Last week, record-breaking low temperatures were observed for three days in a row in South Lake Tahoe, plummeting to bone-chilling lows of nine, seven, and eight degrees on April 3, April 4, and April 5, respectively. The previous April 3 record was set in 1999 at 11 degrees, while the previous April 4 record was set that same year at 13 degrees, and the April 5 record was set in 2003 at 15 degrees, said Justin Collins, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Reno office.
At the same time California state water officials announced one of the largest snowpacks ever measured in the region – 722 inches as of April 3.
The Yosemite waterfalls should be spectacular this year. The glaciers on Shasta might swell as well.
And 84 degrees forecast for Boston on Thursday. Crazy man.
ReplyDeleteThe ice age will be starting when the snow is not gone at the end of of the summer, probably be happening up north first..
ReplyDeletehttps://www.ventusky.com/?p=73.3;-79.8;3&l=temperature-2m
ReplyDeleteCost - benefit analysis:
ReplyDeleteGlobal cooling-
Cost: Northern hemisphere covered with a mile of ice from NY north. Canada, Russia, the UK and Northern Europe obliterated. Billions die of starvation when their croplands stop producing.
Benefit: None
Global warming-
Cost: Sea levels rise, weather becomes more erratic, millions of people move inland and build new cities, everyone builds stronger buildings to withstand the erratic storms. Amortized over 300 years the cost is about 5 cents per person per day.
Benefits: Northern Canada and Siberia become arable and double the worlds food production capacity.
Covering NY and Europe with a mile of ice does have some benefit.
DeleteAnd yet, somehow, this will still be recorded as "the warmest winter ever" and/or "the warmest year ever".
ReplyDeleteExactly right.
Deletethe weatherman on tv was/is the original fake news people.
DeleteIf the glaciers grow, you will know only because of the complete absence of reporting on the subject.
ReplyDeleteA new weather girl reported the most snow was in 1955(?) at 64ft. I was shocked because usually they won't report anything from before 1965. Whenever they report any record look to see what period it covers because they like to fudge numbers.
ReplyDeleteThat's the winter of '51-'52 you're thinking of, when the passenger train City of San Francisco got stuck near Emigrant Gap, CA.
DeleteNext Ice Age? Y'all making me feel old cause I remember being taught in school that we are all in a interglacial period of the current ice age. Of course they don't want people to realize all of human existence has been during an ice age and the non-ice age temperatures are much higher, before humans ever existed.
ReplyDeleteAh, the good old days when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, CO2 levels were 400 ppm and the internal combustion engine didn't exist. Imagine that.
DeleteIf I recall, Norden (nr Donner) had 802" in 1982. It comes, it goes.
ReplyDeleteNext up: Mudslide season in California.
ReplyDeleteand cali didn't dig one lake or pond and all that snow will melt and run to the sea because they are morons...
ReplyDeleteCentral Sierra Snow Lab website:
ReplyDeletehttps://cssl.berkeley.edu/