Lebanon’s Rare Snow; Boise Breaks Records; U.S. Ski Resorts Extend Into Summer; “Historic” Grand Canyon Snow Delays Opening; + More On The Way From The Rockies To The Great Lakes
Lebanon’s Rare Snow
Lebanon’s higher elevations have once again been brushed with rare April snowfall.
Villages like Bcharre, Laklouk, and Fakra were painted white Wednesday, following similar falls over the weekend.
Boise Breaks Records
Boise doesn’t typically receive large accumulations in a single April snowstorm, but Treasure Valley residents woke to an inch on Thursday, while Bogus Basin received another four inches as the ski resort’s record-breaking winter continues.
Thursday morning’s snow broke the record for April 13, besting the old benchmark of 0.3 inches set just last year.
A low-pressure system delivered “rare” Arctic air into Southern Idaho from the north, said NWS meteorologist Spencer Tangen.
“We had moisture that wrapped around the western side of that low,” Tangen explained. “And a lot of times when we get that pattern, we’ll get the wind coming from the northwest hit the mountains. And that’ll help produce more precipitation in Boise.”
As is the case with most Western states, Idaho has received record amounts of snow this year.
U.S. Ski Resorts Extend Into Summer
Historic snowpack means many western U.S. ski resorts will be open much later than usual this year, but the sheer volume of pack in is also proving problematic.
Starting with the good news, the latest drought monitor numbers reveal that California’s never-ending CO2-enduced 1,200-year mega-drought is all but over, with less than 9% of the state now in drought conditions.
This is down from 25% last week and down an incredible 99% from the start of the water year back on Oct 1.
California’s record snowpack and a very cold/wet spring is to thank — realities the AGW Party, even just a few months ago, deemed impossible.
Mainstream climatologists never believed a winter like the one just gone was still possible, not given their forced marriage to the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis. But watching these weasels squirm and attempt to twist reality to STILL fit their bought-and-paid-for narrative is never gets old: “This past winter told a story of extremes—and served as a reminder that global warming isn’t all rising temperatures” reads the latest programming doing the MSM rounds.
Over the Sierra Nevada range, the University of California Berkeley’s Central Sierra Snow Lab logged its most snow since 1952.
California’s Mammoth Mountain, South Lake Tahoe’s Heavenly and Kirkwood resorts, as well as Utah’s Alta, Snowbird to Brighton were all slammed with up to over 800 inches of snow this winter, seeing them top an ever-growing list of ski resorts to have posted their largest snowpack in recorded history.
Mammoth has extended its ski season through July; Palisades Tahoe will have skiing on Independence Day; while dozens of other resorts out west are putting extra weeks and months onto the season.
“Driving through town is like a maze, snow is approaching the third story on many buildings, street signs are covered, and locals have to shovel down to their roofs,” said Lauren Burke of Mammoth Mountain.
Understand that the below scene is the exact opposite of what mainstream climate scientist prophesied would occur:
“The strong storms in January were not consistent with a La Niña event and may have been influenced by sub-seasonal drivers of climate variability coupled with a weakening of La Niña around Christmas,” said NOAA climatologist, Michael Anderson, desperately scrambling for answers. “This is an unusual year and fits the narrative of climate change from the perspective of a warmer world that has more energy for storms to work with and as a result, new extremes can be experienced.”
That’s all well and good Anderson, if it weren’t for the record-breaking cold that accompanied the so-called “warm” snow. Taking the most recent month, March, 40.66F was the average temperature across the Lower 48 — 2.91F below the multidecadal norm.
Also, using this expert’s reasoning, any weather event considered ‘unusual’ is caused by global warming; that is, the historically cold and snowy winter just gone, as mentioned, but also, extrapolating the nonsense further, even the onset of the next ice age. In all seriousness, if every extreme event–hot or cold, wet or dry–is a sign of global warming then we’ve lost our ability to decipher the present reality and so in turn predict the future. This is dangerous. We’re entering an uncertain climatic future of low solar activity, migrating magnetic poles and a waning magnetosphere with the blinkers on.
“Historic” Grand Canyon Snow Delays Opening
Record snow in the Southwest has also delayed openings at Cedar Breaks, Great Basin and Grand Canyon national parks.
Cedar Breaks National Monument, Utah, is at 217% of its normal snowpack. Drifts surpassing 30 feet are still blocking State Route 148, the main road through the park, making entry possible only to those with snowmobiles.
At Great Basin National Park in eastern Nevada, record snowfall will delay the opening of Wheeler Peak Scenic Drive, Wheeler Peak Campground and several hiking trails, including the Alpine Lakes Loop, according to a park press release, after more than 7 feet of snow settled here, busting an all-time snowpack record set back in 1952.
And lastly, though by no means comprehensively, the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park typically opens on May 15, but this year, due to unprecedented snow, the North Rim won’t reopen until June 2 at the earliest to allow for safe plowing of State Route 67.
More On The Way From The Rockies To The Great Lakes
Yet more snow is clattering the Northwest and the Rockies this week, while fresh snow in Montana and Idaho on Thursday almost touched a foot — astonishing for the time of year. That low is now shifting into Canada, taking the snow with it, but looking ahead much more is on the way as further rounds of descending polar cold prepare to encase the Lower 48.
I’ll let the latest GFS runs do the talking (see below).
Just, for each mass of plunging Arctic air imagine a BBC journalist frantically Googling ‘why is warming causing cooling?’…
…and for every mid/late-April snowstorm that adds to an already unprecedented snowpack, picture a mystified NOAA meteorologist tearing a clump of hair from their scalp. It eases the frustration.
The truth is impossible enough to decipher without incessant establishment-funded obfuscation.
Enjoy your weekend.
My guess is 35 years ago when they started this Global Warming disinformation scheme, the governments around the world knew exactly what is coming. Now they are doing the honorable thing. Saving themselves and dealing the peasants out.
@Mystic: Thanks. So very true. I suspected that a long time ago.
I agree butwhy? Why shut off the heat when you know its going to get cold?
50 yrs ago it was an ICE AGE COMETH!!!
Yes, Michael:
I have the information from John Hamaker, Larry Ephron, and Andy Caffrey:
“Stopping the Coming Ice Age.” John Hamaker blamed the coming Ice Age on de-mineralization of the earth’s soil and we can stop the coming ice age by Re-mineralizing our soil. I used to show the video: “Stopping the Coming Ice Age” on the community cable TV, where anyone can post a legitimate video for the community members to watch. I obtained a 5-ton truck load of Basalt Rock Dust from the local quarry on the windward side of Oahu and re-mineralized my 3,600n square ft garden also on the windward side of Oahu, HI. My garden was fantastic – after I roto-tilled tons of basalt rock-dust into the top 8″‘ of my garden soil.
But, now we know that – more likely – our weather, if it can be influenced, will be influenced by the SOLAR radiation – or lack there-of.
Basically, predicting the “future” remains very “”iffy,” as we all remain immortal spiritual beings and our main purpose here in the “dream” remains working on and developing “Inner Peace,” so that we we “leave’ this dream, and return to our Home in what people call Heaven, we will have Inner Peace. and we will feel at home. If we don’t develop complete Inner Peace, we will be bothered by our “unconscious guilt” and we will jump at the chance to “escape” from our inner fear of “God’s punishment” – which is a total fantasy, as “God” equals Love, not fear. Working on your inner peace probably has a longer lasting value, compared to moving to a warmer climate – considering the possibility of Earth’s poles moving, a weakening of Earth’s magnetic power, and a sudden, as in very sudden , shift of the Earth’s crust – completely destroying all of Earth’s civilizations. See The Story of Adam and Eve, by Chan Thomas.
Kenneth Lund, in the “Comments,” lays out the global problem of the MSM / governments lying about everything.
Good work, Kenneth.
Sincerely,
Steven Blue
Actually it started out as climate change. The thinking was an ice age was coming. The 1970s were cold and snowy. When that didn’t happen, they shifted gears to “global warming”. Now they are back to climate change. The Medieval warmth and little ice age occurred without the influence of CO2. Eventually, stability. Perhaps a better climate…
I live in the high prairie country of SE Idaho, normally our snow is gone by April 1st, but we still have about 1ft on the ground with 2-4 ft drifts. The farmers here will not be able to plant their grains till the middle or end of May, weeks later than normal.
So much for the global warming fiasco.
CAP, Can you get an up date from Prof Valentine Zharkova on her prediction that the cold spell will still last for 30yrs and that temperatures are proving her prediction is still valid?!
The public is urged to ignore NOAA (and other outlets) these days at all costs! They have no more credibility with the public anymore as to climate factors – and this year’s all-time record smashing snowfall and all-time record cold temperatures all but trashed NOAA even further into the proverbial trashcan. I knew it would just be a matter of time until some lunatic from NOAA or other outlet would scream out of their hot mouths in an attempt to tie the all-time record snowfall and record cold to the full fledged lies of GW! Their extreme leftist funded ignorance no longer surprise me anymore whatsoever. This country, unfortunately, has become the most ignorant nation on earth as to knowledge of weather and climate cycles. Unfortunately these ongoing lies in the last 30 years have downgraded the meteorological community in the public eye. That’s exactly what Robert Felix always warned about whenever we experienced a record breaking snow year. He was the author of The Next Ice Age and was right on target. These all time record snowfalls in conjunction with all-time record cold temperatures over the past decade are very much likely part of the ice age cycle driven by low solar activity, colder atmosphere, weakening magnetic field, rising volcanic activity, cosmic rays and heavier precipitation. Climatic cooling over land and atmosphere plus heavier snows means glacier growth in about 95 percent of existing land masses. It’s a re-occurring cycle and this is exactly what we are seeing. The rest of the people who cannot see this by now will always be woefully uninformed, including NOAA and other government and media outlets, as well as the academia. Their extreme ignorance of these matters will one day get millions killed when the thrust of this cycle hits head on – which it will.
That’s the plan.
April frosts in Igarka: for the first time in 30 years, the temperature dropped to -40°C.
While in Central Asia the temperature reached the “July” values, at the same time in the north of Siberia the “January” frost hit. So, on April 13 in Igarka the temperature dropped to -40°C. Over the past 30 years, this is the first case of 40-degree frosts in April.
Updated April 13 absolute minimum (−39.1°C) set in 1937. Thus, on both sides of Siberia, the temperature spread was 80 degrees.
https://www.gismeteo.ru/news/weather/aprelskie-morozy-v-igarke-vpervye-za-30-let-temperatura-ponizilas-do-40/
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Cold April 2023 “Meteonovosti” RU
Siberians are totally ‘unlucky’ with the weather in April. Cold and frost bound the south of Western Siberia, despite the fact that the calendar is mid-April. The average ten-day actual air temperature is below climatic norms by 2-4 degrees. But, April 2023 did not break the temperature record of 1964, in some regions the temperature in April dropped to -27°C.
The vast cold center in the troposphere is in no hurry to leave Siberia. Northwestern cold air currents from the shores of the Arctic leave no chance for warming.
On April 15-16, in the Tomsk, Kemerovo regions and Altai, the passage of atmospheric fronts of the cyclone will be accompanied by wind , snow, and in some places icy phenomena are possible on the roads . The temperature at night is -3..-8°C in the northern regions of Kuzbass and in the Tomsk region up to -13..-18°C, in some places up to -25°C. Daytime 0..-5°C.
On April 17, a surface anticyclone will arrive in time to help the cold center in the troposphere , the cooling of the earth’s surface will intensify.
The temperature at night in the Altai Territory is -4..-9°C, in Kuzbass -7..-12°C in the Tomsk region up to -22°C.
https://www.hmn.ru/index.php?index=1&ts=230414112045
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It’s quite noticeable to see the trend of cold. It appears that ‘catastrophic or extreme’ heat is buried by snow and cold.
Hey Cap found a https://youtu.be/5zNbyfGSTTYideo of 70 MPH waves kinda as big as those off the Portugal coast…enjoy Surfing THESE!!!
https://youtu.be/5zNbyfGSTTY
Closing a national park because of snow is bureaucratic tyranny using “health and Safety” communism as an excuse.. Seeing the park under snow would e wonderful.
What say you that we now lighten our spirits with a bit of gallows humor. 🙂
Howsoever, regarding Mr. Blue’s reading recommendation of The Story of Adam and Eve by Chan Thomas, I’d recommend a competing source of information regarding the origin of the heavens and the Earth and the destiny of the created order. To wit, the Holy Bible, by the creator God of the universe. It has millions and millions of five star reviews. If one considers the impossibility of virtually everything that we see and observe and seek to understand and explain regarding existence, life, the solar system, and the cosmos, in the end it becomes illogical to conclude any explanation other than a designer and creator with infinite knowledge and infinite power, IMO. Or perhaps you’d prefer the notion that everything came from nothing, and a singularity in nothing came along and burst forth and expanded into everything in the cosmos that we perceive and measure and know to be real, including an impossible solar system and an impossible earth filled with impossible life-by-chance on Earth. If you prefer the Big Bang explanation, I’d ask you a question. When nothing became everything at the time of the Big Bang, please explain to me the existence of the infinite void into which everyting exploded into. I hope that you’ll agree that an infinite void is indeed something and not nothing. But of course, maybe the (likely highly paid) theorists who hypothisize multiple universes and multiple dimensions can also hypothesize multiple infinite voids to accompany the multiple universes. Do I smell Nobel Prize?
Just read a story about how people normally go to the Tatry mountains, especially the Chocholowska valley in early April to see the fields of blooming crocuses, but this year there were hardly any to be seen, because… there was too much snow and most didn’t even come out.
When looking on Google Earth at the area you mentioned, i came across two lakes that were clearly of a pumped storage electricity generation facility.
Water Reservoir Čierny Váh
“The Hydroelectric Power Station Čierny Váh is our largest pumped-storage power plant and also the largest hydroelectric power plant in Slovakia with an installed capacity of 735.16 MW. It is not for nothing that it is a technical wonder of Slovakia.”
That is a good idea. Use unreliable wind generation to fill reservoirs with water then generate reliable hydroelectric power.
Here in south Europe (Spain/Andalucia) we are experiencing the total opposite. The least snowfall/rain since decades and high temperatures like June. Sierra Nevada ski resorts is already closed (normally end of may) and the the water restrictions are starting this week (normally it starts on the Fiesta del aqua on the 24th of June) So the climate/weather is always in move and try to find balance, one region expecting heavy cold and rain/snow and another region is unusually warm and dry and both sides MSM GW and the Global Cooling advocates just focus on the news wich supports their claims. Would be good to have a honest information source wich covers as less biased as possible… . Cause otherwise you are just repeat the pattern you originally opposed… . If I understand correctly you (electroverse) live in Portugal. How is the situation there?