Avalanches Block Roads In China (again); Snow Clips The Northeast--But Its Just "Weather Whiplash"; Anchorage At 111 Inches; + Europe Forecast A Very Snowy End To February
"The snowfall season is expected to decrease across Alaska, with snowpack decreasing by 20–90% in Southern and Western Alaska due to increasing temperatures."
Avalanches Block Roads In China (again)
Across China, snow has been the theme since late-January with at least 35 locales breaking all-time depth records. After a brief reprieve, many regions are back on high alert with yet more snowstorms expected this week.
Avalanches have been numerous, particularly across the country's northern reaches.
Slips continue to block key roads in the far-west Xinjiang region after heavy snow triggered avalanches near the Kanas area of the Altay mountains, which border Kazakhstan, Russia and Mongolia. On Sunday and Monday alone, 13 avalanches were noted on highways, according to the area's management committee.
"Snow is still falling in the Kanas scenic area and the risk of avalanches along the roads is extremely high," the committee said in a statement. "Traffic police will continue to implement traffic control on all road sections in the area."
The deepest avalanche was 5 m (16.4 ft), with the widest spanning 1 km (0.62 miles).
Looking ahead, the committee has warned that the extreme wintry weather will persist until early next week, with another half a meter of snow expected to fall between Wednesday and Friday, followed by strong winds.
Temperatures are forecast to tank to below -40C (-40F) Thursday to Sunday.
The National Meteorological Center has urged authorities in northern Xinjiang to put safety measures in place.
"Due to recent frequent snowfall and deep accumulation of snow, it is recommended that traffic safety management be strengthened and to guard against natural disasters such as falling ice and melting snow in mountainous areas, and avalanches," the center said.
Last month, residents along with more than 1,000 tourists were stranded in a village for 10 days after a road leading to Kanas was hit by avalanches following days of heavy snowfall. It took the army to rescue them. Since then, 35 all-time snow record have been broken across the country, even in the central/southern provinces of Hunan and Jiangxi...
Snow Clips The Northeast
Heavy snow, high winds and biting cold hit New York on Tuesday, but "weather whiplashes" are becoming more frequent with climate change, so say the 'experts'.
Millions braced for snow Tuesday as front shifted up the East Coast, dropping inches from Philadelphia to Boston.
New Yorkers were reeling as the sudden onslaught covered the city with 3+ inches, its biggest snowfall in over two years, conditions that arrived hot on the heels of an unseasonably warm weekend.
Rather than attributing this swing to natural fluctuations, or more specifically to the prolonged bout of low solar activity we're enduring, today's agenda-driving, human-hating useful idiots have been directed to tie this week's plunging thermometers to global warming—or "weather whiplash" more precisely, aka 'swings between extremes' (theirs is catchier, I'll give them that).
As the businessinsider.com recently spewed:
These episodes of erratic weather can wreak havoc on infrastructure, disrupt travel, and can even be deadly. For example, the “Texas Freeze” of February 2021, which suddenly sunk temperatures after a streak of above-average warmth, killed 246 people.
(It was actually 700 people, at least).
More recently, in January, Montana saw a 94-degree temperature swing in the span of just 15 days, and Minnesota plunged into a deep freeze mid-month after experiencing record-breaking warm temperatures in December, continues businessinsider.com.
Winter storm Lorraine is the latest event in this growing trend, which experts say is driven largely by global climate change.
The bought-and-paid-for outlet goes on to blame a warming Arctic for the Northeast's frigid Monday and Tuesday — that old 'polar amplification' chestnut your granddaddy told you about but that has long since been debunked.
"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)".
—This is the polar amplification theory according to NASA, but it is easily dismantled.
For starters, polar amplification isn't occurring in Antarctica. While the southern jet stream is indeed weakening akin to its northern cousins, the Antarctic continent is COOLING, not warming. Logic points to a different mechanism (likely the sun).
For a more detailed take-down, click HERE.
Today's climate scientists are molding real world observations to fit their original global boiling theory, and they don't even try to hide it: "There’s another influence that we didn’t consider as recently as a decade ago: the way that climate change is occurring can influence the behavior of the polar vortex," said Judah Cohen, a climatologist at MIT.
Ten years ago???
Poverty-inducing policies were implement across Western economies some 20 years ago, and now 'climate experts' are admitting that they didn't have the full picture, that key knowledge was missing? Ten years ago the science was settled, so we were told, to question it was heresy, and what it confidently proclaimed was: rising global temperatures will make weather more erratic in every season except for winter ... rising global temperatures will create milder winters with fewer storms: "the end of snow".
Since that proclamation, the frequency and intensity of Arctic Outbreaks (or 'polar vortexes') has increased and total snow mass has been piling up across the Northern Hemisphere. In order to stay relevant, The Narrative has gone through some major revisions: Even during global warming, spells of record-cold are expected to increase. A decade-or-so ago, AGW proponents would have scoffed at this fallacy, but now they're collectively buying it up, as cultists do -- and not because it makes sense, but because there is literally no other way to explain the increasing descensions of polar cold into northern hemisphere land masses.
"Adapting to this new normal presents a unique challenge, as the erratic nature of whiplash weather makes it difficult to predict, which adds to the threat it poses to ecosystems, infrastructure, and human health," said Jennifer Francis, an atmospheric scientist at Woodwell Climate Research Center, hopping aboard the polar amplification bandwagon.
"After a long dry spell, a sudden flip to heavy precipitation may catch people and communities unprepared," Francis added. "Unless we can quickly and drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions, we'll see a very distinct increase in weather whiplash events in decades to come."
These sCiEnTiStS are useful idiots of the highest order; the lowest of the low. They push baseless, anti-human rhetoric because they either can't join simple dots together, have no spine, or are knowingly committing fraud in order the maintain their position/paycheck — or all three. History will remember them as such, so long as folk like us are permitted a hand in its writing.
There is no 'whiplash' when it comes to 'total northern hemisphere snow mass', just consistent postings year after year above the 1982-2012 average:
Anchorage At 111 Inches
Alaska's historically snowy season is persisting — another real world observation jarring with CAGW fantasies.
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