.....During the
period Wednesday-Thursday December 5-6 2007 the mountains of
Hawaii were struck by a freak blizzard. It does snow on the
mountains of Hawaii above 8000 feet in winter time but not of
blizzard proportions. As follows is the blizzard warning issued
by NWS Honolulu:URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HONOLULU HI
947 PM HST WED DEC 5 2007
HIZ028-061600-
/O.CON.PHFO.BZ.W.0001.000000T0000Z-071206T1600Z/
BIG ISLAND SUMMITS-
INCLUDING THE CITY OF...MAUNA LOA AND MAUNA KEA ABOVE 8000 FEET
947 PM HST WED DEC 5 2007
...BLIZZARD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM HST THURSDAY...
LINES OF CONVECTIVE SHOWERS ARE STILL EXPECTED TO AFFECT THE
SUMMIT AREA THROUGH EARLY THURSDAY MORNING...BRINGING HEAVY SNOW
SHOWERS AT TIMES. STRONG WINDS WITH GUSTS OVER 60 MPH HAVE BEEN
REPORTED OVER THE SUMMITS THIS EVENING AND WILL CONTINUE THROUGH
EARLY THURSDAY MORNING. THE COMBINATION OF THESE WEATHER PHENOMENON
WILL PRODUCE NEAR ZERO VISIBILITY IN BLOWING SNOW...MAKING TRAVEL
EXTREMELY TREACHEROUS.
SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 6 INCHES OR MORE ARE POSSIBLE...ALONG WITH
SIGNIFICANT DRIFTING SNOW. TEMPERATURES WILL FALL INTO THE 20S...
WITH WIND CHILLS AS LOW AS 5 TO 10 ABOVE OVERNIGHT.
TRAVEL TO THE SUMMITS IS STRONGLY NOT RECOMMENDED FOR THE REST OF
TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING.
A BLIZZARD WARNING MEANS THAT BLIZZARD CONDITIONS ARE IMMINENT OR
OCCURRING.....
.....On
Saturday November 17, 2007 an unusually early freeze occurred
into the inland rural north and central peninsula of Florida.
Cross City/Dixie County 24 degrees F, Trenton/Gilchrist County
25 degrees F, Nobleton East/Sumter County 25 degrees F,
Holder/Citrus County 26 degrees F, Brooksville/Hernando County
28 degrees F,
Nobleton
West/Hernando County 29 degrees F,
Ocala/Marion County
30 degrees F, Mount Plymouth/Orange County (near Orlando) 30
degrees F, Darby/Pasco County 31 degrees F.....
2006-2007-
.....On
Thursday August 9, 2007 an unusual snowfall fell on Santiago,
Chile. Chile continues to suffer through it's coldest winter in
the past 30 years.....
.....On Thursday
July 19, 2007 the Australian Bureau of Meteorology said
temperatures fell to a record low at Brisbane Airport
shortly after sunrise, with a temperature of 31.8 deg.
F/-0.1C. The previous record for the airport was 33.1 deg.
F/+0.6 degrees C, recorded in 1971. Elsewhere in the region,
Ipswich, southwest of Brisbane, recorded a low of 23.4 deg.
F/-4.8 degrees C, just 0.2 deg. F/0.1 degree C short of the
lowest temperature recorded there in 1995.....
.....On Thursday July
12, 2007 record low daily maximum temperatures occurred
across almost a third of Australia. This was found 'buried'
on this internet today from the Australian Government Bureau
of Meteorology and the biased media didn't even report it.
Record low daily maximum temperatures were widespread
through the tropics. In total, more than 31 per cent of the
land area of Australia recorded the lowest maximum
temperatures for June. Maximum temperatures below 50 deg.
F/10 deg. C were widespread on 20 June, to an extent never
previously seen in tropical Australia. The northern most
instance of a maximum under 50 deg. F/10 deg. C occurred at
Tennant Creek at 19 deg. S latitude with 46 deg. F/8 deg. C.
To put this in perspective the southern Yucatan Peninsula is
its northern hemisphere latitudinal equivalent.....
.....On
Thursday July 12, 2007 subfreezing minimum temperatures visited
the state of Rio Grande do Sul of Brazil at ~29 deg. S latitude.
The city of Bagua observed a minimum temperature of 25 deg. F/-4
deg. C., the coldest since 1955. The winter of 2007 so far has
been the coldest in memory.....
.....On
Wednesday July 11, 2007 snow fell in the state of Rio Grande do
Sul of Brazil at ~29 deg. S latitude.....
.....On
Tuesday July 10, 2007 thousands of Argentines cheered and threw
snowballs in the streets of Buenos Aires on Monday as the
capital's first major snowfall since 1918 spread a thin white
mantle across the region. Argentina's National Weather Service
said it was the first measurable snowfall in Buenos Aires since
June 22, 1918.....
.....On
Wednesday June 27, 2007 four inches of snow fell in
Johannesburg, South Africa, its first confirmed
measured snowfall in almost 26 years on September 11, 1981, as
temperatures dropped below freezing in South Africa's largest
city, grounding flights at its main airport. The heaviest
snowfall was over the southern suburb of The Hill, where five
inches of snow fell. Light snow was also recorded in Pretoria,
the capital, which last had snow on June 11, 1968.....
.....On Friday
June 8, 2007 the temperature at Denver International Airport
fell to 31 degrees at 5:44 am, setting a new record low for the
date. In addition to the new record low, the sub-freezing
temperatures also became the latest freeze on record for the
city of Denver and the second-coldest June temperature ever
recorded.....
.....On
Friday May 25, 2007 extreme cold struck the southern hemisphere.
Extreme cold is being experienced this week in the southernmost
reaches of our globe, including Antarctica, southern Argentina,
and South Africa. Of course, it is winter down there, but this
is unusual even for the cold season. JA wrote in his blog on
Monday: "A cold day in the wake
of a strong southern African cold front. At Johannesburg, the
low was -3.1 seem like -10 will be coldest Tuesday night, fair
to say that -5 and maybe western Zimbabwe."
It is not cold only
in South Africa. The higher hills in Southern Brazil states of
Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina got some snow last night.
Frost was widespread in the rural areas. After above average
temperature and lots of rain in the first four months of the
year, the La Nina is starting to influence our climate and this
month of May is awarding us below average temperature. The low
temperature on this Thursday morning was minus 3.2 degrees
Celsius in the city of Sao Joaquim. Friday's morning lows will
be colder, but another cold blast, more intense than this, is
forecasted by all computer models to reach the Southern Cone of
South America next week. Maybe some historical records may fall
for the month of May next week. It is interesting to see how
cold the southern pole was last month in sharp contrast to the
northern latitudes. It means our "cold blasts" plant is working
a lot and with the help of La Nina in the Pacific.....
.....On Thursday April 19, 2007
Canadian
Coast Guard ice breakers are smashing through pack ice in a
bid to free about 100 sealing vessels stuck off the
northeast coast and southern Labrador. Local fishermen say
the ice conditions are the worst they've seen in more than
20 years.....
.....The first
ten days of April 2007 are the coldest in 113 years.....
.....Through
Monday April 9, 2007 in Painesdale, MI the five day snow total
is now up to 64.5".....
.....On Easter
Sunday morning April 8, 2007 frozen precipitation in the form of
ice pellets (sleet) fell in the north Florida town of Mary
Esther. Tentatively this is a new record for the latest
observance of frozen precipitation in the state. Subfreezing
minimum temperatures also visited the state of Florida. The cold
spot was 28 degrees at Eddy Tower RAWS. Minimum temperatures in
the mid 30's dipped as far south as the inland rural south
peninsula region, with 36 degrees at Miles City RAWS. The
minimum temperatures were some 20-30 degrees below normal. The
last time that the sunshine state saw similar April abnormally
cold temperature was in 1971 and also 1950.....
.....Beginning
on Sunday April 1, 2007 an unusually late season cold wave
engulfed the eastern 2/3's of the U.S. Record breaking low
minimum temperatures and record high snow fall totals have
occurred with this outbreak. On Saturday morning April 7, 2007
snow began falling in north and NE Texas extending eastward into
northern Louisiana. The snow could reach the Gulf Coast from New
Orleans, LA to Mobile, AL to Pensacola, FL.
In Florida subfreezing
temperatures are possible on early Easter Sunday morning April
8, 2007 as far south as the inland rural west and middle central
peninsula, down to S.R. 52 and west of U.S. 17. A pocket of
subfreezing temperatures is also possible across the inland
rural south central peninsula. Special weather statement from
NWS Tampa Bay, Ruskin, FL.
http://kamala.cod.edu/fl/latest.nous42.KTBW.html
.....
.....On Monday March 12, 2007
a North Pole expedition meant
to bring attention to harmful man induced global warming was
called off after one of the explorers got frostbite. The
explorers, Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen, on Saturday March 10th
called off what was intended to be a 530-mile trek across the
Arctic Ocean after Arnesen suffered frostbite in three of her
toes, and extreme cold temperatures drained the batteries in
some of their electronic equipment. The brutal temperature that
they experienced quite a bit colder, Atwood said, then Bancroft
and Arnesen had expected. One night they measured the
temperature inside their tent at 58 degrees below zero, and
outside temperatures were exceeding 100 below zero at times,
Atwood said. They were experiencing temperatures that weren't
expected with global warming, DOH.....
.....The minimum temperature on Mt. Mansfield, VT on March 6,
2007 was -28 deg. F, breaking the old record of -25 deg. F set
in 1955. On March 7, 2007 numerous minimum temperature records
fell across Vermont at lower elevations. Missisquoi River at an
elevation of 410 feet saw a minimum temperature of -37 deg. F.
Island Pond at an elevation of 1201 feet saw a minimum
temperature of -35 deg. F.....
.....The minimum temperature on Mt. Washington, NH on March
7, 2007 was -30 deg. F, breaking the old record of -21 deg. F
set in 1937.....
.....The minimum temperature on Mt. Washington, NH on March
6, 2007 was -37 deg. F, breaking the old record of -23 deg. F
set in 1950. The -37 deg. F reading fell short by one degree of
the all time coldest March temperature of -38 deg. F set in
1950.....
.....In Toronto, Ontario, Canada February 2007 was the
coldest since February 1912.....
.....In Boston, MA the minimum temperature dropped to 6
degrees on March 6, 2007, the coldest March minimum temperature
since March 10, 1984.....
.....Over the past few day's New England has been suffering
through an unusually cold late season Arctic air mass. For
Massachusetts March 6, 2007 was the coldest March 6th since
1950.....
.....On June 1, 2005 measurable snow fell for the first time
in recorded history in tropical Somalia. It fell at an elevation
of 1000 feet at Puntland in the NE part of the country.
Ironically the freak snowstorm was blamed on man induced global
warming....
.....Per
the BBC,
during the week of
February 12, 2007
snow fell in
Nepal's capital, Katmandu for the first time since 1944, 63
years.....
.....During
the week of February 19, 2007 snow fell in portions of Argentina
that have never seen snow so early in the season (late summer).
A comparison would be snow in Philadelphia, PA on August
19th.....
.....On
February 17, 2007 a minimum temperature of 18.6 deg. F was
observed at Holder in Citrus County (the west central peninsula)
of Florida. This temperature was the coldest ever observed so
late in the winter season.....
.....On
February 15, 2007 it snowed in Pensacola
Florida. This is the fourth time this winter
season that frozen precipitation has fallen
in Florida.....
.....On January 15, 2007 Lancaster, CA broke
their monthly record, coming within one
degree of their all-time record low
temperature.
LANCASTER TEMPERATURE OF 03
DEGREES TODAY SET A NEW MONTHLY RECORD FOR
JANUARY. THE COLDEST ALL TIME RECORD FOR
LANCASTER WAS 02 DEGREES SET DECEMBER 24
1984.....
.....Snow
showers fell across portions of the central peninsula of Florida
east of U.S. 41 and north of S.R. 50 during the Tuesday
evening-Wednesday morning period November 21-22, 2006, including
the Orlando metro area. The snow showers were the earliest ever
observed on the central peninsula and state and reported since
European settlers arrived. On the morning of November 22, 2006
Archbold which is located on the south central peninsula region
observed a minimum temperature of 28 deg.....
2005-2006-
.....It snowed in downtown Los
Angeles for the first time in modern times on Saturday February
18, 2006.....
.....During the first two
weeks of February 2006 all of Alaska with the exception of the
panhandle region was in the grip of extreme below zero
temperature. Inland area temperatures repeatedly dropped into
the -50 to -65 deg. F below zero range.....
.....During the first week of
December 2005 the coldest minimum temperatures ever observed so
early in the season chilled the lower 48 states, with the
exception of the Florida Peninsula. Below zero daytime readings
dipped deep into Colorado and Kansas, with night time sub zero
readings into west Texas. Frozen precipitation fell at Corpus
Christi and Brownsville, TX and into northern Mexico S-SW of
Brownsville and Del Rio. Some north and central Plains region
areas saw minimum temperatures in the -20 to -30 deg. below zero
range.....
.....November 2005 was the
coldest in the last 30 years in the northern Great Plains, Mid
West and Great Lakes regions.....
....During Southern Hemisphere
Winter 2005 Russia's Vostok base on the ice cap of East
Antarctica set the new all time coldest minimum temperature on
Earth of -132 deg. below zero F. The previous record was -129
deg below zero F......
2004-2005-
.....Tuesday was even colder
than usual at Russia's Vostok base on the ice cap of East
Antarctica. The high of -101 degrees was fully 25 degrees below
average for early May. The low was -104 degrees, or about 15
degrees below average.....
.....Monday April 25, 2005 a
31.9 deg. minimum temperature is observed in central Florida.
Two other locations observed 32 deg. I've been keeping track of
temperature in Florida since 1965 and this is the latest 32 deg.
minimum temperature during that time period.....
.....Sunday-Monday April
24-25, 2005. A record breaking late season snowfall has occurred
in parts of Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Snowfall
totals of up to 12-24" have been measured.
.....Sunday April 17, 2005 a
31.8 deg. minimum temperature is observed in central
Florida.....
.....Greater Havana, Cuba,
dawned rather chilly Monday morning April 4, 2005. At the Jose
Marti international airport south of the city's center, the
temperature dipped to 50 degrees whereas the average daily low
during April is 70. A minimum temperature of 31.6 deg. was also
observed in central Florida.....
.....Late season chill has
descended on southeast Europe. At the same time, moisture
streaming in from the Mediterranean has produced snow over parts
of Turkey. The mountainous terrain over central Turkey has had a
few inches of snow. Even in the capital city, Ankara, the snow
managed to accumulate as temperatures were just below freezing
and the snow was briefly heavy.....
.....The snowfall at Cleveland
Hopkins airport for the day is 6.4 inches. This brings the
snowfall total for the 2004-2005 season to 105.3 inches, which
breaks the all time record for the snowiest season at Cleveland
Hopkins airport, which was 101.1 inches in 1995-1996.....
.....The coldest March night
on record occurred across the Netherlands this past Thursday
night. Sub-zero readings were
recorded across the country. Marknesse fell to an overnight low
of -5F. Such cold weather capped a week of heavy snows which
buried some parts of the country under 20 inches. This winter
has been the snowiest in the past 50 years for the
Netherlands.....
.....Snow-covered palm trees
in the Mediterranean, travel chaos on the continent and a rise
in heating costs are the results of an unusual European cold
snap.....
.....In some parts of The Netherlands snowfall was up to 20
inches, the highest levels recorded for March in the past 20 to
25 years, the Dutch meteorological institute said.....
.....Italy's port city of Genoa was paralyzed by a blanket of
rare late winter white stuff that caused traffic chaos as far
away as Milan, in one of the coldest starts to March on record,
meteorologists said. Authorities closed Genoa airport, shut city
schools and ordered buses off the roads as a blizzard blanketed
the Liguria coastline. Milan also got a rare covering of snow
during the morning, as did the nearby cities of Turin and Parma.
In Turin, the thermometer fell to a record 17 Fahrenheit
overnight, while Rome suffered its coldest March for 18
years.....
.....Heavy snowfall and below-freezing temperatures across most
of northern and central Greece this week have cut off dozens of
mountain villages, blocked roads and led authorities to close
some schools.....
.....In Spain, renowned for its warm winter sunshine in parts,
palm trees in the Mediterranean city of Barcelona have been
topped with snow and Madrid has seen its heaviest snowfall for
about 15 years.....
.....One of the worst winters
in decades continues to bring heavy snows and cold air to
Afghanistan and Pakistan. In Pakistan, over 300 people have died
from the series of heavy snowfalls in the past few weeks. The
heavy snows have stranded over hundreds of thousands of people
in Kashmir.....
.....Monday dawned with bitter
cold in much of central Quebec, Canada. At Lac Benoit, for
example, the early morning low was -48 degrees. Near Manouane,
-46 degrees was registered early Monday, and the -43 degrees
registered at Bonnard was a full 30 degrees below average.....
.....Heavy snowfall in
Indian-controlled Kashmir has claimed more than 100 lives, and
dozens were still missing Monday, the BBC reported. The snow
created avalanches over villages south of Srinagar, destroying
homes and killing about 70 people. Indian soldiers and medical
personnel were searching for survivors Monday in the region,
where 15 feet of snow has fallen since Friday.....
.....Snow this week has once
again whitened northernmost Africa. In Algeria, the city of
Constantine lay under seven inches of snow early Wednesday. A
few weeks ago the same region was hit with 24-26" of the white
stuff.....
.....In far northern Norway,
the town of Kautokeino set consecutive lows of -27 and -26
degrees Monday and Tuesday. These were followed by afternoon
highs of -12 and -10 degrees. In February, an average day here
would have a low of 0 and a high of 13 degrees, so the weather
has been considerably colder than usual.....
.....An impressive cold wave
persisted over much of the Balkan Peninsula Friday. Night-times
this week have been especially frigid over the region owing to
clear skies, light winds and, in many places, a thick snow
cover. In Serbia, Sjenica registered consecutive lows of -17,
-21, -21, -19 and -20 degrees F. Monday through Friday whereas
February's mean daily low is 23. Bitola, Macedonia, dipped 11 to
14 degrees below zero each of these five mornings.....
.....Cold rains and mountain
snows fell early this week along the eastern shores of the
Mediterranean Sea. The latest bout of wet weather boosted
rainfall at Beirut, Lebanon, to about six inches since the start
of the month. Snow fell low enough to blanket ground down to at
least 1000 feet, thereby whitening the hills from Lebanon south
into Israel and the West Bank, and also to Amman, Jordan.....
.....Northwestern Canada's Yukon Territory has been much colder
than usual so far this February. The first six days of the month
in Dawson, for example, registered a minus-40-degree average
temperature with this mark 28 degrees below the mean. Tuesday to
Wednesday were even colder than usual in northwestern Canada's
Yukon Territory. Wednesday, the temperature dipped to -55
degrees in Old Crow and -52 degrees in Dawson; these marks were
25-30 degrees below average for early February. Earlier in the
season the same region was struck with -60 to -65 deg. below
zero F temperatures.....
.....The weather has waxed
wild over southeastern Australia early this week. It began hot
(it is mid summer, after all), but cooled
dramatically following a strong cold front Tuesday into
Wednesday. Take Melbourne, where Tuesday saw 99 degrees early in
the afternoon. Thereafter, rainy southerly winds ushered in a
chill that held temperatures between 45 and 50 degrees right
through the day Wednesday. Rainfall was 2.9 inches as of
Wednesday evening. The shift in temperature was even more
striking inland: Griffith, New South Wales, reached a blistering
107 degrees Tuesday yet, at the same time Wednesday, the
temperature was only in the lower 50s! Melbourne is on the same
latitude as Washington, DC. This is a tremendous cold
anomaly.....
.....Over eastern Argentina
and southwestern Uruguay, a late-week blast of mid-summer heat
clashing with a strong cold front sparked widespread torrential
rains powered by thunderstorms. Two-day rainfall was 6.4 inches
at Dolores, Argentina, and at least 6.3 inches at Carrasco, near
Montevideo, Uruguay. Rainfall was 3-5 inches over greater Buenos
Aires, Argentina, where Monday morning was chilly and windswept
55 degrees with 45-mph gusts. Elsewhere in Argentina, rains
behind the strong cold front made Sundays an unusually cool
afternoon at Neuquen: the high was 59 degrees versus an average
high of 89.....
.....The 4-12" of snow that
fell in Corpus Christi and Victoria, TX a few days ago occurred
on the same latitude as the Tampa Bay area. Snow and sleet
eventually also fell all across the Gulf Coast to north
Florida.....
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