SoCal’s Back-To-Back Bumper Snow Seasons; Cold And Snow To Persist Into May Across Europe; + El Niño Has Officially Ended
SoCal’s Back-To-Back Bumper Snow Seasons
Bear Mountain, Southern California has logged a whopping 175 inches of snow this season — the resort’s second-snowiest winter on record, behind only 2022-23’s when a jaw-dropping 243 inches accumulated.
These AGW defying totals are the highest since Bear’s records began in 1999-20.
“Better late than never,” reports localfreshies.com. “What began with a sluggish start has quickly transformed into one of the most memorable winters in recent memory.”
These slow beginnings were pounced upon by a crisis-feeding MSM:
However, by early-February the season was flipped on its head after a series of powerful winter storms barreled in.
On Feb 2 – 3 alone, almost a foot of snow landed. Then, within a span of just 72-hours starting Feb 6, more than 100 inches had pummeled western slopes, with Big Bear receiving 70+ inches.
The storms persisted throughout February, making for one of the snowiest months on record. The powder train kept chugging through March and all, and now well into April it is still going strong assisted by the return of fierce Arctic air:
The MSM’s response?
They begrudgingly accept defeat this season — California has been spared, “for now”:
Cold And Snow To Persist Into May Across Europe
‘Better late than never’ is a theme playing out across Europe and all, where polar cold and widespread snow is forecast to intensify through the second-half of April, extending into May even.
As copied-&-pasted across the British tabloids this week, “a 42-hour snow blast is set to send temperatures plunging across the country with almost every corner of the UK is set to be hit by the polar freeze.”
Scotland could experience lows of -6C (21.2F), lower in some sheltered spots, which would challenge long-standing cold records for the date. The UK’s lowest ever temperature on April 20 –for example– is the -7.8C (18F) set at Alwen, Wales in 1969.
This out-of-season chill won’t be confined to Britain, much of mainland Europe will also be impacted.
Latest GFS runs have doubled-down on an intense, widespread and long-lasting freeze, lasting perhaps into May.
Such anomalous cold will threaten young and budding crops, and Europe’s growers, from France to the Balkans, have been placed on alert with ‘frost fires’ being prepared.
Large temperature drops have already being reported across the continent.
Using Villach, Austria as our example, the unusually hot 30.9C (87.6F) posted there on Sunday has been followed by the biggest 48-hour temperature drop in recorded history (books dating back to 1939). It is now 0C (32F) in Villach and snowing.
Other Austrian cities have endured similar fates, with Deutschlandsberg crashing from 31.7C (89.1F) on Sunday to 1C (33.8F) and snowfall on Tuesday.
From summer to winter in two days; this isn’t CO2-induced global heating, this is evidence of a weakening jet stream.
Europe’s spring snow is only set to intensify as the month progresses, forecast to extend into May even, prolonging what has turned out to be a tremendous season for the higher elevations (following a lackluster Jan and Feb):
Up north in Finland, continuous snow cover has persisted for 191 days in Sodankylä Tähtelä. Snow began falling on Oct 8 and has remained on the ground ever since.
This is an exceptional feat, the fourth-longest stretch (to April 15) in books dating back to 1910.
Moreover, given the looming polar freeze, which is set to run into May, no spring melting is on the cards anytime soon. Combine this with the 74 cm (29 inches) of snow left on the ground (as of April 16) and Sodankylä’s total duration has a shot at besting the all-time record-breaking stretch of 231 days, set Oct 5, 1968 to May 23, 1969.
The COLD TIMES are returning.
It’s just that El Niño, Solar Maximum and Hunga-Tonga have worked to put a pin in things in 2023, three natural forcings that are all now waning.
El Niño Has Officially Ended
The 2023 El Niño has ended, say the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM). The Pacific Ocean has “cooled substantially” in the past week.
The naturally occurring El Niño brought warmer waters to the surface of the Pacific, adding heat to the atmosphere and putting on hold the cumulative cooling effect of years of low solar activity.
The BBC, seemingly annoyed by a “quicker than expected” end to El Niño and the subsequent threat of a returning of La Niña (as it would lead to a stark drop in global temperatures), have stepped up the ‘catastrophism’, going so far as to suggest that La Niña may actually never return.
“The world could be tipping into a new phase of even faster climate change,” writes the BBC’s environmental correspondent Matt McGrath, quoting unnamed “scientists,” with the months after the end of El Niño giving “a strong indication as to whether the recent high temperatures are due to accelerated climate change or not.”
The article then breaks to list a few related climate scare stories:
— World’s coral turns white from deadly ocean heat
— UK food production at threat after extreme flooding
The BBC argues, with the help of the BoM, that “as the current global ocean conditions have not been observed before, inferences as to how ENSO may develop in 2024 that are based on past events may not be reliable.”
A returning La Niña is indeed a big blow to the AGW Party.
According to ‘The Science’ (linked below), El Niño should be the dominate ENSO pattern in a warming world. If La Niña ends up ruling, which appears to be the case (with NOAA forecasting 2023-24 to be the fourth La Niña winter of the last five) then something entirely different is likely playing out.
Natural forcings are the be-all and end-all — no bogeyman required.
If you’re going to pump an extra 10% of water vapor into the stratosphere (Hunga-Tonga) and combine that with a Solar Maximum AND an El Niño then fireworks are to be expected.
On the flip side though, now that all three of these natural forcings are waning the coming years should continue where we left off in early-2023 (i.e. below baseline):
Let’s see where the next 12-months take us.
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thank you thank you so much Cap.
its good to be able to read [from time to time] your reports.
Apocalyptic scenes in Dubai after worst rainfall in 75 years reads the report.
cheers
Maree
I wish to thank you Cap for also being able to read your entire report
from time to time . Always read the headlines and comments to gather info,
since unable to afford subscription. But I will always be and avid follower!!
Best wishes, Debra
Good post thank you Cap. Here in Finland we dont hear our local news while climate fear mongers are pushing their scam agenda. There will be a cold wake up call for many when we are now heading to solar minimum.
I am prepared though having plenty of firewood. I am installing 800 meters of ethanol filled piping 1 meters deep in the clay soil front of my house.. geothermal heating with 16 kWh Nibe heat pump.
We have huge Areva nuclear reactor Olkiluoto 3 here in Finland producing 15 % of our electricity so electricity is cheap when it is operating. But now itis off the grid.. again. Service they say. But I am prepared for expensive or cheap energy what ever comes from the grid lines.
No climates have changed.
The Arctic is still cold, the tropics are still warm, and the temperate climates are still mixed. The rainforests are still wet and the deserts are still dry.
Calling 30-year weather the “climate” doesn’t make it so.
The Earth is still in a 2 million-year ice age until all of the natural ice melts, and that isn’t happening for a very long time.
El Nino chart updated for March. Next update in 2.5 weeks. El Nino heat from solar flares, volcanos.
https://ggweather.com/enso/oni.png
https://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/data/5km/v3.1/current/animation/gif/ssta_animation_90day_large.gif
https://www.windy.com/-Menu/menu?tcso2,10.125,-95.301,5,i:pressure,m:dS2adAF
https://www.windy.com/-Menu/menu?sst,6.730,-92.450,5,i:pressure,m:dWZadAr
On the El Nino chart only nine years since 1950 stronger than now. Still in the top ten out of seventy four years. Solar activity is waning even though it’s increasing so UAH GT will get below ave because what?
The CO2 level in our atmosphere is barely above extinction level. Wouldn’t it make more sense to increase CO2 levels to green the planet? Just asking.
It never was about climate, China just uses the petrol to build ghost cities and the Belt Road, the largest construction project in history. Built factories and use cheap labor and made Planet Walmart. Israel is on the Belt Road. Germany. China owns all the Ports. All new cranes, USA’s too. The West is in the demolition phase of the Belt Road project.
El Nino charts updated for March. Have to wait till the end of the month for the next updates:
https://ggweather.com/enso/oni.htm