-- Unusually cold weather is just "weather"
-- Unusually hot weather is "climate change"
"The UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab logged one last inch late on Dec 31, taking December 2021’s total to 214 inches (5.44m).
The highest ever recorded.
Tuolumne Meadows in Yosemite National Park set a new record for the most snow recorded in the month of December with 171 inches.
This breaks the old record of 143 inches set back in 1996. Snow records at this site date back to 1980. Photos courtesy of the weather observers.
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— George Robert
(@GRobert1963)
January 2, 2022
... benchmarks were also broken at nearby Lake Tahoe.
... 5 ski resorts have already picked up more snow than all of last season:
…And The U.S.
A bitterly cold Arctic airmass, responsible for driving the mercury as low as -41F in Montana, has now descended all the way south to the Gulf of Mexico.
... During the first two weeks of December, extremely cold air tanked thermometers across Sweden to well-below -35C (-31F).
An astonishing –43.8C was registered in the municipality of Naimakka on Dec 6 — a new all-time December low for not only Sweden, but for Scandinavia as a whole ...
... the Northern Hemisphere Total Snow Mass chart, which (as of Jan 1, the latest data point) is holding some 300 Gigatons above the 1982-2012 average:
