... "When solar activity is HIGH, the jet stream is tight and stable and follows somewhat of a straight path.
But when solar activity is LOW, such as it is now, that meandering band of air flowing 6 miles above our heads becomes weak and wavy, it effectively buckles which diverts frigid Polar air to atypically low latitudes and replaces it with warmer tropical air.
... This is the true mechanism behind the U.S.’s, and indeed the planet’s, growing temperature contrasts, rather than the benign increase of atmospheric CO2 ...
Record Cold And Snow Hit Alaska
... The BBC article begins with record warmth (the 19.4C (66.9F) logged on Kodiak island, Sunday: AGW hypothesis in tact), but as discussed above, AGW can’t in any way, shape, or form explain the historic cold gripping a much larger portion of the state.
In the south-eastern town of Ketchikan, for example, temperatures dropped to -18C (-0.4F) on December 25 & 26 — the town’s coldest Christmas period of the past century+, with the old records being the -14.4C (6F) in 1967, and the -15C (5F) from 1917.
The extreme freeze prompted warnings of an “Icemageddon” from authorities, continues the BBC article, as torrents of rain and snow have left ice as hard as cement coating the roads.
“Ice is extremely difficult to remove once it has binded to the road surface. Even though air temps were warm… roads were at sub-zero temps, which caused ice to bind to the surface,” tweeted the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities.
The ice is expected cling to the roads until at least March or April, said Climate Scientist Rick Thoman, of the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy.
The snow has been just as extreme as the cold.
The Fairbanks area has been hit by its fiercest mid-winter storm since 1937.
So much fell on Sunday that it caved in the roof of the only grocery shop in the town of Delta Junction, 95 miles (153km) south-east of Fairbanks.
The Denali National Park Headquarters Cooperative observer weather equipment is literally buried! They have received 74.5 inches of snow this month, making this the snowiest Dec on record. The previous record was 66.3 inches in Dec 1984.
pic.twitter.com/zCoQUDxjZ3
— NWS Fairbanks
(@NWSFairbanks)
December 29, 2021
These are scenarios Thoman is keen to put down to climate change: “When all the pieces come together in a warming world we’re going to get these unprecedented events, that’s what we expect,” he said.
... IPCC, 2001:
“Milder winter temperatures will decrease heavy snowstorms …” was the original prophesy
Saskatchewan Breaks 16 Low Temp Records, Sets New Power Usage Record
SaskPower says the province has broken its peak power record as homes and businesses used 3,868 megawatts to fight the freeze.
The previous all-time record of 3,792 MW set four years ago to the day, on Dec 29, 2017 — and SaskPower says the new increase (of 76 MW) represents the electricity required to power some 76,000 homes.
... sixteen communities across Saskatchewan experienced record low temperatures on Tuesday alone.
... many of the busted benchmarks were truly historic,
including Regina’s low of -38.6C (-37.5F),
which beat out the all-time record of -37.2C (-35F)
set in 1884;
Swift Current’s -39.1C (-38.4F),
which bested 1917’s -36.1C (-33F); and
Leader’s crippling -42.6C (-44.7F),
which smashed the previous record of -37.2C (-35F),
set back in 1924."
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Record Cold And Snow Hit Alaska; + Saskatchewan Breaks 16 Low Temp Records, Sets New Power Usage Record
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