May Freeze Ruins Canada’s Apple-Picking; Nevada’s Cold-Weather Deaths At High Levels; + October Threatens Polar Blasts Across Both Hemispheres
May Frosts Ruins Canada’s Apple-Picking Season
A host of Ontario farms are lamenting a period of frigid nights earlier in the year, particularly late-freezes in May, which have all but ruined their apple-picking seasons.
Villeneuve farm, located in Clarence-Rockland, would typically need 100 apple trees to open the farm to the public. This year, only 10 have borne fruit.
“With this, we’re closed now for picking. We didn’t open in the fall at all,” said owner, Michel Villeneuve.
The apples that have grown, Villeneuve continued, while perfectly fine to eat, also aren’t the best looking — covered in marks from the sun and rain. The farm’s pears and grapes have also been badly affected.
A season’s last freeze typically occurs in April, before the fruit starts to bud. This year, however, the month of May delivered three separate nights of harsh, late-season frosts.
Officially, Ottawa’s airport logged -3C (26.6F) on May 18, though it dipped much colder in the sticks, of course.
Even frost-hardy crops suffer in such temperatures. Readings below -2.2C (28F) take as much as 10% off an apple orchard’s yield if the buds have reached their pink stage, and below -4.4C (24.1F) –temps suffered by farms like Villeneuve’s– can kill 90%.
The risk global warming brings to the industry is considered “high”, with that expected to rise to “very high” by 2050, reads a 2023 Ontario agricultural ministry report–likely drawn up in crayon. The report labels heat, precipitation and frost as being the key factors — meaning the biggest problem posed to Ontario farmers will remain “weather” as it has been for time-immemorial.
Villeneuve said this is the third troublesome year in a row, with a 2021 freeze and a 2022 derecho also wreaking havoc.
“With all of these things happening in the last two, three years, we’ve been really rethinking on how to operate,” Villeneuve said. “It’s really affecting us. So we have to rely on things that are more durable.”
Much work has been done to diversify the crops on the small farm, which has been in the family for 120 years.
Nevada’s Cold-Weather Deaths At High Levels
Northern Nevada housing advocates are calling on authorities to tackle the region’s high cold-related deaths figures.
The calls to action come after a record-tying number of people have already died in 2023 for reasons ‘involving hypothermia’, according to the Washoe County Medical Examiner and Coroner’s Office (whose data reflects deaths in 9 counties).
Temperatures have already dipped below 50F (10C) this month, reminding Northern Nevadans that winter, despite the incessant AGW propaganda, will still arrive, and soon.
“This is not a distant threat,” housing advocate Tara Tran said during the Sept 13 Reno City Council meeting. “Any death, any injury that happens because of the cold, know it’s completely preventable and that prevention starts here.”
The data indicates something shocking, too — only 36% of the hypothermia related deaths to hit these 9 counties served by the Washoe County coroner were of people ‘without a fixed address’, meaning the vast majority were people with residences.
This increase in hypothermia deaths is bigger than Northern Nevada, it’s part of a nationwide surge that started in 2021.
According to a study published by the National Library of Medicine, the U.S. experienced 1,500 deaths because of hypothermia in 2021. This is a stark increase from previous years, and the cause isn’t understood. The money, unsurprisingly, isn’t all-that interested in funding the research: cold-related deaths are on the increase across America — who’s agenda does that serve, nobodies.
Washoe County officials are reluctant to even open 24-hour warming centers before the usual date of Nov 1, calling the idea ‘cost-prohibitive’, even though temperatures in Northern Nevada routinely sink below 40F in October.
Campaigners sought this early opening as well as the re-opening of the community resource center as a ‘low-barrier’ shelter for women and young families. Shelters catering to these demographics often fill faster than large, communal shelters. However, officials rejected this proposal, too.
Researchers at Bloomberg estimate that it will take an extra $200 trillion–give-or-take a trillion–to get the world to “net zero.” Surely that money would be better spent lowering the cost of energy, rather than increasing it (via the needless eradication of cheap and reliable fossil fuels) in order to help the most vulnerable survive the harshness of winter…
The UN, however, is determinedly dragging us kicking and screaming in the other direction:
October Threatens Polar Blasts Across Both Hemispheres
Looking at the charts, the standard ‘transitional periods’ for each hemisphere are forecast to be marked by cold.
Starting in the southern hemisphere, New Zealand is already copping a full-blown polar blast this week, though swathes of Australia could join it by October 3 or 4, according to latest GFS runs:
Similarly for Southern Africa, after mid-Sept’s record-breaking cold, another ‘whip’ of Antarctic air has been gripping the region this week (fig 1), with something of a repeat potentially on the cards during the first few days of October (fig 2):
While across South America, the freeze playing now (for central nations such as Paraguay) will be followed by another ascending mass of ‘blues’ around Oct 6:
The northern hemisphere is where things get interesting, though, with vast regions forecast substantial pools of cold air.
Starting with transcontinental Russia, the early-season freeze felt there this week looks set to intensify and expand across Siberia as the calendar flips to October, with anomalous cold forecast to sink as far south as Kazakhstan and Mongolia…
…with separate pools of polar air persisting across the likes of the Middle East, India and even northeast China:
Looking west, much of Europe is also bracing for an early-taste of winter by Oct 9–but note: forecasts are in the unreliable time-frame here (of 200+ hours out) and we’ll have a clearer picture closer to the time:
While traversing ‘the pond’, past a very cold Greenland, the United States is set for tumbling temperatures, too–but again: the U.S. outlooks should be taken with a pinch of salt given they are for 210hrs and 312hrs, respectively (though the situation certainly warrants a close eye):
There are a myriad of atmospheric mechanisms/forcings strongly suggesting that this northern hemisphere winter will be a cold and snowy one, marked by strong Arctic outbreaks (aka ‘Polar Vortex).
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Much larger than the deaths from hypothermia are the deaths from strokes and heat attacks caused by cold or cool weather.
This recent study shows that cold weather we have every year causes about 4.6 million deaths a year mainly through increased strokes and heart attacks, compared with about 500,000 deaths a year from hot weather. We can’t easily protect our lungs from the cold air in the winter and that causes our blood vessels to constrict causing increased blood pressure leading to heart attacks and strokes.
‘Global, regional and national burden of mortality associated with nonoptimal ambient temperatures from 2000 to 2019: a three-stage modelling study’
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(21)00081-4/fulltext
This article from 2015 says that cold weather kills 20 times as many people as hot weather and that moderately warm or cool weather kills far more people than extreme weather. Increased strokes and heart attacks from cool weather are the main cause of the deaths.
‘Mortality risk attributable to high and low ambient temperature: a multi-country observational study’ https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(14)62114-0/fulltext
I don’t dispute the fact that cold weather kills many more people than warm weather. However deaths from strokes or heart attacks can have other causes. Excess deaths in many European countries have been really high for the past 2 years, a lot of which are due to heart related conditions. At least in the UK, deaths from dementia and alzhiemer’s have been well below expected levels for roughly 2 years. There’s been no new treatments introduced recently and presumably the same number of people are being diagnosed with these conditions as in previous years so a lot of these people are now dying of something else before they die of dementia or alzhiemer’s.
It seems strange that hypothermia deaths in Nevada shot up before the massive spike in energy prices in 2022.
There’s a common factor in all this, it all started in 2021. Obviously it’s pure coincidence that this is when billions of people were coerced into having an experimental poorly tested vaccine. Since no one knew much about the side effects no one knows how long the genetic material (batches that have been tested were found to contain large amounts of DNA that was used to produce the intended mRNA but wasn’t removed during the manufacturing process) that didn’t stay at the injection site will keep harming people even if they don’t have the 3rd, 4th or whatever it is booster.
I’ve hear many “stories” of otherwise healthy people dying soon after the vaccines, including friends of friends. What’s needed is a large scale study to see whether the excess mortality maps onto vaccine participants. If the cause is the vaccine then the correlation ought to be crystal clear.
Net Zero is such a phoney ass goal. Their REAL goal is to get your $200 Trillion, not to save lives. The entire thing is a heist and if anyone cannot see that, I’ve got a bridge to sell you.
Even if all their AGW predictions WERE true (which they are not) – when you think that over half a million children die annually from Malaria RIGHT NOW, (much more than the lives that would be “saved” by their “measures” and the cost of its prevention would be but a very small fraction (less than 0.1%) of that 200 Trillion….
But nobody gives a shit about them because they are brown and far away.
My friend is involved in a multi million dollar new orchard near Meaford, Ontario. He reported -6.7 degrees C in May. This was so cold the fear was that the young trees could die. No trees died and they have about 80% fruit set, so this is a miracle.