Spring snows in Argentina

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Strange spring snows in Argentina

Ski enthusiasts in Alberta happy with early snows

http://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/banff-and-lake-louise-getting-an-early-dose-of-winter-weather-today

Significant snows had fallen in the Banff area especially 32cm were reported. This area of Alberta doesn’t see snow that heavy this early at all. They do occasionally get dustings…this is much more than that

Ten year hiatus in Arctic Sea Ice extent loss

http://www.thegwpf.com/a-ten-year-hiatus-in-arctic-ice-decline/

That’s right it’s been 10 years since we have had a significant drop in Arctic Sea Ice extent numbers….and yet we live in a warming world according to NASA and NOAA lol. The anomalous year in the past decade of course is 2012 which the warmists blame on heat and NOT ARCTIC STORMS, the real cause for the ice drop

 

 

Samoans in disbelief after hailstorm hits Samoa

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/19/samoa-hit-by-hail-storm-so-rare-residents-thought-it-was-a-hoax

Everybody knows ice doesn’t fall in the tropics right, tell that to the citizens of Samoa. That’s right SAMOA, the average September temperature in Samoa is roughly 29C. This an extremely rare occurrence that may become more commonplace due to the atmospheric changes from a weakening magnetosphere and the grand solar minimum.

Twin Cities Potential Floods

ErikaMartin, MBA, Meteorologist

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There is potential for some major flooding tonight in the Twin Cities as a low pressure system could dump heavy rains on Minneapolis and St. Paul. Twin Cities could see 2 to 4 inches of rain. Widespread rains from 1 to 3 inches and could be even higher amounts through Thursday. 2 to 4 inches could fall in SE MN and West Central Wisconsin. Flash flooding is the main concern and river flooding as well. Please heed the warnings as they will come in and mind the safety precautions. Be safe! ~Nicholas

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Arctic Plateau Continues

Of course if you mention a recovery to a warmists they are like looking for 1980s numbers immediately… never mind extent is a million sq kilometers above the bottom and that refreezing happened this year 4 days sooner than average

Science Matters

A year ago MASIE results showed clearly that the decline of ice prior to 2007 had stabilized and increased a bit.  The graph below displays the plateau of annual average ice extents based on October 1 to September 30.  In 2 weeks we can add 2016 and see how the trend changes.

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The monthly average extent for September is the climate statistic, since daily reports vary greatly due to weather, ice movements and darkening conditions, just some of the factors making it difficult to measure anything in the Arctic.

Halfway through September, we can compare extents for day 260, the average day for annual minimums. The table below shows MASIE extents in M km2 on day 260 for significant years in the last decade.

Arctic Regions20072012201420152016
Central Arctic Sea2.672.642.982.932.92
BCE0.50.311.380.890.52
Greenland & CAA0.560.410.550.460.45
Bits & Pieces0.32

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Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 259 – 2016

Well alarmists say there is no recovery, sure it’s crap compared to previous decades. I can’t debate that since 1979 right now the ice looks like pure crap. However when I speak of recovery I’m comparing the ice to 2012 really, that’s the bottom. So roughly a 30% increase above the bottom in a so called warming world that is a big big deal.

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Day 259 isn’t particularly significant except for the math.

In 2012 arctic sea ice was 3.378 million sq km. In 2016 it is 4.378 million sq km.

Exactly 1,000,000 sq km difference.

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South / North

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Discrepancy in NSIDC press release vs. data puts turning point for end of Arctic ice melt 3 days earlier

Watts Up With That?

Yesterday, as covered by WUWT, NSIDC announced that Arctic sea ice melt had turned the corner on September 10th with a value of 4.14 million square kilometers:

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Source: http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2016/09/2016-ties-with-2007-for-second-lowest-arctic-sea-ice-minimum/

XMETMAN writes of his discovery of a discrepancy between what NSIDC announced yesterday, and what their data actually says. I’ve confirmed his findings by downloading the data myself and it sure seems that the minimum was on September 7th, and not the 10th:

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Source: ftp://sidads.colorado.edu/DATASETS/NOAA/G02135/north/daily/data/NH_seaice_extent_nrt_v2.csv

He says on his blog:

The Arctic sea ice looks to have reached its minimum on the 7th September, which is four days earlier than average. The sea ice extent bottomed out at 4.083 million square kilometres making it the second lowest since records started in 1978 – well that’s according to the data file that I’ve just downloaded!

Strangely, according to the data that I download from the National Snow and Ice Data Center [NSIDC] the minimum occurred…

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