Global Extreme Weather Log

Details: Category: News and Events; Created on 11 August 2020; Published on 11 August 2020

WEEKLY GLOBAL EXTREMES

(Article Mnager-news and events)

This page provides a weekly log of unique weather events and information that summarizes some key events of note. Most of the extreme notes are from Electroverse Extreme Weather daily updates.

For clips of these events see my Global Weather Album: Global Weather 2020-2021.

Global Weather Album 2020-2021: https://photos.app.goo.gl/bLyGGEv6oK6f7q9N8

Global Weather Album Spring 2021: https://photos.app.goo.gl/AXJDAGeKLrkcvLvM8

Global Weather Album Fall-Winter 2021-22: https://photos.app.goo.gl/7Vha3C3tKzmdDNyp7

Global Weather Album Winter 2022-23: https://photos.app.goo.gl/yMZB2gDoTbqLZzdQA

Global Weather Album Summer 2023: https://photos.app.goo.gl/rBprNqGzNmHBodKy8

Global Weather Album Fall - Winter 2023: https://photos.app.goo.gl/ZtfEjJRJ14eKVKpw6

Global Weather Album Winter 2024: https://photos.app.goo.gl/DdoiQp1TL7DGMC1B7

The purpose of these Global Extreme Weather Logs is to educate and inform you about Mother Nature’s way of keeping a balance in our planet’s weather. I provide examples of events that may not be reported elsewhere and physical explanations of the causes of these extremes.

ECMWF SH 10-DAY TSNOW

29 April 2024

Spring storms rocked the central US from Texas to Michigan and points East. Tornado Alley had over 118 tornadoes in 48 hrs according to CNN. The Storm prediction Center (SPC) had numerous warnings out this week with extremely dangerous tornadoes and severe thunderstorms creating havoc and death. The meandering jet stream - Rosby waves traveled around the Northern Hemisphere dumping heavy snows in the Rockies, creating extreme cold fronts along the N-S Jet track that combined with a strong Atmospheric River AR from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada. As cyclonic storms exit the Rockies, their circulation creates strong cold fronts and warm fronts with moist unstable air ahead of the cold front. The cold front lies along the jet stream which has vertical and horizontal wind shear that can spin-up tornadoes. My Winter 2024 album documents these conditions and the Storm Prediction Center’s forecasts. A job well done. Northern areas had frost and hard freezes in the East, while the West was warm.

A deep closed low sat over Europe with short waves gyrating within it creating significant rain and snow in the Alps. Slovenia cleared up and warmed by the weekend. Cold records from France to Ukraine have created the biggest disaster in crop losses in the past 100 years. Crops from vineyards to orchards have been severely hit. Temperatures fell from record highs ~ 30ºC to below freezing and down to -5ºC - hard freezes within 24 hours.

The Southern Hemisphere continued to cool as the jet stream increased in intensity and deep storms 948-970 mb circled the Antarctic with one deep storm dumping gigatons on the Thwaites Glacier. Greenland also had a record day with 7 GT after a very quiet period. Australia continued to have heavy rains on the coast with Sydney having over 300 mm. New Zealand’s Alps had more snow and Australia’s Snowy Range had significant early snows. Columbia’s drought ended with heavy 200-700 mm rains during the past 2 weeks.

THE FOLLOWING TABLES show the observed temperatures at key points from Greenland to Vostok and the ECMWF 10-day snowfall forecasts at key points around the world where glaciers may be receding or growing.

OBSERVED TEMPERATURES and ECMWF 10-DAY SNOWFALL FORECASTS:

See: https://photos.app.goo.gl/D4FSQPjmzrAwbS2q9

You can see the magnitude of the storms on windy.com and in NOAA’s GOES satellite imagery: https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/fulldisk_band.php?sat=G18&band=GEOCOLOR&length=12

Temperature anomalies are tucked on:

tropicaltidbits.com
see: https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/models/?model=gfs&region=us&pkg=T2ma&runtime=2024021212&fh=6

See details below in CURRENT EXTREMES: 11 March 2024

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/warnings-and-advice/uk-warnings#?date=2023-11-13&id=0927f461-b5cc-4bbf-8f64-04383cf830f2

The windy.com wave map shows the deep storms:

see: https://www.windy.com/-Waves-waves?waves,67.842,-1.230,3,i:pressure

Check out the albums below for detailed charts, satellite images, and observations:

Fall - Winter 2023:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/ZtfEjJRJ14eKVKpw6

Winter 2024: https://photos.app.goo.gl/DdoiQp1TL7DGMC1B7

Review:

Atmospheric Rivers dominate precipitation extremes in the Northern Hemisphere from Alaska to Greenland and Europe. These ARs are associated with intense cyclonic storms on the jet stream that dominate the weather. Recall tropical cyclones (hurricanes) and extratropical cyclones (Lows) and anticyclones (Highs) control our weather. Atmospheric River forecasts quantify the model computations of moisture flux from surface to 700 mb. This flux controls the duration and intensity of precipitation. Remember last winter when California had a record number of intense ARs that filled the “1000 yr“ drought’s reservoirs and extended Mammoth Mountain’s ski season into August 2023. Mammoth mountain is again accumulating heavy snows with a foot a day for 7 days in the last storm. California is drought free today as new ARs are pounding the coast again this winter triggering flash floods and debris flows in this saturated ground. The Colorado River Basin continues to benefit from these snowstorms from Colorado to Wyoming and Utah. Early season NRCS snow water equivalent SWE is running from 100 to 120% of normal.

NRCS Basin Data: https://nwcc-apps.sc.egov.usda.gov/imap/#version=169&elements=&networks=!&states=!&basins=!&hucs=&minElevation=&maxElevation=&elementSelectType=any&activeOnly=true&activeForecastPointsOnly=false&hucLabels=false&hucIdLabels=false&hucParameterLabels=true&stationLabels=&overlays=&hucOverlays=2&basinOpacity=75&basinNoDataOpacity=25&basemapOpacity=100&maskOpacity=0&mode=data&openSections=dataElement,parameter,date,basin,options,elements,location,networks&controlsOpen=true&popup=&popupMulti=&popupBasin=&base=esriNgwm&displayType=basinstation&basinType=6&dataElement=WTEQ&depth=-8&parameter=PCTMED&frequency=DAILY&duration=I&customDuration=&dayPart=E&monthPart=E&forecastPubDay=1&forecastExceedance=50&useMixedPast=true&seqColor=1&divColor=7&scaleType=D&scaleMin=&scaleMax=&referencePeriodType=POR&referenceBegin=1991&referenceEnd=2020&minimumYears=20&hucAssociations=true&relativeDate=-1&lat=43.728&lon=-104.797&zoom=5.0

Atmospheric River forecast by Marty Ralph’s team:
https://cw3e.ucsd.edu/iwv-and-ivt-forecasts/

An important component of the Grand Solar Minimum is an increase in clouds due to its impact on our solar system’s magnetosphere and increased numbers of deep space cosmic rays penetrating our upper atmosphere and generating cloud condensation nuclei. Clouds produce many complex phenomena ranging from cooling as solar radiation is reflected back to space, to surface warming as heat is retained at night and radiational cooling is reduced under stratus and in fog. On a large scale temperature gradients control the winds and jet stream dynamics. Clouds also impact the sea surface temperature SST which can have profound impacts on the Earth’s energy budget from the El Niño to Jet stream intensity and location. NASA is now predicting a solar maximum of cycle 25 by January 2024 with some CMEs. Note: current climate models fail to adequately simulate clouds; hence, a serious limit to their long term predictions. The primary critical impact of the GSM is late spring frosts and early fall frosts that limit the growing season. it is difficult for long term models to predict these critical events accurately.

Volcanic activity has increased dramatically in November 2023 with two stratovolcanoes pumping huge amounts of volcanic ash into the stratosphere in the northern Hemisphere from Kamchatka, and the tropics from New Guinea. Iceland’s seismic activity also increased significantly and resulted in a small volcanic eruption. Stratospheric volcanic dust from volcanoes cause significant atmospheric cooling. During the Little Ice Age there were many volcanoes associated with the Milankovitch Cycle that also contributed to the cooling. Japan had a devastating earthquake in the last weeks.

During the winter, low clouds can keep the polar regions warmer, thus reducing the N-S temperature gradient that may lead to a weaker jet stream and a meridional flow. This wavy N-S flow enhances the warm and cold sectors of storms and hence, extreme temperature swings. Thus far this winter we have a very wavy jet steam. Have a look at my album’s examples.

The El Niño continues to weaken yet it covers a large area; however, so far California is following the intense winter weather associated with an El Niño. The latest SST observations show cold water below the thin warm El Niño water, thus indicating the likelihood of a la Niña forming soon. NCAR scientists called for a severe winter. Thus far, the Ontario-Hudson Bay 700 mb low has been pulling cold air south into the East much like last winter. Note: the eastern N American low gyrates in the Jet, hence its impact varies. The West and High Plains are on the western edge of the deep cold air, hence, they have brief cold blasts and may benefit from the Pacific ARs heavy snow; however, they will enjoy somewhat warmer winter temperatures than the NE. The Sudden Stratospheric Warming - SSW was predicted to pull extremely cold air into the entire US by mid-January and again in February and March. This verified quite nicely in January - burr ! We’ll see how March goes. It would appear that CHINA and Asia have been hit the hardest with severe cold weather this season and are now warming.

Dr. Valentina Zharkova, a solar expert from the Ukraine, talks about the sun’s impact on the el Niño in her interview below. She reviews the Grand Solar Minimum and solar system impacts on climate variability.

Valentina Zharkova’s interview at the end of this link provides a comprehensive review of the GSM physics from an expert in this field. Dr. Zharkova reviews the physics, mathematics, and relationships of solar cycles, orbital mechanics, magnetosphere impacts, volcano cycles, and el Nino cycles related to the earth’s inclination…

https://electroverse.info/coldest-may-80n-greenland-gains-warmer-in-the-past-zharkova-interview/

Her primary web site: https://solargsm.com/

September recorded increases in SMB occurred +6 GT and +10 GT on 1 and 2 Sept respectively setting new records and again this week with 8-10 GT. The accumulated SMB curve dropped to normal in December-February and is now at or above normal. see:

http://polarportal.dk/en/greenland/surface-conditions/

and

https://www.windy.com/-New-snow-snowAccu?snowAccu,next3d,69.945,22.148,4,i:pressure,m:fDTafyg

The jet stream continues strong with a sharp meridional - wavy N-S flow from N America to Europe. Short waves trigger storms as they become more frequent and more powerful. Their wind shear can still spin up tornadoes in convective storms normally seen in spring and fall. Omega blocking ridges control the speed of system movement.

See:
https://www.windy.com/-Show---add-more-layers/overlays?awp_0_40,34.089,20.303,4,i:pressure,m:ff3agyK

see: http://polarportal.dk/en/greenland/surface-conditions/

Snow:
https://www.windy.com/-New-snow-snowAccu?snowAccu,next10d,74.902,-40.649,4,i:pressure,m:fOdadW1

Rain:
https://www.windy.com/-Rain-accumulation-rainAccu?rainAccu,next10d,51.944,-74.399,4,i:pressure

Japan and N Korea armed a bit with 2-38 cm of snow on the mountains of N Korea and Japan respectively with record cold and snow.

TropicalTidbits.com (forecast models) also gives you a look at the temperature departures from normal associated with these storms. You can see the warm and cold sectors - the normal variations of global temperature.

The Himalayas had heavy snow on the peaks with most areas receiving 1-3 m. The Tibetan Plateau is high ~3-5 km msl with new snow from the Himalaya to Shan ranges. Total snow on the ground on 9/3/23 still ranged from 0.5 to 5 m. This high elevation massif is a major factor controlling global weather patterns. Its unusual snowfall this summer may have a significant impact. The Hindukusch have had significant snows of 0.5-2.0 m again this week. Delhi set cold records, northern India and Pakistan had record snows last week.

Southern hemisphere jet is intensifying as the sun marched north cooling the Antarctic. It is now driving several large deep storms (976 to 936 mb) circling the Antarctic. Antarctic still has large areas in the interior below -40 to -65º C as measured in Windy’s satellite surface temperatures - even this January was reporting below -40ºC - a year without summer. On 3 Sept the South Pole reported -74.9ºC (-102ºF) and -80ºC at Vostok… Last week as the Antarctic begins cooling into Fall. Vostok broke -50ºC in December and -60 in March. This week the temperature again fell below -100ºF. Howling blizzards are still circling the Antarctic coast with 30 to 50 kt winds near these storms. The Ross Sea and Weddell Sea are 98% and 100% sea Ice covered respectively. SEA ICE is now increasing rapidly. McMurdo Base has been quite cold at -19 to -25ºC setting records and grounding aircraft in September. Temperatures in the Antarctic are cooling, and remaining significantly below normal. This week McMurdo rose to -19º C. The Antarctic set a November record cold of -60ºC. December and now January are setting new cold summer records: On Jan 4, 2024, the minimums at Concordia, JASE2007 AWS and Vostok were all, once again, below -40C, coming in at -40.8C, -40.2C and -40.1C, respectively. The South Pole set its 3rd coldest March record at -60ºC this week.The sun is moving N, so the cold is settling in down under. South Georgia Island had snows reaching 53-76 cm this week.

Southern Africa set cold records and snow as deep cyclonic storms march across the South Atlantic pumping Antarctic Air northward. Even Madagascar and Reunion Island set new cold records and had some snow in October 2023. Record snow fell in late October 2023.

AUSTRALIA has had a variety of summer weather. Antarctic highs set new cold records in June and July and are continuing to set cold records. Sydney set a new cold summer record when it failed to reach 32ºC (89.6ºF) in December 2022. Australia’s Victoria and South Australia had some much below normal temperatures and cold records to -2.7ºC. Western Australia cooled as the Antarctic waves moved north. Frosts developed in Queensland and the NW Territories - in subtropical Australia! This week large areas of Australia continued to have heavy rain : Darwin 150-500 mm, N Queensland had 95-162 mm as tropical cyclones hit. However, much of Australia had significant rains: Canberra 50 mm. Alice Springs remained cool at 20-25 ºC. Normally we see 30 to 45ºC in the satellite surface temperatures on windy.com but Alice Springs remained in the 20s with a couple 40ºC days. The cloud top temperatures near Darwin were -80ºC in deep thunderstorms. Last week a major Antarctic cold front moved northward over Australia triggering heavy rains up to Alice Springs. Monthly cold records were set in March. Note: Jennifer Marohasy discusses Australian forecasts and observations every week.

JENNIFER MAROHASY’s latest: https://jennifermarohasy.com/2024/01/cyclone-jasper-bom-forecasting-getting-to-the-truth/

Note: 2023 was the first time since 1987 when Australia’s mountains had snow on the ground all year. The mean February temperature was 0.2ºC below normal making the summer mean temp 0.5ºC below normal. New Zealand continues to increase snows over the South Island with 20-70 cm and heavy rain at low elevations on the West coast 100-300 mm. Note: October 25-30, 2023 the interior of Australia had satellite surface temperatures from 10 to 31ºC - spring was here with a few cool highs. During the past weeks, February 1-26, it was much cooler followed by a few 30-40ºC days. Last week the deserts were 10-15ºC behind an Antarctic front. Last week the Snowy range had 11 cm - an early start to winter.

South America was warm, but cold fronts are predicted to take temperatures 5-10ºC below normal next week. The Andes continued to build their glaciers (1-3 m). South American snow was at record levels. Patagonia had significant snows and skiing in the Andes continued in November 2023. Surface temperatures reached 30ºC this week in Patagonia. Argentina and Brazil continue to be warm, yet, some Antarctic cold fronts have triggered thunderstorms and locally heavy rains (100-300 mm) in the South of Brazil by Iguazu Falls. The Iguazu region had heavy rains and floods in contrast to a record drought in the Amazon Basin. However, the past month had heavy rain in the upper headwaters of the Rio Negro and Amazon Rivers. Deep thunderstorms with top temperatures of -70 to -80ºC are helping mitigate the drought. These mesoscale convective complexes can dump 100-200+ mm. Rio and Sao Paulo had flash floods and have remained wet. Columbia had heavy rains (200-700 mm) that are also mitigating its drought.

https://www.windy.com/-New-snow-snowAccu?snowAccu,next10d,-66.653,-60.776,4,i:pressure,m:NPaelA

For those interested in understanding the current weather, I have documented events in the Albums showing model, satellite, radar, images.

New 2/26/24
Winter 2024: https://photos.app.goo.gl/DdoiQp1TL7DGMC1B7

WSJ: How Climate Policy Went Wrong:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-climate-policy-went-wrong-new-aerosal-study-energy-subsidies-carbon-tax-4e437371?mod=opinion_lead_pos8

A new documentary on climate: Well worth viewing —

"Climate: The Movie" highlights a different perspective on the climate change debate and is supported by scientists who have signed the Clintel's World Climate Declaration. This group of researchers seeks to present an alternative narrative in the face of the dominant discourse.

Electroverse provides an excellent source of extremes not reported in the MSM:
Latest Extremes: 29 April 2024

Europe Breaks Historic Low Temperature Records As Rare Spring Snow Falls On Major Cities; + Establishment Obfuscations
April 23, 2024 Cap Allon
Europe Breaks Historic Low Temperature Records As Rare Spring Snow Falls On Major Cities
Europe has endured a violent swing between extremes this month.
“April 2024 will go down as one of the most incredible flips on record … Summer to winter for some,” so say the experts.
Following a spell of anomalous spring warmth, exceptional cold is now striking the likes of Italy where dozens of low temperature records have fallen (for the time of year).
Italians have been enduring some of the coldest daily highs in books dating back 100+ years, to 1873. And even at low elevations, Tmaxes have struggled to 7C (44.6F).
“Absolutely historic,” writes @extremetemps on X.
In France, the southern city of Nice, with 4.4C (39.9F), has set it lowest late-April temperature since 1951. Technically that’s true, but that 1951 reading was actually set at night. Monday’s 4.4C occurred during the day which, according to researchers, “probably hasn’t happened [in the French Riviera] since the Little Ice Age.”

https://electroverse.info/europe-low-temperature-records-rare-snow-establishment-obfuscations/

Similarly in Denmark’s capital Copenhagen, a very cold day was endured there. “When the final numbers are in it may turn out to have been the second-coldest day in 250 years this late in the spring,” writes local weather researcher Sebastian Pelt (certainly the coldest since 1941). Elsewhere, Jægersborg’s 2.7C (36.9F) made for Denmark’s lowest daily max this late since 1988.
Tryvannshøgda, Norway posted -4.4C (24.1F) overnight Monday, the lowest temperature so late in spring since 1973.
As well as one of the coldest late-April’s on record, this will go down as one of Europe’s snowiest, and all. Nations have gone from summer-like warmth to heavy late-season snow in a matter of days.
In Albania, for example, local media reported Monday that “heavy snowfalls have continued with high intensity.” The city of Puka has received 25 cm (10 inches) so far. Heavier falls have been noted elsewhere, with plows required in Bogë-Theth:
While in Helsinki, a major ‘blackwinter’ event (or ‘takatalvi’, as the Finns say) is unfolding there:
Referring to the record books, the last time Finland’s capital saw more snow this late into spring was 106 years ago, in 1918:

Europe’s violent swing between extremes has been amplified by spring (a volatile season) but they are expected during times of low solar activity.
As has been contended for many years now: Reduced energy entering the jet streams is changing their straight ZONAL flow to a wavy MERIDIONAL one, where a region’s weather is determined by which ‘side’ of the stream it’s on. If it is located ‘above’ the stream (in the NH) then it’s in for a spell of unseasonably cold conditions–open to influxes of Arctic air; while conversely, if the region is ‘under’ the jet stream then it is set for anomalously hot conditions–subject to air masses dragged up from the tropics.
‘Polar Amplification’ is the theory most-used when trying to explain-away those pesky cold outbreaks, but it is far from widely agreed upon, even in AGW circles.
The theory states that, “because the Earth’s polar regions are warming more quickly than the rest of the world, the temperature contrast that drives jet streams has decreased (making for weaker streams)”.
However, for it to work BOTH poles need to be warming, which simply isn’t the case.
Temperatures in the Arctic are threatening to plateau, with ice holding up incredibly well of late. While across the Antarctic, the continent is cooling, has been for decades, yet the southern jets are simultaneously weakening which debunks the Polar Amplification theory, meaning something else must be controlling the jets. Solar activity is my contention.
Antarctica has been the bane of the ‘global warming narrative’ for decades.
Official data reveals East Antarctica, which covers two thirds of the continent, has cooled 2.8C over the past 40-or-so years, with West Antarctica cooling 1.6C.
Moreover, that cooling has only intensified in recent years.

Following its coldest winter (April -Sept) on record in 2021, Antarctica has been posting colder-than-average months ever since.
The below graphic shows the mean monthly anomalies from Oct 2023 – March 2024 for two key climate stations, South Pole and Vostok. All months have been colder-than-average at both stations vs reference periods 1991-2020 and 1958-2023, respectively.
The researchers note that over the last seven decades, the Antarctic ice sheet (home to 90% of Earth’s surface freshwater) has “modestly expanded” and warming has been “nearly non-existent” over much of the ice sheet (i.e. the majority of the ice sheet has cooled, as evidenced in their own graphic above).
Given this unalarming reality, it is even more telling when the likes of the BBC and CNN devote the majority of their ink to the small pocket of warming confined to the Antarctic Peninsula, warming that 1) can be explained by natural mechanisms (such as an uptick in the region’s volcanic activity, for one) and also 2) is more than offset by EVERYWHERE ELSE cooling.
Carbon dioxide isn’t the boogeyman, and I would go so far as to say that the majority of scientists know this. The historic and paleo climate data are unmistakably clear. The issue is funding, and also dogma. No grants are awarded for research that isn’t grounded on the premise that a changing climate is due to human prosperity (i.e. the burning of cheap and reliable fossil fuels), and researchers know better than to publicly share what they really think given the professional repercussions, which include smearing, defunding and deplatforming.

No Need For Category 6 Hurricane Designation; Record Cold Strikes Northern Ontario; Rare April Snow Continues Across Europe; + “Earth Is Headed Into A New Little Ice Age”…
April 24, 2024 Cap Allon
No Need For Category 6 Hurricane Designation
A growing number of CAGW advocates are calling for a category 6 hurricane designation on the Saffir-Simpson wind scale.
These calls are baseless however, and do nothing but further-expose the propagation of dumb by the useful idiots of academia.
Plotting the global total accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) by year from 1980 to 2023 (a calculation that integrates each tropical cyclone’s intensity and duration, summing up the total for each year), no meaningful trend is revealed in the satellite record.

https://electroverse.info/cat-6-record-cold-canada-april-snow-europe-new-little-ice-age/

 Record Cold Strikes Northern Ontario
Arctic cold has invaded Ontario this week, setting records in the northwest reserve of Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug.
Thermometers Tuesday morning sank to -19C (-2.2F), smashing the old record (for the day) of -11.7C (10.9F) from 2017. These are “extreme cold conditions for spring,” reports netnewsledger.com, with frostbite a real concern.
The mercury is forecast to reach -17C (1.4F) early Wednesday morning, likely setting another daily record.
Fierce chills have been gripping this part of the world of late. Much of the North American continent, in fact, has been battling a descending polar air mass, from Kitchenuhmaykoosib in northern Ontario all the way down to Laredo in southern Texas.

Rare April Snow Continues Across Europe
Europe’s biting cold is persisting, intensifying even, as is the out-of-season snow.
Germany’s tallest mountain, Zugspitze (9,718 feet) has received 5 feet of snow. Zugpitze Ski Area is celebrating “perfect conditions” as it undertakes summer preparations.
Away from the Alps, much of Europe has been blanketed this week — from Scandinavia and Scotland, down to the Pyrenees, and out east across the likes of Slovakia and Ukraine.
On Tuesday morning, a thick layer of snow greeted much of Latvia, including the Kurzeme District.
Residents there have reported as much as a 20 cm (8 inches) of rare late-April snow
Forecasts call for frosts in the coming nights, down to a crop-threatening low of -5C (23F). Cold is the bigger concern for Europe right now, particularly for the growers.
Adding to the record lows reported yesterday, a remarkable -15.7C (3.7F) has been posted at Rolava, Czech Republic — the country’s coldest late-April low on record.
 “Earth Is Headed Into A New Little Ice Age”
One Ukrainian the media refuses to adorn with airtime, pity and phony applause (perhaps the only one) is Professor Valentina Zharkova, an astrophysicist now based at the Northumbria University, Newcastle, England.

Due to changing solar activity, the Earth is headed into a new Little Ice Age, warns Zharkova, and “there’s nothing we can do about it.”
As reported last week by German website report24.news, “This is due to the changing solar activity,” explains Zharkova, who expects, via her magnetic field and TSI analysis, that Earth’s average temperature will fall by 1C over the next 30 years.
When the Sun is less active, its decreasing magnetic field leads to a decrease in radiation intensity, continues report24.news. Less solar radiation inevitably means less heat. According to Zharkova, such a change occurs every 350-400 years, they’re called Grand Solar Minimums (GSMs), and the professor believes we officially entered one in 2020, one that won’t abate until 2053.
Per her latest study (Zharkova et. al 2023), Earth’s Total Solar Irradiance (TSI) has increased by approx 1 to 1.5 W/m² from its depths in 1700 to its “maximum amplitude” in cycle 24 (2020). This resulted in a global temperature increase of about 1.5C.
Over the next 30 years however Earth will experience a period of significantly reduced solar output which will lead to a climate “similar to the Maunder Minimum” (1645-1715 CE). Zharkova is expecting Earth to be just 0.5C warmer than it was in 1700.
This would be a problem. Cold kills. The Maunder Minimum was one of the strongest GSMs on record. As documented by NASA, it sent Europe and North America into a “deep freeze”:
“From 1650 to 1710, temperatures across much of the Northern Hemisphere plunged when the Sun entered a quiet phase now called the Maunder Minimum. During this period, very few sunspots appeared on the surface of the Sun, and the overall brightness of the Sun decreased slightly. Already in the midst of a colder-than-average period called the Little Ice Age, Europe and North America went into a deep freeze: alpine glaciers extended over valley farmland; sea ice crept south from the Arctic; and the famous canals in the Netherlands froze regularly—an event that is rare today.”
In the report24.news article, Zharkova speaks a word or two to the upcoming cold: “I only feel sympathy for the people who have invested in solar [power] systems. During the Maunder Minimum, there were years when there was no summer at all — there was a brief spring, then fall, then winter again. And if there’s snow on your solar panels or the sky is cloudy, they’re useless.”

Frost Damage Reported From France To Ukraine; Growers In Canada And Northeast Also Suffer; + Australia To Shiver Into May, Defying BoM Predictions
April 25, 2024 Cap Allon
Frost Damage Reported From France To Ukraine
“We are really at the critical frost threshold for apple trees and pears” said Mathieu Tissot, producer of the Tissot orchards in Haute-Savoie, France following several below-freezing nights.
Tissot orchards produce 1,600 tonnes of apples and pears each year, but recent frosts have threatened that yield. For the past week or so, record cold has hit.
“We had three nights including a very significant night where we went down to -2.3C (27.9F),” said Mathieu, “the critical frost threshold for apple trees and pears”.
Mathieu said gusty winds have helped his buds to some degree (wind reduces the formation of frost from radiative cooling), but now the breeze has died down and the cold has intensified. “We had to start the fight again last night,” he said.
In scenes repeated across France, wind machines are being used to propel hot air around orchard and vineyards. “We spend every 8 to 10 minutes in the same place to allow the plant to dry,” explained Mathieu.
More traditional ‘frost fires’ have been lit up and down the country.

https://electroverse.info/frosts-from-france-to-ukraine-american-growers-suffer-australia-to-shiver-into-may/

The true extent of the losses won’t be known for weeks, but they look extensive.
“This period of cold calms the sap and we are afraid that the fruit will fall naturally. We will [know the damage] within two weeks, we cannot have it immediately. We are trying to save the flowers,” said Mathieu Tissot.
Not confined to France, this week’s crop-wrecking freeze is sweeping Switzerland, too:
And as far east as Ukraine, losses have hit here and all — for apples, pears and stone fruits, as per a preliminary EastFruit report.
The country’s main apple growing region, Vinnytsia, has fared the worst with some farms there reporting 50+% losses following overnight lows of -3C (26.6F), and beyond.
Less extensive frost damage has been noted in the Chernivtsi region, of maybe 15%.
Stone fruits losses in the Mykolaiv region have been noted, for cherries and apricots.
Looking ahead, a brief reprieve will be enjoyed by central regions next week. But European growers should prepare to relight those frost fires around May 7 when a comparable mass of polar cold descends on the continent–as per latest GFS runs: see Album

Growers In Canada And Northeast Also Suffer
Damaging frosts have hit North America this week and all, particularly Eastern Canada and the Northeast United States.
Arctic air has dropped southward into the Upper Midwest and the Northeast in recent days, setting off snow in parts of the northern tier and also bring damaging frosts and freezes to many growing regions.
The batch of air, encapsulated by a dome of high pressure, could run into the weekend.
As in Europe, frosts have seen orchard and vineyard operators use wind machines and fires in order to raise the temperature in their fields by a few degrees. Bud-break and leaf-out has already occurred across many varieties, increasing the odds of damage.
“Widespread low temperatures in the 20s to the low 30s are in store from much of the Great Lakes region to the central Appalachians, the interior mid-Atlantic and much of New England on Thursday morning,” report AccuWeather.
“The urban heat island effect may prevent frost in some large cities but only to a certain point. There is the risk of frost reaching some coastal areas of the Northeast on Thursday and Friday mornings, including in Boston and Philadelphia, as well as New York City and Washington, D.C. Frost is a concern around Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland and Pittsburgh — at least for Thursday morning.”

Australia To Shiver Into May, Defying BoM Predictions

Those Bureau of Meteorology forecasts calling for the hottest autumn/winter ever continue to look nothing but pie in the sky, agenda-driving claptrap.
Record-breaking lows and early-season snows was the story back in March and early-April, and now looking ahead, those cold-anomalies appear set to persist and even intensify into May–as per latest GFS runs:
Another Meter Of Snow Hits The Alps; Europe’s Crop Losses Worsen: “The Biggest Disaster Of The Last 100 Years”; + “Journalists Should Do Their Job”
April 26, 2024 Cap Allon
Another Meter Of Snow Hits The Alps
The Alps’ snowy spring shows no sign of abating with a host of resorts posting a meter (3.3 feet) of fresh powder since Wednesday. This adds to the impressive falls of last week, where Gstaad’s Glacier 3000–for example–logged 1.5m (5 feet).
At the start of this week, Austria’s Stubai Glacier in Tirol (see featured image), received almost 4 foot of snowfall. Owing to this, it is now posting Europe’s deepest snowpack, a remarkable 5.7 meters (almost 19 feet).

https://electroverse.info/another-meter-of-snow-hits-the-alps-europes-crop-losses-worsen-the-biggest-disaster-of-the-last-100-years-journalists-should-do-their-job/

As a result, resorts officials have announced their staying open until late-May.
Switzerland’s Engelberg, also open into May, is the latest to report a meter (in just 72 hours) making for a depth of 4 meters (13 feet). In total, more than 30 ski regions are still open in the Alps, with half of those planning to stay open into May (at least).
As reported by weathertoski.co.uk, the last week-or-so has seen temperatures in the Alps hold some 10C below normal, “about as cold a spell of late season weather that we can remember. There has been plenty of snow too … the snow level has also been very low for late April … down to 300m (<1,000 ft). Needless to say, snow conditions have been amazing,” concludes the report.
Just a few months back, The Guardian decreed that ski resorts in the Alps were battling for a future:
After a lackluster January and February –pounced upon by the aforementioned vultures and spun as evidence of climate apocalypse– the Alps has been enjoying heavy snowfall ever since. So much snow has fallen in fact that resorts are pushing back their closing dates. But this isn’t deemed newsworthy fOr SoMe ReAsOn.

Europe’s Crop Losses Worsen: “The Biggest Disaster of The Last 100 Years”
While the cold and snow is cause for celebration for ski resorts, it’s proving disastrous for European growers.
Winter’s return has delivered bud-wrecking frosts from France to Ukraine, as reported yesterday; freezes that have now intensified and expanded further with growers in the Netherlands, Poland and the Czech Republic among the latest casualties.
As reported by freshplaza.com: “The continent has faced colder temperatures than initially forecast, raising concerns over food supply implications.”
Torches or ‘frost fires’ have lit-up European fields this week, a key defense against ravaging late-season frosts. Below are images of Karlín in the Czech Republic as Moravian winegrowers prepared for a freezing Thursday night:
But the fight has been lost for many Czech growers.
April cold records have been set, even a national one, as overnight lows hit -15C (5F) and feet of snow clipped the mountains.
According to a ČTK news report, this polar outbreak has destroyed almost the entire fruit harvest in the western part of the country, with the damage expected to exceed one billion koruna ($43 million). While in Moravia, the main district in the east (pictured above) 50% losses have been documented, with that number expected to rise as the out-of-season cold persists.
The head of the country’s Union of Gardeners, Martin Ludvik, has called the April frosts “one of the biggest disasters for the industry in the last 100 years,” adding “the damage was so great because the weather had been unusually warm in the previous weeks and the fruit trees were in full bloom,” he said.
Indeed, swings between extremes have compounded the problem. Since mid-April, Europe has registered a drastic cooldown, transitioning from record highs to record lows.
Franjo Crnković, a fruit farmer in Croatia: “It was very warm, we even had temperatures of up to 30 [86F] one day, and then all of a sudden it dropped to minus. The fruits and all of this are all destroyed, it’s over, if there are any apples left it will be [a miracle].”
Similarly, strawberry farms in Poland have suffered lows of -8C (17.6F), with bonfires doing little to mitigate the impact. The preceding warm phase, which saw thermometers exceed 25C (77F), induced extensive blooming. Young fruit flower buds can withstand lows of around -2C (28.4F). The current conditions, far exceeding that, have led growers to anticipate near total losses, describing the situation as “dire” and projecting a stark increase in fruit prices for the year.
“[The buds] simply won’t stay on the trees,” said Polish fruit grower Jarosław Głąb, “everything is falling down.”
Looking ahead, some warmth will return to central regions next week, only to be chased by another swing back to winter:

“Journalists Should Do Their Job”
The drive for Net Zero is a catastrophe for the people. It is a dastardly money and power grab masked as environmentalism. But it’s a drive that is exhausting itself. It’s pushed too hard and is now in pieces. The people have awoken, finally.
More than $6 trillion has been spent globally on renewable energy over the past few decades, including vast sums on 300,000 wind turbines. Yet fossil fuels still account for more than 80% of the world’s energy consumption, where it stood at the end of the last century, with the economic behemoths of China and India only increasing their reliance on coal and gas.
UK journalist/political presenter Andrew Neil has been calling out the circus for years.
It’s a pity Neil didn’t do the same when it came to the criminal COVID-19 lockdowns, but that’s another story.
In a recent addressing (or dressing down) of the government’s plans (or lack thereof), he said this: “In this very building, in this Parliament, there was near unanimity in going for Net Zero. I’m not sure there was even ever a debate on it, it just became the law of the land. It is when there’s a consensus like that, that journalists should do their job.”
Video courtesy of Net Zero Watch on X.

https://twitter.com/NetZeroWatch .

But there are hoops, hurdles and rules — truth isn’t enough, particularly when it comes to anything ‘global warming’.
Journalists are being handed a guide instructing them on how to “properly” report on extreme weather and climate change. The guide blatantly seeks to limit investigative endeavors and instead promote a single, universal take on the topic.
This World Weather Attribution initiative is supported by the University of Oxford and Imperial College London (the latter should ring a bell to those in the UK, with Imperial College now synonymous with doom-and-gloom –and woefully inaccurate– COVID-19 modelling), and its guide is intended to “help” journalists navigate this key question: “Was this event caused by climate change?”
“First, it introduces the science of ‘extreme event attribution’ — the method of attributing (or not) the degree to which the weather event was influenced by climate change,” reads the guide’s introduction.
“Second, it lays out the statements that can reliably be made about some of the extreme weather types of greatest public interest, even when no specific scientific study is being performed. This is based on current state-of-the-art knowledge using studies of recent extreme events and the latest IPCC report.
“And further down, it provides an easy-to-read checklist for each type of extreme weather event.”
Clearly, this guide is antithetical to true journalism. It reads more like a 1984 boot camp seeking to restrict a journalist’s curiosity and ability to dig, which will ultimately render the profession obsolete. Forwarding their global warming agenda is clearly the aim here, but said agenda would be just as well served with automated bots programmed to assign any gust of wind or passing cloud to ‘the climate emergency–which is basically what they’re getting. They want journalism, by its definition, dead.
“Every heatwave in the world is now made stronger and more likely to happen because of human-caused climate change,” continues the guide. “Journalists should be confident of attributing any extreme heat to human caused climate change.”
What we’re watching is a state propaganda wheel turning in real time.
–It’s sickening to see, that stomach-churning nervous kind.
The guide stumbles on numerous occasions, unsurprisingly. In fact, almost every other paragraph is a slap in the face to honest scientific inquiry.
It flat-out lies and all: “Every instance of extreme cold across the world has decreased in likelihood and intensity due to climate change.” Their own doctrine calls that one out: “Cold outbreaks are expected to increase in intensity as the Arctic warms” … “It seems very counterintuitive and surprising that a warmer planet can actually increase your odds of experiencing severe winter weather events–but that’s what our research has shown,” said Judah Cohen, principal scientist at Verisk Atmospheric and Environmental Research.

Then you have Kristina Dahl, of the Union of Concerned Scientists, who has a more reasoned take: “It’s a very active area of research and something that scientists are passionately debating and trying to figure out at the moment. It’s definitely not settled science.” Watch out Dahl, you’re verging perilously close to those guardrails.
Below is The Bible’s Guide’s “easy-to-read checklist for each type of weather event”:

UK Breaks Long-Standing Cold Record; Heavy Spring Snow Sweeps Northern India; Antarctica To -77C (-106.6F); + The Sea Ice Fallacy
April 29, 2024 Cap Allon
UK Breaks Long-Standing Cold Record
Britain has been cold of late. UK tabloids are even drawing comparisons to the Tambora eruption of 1816 and the subsequent freeze, calling 2024 ‘a year without a spring’ as thermometers continue to struggle even into late-April.
As reported by the Mirror: “Back in 1816, the enormous eruption of Mount Tambora beckoned in what has become known as the ‘Year Without Summer’. The historic blast sent an ash cloud into the atmosphere that blocked out the sun for months on end, killing crops across the world and plunging millions of people into a seemingly never-ending stretch of cold misery.”
Comparing 2024 to 1816 is an exaggeration, you don’t need me to tell you, but the UK has been cold — a reality that jars with alarmist predictions.
Back in March, senior meteorologist Jim Dale warned of a “frightening” hot summer in April “as a result of climate change”. In an interview with GB News, Dale said: “We will see hot weather start to bake in during the course of April.”
Wrong.
On Friday, April 27, a low of -6.3C (20.7F) was observed in the Lake District, England — the lowest temperature ever recorded in the United Kingdom for the date (in books stretching back to the 1800s), beating the -6.1C (21F) set in Glenlivet, Scotland in 1956.
The chill then persisted through the weekend just gone, delivering a low of -5.3C (22.5F) on Sunday. And looking to the next week, the mercury is forecast to continue its struggle to find double-digit highs.
Professor Liz Bentley, chief executive of the Royal Meteorological Society, explained to the BBC why things have been so cold: “We’ve got a northerly wind bringing in very cold air from Greenland and the Arctic. There are still frozen seas up there so it’s coming from a very cold direction.”
–A natural explanation for the cold, of course; whereas anything hot is inexorably linked to human prosperity, naturally.

https://electroverse.info/uk-breaks-cold-record-spring-snow-india-antarctica-cold-sea-ice-fallacy/

 Heavy Spring Snow Sweeps Northern India
As a heatwave grips portions of India’s south, fierce winter chills and heavy snows are hitting the north — the other side of the story The Guardian et. al refuseto mention.
If India’s toasty south is due to “human-caused climate breakdown,” as is the official claim, then what’s causing the biting freeze and disruptive snowfall a few-hundred miles to the north? Wait, I know this one — also “human-caused climate breakdown”!
“Winter is late this time shifting towards summer,” adds the poster of the above video, Rattan Dhillon.
I’ve noticed this is a theme playing out across much of the Northern Hemisphere.
A drawn-out/returning cold season spells misery for farmers.
Just ask European growers:

Antarctica To -77C (-106.6F)
Antarctica has recorded a new low temperature for 2024 — the anomalous -77C (-106.6F) set on April 27 at the French-Italian Concordia research facility. The Russian base Vostok, for those interested, posted a daily minimum of 75.5C (-103.9F).
The Antarctic has been shown to be cooling ever since reliable (satellite) temperature data has been available to us, since 1979.
The year 2021 saw the South Pole suffer its coldest winter ever recorded (April – Sept) in books dating back to the 1950s. And the freeze has endured.
Highlighting a few examples:
November 2022’s average of -40.4C made for coldest November since 1987. December 2022’s average of -29.1C turned out to be the South Pole’s coldest December since 2006. In fact, Nov 2022 to Feb 2023 went down as second-coldest such period ever recorded.
The year 2023, despite the volatile sea ice (not the ice on the Plateau, by the way), saw the cold records continue to fall.
In January (i.e. ‘summer’), readings well-below -40C were a regular feature. On Jan 29, Vostok posted -48.7C, the station’s lowest January temperature ever recorded (in operation data dating back to 1957).

 The Sea Ice Fallacy
The data reveal Antarctica is cooling. While up north, a pause is ongoing at the Arctic. These realities are big problems for the AGW Party.
The Antarctic is home to 90% of Earth’s freshwater, all of it locked up as ice. It doesn’t take a genius to realize that consistently cold temperatures means that all that ice, all 25,000,000 gigatons of it, isn’t going anywhere anytime soon.
Alarmists have trouble applying logic like this, owing to a relentless, decades-long propaganda campaign.
2023 was a ‘blip’, another example of the wild volatility experienced by Antarctic Sea Ice Extent which, by the way, is now riding above the year 1980 (on par with much of the 1980s in fact) and also fast-approaching the 1979-1990 average:  2023 was a ‘blip’, another example of the wild volatility experienced by Antarctic Sea Ice Extent which, by the way, is now riding above the year 1980 (on par with much of the 1980s in fact) and also fast-approaching the 1979-1990 average:

Sea ice extent at Antarctica’s northern cousin, the Arctic, is currently at its highest level in many years, higher than it was 35 years ago, particularly around Alaska, and also comfortably above the 2011-20 average.

This is a reality the paint-tossers among us willfully ignore. But their delusions run far deeper than turning a blind eye to a sea ice map. Every aspect of their fantasy is built upon a denial of science. Case in point is Arctic ice. Even if the Arctic was to melt in its entirety, which it shows zero signs of doing—of course, any increase to sea levels would be negligible, basically non-existent.
This is because the Arctic, unlike Antarctica, has no land beneath it, it is a giant floating ice cube, and like ice cubes in a cup of water, melting them doesn’t change the water level, the water has already been displaced.
There is a very negligible rise due to this being freshwater added to saltwater (freshwater being a little less dense) but NASA say the difference is “minimal,” contributing just 1 millimeter to sea levels since 1994.
Alarmists still do not understand basic science:

22 April 2024

Intense storms from California to Dubai punctuated our spring weather this week. California continued to have very late rain and snow. The April 15th California storm dumped snow in the Rockies and deepened into a 980 mb low stretching again from Baffin Island to the Gulf of Mexico. Its cold front triggered severe weather and heavy rain. The Canadian Arctic air (1030 mb) is setting freeze warnings from Oregon to Tennessee. The Grand Solar Minimum signature weather is here! CNN warned of freezing and hard freeze this morning from the Ohio Valley to NY. More mountain snow is predicted of the next 10 daysfrom the Sierra to the Rockies.

Europe enjoyed spring-like warm weather; however a deep trough brought cool weather to Spain and Portugal and significant snow to the Pyrenees and Alps and Carpathians.
Rains and cool air return next week with temperatures dropping to freezing (from 30ºC in 24 hr) with snow in the Alps and mountains from San Marino to Bucharest and Skopje. Freeze warnings are in effect from France to the Balkans. Farmers and vintners are worried about their crops at this delicate period.

Dubai and SE Iran had quite a rare flash flood event in the Desert. This extreme storm creates an interesting question for the alarmists regarding thermodynamics and their lack of understanding. Yes, warm air has more energy and moisture carrying capacity. The dry deserts have plenty of hot air but no floods. Many are located near oceans - plenty of moisture. The global warming alarmists would have you believe the deserts will have severe storms given their simplistic view. The Dubai storm was triggered by a larger scale disturbance that could tap the normally available energy and trigger a record storm. It was very limited in area. I posted the satellite images. There is no relationship to CO2 alarmism, but they must claim every possible extreme event. Mother Nature is doing as she always does - protect us naturally. Even in Columbia where a severe drought dried reservoirs as seen on CNN, today the ECMWF model predicted 100 to 550 mm of rain this week. That should help mitigate the drought.

The southern hemisphere continued to cool and set cold records in the Antarctic with locally heavy snows triggered by deep 950-940 mb storms. The circumpolar jet is increasing in intensity with a wavy pattern that dumps heavy snow in the Andes and Coastal Antarctic mountains. Sea Ice is increasing as interior temperatures fall into the -70s ºC.

OBSERVED TEMPERATURES and ECMWF 10-DAY SNOWFALL FORECASTS

https://photos.app.goo.gl/D4FSQPjmzrAwbS2q9

You can see the magnitude of the storms on windy.com and in NOAA’s GOES satellite imagery: https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/fulldisk_band.php?sat=G18&band=GEOCOLOR&length=12

Temperature anomalies are tucked on:

tropicaltidbits.com
see: https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/models/?model=gfs&region=us&pkg=T2ma&runtime=2024021212&fh=6

See details below in CURRENT EXTREMES: 11 March 2024

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/warnings-and-advice/uk-warnings#?date=2023-11-13&id=0927f461-b5cc-4bbf-8f64-04383cf830f2

The windy.com wave map shows the deep storms:

see: https://www.windy.com/-Waves-waves?waves,67.842,-1.230,3,i:pressure

Check out the albums below for detailed charts, satellite images, and observations:

Fall - Winter 2023:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/ZtfEjJRJ14eKVKpw6

Winter 2024: https://photos.app.goo.gl/DdoiQp1TL7DGMC1B7

Review:

Atmospheric River forecast by Marty Ralph’s team:
https://cw3e.ucsd.edu/iwv-and-ivt-forecasts/

An important component of the Grand Solar Minimum is an increase in clouds due to its impact on our solar system’s magnetosphere and increased numbers of deep space cosmic rays penetrating our upper atmosphere and generating cloud condensation nuclei. Clouds produce many complex phenomena ranging from cooling as solar radiation is reflected back to space, to surface warming as heat is retained at night and radiational cooling is reduced under stratus and in fog. On a large scale temperature gradients control the winds and jet stream dynamics. Clouds also impact the sea surface temperature SST which can have profound impacts on the Earth’s energy budget from the El Niño to Jet stream intensity and location. NASA is now predicting a solar maximum of cycle 25 by January 2024 with some CMEs. Note: current climate models fail to adequately simulate clouds; hence, a serious limit to their long term predictions. The primary critical impact of the GSM is late spring frosts and early fall frosts that limit the growing season. it is difficult for long term models to predict these critical events accurately.

The El Niño continues to weaken yet it covers a large area; however, so far California is following the intense winter weather associated with an El Niño. The latest SST observations show cold water below the thin warm El Niño water, thus indicating the likelihood of a la Niña forming soon. NCAR scientists called for a severe winter. Thus far, the Ontario-Hudson Bay 700 mb low has been pulling cold air south into the East much like last winter. Note: the eastern N American low gyrates in the Jet, hence its impact varies. The West and High Plains are on the western edge of the deep cold air, hence, they have brief cold blasts and may benefit from the Pacific ARs heavy snow; however, they will enjoy somewhat warmer winter temperatures than the NE. The Sudden Stratospheric Warming - SSW was predicted to pull extremely cold air into the entire US by mid-January and again in February and March. This verified quite nicely in January - burr ! We’ll see how March goes. It would appear that CHINA and Asia have been hit the hardest with severe cold weather this season and are now warming.

https://electroverse.info/coldest-may-80n-greenland-gains-warmer-in-the-past-zharkova-interview/

Her primary web site: https://solargsm.com/

and

https://www.windy.com/-New-snow-snowAccu?snowAccu,next3d,69.945,22.148,4,i:pressure,m:fDTafyg

See:
https://www.windy.com/-Show---add-more-layers/overlays?awp_0_40,34.089,20.303,4,i:pressure,m:ff3agyK

see: http://polarportal.dk/en/greenland/surface-conditions/

Snow:
https://www.windy.com/-New-snow-snowAccu?snowAccu,next10d,74.902,-40.649,4,i:pressure,m:fOdadW1

Rain:
https://www.windy.com/-Rain-accumulation-rainAccu?rainAccu,next10d,51.944,-74.399,4,i:pressure

Japan and N Korea armed a bit with 2-38 cm of snow on the mountains of N Korea and Japan respectively with record cold and snow.

TropicalTidbits.com (forecast models) also gives you a look at the temperature departures from normal associated with these storms. You can see the warm and cold sectors - the normal variations of global temperature.

The Himalayas had heavy snow on the peaks with most areas receiving 1-3 m. The Tibetan Plateau is high ~3-5 km msl with new snow from the Himalaya to Shan ranges. Total snow on the ground on 9/3/23 still ranged from 0.5 to 5 m. This high elevation massif is a major factor controlling global weather patterns. Its unusual snowfall this summer may have a significant impact. The Hindukusch have had significant snows of 0.5-2.0 m again this week. Delhi set cold records, northern India and Pakistan had record snows last week.

Southern hemisphere jet is intensifying as the sun marched north cooling the Antarctic. It is now driving several large deep storms (976 to 936 mb) circling the Antarctic. Antarctic still has large areas in the interior below -40 to -75º C as measured in Windy’s satellite surface temperatures - even this January was reporting below -40ºC - a year without summer. On 3 Sept the South Pole reported -74.9ºC (-102ºF) and -80ºC at Vostok… Last week as the Antarctic begins cooling into Fall. Vostok broke -50ºC in December and -60 in March. This week the temperature again fell below -100ºF. Howling blizzards are still circling the Antarctic coast with 30 to 50 kt winds near these storms. The Ross Sea and Weddell Sea are 95% and 100% sea Ice covered respectively. SEA ICE is now increasing rapidly. McMurdo Base has been quite cold at -19 to -25ºC setting records and grounding aircraft in September. Temperatures in the Antarctic are cooling, and remaining significantly below normal. This week McMurdo rose to -19º C. The Antarctic set a November record cold of -60ºC. December and now January are setting new cold summer records: On Jan 4, 2024, the minimums at Concordia, JASE2007 AWS and Vostok were all, once again, below -40C, coming in at -40.8C, -40.2C and -40.1C, respectively. The South Pole set its 3rd coldest March record at -60ºC this week.The sun is moving N, so the cold is settling in down under. South Georgia Island had snows reaching 53-76 cm this week.

Southern Africa set cold records and snow as deep cyclonic storms march across the South Atlantic pumping Antarctic Air northward. Even Madagascar and Reunion Island set new cold records and had some snow in October 2023. Record snow fell in late October 2023.

AUSTRALIA has had a variety of summer weather. Antarctic highs set new cold records in June and July and are continuing to set cold records. Sydney set a new cold summer record when it failed to reach 32ºC (89.6ºF) in December 2022. Australia’s Victoria and South Australia had some much below normal temperatures and cold records to -2.7ºC. Western Australia cooled as the Antarctic waves moved north. Frosts developed in Queensland and the NW Territories - in subtropical Australia! This week large areas of Australia continued to have heavy rain : Darwin 150-500 mm, N Queensland had 95-162 mm as tropical cyclones hit. However, much of Australia had significant rains: Canberra 50 mm. Alice Springs remained cool at 20-25 ºC. Normally we see 30 to 45ºC in the satellite surface temperatures on windy.com but Alice Springs remained in the 20s with a couple 40ºC days. The cloud top temperatures near Darwin were -80ºC in deep thunderstorms. Last week a major Antarctic cold front moved northward over Australia triggering heavy rains up to Alice Springs. Monthly cold records were set in March. Note: DR Jennifer Marohasy discusses Australian forecasts and observations every week.

JENNIFER MAROHASY’s latest: https://jennifermarohasy.com/2024/01/cyclone-jasper-bom-forecasting-getting-to-the-truth/

South America was warm, but cold fronts are predicted to take temperatures 5-10ºC below normal next week. The Andes continued to build their glaciers (1-2 m). South American snow was at record levels. Patagonia had significant snows and skiing in the Andes continued in November 2023. Surface temperatures reached 30ºC this week in Patagonia. Argentina and Brazil continue to be warm, yet, some Antarctic cold fronts have triggered thunderstorms and locally heavy rains (100-300 mm) in the South of Brazil by Iguazu Falls. The Iguazu region had heavy rains and floods in contrast to a record drought in the Amazon Basin. However, the past month had heavy rain in the upper headwaters of the Rio Negro and Amazon Rivers. Deep thunderstorms with top temperatures of -70 to -80ºC are helping mitigate the drought. These mesoscale convective complexes can dump 100-200+ mm. Rio and Sao Paulo had flash floods and have remained wet. Columbia is predicted to have 100-550 mm rains this week 22-29 April.

https://www.windy.com/-New-snow-snowAccu?snowAccu,next10d,-66.653,-60.776,4,i:pressure,m:NPaelA

For those interested in understanding the current weather, I have documented events in the Albums showing model, satellite, radar, images.

New 2/26/24
Winter 2024: https://photos.app.goo.gl/DdoiQp1TL7DGMC1B7

WSJ: How Climate Policy Went Wrong:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-climate-policy-went-wrong-new-aerosal-study-energy-subsidies-carbon-tax-4e437371?mod=opinion_lead_pos8

A new documentary on climate: Well worth viewing —

Climate: The Movie" highlights a different perspective on the climate change debate and is supported by scientists who have signed the Clintel's World Climate Declaration. This group of researchers seeks to present an alternative narrative in the face of the dominant discourse.

Electroverse provides an excellent source of extremes not reported in the MSM:
Latest Extremes: 22 April 2024

Heavy Snow Slams Northwestern Iran; Europe Braces For Spring Freeze; + Bureau of Meteorology Forecasts Record-Warm Winter For Australia, Ignoring The Data (And Cooking The Books)
April 15, 2024 Cap Allon
Heavy Snow Slams Northwestern Iran
Rare mid-April snow has blanketed areas of northwest Iran, including in the town of Khalkhal.
The snow has been heavy and all, with reports suggesting 50 cm (20 inches) has fallen, resulting in widespread road closures.
In line with the snow, temperatures have also fallen in recent days — to record-challenging levels for the time of year.
This region of Iran is considered one of the agricultural hubs of the country. And as reported by ifpnews.com (who provide the below video), “the sudden cold snap has caused concern among local farmers during the spring season”.

https://electroverse.info/snow-iran-europe-spring-freeze-bureau-of-meteorology-cooking-the-books/

Europe Braces For Spring Freeze
While spring 2024 has delivered record-breaking cold and snow to the likes of Scandinavia and the Alps, more central and eastern regions of Europe have been enjoying unusual spring warmth, an early onset of summer.
This week, however, that anomalous heat will be disappeared by a dramatic temperature drop. Highs of 30+C (86+F) this past weekend will be replaced by single digits by mid-week as well as damaging overnight frosts/widespread lowland snows.
This return to winter will be long lived too, lasting until at least the end of the month.
Latest GFS runs reveal the swing between extremes, calling for a dive from 16C above seasonal norms on Sunday, April 14 to as low as 16C below by Wednesday, April 17–where temperatures are expected to remain for the foreseeable.
The BBC ran articles last week claiming ‘global boiling’ was to blame for Europe’s heat, adding that we’re in “uncharted territory”.
BBC ‘journalists’ were keen to ignore the position of the jet stream in their reportings of the heatwave, but now they’re more than happy to incorporate it in their analysis of this upcoming cool down. Where excretions of “planet-warming gases” were to blame for a toasty start to spring, natural forcings are of course responsible for this encroaching spring freeze (and heavy snow).

Europe is flipping from the ‘blocking high’–responsible for dragging that tropical heat northwards–to a ‘dipole pattern’ which will see a strong high pressure system park over the North Atlantic and drag down (and trap) cold polar air over the continent.
“It starts with the solid upper trough ejecting off the northeast North Atlantic on Monday,” reports severe-weather.eu, “rapidly digging towards central Europe on Tuesday and the Balkan peninsula by mid-week.”
Europe will experience a significant cooling, “an intense cold period”, continues severe-weather.eu — a return to wintry weather.
This will come as shock to the system, and, rather than supporting the CAGW theory of ‘ever hotter’, will instead add further weight to the low solar activity theory, which states: “reduced output from the sun weakens the jet stream, changing its standard ‘straight’ ZONAL flow to a ‘weak and wavy’ MERIDIONAL one” (click below for more).
Low elevation snow is forecast for many by Tuesday evening, owing to rapid a temperature decrease.

Fresh snow will accumulate across the Apennines and Carpathians of Romania and the High Tatras of Slovakia, and also across Croatia, Bosnia, and Montenegro. The Balkans could see something of an April burial by Wednesday. Italy too will cop its share.
Unsurprisingly, the Alps will continue its remarkable winter-extending run of snow, where recent totals have already made up (and more) for what was a rather lackluster Jan/Feb. Accumulations exceeding a meter (3.3ft) are easily achievable this week.
Low elevation snow is forecast for many by Tuesday evening, owing to rapid a temperature decrease.
The likes of Austria and Slovenia will see the brunt of that drop.

Fresh snow will accumulate across the Apennines and Carpathians of Romania and the High Tatras of Slovakia, and also across Croatia, Bosnia, and Montenegro. The Balkans could see something of an April burial by Wednesday. Italy too will cop its share.
Unsurprisingly, the Alps will continue its remarkable winter-extending run of snow, where recent totals have already made up (and more) for what was a rather lackluster Jan/Feb. Accumulations exceeding a meter (3.3ft) are easily achievable this week.
The fallen snow will only aid temperatures in their plunge below freezing, which in turn will threaten new plantings with hard frosts.
Many growers are warning, that will spring in full swing, that the cold-damage to orchards and vineyards could be “catastrophic”. We can expect ‘frost fires’ to be lit across Europe’s vineyards in the coming weeks, as has been an increasingly regular scene in recent years.
From the UK through France and Germany, up north, down south, and way out east, the cold will be expansive, with only the far west (i.e. Portugal) spared.
And looking ahead, the freeze looks set to intensify into next week with the snows also stepping up.
This is when the worst of the frost damage could occur, when the 850 mbar temperature anomaly chart (below) is expected to read 8-10C below average which is “beyond extreme,” according to Marko Korosec, lead forecaster for severe-weather.eu.

The impacts of El Niño, Solar Maximum, and Hunga-Tonga have also supported global temperatures in recent months (natural forcings that the BBC also opts to downplay, or fail to even mention).
However, this ‘warming trifecta’ is now waning: La Niña is forecast to return this year, Solar Cycle 25 may have already peaked, and Hunga-Tonga’s record mesospheirc injection of water vapor is (very slowly) beginning to dissipate.
Global temperatures WILL come crashing back down to early-2023 levels, i.e. back down below baseline.
Is Europe getting a taste of what’s to come…

Feet Of Spring Snow Pound Colorado; U.S. Braces For Record April Cold; Met Office’s Antarctic Sea Ice Report; + Stock Market Behaving Eerily Similar To 1929
April 18, 2024 Cap Allon
Feet Of Spring Snow Pound Colorado
Heavy snow is battering the high country this week, with a wide area, including Larimer County, receiving 3 feet.
The National Weather Service (NWS) says the aptly named Never Summer range as well as Medicine Bow saw even higher totals.
While across Colorado ski areas, snow enthusiasts are rejoicing the late season top up. In just a 24-hour period through Tuesday, well-over foot of fresh snow was reported at Loveland Ski Area, Vail Ski Resort and Copper Mountain, to name just three.

https://electroverse.info/snow-colorado-u-s-braces-for-record-april-cold-met-office-ice-report-stock-market-1929/

U.S. Braces For Record April Cold
“Protect your outside plants! A Freeze warning has been issued,” warns newstalk870, speaking to the Tri-Cities of Washington.
The NWS in Pendleton is warning of freezing temperatures in the Lower Columbia Basin and in the Yakima/Kittitas Valleys Thursday morning, with thermometers dropping to 28F – 32F, perhaps beyond.
Latest GFS runs reveal the extent of the descending polar air which could span some 30 states and stretch the length of the CONUS, from Montana to Texas (from Canada to Mexico, in fact).
Focusing on Montana, record-breaking cold is expected there, according to ktvh.com.
Cold temperatures, a biting wind chill, and areas of snow will continue for the next several days here. Overnight lows will enter the 10s across a wide area, with daily highs holding in the 30s for many. The mountains will dip into the single digits (F).
And a quick word on Europe, where “catastrophic” frosts threaten growing regions from France to the Balkans with heavy out-of-season snow to boot. Well, the big spring freeze is good for one thing: it returns those wet-eared Cassandras back to the shadows.

No Spring In Sight For Much Of Russia; Temperatures Are Falling Globally; + Ruang Volcano Erupts To 55,000 Feet
April 19, 2024 Cap Allon
No Spring In Sight For Much Of Russia
April snow is building across Russia.
Starting in the east, the likes of Magadan and Kolyma have seen substantial spring snowfalls of late which have pushed the snow depth to 58 cm (1.9 ft) in the former, setting a new record there.
Looking west, to European Russia, freezing lows and heavy snows have returned to the Leningrad region, among others.
As forecast by hmn.ru, the snow will intensify into the weekend here, “after which the Northern capital will become white with snow.”

https://electroverse.info/russia-chills-temperatures-falling-ruang-to-55000-feet/

St. Petersburg, for example, is enduring “a return of winter landscapes due to the collision of a southern cyclone with cold Arctic air.” Here, daily highs will hold around the freezing mark for the foreseeable, which, when combined with the intensifying snow, will make for chaos on the roads — a situation compounded by the vast majority of motorists having switched to summer tires.
 

Temperatures Are Falling Globally
Continuing West, Europe is dealing with a fierce swing between extremes this week.
In Slovenia, for example, summer crashed back to winter in less than day:
Speaking to the heavy spring snow, flakes are falling from Scandinavia and Scotland down through France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy, out east over the likes of Ukraine, and also down south well-into the Balkans.
Over a meter (3.3ft) is settling in some parts, with much more on the way.
Checking in with alpine webcams, these heavy snows are extending the ski season:
As per the latest forecasts, these anomalous lows and heavy snows look set to stick around.
“We thought this year Europe had been sparred from the ‘April damnation’ but hell no,” writes @extremetemps on X. “Every run the cold is worsened AND prolonged with no real end in sight. Say goodbye to your apricots for the fifth year in a row.”
What good is ‘global warming’ if year-after-year late-season freezes delay the onset of spring:

Ruang Volcano Erupts To 55,000 Feet
Aiding the global cool down will be this week’s powerful eruptions at Mount Ruang:
Mount Ruang, a 2,400 foot stratovolcano on Ruang Island, North Sulawesi, Indonesia has erupted at least seven times since Tuesday night, firing ash plumes as high as 55,000 feet into the sky — and so into the stratosphere.
Preliminary reports say the volcanic explosivity index (VEI) could reach 4, perhaps 5.
No casualties have been reported, but this was never expected to be a killer, rather a cooler. The cooling effects from Ruang will be felt for years to come, and should go someway to offsetting the warming caused by Hunga Tonga’s submarine spewing (VEI 5).
The Tonga eruption expelled unprecedented amounts of water vapor into the atmosphere (10 – 30% extra) which has temporarily warmed the planet (water vapor being the most potent of the common greenhouse gasses and also the most abundant).
These impacts are waning naturally, but Ruang’s stratospheric injection of ash will assist in the cooling.
Latest reports reveal the plume of sulfur dioxide (SO₂) already extends over 1000 kilometers.

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 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.

Norwegian Ski Resort On For Bumper Summer Season; Europe Freezes; Official Datasets Continually ‘Find’ More Warming; + Solar Maximum Is Near
April 22, 2024 Cap Allon
Norwegian Ski Resort On For Bumper Summer Season
The Folgefonna Glacier in Norway is being readied for the upcoming summer season, which is expected to be a bumper one given winter and spring’s record-challenging snowfall (the best since 2015, so far).
Fonna Glacier Ski Resort, one of only six ski resorts/areas in the world to open exclusively for the summer months, has seen “massive snowfalls this winter thanks to one of the coldest winters in decades,” reports snowbrains.com.
In early-March, Fonna was digging out its ski lift following a monstrous snowstorm that dropped 10+ meters (33 feet). And thanks to favorable conditions ever since, skiing is “slated to be epic this summer”.
Eyeing east, to Finland, some exceptionally late ‘ice days’ are being registered there.
Turku Airport, for example, struggled to -0.4C (31.3F) on Sunday; Jokioinen Ilmala managed a daily high of just -1.5C (29.3F); with Tampere Pirkkala Airport reaching just -2.6C (27.3F) — the latter appears to have set a new coldest April low-max (in 44 years of record keeping at the locale), pipping the -2.5C (27.5F) set back on April 1, 1998.
“None of the weather stations in Finland rose above two degrees Celsius, not even the marine stations,” writes Mika Rantanen, of the Finnish Meteorological Institute.
“Remarkable for this late in April.”

https://electroverse.info/norwegian-snow-europe-freezes-datasets-find-warming-solar-max-is-near/

Finland’s cold has proved long-lasting, too.
Case in point: Sunday (April 21) marked the 200th day of ‘thermal winter’ in Sodankylä Tähtelä, Lapland (a period where the daily mean temperature holds below the freezing mark). This makes 2023-24 the longest winter since 1994-95, which lasted 215 days.
Snow cover is also proving historic in these parts, having now been on the ground since Oct 8, 2023 — one of the longest-ever stretches in books dating back to 1910.
And given Europe’s ongoing freeze, which is set to run into May (more on that below), combined with the ≈70 cm (27.5 inches) of snow left on the ground, Tähtelä has a shot at breaking its all-time record-stretches for snow cover AND thermal winter, both of which stand at 231 days (Oct 3, 1968 – May 23, 1969).
Europe Freezes

It isn’t just the far north enduring an extension of winter, cold and snow have returned to much of Europe. What forecasters had feared is now playing out: catastrophic frosts across the continent’s growing regions, particularly central areas.
“The air mass is so cold for late April that it could significantly damage blooming fruit trees, vineyards, and crops,” reported @severeweatherEU as the ‘blues’ and ‘purples’ began descending — cold that is expected to persist for the foreseeable:
Over the weekend, in Serbia, -8C (17.6F) was registered in Karajukića Bunari; in Bosnia and Herzegovina, -6C (21.2F) hit Sokolac; while in Montenegro, -10C (14F) hit Kosanica — to name just three locales.

Monday is bringing an intensification of the freeze.
Heavy snow is accompanying the spring cold.
Some 70cm (27.5 inches) hit the likes of Firstalm, Upper Bravaria, Germany on Sunday:
As atmospheric scientist Wei Zhang writes:
“When adjustments are made for various reasons, you would expect half the time it would increase the warming trend and half the time it would decrease it. But every adjustment I’ve ever seen has increased the post World War II warming trend.”

Tony Heller goes further:
“It is incomprehensible to me how any serious person could look at this hockey stick of data tampering, and not recognize it as systematic fraud…”

Bureau of Meteorology Forecasts Record Warm Winter For Australia, Ignoring The Data
According to the Bureau of Meteorology, temperatures will be above average for most Aussie states this May to July, which could result in the warmest winter ever recorded by the Bureau’s inaccurate and heat-skewed network of weather stations.
It’s also going to be dry, add the BoM, but they’ve been promising Aussies drought for years now and all it ever seems to do is piss it down. Heavy early-season snows have even clipped the alpine regions of late, almost two month before resorts are due to open. This works to kill both birds with one stone: its needs to be cold to snow, and it also needs to be wet to snow.