World wide cold,snow or weather records thread

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Border towns report record lows 13 Sept 08 -

"It seemed ominously like winter near the Canadian border this week as two towns recorded record low temperatures. In Washington, the temperature fell to 31 degrees in Boundary Dam overnight Wednesday, breaking the previous record of 34 degrees set in 1986, according to the National Weather Service. Porthill, Idaho, set a record low that same night at 27 degrees, 3 degrees colder that the previous record set in 1964. But the coldest was yet to come: Porthill broke the 1949 record of 27 degrees the following night with an overnight low of 23 degrees going into Friday."

[kenl01]

Some high Alpine villages snowed in most of summer

A scary email from a reader in Germany:
15 Sep 08 - Here in southern Germany we experienced what seemed like a very short wet and cool summer ! For the first time in nearly 50 years mountain passes did not open at all this year because the massive snow from winter and spring failed to melt.
http://www.iceagenow.com/Some_high_Alpine_...t_of_summer.htm

[kenl01]

Coldest in 14 years in southeastern Australia 9 Sep 08 -

Last night one of the coldest spots was Cooma, where it dipped to minus nine degrees at the airport, 11 below average and its lowest September temperature in 14 years. Canberra chilled to minus 3.7 degrees, seven below average and a six year low for September.
http://www.eldersweather.com.au/breakingweather.jsp

[kenl01]

Coldest string of five days in 70 years in California, grape production down 20 percent

15 Sep 08 - Many California grape growers are reporting lower quantities due to frosting.
The drop in production is shared across California with many winemaking and vintner organizations reporting the same trend. Some state estimates indicate a 20 percent decrease from last year and one-third fewer grapes than in 2005.
"In San Benito County, we had the same problem as everywhere else in California - terrible weather during the flowering season," said Steve Pessagno, owner of Pessagno Winery.
He noted that from April to May, cold weather and overcast skies created perfect conditions for frost.
"My notebook reads, 'April 12 to 16, coldest string of five days in the last 70 years.'"
Josh Jensen, owner and winemaker at Calera Winery, had vineyards yielding as little as half a ton per acre where they usually produce around twelve times that in a good year.
"We are seeing a very small harvest because we were absolutely slammed disastrously by the frosts during April," he said.
http://www.freelancenews.com/news/248490-g...ling-the-freeze


Many farmers worried about unusually cool weather 16 Sep 08 -
Farmers from Michigan to California to Wisconsin to
North Dakota to Kansas are concerned about the colder weather.

North Dakota farmers fear killing frost
The Agriculture Department says in its weekly crop report that the harvest made good progress until rain and cool temperatures hit the state late last week. The agency says corn farmers are worried about their crops reaching maturity before a killing frost.
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2008/09/16/ap5432142.html
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Weekend's heavy rain leaves farmers' fall crops to rot underwater - Michigan
His harvest, which had promised to be a bumper crop, was just getting under way, starting about three weeks late because of the cool, wet weather earlier in the season.
http://www.mlive.com/kzgazette/news/index....leaves_far.html

Record lows
Traverse City, Michigan reported 46F on Drummond Island ( Upper Peninsula ) yesterday at noon time,Sept.15th.
(From Channel 10 News)


Farmers in northern Wis. report light frost
State farmers are hoping for more heat and more time before a killing frost arrives this fall after some light frost was reported in northern Wisconsin early last week, according to the latest crop report issued Monday from the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service.
http://www.madison.com/tct/news/305105
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Kansas: Brisk Late Summer Temperatures Draw Concerns For Early Freeze
Unusually cool weather through much of August and early September in the central High Plains is sparking concern that crops may not reach maturity before the first freeze.
"Most fields will probably reach maturity before the first freeze, but dry-down could be a problem," said Kansas State University agronomist Kraig Roozeboom, adding that the first freeze would be when temperatures across a region drop to a growth-halting 28 degrees F rather than when the mercury dips to 32 F in scattered areas.
http://www.cattlenetwork.com/Content.asp?ContentID=252914
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[kenl01]

Temperatures plummet in Hungary - 16 Sep 08 -
A cold weather record set in 1925 went by the books on Monday, as temperatures in Hungary plummeted to their lowest level in 83 years.
http://www.caboodle.hu/nc/news/news_archiv...Hash=8c66cff209

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Frost One Month ahead of Schedule 18 Sept 08 -

An advancing cold front combined with a polar high pressure will bring on the first frost and freeze of the season for a significant part of the Northeast.

"A widespread frost like this one is coming about a week early in some areas." Autumn officially arrives next Monday. In parts of northern Pennsylvania and central New England this magnitude of frost may be nearly a month earlier than average.

Sub-freezing temperatures across upstate New York and northern New England will produce a widespread hard freeze. The Adirondacks in New York state could be the coldest spot in the Northeast. The overnight low in Saranac Lake, N.Y., could plunge to 18 degrees.

http://premiuma.accuweather.com/adcbin/pre...op-headline.asp

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Scotland's barley crop in trouble?18 Sep 08 -

Email from a reader in Scotland: " I can’t recall a year when by mid September almost none of the barley crop has been harvested. The crop has been flattened by the constant rain we have had all summer and now grass has begun to grow up through it.
http://www.iceagenow.com/Scotlands_barley_..._in_trouble.htm


Climate change chicanery
Less ice in the Arctic in 1893 than today

14 Sep 08 – Lewis Gordon Pugh tried to paddle a kayak to the Pole to demonstrate the vanishing Arctic ice. While still 600 miles short of his goal, he met with ice so thick that he had to turn back. Conveniently forgotten, is that in 1893 the Arctic was so ice-free that a Norwegian explorer was able to kayak above 82 degrees north, 100 miles nearer the Pole.
See http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jh...9/14/do1402.xml

[kenl01]

Cold August on Long Island 19 Sep 08 - Email from reader

August has always been the hottest month around here. The month when you lie awake at night wishing for air conditioning if you didn't have it. This year August was cold. The days were perfect mild weather like we normally would get in May or June. The nights were cold. I know there are variations in weather and it is possible to get an occasional cool summer, but my strong intuition during those cold August nights was that this is the beginning of the big change.

Sincerely,
Tom Z.