Phillips said some parts of the country are seeing
snowfall amounts that have outpaced last year’s record
and near-record totals at this point in the season.
Britain is shivering, too:
After the
coldest start to December for more than 30 years, and
with snowfall seen in many parts of Britain as early as
October, the bookmakers could reap the dividends after taking
a record number of bets on a white Christmas.
Britain’s Snowboard Club hasn’t seen such snow
in Europe in years:
It’s now ten weeks since the first heavy snowfalls
were reported in the Alps and the snow is continuing to
come down by the bucket load in many areas. http://www.skiinfo.com
reports that apart from the duration of the snowfall obviously
setting ski resorts up for a memorable season, what’s
also unusual is that almost all of the world’s major
ski regions have received well above average pre-season
snowfall, usually one area will do better than another.
However
this time almost everywhere has above average snow.
In Australia, the sodden Bureau of Meteorology can’t
find the drought Kevin Rudd keeps talking about:
Above
to very much above average November 2008 rainfall over
much of Australia largely cleared short-term rainfall deficiencies…
For the 9-month period from March to November 2008, above
to very much above average rainfall during November has
resulted in a general easing of short-term rainfall deficiencies…
Rainfall deficiencies for the 18-month period from June
2007 to November 2008 have also eased over large areas...
In Beijing they’re freezing:
Winter truly arrived in Beijing yesterday with the
highest temperature of the day down to minus 8.8 ℃. Media
reports say it was “the coldest
day in December in the last 57 years.”
They moaned about global warming, but now they’re
moaning even more about the cold:
Bone-numbing
cold spread Monday from the (US) Midwest to the East,
forcing millions to bundle up and scurry from place to place.
Snowfall in northern New England topped 40 inches in one
town, and travel remained disrupted as the days ticked town
toward Christmas.
“It’s so cold, it feels like needles are
pricking my eyes,” grumbled 19-year-old Ashley Sarpong
of Chicago, a fur-lined hood pulled around her face Sunday.
“This is the coldest I’ve felt all year.”
UPDATE
Dr Martin Hertzberg, a physical chemist and retired Navy
meteorologist, sums up the climate - both intellectual and
physical:
As a scientist and lifelong liberal Democrat, I find
the constant regurgitation of the anecdotal, fear-mongering
clap-trap about human-caused global warming to be a disservice
to science...From the El Nino year of 1998 until Jan., 2007,
the average temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere
near its surface decreased
some 0.25 C. From Jan. 2007 until the spring of 2008,
it dropped a whopping 0.75 C.
