Heavy Snow Hits New Zealand’s South Island; Record Summer Chills Sweep The Great Lakes, Northeast, and Southern Canada; + Where Are The Hurricanes? Another Crushing Defeat For Team Climate Change
Heavy Snow Hits New Zealand’s South Island
Heavy snow has hit New Zealand’s South Island, causing widespread disruption, closing key highways, and trapping vehicles as frigid conditions took hold.
In the Canterbury region, cars were stranded at Castle Hill and Lake Lyndon, with police urging people to stay off the roads.
Snow piled up along State Highway 73, leading to its closure between Otira and Springfield, with drivers stranded in dangerous conditions. Folk found themselves stuck near Porters Skifield and all, waiting hours before local volunteers stepped in to provide shelter.
Snow even accumulated down to sea level in North Canterbury, as it did in areas such as Southland, Clutha, and Fiordland.
With more of the same on the way, snow warnings remain in place across many critical highways. Flurries and freezing temperatures are forecast to spread north as the week progresses, with authorities urging caution.
Record Summer Chills Sweep The Great Lakes, Northeast, and Southern Canada
A cool, crisp airmass has settled into the likes of Indiana and Ohio, bringing an early taste of fall to many. To the east, a vast cold front is sweeping into New York and Ontario, setting the stage for a biting, potentially record-setting week.
In Fort Wayne, a low of 46F (8C) is on the cards Tuesday night into Wednesday morning, just one degree shy of the record low for August 21 currently held by 1950 and 1908. The average low for this time of year is 61F (16C). Historically, this area doesn’t see don’t see lows in the 40s until late-September. So, we’re over a month ahead of schedule with these chilly temperatures.
Meanwhile, Buffalo is facing a similar cooldown, with a forecast high of just 65F (18C) on Tuesday. This would match the record low-max for the day, set way back in 1940. The polar cold will prove persistent, holding thermometers well-below August norms.
The chill will sweep the likes of Kentucky and Michigan.
Morning lows in the Upper Peninsula, for example, look almost frosty:
Headed north of the border, into Southern Ontario, an early taste of fall is hitting here and all. After a weekend of record-breaking rains, and even a surprise tornado, cooler air is now barreling in.
On Tuesday, the mercury across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), for example, is expected to struggle to 20C (68F). Typically, this time of year sees highs of 25C (77F), but a upper-level low pressure system will dominate and usher in a trough of unseasonable polar air.
Further north, in Cottage Country, daytime highs will hover in the mid-teens, and overnight lows could dip as low as 10C (50F), potentially felling records, and certainly prompting some residents to turn on their heating — in the summer.
This unseasonably cool weather is part of a broader pattern affecting much of the Great Lakes region and Northeast. In fact, all the way down to the Mississippi and Alabama they’ll be feeling the chill.
Where Are The Hurricanes? Another Crushing Defeat For Team Climate Change
For decades now we’ve been bombarded by a constant drumbeat of climate fear-mongering, each headline more apocalyptic than the last. Every summer, we’re told to brace for unprecedented storms, for hurricanes of biblical proportions.
The climate activists and their media echo chamber would have us believe that we are teetering on the edge of oblivion, with the next cataclysmic “superstorm” just around the corner. But here we are, August 20, 2024, and the Atlantic tropics are quieter than ever, with barely a cloud in sight:
Despite the relentless “cry wolf” tactics, the truth is staring us in the face: AGW Party predictions are hopelessly failing, and their credibility is fast disappearing.
Where are the hurricanes?
They told us that Beryl was just the beginning—a harbinger of a chaotic hurricane season to come, the first of many superstorms fueled by unprecedented climatic changes (i.e. a bit of oceanic warmth). In support of this forecast, mainstream headlines were ablaze with talk of “climate crisis hurricanes,” and how we had now entered a perilous “new normal”.
Yet, as of today, Aug 20, the Atlantic looks as calm as millpond, devoid of the destruction we were so colorfully promised.
This season, though far from over (anything can happen: weather/climate is all-but impossible to predict), is threatening to uneventfully vanish into the same ether where all the other failed alarmist predictions go.
Pop-scientists and their loyal media cohorts can’t seem to help themselves from exaggerating every natural weather event as proof of impending doom. But when nature itself fails to comply, as it seemingly always does, they move on, pointing instead to a localized wildfire in Greece, or a cherry-picked ‘heatwave’ in Svalbard — whatever distracts from their current abject failure.
It’s the same playbook every time.
The data don’t lie, but alarmists do.
To be clear, this isn’t just a slow start to the hurricane season—it’s a non-existent one. As of mid-August, we are staring at some of the quietest tropical conditions on record. Even with what the media refers to as “unprecedented climate conditions”—that is, slightly warmer oceans, increased humidity, i.e. more “disaster juice”—we’re not seeing the superstorms we were warned about.
The climate change industry has become a multitrillion-dollar machine, one supported by the constant peddling of fear—i.e. the framing of every weather event as proof of The End—with our only savior supposedly sought in extreme economic sacrifice.
And so the wolf-crying circus rolls on, forever ready to seize upon any natural disaster to advance this control-seeking agenda, this wealth redistribution. Yet the fabric of reality remains intact. The supposed “new normal” of climate-fueled superstorms is a myth, no matter how often alarmists shout it. The facts remain: there is no impending climate apocalypse; the prophecy is false.
What is true is that Earth’s climate is an immeasurably complex system, with cycles upon cycles and an almost endless list of variables far beyond the scope of the simplistic Grimm’s Fairy Tales offered by establishment science.
But alarmists prefer simple narratives, they are a simple breed—I mean, like hiking up an active Indonesian volcano simple:
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thanks Cap.
No hurricanes is good thing. We got hit by Beryl. An oak tree blew over on our neighbors house. A big mess in general but while a house plant is nice to have. A tree on the roof is a bit over the top.
For quite some time now there has been a lack of overall hurricane activity in most of world’s basins – not just the tropical Atlantic. Several mets predicted a hyperactive season similar to that of 2020 back in May, but that seems very unlikely now. Already the Pacific season has seen the slowest start since 1967 and the activity as been pretty weak since that time. We are currently 8 storms behind 2020 as of Aug 21st for the Atlantic basin. Beryl wasn’t too impressive because of its small size back in July. The climate people look pretty stupid on their part, especially with all the rapidly growing ice in both hemispheres. They have NO EXCUSE for ANY of it. They are totally wrong and baseless on all fronts and have always been known to “invent their own facts” based on emotion, not scientific evidence. They remind me of a Las Vegas prostitute sitting in jail in the lobby and blaming the guy sitting on the other side (totally unrelated) for what she did.
Aloha Cap: The temperature here in Oklahoma has finally gone down from 109ºF, to 81ºF. Much more comfortable, now.
Keep up your goood work.
Steven Bue
Here in Metcalfe KY we are at mid fall temps. Heck tonite it may get to 45°F. So I figure Winter will be a doozy…COLD & SNOWY.
DEB how’s the temps in your neck of the woods Hon 😁. Cool enuf I hope!
Stay cool y’all!
Gorgeous! Unfortunately I had to spend the day doing laundry, and tomorrow I have a 200 mile round trip to see a retinal specialist. Then it’s going to get hot again. Same ol’, same ol’. Not going to worry about winter til I recover from summer.
Do you think maybe the weather was always perfect in the garden of Eden?
The Atlantic Hurricane Season runs from June to November with the peak of activity being about mid September. Saharan Dust normally flows off of Africa until the end of July. So during June & July the Dust helps chokes off Tropical systems as they try to form in the warm waters north of the equator. When it stops flowing, tropical systems can more easily blow up into hurricanes, which is why there is a dramatic increase in the number of hurricanes that form in the Atlantic in August through September.
Well, first, it’s mid August , and the Saharan Dust has started flowing again. Go figure.
Second, the Heat Dome currently sitting over Texas doesn’t allow for anything coming across the Atlantic to navigate towards the Texas Coast. The Dome will begin shifting eastward by the weekend, so the East Coast will have some protection next week.
Third, an August Cold Front is pushing down into the US, even as far south as the panhandle of Florida, so a hurricane would have a less hospitable area to work with should one form this week. After mid September, Cold Fronts start regularly pushing into the US, which tends to cause a steep decrease in the number of hurricanes that make landfall in the Western Gulf of Mexico.
Basically, it seem that there are multiple atypical factors converging just as we enter the peak of this year’s hurricane season.
I don’t live in Australia but I see the climate predictors everywhere the same as the Bureau of Meterology in Aus.
From what I read here and on a couple of other sources, the Aus BoM routinely predicts the next season to be hotter than normal, figuring surely they’ll be correct this time. And, thus, they’ll be justified to amp up to a maximum publicity hysteria effort.
When it doesn’t work out, they just try again next quarter.
I figure that’s the whole climate industry: There’s always weather disaster just around the corner and it’s my fault.