Coldest Yukon Temp Since 1984; Indore, India Sets 10-Year Low; Heavy Snow Set For South Korea; WMO Confirms Weak La Niña Likely; + Climate Policy Built On A Meaningless Number
Today's $100 trillion climate boondoggle is anchored to a number that doesn’t exist.
Coldest Yukon Temp Since 1984
Braeburn crashed to a low of -53C (-63.4F) on Wednesday, Yukon’s coldest December temperature in more than 40 years.
You have to go back to 1984, when Watson Lake hit -53.3C, to find a lower December reading.
The wider region is deep in the same Arctic reservoir.
Beaver Creek, Champagne, Faro, Mayo, Nursery, and Tuchitua have all posted lows between -47C and -49C (-52.6F to -56.2F). Whitehorse has fallen to -40C (-40F), its earliest -40C since 2006 and, excluding that outlier year, since 1995.
This is exceptional early-season cold, even by Yukon standards.
A pool this cold, this entrenched, rarely stays put. The pattern is primed to drive further outbreaks south as winter tightens.
Looking ahead, a fresh pulse of stratospheric warming is again weakening the 10 hPa westerlies (i.e. vortex disruption):
Updates to follow...
Indore, India Sets 10-Year Low
India has turned markedly colder.
Indore dropped to 5.4C (41.7F) early Wednesday — its lowest December minimum in a decade, besting the 5.7C (42.3F) mark set just two days earlier. Nearby stations also plunged, with Kalyanpur down to 3C (37.4F) and four others below 6C (42.8F).
The chill is holding.
