Global Extreme Weather Log
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- Created on 11 August 2020
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WEEKLY GLOBAL EXTREMES
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This page provides a weekly log of unique weather events and information that summarizes some key events of note. Most of the extreme notes are from Electroverse Extreme Weather daily updates.
For clips of these events see my Global Weather Album: Global Weather 2020-2021.
Global Weather Album 2020-2021: https://photos.app.goo.gl/bLyGGEv6oK6f7q9N8
Global Weather Album Spring 2021: https://photos.app.goo.gl/AXJDAGeKLrkcvLvM8
Global Weather Album Fall-Winter 2021-22: https://photos.app.goo.gl/7Vha3C3tKzmdDNyp7
Global Weather Album Winter 2022-23: https://photos.app.goo.gl/yMZB2gDoTbqLZzdQA
Global Weather Album Summer 2023: https://photos.app.goo.gl/rBprNqGzNmHBodKy8
Global Weather Album Fall - Winter 2023: https://photos.app.goo.gl/ZtfEjJRJ14eKVKpw6
Global Weather Album Winter 2024: https://photos.app.goo.gl/DdoiQp1TL7DGMC1B7
The purpose of these Global Extreme Weather Logs is to educate and inform you about Mother Nature’s way of keeping a balance in our planet’s weather. I provide examples of events that may not be reported elsewhere and physical explanations of the causes of these extremes. Note: I do not focus on heat as the MSM covers that aspect of our climate variability..
28 April 2025
From the High Sierra to New England’s Appalachians record and near record snow continued to amount this week. The wavy jet brought warm and cold sectors with their heavy rains, severe weather and snow at high elevations. “For the first time in 25 years, California has achieved a “snowpack trifecta,” or three consecutive years of average or above-average snowfall. Before the last trifecta in the 2000, the previous one was back in 1980.
Although winter began unusually dry this year, late-season storms dramatically boosted the Sierra Nevada pack, promising a robust water supply for the third consecutive year. This turnaround comes directly after California’s driest period on record, from 2020 to 2022.”
Europe from Norway and Iceland to the French and Swiss Alps picked up more spring snows as a deep 300 mb trough brought cola air south. Iceland’s cold and snow has cut it’s crop production significantly. “Iceland’s potato harvest suffered greatly in 2024, with just 5,514 tons produced—the lowest yield in over 30 years, according to Statistics Iceland.
The sharp decline was due to an abnormally cold and wet summer: low temperatures, above-average precipitation, and a lingering snowpack kept soils cold and saturated—disastrous for potato crops.”
Asia has warmed as a ridge of high pressure brought a southerly flow.
A large volcano on Kamchatka erupted producing ash and dust up to 36,000 ft disrupting air travel.
The Southern Hemisphere continued to cool as deep 929 to 960 mb storms circled the Antarctic bringing 1-2 m snows. Australia and New Zealand had measurable snows with NZ reaching 80 cm today.
Back in 2011, my CSU professor and expert hurricane forecaster, “a veteran meteorologist Bill Gray lit a match and tossed it straight at the leadership of the American Meteorological Society (AMS). What he called then a “downward path” has since become a nosedive.
Gray wasn’t just upset — he was furious. After more than 50 years inside the AMS, he saw it morph from a bastion of scientific inquiry into a puppet for climate alarmism. He called it what it was: hijacking.”
Polar Vortex collapses:
Climate Change Weekly # 536 — Budget-Busting Climate Provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act Must Go
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My albums provide detailed satellite, model, and other analyses that document the weekly weather of interest.
New Winter 2024-25 Album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/dptScrC2ePBxJdVJ9
FALL ALBUM: https://photos.app.goo.gl/cMYFVJgHcNTsSaBRA
Summer 2024 album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/egYrzbhS53gNoa5JA
THE FOLLOWING TABLES show the observed temperatures at key points from Greenland to Vostok and the ECMWF 10-day snowfall forecasts at key points around the world where glaciers may be receding or growing.
OBSERVED TEMPERATURES and ECMWF 10-DAY SNOWFALL FORECASTS:
See: https://photos.app.goo.gl/D4FSQPjmzrAwbS2q9
You can see the magnitude of the storms on windy.com and in NOAA’s GOES satellite imagery: https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/fulldisk_band.php?sat=G18&band=GEOCOLOR&length=12
Temperature anomalies are tracked on:
tropicaltidbits.com
see: https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/models/?model=gfs®ion=us&pkg=T2ma&runtime=2024021212&fh=6
The windy.com wave map shows the deep storms:
see: https://www.windy.com/-Waves-waves?waves,67.842,-1.230,3,i:pressure
Check out the albums below for detailed charts, satellite images, and observations:
Fall - Winter 2023:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/ZtfEjJRJ14eKVKpw6
Winter 2024: https://photos.app.goo.gl/DdoiQp1TL7DGMC1B7
Summer 2024 album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/egYrzbhS53gNoa5JA
Previous notes of interest:
The La Niña has formed as of 6/19/24. It continues to evolve with a 70% chance of fully developing by November 2024 according to NOAA’s latest 9/21/24 forecast. The latest SST analysis on 01/27/25 has a complex La Niña/El Niño pattern… The weekly SST anomaly on 27 January showed warming off Ecuador with cooling from 120 to180º W. This warming continued this week of 12 April. See the albums.
Dr. Valentina Zharkova, a solar expert from the Ukraine, talks about the sun’s impact on the el Niño in her interview below. She reviews the Grand Solar Minimum and solar system impacts on climate variability.
Valentina Zharkova’s interview at the end of this link provides a comprehensive review of the GSM physics from an expert in this field. Dr. Zharkova reviews the physics, mathematics, and relationships of solar cycles, orbital mechanics, magnetosphere impacts, volcano cycles, and el Nino cycles related to the earth’s inclination…
https://electroverse.info/coldest-may-80n-greenland-gains-warmer-in-the-past-zharkova-interview/
Her primary web site: https://solargsm.com/
Last week a major Antarctic cold front moved northward over Australia triggering heavy rains up to Alice Springs. Monthly cold records were set in March. Note: Jennifer Marohasy discusses Australian forecasts and observations every week.
JENNIFER MAROHASY’s latest: https://jennifermarohasy.com/2024/01/cyclone-jasper-bom-forecasting-getting-to-the-truth/
Note: 2023 was the first time since 1987 when Australia’s mountains had snow on the ground all year. The mean February temperature was 0.2ºC below normal making the summer mean temp 0.5ºC below normal. New Zealand continues to increase snows over the South Island with 1-2 m and heavy rain at low elevations on the West coast 57-260 mm. Note: October 25-30, 2023 the interior of Australia had satellite surface temperatures from 10 to 31ºC - spring was here with a few cool highs..
https://www.windy.com/-New-snow-snowAccu?snowAccu,next10d,-66.653,-60.776,4,i:pressure,m:NPaelA
For those interested in understanding the current weather, I have documented events in the Albums showing model, satellite, radar, images.
Electroverse provides an excellent source of extremes not reported in the MSM:
Latest Extremes: 2 April 2025
Iceland’s Potato Harvest Hit By Cold, Wet; Pacific Cooling; Massive Coronal Hole; Canadian Politics Ditches Climate Hype In Search For Votes; + Big Oil Is No Longer Western
April 22, 2025 Cap Allon
Iceland’s Potato Harvest Hit By Cold, Wet
Iceland’s potato harvest suffered greatly in 2024, with just 5,514 tons produced—the lowest yield in over 30 years, according to Statistics Iceland.
The sharp decline was due to an abnormally cold and wet summer: low temperatures, above-average precipitation, and a lingering snowpack kept soils cold and saturated—disastrous for potato crops.
Spuds need warm, well-drained soils—ideally 15–21C (60–70F)—to form healthy tubers. But in much of northern Iceland, fields stayed waterlogged and cold into mid-summer. Some potatoes couldn’t be planted at all; others saw weak emergence and poor yields.
Consistently low temperatures also hammered carrots, turnips, and grains.
With Iceland’s short growing season and limited farmland, even a single bad summer can wreak havoc on food production and farm incomes. The recent failures highlight how vulnerable northern farming systems are to the COLD TIMES.
Particularly for marginal climates like Iceland’s, a cold, wet summer is enough to devastate harvests.
Pacific Cooling
Over the past few weeks, sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in the Eastern Tropical Pacific have tanked by up to 10C. The most extreme cooling has been observed along the equator, particularly off the coasts of Peru and Ecuador.
This rapid change marks the swift retreat of the Coastal El Niño that had dominated the region.
In just three weeks, warm equatorial waters—closely tied to El Niño conditions—have been replaced by significantly cooler anomalies, a signal that the El Niño event may be rapidly collapsing. I’m not calling that one just yet though—the thin near-surface layer of water is highly susceptible to wind driven changes.
If this abrupt SST cooling continues, however, it will likely have broad implications. The Eastern Pacific plays a crucial role in global weather patterns, including hurricane activity, rainfall distribution, and even food security due to its impact on marine ecosystems and fisheries.
As hinted above, the disappearance of the warm pool off South America could indicate the beginning of a transition to neutral or even La Niña conditions in the coming months, just as scientists at NOAA et al had announced El Niño was on the way.
I will be watching closely to see if this surprise cooling trend continues. Is this La Niña reforming?
Massive Coronal Hole
A massive coronal hole—nearly a million kilometers wide—has opened in the sun’s southern hemisphere and is now facing Earth.
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the dark region, where magnetic fields have pulled apart, allowing high-speed solar wind to escape.
This solar wind is driving a co-rotating interaction region (CIR), expected to hit Earth on April 22. As the fast-moving wind catches up with slower streams, it creates shock waves and magnetic disturbances similar to a CME.
G2-class geomagnetic storms are likely, potentially disrupting power grids and satellite systems, interfering with GPS and radio signals, and bringing auroras farther south than usual.
Canadian Politics Ditches Climate Hype In Search For Votes
Climate change isn’t driving Canada’s election this time around. Voters are being told to focus on real issues instead: inflation, energy, housing. The ‘environment ‘climate crisis’ has dropped off the agenda, at least for now.
Both leading candidates are now supporting fossil fuels. Liberal PM Mark Carney—still a globalist shill but one desperate for election—scrapped the carbon tax as his first move. Conservatives under Pierre Poilievre want to kill the industrial carbon tax and also ramp up oil and gas production.
In 2021, both parties pushed green policies and net-zero laws. That consensus is gone. People are tired of paying more for heat and fuel in the name of vague climate goals.
Polls show Canadians care more about affordability and energy security than emissions. Geopolitics have made one thing clear as day: controlling your own oil and gas matters more than catering to a noisy minority possessed by Marxist ideals.
Activists at the BBC et al are very angry, but the public has moved on.
Green promises are being replaced by energy policies that actually work. The country’s emissions targets are off track, but no one is surprised, and only a that noisy minority seem care.
Climate panic is fading. Fossil fuels are coming back to the West — hopefully…
Big Oil Is No Longer Western
Walmart and Amazon might top the Fortune Global 500 list in 2024, but look just a few rungs down and a clearer picture of the world emerges: China, Saudi Arabia, and Russia are now the true giants of energy.
State Grid (China) ranks third. Saudi Aramco is fourth. Sinopec Group. Fifth. And China National Petroleum is right behind them at number six. Not a single American or European oil major in sight.
Energy dominance is no longer Western. The physical foundation of geopolitical power—oil and energy—is now held by a multipolar axis: mainly China, Russia, and Saudi Arabia.
Energy is power—and the West, due to political interference, has been hellbent on relinquishing it in recent decades by reducing, criminalizing, and ultimately eliminate its fossil fuel use.
Cheap and reliable energy is the backbone of human prosperity.
Globalist financiers are fighting national energy industries because energy is the most profitable and consequential resource on Earth—one they must control or suppress to maintain power.
Bumper Snowpack For New England; Late-Season Storm Hits Saskatchewan; UK Government to Fund Sun-Dimming Experiments; Sense; + The NEEM Project
April 23, 2025 Cap Allon
Bumper Snowpack For New England
Owing to an exceptionally snowy winter, New England ski resorts are riding an extended spring season, with several mountains planning to stay open well into May.
Jay Peak in Vermont has seen 470 inches (39.17 feet) of snowfall this season—over 120 inches above its seasonal average. That total makes it the second-snowiest year on record for the resort, just behind 2016–2017.
With 9 inches of fresh snow in the past week alone, Jay Peak will remain fully open through April 27, and at least one lift is expected to keep turning into May.
Likewise, Stowe is staying open until April 27, while Sugarbush plans to welcome skiers into the first weekend of May.
“It’s very impressive for mid-April in the East,” said AccuWeather ski expert Lincoln Riddle. “Anytime an East Coast resort stays open this late, it’s worth celebrating.”
In Maine, Sugarloaf and Sunday River continue operating, aiming to push through the end of April.
Killington Resort, well-known for the longest ski season in the East, is forecasting “skiing and riding deep into May” according to its April 22 mountain report.
Even smaller mountains are getting in on the action. Black Mountain in New Hampshire has extended its season to May 3.
The mountains across New England are seeing one of the longest and healthiest seasons in recent memory.
Late-Season Storm Hits Saskatchewan
Eyeing north, a significant late-season snowstorm is sweeping across eastern Saskatchewan, with 20 cm (inches) of wet, heavy snow expected by Wednesday morning in areas along the Manitoba border.
Environment Canada has issued a snowfall warning for a broad stretch from south of Moosomin to north of Yorkton. The heaviest snow is expected in elevated terrain, with poor visibility and hazardous driving conditions anticipated.
The unseasonable blast of winter is being driven by a strong low pressure system that moved through southern Saskatchewan, bringing snow to Swift Current, Moose Jaw, and Regina — not a particularly unusual setup even in late-April, but the snow totals could prove noteworthy.
Authorities have urged residents to avoid travel on Tuesday if possible, as conditions will be treacherous.
Elsewhere in the province, temperatures will remain below normal Tuesday, with some areas hovering near freezing at 0C (32F).
UK Government to Fund Sun-Dimming Experiments
The UK government is about to greenlight experiments to dim the Sun. Under the banner of fighting cLiMaTe ChAnGe, scientists will soon begin testing ways to block sunlight from reaching Earth.
The plan comes from ARIA, the government’s research and invention agency, which says outdoor trials could start within weeks. Techniques on the table include spraying aerosols into the atmosphere and manipulating clouds to reflect sunlight.
This isn’t harmless research, it is direct interference with the planet’s climate systems. Once you start messing with sunlight you start messing with a lot: gambling with weather patterns, food production, and ecosystems, with unforeseen consequences.
It’s reckless. It’s arrogant. And it’s being done without public debate—as with most damning policies—to a taxpayer bill of £50 million.
Bought politicians and activist scientists think Earth is a machine with knobs and dials. In reality though, we only recognize a few controls—such as cloud cover and sunlight—but barely understand how they interact, especially over time.
This is reckless. It isn’t a ‘climate solution’. It’s a dumb, dangerous experiment.
Sense
While the UK government has lost its marbles, agencies across the Atlantic are thankfully returning to reality.
Directly from the horses mouth (Chris Wright, United States Secretary of Energy):
Impressive CA Snowpack; Spring Snow For Sask; Bill Gray Was Right: The AMS Was Hijacked; + What if We’d Quit Oil And Gas In The 1970s?
April 24, 2025 Cap Allon
Impressive CA Snowpack
For the first time in 25 years, California has achieved a “snowpack trifecta,” or three consecutive years of average or above-average snowfall. Before the last trifecta in the 2000, the previous one was back in 1980.
Although winter began unusually dry this year, late-season storms dramatically boosted the Sierra Nevada pack, promising a robust water supply for the third consecutive year. This turnaround comes directly after California’s driest period on record, from 2020 to 2022.
Demetri Polyzos, of the Metropolitan Water District: “The conservation ethic here in California is alive and well. Those habits people picked up during recent droughts continue today and remain critical to ensuring our water reliability.”
Mother Nature seeks balance, always.
Spring Snow For Sask
Southeast Saskatchewan has been hit by heavy spring snow, with many northern areas experienced significant, winter-like snowfall, unusual for late spring.
Environment Canada Meteorologist Justin Shelley: “Broadview recorded roughly 32 cm (12.6 inches) of accumulated snow. Moose Valley reported over 30 cm (11.8 inches), and Esterhazy had nearly 38 cm (14.9 inches) on the ground.”
The heaviest snowfall concentrated near the Trans-Canada Highway east of Regina, creating challenging travel conditions.
Bill Gray Was Right: The AMS Was Hijacked
Back in 2011, veteran meteorologist Bill Gray lit a match and tossed it straight at the leadership of the American Meteorological Society (AMS). What he called then a “downward path” has since become a nosedive.
Gray wasn’t just upset — he was furious. After more than 50 years inside the AMS, he saw it morph from a bastion of scientific inquiry into a puppet for climate alarmism. He called it what it was: hijacking.
“We believe that humans are having little or no significant influence on the global climate,” Gray wrote in an open letter. But the AMS didn’t care. It pushed ahead with aggressive advocacy for the Anthropogenic Global Warming hypothesis, leaving behind any pretense of scientific neutrality. “The AMS is following more of a political than a scientific agenda,” Gray warned. That was 2011. It’s only gotten worse.
Founded in 1919, the AMS was once the central pillar of weather and climate science in the United States. It shaped policy. It trained generations of meteorologists. It issued position statements that carried real weight in both academia and government. Its influence reached from TV weather stations to federal climate panels. That credibility is exactly why its fall mattered.
Gray saw the rot up close. “The strong positive image is now becoming tarnished,” he wrote. The AMS leadership had “capitulated to the lobby of the climate modelers and to the outside environmental and political pressure groups.” These groups weren’t interested in truth — they were pushing narratives. And AMS leadership folded.
He named names. AMS Executive Director Keith Seitter and the Council, Gray wrote, had failed to show the “scientific maturity and wisdom” expected of them. They aligned themselves with shaky models, exaggerated IPCC reports, and political pressure — not evidence. “This small organized group of AGW sympathizers has indeed hijacked our society,” Gray declared.
Meteorology today is cluttered with broken predictions, politicized funding, and performative panic. Many of the same GCMs Gray blasted for being wildly inaccurate still shape global policy. And the AMS? Still churning out consensus statements, still pretending to represent “the science,” and still ignoring the growing number of dissenters among its own ranks.
Gray’s 2011 letter wasn’t just a warning. It was a postmortem — for the AMS, and for meteorology’s reputation. His anger was justified. His predictions were accurate. And the silence from today’s meteorological establishment is damning.
What if We’d Quit Oil And Gas In The 1970s?
A recent article in Nature tries to pin ‘heat wave damages’ on individual fossil fuel companies, glossing over the actual economic contribution of those fuels
Analysis conducted by Grok 3 shows oil and gas added $1,875 trillion to global GDP from 1970 to 2025—about 75% of total growth. Even the low-end estimate comes out at $1,500 trillion. That benefit has already been paid for, many many times over.
The analysis then imagined a world where oil and gas peaked in 1970 and collapsed to just 10% by 1985. In this alternate timeline, GDP is drastically reduced — a 30–50% cut, wiping out $1,500–2,000 trillion in global wealth.
Energy shortages cripple industry and transport. The likes of coal can’t pick up the slack fast enough. By 2025, the world’s GDP is just $20–40 trillion—not $109 trillion. That’s a global depression.
Electricity rationed
Billions affected by energy poverty
Widespread famine, political instability
Mass migration and regime collapses
Global population is shown to be some 2–3 billion lower in this scenario. Technological innovation stalls, it didn’t even happen in many cases. Renewables, still nascent in the ’70s, never scale. EVs and ‘clean tech’ remain pipe dreams.
No oil and gas doesn’t mean a climate utopia, it means more coal burning. And no oil, gas or coal means crippling COLD winters with no way for humanity to warm itself. This brings its own devastation…
Health costs: $10–20 trillion
Agriculture losses: $0.9–2.5 trillion
Energy + transport hits: $0.6–1.8 trillion
Pinatubo-style cooling events: Add $1.9–4.0 trillion in recessionary costs
Total cold-driven economic loss is estimated at $11.5–24.3 trillion from 1970 to 2000. Long-term? That shaves $3–6 trillion more off global GDP through 2025.
Bottom Line
Without fossil fuels, humanity is returned to the dark ages. Poverty soars. Life expectancy plunges. Our modern lives of abundance, prosperity, and comparatively good health were made possible by fossil fuels. End of. You remove them and everybody suffers, billions die.
Additionally, global warming activists need to stop confusing pollution with atmospheric CO2. It’s tiring. To put this into wording your average caterwauler will understand: plastic in the oceans = bad — CO2 in the atmosphere = good.
All the available data point to additional carbon dioxide in the atmosphere having a net benefit, ultimately via a greening of the planet and so increased biodiversity.
Bezymianny Volcano Erupts; CO2 And Climate: A 600-Million-Year Reality Check; The Cult Is Cracking; + Climate Control: Rising Costs And Lost Freedoms
April 25, 2025 Cap Allon
Bezymianny Volcano Erupts
Russia’s Bezymianny Volcano is in full explosive activity, blanketing multiple villages in ash and forcing aviation authorities to issue warnings.
The Tokyo Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC) reported a continuous ash plume reaching 11,000 meters (36,000 feet), moving east at 15 knots. Satellite imagery confirms ongoing emissions, with ash forecast to drift over a vast area across Kamchatka and beyond in the next 18 hours.
This marks the volcano’s fifth ash emission in 24 hours.
Bezymianny, located roughly 40 km from Klyuchi and 350 km from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, is among Kamchatka’s most volatile volcanoes. Activity includes block-and-ash flows and intense thermal anomalies tracked by KVERT (Kamchatka Volcanic Eruption Response Team).
Authorities and airlines are closely monitoring developments, adjusting flight paths and urging public caution.
CO2 And Climate: A 600-Million-Year Reality Check
Over the last 600 million years, Earth’s CO2 levels and temperatures have fluctuated massively:
CO2 was once over 5,000 ppm. Temperatures were far higher. Life didn’t collapse—the opposite in fact, it flourished. The Cambrian explosion, the rise of dinosaurs, and the appearance of mammals all happened when CO2 and temps were far beyond today’s levels.
At around 420 ppm, today’s levels are at the low end historically. And the planet has had polar ice caps, as it does now, for only a small fraction of its existence. Claims of imminent doom ignore deep time and real data.
The correlation between CO2 and temperature? It’s inconsistent. There are long stretches where CO2 drops and temps rise, or vice versa. Climate is complex. Panic is simplistic.
The Cult Is Cracking
As you have likely heard, Facebook is ditching its partisan “fact-checkers” and shifting toward Community Notes — a crowdsourced system that gives ordinary users a voice. The activist-scientist class is not amused.
Enter Andrew Dessler, a climate crusader from Texas A&M, who’s fuming over the loss of control. His complaint? Science and facts are being “debated” by the public. “They aren’t up for debate,” Dessler sniffed. “Not everybody’s opinion is equal on that.”
Translation: sit down, shut up, and let the experts decide what you’re allowed to think.
Activists like Dessler—and there are many of them—seek a centralized narrative for him and his peers to enforce. These are the same people who claim to be pro-science, yet act in a way that is antithetical to it. Their entire worldview collapses if regular citizens are allowed to speak. If the climate emergency were real and obvious, it wouldn’t require censorship and constant media reinforcement to survive. People would be able to recognize a climate crisis on their own. There would be no debate.
The Climatariat know their climate narrative is fragile, which is why free speech is considered an enemy. This whole ‘climate crisis’ charade was never about science — it was about power. And now that power is slipping. Cue the tantrums.
Climate Control: Rising Costs And Lost Freedoms
‘Climate change’ isn’t just a scientific theory—it’s the cornerstone of a global campaign to reshape the world’s economic and political systems. The message: obey, sacrifice, and suffer—for the planet. Behind the slogans are even dark intentions: the green agenda is being used to systematically dismantle the middle class, concentrate control, and redefine freedom itself.
For centuries, access to cheap, reliable energy has driven human progress and prosperity. Strip that away, and you revert society to pre-industrial struggle.
In the last few years, energy costs have skyrocketed, not from scarcity, but from deliberate policy. Natural gas prices in Europe surged more than 600% between 2021 and 2022. In the UK, average household energy bills doubled in under 18 months, with millions pushed toward energy poverty.
As noted, this wasn’t a market failure—it was entirely policy-driven. Governments shut down coal plants, strangled oil exploration, and made fossil fuels politically toxic. Meanwhile, “renewables” failed to scale, and storage tech lagged behind the fantasy.
The pretext is carbon emissions. But if the goal were truly sustainability, why ban nuclear—one of the cleanest and most efficient energy sources? France, once a nuclear powerhouse, has been forced to restart coal plants. Germany shut its last nuclear reactors in 2023, and now imports coal-generated electricity. It makes no sense—unless the goal isn’t clean energy. It’s control.
The architects of this shift aren’t hiding.
The WEF’s Klaus Schwab spent decades pushing for a “Great Reset”—a restructured world order where you will “own nothing and be happy.” Though shady Schwab has now been forced to step down, the agenda will no doubt roll on under a new generation of unelected technocrats. Their vision is a managed society, not a free one — that is a desire too tempting to ever relinquish.
Central banks, multilateral institutions, and corporate titans now openly coordinate policy—from ESG investing to “climate disclosure frameworks”—all in sync with a narrative that justifies technocratic rule.
Power has shifted away from elected governments to global institutions. The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, and BlackRock operate above national accountability. They influence currencies, dictate climate policy, and steer investment. BlackRock alone manages over $10 trillion—more than the GDP of most countries.
The UN’s Agenda 2030 and Paris Agreement aren’t simply treaties—they are binding frameworks reshaping domestic laws. Countries no longer make independent decisions—they implement international directives.
We are all paying the price. Rising food costs from fertilizer bans. Crippling energy bills. Restrictions on travel. Even meat consumption is under attack. All while private jets shuttle elites to climate summits where they further restrict our future.
By turning energy into a scarce, premium product, the ruling class are tightening its grip. Prosperity is rationed. Mobility is controlled. Independence comes at great cost, unaffordable to most. The ‘climate agenda’ is not about stopping a catastrophe—it is the catastrophe, carefully staged to justify mass regulation, data surveillance, and the erosion of national sovereignty.
It’s not about saving the Earth. It’s about owning it—and everything on it.
They want us cold, broke, and obedient.
Wildfire CO2 Emissions Continue to Fall; Atlantic’s Largest Year-On-Year Cooling On Record; Rapid Arctic Sea Ice Growth; + NASA’s Gavin Schmidt Caught “Spreading Lies” to Protect “IPCC’s Orthodoxy”
April 28, 2025 Cap Allon
Wildfire CO2 Emissions Continue to Fall
According to the latest figures from the Global Wildfire Information System (2025), global CO2 emissions from wildfires have been steadily declining for over two decades.
In 2003, wildfires released more than 6 billion tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere. By 2024, that number had dropped to around 4 billion tonnes — a massive decrease that completely undercuts the crisis narrative.
The United States is near its lowest wildfire emissions in twenty years. Brazil, often cited in sensationalist Amazon fire headlines, shows a massive decline since the mid-2000s. Indonesia too, also used as a symbol of environmental devastation, has sharply reduced its wildfire output since its 2015 peak.
Localized spikes still occur — such as Canada’s 2023 fires and Greece’s 2007 event — but they are outliers, not trends. Globally, wildfires are burning less land, releasing less carbon, and becoming less destructive.
Satellite fire counts back this up, showing a steady decline in global burned area since 2003.
None of this fits the runaway disaster story, so it’s buried. The crisis industry thrives on selective memory.
Atlantic’s Largest Year-On-Year Cooling On Record
The Atlantic’s Main Development Region (MDR) —the critical hurricane zone— is now about 2C cooler than it was this time last year.
In 2023-24, ocean temperatures briefly spiked. Panic spread fast. Climate pundits rushed to declare a “tipping point,” a runaway heating event, the end of the stable Atlantic as we know it.
It’s now 2025 though, and that burst of warmth has collapsed. Fast. The 2C cooling in the MDR observed from April 2024 to April 2025 is the largest year-on-year decrease on record (since ERA5 began in 1940).
The initial warming spike was caused by natural factors: an El Niño, unusually weak trade winds, and reduced Saharan dust are the leading culprits. Some researchers also point to the 2022 Hunga Tonga volcanic eruption, which blasted huge amounts of water vapor into the stratosphere — an effect that may have temporarily warmed parts of the atmosphere and ocean.
None of it was permanent. None of it was a “tipping point.” Nature, as always, snapped back.
The 2025 Atlantic cooling is sharp and significant, and could see hurricane development face limits this coming season.
Rapid Arctic Sea Ice Growth
Fresh data from 2025 shows rapid Arctic Sea Ice growth, with both extent and area stubbornly refusing to cooperate with decades of alarmist predictions.
The latest chart reveals Arctic ice extent and area at their highest levels in a decade. Far from the predicted “ice-free Arctic by 2013/2016/2020” nonsense pushed by lapdog media outlets, the reality is clear: Arctic ice is proving inconveniently resilient.
There is no runaway melting.
Meanwhile, climate establishment mouthpieces continue to gaslight the public with cherry-picked anecdotes and model-based fairy tales, hoping no one actually looks at the charts.
NASA’s Gavin Schmidt Caught “Spreading Lies” to Protect “IPCC’s Orthodoxy”
Another climate activist posing as a scientist has been exposed.
Gavin Schmidt, Director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), has been caught spreading blatant misinformation to discredit peer-reviewed research that challenges mainstream climate narratives.
According to a detailed exposé, Schmidt falsely claimed that a recent study relied on a “single outlier” and was “plagiarized.” Worse, Schmidt was parroted by major outlets like AFP, showing how entrenched media allies work to silence dissent rather than engage with inconvenient evidence.
The paper, led by AI model Grok 3 (cited here), draws on a broad and well-documented evidence base — directly contradicting Schmidt’s smears.
https://x.com/cohler/status/1903188524888887344/photo/1
It found that:
Human CO2 (just 4% of the carbon cycle) sinks into oceans and forests in 3-4 years—not centuries like the IPCC claims.
2) Temperature leads CO2, not the reverse—think 800-year ice core lags and 2020’s lockdown “no-blip” at Mauna Loa.
3) IPCC models exaggerate warming (0.5C/decade vs. reality’s 0.13C).
4) Solar activity and natural cycles steal the show.
The situation echoes the ongoing disgrace of Michael Mann, who was recently found liable in court for misleading claims tied to his infamous “hockey stick” graph. Now Schmidt, another high-profile climate figure, is caught engaging in the same pattern: distort, discredit, and deflect whenever data threatens the IPCC’s crumbling narrative.
“This is an assault on science,” said the research team behind the paper. “Schmidt must answer for it.”
21 April 2025
Another week of old fashioned spring weather in the US. From snow storms to severe weather and flooding across the country we had a set of extremes. Ski areas in the West enjoyed near record breaking snow depths for April and totals for the year. From Texas to Ohio frontal thunderstorms produced damaging winds, hail and flooding as two systems move east to the coast.
Europe also had a late winter with over a meter of snow in Spain and in the Alps, closing some areas due to avalanche danger. Turkey had significant damage due to cold temperatures that froze early buds. “Agriculture Minister Ibrahim Yumakli compared the crop losses to the catastrophic 2014 frosts, saying, “Turkey is once again facing a massive agricultural blow from freezing weather conditions.” The Alps continued to have late season record snowfalls of 1-2 meters. Eastern Russia had fierce blizzards.
Asia continued to have relatively extreme cold from Mongolia to Korea.
“The National Meteorological Center (NMC) renewed orange alerts for gale-force winds and blizzards, with blue alerts for sandstorms and severe convective weather. A yellow alert for blizzards remains in effect as snow blankets Inner Mongolia and the northeastern provinces.” Northern India had record snows as the Hindukush picked up 0.5-1.5 m. North of Miramar the 4000+ m mountains also had heavy snows of 1.5-1.8 m.
“Spring in Seoul has been abruptly halted by snow. The city recorded its first mid-April snowfall since 1907, turning streets of cherry blossoms into scenes of winter. Sunday morning saw the arrival of a unseasonable cold front, tanking temperatures in Seoul to 1.1C (34F).
Southern Hemisphere storms continued in the Southern Ocean as the jet stream intensified with 150 to 180 kt winds. “Antarctica remains locked in an ever-intensifying freeze, notably at the Dome C region and the Ross Ice Shelf.
Following a string of sub -70C (-94F) days earlier in the month, on April 14, Concordia Station recorded a low of -77.1C (-106.8F) which made for the sixth straight day below -75C (-103F).
On April 12, Concordia hit -78C (108.4F)–the continent’s second-lowest temperature ever recorded during the first half of April, tying with the Plateau Station’s reading on April 11, 1968, though not quite besting Vostok’s -78.8C (-109.8F) from April 13, 1998.
Antarctica is cooling; the home to 90% of the planet’s freshwater is freezing — sea level rise is the concern of the uninformed.” Today, a huge deep 925 mb storm extended from the Thwaites Glacier to Southern Chile dumping heavy snows of 1-2 m on the coastal mountains as winter intensifies with howling blizzards of 67 kt winds along the coast.
Polar Vortex collapses:
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My albums provide detailed satellite, model, and other analyses that document the weekly weather of interest.
New Winter 2024-25 Album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/dptScrC2ePBxJdVJ9
FALL ALBUM: https://photos.app.goo.gl/cMYFVJgHcNTsSaBRA
Summer 2024 album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/egYrzbhS53gNoa5JA
THE FOLLOWING TABLES show the observed temperatures at key points from Greenland to Vostok and the ECMWF 10-day snowfall forecasts at key points around the world where glaciers may be receding or growing.
OBSERVED TEMPERATURES and ECMWF 10-DAY SNOWFALL FORECASTS:
See: https://photos.app.goo.gl/D4FSQPjmzrAwbS2q9
You can see the magnitude of the storms on windy.com and in NOAA’s GOES satellite imagery: https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/fulldisk_band.php?sat=G18&band=GEOCOLOR&length=12
Temperature anomalies are tracked on:
tropicaltidbits.com
see: https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/models/?model=gfs®ion=us&pkg=T2ma&runtime=2024021212&fh=6
The windy.com wave map shows the deep storms:
see: https://www.windy.com/-Waves-waves?waves,67.842,-1.230,3,i:pressure
Check out the albums below for detailed charts, satellite images, and observations:
Fall - Winter 2023:
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Summer 2024 album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/egYrzbhS53gNoa5JA
Previous notes of interest:
The La Niña has formed as of 6/19/24. It continues to evolve with a 70% chance of fully developing by November 2024 according to NOAA’s latest 9/21/24 forecast. The latest SST analysis on 01/27/25 has a complex La Niña/El Niño pattern… The weekly SST anomaly on 27 January showed warming off Ecuador with cooling from 120 to180º W. This warming continued this week of 12 April. See the albums.
Dr. Valentina Zharkova, a solar expert from the Ukraine, talks about the sun’s impact on the el Niño in her interview below. She reviews the Grand Solar Minimum and solar system impacts on climate variability.
Valentina Zharkova’s interview at the end of this link provides a comprehensive review of the GSM physics from an expert in this field. Dr. Zharkova reviews the physics, mathematics, and relationships of solar cycles, orbital mechanics, magnetosphere impacts, volcano cycles, and el Nino cycles related to the earth’s inclination…
https://electroverse.info/coldest-may-80n-greenland-gains-warmer-in-the-past-zharkova-interview/
Her primary web site: https://solargsm.com/
Last week a major Antarctic cold front moved northward over Australia triggering heavy rains up to Alice Springs. Monthly cold records were set in March. Note: Jennifer Marohasy discusses Australian forecasts and observations every week.
JENNIFER MAROHASY’s latest: https://jennifermarohasy.com/2024/01/cyclone-jasper-bom-forecasting-getting-to-the-truth/
Note: 2023 was the first time since 1987 when Australia’s mountains had snow on the ground all year. The mean February temperature was 0.2ºC below normal making the summer mean temp 0.5ºC below normal. New Zealand continues to increase snows over the South Island with 1-2 m and heavy rain at low elevations on the West coast 57-260 mm. Note: October 25-30, 2023 the interior of Australia had satellite surface temperatures from 10 to 31ºC - spring was here with a few cool highs..
https://www.windy.com/-New-snow-snowAccu?snowAccu,next10d,-66.653,-60.776,4,i:pressure,m:NPaelA
For those interested in understanding the current weather, I have documented events in the Albums showing model, satellite, radar, images.
Electroverse provides an excellent source of extremes not reported in the MSM:
Latest Extremes: 21 April 2025
Turkey’s Crops Crippled By Deep Freeze; Cold Snap Persists In South Korea; China Blizzards; + The Met Office And NOAA: Fabricating The Climate One Ghost Station At A Time
April 15, 2025 Cap Allon
Turkey’s Crops Crippled By Deep Freeze
Turkey is facing a deepening agricultural crisis after record cold temperatures, as low as -15C (5F) swept the country — the coldest spring temps in over 30 years. The freeze is devastating crops, and has triggered urgent government action to action.
For more than a month now, a sustained bought of cold and delivered widespread frost and snowfall.
Agriculture Minister Ibrahim Yumakli compared the crop losses to the catastrophic 2014 frosts, saying, “Turkey is once again facing a massive agricultural blow from freezing weather conditions.”
Fruit orchards, vineyards, and key field crops have all suffered. Apricots, walnuts, potatoes, and onions are among the worst affected. In response, some farmers, for instance, are using sprinklers to coat apple trees in ice—a method to insulate buds.
The eastern region of Malatya, known for apricots, is on high alert. In 2014, frost destroyed up to 80% of its apricot harvest. With similar damage feared this year, the impact could ripple through both domestic markets and export channels. In an early intervention, the Turkish Ministry of Trade banned lemon exports starting April 8, aiming to stabilize local supply.
Cold Snap Persists In South Korea
Mid-April is feeling more like mid-winter across much of South Korea, with biting cold and heavy snow setting in.
The Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) has in place heavy snow warnings for the mountainous regions of Gangwon Province, as well as for Gyeryong in South Chungcheong and Gurye in South Jeolla.
Snowfall persisted into the early hours of April 15, with disruptive accumulations noted over the Gangwon highlands. Gyeryong and Gurye registered additional inches, the snow cover juxtaposed against spring blossoms—a rare scene.
Morning temperatures on Tuesday remained well below normal, and the KMA warns of icy roads and poor visibility.
China Blizzards
Likewise in China, particularly the northeast, unseasonal lows and snows continue to cause disruptions here and all.
Heavy snow is persisting in the Changbai Mountain region of Jilin, forcing the closure of scenic areas and stranding tourists. Liaoning also, with accumulations impacting cities like Shenyang.
Spring has been put on hold, with even lower-lying areas around Changbai dropping to -10C (14F), with Shenyang seeing -5C (23F). These are readings some 15C below seasonal norms.
The cold snap was driven by a powerful Mongolian ‘cold vortex’ that brought wind gusts up to 150 km/h (93 mph), grounding flights and shuttering Beijing. The wind speeds have surpassed April records going back to 1951.
And while spring snow isn’t unheard of in northern China, widespread sub-zero conditions this deep into April are rare.
Antarctica’s Sixth Day of Sub -75C (-103F)
Antarctica remains locked in an ever-intensifying freeze, notably at the Dome C region and the Ross Ice Shelf.
Following a string of sub -70C (-94F) days earlier in the month, on April 14, Concordia Station recorded a low of -77.1C (-106.8F) which made for the sixth straight day below -75C (-103F).
On April 12, Concordia hit -78C (108.4F)–the continent’s second-lowest temperature ever recorded during the first half of April, tying with the Plateau Station’s reading on April 11, 1968, though not quite besting Vostok’s -78.8C (-109.8F) from April 13, 1998.
Antarctica is cooling; the home to 90% of the planet’s freshwater is freezing — sea level rise is the concern of the uninformed.
The Met Office And NOAA: Fabricating The Climate One Ghost Station At A Time
The UK Met Office claims that Newton Rigg, near Penrith in Cumbria, is still an open weather station contributing to the national climate record. There’s just one problem: Newton Rigg closed in 2021. And yet, in March, official MO data listed an average high of 11.5C (53F) and a low of 3C (37F), with 23mm of rainfall—all entirely made up.
This isn’t an isolated case. Newton Rigg is just one of seven ghost stations—nearly 20% of the Met Office’s own “historic” database of 37 supposedly active weather stations—that are either closed or never existed in the first place.
The Met Office’s excuse? These are “estimates” derived from “well-correlated neighboring stations.” That sounds scientific—until you realize that in some cases, like in Norwich, the “neighboring” data sources also don’t exist.
This entire farce is being passed off as rigorous science while fueling Net Zero propaganda. Temperature figures are being tortured into submission by algorithms, then repackaged as precise to one-hundredth of a degree—all while 80% of UK stations are so badly located that they carry uncertainties of 2C to 5C.
It’s no wonder the Met Office earned a spot in the viral Fake News Awards for “literally making up 103 fake temperature sites.” Their prize? Public ridicule and eroding trust in science.
But this is a global rot.
The same scandal is playing out across the Atlantic and all. NOAA has also been caught relying on ‘ghost stations’—shuttered, missing, or fictional stations still feeding “data” into the U.S. climate narrative, as exposed by John Shewchuk on X.
Corrupted government agencies like the Met Office and NOAA are rewriting the past to control the future.
It’s propaganda: fear-driven obedience-seeking.
Rare April Snow Blankets Portugal’s Peaks; Solid Snow Year Across U.S. Resorts; Look At China; + EPA Investigates ‘Make Sunsets’
April 16, 2025 Cap Allon
Rare April Snow Blankets Portugal’s Peaks
Looking to my neck of the woods, rare April snow has forced the closure of several mountain road sections in Portugal’s Serra da Estrela region.
According to the authorities, three sections of the key road (Piornos–Torre, Torre–Torre, and Portela do Arão–Torre) have been closed since due to accumulating snow. As of now, there is no estimate for when the roads will reopen.
While Serra da Estrela experiences snow during the winter months, April snow is uncommon, particularly mid-April snow at 800 meters. Historical data indicates that snow occurs in April only 12% of the time at elevations above 1,400 meters (4,,600 feet).
In addition to snow, the Portuguese Institute of the Sea and Atmosphere anticipates a further drop in temperature across the interior, along with the formation of frost and ice in northeastern areas of Trás-os-Montes and Beira Alta.
Solid Snow Year Across U.S. Resorts
This winter delivered across U.S. ski resorts, with snow totals surpassing seasonal averages and five resorts blowing past the 500-inch mark.
Below are the top five snowiest ski resorts in the country this season…
#5 – Snowbird, UT – 506″ (Average: ~500″)
Snowbird is no stranger to deep winters, typically averaging around 500 inches of Utah’s famously light powder. This year, the resort edged above average with 506 inches — just enough to land it in the top five.
Photo: Snowbird Facebook
#4 – Timberline, OR – 518″ (Average: ~400″)
Timberline, perched on Mount Hood, has seen totals ride well above average this season. With 518 inches, the resort crushed its typical 400-inch seasonal norm, thanks to consistent Pacific Northwest storms.
3 – Alta, UT – 522″ (About Average)
Alta is a powder mecca that usually sees north of 500 inches a season. This year came in average, with enough to dominate most resorts in the country.
#2 – Mount Baker, WA – 580″ (Average: ~660″)
Mount Baker holds the world record at over 1,100 inches in a single season. Its average is around 660 inches, so this year’s 580 inches, while still massive, actually falls a little shy of the norm.
#1 – Alyeska Resort, AK – 721″ (Average: ~500″)
Alyeska ran away with it this year. A typical seasonal averaging 500 inches, making the 721 inches received in 2024-25 exceptional. Just 10 days after surpassing the 600-inch mark, another powerful storm has fired Alyeska’s total past 700″.
Honorable Mention – Jay Peak, VT – 461″ (Average: ~350″)
Looking to the East Coast, Jay Peak broke into the national top ten this season with a whopping 461 inches, well above its usual 350-inch average. The resort consistently pulled in lake-effect snow all season.
Look At China
The UK’s elite-serving government are seemingly hellbent on running the country into the ground…
The plans to spend £3 trillion to reach net zero give a benefit-to-cost ratio of effectively zero. National Grid ESO reports the massive cost, but the global emissions impact remains negligible. Look at China. Look at China. Look at China.
“The UK could drop off the map and have no impact on atmospheric CO2 levels,” writes Tony Heller.
Given humanity’s reliance on fossil fuels, a nation’s CO2 emissions can be directly linked to its growth and prosperity.
This is outright economic war, but the West has been duped into laying down its arms.
EPA Investigates ‘Make Sunsets’
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has launched an investigation into Make Sunsets, a climate startup that has sparked outrage for injecting sulfur dioxide — a known pollutant — directly into the sky so as to “cool the planet.”
The company then has the audacity to sell “cooling credits” for its unregulated actions.
In a formal letter dated April 14, 2025, the the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) made clear it is evaluating whether Make Sunsets’ operations violate the Clean Air Act by actively degrading air quality.
The letter demands the company provide detailed information about its activities within 30 days or face penalties.
But public patience is already be wearing thin.
EPA administrator Lee Zeldin minced no words on X:
“Make Sunsets is a startup that is geoengineering by injecting sulfur dioxide into the sky and then selling ‘cooling credits.’ This company is polluting the air we breathe. I’ve instructed my team that we need to quickly get to the bottom of this and take immediate action.”
Investigative journalist Lara Logan was even more blunt:
“These bastards should be in jail.”
This isn’t innovation — it’s environmental recklessness disguised as climate action. Not only is this extreme step completely unnecessary, it is potentially dangerous. Releasing it intentionally into the atmosphere has human health impacts — all for profit.
Moreover, Make Sunsets isn’t operating in a lab or under strict scientific oversight. It’s firing sulfur into the stratosphere with zero regulatory approval, environmental review, or public consent.
The EPA’s letter may be the first formal step toward reigning in a company whose business model amounts to pollution for sale.
Ireland’s Peaks Dusted; Rare April Snow Damages Orchards In Iran; Accumulations For The Northeast; + Historic Late-Season Snowstorms Bury The Alps
April 17, 2025 Cap Allon
Ireland’s Peaks Dusted
Snowfall was reported in parts of Ireland on Wednesday morning, with flurries spotted in Wexford and Wicklow. The rare April snow for the higher elevations comes as heavy rain continues to sweep the lower.
Met Éireann issued a Yellow rain warning for Dublin, Louth, Meath, Wexford and Wicklow. While the UK Met Office has warnings in place for Antrim, Armagh, Derry, Down and Tyrone.
The sudden cold blast has brought a sharp contrast to earlier spring conditions. Temperatures dropped below freezing overnight Wednesday.
More unsettled weather is expected heading into the Easter weekend.
Rare April Snow Damages Orchards In Iran
On April 16, heavy snow blanketed Mahneshan County in Iran’s Zanjan Province, just as trees had begun their blossom.
The snows began late on Tuesday and persisted through the following day, covering much of the province and raising concerns about damage to local orchards.
April snow in Zanjan Province is rare, averaging just 2.4 inches—usually falling in the first half of the month. This week’s accumulations are a clear break from those norms, with totals reportedly nearing a foot in some parts.
Earlier this year, Iran faced widespread school and office closures across 25 provinces due to severe winter storms, including in Zanjan. The recurrence of extreme conditions so late into spring serves is an unwelcome one—especially for agriculture, which remains a cornerstone of daily life in this part of the country.
As snow continues to fall in some areas, local authorities and farmers are working to assess the full extent of the damage.
Accumulations For The U.S Northeast
Parts of the Northeast experienced significant snows on April 16, delaying spring’s onset.
Western New York woke to snow Wednesday morning — in Gates, a suburb west of Rochester, for one. April snow here is uncommon, though not unprecedented. The latest recorded accumulating in Rochester was actually on May 19.
The Finger Lakes area also reported snow showers throughout the day, with temperatures hovering in the mid-30s. Strong northwest winds contributed to the chill.
Beyond New York, other states in the Northeast, including New Jersey, Connecticut, Vermont, Maine, and Massachusetts, experienced snowfall. Some areas reported accumulations exceeding 9 inches—a notable amount for mid-April.
The West
As of April 17, a significant late-season snowstorm is impacting the Rocky Mountains, bringing high winds and substantial snowfall to the region. Winter Storm Watches and Winter Weather Advisories are in effect for Montana, Wyoming, and Utah.
Denver is expected to see snowflakes by Thursday evening, with accumulating snow possible by Friday. While Fort Collins, Colorado, will receive a much-needed rain/snow mix starting today, with snow continuing through April 19.
Salt Lake City, Utah, is forecast to experience snows as the storm progresses, with the storm’s reach extending as far as the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in New Mexico and the San Francisco Peaks of Arizona by Friday.
The highest elevations of Montana could end up with 2 feet of fresh snow with this spring storm.
As the storm moves into the Plains by Saturday afternoon, residents are advised to stay informed and prepared.
Historic Late-Season Snowstorms Bury The Alps
This morning (April 17), heavy snow has buried Val d’Isère, a renowned ski resort in the French Alps, near the Italian border. Almost a meter (3.3 feet) settled here overnight, with the avalanche risk raised to 3 out of 5.
The influx has led to the closure of all 37 lifts and 79 pistes in Val d’Isère. And while clearer skies are expected over the weekend, skiers are advised to exercise caution given the elevated avalanche risk, especially when considering off-piste activities.
Such heavy snows, even in these high-elevated parts, are considered exceptional for the time of year.
Historically, Val d’Isère averages 61 cm (2 ft) in the month of April, with the largest single-day snowfall coming in a around 50 cm (1.64 ft). The recent accumulation of a meter has made for one of the most substantial April snowfalls in recent memory.
Looking around, this mid-April pounding is part of a broader weather system impacting the southern Alps.
Resorts such as Tignes, Val Thorens, and Chamonix are also experiencing significant accumulations. And looking ahead, forecasts suggest that up to 50 cm of additional snow could fall in over the Alps by Easter.
The snow was completely unforecasted.
Resort managers said “not even the most optimistic forecasts” saw it coming — a rare event this deep into spring.
Despite closing, Baqueira reopened this week with 54 runs and 28 lifts in operation. If conditions hold, more could be open across Baqueira, Beret, and Bonaigua.
Masella, in the Catalan Pyrenees, has extend its season to April 27 following the fresh snow. From the 2,535-meter (8,317-foot) Tosa peak down to the 1,600-meter (5,250-foot) base, the entire resort remains open.
Alps Slammed By More Late-Season Snow
A powerful snowstorm is continuing to hammer the Alps, delivering the heaviest snowfall of the entire 2024-25 season — and possibly one of the most significant late-season dumps on record.
While the timing is unfortunate —with most of Alpine ski resorts already closed for the season— the storm is so intense that many of the resorts still open have been forced to shut lifts, slopes, and access roads anyway.
Avalanche risk has surged to the maximum Level 5 in parts of the Western Alps.
Heavy Spring Snow Hits Northern Spain; Alps Slammed By More Late-Season Snow; 100% Losses In Southern Ukraine; + New Study Finds Antarctica Glacier Growth
April 18, 2025 Cap Allon
Heavy Spring Snow Hits Northern Spain
Baqueira Beret ski resort in Catalonia, northern Spain was hit with a surprise 40 cm (16 inches) of snow just days before Easter.
Alps Slammed By More Late-Season Snow
A powerful snowstorm is continuing to hammer the Alps, delivering the heaviest snowfall of the entire 2024-25 season — and possibly one of the most significant late-season dumps on record.
While the timing is unfortunate —with most of Alpine ski resorts already closed for the season— the storm is so intense that many of the resorts still open have been forced to shut lifts, slopes, and access roads anyway.
Avalanche risk has surged to the maximum Level 5 in parts of the Western Alps.
Official snowfall figures are still coming in, but what’s already confirmed is exceptional.
Switzerland’s Verbier reported 75 cm (30″), but the heaviest totals so far appear to be in France: Tignes posted 105 cm (3.5 ft), Val d’Isère topped that with 1.2m (4 feet), Les Menuires and Chamonix both posted a meter, with La Plagne just shy with 95 cm — all in just 24 hours.
While in Italy, the likes of La Thuile are recording totals of 60 cm (2 feet), with snow depths peaking at a whopping 314 cm (10.3 ft) at Passo del Moro in the Monte Rosa massif:
Due to the extreme avalanche conditions, many ski areas are either entirely closed or operating with strict limitations. Authorities are strongly urging skiers to stay strictly on open, patrolled terrain — no off-piste skiing under any circumstances.
Once conditions stabilize, this will set the stage for some spectacular late-season skiing over the Easter weekend. More importantly though, the deepening snowpack offers a welcome boost to water reserves as the region heads into the summer.
100% Losses In Southern Ukraine
The unseasonal spring frosts to sweep Ukraine have devastated stone fruit orchards, particularly in the country’s Mykolaiv region. Here, apricot, cherry, and cherry plum crops have been destroyed, with some farms reporting total losses.
According to Olena Piskun, head of the regional agriculture department, blooming trees were hardest hit, with damage reported across both the north and south of the region.
The annual fruit harvest typically reaches 17,000 tonnes, but this year’s yield may be half that.
Pear losses are estimated at up to 80%, while cherries, peaches, plums, and early-blooming apples also suffered severe damage. Apples in the north, not yet in bloom, were less affected.
Though spring warmth has fortunately ensue, looking ahead, farmers fear additional frost in May.
New Study Finds Antarctica Glacier Growth
From 2021 to 2023, the Antarctic ice sheet gained mass.
Scientists at China’s Tongji University report a gain of 119 million US tons per year and claim the surge slowed global sea level rise.
Four key glaciers in the Wilkes Land region, including Queen Mary Land, such as Totten and Denman, once sold as a the harbingers of imminent sea level disaster, are now gaining mass.
The ice isn’t playing along — and that’s a story worth telling. But the legacy media—if they mention it at all—dismiss it as a mere “snowfall anomaly.”
Never mind that this flies in the face of decades of dire warnings; we’re still being told that “key Antarctic glaciers might collapse” and “send sea levels soaring by 23 feet.”
For over 30 years, we’ve been told catastrophe is “just around the corner,” and that continues to be the line today.
Alps See Record-Breaking Late-Season Snowfall; Arizona Snowbowl Buried; Historic April Snowfall Hits Northern India; Another New Study Confirms The MWP; + Global Sea Ice Uptick
April 21, 2025 Cap Allon
Alps Sees Record-Breaking Late-Season Snowfall
A powerful spring snowstorm has engulfed the Alps, delivering record-breaking snowfall, shutting down resorts, severing transport links, and claiming lives.
At the heart of the storm, Switzerland’s Bortelsee station in the Simplon region has shattered national snowfall records late last week, receiving 89 inches (226 cm) in just 48 hours and 97 inches (247 cm) over three days. This surpasses previous records set in 1999 and 1990.
Across the border in France, the storm turned deadly.
A 27-year-old British man was killed by an avalanche at the entrance to Val Thorens, swept off a roadside and buried under 50 feet (15 meters) of snow. Rescue teams responded rapidly but could not save him; he died in hospital the following day.
Val Thorens received more than 40 inches of snow during the storm. Neighboring Tignes reported 43 inches (110 cm) overnight, prompting full avalanche alerts. Both resorts were effectively shut down, with roads, railways, and the Mont Blanc tunnel closed. Power outages affected thousands, and residents were ordered to remain indoors as the avalanche danger peaked.
Elsewhere, in Italy, three people were killed in Piedmont and Vicenza. While returning to Switzerland, the town of Sion warned all 36,000 residents to stay indoors as authorities faced mounting risks of avalanches, floods, and landslides.
What began as a spring thaw has turned into one of the most intense snow events in Alpine history.
Arizona Snowbowl Buried
Arizona Snowbowl just pulled off a “mid-April miracle,” according to its website, with an impressive 18 inches of fresh snow in just 24 hours.
Thanks to this late-season storm, the season total now stands at a solid 193 inches.
“From top-to-bottom turns in bluebird conditions to sneaky powder stashes in the trees, the conditions are absolutely incredible for skiing & riding this time of year.”
Blizzards Pound Vorkuta, Russia
A blizzard hit Vorkuta on Sunday. Conditions were harsh throughout the day, with visibility reduced and movement around the area limited.
Vorkuta, located in the far north of Russia, often sees fierce conditions well into spring. However, storms of this intensity in late-April are considered rare.
Authorities have advised residents to stay indoors until conditions improve.
Historic April Snowfall Hits Northern India
Kargil in Ladakh, northern India was blanketed by heavy snowfall on Sunday.
Late-April snow is almost unheard of in this region, with local records indicating this is the first time ever schools have been forced to close in April due to snow. Kargil town received more 6 inches, while areas like Khangral saw up to two feet.
The snowfall brought down power lines, damaged property, and triggered red alerts from the Meteorological Department. Travel has been severely affected, with the Kargil-Srinagar and Kargil-Zanskar roads shut due to snow accumulation.
The snow also hit local agriculture hard, particularly apricot orchards in bloom, resulting in significant losses for farmers. Authorities will begin assessing the damage for disaster relief compensation.
Another New Study Confirms The MWP
Here we have more real-world evidence demolishing the politicized claim that the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) was nothing more than a regional blip.
A new study (peer reviewed, if that means anything to anyone), published this month in Communications Earth & Environment, presents physical proof that during the MWP, parts of continental Antarctica were significantly warmer than they are today—so warm, in fact, that leafy moss grew and flowing meltwater carved a 4-kilometer-long erosion channel into what is now a permanently snow-covered glacier.
Ice that hasn’t seen melting in modern times, even under today’s so-called “unprecedented warming,” once hosted flourishing moss and summer melt strong enough to reshape the glacier’s surface.
The research team, led by Emanuele Forte, discovered well-preserved moss remains buried 11 meters (36 feet) deep in the Boulder Clay Glacier. Radiocarbon dating puts the age of the moss between 956 and 1178 years ago—right smack in the middle of the Medieval Warm Period (roughly 900 to 1300 AD). This was followed by substantial glacial erosion and sediment deposition, clearly indicating a period of summer melt intensity far greater than what we see today.
There is a slew of evidence provided, coming from GPR imaging, the ice cores, the stratified sediment layers, and the radiocarbon-dated plant material as evidence.
Note also this crucial statement from the authors:
“Under current climatic conditions… there is no evidence of meltwater on the BCG, and the surface of the glacier is permanently snow-covered. Therefore, the occurrence of an almost ubiquitous glacial unconformity… indicates exceptional climatic conditions in the BCG area.”
Translation: the Medieval Warm Period melted parts of Antarctica that modern warming hasn’t even come close to melting.
Michael Mann and ‘the hockey stick gang should take note’—it’s time to face what proxies, physical evidence, and common sense have been screaming for decades: the Medieval Warm Period was real, global, and warmer than today. No amount of statistical wizardry or Mann-made charts can erase what’s frozen in the Antarctic ice.
Global Sea Ice Uptick
Both Arctic and Antarctic sea ice is on the march this year.
Latest satellite data show Arctic sea ice extent and area have surged compared to the past several years, with 2025 holding incredibly well for the time of year:
Likewise down south, Antarctic sea ice—still sold as a ‘disaster zone’ by the legacy media—is rebounding even harder.
As shown below, the 2025 line is now on par—or ahead—of several prior years and advancing strongly:
Likewise down south, Antarctic sea ice—still sold as a ‘disaster zone’ by the legacy media—is rebounding even harder.
As shown below, the 2025 line is now on par—or ahead—of several prior years and advancing strongly:
Likewise down south, Antarctic sea ice—still sold as a ‘disaster zone’ by the legacy media—is rebounding even harder.
As shown below, the 2025 line is now on par—or ahead—of several prior years and advancing strongly: see album for graphs…
14 April 2025
This week provided two extremes in weather - hot and dry in the West and cold and wet in the East. The jet stream had a strong ridge in the west and deep trough in the East with a Nor’Easter like storm that brought snow to the NE. The jet brought snow along the Canadian boarder as two short waves moved east. Ski resorts from Tahoe (1.2 m) to Sugarloaf (35cm) Colorado even had a dusting of snow on 13 April. “Winter has returned to much of Canada and all, particularly southern Ontario, with Toronto seeing one of its coldest April days on record — a region still struggling from March 30’s ice storm with more than 35,000 customers still without power.”
Eastern Europe had an Arctic blast. “An Arctic air mass has intensified across Eastern Europe, plunging temperatures well below freezing — from the Baltics all the way to the Balkans. Overnight into Wednesday, cities like Alytus in Lithuania bottomed out at -6.6C (20F), while Łódź in central Poland dropped to -6.1C (21F). Even farther south, thermometers sank into the deep negatives: Kyiv hit -3.5C (26F) with Sofia reporting -4.1C (25F).” Greenland had heavy coastal snows that spiked the snow mass balance back up to 8 GT keeping the cumulative snowfall above normal. “Unseasonably snowy weather is persisting in Moscow, with depths in the region now reaching levels seen in January. By April 8, snow depth at VDNKh reached 11 cm (4.3 in)—the same depth recorded on New Year’s Day after a festive overnight snowfall. In central Moscow, 10 cm (3.9 in) as been reported, with 18 cm (7.1 in) hitting the city’s northern districts.”
ECMWF model forecasts consistently predicted significant snows from the High Atlas to the Pyrenees, Alps, and Caucuses over the next 15 days. Several deep short waves are predicted to cross Europe. Greece and Turkey continued to get snows. “Local meteorologists have called this event “one of the most unusual late-season snowfalls in recent memory.” Where April typically brings mild temperatures and blooming landscapes, the mountains have reported lows of -18.6C (1.5F) — a national record, i.e. Greece has never been colder during the month of April.”
“A powerful spring cold front continued to lash northern China over the weekend, driving fierce winds, heavy snow, and plunging temperatures across vast regions.
The National Meteorological Center (NMC) renewed orange alerts for gale-force winds and blizzards, with blue alerts for sandstorms and severe convective weather. A yellow alert for blizzards remains in effect as snow blankets Inner Mongolia and the northeastern provinces.”
“Spring in Seoul has been abruptly halted by snow. The city recorded its first mid-April snowfall since 1907, turning streets of cherry blossoms into scenes of winter. Sunday morning saw the arrival of a unseasonable cold front, tanking temperatures in Seoul to 1.1C (34F), with a wind chill of -2.4C (28F). The Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) reported accumulations in central Jongno District—Seoul’s second-largest April snowfall on record and the first mid-April snow since 1907.”
The Southern Hemisphere continued to have an early winter from New Zealand to the Antarctic as record early fall cold hit the region. “Antarctica is inching closer to it’s deep winter chill. The continent is continuing its historically early start to the cold season with Concordia posting an extreme -77.6C (-107.7F) at 14:44 UTC on April 10. Vostok Station also tanked, reporting -77.2C (-107F) shortly after on April 11 (due to the time zone).” Note: you can see these temperatures in windy.com zooming in to the Antarctic with observed temperatures turned on.
Australia continued to have cooling rains from coast to coast as Antarctic fronts moved north. The Snowy Range also had some light snow.
Polar Vortex collapses:
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My albums provide detailed satellite, model, and other analyses that document the weekly weather of interest.
New Winter 2024-25 Album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/dptScrC2ePBxJdVJ9
FALL ALBUM: https://photos.app.goo.gl/cMYFVJgHcNTsSaBRA
Summer 2024 album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/egYrzbhS53gNoa5JA
THE FOLLOWING TABLES show the observed temperatures at key points from Greenland to Vostok and the ECMWF 10-day snowfall forecasts at key points around the world where glaciers may be receding or growing.
OBSERVED TEMPERATURES and ECMWF 10-DAY SNOWFALL FORECASTS:
See: https://photos.app.goo.gl/D4FSQPjmzrAwbS2q9
You can see the magnitude of the storms on windy.com and in NOAA’s GOES satellite imagery: https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/fulldisk_band.php?sat=G18&band=GEOCOLOR&length=12
Temperature anomalies are tracked on:
tropicaltidbits.com
see: https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/models/?model=gfs®ion=us&pkg=T2ma&runtime=2024021212&fh=6
The windy.com wave map shows the deep storms:
see: https://www.windy.com/-Waves-waves?waves,67.842,-1.230,3,i:pressure
Check out the albums below for detailed charts, satellite images, and observations:
Fall - Winter 2023:
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Winter 2024: https://photos.app.goo.gl/DdoiQp1TL7DGMC1B7
Summer 2024 album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/egYrzbhS53gNoa5JA
Previous notes of interest:
The La Niña has formed as of 6/19/24. It continues to evolve with a 70% chance of fully developing by November 2024 according to NOAA’s latest 9/21/24 forecast. The latest SST analysis on 01/27/25 has a complex La Niña/El Niño pattern… The weekly SST anomaly on 27 January showed warming off Ecuador with cooling from 120 to180º W. This warming continued this week of 12 April. See the albums.
Dr. Valentina Zharkova, a solar expert from the Ukraine, talks about the sun’s impact on the el Niño in her interview below. She reviews the Grand Solar Minimum and solar system impacts on climate variability.
Valentina Zharkova’s interview at the end of this link provides a comprehensive review of the GSM physics from an expert in this field. Dr. Zharkova reviews the physics, mathematics, and relationships of solar cycles, orbital mechanics, magnetosphere impacts, volcano cycles, and el Nino cycles related to the earth’s inclination…
https://electroverse.info/coldest-may-80n-greenland-gains-warmer-in-the-past-zharkova-interview/
Her primary web site: https://solargsm.com/
Last week a major Antarctic cold front moved northward over Australia triggering heavy rains up to Alice Springs. Monthly cold records were set in March. Note: Jennifer Marohasy discusses Australian forecasts and observations every week.
JENNIFER MAROHASY’s latest: https://jennifermarohasy.com/2024/01/cyclone-jasper-bom-forecasting-getting-to-the-truth/
Note: 2023 was the first time since 1987 when Australia’s mountains had snow on the ground all year. The mean February temperature was 0.2ºC below normal making the summer mean temp 0.5ºC below normal. New Zealand continues to increase snows over the South Island with 1-2 m and heavy rain at low elevations on the West coast 57-260 mm. Note: October 25-30, 2023 the interior of Australia had satellite surface temperatures from 10 to 31ºC - spring was here with a few cool highs..
https://www.windy.com/-New-snow-snowAccu?snowAccu,next10d,-66.653,-60.776,4,i:pressure,m:NPaelA
For those interested in understanding the current weather, I have documented events in the Albums showing model, satellite, radar, images.
Electroverse provides an excellent source of extremes not reported in the MSM:
Latest Extremes: 14 April 2025
Snowstorm And Deep Freeze Sweep Bulgaria; Albania Hit; Turkey Blanketed; Greece Digs Out; + Michael Mann Is A Loser
April 8, 2025 Cap Allon
Snowstorm And Deep Freeze Sweep Bulgaria
Heavy snow and freezing temperatures gripped much of Bulgaria on Monday, as an April cold snap disrupted travel and put the country’s fruit harvest at serious risk.
Snowfall was reported over Shipka Pass, where slick, untreated roads and icy patches made driving hazardous, with visibility near at Republic Pass almost zero.
Heavy snow in the Sofia region has also stranded vehicles. On the Struma Motorway, conditions are treacherous, while on the Petrohan Pass drivers have been stuck in deep drifts. Overnight Monday, some 60 snowplows worked Sofia.
In Smolyan, conditions worse. Spring snow in the higher elevations here surpassed 40 cm (16 inches). Deputy Regional Governor Adrian Petrov warned of full winter conditions here, with overnight lows falling to -7C (19F).
In the mountains, a noteworthy -17.6C (0.32F) was reported at Musala Peak.
The April snows even stretched as far as the Black Sea:
The storm hit at a critical time for Bulgaria’s agriculture sector, blanketing blooming fruit trees and threatening pollination.
The cold has kept bees inside their hives and damaged delicate blossoms across much of the country. Peaches, plums, and almonds—already in early bud—have been hit especially hard, along with young seedlings, vineyards, and early vegetables.
The damage follows a February freeze, a brutal drop to -24C (minus 11F), that destroyed out 90% of the country’s northern apricot trees, with later varieties like apples and pears also impacted. Bulgaria may be forced to rely on imported fruit. Many growers, frustrated by limited state support, say they may be forced to abandon or cut down large portions of their orchards.
Looking ahead, conditions are set to remain harsh for the foreseeable. Temperatures could tank further in the mountains, with the unseasonal snows forecast to persist.
Albania Hit
Nearby Albania has also been hit, with heavy accumulation reported across the north, east, and southeast.
The heaviest snows swept the districts of Lezha and Kukës, where 27 snowplows and salt spreaders were deployed. Totals have also impressed along the Elbasan–Qafë Thanë route. While to the south, Zgosht–Ura Cerenec has seen a rare 10 cm (4 inches).
In the Korça region, snow is falling across areas above 500 meters (1,640 feet).
More snow is expected Tuesday. Temperatures will also hold anomalously cold for April, with freezing lows in the mountains.
Turkey Blanketed
Europe’s wave of polar air extended to Turkey and all, sweeping across nearly all 81 provinces, bringing rare April snow, and putting a halt on spring.
Greece Digs Out
Greece is another looking more like December than mid-spring.
The snows began Sunday and intensified into Monday, burying even low-lying areas under thick snow. Neighborhoods such as Hortiatis, Panorama, Retziki, Melissochori, Oreokastro, and several villages in the Lagkadas municipality awoke to a white blanket.
Roads have been closed across Thessaloniki and the surrounding areas following 20 cm (7.9 inches) of snow. The hazardous conditions have also closed several schools in these parts.
Local meteorologists have called this event “one of the most unusual late-season snowfalls in recent memory.”
Where April typically brings mild temperatures and blooming landscapes, the mountains have reported lows of -18.6C (1.5F) — a national record, i.e. Greece has never been colder during the month of April.
Michael Mann Is A Loser
The long-running defamation battle between climate scientist Michael Mann and National Review took another turn late last week, as a Washington, D.C. court denied Mann’s request to delay payment of over $530,000 in legal fees owed to the outlet.
After more than a decade of litigation stemming from a 2012 blog post criticizing his “hockey stick” climate model, the Superior Court ruled this January that Mann must pay up, ordering him to cover National Review‘s costs within 30 days.
Mann sought a stay, which the court has now rejected.
In opposing the payment, Mann described National Review’s request as “mean-spirited” and aimed at silencing him (ironic). But the court found no basis for delaying the judgment.
Judge Albert Irving again pointed to Mann’s legal team presenting misleading information during trial.
Karma.
Moscow Snow Reaches January Levels; Toronto Freezes; Greenland Spikes; + Cold Kills: The Amazon’s Real Climate Threat
April 9, 2025 Cap Allon
Moscow Snow Reaches January Levels
Unseasonably snowy weather is persisting in Moscow, with depths in the region now reaching levels seen in January.
By April 8, snow depth at VDNKh reached 11 cm (4.3 in)—the same depth recorded on New Year’s Day after a festive overnight snowfall. In central Moscow, 10 cm (3.9 in) as been reported, with 18 cm (7.1 in) hitting the city’s northern districts.
The highest accumulation in the surrounding area was in Maloyaroslavets, which logged 21 cm (8.3 in).
The wintry spell has been unusually intense for April, and it is forecast to continue through Wednesday.
Temperatures will hover around 0C (32F). Wind chills will drop the feel to -6C (21F).
Toronto Freezes
Winter has returned to much of Canada and all, particularly southern Ontario, with Toronto seeing one of its coldest April days on record — a region still struggling from March 30’s ice storm with more than 35,000 customers still without power.
Environment Canada issued a winter weather travel advisory Tuesday, warning of settling snow and icy, slippery conditions as a band of lake-effect flakes swept in from Georgian Bay.
The cold was harshest at dawn, with the mercury bottoming out at -6C (21.2F) and wind chills at -15C (5F) — a stark departure from the seasonal average of 10C (50F). Even with some afternoon sunshine, the city struggled to reach 0C (32F).
While historically cold for April, Toronto stopped just shy of setting any new records. The coldest April 8 remains the -10C set in 1972, with the lowest daytime high being the -2.8C (27F) from back in 1926.
Still, Tuesday marked Toronto’s coldest April daytime high in a decade, and among the coldest in 100+ years of data.
Looking ahead, the cold isn’t done. Wednesday morning is expected to start even colder, at -7C (19.4F), with daytime highs remaining well-below seasonal norms for the rest of the week.
Greenland Spikes
The Greenland Ice Sheet is at it again, gaining 8 gigatons on April 8…
Cold Kills: The Amazon’s Real Climate Threat
Researchers Kim Lea Holzmann and Pedro Alonso-Alonso set off for a year-long field study deep in the Peruvian Amazon. They expected to battle heat, humidity, and mosquitoes—not cold. But in June 2023, halfway through their expedition, temperatures dropped from a balmy 23.9C (75F) to a harsh 10.5C (51F), and held there for almost a week.
This wasn’t a freak event either. Between 1980 and 2017, the region recorded 67 such cold waves—sharp plunges in temperature caused by Antarctic air masses pushing north. Despite decades of public messaging warning that the Earth is overheating, here in one of the warmest, most biodiverse places on the planet, cold remains the more immediate and lethal threat.
The two researchers saw an opportunity. They tracked how wildlife responded to the anomalous cold, using camera traps and insect surveys already in place.
Insect activity collapsed almost overnight, they found. Both flying and ground-dwelling species essentially vanished. The rainforest went quiet. And even as the warmth returned many species remained adsent. Dung beetle numbers, for example, remained abnormally low even months later.
The data showed more than just absence. In a controlled lab setting, the team collected insects and slowly cooled them to the conditions similar to that seen in the rainforest. A quarter of the species entered torpor—a state of paralysis.
Mammals were also affected. Camera traps recorded a steep drop in activity as animals likely hunkered down to conserve energy. And while the researchers didn’t collect formal data on birds, reptiles, or amphibians, they noted an eerie stillness. The forest, normally buzzing with life, fell silent. Cold didn’t just inconvenience wildlife—it shut the entire system down.
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0591
Spring Freeze Grips Eastern Europe; Canada’s Record April Cold; Early Winter Across Antarctica; Green Progress?; + MWP
April 10, 2025 Cap Allon
Spring Freeze Grips Eastern Europe
An Arctic air mass has intensified across Eastern Europe, plunging temperatures well below freezing — from the Baltics all the way to the Balkans.
Overnight into Wednesday, cities like Alytus in Lithuania bottomed out at -6.6C (20F), while Łódź in central Poland dropped to -6.1C (21F). Even farther south, thermometers sank into the deep negatives: Kyiv hit -3.5C (26F) with Sofia reporting -4.1C (25F).
The higher elevations have been even colder. Across the Carpathians, Balkan Mountains, and Tatras, temperatures are nearing -20C (-4F) in some valleys and exposed mountain basins, with further drops on the cards over the next 48 hours.
These temperatures are unusual for April — especially in southern Europe. While frost and slippery conditions are expected in Arctic Scandinavia this time of year, they are far less common across central and southeastern Europe.
Such deep cold, combined with late-season snowfall and icy roads, has led to multiple weather warnings.
Europe’s cold spell will linger through the week, holding temperatures well-below average.
Eyeing east, Russia is copping a wintry time of it too, with biting lows and heavy snows hitting many regions. Below is a look at Adygea on April 9:
Canada’s Record April Cold
Winter made a fierce return to much of Canada this week, with a cold blast pushing deep into the likes of Southern Ontario.
On Wednesday morning, Ottawa plunged to -13.5C (7.7F), shattering the previous April 9 record of -11.3C (11.7F) set in 1997. It was one of the coldest April mornings ever recorded in the capital, and the coldest monthly low since 1983.
Ottawa’s norms for this time of year call for overnight lows of 0C (32F).
The city awoke to snow on the ground Wednesday, too, from the 15 cm (5.9 inches) that settled into Tuesday morning. Cleanup crews have been working to clear sidewalks, priority roads, bus routes, and the winter cycling network, with residential streets being monitored and treated as needed.
Although the Arctic air mass is now shifting eastward and gradually moderating, temperatures will remain below seasonal norms for the foreseeable. Spring may be on the calendar, but for now, winter is refusing to let go.
Early Winter Across Antarctica
Antarctica has recorded some of its coldest April temperatures in recent memory.
On April 9, the temperature at Concordia Station plunged to -77.2C (‑107F) at 19:44 UTC. Nearby, the Dome CII Automatic Weather Station reported -75C (‑103F) at 20:58 UTC.
These readings are exceptionally low for April. At Concordia, the average low for the month is around -65.6C (‑86F), with historical record lows hovering around -77.8C (‑108F)—depending on the dataset. That makes the recent -77.2C one of the coldest April temperatures on record. Such temperatures are more typical of midwinter in June or July.
Looking North
Briefly switching poles, Greenland’s SMB impressed again on Wednesday, gaining another 7-or-so gigatons:
Green Progress?
Five workers are dead after a tragic fall during a wind turbine installation project in China, according to a government report citing “chaotic and ineffective” project management. Clean, safe, and forward-thinking?
With this latest incident, the reported human death toll tied to wind turbine construction, maintenance, and operation has now surpassed 300 people in recent years, based on public data compiled by watchdog organizations — people lost to “sustainable” progress.
MWP
The Medieval Warm Period (MWP) is documented through a myriad of global proxies and was acknowledged for decades by even the most obedient, establishment-aligned scientists.
However, the MWP soon ran up against a new agenda—it became an inconvenience. If the Earth was naturally warmer a thousand years ago, without man’s industrial activity, then today’s climate panic starts to look a lot less convincing.
So they erased it.
Michael Mann’s infamous “hockey stick” graph flattened centuries of natural variation into a tidy, misleading narrative. The warm centuries vanished, replaced by a dramatic uptick in the modern era—exactly what the climate establishment required.
Now, anyone who dares mention the Medieval Warm Period is accused of heresy, and those establishment-aligned ‘experts’ claim it never existed, a line the media parrots of course without question. Real science is ignored in favor of bad models and dogma.
Below is an interactive chart that displays decades of evidence proving the MWP existence (click to interact):
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Spring Snow Hits Ukraine; Tenerife Dusted; Iceland Shivers; U.S. Resorts Blanketed From Tahoe to New England; Mexico Chills; Early Winter For New Zealand; + Poles Freeze
April 11, 2025 Cap Allon
Spring Snow Hits Ukraine
Snow has hit the Carpathians, Ukraine, with drifts up to 1 meter (3.3 feet) reported on Mount Pip Ivan Chornohirskyi.
According to mountain rescuers in the area, conditions on April 10 were particularly severe: -10C (14F), dense fog, near-zero visibility, and sustained winds from the west-northwest.
Such heavy snowfall in April is considered rare.
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Rescuers have issued warnings about dangerous travel conditions and are urging people avoiding the highlands.
Tenerife Dusted
Storm Olivier delivered April snow to Mount Teide on Tenerife, part of Spain’s Canary Islands off the northwest coast of Africa.
Mount Teide, the highest peak in Spain at over 3,700 meters (12,100 feet), occasionally sees snowfall in winter. But snow in April is rare, and the cold front linked to Storm Olivier surprised both locals and visitors by blanketing the volcano’s summit in white.
The storm left a dramatic contrast—beaches below in sunshine, the peak above covered in white.
Iceland Shivers
Fresh snow has also settled across much of Iceland—including Reykjavík.
While light April flurries aren’t unheard of, this kind of widespread accumulation is rare, especially at lower elevations.
The conditions actually triggered ‘Powder Alarms’ and ‘Snow Storm Warnings’ across at least six Icelandic ski areas, including Bláfjöll, Dalvík, Hlíðarfjall, Húsavík, and Siglufjörður.
Latest forecast call for more of the same through the weekend, with multiple feet on the cards for the likes of Bláfjöll.
U.S. Resorts Blanketed From Tahoe to New England
Winter made a dramatic comeback this week, blanketing ski resorts from the Sierra Nevada to northern Vermont with fresh snow and triggering late-season lift extensions across North America.
In California, Lake Tahoe resorts were digging out from up to 4 feet (1.2m) of fresh snow after a powerful spring storm rolled through. Kirkwood and Northstar quickly announced season extensions to April 20, while Palisades Tahoe and Mammoth are aiming to stay open through Memorial Day weekend.
In the Rockies, resorts like Arapahoe Basin and Arizona Snowbowl picked up over 18 inches (45cm) recently. Conditions were reportedly “mid-winter-like” there. While Utah’s Alta remains buried with 116 inches (391cm) up top—still the deepest snowpack in North America.
The East Coast got in on the action too, which is rare. Jay Peak in Vermont, already boasting 457 inches of snow this season, added a fresh foot in 48 hours. Sugarloaf in Maine logged 14 inches.
From Alta to New England, April’s meteorological mood swings are serving up late-season white gold.
Mexico Chills
On the morning of April 10, parts of Mexico experienced remarkably low temperatures for the time of year
La Rosilla dropped to -14C (6.8F), just shy of the national April record.
While nearby, El Vergel posted a bitter -12.0C (10.4F), a new record for the locale.
Early Winter For New Zealand
Cold southerly air swept across New Zealand this week, delivering the first snowfall of the season
Cardrona Alpine Resort reported 10cm (4 inches) of snow on Tuesday, with more hitting the high country as the week progressed.
Cold old southerlies pushed temperatures down to freezing or below in many regions. Taumarunui hit 0C (32F), with Christchurch at 1C (34F), and Wānaka, Queenstown, Napier, and Hamilton all waking to just 4C (39F).
Even Auckland, typically mild, only managed a high of 12C (54F).
Poles Freeze
Antarctica is inching closer to it’s deep winter chill.
The continent is continuing its historically early start to the cold season with Concordia posting an extreme -77.6C (-107.7F) at 14:44 UTC on April 10. Vostok Station also tanked, reporting -77.2C (-107F) shortly after on April 11 (due to the time zone).
Cold Front Batters Northern China; Seoul Sees First Mid-April Snow Since 1907; April Snow Sweeps Ukraine; Cyprus White; + FMI Revision
April 14, 2025 Cap Allon
Cold Front Batters Northern China
A powerful spring cold front continued to lash northern China over the weekend, driving fierce winds, heavy snow, and plunging temperatures across vast regions.
The National Meteorological Center (NMC) renewed orange alerts for gale-force winds and blizzards, with blue alerts for sandstorms and severe convective weather. A yellow alert for blizzards remains in effect as snow blankets Inner Mongolia and the northeastern provinces.
Eastern Inner Mongolia and southeastern Jilin are bearing the brunt, with severe blizzards disrupting daily life and agriculture. Authorities urged reinforcement of greenhouses and livestock shelters to prevent collapses under the weight of snow.
“This blast of cold air is swift and intense,” warned Zhang Guilian, chief forecaster in Inner Mongolia.
While brief cold spells can linger into spring in these parts, such intense and widespread wintry conditions this late in the season is highly unusual.
Seoul Sees First Mid-April Snow Since 1907
Spring in Seoul has been abruptly halted by snow. The city recorded its first mid-April snowfall since 1907, turning streets of cherry blossoms into scenes of winter.
Sunday morning saw the arrival of a unseasonable cold front, tanking temperatures in Seoul to 1.1C (34F), with a wind chill of -2.4C (28F).
The Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) reported accumulations in central Jongno District—Seoul’s second-largest April snowfall on record and the first mid-April snow since 1907.
Nearby Suwon saw its first mid-April snow since local weather records began in 1964.
Nationwide, temperatures nosedived. The KMA blamed the dramatic shift on an upper atmospheric trough that brought in air colder than -30C (-22F), destabilizing conditions and triggering snow, graupel, gusts, and lightning.
Snow coated the cherry blossoms in Seoul, Chuncheon, and Mount Namdeogyu, prompting awe and confusion, according to local reports: “Cherry blossoms and snow—this feels surreal.”
April Snow Sweeps Ukraine
Snow and frost has hit the Mykolaiv region of Ukraine. Roads froze, traffic backed up, trees snapped, and the power was knocked out for many.
City crews were clearing roads all weekend, and police helped stranded drivers who had switched to summer tires already.
Forecaster Alina Pylypenko says that while the snow is now subsiding, temperatures will continuing dropping to -5C (23F), threatening long-standing April records.
Agrometeorologist Olha Sotnikova warns of subsequent crop damage. Cherries, plums, and other early bloomers are vulnerable as large areas of Ukraine run into their fifth consecutive night of frost.
Cyprus White
An unseasonal snowstorm has blanketed Cyprus’s Troodos Mountains.
Snow reached 15 cm (6 inches) at Chionistra, with temperatures plunging to 2C (36F)—far below the seasonal norm of 21C (70F).
Access to key roads—Karvounas–Troodos, Prodromos–Troodos, and Platres–Troodos—is restricted to four-wheel drive vehicles or those with snow chains. Police urge extreme caution due to icy conditions and poor visibility.
A yellow weather warning remains in place, with forecasts including hail and storms.
This latest cold snap follows record lows earlier this year, including -9C (16F) in February—the coldest country’s coldest reading in over 40 years.
FMI Revision
The Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) has finally updated its northern hemisphere snow mass chart. After a three week hiatus, the agency has revised their seasonal snow totals down, down, down for the entire season. Science or politics???
7 April 2025
DEADLY Severe weather hit from Arkansas to Ohio as a strong cold front brought extreme wind shear and convective triggering to the area. A huge F4-5 Tornado hit Lake Arkansas on 2 April when over 5 people were killed. Over 24 people died last week in tornadoes, floods and severe spring weather. Satellite imagery clearly showed the explosive growth of this line of storms. (See weather album) It also brought heavy rains and floods. Over 728 severe weather and 298 Tornado warnings were issued by the NWS making this the most severe weather day in 10 years and extreme severe weather for the week. Spring snow hit N America from the Cascades and high Sierra to NE and SE Canada. Record snow hit NM and Texas as the latest deep short wave moved east then triggering the extreme severe weather mentioned above.
Europe had a deep trough that brought rare snows to the south. “Snowfall blanketed Madeira’s highest peaks this morning, an unusual sight for April on the typically mild Portuguese island.” Ukraine also is feeling the cold : “A sharp cold snap is forecast to hit Ukraine from April 6, with temperatures expected to plunge to -3C (27F) at night and hover around freezing during the day. The chill, forecasted to last a week, is highly unusual for April — and comes at the worst possible time for Ukraine’s energy system.” Poland had a 20-80 cm snow storm that created severe traffic problems, as did Moscow’s spring storm that took temperatures from 60ºF to below freezing.
Greenland continued to pack in heavy snows on the SE coast keeping its snow mass balance accumulation above normal as deep Atlantic storms continued to move up the east coast.
Southern Hemisphere Fall continued to cool as the jet stream intensified to 150 - 180 kt wind max. Deep storms (930 mb - 960 mb) continued to circle the Antarctic. The temperature gradient is increasing as central temperatures dropped into the -70s ºC. The Antarctic had 6 days with temperatures below -70ºC - a record cold streak start to winter. You can see the station temperatures on windy.com when you zoom in on the Antarctic with the temperature icon selected in the bottom menu. Vostok, Dome A, and Concordia and many others popup. Run your cursor over the station to get it’s ID.
Australia and New Zealand continued to have moderate to heavy precipitation and snow in the NZ Alps and a bit of snow in the Snowy Range and Tasmanian volcanoes. Argentina had colder than normal temperatures north to the Brazilian boarder. The Andes continued to have moderate snows at the highest elevations.
Polar Vortex collapses:
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My albums provide detailed satellite, model, and other analyses that document the weekly weather of interest.
New Winter 2024-25 Album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/dptScrC2ePBxJdVJ9
FALL ALBUM: https://photos.app.goo.gl/cMYFVJgHcNTsSaBRA
Summer 2024 album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/egYrzbhS53gNoa5JA
THE FOLLOWING TABLES show the observed temperatures at key points from Greenland to Vostok and the ECMWF 10-day snowfall forecasts at key points around the world where glaciers may be receding or growing.
OBSERVED TEMPERATURES and ECMWF 10-DAY SNOWFALL FORECASTS:
See: https://photos.app.goo.gl/D4FSQPjmzrAwbS2q9
You can see the magnitude of the storms on windy.com and in NOAA’s GOES satellite imagery: https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/fulldisk_band.php?sat=G18&band=GEOCOLOR&length=12
Temperature anomalies are tracked on:
tropicaltidbits.com
see: https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/models/?model=gfs®ion=us&pkg=T2ma&runtime=2024021212&fh=6
The windy.com wave map shows the deep storms:
see: https://www.windy.com/-Waves-waves?waves,67.842,-1.230,3,i:pressure
Check out the albums below for detailed charts, satellite images, and observations:
Fall - Winter 2023:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/ZtfEjJRJ14eKVKpw6
Winter 2024: https://photos.app.goo.gl/DdoiQp1TL7DGMC1B7
Summer 2024 album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/egYrzbhS53gNoa5JA
Previous notes of interest:
The La Niña has formed as of 6/19/24. It continues to evolve with a 70% chance of fully developing by November 2024 according to NOAA’s latest 9/21/24 forecast. The latest SST analysis on 01/27/25 has a complex La Niña/El Niño pattern… The weekly SST anomaly on 27 January showed warming off Ecuador with cooling from 120 to180º W. This warming continued this week of 7 April. See the albums.
Dr. Valentina Zharkova, a solar expert from the Ukraine, talks about the sun’s impact on the el Niño in her interview below. She reviews the Grand Solar Minimum and solar system impacts on climate variability.
Valentina Zharkova’s interview at the end of this link provides a comprehensive review of the GSM physics from an expert in this field. Dr. Zharkova reviews the physics, mathematics, and relationships of solar cycles, orbital mechanics, magnetosphere impacts, volcano cycles, and el Nino cycles related to the earth’s inclination…
https://electroverse.info/coldest-may-80n-greenland-gains-warmer-in-the-past-zharkova-interview/
Her primary web site: https://solargsm.com/
Last week a major Antarctic cold front moved northward over Australia triggering heavy rains up to Alice Springs. Monthly cold records were set in March. Note: Jennifer Marohasy discusses Australian forecasts and observations every week.
JENNIFER MAROHASY’s latest: https://jennifermarohasy.com/2024/01/cyclone-jasper-bom-forecasting-getting-to-the-truth/
Note: 2023 was the first time since 1987 when Australia’s mountains had snow on the ground all year. The mean February temperature was 0.2ºC below normal making the summer mean temp 0.5ºC below normal. New Zealand continues to increase snows over the South Island with 1-2 m and heavy rain at low elevations on the West coast 57-260 mm. Note: October 25-30, 2023 the interior of Australia had satellite surface temperatures from 10 to 31ºC - spring was here with a few cool highs..
https://www.windy.com/-New-snow-snowAccu?snowAccu,next10d,-66.653,-60.776,4,i:pressure,m:NPaelA
For those interested in understanding the current weather, I have documented events in the Albums showing model, satellite, radar, images.
Electroverse provides an excellent source of extremes not reported in the MSM:
Latest Extremes: 7 April 2025
Ice Storm Cuts Power To 400,000+ In Ontario; Record Cold Streak In Antarctica; + New Study Undermines Climate Flood Hysteria
April 1, 2025 Cap Allon
Ice Storm Cuts Power To 400,000+ in Ontario
A late-season ice storm swept through Ontario, knocking out power to more than 400,000 homes and businesses.
Late March ice storms of this magnitude are rare in Ontario. While freezing rain can occur, sustained ice accretion like this—particularly in southern regions—is unusual.
On Sunday, Orillia and Peterborough declared states of emergency due to widespread outages, fallen trees, and treacherous roads. Residents were urged to stay home and conserve water to avoid overwhelming sewer systems.
Northern Ontario is contending with both snow and ice. Sault Ste. Marie and Timmins saw as much as a of snow Monday, with some rural copping 50 cm (20 inches). Dangerous driving is expected, particularly along Highways 11 and 17.
As April commences another strong cold front with more wintry conditions will descend.
Likewise in Michigan, a prolonged spring ice storm has gripped the north. The most extreme ice was reported in Elmira, Otsego County, where 1.5 inches (38 mm) built up—one of the highest totals recorded in over two decades of local forecasting.
Trees and powerlines were severely damaged, prompting multiple counties to open emergency warming shelters.
Record Cold Streak In Antarctica
The final days of March have brought an unprecedented cold streak to Antarctica.
Temperatures have held anomalously low (below -70C) for days now.
Between March 28 and 31, Concordia logged:
28 March: -72.4C (-98.3F)
29 March: -75.5C (-103.9F)
30 March: -75.1C (-103.2F)
31 March: -74.6C (-102.3F)
This four-day stretch stands out as one of the harshest cold spells so early in the year in recorded history.
Antarctica is cooling. This is an inconvenience for the CAGW cabal. But it’s a fact.
New Study Undermines Climate Flood Hysteria
A new study just wrecked a key claim of the catastrophic cLiMaTe ChAnGe narrative: that human CO2 emissions are driving more extreme floods.
Using thousands of years of European flood records—far beyond the limited window of modern instrumentation—researchers found that the biggest, most destructive floods happened before the industrial era, when human greenhouse gas emissions were negligible.
The authors write, “We show that flood magnitude was significantly higher before the 20th century, despite there being a negligible greenhouse gas contribution from humans, which means that natural variability might be significantly higher than assumed by climate modellers.”
The study analyzed flood records from the Rhine, Severn, and Spanish rivers, using everything from sediment layers to historical documents. It found that peak discharges in floods from the 14th century and even 250 BCE were up to 50% higher than anything measured in the modern record. In other words, natural climate swings—not carbon emissions—have historically produced the worst flooding events.
Vostok At -73C; Heavy Snow Pounds Hits Italian Peaks; Spring Snow Slams North America; + April Temperature History And Inconvenient Realities
April 2, 2025 Cap Allon
Vostok At -73C
Antarctica has seen fierce lows of late, with Concordia posting four sub -70C days in a row.
Vostok has joined in too, with an anomalous low of -73C (-99.4F) registered on April 1.
Winter has commenced early at the bottom of the world.
Heavy Snow Pounds Italian Peaks
The month has started cold across European peaks as well, and snowy.
Italy’s Campo Imperatore in L’Aquila, Abruzzo, experienced significant snowfall Tuesday. The area received 36 cm (14 inches) leading to packed powder conditions on the slopes, with two ski lifts operational providing access to about 8 km of open runs.
Such a heavy dumping in April is considered rare.
Spring Snow Slams North America
A powerful wintry blast is sweeping North America this week, delivering unseasonable snow and record cold from the desert Southwest to the far reaches of Canada.
In New Mexico, the National Weather Service is warning of a dramatic shift later, as a strong Pacific storm system barrels in, dropping heavy mountain snow and plunging temperatures across the eastern plains—up to 35F below normal by Saturday.
Gusty winds and blowing dust will give way to snow in the Tusas and Sangre de Cristo Mountains, with bitter cold settling in.
Looking north, Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is witnessing record-setting snowfall already.
On March 30, Marquette County logged 18.9 inches in just 24 hours, crushing the previous record of 2.8 inches. It’s the latest blow for a region still recovering from an earlier ice storm and a blizzard that wound up dumping two feet of snow.
More snow, sleet, and freezing rain are on the way here.
Continuing north, Thunder Bay, Ontario, is bracing for a historic April storm.
Environment Canada has issued a winter storm warning for these parts, forecasting up to 40 cm (16 inches) of spring snow through Wednesday night, with visibility expected to drop to near zero during peak conditions.
Meteorologists say the snowfall is set to break April records. Residents are advised to avoid travel if possible.
Accompanying the snow will be unseasonable cold. Records are already falling in some parts, such as Rivière aux Feuilles in northern Quebec which registered -36.8C (-34.2F) Tuesday morning—a new record low for the month.
While in Fairbanks, Alaska, fresh snow has also hit here, continuing an unusually wintry pattern across the north — one set to persist:
April Temperature History
The climate crisis narrative falls apart when you actually look at the data — such as historical temperature records.
Take April high temperatures across the United States, for example…
According to NOAA data, 38 states set their all-time April high temp in or before 1980, with 24 of those records occurring before 1950, and 20 were set before 1930.
Why do the overwhelming majority of extreme heat records date back to the early 20th century — or even the 1800s? It’s also worth asking: could it be that trends —heavily adjusted, smoothed, and modelled— are easier to ‘influence’ than raw thermometer readings? Trends can be shaped by averaging methods, data station selection, or baseline shifts. All-time records, on the other hand, are stubborn facts — single points in time that stand untouched.
If we were truly in a climate emergency, wouldn’t we expect to see an overwhelming number of record highs in recent years?
I’ll end with another inconvenient reality:
Sixth Straight Day Below -70C; Rare Spring Snow On Madeira; Spring Blizzard Slams Northeast, Midwest, West, And Canada Also Hit; + Big Sunspot
April 3, 2025 Cap Allon
Sixth Straight Day Below -70C
On April 2, Concordia Station posted another sub -70C low — for the sixth day in a row.
The same day, Vostok reported a biting -75.4C (-103.7F), which is 0.1C shy of the season record (set at Concordia on March 31).
Rare Spring Snow On Madeira
Snowfall blanketed Madeira’s highest peaks this morning, an unusual sight for April on the typically mild Portuguese island.
Pico do Areeiro dropped to -2C (28F) just before 7 am, while nearby Chão do Areeiro registered -0.3C (31F) — anomalous cApril cold that allowed snow to settle across the mountaintops.
The snowfall, arriving on a regional holiday, drew crowds—though icy roads and closed trails made access impossible for many.
Snow in Madeira is rare enough — but in April, it’s almost unheard of.
Across the European continent, many nations have been holding unseasonably cold of late. While eyeing ahead, latest GFS runs suggest something of a polar blast-proper could descend this weekend, particularly across central and eastern parts:
Spring Blizzard Slams Northeast, Midwest, West, And Canada Also Hit
Winter is not going quietly for North America. Powerful late-season snowstorms are sweeping the continent, delivering heavy dumpings from Vermont, through the Midwest, to California.
Vermont led the way in the Northeast. Jay Peak received a foot recently, followed by steady snow, sleet, and freezing rain. Smugglers’ Notch and Stowe both saw around 9 inches (22 cm), with Killington battling severe icing.
Similar conditions hit parts of Maine, New Hampshire, and New York.
Colorado saw strong snow early in the week—Winter Park picked up 9 inches (22 cm), and Arapahoe Basin nearly matched it. Alta still holds the deepest base in the Rockies at 137 inches (343 cm). Cold air lingers, and light to moderate snow will persist through the weekend.
In California, several feet of snow hit the high altitudes, especially in the Sierra. Sugar Bowl reported 18 inches (45 cm), and Palisades just under that.
Mt. Bachelor in Oregon received 6 inches (15 cm) in a day, capping off a 105-inch (267 cm) March. While Timberline still boasts North America’s deepest base at 188 inches (470 cm).
Eyeing the Midwest and into Canada, conditions vary but the Michigan ski areas got hit with bursts—5 inches (13 cm) at Mt. Bohemia—though most resorts are winding down now. In Canada, March brought a whopping 6 feet (180 cm) to Lake Louise.
Looking ahead, waves of polar cold will sweep much of the CONUS in the coming 7-or-so days:
Big Sunspot
Big sunspot 4048 is turning toward Earth and crackling with M-class solar flares.
Stellar Snow Year At Mt. Bachelor; CA Snowpack Above Average; Unseasonal Cold Forces Ukraine to Burn Through Remaining Gas Reserves; Sea Levels Higher In The Past; + Insecure
April 4, 2025 Cap Allon
Stellar Snow Year At Mt. Bachelor
With over 430 inches (1,092 cm) of snowfall this season and base depths peaking at 157 inches (399 cm) in March, Mt. Bachelor has seen one of its snowiest winters in years.
“It’s been a massive snow year,” says Ben Suratt, grooming manager. “We’ve been out in it every night.”
Suratt and his team operate a fleet of 18 snowcats, most of which are out on the slopes nightly. Each 25,000-pound machine crawls across the mountain at six miles per hour, equipped with a front blade to shape the snow, tracks to compact it, and a tiller that spins and lays down the signature corduroy finish.
Groomers run two shifts—4 pm to midnight and midnight to 9 am—battling darkness, biting wind, and deep powder. “It can be really dangerous,” Suratt says. “You’re out in the cold, in the dark, working on machines in the middle of winter.”
Despite the harsh conditions, Suratt wouldn’t trade it. “It’s cold, it’s dark—but it’s awesome. We’re in the mountains. And we’re making something skiers love.”
With the spring pass now active, and snow still deep—current base depth sits at 146 inches (371 cm)—Mt. Bachelor is gearing up for a strong finish to an epic winter.
California Snowpack Above Average
California’s April snow survey at Phillips Station recorded 64 inches (163 cm) of snow depth and a snow water equivalent (SWE) of 27.5 inches (70 cm)—113% of average. Statewide SWE sits at 28.6 inches (73 cm), or 110% of normal.
April’s survey marks the peak snowpack before spring melt.
The Sierra snowpack—California’s “frozen reservoir”—provides about 30% of the state’s water.
Reservoirs are in solid shape—116% of average—with big gains at Lake Oroville and San Luis since January.
Governor Newsom joined the April survey to highlight the California Water Plan Update 2023, focused on water sustainability and climate resilience–uh huh.
Unseasonal Cold Forces Ukraine to Burn Through Remaining Gas Reserves
A sharp cold snap is forecast to hit Ukraine from April 6, with temperatures expected to plunge to -3C (27F) at night and hover around freezing during the day. The chill, forecasted to last a week, is highly unusual for April — and comes at the worst possible time for Ukraine’s energy system.
Gas reserves in underground storage (UGS) have already dropped to critically low levels, according to reports. As of April 1, only 860 million cubic meters remain — a record low compared to 3.4 billion at the same time last year. This includes buffer gas, meaning the usable supply is even smaller.
Experts warn that maintaining heat during this cold spell could require ramping up withdrawals to 50-60 million cubic meters per day — rapidly depleting what’s left. Daily extraction had already slowed to just 10 million cubic meters by April 1.
Several regions, including Kyiv, ended the heating season early to save gas. Now, with the unwelcome return of winter conditions, it’s unclear whether the government will reactivate heating systems — or whether it can afford to.
Naftogaz estimates Ukraine will need at least 4.5 to 4.6 billion cubic meters of imported gas for next winter, which would cost over $2 billion on the European market. But the money isn’t there. Ukraine has secured a 270 million euro loan from the EBRD, a 140 million euro grant from Norway, and expects 200 million cubic meters from Poland’s Orlen — but that won’t cover the shortfall.
Compounding the crisis, Russian strikes have damaged domestic gas infrastructure. Officials now expect a drop of 1 billion cubic meters in local production this year. In 2024, Ukraine produced 19 billion cubic meters of gas, while 2025 consumption is projected at 26–28 billion.
As the frost sets in, Ukraine is left with a shrinking cushion of gas — and few options for replenishing it.
Sea Levels Higher In The Past
A new study in Global Change Biology shows that sea levels 7,000 to 5,000 years ago were 2 to 3 meters higher than today.
During this natural highstand, coral reefs in the Red Sea flourished. But as sea levels gradually dropped, reef growth in places like Eilat stopped completely for nearly 4000 years. Not because of heat stress or carbon emissions—but because there simply wasn’t enough depth for the reefs to expand or build upward. It was a natural limitation caused by nature’s own sea level shift.
This wasn’t an isolated event. The study found matching patterns of coral “turn-offs” around the globe—from the Great Barrier Reef to Mexico—all tied to a natural sea level fall between roughly 4,000 and 2,300 years ago. In many places, there are virtually no coral fossils from this period.
Then, around 700 years ago, a tectonic shift dropped the coastline slightly, making room for reefs to grow again. Coral diversity rebounded, with the same species reappearing after millennia.
Sea levels have been far higher than today, is the takeaway. And coral reefs have endured and adapted to those changes. Today’s minuscule sea level rise may actually help currently “stranded” reefs by providing the vertical space they need.
The past, as always, tells a story of natural variability and ecosystem resilience.
Insecure
The CAGW cabal are an insecure bunch—a scientific field that feels the need to track the people questioning it…
Big Gains On Greenland; Record April Snow For New Mexico And Texas; It’s Snowing In Kosovo; Cold Poles; + Spring Blizzards Hit Moscow
April 7, 2025 Cap Allon
Big Gains On Greenland
Over the weekend, Greenland’s surface mass balance (SMB) shot up sharply, gaining several gigatons of ice. This spike is part of a consistent trend in recent years — of above-average mass gains compared to the 1981–2010 baseline.
The weekend’s surge isn’t an isolated fluke either. The daily SMB graph shows months of regular accumulation, punctuated by strong gains — a reality far from the alarmist claim.
Back in the early 2000s, we were told Greenland would be well on its way to being an oversized puddle by now. Instead, SMB is tracking higher than the 30-year average, as it did for six out of the past eight seasons.
Record April Snow For New Mexico and Texas
A rare April cold front swept New Mexico and Texas this weekend gone, delivering heavy snow, gusty winds, and widespread power outages—a rare sight for spring.
The northern NM mountains were particularly affected, with snowfall surpassing a foot even in areas below 8,500 feet.
The National Weather Service in Albuquerque reported ongoing snowfall over the weekend, especially impacting the south-central mountains, northern mountains, and eastern parts of New Mexico.
Residents across the state shared images of the snow-covered landscapes, including in, Tijeras, a village in Bernalillo County:
While across the border in Texas, the storm dropped the heaviest April snow in over a decade.
By Saturday afternoon, some 5 inches had accumulated across the South Plains and Panhandle, with Lubbock posting its largest April snowfall since 2013. Power outages affected tens-of-thousands, with icy roads forcing warnings from TxDOT.
Wind gusts up to 40 mph and near whiteout conditions prompted winter storm warnings across the region. The Texas Department of Transportation warned of slick interstates and bridges, particularly along I-27 and I-40.
April snow is rare in this region. Before this, Lubbock’s last measurable April snows came in 2013. While in Amarillo, the 1.8 inches reported there by 1 PM Saturday surpassed the old daily record of 1.5 inches set back on the same day in 1895. The weekend’s flurries also made for Amarillo’s heaviest April snow, for any day, since 1917.
It’s Snowing In Kosovo
It is currently snowing in the capital of Kosovo, Pristina.
The Kosovo Hydrometeorological Institute reports a rapid shift in the troposphere, causing a sharp drop in both daytime and nighttime temperatures. Substantial snow began falling, even in lower-lying regions — a rare event for this time of year.
These conditions will lead to overnight frosts during the new week, potentially damaging early crops and fruit trees. Farmers and ranchers are being urged to take precautionary steps to protect their produce and livestock.
Cold Poles
Likewise in Poland, a rare and severe spring cold front barreled down from the north Saturday, bringing snow, strong winds, and plunging temperatures. The Institute of Meteorology and Water Management (IMGW) issued weather alerts nationwide.
Snow fell across many regions, even in the east—highly unusual for April. In Olsztyn, a brief but intense snowstorm hit with thunder and wind, dropping 20 cm (8 inches) of spring snow. While across mountainous areas, blizzard conditions set in.
In the Tatra Mountains, the likes of Kasprowy Wierch registered 80 cm (31 inches) of snow and lows of -14C (7F). Whiteout conditions have made most trails impassable. The Tatra Volunteer Search and Rescue (TOPR) has raised the avalanche risk.
Thermometers dropped sharply to well-below seasonal norms, with the wind chill tanking temperatures well-below freezing.
Nearly 1,000 emergency calls were reported by firefighters, mainly in the Mazowsze region. Power outages and travel disruptions were noted in several areas. IMGW continues to warn of lingering cold, with snow and strong winds expected to persist all week.
Spring Blizzards Hit Moscow
Rare blizzards swept through Moscow on Sunday, burying Red Square under as much as 15 cm (6 inches) of snow.
The city is expected to receive an entire month’s worth of snow between Sunday and Monday, abruptly halting the early signs of spring. Thermometers have plunged back below freezing after reaching a balmy 16C (60.8F) on Friday, catching many off guard.
Transport officials across the greater Moscow region — home to over 22 million people — urged drivers not to take to the roads, especially those who had already swapped out their winter tires. Snow tires are mandatory during the Russian winter months.
31 March 2025
Our first week of spring continued the strong N hemisphere jet stream which brought short waves with interesting - warm and cold weather around the world. Colorado was warm setting an 80ºF record in Denver, while the mountains heated into the 50s and 60s ºF rapidly melting our low elevation snow pack. The coastal mountains from Alaska to California had significant snows as Pacific storms continued. PG&E predicts its hydropower will exceed its average output this season due to heavy Sierra snow pack. Winter is continuing this spring with significant snows forecasted thru 11 April from then Sierra to Rockies and New England. These storms continue to produce an historic NH snow mass with over 700 GT above average on 24 March. Manitoba had heavy snows with 20 cm in Winnipeg this week.
This week April 1-7 will have unusually cold, stormy weather from California to New England as a series of short waves move across the US. Winter is persistent this season.
Europe had a long wave trough that brought cold and snow to the Atlas, Alps and Highlands from Morocco to Norway. Russia continued warm in the West and cold in eastern Siberia, as the sun warmed it from -50ºC to the -30s. Andora had a late season heavy snow, as the Grandvalira Ski Area exceeded 210 cm on it upper slopes. “Southern Norway saw fresh snowfall over the weekend, adding to already substantial base depths. At Hovden, the fresh snows have brought the base depth to 50 cm (19.7 inches), with nearby Brokke sat 70 cm (27.6 inches). Further west, Voss Fjellandsby – Myrkdalen is reporting depths of up to 125 cm (49.2 inches); Gausta Skisenter is at 80 cm (31.5 inches); with Geilo at 70 cm (27.6 inches).”
Asia had a couple short waves move through with welcome warming, then cold and a bit of snow still in Korea and Japan. Tokyo’s cherry blossom festival was delayed by a week this year. Japan remains buried under record snow in the mountains. “Tengendai Kogen in Yamagata increased its depth, jumping to a new seasonal high of 7.9m (26 feet)—now the deepest snow base on Earth.”
The southern hemisphere jet continued to intensify as deep (940-960 mb) storms moved around the Antarctic. The S to N temperature gradient continued to increase as the interior cooled to -60 and -73ºC, thus intensifying the pressure gradient and jet. Antarctica set record cold temperatures. The reading of -75.5C (-103.9F) on March 29 (at 22:08 UTC) sets a new monthly minimum for March at Concordia, breaking the old (and less reliable) record of -75.2C (-103.4F) set on 27 March 2013. It is also just 0.6C above Earth’s lowest-ever recorded March temperature.
Peru and Bolivian Andes continued to have 30 to 130 cm snows at 4000 to 5000 m elevations at 15ºS latitude. Further south at 50º they had 120 to 300 cm.
Australia and Argentina continued to cool with northern Argentina 10-16ºC below normal as an Antarctic cold front moved north. New Zealand and Tasmania had early snows at high elevations, while lower areas had 100-400 mm rains.
Polar Vortex collapses:
Climate Change Weekly # 536 — Budget-Busting Climate Provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act Must Go
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My albums provide detailed satellite, model, and other analyses that document the weekly weather of interest.
New Winter 2024-25 Album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/dptScrC2ePBxJdVJ9
FALL ALBUM: https://photos.app.goo.gl/cMYFVJgHcNTsSaBRA
Summer 2024 album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/egYrzbhS53gNoa5JA
THE FOLLOWING TABLES show the observed temperatures at key points from Greenland to Vostok and the ECMWF 10-day snowfall forecasts at key points around the world where glaciers may be receding or growing.
OBSERVED TEMPERATURES and ECMWF 10-DAY SNOWFALL FORECASTS:
See: https://photos.app.goo.gl/D4FSQPjmzrAwbS2q9
You can see the magnitude of the storms on windy.com and in NOAA’s GOES satellite imagery: https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/fulldisk_band.php?sat=G18&band=GEOCOLOR&length=12
Temperature anomalies are tracked on:
tropicaltidbits.com
see: https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/models/?model=gfs®ion=us&pkg=T2ma&runtime=2024021212&fh=6
The windy.com wave map shows the deep storms:
see: https://www.windy.com/-Waves-waves?waves,67.842,-1.230,3,i:pressure
Check out the albums below for detailed charts, satellite images, and observations:
Fall - Winter 2023:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/ZtfEjJRJ14eKVKpw6
Winter 2024: https://photos.app.goo.gl/DdoiQp1TL7DGMC1B7
Summer 2024 album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/egYrzbhS53gNoa5JA
Previous notes of interest:
The La Niña has formed as of 6/19/24. It continues to evolve with a 70% chance of fully developing by November 2024 according to NOAA’s latest 9/21/24 forecast. The latest SST analysis on 01/27/25 has a complex La Niña/El Niño pattern… The weekly SST anomaly on 27 January showed warming off Ecuador with cooling from 120 to180º W. This warming continued this week of 31 March. See the albums.
Dr. Valentina Zharkova, a solar expert from the Ukraine, talks about the sun’s impact on the el Niño in her interview below. She reviews the Grand Solar Minimum and solar system impacts on climate variability.
Valentina Zharkova’s interview at the end of this link provides a comprehensive review of the GSM physics from an expert in this field. Dr. Zharkova reviews the physics, mathematics, and relationships of solar cycles, orbital mechanics, magnetosphere impacts, volcano cycles, and el Nino cycles related to the earth’s inclination…
https://electroverse.info/coldest-may-80n-greenland-gains-warmer-in-the-past-zharkova-interview/
Her primary web site: https://solargsm.com/
Last week a major Antarctic cold front moved northward over Australia triggering heavy rains up to Alice Springs. Monthly cold records were set in March. Note: Jennifer Marohasy discusses Australian forecasts and observations every week.
JENNIFER MAROHASY’s latest: https://jennifermarohasy.com/2024/01/cyclone-jasper-bom-forecasting-getting-to-the-truth/
Note: 2023 was the first time since 1987 when Australia’s mountains had snow on the ground all year. The mean February temperature was 0.2ºC below normal making the summer mean temp 0.5ºC below normal. New Zealand continues to increase snows over the South Island with 1-2 m and heavy rain at low elevations on the West coast 57-260 mm. Note: October 25-30, 2023 the interior of Australia had satellite surface temperatures from 10 to 31ºC - spring was here with a few cool highs..
https://www.windy.com/-New-snow-snowAccu?snowAccu,next10d,-66.653,-60.776,4,i:pressure,m:NPaelA
For those interested in understanding the current weather, I have documented events in the Albums showing model, satellite, radar, images.
Electroverse provides an excellent source of extremes not reported in the MSM:
Latest Extremes: 31 March 2025
Spring Snow Blankets Andorra’s Slopes; Tokyo Cherry Blossom Late; Spring Blast For North America; + Erasing History To Fit The Narrative
March 25, 2025 Cap Allon
Spring Snow Blankets Andorra’s Slopes
Heavy spring snow has hit Andorra, delivering ideal conditions for late-season skiing.
On Monday evening, El Tarter was hit with heavy snow, with thick flakes falling steadily across the resort.
Snow depths in the Grandvalira Ski Area now exceed 210 cm (83 in) on the upper slopes, above multidecadal norms. As a result, most lifts and runs have remained open, though the avalanche risk is a 3 out of 5 with visitors urged to stay on marked trails.
Temperatures are hovering between -2C (28F) and 4C (39F), with additional snow in the forecast.
Tokyo Cherry Blossoms Bloom Late
Tokyo’s iconic cherry blossom season has officially begun.
On March 24, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) announced that the city’s sakura trees had reached their flowering stage.
This year’s bloom has arrived four days later than the recent average, though 5 days earlier than last year.
Spring Blast For North America
Meteorologists are hinting of second polar vortex disruption, one expected to impact North America in late-March.
Fueled by a Sudden Stratospheric Warming (SSW) event, the polar vortex is showing signs of weakening. If it collapses, frigid air could spill deep into the United States and Canada, dragging temperatures 20C or more below seasonal averages.
Forecast models from AccuWeather and Severe-Weather.eu point to a growing risk of extreme cold gripping the Midwest, Northeast, and central Canada. Cities like Chicago, Minneapolis, and Toronto may see a renewed onslaught of snow, wind, and deep freeze — just weeks after a February cold snap broke records, and disrupted power and transport across the continent.
A late-season polar blast into late-March/early-April could catch communities off guard and damage early-season crops.
In February, a similar event impacted more than 150 million people across North America, delivering record lows, heavy snows, and widespread disruption. Cold-weather alerts have already been issued in parts of Ontario, Manitoba, and the northern U.S.
Whether this upcoming vortex collapse becomes a full-fledged Arctic blast remains uncertain — but the risk is high, and the atmosphere is primed.
An out-of-season snowstorm has already blown through New Brunswick and western Prince Edward Island this week, dropping 20 cm (8 inches) of spring snow. Fredericton, Miramichi, and Summerside were among the areas hardest hit.
Snowfall Warnings and Special Weather Statements were issued in these parts, with rates reaching 4 cm (1.5 inches) per hour.
Remarkably, snow mass for the Northern Hemisphere as a whole has also taken a step back up, to approximately 600 Gigatons above the 1982-2012 average (22% above).
Erasing History To Fit The Narrative
In sworn testimony before the U.S. Senate in 2006, geophysicist Dr. David Deming revealed an email he had received from a prominent climate scientist: “We have to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period.”
A leading researcher in climate science wasn’t suggesting the data be re-examined. He was demanding it be erased—because it conflicted with the narrative of dangerous, man-made global warming.
The Medieval Warm Period (MWP), spanning roughly 1000 to 1300 AD, was a time of notable global warmth—centuries before industrialized emissions. Crops flourished, populations grew, and civilizations thrived. But for those pushing the idea that modern warming is unprecedented, dangerous, and caused primarily by humans, the MWP is seen as an inconvenient truth.
Dr. Deming had published research showing about 1C of warming in North America over the
Science demands scrutiny, replication, and transparency. But none of that happened here. Instead, data was sidelined, dissent was silenced, and a global narrative was built on a manufactured foundation.
Today, every storm, drought, flood, or fire is blamed on climate change. Never mind context. Never mind history. The public has been whipped into a panic—and any attempt to inject nuance or raise questions is met with hostility.
The truth is this: Earth’s climate has always changed. Warm periods like the MWP were not disasters—they were times of human flourishing. Warmth is good. Cold periods, like the Little Ice Age that followed, brought famine, disease, and social collapse.
Dr. Deming’s forgotten 2006 testimony was a warning about the collapse of scientific integrity. And things have only gotten worse since. When researchers conspire to “get rid of” inconvenient evidence, they are no longer practicing science. They are corrupting it to serve an agenda. And the cost of that deception may be prove more catastrophic than anything the climate can throw at us.
...past century based on borehole data. The science was solid and uncontroversial. But when a journalist from NPR approached him for an interview, it came with a condition: he had to say the warming was caused by human activity. Deming declined. The journalist hung up. Soon after, the email arrived—the damning call to erase the Medieval Warm Period from history.
And that’s exactly what happened.
In 1999, Michael Mann and colleagues published what became known as the “hockey stick” graph—a temperature reconstruction showing a flat climate for 900 years, followed by a sharp 20th-century spike. The MWP had been wiped from the record. Never mind that it contradicted over a hundred prior studies and proxy datasets. Never mind that it was a radical revision of historical understanding. The graph supported the official narrative, and so it was embraced wholesale—by media, governments, and the IPCC.
Spring Freeze For The US; Historic Northern Hemisphere Snow Mass; Warmth Is Preferable; + Solar Quiet
March 26, 2025 Cap Allon
Spring Freeze For The US
The severity remains uncertain, but one final polar blast could be readying to engulf the United States.
A cold snap is on the way for much of the central and eastern US, as shown in the latest GFS temperature anomaly map (below). Thermometers in areas from the Midwest to the Southeast are forecast to plunge well below seasonal norms.
Meteorologists have pointed to a recent Sudden Stratospheric Warming (SSW) event as a possible cause. SSW events occur when the polar stratosphere rapidly warms, often disrupting the polar vortex and sending frigid Arctic air spilling southward into the mid-latitudes.
While not every SSW leads to extreme cold, the timing of this latest temperature drop aligns closely with the expected downstream effects of such a disruption.
The incoming spring snowfall could also impress:
Historic Northern Hemisphere Snow Mass
Well, well, well—look who’s buried under a mountain of inconvenient data.
According to the latest GlobSnow SWE v1.3 figures, the Northern Hemisphere’s snow mass has hit record-setting levels, clocking in at 3,450 gigatons as of March 23. That’s not just above average—that’s some 700 gigatons above the 1982-2012 average.
Extent may be average this season, but mass is at record-breaking levels.
Other sources confirm:
NOAA has confirmed unusually high snowpack across the likes of North America.
Copernicus reports deep snowdrifts across Eurasia.
Rutgers Global Snow Lab has March 2025 in the top five snowiest months since 1967.
But sure—tell us again how kids won’t know what snow is.
The reality is this: the climate system is far more complex than the tidy, doom-laden forecasts The Climatariat feed us. What we’re seeing is colder, snowier, and off-script.
Warmth Is Preferable
Warm periods in Earth’s history are called climate optimums for a reason—they’ve generally been good for life, not bad.
Humans are a tropical species by origin. We evolved at the equator, and only spread to colder regions thanks to fire, clothing, and shelter. Even today, life in high latitudes remains difficult—and for most, unappealing.
Despite recent warming since the end of the Little Ice Age (LIA), colder regions haven’t seen population booms. That’s because they’re still too cold. Most people live where it’s warm:
61% of the world’s population lives between 20°S and 20°N
82% live between 30°S and 30°N
Just 1.1% live beyond 50° north or south
Cold is the real killer, not heat. Biodiversity and population density both drop off steeply as you move away from the tropics.
The idea that 2 to 4C of warming since the end of the LIA is inherently catastrophic doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. If warming was making the world unlivable, then people would be rushing to inhabit the northern latitudes. We’re not seeing this.
In the real world, while challenges exist, things have never been rosier for humanity:
Solar Quiet
Today’s daily sunspot number stands at just 58—the lowest count in months:
Sunspot 4036′has a ‘beta-gamma’ magnetic field did pose a threat for M-class solar flares, but it’s now departed.
MEanwhile, NOAA forecasters have said that G2-class geomagnetic storms are possible on March 26, when a co-rotating interaction region (CIR) is expected to hit Earth. CIRs are transition zones between fast- and slow-moving streams of solar wind. They contain shock waves akin to CMEs. Today’s CIR is powered by a giant hole in the sun’s atmosphere.
Looking at the bigger picture, the top of Solar Cycle 25 is likely in.
Next comes the slide back down…
Heavy Spring Snow Sweeping The US; Dense Snow In Norway; + “A Mini Ice Age Is Coming,” Reasserts Professor Valentina Zharkova In New Interview
March 27, 2025 Cap Allon
Heavy Spring Snow Sweeping The U.S.
Winter isn’t done yet. A parade of storms is blasting the U.S. with cold and snow from coast to coast.
Sierra Snow Blitz
California’s Sierra Nevada is the main event, with Kirkwood eyeing over 4 feet of fresh powder.
Mammoth could see 2–3 feet, with Palisades and Sugar Bowl stacking up over 30 inches.
Pacific Northwest Pounded
Mt. Bachelor just smashed through 400 inches for the season, with 5 feet falling in a week.
More daily snow expected through the weekend, and the avalanche danger is high and off-piste terrain risky.
Mt. Baker briefly shut down due to extreme avalanche conditions.
Rockies Reload
Colorado’s Winter Park and Steamboat both grabbed around 14 inches, with more incoming.
Utah’s Snowbird sits on the region’s deepest base and isn’t slowing down, with a fresh 2 feet settling early week.
Midwest Blizzard
Winter Storm Ezra hammered the Midwest last weekend, dumping 14 inches in Iowa and 10 inches in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Blizzard conditions hit with 60 mph gusts.
Northeast & Canada Hold On
Snow showers and freezing temps have returned to the East Coast and Eastern Canada.
Killington and Sunday River remain open. Tremblant leads the Canadian pack with one of the deepest snowpacks in the East.
More Snow On The Way
Another cold storm is brewing for the weekend, targeting Minnesota and the upper Midwest with a fresh swath of heavy snow.
From the Sierra to the Great Lakes, spring is looking more like midwinter—and it’s not letting up.
Dense Snow In Norway
Norway’s hydropower reservoirs are holding unusually full, owing to impressive snows.
Statkraft hydrologist Gaute Lappegaard has said the north of the country is seeing a very deep snow cover with the south receiving ‘high water content snow’ — good news for the energy sector, as it ensures consistent reservoir replenishment.
Japan Still Buried Under Record Snow
Japan’s Tengendai Kogen now holds the world’s deepest snowpack at a staggering 7.9m (26 feet), while Hakuba and Niseko continue delivering exceptional late-season conditions. Fresh snow is also on the way for Hokkaido.
While spring sunshine has arrived for many, Japan’s snowpack remains immense.
Hakuba is still buried under 5.8m (19 feet), and had its upper slopes closed recently due to safety concerns. Despite warming daytime temps, most resorts remain near fully operational.
Further north, Hokkaido is holding steady with classic freeze-thaw cycles and overnight lows well below freezing. Niseko’s base sits at 370cm (148 inches) and remains 100% open. Meanwhile, Tengendai Kogen in Yamagata increased its depth, jumping to a new seasonal high of 7.9m (26 feet)—now the deepest snow base on Earth.
Looking ahead, cold conditions will persist across Hokkaido, with another 4 inches of fresh snow landing daily. Freezing nights will preserve powder quality.
“A Mini Ice Age Is Coming,” Reasserts Professor Valentina Zharkova In New Interview
Professor Valentina Zharkova still refuses to toe the globalist climate line. A respected solar physicist, Zharkova has a message that cuts straight through the propaganda: the Earth is cooling, not warming, and it’s the Sun that’s responsible.
In a recent interview with Freedom Research, she lays it out plainly: we’re entering a Grand Solar Minimum, a natural and cyclical drop in solar activity that historically leads to colder temperatures worldwide.
https://x.com/freedom_rsrch
We’re expecting about a 1C drop globally over the next 30 years, Zharkova says. This has nothing to do with CO2 or human emissions — it’s entirely solar-driven.
Instead of parroting carbon hysteria, Zharkova presents a far more elegant — and evidence-backed — explanation.
The Sun’s orbit is not static. It’s being subtly tugged by the gravitational pull of Jupiter, Saturn, and the other gas giants. This “solar wobble” affects energy output and, therefore, Earth’s climate in profound ways.
It’s the Sun’s motion around the barycenter of the solar system that’s driving these long-term changes, she explains. Not human activity. Not carbon dioxide.
This “wobble” causes warming as well as cooling, or course, and while Zharkova’s work points to a return to global warming by the year 2,600 —of perhaps +3C to +3.5C— her immediate concern is cooling…
The climate industrial complex actively dismiss solar activity and other natural forcings, because acknowledging anything other than humanity’s CO2 emissions would undermine their entire global control agenda.
March Snows Hit Manitoba; Antarctica Nears -70C (‑94F); Above-Average Snow To Boost PG&E’s Hydropower; Nikolov Challenges Svensmark; + New Study Undermines Sea Ice Narrative
March 28, 2025 Cap Allon
March Snows Hit Manitoba
A winter storm has swept through Manitoba, bringing heavy snowfall to the likes of Winnipeg and surrounding areas.
The storm dumped upwards of 20 cm (8 inches) of spring snow in parts of the city, marking a return to winter.
Residents woke to snow-covered streets, reduced visibility, and icy roadways, prompting warnings from Environment Canada and local authorities. While city crews are busy clearing streets, more snow is expected over the weekend.
Antarctica Nears -70C (‑94F)
Antarctica has set a new seasonal low, edging closer to that -70C (‑94F) mark.
On March 27, Vostok reported -69.1C (-92.4F), while Dome Fuji AWS nudged even closer -69.4C (-92.9F).
These readings mark the lowest temperatures of the season so far, anomalously cold readings at that.
Above-Average Snow To Boost PG&E’s Hydropower
PG&E reports that this year’s snowpack is tracking at or above average — good for the company’s summer hydropower capacity.
The company conducts four annual surveys to estimate how much water will be available for hydroelectric generation. This week, hydrographers Dan Stephens and Duncan Drummond flew by helicopter to Lassen Peak for PG&E’s third snow survey of the year.
Nikolov Challenges Svensmark
Physicist Ned Nikolov is challenging a long-standing theory proposed by Henrik Svensmark—that Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCRs), modulated by the Sun’s magnetic activity, influence Earth’s climate by driving low-level cloud formation.
According to Svensmark’s theory, more cosmic rays should lead to more clouds and a cooler planet; fewer rays should reduce cloud cover and lead to warming.
But “real-world data has busted yet another climate theory,” Nikolov writes.
Since 1980, sunspot numbers have declined, indicating lower solar magnetic activity, while cosmic ray flux has increased. According to Svensmark’s model, this should result in more clouds and a cooling trend. Instead, global temperatures have ticked up steadily since then, the “opposite of what the theory suggests!”
The below chart, shared on X by Nikolov, shows a clear disconnect: sunspot activity down, cosmic ray levels up, but global temperatures (as per the official datasets) are up. This contradicts the expected outcome if GCRs were a dominant driver.
Nikolov’s conclusion is straightforward: the current understanding of what shapes Earth’s cloud cover—and by extension, its temperature—needs to be reexamined: “new fundamental research is needed to understand the drivers of cloud albedo.”
New Study Undermines Sea Ice Narrative
A new study published in Science Advances (Feb 2025) shows that changes in global sea ice concentration (SIC) between 1980 and 2008 had a net cooling effect on Earth’s energy budget — not warming, as oft claimed.
The key reason is simple: while Arctic sea ice declined, Antarctic sea ice increased, and the radiative cooling from Antarctic growth outweighed the warming effect of Arctic loss. As the authors state clearly:
https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/sciadv.adr4248
“Global SIC reduction leads to planetary cooling during this period… due to radiative cooling induced by Antarctic SIC growth.”
The study also emphasizes that the spatial pattern of sea ice change matters far more than the global average. Models that treat all ice loss the same miss this critical point. When ice disappears in the Arctic, the warming effect is partially cancelled by feedbacks like increased outgoing radiation. But in the Antarctic, ice growth leads to significant cooling without those same feedbacks.
Crucially, the study shows that there has been no net change in radiative forcing (ΔR) from global SIC increases or decreases since around 1875. This undermines one of the standard alarmist claims — that melting sea ice is driving runaway warming.
In short:
Between 1980–2008, global sea ice trends led to cooling, not warming.
Antarctic sea ice growth had a stronger impact than Arctic loss.
No net radiative forcing change from sea ice over the past 150 years.
Global averages are misleading — pattern matters more than quantity.
This isn’t speculation — it’s based on idealized and observationally grounded model experiments using multiple sea ice datasets. The results are robust.
So while headlines continue to focus on shrinking Arctic ice, this study makes one thing clear: the overall climate effect of sea ice change has been overstated — and, in recent decades, entirely misunderstood.
Spring Delayed as Snow Blankets Otarou; Flurries In Norway; Record-Breaking Cold Grips Antarctica; + April Cold And Snow For U.S.
March 31, 2025 Cap Allon
Spring Delayed as Snow Blankets Otarou
Japan’s exceptionally snowy winter shows no signs of abating, not across the likes of Otarou, at least.
Heavy snowfall here continues to blanket the town despite the calendar turning toward April.
Flurries In Norway
Southern Norway saw fresh snowfall over the weekend, adding to already substantial base depths.
At Hovden, the fresh snows have brought the base depth to 50 cm (19.7 inches), with nearby Brokke sat 70 cm (27.6 inches).
Further west, Voss Fjellandsby – Myrkdalen is reporting depths of up to 125 cm (49.2 inches); Gausta Skisenter is at 80 cm (31.5 inches); with Geilo at 70 cm (27.6 inches).
These conditions come alongside warnings of strong winds and snowdrifts in the mountain passes.
Record-Breaking Cold Grips Antarctica
Antarctica is experiencing an intense and unseasonal cold snap as March draws to a close, with temperatures plummeting to record-setting lows at Concordia Station.
For three consecutive days, temperatures have dipped below -70C (-94F), a rare occurrence even in the heart of winter—let alone during the autumn transition.
28 March: -72.4C (-98.3F)
29 March: -75.5C (-103.9F)
30 March: -75.1C (-103.2F
The reading of -75.5C (-103.9F) on March 29 (at 22:08 UTC) sets a new monthly minimum for March at Concordia, breaking the old (and less reliable) record of -75.2C (-103.4F) set on 27 March 2013. It is also just 0.6C above Earth’s lowest-ever recorded March temperature.
The coldest March temperature ever recorded anywhere in Antarctica remains the -76.1C (-105F) observed on March 31, 1994 at AGO-4 AWS. However, this value is also considered unreliable due to the absence of supporting metadata.
Elsewhere, Dome CII AWS set a new March minimum on March 29, logging -73.9C (-101F) and so pipping the previous record of -73.8C (-100.8F) set March 27, 2013.
Another noteworthy lows was at Byrd AWS in West Antarctica: -52.9C (-63.2F) was logged there on March 30.
Spring Cold And Snow For U.S.
While the hints are there, spring is refusing to fully sprung across much of the United States.
Rounds of heavy snow will persist well into April:
The West, in particular, is set for an April dumping, adding to what has been an impressive snow year. So much for California’s 1,200-year megadrought hysteria. Despite all the doomsdaying, this is the third solid season on the trot: the snow in the Sierra keeps falling, the reservoirs keep filling, and the state’s water supply is far from the apocalyptic wasteland the prophesy foretold.
According to the latest survey from the Department of Water Resources, the Sierra Nevada snowpack now sits at 90% of normal, with the storms arriving next week poised to push it above average.
Andy Reising, the department’s snow survey manager, called it “great news for the state.”
Northern Sierra snowpack is already at 108% of average for this date. Central and southern Sierra are a little behind, at 83% and 81% respectively—solid numbers considering the additional storms on the horizon.
The same people who once wailed that California was doomed to a climate-change-fueled megadrought have suddenly gone awfully quiet on this topic—probably too busy keying Teslas.
Back to the forecast: the April cold also looks set to impress. Waves of ‘blues’ and ‘purples’ will enter the U.S. over the next few weeks, as per latest GFS runs, with April 7 looking particularly chilly: see album…
24 March 2025
Our Vernal Equinox brought typical spring weather to the Rockies with 2 snow storms on 21 and 22 March. Many areas in the N Hemisphere experienced similar winter like weather this week. Malaga, Lebanon, Albania, Bulgaria, Russia, Korea, …all had extreme winter weather. (See the web site) The US had a series of strong short waves in the jet stream that triggered snow storms and severe weather as they traveled coast to coast. Recall these storms have warm sectors ahead of cold sectors that bring warm air north and cold air south thus bringing the atmosphere into equilibrium. Interestingly, the Sea Surface Temperature SST anomaly in the equatorial Pacific now has an el Nino near Equador and la Ninja like pattern in the mid Pacific.
Europe cooled as Arctic surges hit Norway after the polar vortex weakened with a stratospheric warming. Norway’s mountains had heavy spring snows 1-3 m predicted thru the end of March. Sweden, on the lee side, had much less snowfall. Greenland also had several record daily SMBs. Slovenia’s Alps had new snow approaching the normal, then dropped ~40 cm below the 310 cm normal and back up to 300cm today. UK’s energy prices tripled due to reliance on renewables, and the end of coal power plants. Bulgaria’s mountain passes were hit with heavy snows. Albania had a rare 20 cm of March snow. Turkey also had heavy snows stranding travelers, while Jordan had its first spring snows in nearly 30 years. The UK warmed somewhat; however the Highlands continued to have spring snows. Spain and Morocco also had significant snow in the mountains.
Asia continued to have cold surges that chilled Korea with late season extremes of snow and cold. Taiwan’s mountains were blanketed with rare snowfall. Vietnam’s mountains even had unprecedented frost!
Australia continued to have heavy rain forecasts again this week. Traces of early snow hit Australia and Tasmania, while New Zealand’s Alps have had notable snows of 9-24 cm and heavy rains (100-400 mm) in the west coast rainforests.
Antarctica hit -67.7 at Dome Fuji AWS on March 20th, a new seasonal low. windy.com's temperature analysis now shows these stations and the ECMWF model’s analysis which also indicated -67ºC over significant areas. The Ross Sea and Weddell Seas closed with sea ice blocking access to the open ocean. Coastal mountains continued to have locally heavy snows of 179-254 cm as deep 942-954 mb storms circled the Antarctic. McMurdo Base hit -24ºC on the Ross Sea, while Univ. Wisconsin Station on the Weddell Sea dropped to -18ºC. Fall is definitely cooling the region as the sun passed the vernal equinox. The Southern Jetstream continues to intensify with 150 to 170 kt winds.
Polar Vortex collapses:
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My albums provide detailed satellite, model, and other analyses that document the weekly weather of interest.
New Winter 2024-25 Album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/dptScrC2ePBxJdVJ9
FALL ALBUM: https://photos.app.goo.gl/cMYFVJgHcNTsSaBRA
Summer 2024 album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/egYrzbhS53gNoa5JA
THE FOLLOWING TABLES show the observed temperatures at key points from Greenland to Vostok and the ECMWF 10-day snowfall forecasts at key points around the world where glaciers may be receding or growing.
OBSERVED TEMPERATURES and ECMWF 10-DAY SNOWFALL FORECASTS:
See: https://photos.app.goo.gl/D4FSQPjmzrAwbS2q9
You can see the magnitude of the storms on windy.com and in NOAA’s GOES satellite imagery: https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/fulldisk_band.php?sat=G18&band=GEOCOLOR&length=12
Temperature anomalies are tracked on:
tropicaltidbits.com
see: https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/models/?model=gfs®ion=us&pkg=T2ma&runtime=2024021212&fh=6
The windy.com wave map shows the deep storms:
see: https://www.windy.com/-Waves-waves?waves,67.842,-1.230,3,i:pressure
Check out the albums below for detailed charts, satellite images, and observations:
Fall - Winter 2023:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/ZtfEjJRJ14eKVKpw6
Winter 2024: https://photos.app.goo.gl/DdoiQp1TL7DGMC1B7
Summer 2024 album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/egYrzbhS53gNoa5JA
Previous notes of interest:
The La Niña has formed as of 6/19/24. It continues to evolve with a 70% chance of fully developing by November 2024 according to NOAA’s latest 9/21/24 forecast. The latest SST analysis on 01/27/25 has a complex La Niña/El Niño pattern… The weekly SST anomaly on 27 January showed warming off Equador with cooling from 120 to180º W. This warming continued this week of 24 March. See the albums.
Dr. Valentina Zharkova, a solar expert from the Ukraine, talks about the sun’s impact on the el Niño in her interview below. She reviews the Grand Solar Minimum and solar system impacts on climate variability.
Valentina Zharkova’s interview at the end of this link provides a comprehensive review of the GSM physics from an expert in this field. Dr. Zharkova reviews the physics, mathematics, and relationships of solar cycles, orbital mechanics, magnetosphere impacts, volcano cycles, and el Nino cycles related to the earth’s inclination…
https://electroverse.info/coldest-may-80n-greenland-gains-warmer-in-the-past-zharkova-interview/
Her primary web site: https://solargsm.com/
Last week a major Antarctic cold front moved northward over Australia triggering heavy rains up to Alice Springs. Monthly cold records were set in March. Note: Jennifer Marohasy discusses Australian forecasts and observations every week.
JENNIFER MAROHASY’s latest: https://jennifermarohasy.com/2024/01/cyclone-jasper-bom-forecasting-getting-to-the-truth/
Note: 2023 was the first time since 1987 when Australia’s mountains had snow on the ground all year. The mean February temperature was 0.2ºC below normal making the summer mean temp 0.5ºC below normal. New Zealand continues to increase snows over the South Island with 1-2 m and heavy rain at low elevations on the West coast 57-260 mm. Note: October 25-30, 2023 the interior of Australia had satellite surface temperatures from 10 to 31ºC - spring was here with a few cool highs..
https://www.windy.com/-New-snow-snowAccu?snowAccu,next10d,-66.653,-60.776,4,i:pressure,m:NPaelA
For those interested in understanding the current weather, I have documented events in the Albums showing model, satellite, radar, images.
Electroverse provides an excellent source of extremes not reported in the MSM:
Latest Extremes: 24 March 2025
Spring Snowstorm Shuts Down South Korea’s East Coast; Malaga Blanketed; Germany’s Wind Failure; + Mainstream Scientist Questions ‘The Science’
March 18, 2025 Cap Allon
Spring Snowstorm Shuts Down South Korea’s East Coast
A fierce spring snowstorm buried South Korea’s east coast Monday, stranding vehicles.
From Sunday morning to Monday morning, Guryeong Pass picked up 42.5cm (16.7 inches), some 40cm (15.7 inches) hit eastern Gangwon, Misiryeong Tunnel saw 34.2cm (13.5 inches), with Yongsan registering 34cm (13.4 inches).
The wet, heavy snow is toppling trees, cutting power, and making roads treacherous. Four key routes were shut, including Madaljae Pass in Samcheok and a coastal road in Goseong. Fifty-nine national park hiking trails have also been closed.
The Gangwon government deployed 934 snow-clearing machines and nearly 1,000 personnel to clear roads and assess damage, but conditions remain hazardous which is hampering recovery efforts.
This storm is far from over, and all. Another snow system arrived into the small hours of Tuesday, one forecast to drop an additional 30 cm is expected in Gangwon’s mountains, and another 20 cm in North Gyeongsang’s highlands this week.
Fresh snowfall started early Tuesday in the Seoul metropolitan area and Chungcheong, and is spreading nationwide. The KMA has issued a heavy snow warning for the likes of Seoul, Incheon, and Gyeonggi — the agency’s latest-ever heavy snow advisories.
This Arctic surge is crashing temperatures to monthly extremes, dropping thermometers below freezing across the country, even in metropolitan Seoul.
Malaga Blanketed
Rare and extensive March snowfall has blanketed Malaga’s Sierra de las Nieves National Park
The out-of-season freeze also brought light snow to the peaks of the Sierras Tejeda, Almijara, and Alhama in the Axarquía region, an uncommon sight this late in the season. The snowfall was visible even from the Costa del Sol.
Malaga meteorologist José Luis Escudero shared photos and footage from Torrecilla:
Nationwide, the deep chill has triggered alerts across six regions, with Aemet forecasting additional heavy snow across the northern half of Spain, particularly the Northern Plateau, Alcarria de Guadalajara, and of course the Pyrenees.
As spring approaches, heavy frosts are on the cards for the north.
Germany’s Wind Failure
The Alpha Ventus offshore wind farm, once a green energy trophy, is shutting down after just 15 years, because it can’t survive without massive government subsidies.
Propped up by Germany’s renewable energy feed-in act (EEG), Alpha Ventus received an inflated 15.4 cents per kilowatt-hour. Now, with handouts cut off, it must operate at the market rate—just 3.9 cents. Unsurprisingly, it is instantly unprofitable.
Offshore wind is an economic black hole. Maintenance is costly, access is unpredictable, and saltwater, storms, and high winds accelerate breakdowns. Repairs require specialized crews, expensive ships, and favorable weather—leading to long downtimes.
Alpha Ventus was supposed to prove offshore wind’s viability. Instead, it has helped expose the green illusion.
Mainstream Scientist Questions ‘The Science’
Sabine Hossenfelder, a physicist and warmist known for her sharp critiques of mainstream narratives, appears to be continuing her gradual distancing from global warming alarmism—just as we thought, given her capacity for critical thinking.
In recent videos, Hossenfelder openly questioned the validity of climate event attribution, the method used to link specific extreme weather events to climate change. She criticized climate models for their inaccuracy in predicting local weather patterns and called out the scientific community for failing to acknowledge statistical weaknesses in widely publicized studies.
“This isn’t an innocent mistake,” she said, arguing that many climate scientists know these studies are unreliable but remain silent due to political pressure.
Steve Milloy, a vocal critic of climate alarmism, responded to her statements with approval, noting that even those once aligned with The Science are beginning to awake. Even in mainstream circles now, there are growing concerns about the integrity of climate science and media-driven narratives, and Hossenfelder, unsurprisingly given her evident backbone and candor, is leading the awakening.
She said in a recent video:
“I am generally unconvinced by this ‘event attribution’ business. Climate models are no good for predicting local weather situations, do a bad job with the frequency of extreme weather events in general…
…what the fuck. In any decent scientific discipline this “result” would have been reported as “not statistically significant” end of story. This isn’t an innocent mistake…
…many climate scientists know how sketchy the studies are that come out of this world weather attribution centre, but they keep their mouth shut… There are many climate scientists who totally know this so-called research isn’t reliable, but they don’t say a word because it’d be politically inconvenient…
….Whenever there is some crap going around in the media, they look away and keep their mouth shut. It’s one of the reasons why I don’t trust scientists… I really do not trust scientists. And this suspicious silence about crap studies that attract media attention is a good illustration for why.”
I urge you drop in with Hossenfelder every now and then. There is a bit of drama going on over at her channel. We could be watching the first stages of ‘red pilling.’
Or maybe not.
Regardless though, she’s a good watch.
Rare March Snow In Bulgaria; Albania Hit; Taiwan Mountains Blanketed As Polar Cold Descends; Unprecedented March Frosts Sweep Vietnam Peaks; + UK Energy Prices Have Tripled Because Of Climate Policies
March 19, 2025 Cap Allon
Rare March Snow In Bulgaria
Winter has returned to parts of Bulgaria, blanketing the Balkan Mountains with rare mid-March snow.
Significant snowfall has been recorded in key mountain passes, including Petrohan, Shipka, Rozhen, Prevala, and Pamporovo. Road crews are actively clearing routes, but severe winter conditions persist, making clearing efforts challenging.
Four snowplows are working the Petrohan Pass simultaneously, with a ban in place for heavy goods vehicles. Thermometers here were reading -7C (19F) midday Tuesday, challenging monthly records.
Snow-clearing teams are also constantly working the Shipka Pass, clearing the road every 30 minutes as snow and ice persist.
While Smolyan’s Governor, Adrian Petrov, reported stranded vehicles on the Prevala Pass.
Authorities urge continued caution.
Albania Hit
On Tuesday, mountainous areas of Albania saw unusual mid-March snowfall, with accumulations reaching 20 cm (7.9 inches) across the likes of Qafë-Thore.
Maintenance teams worked through the night to ensure key routes remained clear.
Disruptive snow also hit Fushë-Arrëz and Qafë-Mali, with authorities informing residents to put the winter tires back on.
Mid-March snowfall of this magnitude is considered rare in these regions. In Shkodër, March typically sees minimal snowfall, if any, averaging just 4 mm (0.16 inches) — the recent accumulation of 20 cm (7.9 inches) are quite the anomaly.
Taiwan Mountains Blanketed As Polar Cold Descends
Taiwan’s highest peaks, including Yushan, were hit by heavy snow Tuesday as a powerful polar air mass gripped the island.
Hehuanshan, Wuling, and Paiyun Lodge have also received substantial March snow and anomalous, biting cold.
Elsewhere, Lalashan, the Lake Jiaming National Trail, and Jianshih Township all reported snow. The icy conditions have also forced the closure of schools, including the Hsin Kwang Elementary School in Jianshih.
While snowfall in Taiwan’s high mountains during March is not uncommon, this spring has been colder than usual due to the influence of the La Niña climate pattern. Notably, Yushan has recorded snow as late as April in previous years.
Freezing air sent thermometers tumbling, and the Central Weather Administration (CWA) has issued low-temperature alerts for northern and central Taiwan.
Looking ahead, a second system is expected to descend, deepening the chill as the week progresses.
Unprecedented March Frosts Sweep Vietnam Peaks
Frost have swept Ta Xua Mountain in northern Vietnam’s Yen Bai Province. Historically, frost in these parts has been confined to winter months, making this occurrence—as per multiple sources—unprecedented.
The frost began forming Tuesday night at the summit and was thick by morning as temperatures dropped to 0C (32F).
According to Lao Dong newspaper, there is no previous record of frost this late in the season. Vietnam.vn is saying likewise.
Dao Viet Nghiem, chairman of Ban Cong Commune, where the mountain is located, confirmed that while frost is relatively common in winter, this is the first time locals have witnessed it in March.
A second mass of frigid air is now chasing the first, sweeping through northern Vietnam, dropping temperatures to 5C (41F) in Sa Pa and 6C (42.8F) in Dong Van — historically low for the time of year.
The National Center for Hydrometeorological Forecasting has warned that cold air incursions into northern Vietnam will continue for the remainder of March, likely resulting in monthly average as much as -1C below the multidecadal norm.
UK Energy Prices Have Tripled Because Of Climate Policies
The UK’s climate policies have tripled electricity prices since 2003, hammering businesses and families.
This isn’t an accident—it’s the result of deliberate government decisions that have made energy artificially expensive. The total cost? £59 billion more per year, money that should have been left in people’s pockets.
The hard numbers—as pointed out by political scientist and economist Bjorn Loimborg on X—are as follows:
2.1% of GDP is now wasted on inflated electricity costs.
The average family of four is paying £5,425 ($6,740) per year on energy—both directly and through higher prices passed on by businesses.
If the UK had kept prices at 2003 levels—like the US did—families would be saving £3,543 ($4,401) per year.
Harsh Chill Sweeps Taiwan; Antarctica Nears -70C (-94F); Snow Persists Across U.S.; Pileups In Russia; + March Accumulations In Japan, Rare Tokyo Flakes
March 20, 2025 Cap Allon
Harsh Chill Sweeps Taiwan
A cold air mass is lingering over Taiwan, resulting in Guanxi Township posting a rare 5C (41F) Wednesday–as per Central Weather Administration (CWA) data.
Miaoli County’s Sanwan Township followed with 5.2C (41.4F), while New Taipei’s Shiding District registered 6.5C (43.7F).
These readings are unusually low for this time of year, typically thermometers bottom out at 16C (60.8F) in these parts.
Cold surge advisories remain in effect until late morning, across New Taipei, Taipei, Taoyuan, Taichung, and Yilan.
Antarctica Nears -70C (-94F)
In the early hours of March 20, Dome Fuji AWS registered -67.7C (-89.9F), marking the new seasonal low in Antarctica.
In the hours ahead, temperatures are expected to drop drop even further, potentially reaching -70C (-94F).
Snow Persists Across Parts Of The U.S.
Recent late-season snowstorms have blanketed various regions of the United States, resulting in record-breaking accumulations and significant disruptions.
In Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, Munising has now recorded a seasonal total of 218.1 inches (554 cm), approaching its all-time record of 238 inches (605 cm) set 1996-97. The area remains under a winter storm warning, with forecasts predicting another 14 inches (36 cm) this week.
The NWS near Gaylord is reporting a new seasonal record of 149.5 inches (380 cm) here, surpassing the previous record of 149 inches (378 cm) from 2016-17. Traverse City has experienced its fourth-highest snowfall on record, with 125.1 inches (318 cm), while Sault Ste. Marie has logged 138.9 inches (353 cm), making for the city’s second-snowiest season.
Turning to Colorado, a mid-March storm brought substantial snowfall to various regions. So far this season, Denver has reported 43.5 inches (110 cm) of snow, comfortably surpassing the average season-to-date total of 37 inches (94 cm).
California’s Sierra Nevada saw Bear Valley receive 32 inches (81 cm) recently. While the Central Sierra Snow Lab is registered 27 inches (69 cm) over a 24-hour period, marking the largest single-day accumulation at the lab for two years.
These recent snows have aided Northern Hemisphere totals, which are holding well-above the 1982-2012 average:
Pileups In Russia
A late-season snowstorm has wreaked havoc on Yagrinsky Bridge, which is located in the Arkhangelsk Oblast area of northwestern Russia. Blizzard conditions lead to a pileup involving more than 50 vehicles.
The sudden onslaught of heavy snowfall, coupled with fierce winds , created near-zero visibility conditions.
The unexpected severity of the storm, so late in the season, caught many off guard, including emergency responders who struggled through the blizzards and fast-accumulating drifts to access the scene.
Authorities have urged extreme caution, warning that more snow is on the way.
March Accumulations In Japan, Rare Tokyo Flakes
A powerful low-pressure system is sweeping across Japan, bringing heavy snow, strong winds, and treacherous conditions, particularly in the north to the west.
On Wednesday, accumulations were noted in Tokyo’s 23 wards, dusting the capital with an inch as temperatures plummeted. March snowfall is considered rare in Tokyo, as well as much of the Kanto region.
Elsewhere, Kusatsu in Gunma Prefecture recorded a foot, while Nagano Prefecture’s Sugadaira opsted 27cm(10.6 inches).
The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) is urging caution as the storm continues to unleash snow, powerful winds, and dangerously high waves. Continued travel disruptions are expected, according to the agency, particularly along the mountainous regions of Kanto-Koshin, as the snows are forecast to persist.
Officially, Japan still has eight resorts with a snow depth above 500cm (16.4ft), with Tengendai Kogen taking the top spot: 760cm (24.9ft). It’s been a fantastically snowy season—but it was all due to gLoBaL wArMiNg, according to the Establishment…
[japantimes.co.jp]
To recap ‘The Science’:
Global warming melts ice caps
Global warming also increases snowfall
Snowfall is expected to decrease due to warming
But warming causes more snow
Prepare for heavier snowfall in a warming world
We were originally told winters would disappear? Now they will be snowier?
[japantimes.co.jp]
The agency uses ‘event attribution’—a method where any weather event is conveniently linked to climate change after the fact (see yesterdays article for more on that). Snow is supposed to decline, but when it doesn’t, it was the warming that increased precipitation. Heads they win, tails you lose. The AGW Party adds loophole after loophole to keep the alarm bells ringing.
But wasn’t warming supposed to eliminate these cold snaps?
Climate catastrophism is a trillion-dollar industry.
Natural variability and model failures threaten it. So they’re ignored.
Rare Snow In Lebanon; “Is This Spring?”; + Polar Vortex Breakdown: A Natural Cooling Mechanism; + Necessary Review
March 21, 2025 Cap Allon
Rare Snow In Lebanon
Unusual snowfall and icy conditions have blocked major roads in Lebanon, including the vital Dahr El-Baidar route, which remains closed to all vehicles due to heavy snow accumulation.
The Internal Security Forces’ Traffic Control Room reported Thursday evening that the Tarshish–Zahle road is also closed.
“Is This Spring?”
A powerful storm slammed the Midwest U.S. this week, toppling power lines, shutting down major highways, and burying parts of the region in snow—just as another system began forming in the Northeast on the first day of spring.
AccuWeather warned Thursday that “rounds of cold air and snow” will continue to sweep across the northern U.S., from the Plains through the Midwest and into the Northeast, into the week.
In Kansas, blizzard conditions shut down 250 miles of I-70 from Salina to the Colorado border. Iowa closed a 70-mile stretch of I-29 from Sergeant Bluff to Missouri Valley. Nebraska shut I-80 from Omaha to the Wyoming state line.
In the Northeast, the next wave of snow is expected to bring some 6 inches across the Green and White Mountains, as well as the Adirondacks and Catskills into Friday. Another system is expected to move in Monday bringing additional snow and a wintry mix.
Elsewhere, winter storm warnings were issued for Oregon’s Cascades, where up to three feet of snow may fall by Saturday.
Spring may be ‘officially’ here, but much of the country is still battling winter. Accumulations from recent blizzards are keeping temperatures down across the Plains and the like—instead of the 60s, thermometers are in the 30s and 40s.
Polar Vortex Breakdown: A Natural Cooling Mechanism
The polar vortex at 10 hPa has collapsed early, with winds reversing direction far ahead of schedule. This isn’t just an atmospheric anomaly—it has real consequences for global temperatures.
Normally, the polar vortex acts as a containment system, keeping frigid Arctic air isolated while limiting heat exchange with the mid-latitudes. But when the vortex weakens or reverses, warm air from the south surges into the Arctic and cooler air is displaced to the lower latitudes.
This leads to a redistribution of atmospheric energy: the Arctic warms temporarily, but crucially, the heat transported north is lost to space as infrared radiation. Since the Arctic is a major heat-loss region for the planet, this process results in net cooling.
At the same time, displaced cold air can drive extreme winter weather in lower latitudes, while shifts in the jet stream contribute to disruptions like Spain’s recent heavy rains.
These patterns are part of Earth’s natural variability, its climate cycles. Temperature changes are governed by complex atmospheric dynamics—not CO2 levels. Understanding these cycles would destroy the CAGW cult.
https://x.com/TomANelson/status/1902889602328715336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1902889602328715336%7Ctwgr%5E78d3d4331e346ced0f57efc336487719a4e98066%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Felectroverse.info%2Frare-snow-in-lebanon-is-this-spring-polar-vortex-breakdown-a-natural-cooling-mechanism-necessary-review%2F
Heavy Snow Batters Turkey; Albanian Hit, Crops Threatened; Jordan’s First Spring Snows In Almost 3 Decades; B.C. Buried; Japan Chills; + Historical Warming Dwarfs Today’s “Crisis”
March 24, 2025 Cap Allon
Heavy Snow Batters Turkey
An unseasonal bout of heavy snow has swept central Anatolia and eastern Turkey.
More than 900 travelers were stranded overnight Friday on highways connecting Kayseri to Malatya, Gürün, and Göksun—routes that are typically clear by spring. Emergency crews worked through the storm to reach those trapped and bring them to safety.
In Sivas province, relentless blizzards forced the closure of the Sivas-Gürün highway. Despite the closure, rescue teams responded to four traffic separate accidents here. One missing person was also successfully located amid the snow.
The Geminbeli Pass, a key route linking Anatolia to the Black Sea region, was another stretch hit hard. Drivers found themselves immobilized as the spring snow piled up. Plows were deployed but progress proved slow due to whiteout conditions.
The Turkish State Meteorological Service has forecast continued snow, with icy roads, transport disruptions, and avalanche risks in mountainous areas among the top concerns.
A yellow-level weather alert—indicating potentially hazardous conditions—was issued for Giresun, Ordu, and Samsun. Authorities here are urging residents to stay indoors and avoid unnecessary travel, particularly in high-altitude or rural areas.
Albanian Hit, Crops Threatened
Biting cold and heavy snowfall have hit Korça, Albania, posing a serious threat to fruit crops just as the growing season commences. Temperatures plunged to as low as -6C (21F), raising alarms for almonds, peaches, apricots, and especially early-blooming cherry varieties.
Arben Hysolli, from the Korça Directorate of Agriculture, says the damage could be extensive but depends on number of factors. Helpful. An official assessment is expected early this week.
“This late snowfall and the sharp drop in temperatures came suddenly,” Hysolli explained. “The impact varies by crop and cultivar, but early blossoms are the most vulnerable.”
Some farmers are using smoke fog—burning wet straw, cardboard, or other materials—to try to raise local temperatures. Others are deploying centrifugal fans to circulate air, which can increase the temperature by up to 3C (5F).
According Hysolli, extreme cold is becoming more frequent due to global warming–yes, he said that: “To tell the truth, in cases of extreme weather conditions like this, the frequency of extreme weather events has increased due to global warming. As such, farmers are sometimes unprepared for these situations.”
Jordan’s First Spring Snows In Almost 3 Decades
Jordan has experienced significant snowfall during the holy month of Ramadan—a phenomenon not observed in almost 30 years. This rare occurrence coincided with the vernal equinox, marking the onset of spring.
Snow accumulated on the northern mountain peaks, notably in the Jerash and Ajloun governorates, including the Ras Munif area.
As the cold air mass deepened, snow extended to some central highland peaks, encompassing areas in Balqa and certain high-altitude neighborhoods in western Amman, such as Khalda and Tlaa Al-Ali.
Snow in Jordan—located in the Middle East—is rare, usually confined to the highland regions during the winter months. These late-March snows are almost unprecedented.
B.C. Buried
March has delivered a serious blast of winter to British Columbia’s mountains.
Over 40 cm (16 inches) of fresh snow has fallen at Mt. Seymour overnight, with similarly accumulations reported at Brohm Ridge near Whistler and at Mt. Washington, which received 30 cm (12 inches).
This brings the total snowfall for the month to 343 cm (135 inches), making March 2025 the snowiest month of the winter so far and also the snowiest March since the record-smashing month of 2017, which saw 683 cm (269 inches) settle.
A stellar late-season in the BC backcountry is on the cards.
Japan Chills
While some parts of Japan have enjoyed a little spring warmth of late, unusual cold has entered the likes of Okinawa.
A rare late-season cold spell blew in over the weekend, tanking temperatures in many regions, including the usually mild Okinawa. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), two observation stations set new record lows for the month.
These being, Moriyama, which recorded a low of 9.4C (48.9F), breaking its previous March record of 12C (53.6F), set March 1, 2016; and Kita-Daito, which posted 9.7C (49.5F), edging past its previous March record of 9.9C (49.8F) set on March 5, 2004.
These values are significant for Okinawa, where temperatures typically hold far higher at this time of year.
Looking ahead, the JMA has said Japan has a high probability of below-normal temperatures throughout the spring months.
In addition, a major stratospheric sudden warming (SSW) event commenced March 8, with their impacts usually hitting a few weeks later. SSW events can influence atmospheric circulation patterns, dragging polar air masses to the lower latitudes.
Furthermore, snow depths are holding well across the higher elevations, with a whopping 7.8 m (25.6 ft) is still on Tengendai Kogen.
Total snow mass for the Hemisphere as a whole is also maintaining incredibly well:
Historical Warming Dwarfs Today’s “Crisis”
The UN push the idea that our current climate is in unprecedented chaos, but when taking a step back from the hysteria and checking with the data what you find isn’t a tale of doom, but of historical context they’d rather you ignore.
Across Europe, the late 17th and early 18th centuries saw dramatic, natural warming.
Temperatures in Moscow, for example, spiked sharply around 1700…
These were not isolated blips but part of a broader, rapid climate swing, long before industrial emissions existed.
Another example is Central England. From 1695 to 1735—a mere 40 years—the region experienced a 2C rise in average temperature. For comparison, today’s much-hyped 1.5C warming took nearly 150 years, from 1880 to now.
17 March 2025
A typical strong late winter pattern prevailed this week. This is typical of the polar vortex weakening and a strong meridional flow taking control. Once the Greenland Omega Block weakened, a powerful short wave moved from the California coast to the mid-west bringing heavy snows to the mountains, and blizzards to the High Plains, and triggering heavy rains and severe weather. Deadly severe weather was along the cold front generated by this winter storm that crossed Colorado from California and moved into Ontario. Over 40 people died in tornadoes that spun up along the front in areas of maximum wind shear and convective instability from Louisiana to Ohio. The deadly combination of Gulf AR moisture, low level jet, and upper level jet stream triggered this major outbreak of tornadoes that moved east off the coast.
The Canadian Coastal mountains at Whistler have reached 7 m of snow and Sierra ski areas down to Big Bear are now at over 100% of normal. With over a meter of new snow on Friday, 14 March. The decay of the Polar Vortex and sudden stratospheric warming SSW are contributing to the continued strong meridional flow that will bring winter to the N Hemisphere through March.
Europe is finally having winter weather with heavy snow in the Alps from Monaco to Mt. Blanc and Slovenia. Triglav looks like mid-winter finally with 270 cm at Kredarica, still about 80 cm below normal. Greenland’s SMB is now above normal with several days with >8 GT of new snow. The N Hemisphere SMB is now 1,100 GT above normal setting new records every day. “On Thursday, Côte-d’Or–a department in eastern France–was hit by rare March snowfall, blanketing the region.”
Asia remains cold with China, Korea, and Japan setting records. “By February 22, snow at Sukayu, Japan had already piled up to 4.4 m (14.4 ft) —almost double last year’s level. “Bulldozers and rotary snowplows are now carving an 8 km (5 mile) stretch between Sukayu and Yachi, marking the transition from winter to spring. Crews in Aomori are clearing walls expected to reach towering 8 meters (23.3 feet) high.” Korea continued to have very cold, heavy snows. The Great Wall of China also had a rare coating of snow.
The Antarctic continued to cool into the -60s as the Ross and Weddell seas rapidly closed in with sea ice, now ~ 20% and 10% open. The Weddell sea is now blocked by significant sea ice to the open ocean. Record early cold in the interior continues to evolve. Dome Fuji reached -67ºC one of the coldest temperatures reached at this time of he year. Large aeas of Australia had significant rains as the summer remaned relativley mild. The Andes continued to pickup 70 to 200 cm on the highest peaks and southern Argentina was below normal.
Polar Vortex collapses:
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My albums provide detailed satellite, model, and other analyses that document the weekly weather of interest.
New Winter 2024-25 Album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/dptScrC2ePBxJdVJ9
FALL ALBUM: https://photos.app.goo.gl/cMYFVJgHcNTsSaBRA
Summer 2024 album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/egYrzbhS53gNoa5JA
THE FOLLOWING TABLES show the observed temperatures at key points from Greenland to Vostok and the ECMWF 10-day snowfall forecasts at key points around the world where glaciers may be receding or growing.
OBSERVED TEMPERATURES and ECMWF 10-DAY SNOWFALL FORECASTS:
See: https://photos.app.goo.gl/D4FSQPjmzrAwbS2q9
You can see the magnitude of the storms on windy.com and in NOAA’s GOES satellite imagery: https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/fulldisk_band.php?sat=G18&band=GEOCOLOR&length=12
Temperature anomalies are tracked on:
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see: https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/models/?model=gfs®ion=us&pkg=T2ma&runtime=2024021212&fh=6
The windy.com wave map shows the deep storms:
see: https://www.windy.com/-Waves-waves?waves,67.842,-1.230,3,i:pressure
Check out the albums below for detailed charts, satellite images, and observations:
Fall - Winter 2023:
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Previous notes of interest:
The La Niña continues to evolve as the latest SST analysis on 01/27/25 has a complex La Niña/El Niño pattern… The weekly SST anomaly on 7 March showed warming off Equador with cooling from 120 to180º W. See the albums.
Dr. Valentina Zharkova, a solar expert from the Ukraine, talks about the sun’s impact on the el Niño in her interview below. She reviews the Grand Solar Minimum and solar system impacts on climate variability.
Valentina Zharkova’s interview at the end of this link provides a comprehensive review of the GSM physics from an expert in this field. Dr. Zharkova reviews the physics, mathematics, and relationships of solar cycles, orbital mechanics, magnetosphere impacts, volcano cycles, and el Nino cycles related to the earth’s inclination…
https://electroverse.info/coldest-may-80n-greenland-gains-warmer-in-the-past-zharkova-interview/
Her primary web site: https://solargsm.com/
Last week a major Antarctic cold front moved northward over Australia triggering heavy rains up to Alice Springs. Monthly cold records were set in March. Note: Jennifer Marohasy discusses Australian forecasts and observations every week.
JENNIFER MAROHASY’s latest: https://jennifermarohasy.com/2024/01/cyclone-jasper-bom-forecasting-getting-to-the-truth/
Note: 2023 was the first time since 1987 when Australia’s mountains had snow on the ground all year. The mean February temperature was 0.2ºC below normal making the summer mean temp 0.5ºC below normal. New Zealand continues to increase snows over the South Island with 1-2 m and heavy rain at low elevations on the West coast 57-260 mm. Note: October 25-30, 2023 the interior of Australia had satellite surface temperatures from 10 to 31ºC - spring was here with a few cool highs..
https://www.windy.com/-New-snow-snowAccu?snowAccu,next10d,-66.653,-60.776,4,i:pressure,m:NPaelA
For those interested in understanding the current weather, I have documented events in the Albums showing model, satellite, radar, images.
Electroverse provides an excellent source of extremes not reported in the MSM:
Latest Extremes: 17 March 2025
Dome Fuji To -67.2C (-89F); March Blizzards For The High Plains; Winters In China; Fuego Eruption; Stratospheric Changes; Nothing They Say…
March 11, 2025 Cap Allon
Dome Fuji To -67.2C (-89F)
On March 10, Antarctica logged another seasonal low.
An anomalous -67.2C (-89.0F) was recorded at Dome Fuji AWS at 22:11 UTC. This marks one of the lowest temperatures for the time of year ever recorded on the continent.
March Blizzards For The High Plains
A powerful winter storm is set to sweep across the U.S. this week, bringing intense weather conditions, including blizzards.
Originating from an atmospheric river currently impacting California, this storm is expected to intensify rapidly through Thursday, dumping hefty accumulations across the West and Midwest.
Blizzard conditions with dangerous whiteouts are forecast for the High Plains, particularly Montana, Wyoming, the Dakotas, and parts of Minnesota. This dumping, combined with fierce winds, is expected to cause widespread power outages.
All this spring snow will of course add to Northern Hemisphere totals, which are holding in record-setting territory:
Winters In China
China’s winter of 2024-25 (Dec to Feb) saw an average temperature of -2.7C (27.1F), aligning with the multidecadal average.
Maybe the trained eye of an alarmist can spot it, but I don’t see much of a trend here—let alone a catastrophic one:
Fuego Eruption
Guatemala’s Fuego Volcano continued its significant eruption through March 10. The volcano, located southwest of Guatemala City, emitted columns of lava, ash, and rocks.
The National Coordinator for Disaster Reduction (Conred) reported that the ash and gas plume reached a maximum height of 7 km (23,000 ft) above sea level—insufficient to significantly impact the climate, but impressive nonetheless.
The eruption prompted the evacuation of nearly 1,000 residents from nearby communities. And as a further precaution, authorities have closed schools and key highways. Residents are advised to wear masks due to the falling ash.
Stratospheric Changes
The polar vortex, a high-altitude circulation of fast-moving winds over the Arctic, helps trap frigid air near the pole. When this system weakens in an event known as a sudden stratospheric warming (SSW), the disruption can push Arctic air southward, triggering severe cold outbreaks in North America, Europe, and Asia.
These events typically occur every two years, but the frequency has increased—three times last year and another unfolding no. This suggests a shift in atmospheric dynamics, one possibly linked to the 2022 Hunga Tonga eruption.
NOAA’s latest data shows an SSW event in progress:
As shown, wind speeds at 10 hPa, which normally peak in midwinter, have abruptly collapsed and even reversed. At the same time, stratospheric temperatures have spiked far above normal. This disruption can take days or weeks to fully affect surface weather, but history suggests it raises the likelihood of extreme cold outbreaks in the coming weeks, deep into NH spring.
The Tonga eruption injected a record amount of water vapor into the upper atmosphere, which could be increasing the frequency of these SSW events by altering heat distribution. While each SSW creates short-term cold risks (i.e. Arctic Outbreaks to the lower latitudes), a long-term trend of vortex collapses would accelerate global cooling.
The atmosphere appears to be adjusting, and what we’re seeing doesn’t look to a be a mere winter anomaly—it may be the beginning of a broader climatic shift. Time will tell, as always—and we’re here to accurately document it.
As shown, wind speeds at 10 hPa, which normally peak in midwinter, have abruptly collapsed and even reversed. At the same time, stratospheric temperatures have spiked far above normal. This disruption can take days or weeks to fully affect surface weather, but history suggests it raises the likelihood of extreme cold outbreaks in the coming weeks, deep into NH spring.
The Tonga eruption injected a record amount of water vapor into the upper atmosphere, which could be increasing the frequency of these SSW events by altering heat distribution. While each SSW creates short-term cold risks (i.e. Arctic Outbreaks to the lower latitudes), a long-term trend of vortex collapses would accelerate global cooling.
The atmosphere appears to be adjusting, and what we’re seeing doesn’t look to a be a mere winter anomaly—it may be the beginning of a broader climatic shift. Time will tell, as always—and we’re here to accurately document it.
Nothing They Say…
The capacity to conveniently overlook failed climate predictions is deeply embedded in every climate alarmist.
This continues a half-century-long tradition of doomsayers confidently declaring humanity’s imminent demise, only to be embarrassingly disproven.
Here are 10 examples (a by no means exhaustive list):
1970: S. Dillon Ripley claimed that 75-80% of all species would vanish by 1995. Didn’t happen.
1970: Ecologist Kenneth Watt asserted that crude oil would vanish, farmland would become unusable, and global temperatures would drop 11 degrees by 2000. Utterly false.
1970: Biologist Paul Ehrlich declared 200 million would annually starve due to overpopulation, ocean life would vanish, and life expectancy would plunge to 42 years. Completely wrong.
1970: Professor Peter Gunter predicted worldwide famine (excluding the West) by 2000. Failed spectacularly.
1971: NASA’s Dr. S. I. Rasool foresaw an imminent new ice age within 50 years. Not even close.
1975: Ehrlich claimed that within 30 years, 90% of tropical rainforests and half the world’s species would disappear. Both claims laughably false.
1988: Maldives official Hussein Shihab warned his islands would sink underwater within 30 years and run out of drinking water by 1992. Both proven false.
2004: A Pentagon report warned climate change would cause global chaos, submerge major European cities, and plunge Britain into a Siberian climate by 2020. Didn’t materialize.
2008: ABC’s Bob Woodruff hosted a special predicting New York City underwater by 2015. Ridiculously inaccurate.
2009: Al Gore insisted the Arctic would be completely ice-free by 2014. Embarrassingly wrong.
These relentless miscalculations not only undermine public trust but also illustrate the agenda-driven hysteria that fuels climate alarmism. Despite decades of failed predictions, the activists continue to insist that disaster remains just around the corner — The Science tells them so, 97% of scientists agree, etc. etc.
To recap: nothing the Climatariat predicted is happening:
Saskatchewan Freeze; Aussie Cyclones Trending Down; Cold And The Collapse Of Ming; Antarctic Ice: Century-Long Stability; + Climate Summit In The Amazon
March 12, 2025 Cap Allon
Saskatchewan Freeze
The recent cold snap in Key Lake, Saskatchewan, has been particularly brutal, even by Canada’s standards.
On March 11, morning thermometers plunged to -45.3C (-49.5F), an noteworthy 25C (45F) below the seasonal average.
Aussie Cyclones Trending Down
Once again, the establishment and its lapdog media are blaming a cyclone on human prosperity. Cyclone Alfred, like every other storm before it, has been added to the poster boys of CAGW. But the data tells a different, unalarming story.
Tropical cyclones in Australian waters have plummeted over the last 55 years.
The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) confirms that both overall cyclone activity and the number of severe cyclones have declined since 1970. In 2015, for the first time in the satellite era, not a single severe cyclone formed.
This isn’t a matter of opinion; it’s data — there is no emotional response than can counter this, nor any amount of scoffing. There is zero evidence that cyclones are becoming more frequent or intense in Australian waters–or across the globe even:
Cold And The Collapse Of Ming
The fall of China’s Ming Dynasty (1368–1644) was caused, at least aided, by climatic forces. New research in Nature highlights that extreme cold, intensified by the Little Ice Age, played a crucial role in the collapse.
North China suffered five devastating megadroughts between 1581 and 1644, leading to crop failures, famine, soaring grain prices, and widespread uprisings. The government faced internal rebellion and growing external threats.
According to study, frequent El Niño events triggered a chain reaction of disrupted precipitation patterns across Asia, weakening the East Asian summer monsoon and amplifying North China’s droughts. The Little Ice Age further reduced temperatures and intensified these dry conditions, amplifying the crop failure and famine.
By 1644, the Ming were fatally destabilized, unable to cope with internal rebellion or external invasion. The Manchus, originating from the northeast where the climate had not deteriorated as much, seized their chance and overthrew the crumbling Ming dynasty and established the Qing.
Once in power, the Qing benefited from a climate shift—North China became milder and wetter again, aiding the new regime’s takeover.
Paper linked here.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-025-00950-z
Antarctic Ice: Century-Long Stability
A recent study published in Nature Communications by researchers from the University of Copenhagen tracked glacier movement in an area comparable in ice volume to the Greenland ice sheet. They found stability, even growth.
The study examined aerial photographs from 1937, supplemented by images from the 1950s and 1974, to reconstruct the long-term evolution of 21 glaciers in East Antarctica.
Using 3D computer reconstructions, the researchers found that ice surface elevations in Lützow-Holm Bay have remained constant since the 1930s, while glaciers along the Kemp, Mac Robertson, and Ingrid Christensen Coasts have thickened over the same period.
These findings suggest that, despite short-term fluctuations, these regions have exhibited long-term stability or growth in response to natural variability in snowfall.
While some glaciers experienced temporary thinning over intermediate periods of 10-20 years, the overall trends indicate a system in balance. The researchers emphasized that long-term empirical observations are essential to distinguishing between natural variability and short-term climate trends. Their results confirm that increased snowfall since the 1940s has played a significant role in maintaining and even increasing ice thickness in many areas.
Long-term empirical observations consistently challenge the media’s reliance on speculative climate modeling. The researchers note that observed trends cannot be distinguished from natural variability—though this hasn’t deterred activists from claiming otherwise.
The Financial Times, for example, recently linked 2023’s decline in Antarctic sea ice to a looming “catastrophic cascade of extreme environmental events.” However, by the end of 2024, sea ice levels had rebounded to the 1981–2010 average, illustrating its high natural variability. Also, early Nimbus satellite images revealed that 2023 saw a comparable decline to that of 1966.
Yet, alarmism persists.
The BBC recently warned that the Antarctic Circumpolar Current—the planet’s strongest oceanic flow—could slow by 20% within 25 years due to melting ice. What they omitted, however, is that this projection is based on a computer model that assumes an extreme and unrealistic 4C temperature rise in under 80 years. And in keeping with mainstream obfuscations, while the BBC highlighted the 2023 sea ice decline, they conveniently ignored the subsequent recovery.
Worst still for the alarmists, Antarctic is cooling.
Over the past seven decades, the majority of the continent has cooled, with the only temperature increases occurring over West Antarctica—coincidentally atop a cluster of active volcanoes.
Climate Summit In The Amazon
A climate summit in the Amazon—what better excuse to bulldoze the rainforest? COP30 is set to bring 50,000 politicians, executives, and bureaucrats to Brazil, and their first order of business? Destroy tens of thousands of acres of protected jungle to build a four-lane highway.
These so-called environmentalists are gutting a portion of the Amazon to stage a virtue-signaling farce. Meanwhile, locals like Claudio Verequete, who once made a living harvesting açaí berries from the now-leveled trees, are left with nothing.
The government assures us this is a “sustainable highway” because it will have bike lanes and solar lights and shit like that. And don’t you go worrying about the sloths and the jaguars—officials say there will be plenty of “wildlife crossings” for them to peacefully share.
More than all that though, Brazil is dumping tens of millions of dollars into an airport expansion, hotels, and a revamped port to host cruise ships—because nothing says “climate action” like VIP comfort. A 500,000-square-meter park is also in the works.
All of this BS so world leaders can fly in on private jets, pat themselves on the back, and push their climate hysteria. Climate change is not a crisis—it’s natural, cyclical, and certainly not something that justifies gutting a rainforest for a glorified PR stunt.
The idiocy is suffocating. I need a break. Back tomorrow.
Towering Snow Corridors In Japan; Northern Hemisphere Snow Mass Needs A Bigger Chart; $9 Trillion For 0.3%; + Judge Sanctions Micheal Mann…
March 13, 2025 Cap Allon
Towering Snow Corridors In Japan
Northern Japan’s Hakkoda-Towada Gold Line is being carved into a stunning ‘snow corridor’ after record-breaking seasonal snowfall buried the region. Crews in Aomori are clearing walls expected to reach towering 8 meters (23.3 feet) high.
By February 22, snow at Sukayu had already piled up to 4.4 m (14.4 ft) —almost double last year’s level. Bulldozers and rotary snowplows are now carving an 8 km (5 mile) stretch between Sukayu and Yachi, marking the transition from winter to spring.
Snow removal chief Koichi Sakumi remarked, “With so much snow, we aim to create walls visitors will love.”
Northern Hemisphere Snow Mass Needs A Bigger Chart
While extent appears average, the latest data point for the Northern Hemisphere snow mass is smashing all-time records.
The current winter season has seen snow accumulation exceed historical averages by a staggering margin, pushing past the standard deviation of past decades and threatening to punch through the Finnish Meteorological Institute’s top legend.
Snow mass, as of March 10, stands at almost 3,500 Gigatons—which is some 1,100 Gigatons above the 1982-2012 average:
The snowpack in Russia is leading the charge, aided by the falls across northern Europe and Canada: Sizable March accumulations are hitting the likes of British Columbia right now, with—for example—Whistler at Pig Alley seeing 151 cm (4.95 ft) in 5-days, contributing to a solid seasonal total of 780 cm (25.59 ft) — with more still to come.
$9 Trillion For 0.3%
JP Morgan’s annual energy report makes for a fun read. It fully exposes the folly that is renewable energy.
https://privatebank.jpmorgan.com/eur/en/insights/latest-and-featured/eotm/annual-energy-paper
After $9 trillion spent on wind, solar, EVs, storage, and electrified infrastructure over the last decade, the renewable share of final energy consumption has crept up by a pathetic 0.3%–0.6% per year. The grand vision of a green revolution is a wasteful fantasy.
“After $9 trillion globally over the last decade spent on wind, solar, electric vehicles, energy storage, electrified heat and power grids, the the renewable share of final energy consumption is slowly advancing at 0.3%–0.6% per year.”
Europe’s decarbonization agenda has been an economic suicide mission—sending energy prices soaring, collapsing industries, and destabilizing grids. Nuclear is sabotaged at every turn (likely because it would actually solve the problem, and they don’t want that), while electrification is just a shell game that shifts emissions rather than eliminating them.
If nine trillion dollars achieves nothing, how much more must be squandered before reality sets in? The renewable industry is a taxpayer-funded grift, a false promise wrapped in ideological zealotry. The numbers don’t lie. Green energy is a scam.
Judge Sanctions Michael Mann…
Michael E. Mann, long known for his aggressive legal tactics, has been sanctioned for bad-faith misconduct in his defamation lawsuit against Mark Steyn and others.
In his ruling, Judge Alfred S. Irving, Jr. found Mann and his attorneys knowingly presented false evidence to the jury regarding his supposed loss of grant funding.
Mann’s lawsuit, filed in 2012, claimed he lost grants due to critical articles. But when his attorneys presented evidence, half of their figures were flat-out wrong. The judge called it “stunning” and ruled that Mann’s legal team knowingly misled the jury.
“Here, the Court finds, by clear and convincing evidence, that Dr. Mann, through Mr. Fontaine and Mr. Williams, acted in bad faith when they presented erroneous evidence and made false representations to the jury and the Court regarding damages stemming from loss of grant funding.”
“Erroneous evidence” and “false representations” — Mann has history of those:
Surprise Snow Hits Côte-d’Or; Feet Hit The Sierra Nevadas; Greenland Snow/Ice Above Average; + The UN’s Plea For Relevance
March 14, 2025 Cap Allon
Surprise Snow Hits Côte-d’Or
On Thursday, Côte-d’Or–a department in eastern France–was hit by rare March snowfall, blanketing the region.
Semur-en-Auxois recorded some 10 cm (3.9 inches), while Bligny-le-Sec picked up 15 cm (5.9 inches).
Roads became treacherous, with closures on the RD07 near Dijon and delays on the A6. Authorities issued a yellow alert for snow and ice, urging caution. Snowplows and salt trucks worked through the morning, but icy conditions and delays persisted.
Low temperatures throughout the day maintained the snow.
Feet Hit The Sierra Nevadas
The Sierra Nevadas saw heavy totals pile up Thursday.
Recent storms have now dumped record-breaking March snowfall on the range, shutting down some ski resorts.
Palisades Tahoe has received approximately 3 feet since Thursday morning. Avalanche mitigation is underway. While Mt. Rose, owing to a recent foot or two now has seasonal total of approx. 25 feet. Night skiing is canceled Friday here. Heavenly now stands at 182 inches for the season, Northstar at 230 inches, Boreal at 251 inches.
With such massive totals, resorts are urging caution: “Ride with a buddy, avoid tree wells, and expect delays as crews clear lifts and mitigate avalanche risks.”
Looking ahead, yet more snow is forecast Friday, followed by another powerful storm Sunday evening. Lows will range from 23 to 33 by the weekend’s end.
Much of North America is on for something of a spring burial…
Greenland Snow/Ice Above Average
Once again, reality defies the doomsday climate narrative.
Aided by impressive snow and ice gains since the turn of the year, latest Greenland Surface Mass Balance (SMB) data shows a gain well-above historical averages. The 2024-2025 season (blue line) has nudged comfortably above the long-term mean (1982-2010):
Climate alarmists ignore these facts, opting instead to cling to the apocalyptic predictions uttered by their cult leaders.
Greenland isn’t disappearing.
The UN’s Plea For Relevance
In an time of increasing global crises, you might expect the United Nations, the world’s supposed pillar of multilateral diplomacy, to be too busy resolving conflicts to indulge in self-promotion.
Yet, as evidenced by a recent X post from Secretary-General António Guterres, the organization appears more preoccupied with reminding the world that it still matters than with demonstrating its effectiveness.
Greenland Ice Sheet Gained 8 Gigatons Yesterday; Bitter Cold And Heavy Snow Grip South Korea; Great Wall Of China Blanketed; California Peaks Walloped; + El Niño and Natural Forcings
March 17, 2025 Cap Allon
Greenland Ice Sheet Gained 8 Gigatons Yesterday
The latest data from Greenland reveals a stark in the season’s fortunes, the sheet is accumulating mass at an impressive pace.
Yesterday alone (March 16) saw 8 Gigatons accumulate—enough to bury Central Park under 8,400 feet of snow/ice:
This has helped push the cumulative SMB for 2024-25 comfortably above the 1981-2010 mean:
If the Greenland Ice Sheet were truly collapsing, as the alarmists claim, then its mass balance would be consistently negative. Yet the data tells a different story. Short-term melting events are cherry-picked by the media, but overall trends remain stable.
The data speaks for itself—Greenland’s ice is holding strong.
Bitter Cold And Heavy Snow Grip South Korea
South Korea is bracing for a deep freeze as cold air surges south, delivering frigid winds and heavy snowfall.
The Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) warned that temperatures will plunge below freezing across most of the country, with biting wind chills. Gangwon and North Gyeongsang provinces are set to bear the brunt of the snow.
A low-pressure system moving in from the west will intensify the wintry blast. Snowfall began in Gangwon and Honam early Monday, and will have spread to the capital region and South Chungcheong Province by nightfall. Nearly all regions will have seen snow by Tuesday.
“This system will bring strong precipitation, fierce winds, and even lightning,” a KMA official cautioned.
Gangwon’s mountainous areas are seeing 6 – 12 inches, with more to come, the eastern coast and parts of North Gyeongsang likewise. Elsewhere, spring snowfall will range in the inches, including on Jeju’s higher elevations.
By Tueday, more than a foot is expected to have accumulated on Gangwon’s mountains, while 4 inches is forecast for the likes of Seoul, Incheon, Gyeonggi, and other inland regions.
Even southern areas like Daegu and South Gyeongsang’s western interior will see measurable March snowfall.
Temperatures will plunge to -4C (25F) for many Monday, dropping further on Tuesday and Wednesday to -7C (19F).
With frigid air locked in place, the country remains in a deep freeze for the week.
Much of Asia is enduring an extended winter this year, with accumulations persisting across wide swaths of the continent:
California Peaks Walloped
California ski resorts were hit with more snow over the weekend, adding to the impressive totals from earlier last week.
As of Friday morning, several resorts were reporting significant accumulations over the preceding 72 hours: Sugar Bowl had seen 35 inches, Kirkwood 37 inches, and Bear Valley 42 inches—to name just three.
This influx of snow has enhanced the state’s snowpack, with the Northern Sierra reaching 102% of its average for the time of year.
Snow started up again Sunday afternoon, with higher elevations reportedly picking up another foot or two, with lake-level areas expecting 6 to 12 inches. This continued accumulation promises excellent conditions for skiing and snowboarding.
El Niño and Natural Forcings
Meteorologist Ryan Maue has highlighted recent data and research that points to the 2023 global temperature spike being largely driven by El Niño, with additional factors such as increased solar radiation and potential atmospheric changes.
The temperature anomaly observed in 2023-24 is not without historical precedent, writes Maue on X: “Turns out we just experienced a similar warming spike like 1877 with the rapid onset El Niño of early 2023.”
One new research paper —currently under review— suggests that the recent warming surge resulted from a combination of El Niño and increased shortwave radiation reaching the Northern Hemisphere surface.
Another study links reduced low cloud cover to lower planetary albedo, meaning more sunlight was absorbed by Earth.
“This calls into question the hypothesis that the observed 2023 surge cannot be caused by internal variability alone,” Maue contines. However, “wild cards” include the Hunga Tonga volcanic eruption and reduced sulfur emissions from shipping.
Another analysis in Science suggests that record-low planetary albedo, caused by reduced cloud cover, was the main reason for amplified warming.
Maue concludes: “…the recent global warming spike (2023-24) was the result of natural causes or internal climate variability… The last 3 years are not evidence of accelerating global warming due to external forcing from greenhouse gasses.”
10 March 2025
Much of America is having an old fashioned winter. These winters have lots of variability with cold and warm periods that bring heavy snows and rains with severe weather along cold fronts, where vertical wind shears spin up tornadoes. The Rockies had a major storm early in the week that moved across the US to the East. Later in the week another strong Pacific storm spun up over the Rockies dumping heavy snows from the Cascades and Sierra to the central Rockies. Arizona had 1-2 feet in the Mountains. This storm moved east again … The N Hemisphere snow mass and coverage has hit records with the snow mass rising exponentially above the previous records according to the Finnish Meteorological Institute.
The northern hemisphere jet remains strong with major short waves from Japan to Siberia. We had warm flows on the east side of the wave and cold flows on the west side of these fast moving waves. The last two storms merged into a huge 949 mb low centered over Labrador extending from Baffin Island across Ontario and Quebec into New England and half way across the N Atlantic on 8 March. This combined with a 982 mb storm off Spain and Portugal created a very stormy Atlantic from Morocco to the UK. This week an omega block formed over Greenland which has slowed the traveling short waves keeping the patterns in place - beautiful warm dry weather in Colorado from March 8th.
Europe had a beautiful ridge of high pressure with clear skies that warmed central Europe. Norway, Iceland and Greenland continued to have significant snows bringing the SMB above average. The Northern Hemisphere total snow mass is significantly above average now in record territory. The Canary Islands had a rare blanket of snow. Italy had spring blizzards.
Asia had northerly flows that again brought cold air south into China and Japan. Record breaking storms slam China with cold and snow. Korea had heavy snow and Tokyo had a few flakes. Tibet has significant snows as the Himalayans continue to get 1-3 m from the Hindukusch to north of Myanmar.
The southern hemisphere continued to have relatively cool temperatures that kept Australia relatively mild for their summer. A strong cyclone hit the east coast at Brisbane with 300-600 mm rains. The Andes continued to get heavy high elevation snows with 1-1.3 in Peru and Bolivia. South Georgia Island also had heavy snows up to 1.5 m. The Antarctic continued to cool with Vostock hitting -64.7ºC, this during its summer! The Ross Sea remains about 85% open, while the Weddell Sea is ~40% open. This early March has been one of the Antarctic’s coldest on record. Studies of Antarctic ice cores showed large variations from 1850 to 2020, many exceeded the current CO2 levels, suggesting natural sources of CO2 and complex sources and sinks.
Polar Vortex collapses:
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My albums provide detailed satellite, model, and other analyses that document the weekly weather of interest.
New Winter 2024-25 Album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/dptScrC2ePBxJdVJ9
FALL ALBUM: https://photos.app.goo.gl/cMYFVJgHcNTsSaBRA
Summer 2024 album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/egYrzbhS53gNoa5JA
THE FOLLOWING TABLES show the observed temperatures at key points from Greenland to Vostok and the ECMWF 10-day snowfall forecasts at key points around the world where glaciers may be receding or growing.
OBSERVED TEMPERATURES and ECMWF 10-DAY SNOWFALL FORECASTS:
See: https://photos.app.goo.gl/D4FSQPjmzrAwbS2q9
You can see the magnitude of the storms on windy.com and in NOAA’s GOES satellite imagery: https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/fulldisk_band.php?sat=G18&band=GEOCOLOR&length=12
Temperature anomalies are tracked on:
tropicaltidbits.com
see: https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/models/?model=gfs®ion=us&pkg=T2ma&runtime=2024021212&fh=6
The windy.com wave map shows the deep storms:
see: https://www.windy.com/-Waves-waves?waves,67.842,-1.230,3,i:pressure
Check out the albums below for detailed charts, satellite images, and observations:
Fall - Winter 2023:
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Summer 2024 album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/egYrzbhS53gNoa5JA
Previous notes of interest:
The La Niña has formed as of 6/19/24. It continues to evolve with a 70% chance of fully developing by November 2024 according to NOAA’s latest 9/21/24 forecast. The latest SST analysis on 01/27/25 has a complex La Niña/El Niño pattern… The weekly SST anomaly on 27 January showed warming off Equador with cooling from 120 to180º W. See the albums.
Dr. Valentina Zharkova, a solar expert from the Ukraine, talks about the sun’s impact on the el Niño in her interview below. She reviews the Grand Solar Minimum and solar system impacts on climate variability.
Valentina Zharkova’s interview at the end of this link provides a comprehensive review of the GSM physics from an expert in this field. Dr. Zharkova reviews the physics, mathematics, and relationships of solar cycles, orbital mechanics, magnetosphere impacts, volcano cycles, and el Nino cycles related to the earth’s inclination…
https://electroverse.info/coldest-may-80n-greenland-gains-warmer-in-the-past-zharkova-interview/
Her primary web site: https://solargsm.com/
Last week a major Antarctic cold front moved northward over Australia triggering heavy rains up to Alice Springs. Monthly cold records were set in March. Note: Jennifer Marohasy discusses Australian forecasts and observations every week.
JENNIFER MAROHASY’s latest: https://jennifermarohasy.com/2024/01/cyclone-jasper-bom-forecasting-getting-to-the-truth/
Note: 2023 was the first time since 1987 when Australia’s mountains had snow on the ground all year. The mean February temperature was 0.2ºC below normal making the summer mean temp 0.5ºC below normal. New Zealand continues to increase snows over the South Island with 1-2 m and heavy rain at low elevations on the West coast 57-260 mm. Note: October 25-30, 2023 the interior of Australia had satellite surface temperatures from 10 to 31ºC - spring was here with a few cool highs..
https://www.windy.com/-New-snow-snowAccu?snowAccu,next10d,-66.653,-60.776,4,i:pressure,m:NPaelA
For those interested in understanding the current weather, I have documented events in the Albums showing model, satellite, radar, images.
Electroverse provides an excellent source of extremes not reported in the MSM:
Latest Extremes: 10 March 2025
Heavy Snow Sweeps South Korea; Flakes For Tokyo; Michigan Snow Impresses; Udaipur Chills; Antarctica To -61.5C (-78.7F); + Hurricanes Are Not Getting Stronger
March 4, 2025 Cap Allon
Heavy Snow Sweeps South Korea
South Korea was hit by snow Sunday night through Monday, disrupting travel and raising safety concerns. Another bout of heavy snow is expected nationwide starting Tuesday.
Seoul, Gyeonggi, Gangwon, and Chungcheong received sizable snow into Monday morning. Gangwon was the worst hit, receiving 49.6 cm (19.5 inches) as of 6 AM. Goseong-gun had followed with with 39.2 cm (15.4 inches).
Authorities responded a host of traffic accidents and stranded vehicles, with 20 people hospitalized (likely more). Over 80 ferries were canceled, as well as a myriad of flights. National parks and roads were also closed.
Looking to Tuesday, a heavy snow advisory has been issued for Gangwon, Chungcheong, Gyeongsang, and southern Gyeonggi.
Forecasts predict another 40 cm (16 inches) for Gangwon as a low-pressure system moves in. North Gyeongsang and Jeju’s mountains could also see another 40 cm (16 inches), while Seoul and Incheon will top up with another few inches.
Parts of Gangwon are forecast to reach 100 cm (39 in) by Wednesday.
Flakes For Tokyo
A powerful winter storm is set to bring additional heavy snowfall to mountainous areas in central and eastern Japan starting Tuesday afternoon. The JMA warns that snow could accumulate even in southern Kanto, including Tokyo.
As the low-pressure system moves east, reaching the Pacific coast of the Tokai region by Wednesday morning, travel disruptions are assured as foot of a snow accumulates in some parts.
Authorities caution that sections of the Tomei, Shin-Tomei, and metropolitan expressways will likely have to close.
Residents should prepare for hazardous conditions and potential traffic disruptions as the snowstorm intensifies.
This latest round of snow will add to what has already been a record-setting winter across Japan. Depths at the nation’s ski resorts are jaw-dropping even by Japan’s standards, with 700+cm (23 ft) accumulating across multiple resorts, including Tengendai Kogen.
Below is a look at Gassan Shizu Onsen, which measured 514 cm (16.9 ft) as of late-February:
Michigan Snow Impresses
This winter has been one for the record books in Michigan.
In Gaylord, the NWS registered 185.9 inches of snow by the end of Feb, breaking the all-time record here set in 2006-07 (official NWS data for Gaylord only goes back to 1998, the ‘unofficial’ record of 207.5 inches from 1996-97 remains unchallenged).
Michigan’s lake-effect snow machine has been in overdrive this season, dropping historic snowfall on the state’s ski resorts. Caberfae Peaks has seen 154 inches so far, surpassing its previous record of 149.5 inches from 2013-14; Crystal Mountain stands at 165 inches and counting; while Mt. Bohemia has already reached 241 inches, with a shot at breaking its all-time record of 321-inch set 2021-22.
With no major thaws and more snow in the forecast, Midwest skiers could be hitting the slopes well into spring. Boyne Mountain is even attempting to extend skiing into May by stockpiling snow.
India And China Chill
The likes of Udaipur, India woke to a sudden cold snap Tuesday as strong, northerly winds swept through the city.
After the hints of spring in recent days, Tuesday’s icy winds caught residents off guard. Morning walkers at Fatehsagar Lake braved the sharp chill, which lingered well into mid-morning. The wind chill factor made temperatures feel even lower.
It’s the same story across China, where thermometers have plunged 30C in places—such as the Yangtze River Basin—to deliver a full-blown return to winter. Record low March temperatures and snow have beset many regions (update to follow).
Antarctica To -61.5C (-78.7F)
Antarctica is cooling, has been for decades.
On March 3, Concordia Station dipped below -60C (-76F), and the temperature continued to fall. The final low for the day coming at -61.5C (-78.7F), marking the coldest low on the planet and a stark anomaly for time of year.
Vostok also broke the -60C threshold, seeing -60.3C (-76.5F).
Hurricanes Not Getting Stronger
We know this, but to hammer the point home (and to give ourselves ammunition to combat the few remaining, though noisy, CAGW proponents), global hurricanes are not getting stronger, as per every available dataset.
Two key metrics that measure hurricane intensity (charts courtesy of Chris Martz):
Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE)
The ACE index, developed by the late Dr. William Gray of Colorado State University, tracks storm strength by combining a storm’s maximum sustained wind speed and duration. It’s calculated as the sum of the square of a storm’s maximum wind speed every six hours, but only for storms with winds above 39 mph (tropical storm strength).
What the data shows: Since 1980, ACE levels have shown no long-term trend—only natural year-to-year fluctuations:
Rapid Intensification (RI)
RI occurs when a storm’s wind speed increases by at least 35 mph within 24 hours.
What the data shows: Global RI events have remained flat since 1990, with no statistically significant increase.
Rare Snow Blankets Canary Islands; Winter Storm Slams U.S.; Rapid Cooling In Antarctica; Go Nuclear Or Shut-up; + Study Challenges Pre-Industrial 280 ppm CO2 Assumptions
March 5, 2025 Cap Allon
Rare Snow Blankets Canary Islands
The Canary Islands, a Spanish owned chain off Africa’s northwest coast, have been hit with a rare blast of snow.
Mount Teide in Tenerife was transformed this week, with the typically sun-drenched volcano standing blanketed in snow.
Temperatures have tanked across the islands, with Spain’s national weather agency, Aemet, issuing rare snow warnings for Tenerife and La Palma. Authorities even closed access to Teide National Park due to icy roads and snow, another rare occurrence.
Winter Storm Slams U.S.
This week, a powerful winter storm is unleashing strong winds, heavy March snow, and brutal cold from the Rockies to the Midwest. Wind chills are biting, travel treacherous, and power outages widespread.
Heavy snow and 60+ mph winds are battering the likes of Colorado, Nebraska, and the Dakotas. Visibility is near zero, roads impassable, and power lines down. The Palmer Divide and eastern Colorado face towering drifts, while Denver is seeing a rain-snow mix turning icy.
The storm swept the Plains Tuesday, dumping over a foot of snow in some areas.
Chicago and Milwaukee could see record-low pressure for March as the storm intensifies Wednesday, and snowfall rates are forecast to top an inch per hour in the Midwest, snarling travel. The storm is now pushing east into the Northeast. The likes of interior New York and New England facing treacherous conditions, with post-frontal winds keeping the cold locked in.
Many should expect blizzards, freezing temps, and/or dangerous winds over the next few days. Wind chills are dangerously low in the north. Stay off the roads, is the official advice in affected regions, and bundle up — winter isn’t done yet.
Rapid Cooling In Antarctica
Antarctica is experiencing a significant temperature drop with minimums plunging to anomalous lows for the time of year.
Concordia logged -61.6C (-78.9F) on March 4, with Vostok dropping even further to -62.3C (-80.1F). Dome Fuji AWS also registered a sub -60C low, coming in at -61.C (-77.8F).
March 4 also marked the first day of the year where maximum temperatures remained below -50C (-58F). Vostok posted a high of just -51.6C (-60.9F) — an extreme anomaly.
Antarctica’s March cooling is stark, and it continues the intensifying trend of the past few years.
Go Nuclear Or Shut-up
If climate alarmists were actually serious about reducing carbon emissions while maintaining reliable energy, nuclear power would be the answer. As per the data, it’s the safest, cleanest, most efficient, and least land-intensive energy source going.
The Case For Nuclear
1) Nuclear energy has the lowest death rate per terawatt-hour (TWh) of electricity produced—lower than coal, oil, biomass, natural gas, and even wind and solar.
2) Nuclear emits just 6 tons of CO2 per gigawatt-hour (GWh), compared to coal (970 tons), oil (720 tons), and natural gas (440 tons). Even solar and wind have higher emissions over their lifecycle than nuclear.
3) A single 10-gram uranium fuel pellet produces as much energy as 1 ton of coal, 120 gallons of oil, or 17,000 cubic feet of natural gas.
4) Nuclear plants operate at full power 93% of the time, outperforming solar (23%) and wind (33%).
5) A 1,000 MW nuclear plant occupies just over 1 square mile and can power 775,000 homes. To match that output a solar farm would require 6,000 acres but only power 193,000 homes; a wind farm 32,000 acres to power 277,000 homes. Wind and solar not only take up vastly more space but also require battery storage due to their intermittency, further increasing land and resource demands.
Study Challenges Pre-Industrial 280 ppm CO2 Assumptions
For decades now, scientists have insisted that before the Industrial Revolution, Earth’s atmosphere contained just 280 parts per million (ppm) of carbon dioxide (CO2). This figure has been treated as an unquestionable baseline, forming the foundation of claims that human activity alone is responsible for rising CO2 levels today. But independent researcher Dai Ato claims this assumption is deeply flawed, arguing that the so-called “evidence” underpinning it is riddled with inconsistencies, contradictions, and outright methodological failures.
The primary basis for the 280 ppm claim comes from Antarctic ice cores, where tiny air bubbles trapped in ancient ice are assumed to provide an accurate record of past atmospheric conditions. Yet, Ato’s study reveals glaring issues in this reconstruction. Ice core data is frequently “adjusted,” with gas ages shifted forward to align with modern CO2 trends, he says.
The data itself is incomplete, showing abrupt and inexplicable CO2 spikes and drops before 1950 that defy any logical connection to human emissions. If these figures were accurate, they would indicate natural CO2 absorption and release processes so extreme that they would completely invalidate the idea that human emissions are the primary driver of atmospheric CO2 levels.
See: https://scienceofclimatechange.org/wp-content/uploads/SCC-Ato-2025.pdf
Vostok At -64.7C (-84.5F); Record-Breaking Winter Storms Slam China; Establishment Scientists Blame Avalanche That Killed 8 On “Climate Change”; + Michael Mann Loses (Again)
March 6, 2025 Cap Allon
Vostok At -64.7C (-84.5F)
Temperatures continue to drop off the bottom of the world.
Several locations across Antarctica have recorded bitterly cold temperatures for the time of year.
AGO-4 AWS dropped to -60.8C (-77.4F), Dome Fuji AWS reached -62.7C (-80.9F), while Vostok took the cherry with a biting to -64.7C (-84.5F). These are extreme conditions for March, and highlight the persistent, punishing cold ravaging the continent.
Record-Breaking Winter Storms Slam China
A historic March cold wave has gripped central and eastern China, bringing record-breaking snowfall, freezing temperatures, and severe storms.
Shandong Province is bearing the brunt of the extreme weather, with Zibo City buried under deep snow and Jinan issuing consecutive red alerts for heavy snowfall and icy roads. Elementary and middle schools across the province were forced to close.
This was one of the most significant March snowstorms in recorded history.
Snowfall measurements revealed rare accumulations, and the Zibo Meteorological Observatory escalated its heavy snow warning to the highest level as snow surpassed ankle depth in Zhangdian District.
Residents struggled to keep up with the relentless snowfall. “It’s been snowing non-stop since the morning. Even after shoveling, the snow piles up again immediately,” said local gym owner Mr. Li.
Beyond Shandong, heavy snow and icy conditions spread across Henan, Anhui, and Hubei provinces, leading to China’s Central Meteorological Observatory issuing a yellow alert for blizzards, predicting an additional 10 cm (4 inches) of snow through March 5.
Authorities are urging residents to take precautions as the extreme weather persists, with local governments deploying emergency measures to mitigate the impact of this unprecedented winter blast.
The temperature drops have also impressed, breaking March records in some spots.
Establishment Scientists Blame Avalanche That Killed 8 On “Climate Change”
An avalanche that killed eight people and buried dozens in northern India was triggered by a 600% increase in snowfall within 24 hours.
The disaster struck India’s Uttarakhand state last Friday, when a massive snowslide engulfed a construction camp, trapping 54 workers inside metal containers. Rescuers managed to pull out 46 survivors, some after two days in sub-zero temperatures, but 8 tragically perished.
While the tragedy unfolded, establishment scientist Prof. Anjal Prakash wasted no time pinning the blame on cLiMaTe ChAnGe. He claimed an unusually dry winter had weakened the mountain’s snowpack, only for an extreme winter storm to suddenly dump more snow in a day than the entire season—triggering the collapse.
“The risk of avalanches skyrockets when you go from drought to a massive surge in precipitation,” Prakash said. “The new snow doesn’t settle—it piles pressure on unstable layers until they give way.”
This narrative is getting old. Blaming every weather event on gLoBaL wArMiNg without considering natural variability is as predictable and tiresome as it is unscientific. The establishment prefers alarmism over nuance for it advances their controlling policies.
Moreover, Prakash’s basic assertion struggles against IMD data: In Chamoli district, where the avalanche occurred, precipitation was 303% above normal before the snowstorm hit (data spanning Jan 1 to Feb 29), with nearby Almora 227% above.
Zooming out it gets even worse: Northern Hemisphere snow mass is riding well-above the multidecadal average (chart below), as it has for six out of the past eight seasons. This is the complete opposite of what basket weavers like Prakash foretold would happen.
It’s also been consistently cold across these parts.
Kashmir Valley plunged into deep freeze Wednesday, with most weather stations recording sub-zero temperatures. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has Gulmarg as the coldest at -6.5C (20.3F), while Pahalgam dropped to -5.6C (21.9F).
Srinagar recorded -1.5C (29.3F), while Kupwara saw -1.6C (29.1F).
Looking ahead, the IMD warns of another wet spell from March 10, with light to moderate snowfall sweeping the higher reaches.
Farmers have been advised to continue fieldwork until March 9 but avoid slopes and avalanche-prone areas.
Michael Mann Loses (Again)
In yet another humiliating defeat, climate alarmist and professional lawsuit-loser Michael E. Mann has seen his once-lofty (and improper) $1,000,000 punitive damages claim against Mark Steyn slashed to $5,000.
This ruling came on March 4, when Judge Alfred S. Irving, Jr. threw cold water on Mann’s fantasy of financial retribution.
But that’s not the worst of it for Mann.
Far from walking away with a victory, he now finds himself buried under mountains of legal debt. His earlier loss to National Review means he now owes them $530,820.21 in legal costs. And then there’s his humiliating courtroom failure against the late Tim Ball—where he’s now on the hook for around $1 million owed to Ball’s estate.
Let’s tally up the damage:
Hurricanes 2017: All time Records
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Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria set all time historic records of intensity, duration and catastrophic damage. This is byfar the worst most destructive hurricane season the United States has ever had. We have suffered hundreds of deaths, massive destruction of property and land, and Billions in damage. These hurricanes were well predicted and emergency evacuations ordered days in advance of the landfall thanks to NOAA's forecast teams, emergency managers and local governments.
2015 Year of Extremes
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Selected Extreme events of 2015
LATEST Major Weather Events
30 NOV 2015: COP21 Climate Talks in Paris
Leaders from over 180 countries from around the world are meeting in Paris to develop a comprehensive plan to curb greenhouse emissions and develop renewable energy. President Obama noted that terrorists were unable to stop such an important meeting of world leaders from taking place. President Obama clearly stated that the US has taken significant steps to slowing emissions and are now producing renewable energy that is competitive with conventional fuels. He stated specific goals for emission reduction of 17% by 2020 and 25% by 2025 and requested that other countries do the same with significant commitments with capitol to drive down costs of clean energy. The US supports emission reductions, but will not sign an agreement!!!!
Data from 2015 indicate that this is the warmest year on record based on surface measurements. Extreme weather continues around the world from record winters to extremely hot summers. Today, Bejing’s pollution set records 17 times greater than world health standards.
7 Dec 2015: Extreme floods in Channi, India and UK.
India battling deadly floods in Chennai
Weeks of heavy rain and flooding have inundated Chennai, India
In 24 hours, Chennai received as much rain as London would in 6 months (CNN)Weeks of heavy rain and flooding have knocked out power, suspended public transportation and left people stranded in Chennai, one of India's largest cities. It has rained 34 of the past 40 days and the heavy-rain-warning continues, according to CNN meteorologists. The rain warning for the southern Indian states of Tamil Nadu and neighboring Puducherry are forecast through December 5, according to India's main weather office.
UK has extreme Precipitation:
Office: Rain and storms soaked the northern U.K. this weekend, prompting evacuations, severe flood warnings and the arrival of the army in the worst-hit areas. Rory Stewart, the British floods minister, told the BBC that Storm Desmond has “broken all the U.K. rainfall records” and unleashed “a completely unprecedented amount of water.”
Drone footage shot above Kendal, a flood-hit town in Cumbria, shows the flooded cricket ground and people wading through inches of water.
Storm Desmond dumped more than 10 inches of rain on some areas in England, including the northwestern county of Cumbria, while other rain-battered regions such as North Wales got more than seven inches, according to the Met Office, the U.K. weather forecaster. Nearly 50 severe flood warnings (which indicate danger to life) remain in effect in England and Wales, while 32 flood warnings are in place in Scotland.
An Environment Agency spokesman warned "significant flooding" was expected in the area, adding: "The situation is serious and there is a significant risk to life.” Homes around the 18th century stone bridge, over the River Wharfe, were evacuated by soldiers.
An Environment Agency spokesman warned "significant flooding" was expected in the area, adding: "The situation is serious and there is a significant risk to life."
The strongest El Nino on record is likely to increase the threat of hunger and disease for tens of millions of people in 2016 aid agencies say.
December 30, 2015 CNN:
More than 18 million Americans live in areas under flood warnings, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Tuesday.Thirteen states are affected, NOAA said.
One of the states most affected is Missouri, which is grappling with deadly flooding that will threaten cities and towns along rivers for days even through the most of the rain has stopped.
Levees have been overtopped in West Alton, just north of St. Louis. And late Tuesday, St. Charles County emergency officials ordered all people to evacuate the mostly rural area, which lies on the Mississippi River.
Record flooding on Mississippi There have been an estimated 49 weather-related deaths in the past week across the country, with the current severe storm system blamed for 35 deaths: 13 in Missouri, 11 in the Dallas area, five in southern Illinois, five in Oklahoma and at least one in Georgia. Many died after their cars were swept away by floodwater.
Record Flooding in Mississippi River
225 roads closed across Missouri I44 closed in 2 places
US Streamflow Map 30 DEC 2016
Major historic flooding: NOAA Flood Forecast Map
Flood Hydrograph showing historic flood at Cape Girardeau Mississippi: 27 DEC 2015 to 6 Jan 2016
GLOBE
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GLOBE - Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment GLOBE presents an opportunity for students, teachers, and scientists to learn and develop scientific thought processes and to understand our environment. In the early 1990’s Vice President Al Gore had an idea to help children around the world use the internet to communicate and learn about each other and their environment. His goal was to have at least one computer in every school around the world. He wanted students to improve their understanding of science and math thru making observations that they could share. I had an opportunity to meet Dr. Sandy McDonald, Director, Forecast Systems Laboratory, NOAA when he was helping Al Gore develop the early stages of GLOBE in 1993. At the time I worked with the US Bureau of Reclamation and was a visiting scientist at NCAR in Boulder, Colorado. NCAR and UCAR hosted many meetings on GLOBE and UCAR now hosts the GLOBE Implementation Office (GIO). One of my interests has been to promote GLOBE in various regions. After returning from Morocco in 1988, I maintained interests with the Direction de la Meteorologie National and with friends at the Casablanca American School. Morocco joined GLOBE after helping make the connections there.
Today, I am interested in helping Slovenia join GLOBE. This effort dovetails with US Ambassador, Brent Hartley’s interest in developing a partnership between the Slovenian Triglav National Park and Crater Lake National Park in Oregon. Environmental science and biodiversity are common interests of Triglav and Crater Lake park rangers and environmental scientists.
Lyn Wigbels, International Coordinator, GLOBE Implementation Office relayed this information about recent GLOBE Student Research Experience: "I was pleased to hear about the Ambassador’s project which sounds like a great venue for involving students in the GLOBE Program. Over the years, GLOBE activities have been organized in national parks. Most recently, during our 20th GLOBE Annual Meeting in Estes Park, Colorado, in July, GLOBE students visited Rocky Mountain National Park to take part in a Student Research Experience:
http://www.globe.gov/news-events/globe-news/newsdetail/globe/video-captures-the-essence-of-the-2016-globe-student-research-experience?
This video truly captures the essance of the GLOBE scientific discovery process and clearly demonstrates how it works to engage students from around the world in learning about nature and their environment. It shows how students apply the scientific procss and communicate their discoveries to others working with their mentors.
Joining GLOBE can be a life changing process that enables teachers, scientists, GLOBE partners, and alumni to improve their understanding of earth.
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