Spring Snow Sweeps SW China; Jackson Hole’s Snowiest Season Ever; Australia’s Unseasonable Cold; + Greenland’s SMB Spikes
Spring Snow Sweeps SW China
Northern China has been witnessing heavy spring snowfall of late, which is extending the region’s ski season.
And now, the snowy conditions have descended into parts of Southwest China, including Jiuzhaigou County, Sichuan Province.
Spring snow fell late last week, creating this picturesque scene:
Jackson Hole’s Snowiest Season Ever
California and Utah are garnering most of the ‘snowy headlines’ this year –and justifiably so: all-time records are being slain left, right and center here– but ALL Western states have been packing a punch in recent months, including Wyoming.
The latest snowstorm to hit Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, for example, lifted the season to a whopping 594 inches, making it the resort’s snowiest winter ever recorded, usurping the 577 inches set in 1997 (solar minimum of cycle 22).
The resort currently has a 138 inch base, which is 122% of the average for the time of year.
Looking ahead, there’s more where that came from, even into late-April:
Australia’s Unseasonable Cold
Australia has been holding anomalously cold for months with swathes of the country suffering their coldest winters, springs and summers in decades, in some cases ever — a trend that looks to have now spilled into autumn 2023.
The month of March held -0.20C below the multidecadal norm across Australia, which saw summer overall close at -0.50C below the average — this despite the Bureau of Meteorology calling for a “warmer-than-average summer” before the season began.
The BoM is it again with regards to autumn, with the warm-mongering agency–at the end of February–forecasting “a hotter than average autumn of 2023 in all areas of Australia” and issuing this blood-red graphic:
Reality, however, is delivering the complete opposite with millions of Australians shivering through an unusually cold April.
Melbourne, for example, was on its way to posting its coldest Easter since the 1920s over the weekend, but temperatures on Easter Sunday managed to poke above the record low-max of 14C (57.2F) late in the afternoon.
Eastern Australia’s chill persisted into Monday, too, with Sydney logging its lowest temperature since Nov 17.
Frosts were even noted across the higher elevations, with the freeze expected to extended through Tuesday.
Meanwhile, a tropical cyclone is still brewing off the coast of Western Australia.
“It’s going to bring heavy rain, especially to WA but some of it will flow down and across the country late next week, so there’s plenty of rain on the cards across the country through the next eight or so days,” said Sky News meteorologist Rob Sharpe.
Looking to mid-April, an intensification of the cold is on the cards.
Latest GFS runs foresee temperature anomalies of as much as 14C below the norm across the breadth of the country:
The BoM is basing its hot and fiery ‘blood red’ forecast on the return of El Niño.
However, as researchers such as professor David Dilley have contended, a major change is expected in how El Niño influences global weather patterns in conjunction with cooler North Pacific waters.
#Weather is beginning to revert back to pre-1982 patterns around the world, so says Professor Dilley: “Winters will become colder, longer lasting and more severe … it’s going to be very cold.”
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Greenland SMB Spikes
Following record-breaking snow and ice gains at the start of the season, and then a rather quiet March, Greenland’s surface mass balance (SMB) is once again firing into unprecedented territory.
Saturday and Sunday saw the Greenland ice sheet gain 7 and 6 gigatons, respectively — record highs for the time of year in DMI weather books dating back to 1981.
Our planet’s climate continues to defy alarmist prophesies, yet poverty-inducing policies persist regardless.
I was ‘told’ by the AGW ‘specialists’ that Snow was a thing of the past so why does New Zealand, during SUMMER, have snow on their hills?
Oh that’s right…Michael Man, NASA and many others are LYING!!!
We here in SC KY, a very RURAL area, is ready for what is coming…we have a YUGE greenhouse and we have hunting for meat, timber for firewood and building and we LOVE to grow our OWN veggies!!!
CAP…Thank You Sir for all you do!!!
Mike
The growth of glaciers should wake up a few sheep, and further challenge people who call themselves scientists without auditing the AGW foundational science.
With La Nina running off to join the circus we may start getting the usually predominant, cooler weather from the Southern Ocean rather than the monsoonal warm rain from the warmest seas on the planet, the coral sea and surrounds, here in little olde New Zealand.
The La Nina warm rains have further diminished NZ glaciers. We have had the swings, now we may get some roundabouts.
Back to Cooling again here in SW Florida, waking up to 64 F.
A little drizzle, very little, with a threat of a thunderstorm with lightning
to the south provided the cooling. More cloud cover now.
Dallas
Hi !
My french media is currently focusing :
1) on a NOAA report saying that the temperature of oceans in april beat the previous record of 2016. “According to Christophe Cassou, climatologist at the CNRS and lead author of the sixth IPCC report, a record so early in the year is more than ever due to climate disruption induced by human activity.”
2) on the latest ECMWF seasonal guidance saying “a strong El Niño is possible by September” with disastrous consequences and so on.
What do you think about these elements ?
Otherwise, they do not talk much about the snow in the US.
Can you recommend me a good physics book on the earth-sun interaction ?
Best regards
The way in which the global sea surface temperatures are calculated was changed in 2015 on the basis of one scientific paper which relied on temperature data from intakes on ships which can obviously be affected by heat from the engine rather than the far more accurate multi million dollar system of floating Argo buoys. Have a look at the ocean or sea surface sections of http://www.climate4you.org for to compare the 2 data sets. This led to the pause in global warming that had lasted for at least 12 years, depending on which data set was used, completely disappearing from the surface temperature data sets but not from UAH satellite data, conveniently just in time for the Paris climate conference and supposedly landmark deal. Therefore a claim of warmest ever simply means warmest since 2015 based on dodgy/tampered with data.
It’s not.org, it’s.com not org, .com
https://www.climate4you.com/
Thank you Matt ! I’ll have a look into this.
Hi John, I think that doubting the “consensus” and observing the contrary does not prevent us from thinking about why some measurements were inappropriate and what were the modele mistakes.
The paper I referred to was Karl et all 2015. Try going to http://www.wattsupowiththat.com and entering this into their search facility to understand what happened.
Yes, there is an excellent place to start your search with Dr. John L. Casey’s book ‘Dark Winter’ which is a follow on from his original he wrote when Dr. John L. Casey was Obama’s climate advisor, called ‘Cold Sun’. Cold Sun is similar. I have read both of his books so ‘Dark Winter’ is pretty much identical in many spots and updated in other spots. Therefore, ‘Dark Winter’ is good enough. At that time, he too believed in the CO2 dogma that sucked a great many in until he discovered for himself there is a cycle that is quite an eye opener. I won’t spoil it for you except to say his website is also worth a visit. He is the President of the Space and Science Research Corporation. He predicts the next Grand Solar Minimum at the close of this solar cycle 25 will usher in a deep cooling cycle like the Daulton Minimum or maybe as bad as the Maunder that may last 30-50 years. A long-term drop-in earth’s average temperature is the truth, not the rubbish published by the AGW woke extremists.
Thank you Eaton !
Play around with all the temps you want, but the fact seems to be that there is a global cooling rather than a warming. So far in the last few years that I have followed Electroverse, Cap has saved our garden and geared us up for cooler weather. If it was really warmer weather, then why would there be snow in the Pacific Northwest, and above the Mason-Dixon line in the US?
Haven’t heard anything from Christian Smith (Ice Age Farmer) or David Dubyne in months. Are they still around? Is there any one else to follow?
Australia’s maps are intentionally misleading.
It indicates the CHANCE of above median temps , not the actual temps.
The actual temp could be 0.1 degree above normal , yet the map shows it as bright red.
All designed to prolong the illusion of a warming climate.