Heavy Snowfall Hits Northern China; Saudi Arabia Deserts See Their First Ever Snow; Global Temperatures Cooled In October; + Politics
Heavy Snowfall Hits Northern China
Northern China is enduring an early blast of winter, with freezing lows and heavy snows significantly impacting agriculture and transportation, with local authorities warning of dangerous roads and blizzards persisting through the rest of the week.
In China’s northernmost city, Mohe, located in Heilongjiang Province, the early wintry conditions have attracted thousands of snow sports enthusiasts. Known for its extended season, which spans mid-October to late-April, Mohe is already bustling with tourists drawn by its fresh snowfall. Already, on November 1, the city’s first ski resort has opened its slopes for the 2024-25 season.
Chinese authorities have warned of a harsh winter to come. So far it’s following script:
Saudi Arabia Deserts See Their First Ever Snow
This week, the Al-Jawf region of Saudi Arabia has witnessed its first snowfall in recorded history.
The unprecedented snow arrived on the back of a rare weather front that swept through the area, creating a surreal scene of snow-blanketed mountains and valleys where desert terrain usually reigns.
The Saudi Press Agency highlighted that this rare snowfall, combined with the rains at other locales, has rejuvenated the landscape, filling dry valleys with flowing water and waterfalls, infusing the area with new life.
Unusual weather patterns have also affected the United Arab Emirates, where a low-pressure system extending from the Arabian Sea has brought similar rain and hailstorms to the region.
Looking ahead, Saudi Arabia’s National Center for Meteorology has issued ongoing warnings, forecasting more of the same as the week progresses.
Global Temperatures Cooled In October
Through October, global lower atmospheric temperatures experienced a notable drop, as reported by the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH).
As per the UAH satellite data, September’s global temperature anomaly was +0.96C, with October’s posting a sizable drop to +0.73C above the multidecadal average.
In part, this reduction was due to a version update of the chart itself from Version 6.0 to Version 6.1.
This update addresses an important issue with one of the key satellites, NOAA-19, which had drifted significantly from its originally scheduled observation time, affecting temperature accuracy.
The primary change in Version 6.1 involves removing NOAA-19 data starting in 2021. This satellite, which contributed critical data since 2009, has drifted beyond its original “afternoon” orbit, transitioning to a later observation time due to gradual orbital decay. Because of this drift, UAH’s correction methodology could no longer accurately adjust for its readings, resulting in artificially elevated temperature anomalies.
With NOAA-19 data truncated, UAH now relies solely on the MetOp-B satellite, which maintains its intended orbit and therefore provides more consistent data.
Satellite-based temperature records require complex adjustments due to various orbital and calibration factors. This is explained in greater detail on Dr Roy Spencer’s website, but I’ll go into them briefly here:
- Satellite Calibration Biases: Each satellite is calibrated to prevent temperature biases. As new satellites replace old ones, overlapping periods allow UAH to align data for consistency.
- Orbital Drift Correction: Most satellites drift over time, altering the timing of their measurements. UAH uses an empirical correction approach, where data from a drifting satellite is compared to a stable one. This ensures that the time-of-day temperature variations do not skew long-term trends.
- Instrument Body Temperature Effects: Older instruments required further adjustments for internal temperature changes, a problem avoided in newer instruments.
- Orbital Altitude Decay: While altitude decay adjustments were once necessary, UAH now uses a multi-channel approach to improve data accuracy.
For Version 6.1, the critical adjustment relates to the diurnal drift. As NOAA-19 drifted outside the training dataset’s modeled diurnal cycle, its data was removed, as UAH determined that the diurnal drift correction could no longer reliably adjust for these changes.
UAH’s temperature data has recently shown warmer trends than RSS and NOAA products. This discrepancy appears to stem from NOAA-19’s orbital drift. By truncating NOAA-19’s data, UAH’s updated Version 6.1 now aligns more closely with RSS and NOAA data, especially for recent years.
A comparison chart (below) shows that the Version 6.1 update significantly lowers temperature anomalies for recent years, correcting what would have been a +0.94C anomaly in October 2024 to the current +0.73C.
The update reduces the overall temperature trend by a minimal amount—from 0.16C to 0.15C per decade. However, it marks a step toward refining and standardizing satellite-based temperature data, which is essential for long-term climate monitoring.
And briefly speaking to the monthly temperature drop itself, to 0.73C above baseline, it may indicate that the warming affects of Hunga-Tonga, Solar Maximum and/or El Nino are potentially waning, finally. Is this the beginning of the global cooldown?
For further details, readers can access the data directly via drroyspencer.com.
Politics
I don’t usually talk politics; I think, globally, the system is rigged to maintain the status quo no matter which of the two colors you vote for. However, I have been ‘suckered in’ by a few points this time round, this being one of them…
In a recent interview, Bernie Sanders made case that if Donald Trump were to win, it would signal the end of the global climate change agenda as we know it. Sanders said, “If Trump wins, the struggle—the global struggle—against climate change is over. Because if the largest economy in the world, the United States, pulls back, so will China, so will Europe.”
As far as I’m concerned, that’s as good a reason as any to vote red. For all those frustrated with policies aimed at restricting personal freedoms—such as carbon footprints and restrictive energy choices—this could be a pivotal moment.
But I would argue the red wave needs to be great in order to overcome any potential ‘interference’.
Sanders needs to wise up. China, India and Philippine’s have no intention to continue with the Great Reset scam as their focus is on the wellbeing of their populations. Europe will soon be a busted flush before long.
amen to that.
India and China ended disputes at the BRICS meeting in Russia two weeks ago. BRICS all in the UN where China runs the UN Agenda 2030 climate/sustainable program. I’ve put up the link of the person in China who runs the UN program many times here and at Ice Age Now for five years. Sha Zukang started at the post in charge in 2012 at Rio20 Agenda 21 meeting. Sha went to the White House on the way to Rio. China in our Capital twelve years ago then Xi came here to Seattle for Microsoft Tech summit and stayed at Bill Gates house. All about cheap labor. Americans make too much money we buy cheap stuff made by cheap labor elsewhere. Need to start from scratch building all new manufacturing base but labor is too expensive. Cut off Chinda products there won’t be anything to buy. Hyperinflation. Isolation from cheap labor goods will cause a gap in supply. Stock up on long johns and snow boots now before the Donnald starts mega tariffs on the BRICS. Global trade war equal WW3. Us with no manufacturing base and record debt. We don’t have an economy we has debt. China also crashing their small banks just went bust, a billion pissed off broke starving customers. China system is toast it was all a fake economy with printed money. Print four to make one buck. Now injecting trillions to stay afloat. WEF/UN/EU is same program as BRICS/UN. Same Club. WEF/UN has a Summer meeting in China at their BRICS /UN HQ. Canada/Mexico in with UN. Us against the World, Japan is toast. Oz and NZ in with the UN. UN/BRICS new gold backed currency vs US debt based buck. Sauds are in with BRICS. US gave our gold to China back in the ’08 bank crash. Fed bldg across from Goldman’s who had to give them gold and the bldg. Back the trucks up. China started the crash buying all the oil thanks to Bush Jr. Two months till the Donnald steps in, they can blow it all up before he even gets there.
Mercury goes by Venus in three days. Mercury in retrograde on Earth in three weeks as we go by Jupiter and also a New Moon. Big solar flares possible, volcanos. Snow and more snow. It’s the flares you have to watch for not the lack of them.
Murmansk breaks snowfall records (RU)
During the day, 16 mm of precipitation fell in the city, which became a new daily record. The previous one was 11.7 mm and belonged to 1967.
During the snowfall, the height of snow cover in Murmansk increased from 14 cm to 25 cm.
Leading expert of the news agency “Meteonews”
Nadezhda Aleshina
https://www.hmn.ru/index.php?index=1&ts=241105131846
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Record snowfall in Moscow: only the second such incident in almost three decades
On the night of November 4, snow fell in the capital region. The snow cover formed everywhere – from 3 to 9 cm in height.
The appearance of such a thick snow cover in early November is a rare phenomenon: in the last 27 years, this has happened only twice.
The last such incident occurred in 2016, when snow fell at the end of October and remained until April.
https://www.gismeteo.ru/news/weather/rekordnyj-snezhnyj-pokrov-v-moskve-vsego-vtoroj-sluchaj-za-pochti-tri-desyatiletiya/
I know this is not intended to be a political forum but unfortunately globalists have entwined politics with weather, as if man can truly have much impact on climate. (Man should not crap in their nest–we should do all we can reasonably do in taking good care of our earth.) I am reasonably certain Trump will win the presidency and Republicans will control the Senate and House. However, the U.S. has a long, slow slog to begin to bring our bureaucracy under control. Right now conservative presidential efforts are mitigated by leftist bureaucrats, and by senators and house members who proclaim conservatism but still follow the money and fame of the globalists. Meantime, I think since the climate accords have been signed only by the President, then they can be eliminated by the President following any proscribed methods to withdraw from those agreements.
Nothing says hottest year in earth history like snow in Saudi Arabia. What’s next a Ski resort?
Saudi Arabia finally realized they cannot ski ,on sand. Leaves bad brush burns.
OH: Vote early and vote often. Vote RED.
I refuse to vote for the Antichrist. Let him get in office by himself.
I think you meant her.
No, he. And he will.
Somebody at a Kamala rally shouted “Jesus is lord”.
Kamala’s response was “You’re at the wrong rally”.
“Nuff said.
Orange Man Bad the great deceiver, not so sure on that one. I have heard the sky trumpets in 2014/15 and once again this summer. The multiheaded beast the one with the head injury is Biden, the dude had a massive stroke and now dementia. Like a thief in the night he will come. If orange man bad makes us all get chipped in right hand or forehead then i will worry. He is not a holy man nor the the great deceiver not against religion. Is he from the caucausses?
Don’t they have indoor ski slopes in Saudi Arabia?
Also for the first time in recorded history, there is no snow on Mt. Fuji in November. (In this case, recorded history is 130 years.)
I appreciate this site for the climate balance it provides.
La Nina the Indian Ocean is warmer than ave. West Pacific is warmer than ave. SE Asia warmer than ave. Like now, Hong Kong is warmer than ave. 96F in India, Pakistan and Saudia Arabia today, warmer than ave. 100F on the West coast of Africa. Dry as a bone East from there to Bangladesh. Hot and dry for thousands of miles, no rain forecast next ten days.
Another cat 3 typhoon now hitting the N Philippines from solar flares in solar max. Volcanos erupting S of there,
Cap, your global atmospheric water vapor chart indicates the Hunga Tonga moisture is indeed dissapating, so the blanketing greenhouse effects should also be lessening.