World wide cold,snow or weather records thread

[Matthew]

Post all cold and snow records from around the world. In discuse the new and developing ice age.

[Matthew]

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Fahrenheit

Jun 13 500-Year Flood - Many rivers across the Plains and Midwest are at record flood stages. Officials say the Cedar River in Iowa is at a 500-year flood level. Virtually all of Cedar Falls, Iowa is under water. Widespread evacuations orders are in place and flooding has closed miles of interstates and local roads and highways across the heartland.

A new storm system is forecast to reach the Midwest by Sunday, bringing more heavy rain that will continue into early next week.
http://premiuma.accuweather.com/adcbin/pre...n=midwestusnews

Thanks to Kenneth Lund for this info

Jun 12 Historic flood event - incredible crop losses - The evacuations in Cedar Rapids, population 120,000, followed a round earlier Thursday when some residents of Iowa City and Cedar Bluffs were also told to head for higher ground.


Storms brought up to 5 inches of rain across west central Iowa early Thursday — primarily in the Raccoon River basin.

This year's spring deluge led some to compare it to the disaster of 1993 when the Mississippi River and its tributaries turned parts of the nation's midsection into a gigantic lake.

"We are in the middle of a historic flood event in the Upper Mississippi Valley,” said meteorologist Bill Karins of NBC's WeatherPlus. Most major Iowa rivers are cresting at all-time record levels and this water will soon raise the Mississippi River to its second highest levels in recorded history north of St. Louis.


"The story along the Mississippi River will be all the mid-sized and small towns without large levees," he added. "On the consumer side, thousands upon thousands of acres of farmland will be flooded for weeks with incredible crop losses."

Corn prices hit a record high again Thursday and the short-term outlook did not look good.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25020185



Jun 11 Snowfall in one day:
Paradise, WA---24”
Gibson Dam, MT---12”
Snoqualmie Pass, WA---7”
Government Camp, OR---5”
Timberline Lodge, OR---5”

Jun 11 Another foot of snow forecast for Montana and Idaho - While eastern states of the US have been reeling under a heat wave the last few days, an unusual “winter” storm has brought June snow across the northwest.

Residents of Eastern Oregon woke Monday morning to a scene more akin to winter, with snow blanketing gardens and with white out conditions on the roads. Heavy snow fell in the Cascades forcing trucks crossing the mountain passes to use tyre chains. It was the first time in 30 years that snowploughs had been used in June to clear Steven’s Pass.

The unusual cold and snowy weather is being attributed to this year’s La Nina, which brought parts of the US their snowiest winter on record. Today the storm has moved on to Montana and Idaho. As much as a foot of snow (12 inches) is forecast.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world/news/11062008news.shtml

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Historic floods hit America’s Midwest - Thunderstorms and record flooding drenched America’s Midwest again on Friday, prompting severe storm warnings Oklahoma to Wisconsin.

Over the last month the Midwest has suffered under a constant barrage of storms. Over this time, Iowa has totted up over 450mm (18 inches) of rain and is now buckling under the strain, with 83 of Iowa’s 99 counties declared disaster areas.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world/news/14062008news.shtml

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we must pray for dry weather and support ron

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Global warming predictions challenged
The Daily Times ^ | 6/15/2008 | Khalid Hasan


WASHINGTON: John Coleman, the founder of American TV’s Weather Channel, has challenged Al Gore’s dire predictions that the planet is in peril because of global warming.

In a speech to the San Diego Chamber of Commerce, Coleman said, “There is no significant man made global warming. There has not been any in the past, there is none now and there is no reason to fear any in the future. The climate of Earth is changing. It has always changed. But mankind’s activities have not overwhelmed or significantly modified the natural forces.”

He said for the past ten thousand years the Earth has been in an interglacial period, which might well be called nature’s global warming because the Earth warms up, the glaciers melt and life flourishes.

“Mr Gore and his crowd would have us believe that the activities of man have overwhelmed nature during this interglacial period and are producing an unprecedented, out of control warming. Well, it is simply not happening,” Coleman added.

Decline: Coleman said there was a significant natural warming trend worldwide in the 1980s and 1990s as a solar cycle peaked with lots of sunspots and solar flares. That ended in 1998 and now the sun has gone quiet with fewer and fewer sunspots, and the global temperatures have gone into decline.

The Earth has cooled for almost 10 straight years. “So, I ask Al Gore, where’s the global warming?” he said. The cooling trend, he claimed, is so strong that recently the head of the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had to acknowledge it.

He said he had dug through thousands of pages of research papers, including UN reports and the bottom line was: the entire global warming scientific case is based on the increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from the use of fossil fuels. There is no other issue.

He said the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s findings are flawed, as is their science. The hypothesis is wrong and the data is manipulated.

The Earth does not have a fever. Carbon dioxide does not cause significant global warming. It is a natural component of the Earth’s atmosphere and has been there since time began, absorbed and emitted by the oceans and used by every living plant to trigger photosynthesis.

“Nothing would be green without it. And we humans, we create it. Every time we breathe out, we emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. It is not a pollutant. It is not smog. It is a naturally occurring invisible gas,” Coleman said.

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Cedar Rapids ; Underwater.
New York Daily News ^ | Saturday, June 14th 2008, | LARRY McSHANE


The streets in Cedar Rapids, Iowa - all 400 blocks of them - were filled with floodwaters and other strange sights: floating Dumpsters and utility poles and sandbags piled in vain.

The cresting Cedar River wreaked widespread havoc Friday on Iowa's second-largest city, forcing the evacuation of 3,000 homes and a downtown hospital while collapsing a railroad bridge.


(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...

[kenl01]

Since we have to transfer all data from the WWII board over to this one, I recommend to click on http://iceagenow.com for additional strories on the upcoming ice age cycle, including ice/snow updates worldwide and record lows across the United States.
Also you can log onto http://www.tropicalweatherwatchers2.com/fo...?topic=1415.750

It will take awhile to transfer all the updates.

Thanks, ken

[kenl01]

Latest important updates today:


India floods - thousands missing - 30 Aug 08 -

The death toll from this year's monsoon season across India has climbed past 800. Some 1.2 million people have been marooned and about 2 million more affected in Bihar, where the Kosi river has burst its banks and submerged all roads leading to the region.
Aid agencies claim the Indian government is playing down the scale of the disaster and not taking into account thousands of people who they say are missing after the Bihar floods.
India's prime minister, Manmohan Singh, has described the situation as a national calamity.
Authorities have rescued nearly 140,000 people and put most of them in state-run relief camps, said Prataya Amrit, secretary of the state's disaster management department.
Officials in Bihar have warned that the real danger is still ahead. When the swollen Kosi river burst its banks in Nepal just north of the Indian border, it changed course, flowing through a fresh channel 75 miles to the east that has no protective embankments. The river traditionally swells to a flood peak in October.
All this, after the UN called last year's floods the worst in living memory.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/3...ed=networkfront


Snow levels to drop to 4,000 feet in the Cascades - Aug 30,2008
Snow levels in the Washington Cascades and Olympics are expected to drop to 4,000 - 5,000 feet this Labor Day weekend, says National Weather Service.
http://www.weather.gov/alerts/wa.html#WAZ5...EWNOWSEW.190600


Rainfall in three days,Aug.27th:
Waco, TX---7.37”
McKinney, TX---5.38”
San Antonio, TX---2.91”
Austin, TX---2.01”

[kenl01]

Probability 94% for imminent global cooling

20 Aug 07 - Australian engineer Dr. Peter Harris authored a paper entitled "Probability of Sudden Global Cooling." The data clearly shows, said Harris, that the nominal 100KY cycle for glaciation and the interglacial phases have reached the end of the typical interglacial cycle and are due for a sudden cooling climate change.
http://icecap.us/images/uploads/Probabilit...bal_Cooling.pdf
& http://icecap.us/images/uploads/ANURGENTSI...OMINGICEAGE.pdf


August frost hits Minnesota and Wisconsin - 24 Aug 08 –

You probably hoped you wouldn't hear this kind of news for another four months.
The National Weather Service says areas of northeast Minnesota and northwest Wisconsin could see patchy frost this weekend. - patchy frost in August. Temperatures could dip into the low to mid-30s late tonight into early Monday.
In the Milwaukee area, today's forecast calls for a high of 75 today and a low tonight of 54.
http://www.jsonline.com/watch/?watch=1&dat...4/2008&id=45208


Snow in the summer in Austria 23 August 08 -

This article, “Sneeuw in de zomer in Oostenrijk,” came from a Dutch news site. Translated it says:
“Many tourists in Austria were surprised on Saturday by wintry snowshowers.
The snow came exceptionally early this year, according to the Austrian press agency APA.
“On the mountain road from Salzburg to Kärnten over the Grossglockner-mountain, snowfall was so heavy that only cars with snow tyres could continue.
Several cars got stuck in the snow.”
http://www.nu.nl/news/1713656/21/Sneeuw_in...Oostenrijk.html


Toronto's rainiest summer in 70 years 11 Aug 08 -

“Around 3 p.m. Saturday, the record for June 1-Aug. 31
rainfall – 335.9 mm set in 1986 – was broken. But it didn't stop there.
11 Aug 08 - "We'll remember this summer not as the summer from hell, but of disappointment," said David Phillips, senior climatologist at Environment Canada.
"People are feeling that it doesn't matter if they save money on air conditioning or that they're healthier because there's no smog. It's just too wet and stormy."
“As of midnight on Saturday, 354.2 mm of rain had been recorded at Pearson International Airport from June 1 to Aug. 9.
"Every day we get rain we're just going to continue to break the previous record until Aug. 31," Phillips said.
“It's also already the wettest January-to-August period recorded at Pearson in 70 years, with 705 mm of precipitation. The next closest is 679.3 mm in 1945.”
http://www.nowpublic.com/environment/toron...summer-70-years
“Meteorologists believe the colder than normal winter last year and this years record cold summer in Alaska and other parts of the world has a lot to do with La Nina,” says Thomas. “I am more convinced that solar activity has a much greater impact on the earth's climate. Since January sunspot activity has dwindled to levels far less than over the same time period last year. July had a total of 23 and on Aug, 21 there were 11, which was the first time in over a month! It will be interesting to see how the global temps will react over the coming months. Any further cooling will surely have a dramatic impact. I anticipate the coming months and winter in the northern hemisphere will set all kinds of new records for temps and precipitation !” (Thomas)
Plus the fact that the interglacial period is coming to an end along with the possible entry into another ice age makes more sense as for the reasons for many of the records of snow and temperatures seen last winter across the world. (Ken)



Heavy Rain in Texas Thursday, August 21, 2008

The storm system that brought days of heavy rain to Texas finally lifted north Thursday; however, portions of eastern Texas may see more heavy rain Friday.
Collin County, north of Dallas, reported up to nine inches of rain since heavy thunderstorms started nearly a week ago. Many cities Thursday continued to report substantial rain; however, the heavy rainfall was not as widespread.
Most of Texas will stay dry Friday, but areas along the coast and eastern areas could see thunderstorms that produce a couple of inches of rain. Daytime heating and a good flow of moisture from the Gulf of Mexico will be the ingredients needed for these thunderstorms to develop.
http://premiuma.accuweather.com/adcbin/pre...southwestusnews

[kenl01]

Arctic ice INCREASES by nearly a half million square miles
over same time period in 2007 18 Jul 08 -

Excerpt: the latest information on Arctic ice conditions is just in from the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
Arctic sea ice extent on July 16 stood at 8.91 million square kilometers (3.44 square miles). While extent was below the 1979 to 2000 average of 9.91 square kilometers (3.83 million square miles), it was 1.05 million square kilometers (0.41 million square miles) above the value for July 16, 2007...
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/...ic-ice-increase