanny habit of nailing the overall trend.
X-Flare ‘Glancing Blow’ Inbound
Two CMEs are on course to deliver glancing blows to Earth’s magnetic field on Tuesday, Aug 8.
Both ejections left the sun on Aug 5 — the first launched by an erupting magnetic filament, the second by an X1.6-class flare:
A single hit is likely to cause a minor G1-class geomagnetic storm.
A double blow could escalate the storm to category G2 (Moderate) or G3 (Strong):
Eyes to the skies on Tuesday.
Is it possible that this cycle will be finished by December 2023?
AND…the Weather in South Central KY (Metcalfe County and surrounding area) is cooler, wetter (MUDDIER) then any Summer in our 31 year history in this location…is this a side effect of the Solar minima and why?
Thanks Cap for all you do Sir.
I agree with MP above, thank you Cap for what you are doing. What must be kept up front in our minds, is that recent weather (Wx) events, say over the last 2 or 3 years, do not constitute climate. What is significant in the short term is that I have seen the US FDA (FE. Dept. of Agriculture?) reports since 2018 have shown a decreasing food output in the USA of approximately 8 to 10 % yearly. 2022 data is not available to me yet at least as far as I can find it. Valentina Zharkova’s (VZ) theory of the Solar double dynamo, hindcasted to about 10,000 years evidently has a positive correlation to actual data of 97% and is predicting the probable reoccurrence of the Maunder Minimum (MM) from 1645-1715, 400 years ago, in which approx. 10% of the humans perished either by starving or freezing their asses off, and which she says we have already entered into and will be fully involved with by 2032, 9 years from now. Whew, long sentence. Also, the recorded habitable area of North America then was south of 45 degrees North Latitude. That’s about 240 miles south of my pos in the Vancouver BC area. How do we prepare for that in 9 years? The UN’s IPCC models do not hindcast and all over-predict warming in the future. Who to believe? As would Spock, I chose to believe the logical choice. So I should be preparing. How? In Canada, our present federal government is working assiduously to destroy the fossil fuel industry in all aspects; production, distribution, and downstream guilt, i.e. CO2 and other emissions liabilities to Canadian energy exports. You just can’t make this up. In the near future, like right now, we should be building pipelines all over the Northern Hemisphere, there is almost time left to do so to try and deliver fuel to grow food in greenhouses as a start. Is anybody else concerned? Billy Best in Vancouver
Speaking of Prof Zharakova, she is currently asking for contribution to her research via gofundme. Here’s the link:
https://gofund.me/23006200
Please share.
FRAUDE Alfred
De link daar is https://solargsm.com./ and doesn’t exist
The real site is “https://solargsm.com/
So when you pay here you are victim of a fraudulent action. Inform the lady for someone using here work to earn money and for theft and fraude.
Sorry, but I can’t find any difference between the link I posted and the one you posted. The gofundme link I posted was copied directly from her webpage. Anyway, if people are interested to contribute to her research, they can google her website and click the link there themselves. Or they can go to her website at https:\\solargsm.com.
She’s not getting any funding from government. She needs our support.
Also, you are accusing me of fraud. That’s a very serious accusation and can be considered libelous. You are also implying that gofund.me allows fraudulent accounts. That’s another serious accusation. Are you willing to back your claim up legally?
The difference is the period after the .com before the /
Look closely please
Dallas
Meanwhile at the Baltic Sea coast. Looks like a typical winter storm…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlIA2FJdsJQ
What we should all want to know is how severe will Europe’s winter be this year? If the current war in Europe drags on, a merely normal winter will freeze the ground freeze early enough for a Russian tank offensive that was not feasible in the unusually mild La Nina winter just past. And a severe winter would bring Washington’s NATO allies to their knees as their gas stockpiles would run out before the winter is over. The world also appears to be entering a synchronized global recession with the most reliable indicators forecasting it will be a severe one, and of course the US presidential playoffs, uhm, I mean primaries, will be getting into high gear in both parties. 2024 should be a very interesting year to watch. Pass the popcorn!