26 Aug 2018 – August to end with a taste of winter as snow blankets the Northern Rockies
Winter weather advisories have been issued by the National Weather Service for parts of the Rockies of Montana and Wyoming, where the NWS said a few inches of wet snow is possible early Monday into early Tuesday above 6,000 feet in elevation.
Accumulating snow is expected in the highest peaks of northwestern Wyoming, southern and western Montana and adjacent portions of Idaho.
But don’t worry. That’s normal. “Snow is not uncommon in the higher elevations of the northern Rockies in late August,” says weather.com.
Of course, they’re the same people who keep on harping about “global warming.”
Which is it?
https://weather.com/storms/winter/news/2018-08-26-winter-weather-advisory-snow-montana-wyoming
Thanks to Ryan for this link
Global cooling: Record-setting early snowfall covers the top of Hokkaido mountain in Japan
https://www.sott.net/article/393694-Global-cooling-Record-setting-early-snowfall-covers-the-top-of-Hokkaido-mountain-in-Japan
17AUG2018
NOAA has issued a warning about a geomagnetic storm has ejected a CME that is hitting earth at this time.
I doubt this is the “Big One” but I always take preparedness actions.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-26/noaa-issues-geomagnetic-storm-warning-crack-opened-earths-magnetic-field-plasma#section-comments
This site may be of interest as it is the written accounts of “weather” in the U.K going back over 1000 years.
it makes very interesting reading.
booty.org.uk/booty.weather/climate.
Follow the links for years or go to parent site.
The freeze has started above 80 degrees Lat.
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/meant80n.uk.php
The hell with weather.com. We all know they are liars.
It’s the Al Gore Channel!
In fact, 4 to 8 inches is more than a few!
An unseasonably cold Canadian low pressure trough will bring
periods of wet snow to the northern and western mountains today through early Tuesday morning. Snowfall accumulations will be mainly above 9000 feet, with 4 to 8 inches expected. Locally
heavier amounts are possible in the higher elevations. Snowfall
below 9000 feet of 1 to 3 inches is possible, with snow melting
as it falls at times.
https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=riw&wwa=winter%20weather%20advisory
Until a few years ago, I was white water canoeing. And in the last two weeks of August our group would paddle some of the wilder rivers in the East Kootenays. In the “Rockies” in south-eastern BC.
The locals said that sometimes the snow came to the valley floors in late August. Fro them winter can start in late August.
However, the chart of snow cover extent for last year’s melt season (Northern Hemisphere) remained above the high-side of the standard deviation band. It has been above since April and still is now.
More snow cover than usual through two melt seasons.
I won’t consider it a trend until the third year.
All forecasting models , past analogs for the climate( even moving forward less then one year) should be thrown out the window because they do not account for very weak solar conditions, combined with a weakening geo magnetic field and the climatic effects they may have.
Definitely new snow above treeline here today. Normally it would take several days of rain to get cold enough for unseasonable snow. This was snow right away. Also a more winter type pattern. Can’t speak for the rest of the area because this place doesn’t catch the brunt of every storm. Could definitely be more elsewhere nearby.
Mid-summer snowfall in Saudi Arabia is the best thing on the internet
https://stepfeed.com/mid-summer-snowfall-in-saudi-arabia-is-the-best-thing-on-the-internet-9301
21AUG2018
Who needs fall?? Here in Billings we went straight from summer to Noah. (Rain every day, in August? WTF??)
https://ktvh.com/weather/2018/08/27/august-snow-only-in-montana/
See the blue dots? That’s SNOW.
https://www.ventusky.com/?p=46.2;-110.9;4&l=snow&t=20180828/04&w=strong
Photo of this morning’s snow in Jackson Hole:
https://denver.cbslocal.com/2018/08/27/summer-snow-falling-in-northern-rockies/
If this keeps up, we’ll bust on past last winter’s record snowfall by Christmas.
My work friend, who believes in man-made global warming, says he experienced an August snow in Montana one time in either the late 1970s or the early 1980s.