Rare August Snow For The Sierra Nevada

Swaths of the Eastern U.S. continue to endure August lows not seen in decades. Now the West is joining in and all. The 2023-24 Tahoe ski season ended barely three months ago, but winter-like conditions are already making a return this week.

A rare August storm is forecast to deliver the Sierra Nevada its first snowfall of the 2024-25 season, as a cold front, plunging down from Canada, threatens to hit Northern California in the coming days, bringing with it a high possibility of the white stuff.

Models foresee an unusually strong low-pressure system dropping from Canada toward the Oregon-California border by Friday. While such a system is common in the winter months, it is very rare in August — its strength could actually be record-breaking, and any snow would be the first in August for at least 20 years, according to the NWS Hanford office.

The European weather model forecasts near-record to record cold air over Northern California this week, with temperatures at 5,000 feet expected crash below 40F—some 20F below normal.

The National Weather Service anticipates freezing temperatures at higher elevations in the Sierra Nevada come Friday night.

As moisture-rich winds collide with the mountains, precipitation is expected. If these freezing temperatures align with showers, as expected, then snowflakes will accumulate across the Sierra.

“I was going to go camping, but now I’m not,” said Chris Johnston, a meteorologist with the NWS in Reno on seeing the forecast. Johnston goes on to urge campers and hikers to prepare for cold weather and the possibility of summer snow this weekend.

The snow line could drop as low as 7,000 feet at Tahoe resorts like Palisades Tahoe, Heavenly, and Kirkwood. The highest elevations could receive snow in the multiple inches.

“It’s exceptionally rare for our area to experience new snowfall in August, as it’s typically one of the warmest months here in Tahoe,” said Patrick Lacey, spokesperson for Palisades Tahoe.

Further south, even Mammoth Mountain could see a dusting of snow. The resort hasn’t seen pre-October snowfall, let alone August snows, since 2017, as per its website.

After what has been a lackluster summer for many, the U.S. continues its ‘cool-blue’ theme into late-August:

Biting cold is on the way for the West come Saturday, August 24:

The Atlantic’s Rapid Cooling

After a year of anomalous warmth, the Atlantic Ocean is now undergoing swift and unprecedented cooling.

This sudden, record-setting shift could signal the onset of an “Atlantic Niña,” a climate phenomenon that, alongside the forecast La Niña in the Pacific, is expected to drive global temperatures down.

Since June 2024, sea surface temperatures in the central equatorial Atlantic have cooled by 0.5 to 1C:

Typically driven by strong trade winds, this cooling has occurred despite unusually weak winds, confusing scientists.

“The mechanisms we usually associate with cooling events, like strong winds, are not in place,” says Franz Philip Tuchen from the University of Miami, “yet the cooling is happening.”

Even slight temperature changes in the Atlantic can alter weather patterns worldwide.

A cooling of 0.5C to 1C is quite significant.

It could reduce rainfall in Africa’s Sahel while increasing it in the Gulf of Guinea, while South America may see shifts in its rainy season, affecting agriculture.

This emerging Atlantic Niña may also be negating the 2024 hurricane season. While NOAA et al had almost gleefully predicted a “blockbuster” and “climate change-fueled” season, this unprecedented Atlantic cooling looks to be tempering storm intensity.

Just look at the drop off since March’s peak:

This rapid cooling of course jars with the mainstream narrative, hence its limited reporting.

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Failed Testimony

NASA’s James Hansen ignited the modern global warming scare during a Congressional committee meeting in 1988. On June 24 of that year, The New York Times reported:

“Until now, scientists have been cautious about attributing rising global temperatures of recent years to the predicted global warming caused by pollutants in the atmosphere, known as the ‘greenhouse effect.’ But today Dr. James E. Hansen of NASA told a Congressional committee that it was 99 percent certain that the warming trend was not a natural variation but was caused by a buildup of carbon dioxide and other artificial gases in the atmosphere.”

But how much credibility does The New York Times have left?

In a 1961 article, the publication was preparing its readers for the the opposite threat, a colder world:

The global scientific consensus during the early-1960s was that the Earth was cooling.

And by the 1970s, this concern had intensified.

In a front-page story from the early-1970s, The New York Times outlined scientists’ fears of expanding polar ice caps, even proposing extreme solutions such as spreading coal dust over the Arctic so as to melt the ice:

As late as 1978, the NYT was pushing the global cooling narrative:

The cooling trend between the 1960s and late -1970s was indeed very real—despite what today’s pop-scientists may claim. Historical thermometer data clearly show that the Northern Hemisphere warmed between 1885 and 1939, and then cooled quite significantly from 1940 through the 1970s:

These multidecadal temperature swings were obviously driven by natural forcings such as solar activity and the oceans. There can be no attribution to atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, which we’re told have been steadily rising since the late 1800s. The cooling Northern Hemisphere temperatures from ≈1940 to 1980 show a strong anti-correlation with rising CO2 levels.

As these past NYT articles reveal, cLiMaTe ChAnGe has been used to sell newspapers and control populations forever. The difference today is that the elites not only own the media, but The Science and all. Now, agencies such as NASA and NOAA it appears have been tasked with ‘adjusting’ historical temperature data with the aim of erasing all natural (inconvenient) trends.

Everything must point to the evils of human prosperity, i.e. CO2 emissions — that’s every heatwave, rainstorm, flood and drought; every snowstorm, tornado, hurricane, and even every sunken Sicily super yacht:

The Father Of Global Warming

James Hansen is often regarded as ‘the father of modern-day global warming’.

‘Modern-day’ because the climate cabal conveniently ignore the comparable 1885-1939 warming, regarding it immaterial. What they’re up in arms about is the ≈1980-to-present warming, which they have linked to humanity’s burning of ‘fossil fuels’.

When preparing his 1988 climate forecast, Hansen devised three CO2 emission scenarios:

• Scenario A: A “Business As Usual” path with increasing CO2 emissions.
• Scenario B: A moderate reduction in CO2 emissions.
• Scenario C: A reduction in CO2 emissions, capped at the year 2000 levels.
  
  

Clear to see, real-world temperatures are closely followed emissions Scenario C, where greenhouse gases were drastically reduced—a scenario that never happened, you don’t need me to point out. All the costly carbon reduction initiatives, the trillions of tax revenue spent, the free-falling living standards, well, it turns out that doing nothing would have achieved the same results.

This epic failure has bred huge public distrust in climate science—in all sciences—with it’s politicization “setting back the field probably a few generations,” so says MIT climate scientist (and former IPCC lead author) Dr. Richard Lindzen: