Weather In The USA 2023-up

[Mark]

Much of the United States felt like a blazing inferno on Wednesday, as record heat attacked the South like a blowtorch, thick smoke from Canadian wildfires blanketed the Great Lakes region, and triple-digit temperatures threatened to wallop California for the first time this year.

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Scientists said climate change helped shape the weather conditions that were causing misery and putting lives at risk from Mexico to Canada. There was no disputing the impact: If it wasn’t way too smoky, it was way too hot.

“Everybody’s saying, ‘We’re used to the heat, but not to this degree,’” said Mayor Victor Treviño of Laredo, Tex., which recorded temperatures of 115 degrees last week, tying its all-time high. There were nine heat-related deaths, Webb County Medical Examiner Corinne Stern told county commissioners Monday, adding that “I think our county was caught a little off-guard.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/06/28/extreme-heat-wave-texas-southern-states/

[Mark]

With an average temperature of 69.03F (20.57C), the month closed 0.47F below the multidecadal average.

Up in Alaska, temperatures were also below average, seeing the month finished 50F flat, 0.9F below normal.

And likewise in Hawaii, the average came in at 77.8F, 0.2F below the norm.

While Texas was busy claiming all the MSM heat headlines, many states were quietly suffering exceptional chills.

June 2023 in the Triad, North Carolina –for example– was its coolest in decades, and marked the region’s seventh chilliest June in 120 years of National Weather Service record-keeping.
https://electroverse.info/cool-u-s-best-california-rafting-snow-pile-remains-at-msp-africa-freezing-moscows-year-without-a-summer/

[JennyLeez]

Six people were killed in the unprecedented wildfires that tore through the Hawaiian island of Maui overnight, authorities said.

The fires, fanned by strong winds from Hurricane Dora, destroyed businesses in the historic town of Lahaina, and left at least two dozen people injured, officials said at a press conference Wednesday. There have been 13 evacuations for three fires.

Rescuers with the US Coast Guard pulled a dozen people from the ocean water off Lahaina after they had dived in to escape smoke and flames. Burn patients have been flown to the island of Oahu, officials said.

The US president Joe Biden said he had “ordered all available federal assets on the islands to help with response.” Biden expressed his condolences and said that he and his wife Jill Biden’s “prayers are with those who have seen their homes, businesses, and communities destroyed”.



Smoke and flames fill the air from raging wildfires on Front Street in downtown Lahaina, Maui.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/09/hawaii-fires-maui-hurricane

[Mark]

Hurricane Idalia is intensifying as it heads toward Florida, where it's expected to make landfall early Wednesday (Thursday AEST), bringing once-in-a-lifetime strength and storm surge levels to parts of the state's Gulf Coast.
Florida officials have already told some people to flee, closed schools and shuttered a major airport in preparation for the storm's impact.
The hurricane is due to hit as a Category 3, bringing powerful winds of up to 200km/h and a potential storm surge of up to 4.5 metres in the state's Big Bend region. That would stack a wall of seawater halfway up the second floor of an average building.
https://www.9news.com.au/world/hurricane-idalia-update-florida-bracing-for-destructive-storm/a01fd9d5-2f4e-48ae-a2d6-9cfdb9ca3c45

[Mark]

Wild scenes of flooding unfolded throughout New York City Friday morning as an intense rainstorm barreled through the tri-state area, turning local roads into rivers during the morning rush hour.

Videos showed cars plowing through knee-deep water in Brooklyn's Sunset Park neighborhood, with a whirlpool seen swirling in the middle of the waterlogged road.

Cellphone footage taken aboard an MTA bus at 18th Avenue and 60th Street in Brooklyn's Bensonhurst neighborhood showed floodwaters gushing into the vehicle filled with passengers, among them children, who tried to stay dry by lifting their feet off the floor.

The Big Apple's major roads fared no better, as the Brooklyn- Queens Expressway, the Belt Parkway and Prospect Park Expressway all turning into rivers teeming with partially flooded cars trapped in bumper-to-bumper traffic.
https://www.sott.net/article/484797-New-York-City-streets-turn-into-raging-rivers-during-epic-downpour-flooding-roads-and-subways

[Mark]

https://electroverse.info/phoenixs-record-summer-warmth-not-reflected-in-surrounding-weather-station-data/

A man named Luke Howard was the first to document the urban heat island (UHI) effect, 190 years ago (The Climate of London).

Cities have expanded substantially since 1833, replacing the native landscape with high heat capacity surfaces like buildings, pavement, and sources of waste heat. This leads to UHI warmth today of +10F or more, mostly at night.

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The UHI effect, along with “record warm” temperatures it delivers, would exist even if humans didn’t emit a single pound of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Yet, we are routinely told through media reports that anomalous city warmth shows ‘the fingerprints of climate change’ and wouldn’t have occurred if we humans had never burnt any coal.

As caterwauled by the Miami Herald, the summer of 2023 experienced some record heat in cities across the South:

[Mark]

Thursday’s snowfall in Anchorage, Alaska has gone down as the first flakes of the season.

Officially, 1.2 inches settled at the National Weather Service Forecast Office, with 2.3 inches landing elsewhere in the city.

Note: at least 1/10th of an inch needs to accumulate to qualify.

Anchorage snow records date back to 1952.

As per the books, the city’s average first snow date is October 16, meaning this 2023’s first flakes arrived four days early. The earliest first snow ever recorded was on Sept 21, 1996 (solar minimum of cycle 22), with the latest being Nov 13, 2002.
https://electroverse.info/polar-outbreak-australia-first-snow-anchorage-wyomings-plow-trucks-are-out-el-nino/

[Mark]

The past 24-hours have delivered additional headaches to the jittery, coffee-spitting “look, the weather is killing us!” climate brigade, as the United States felled hundreds-more low temperature records.

From California to Pennsylvania, daily records have fallen (between 10:00 Nov 1 – 09:00 Nov 2 UTC):



Many-a snowfall benchmark has been busted, too.

Michigan, for example, posted a myriad of new snowfall records this week, such as in Muskegon, which saw 8.8″ (some reports say 10″); in Flint, which registered 1.1″; in Saginaw with its 0.5″; and also Detroit with 0.2″ — all new records.

In fact, that Muskegon record was a biggie, and led to two additional records falling, and all.

The 8.8 (or 10) inches smashed the old record of just a trace that has occurred on 10 separate Halloweens since 1917. Furthermore, October 31, 2023 is now the snowiest October day ever recorded in Muskegon. And October 2023 is now the city’s snowiest month of October, breaking a record set well-over a century ago in 1910.

Likewise in Wisconsin, Eau Claire had its Streets and Fleets division plowing the roads to clear record-breaking Halloween snow.

“Ever since the point of record, which goes back to the late-1800s, we’ve only had measurable snow three times prior to today,” said local meteorologist Mike Dandrea. “Our previous record was two inches. That was set back in 1932 and today, so far, we’ve gotten 2.1 inches of snow.”

Similar stories are being told up and down and across the country — but you get the picture.
https://electroverse.info/record-cold-and-snow-africa-polar-blast-antarctica-rare-november-cold-ev-fail-solar-filament-inbound/

[Mark]

Freezing lows have allowed a rare “ice window” to form on Alaska’s Alpine lakes.

Luc Mehl, an Alaskan outdoor educator, said that weather conditions had allowed Rabbit Lake to freeze in a way that the ice became see-through because of an “unusually cold but dry transition into winter”–so the opposite of what we’re told should be occurring.

The lake, located not far from Anchorage, froze so the ice was clear but still thick enough to skate on.




The phenomena is rare.

Luc says he hadn’t seen anything similar in the 12 years he’s been skating there.

As lakes freeze from the surface downwards, impurities and air bubbles can be pushed down allowing the ice to remain clear.
https://electroverse.info/rare-ice-windows-forms-on-alaska-lakes-historic-snow-sahara-expert-says-desert-is-shrinking/

[Mark]

More snow was in the Anchorage forecast Wednesday after up to a foot fell Tuesday, leading to blowing snow and poor driving conditions that prompted a shift to remote learning for most Anchorage schools.

The additional accumulation put the city at a new record for snowiest year to date since at least 1953, according to National Weather Service data.

Bands of moderate to heavy snow showers were expected to settle over Anchorage Wednesday morning and again in the evening, according to a special weather statement from the agency.

The city saw significant snowfall Tuesday, with 6 to 9 inches of accumulation reported throughout the Anchorage Bowl and up to a foot on the Hillside by evening, said meteorologist Carson Jones. Locations in Mat-Su reported 3 to 8 inches, Jones said.
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/anchorage/2023/12/13/reduced-visibility-and-messy-roads-ahead-as-more-snow-hits-anchorage/

[Mark]

INCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - The holiday will be cold and breezy with snow likely. Winter weather related warnings and advisories are in effect Monday through early Wednesday morning. Snow chances remain Tuesday and Wednesday.

A Blizzard Warning is in effect for much of Western, Central and Northeastern Nebraska Monday (Christmas Day) through early Wednesday morning. For portions of Eastern and Southern Nebraska, a Winter Storm Warning is in effect Monday (Christmas Day) through early Wednesday morning. A Winter Weather Advisory is in effect for part of Eastern Nebraska and Northern Kansas. Areas of blowing and drifting snow are possible. Visibility should drop to one-quarter of a mile or less in several locations due to falling and blowing snow. Roads will likely be slick. Travel could be very difficult to impossible.
https://www.1011now.com/2023/12/25/christmas-day-forecast-frightful/

[Mark]

Millions are under severe weather alerts across the U.S. as freezing temperatures and heavy snow blankets parts of New Mexico to Iowa and multiple cities in the south are under tornado watches as storms move in along the Gulf Coast.

[Mark]

Anchorage residents are wondering if they should shovel their roofs, with record-setting snow from November and December still sitting atop many homes in Alaska's largest city.

According to a city official and at least one private building inspector, that depends. But, they say, it's probably not a bad idea.

Current estimates put the snow load at a level lower than what most residential buildings in the city are built to withstand. But with several winter months still to come, there's the potential for more snow, and ice-damming on roofs is an already present concern.

"If it keeps snowing and the weight keeps accumulating, eventually we're going to hit that point where we're concerned about the weight," said Ross Noffsinger, Anchorage's Acting Building Official. "And at that point, we're going to issue a notice to the community that we're concerned about the weight."

[Mark]

https://watchers.news/2024/01/13/historic-coastal-flooding-expected-in-maine-on-saturday-january-13-2024/
A potent, fast-moving storm is expected to bring historical coastal flooding to Maine on Saturday morning (LT), January 13, 2024. The state is bracing for a combination of major coastal flooding, strong winds, heavy rainfall, and snow in mountainous regions, predominantly during the morning. The most severe rain and wind conditions are forecasted between 06:00 and 10:00 LT, with the most critical coastal flooding anticipated around 12:00 LT, coinciding with the high tide.

[Mark]

The United States is bracing for its first significant Arctic air outbreak of the winter, impacting the north-central region with bitterly cold wind chills and extending through the weekend. The northern Rockies and Plains are particularly at risk, with the Arctic surge also expected to bring record-breaking cold to the south-central U.S.
https://watchers.news/2024/01/11/u-s-faces-first-major-arctic-outbreak-of-winter-dangerously-cold-wind-chills-expected/

[Mark]

Ski resorts are closed due to extreme cold, teachers are impressing students by instantly freezing boiling water, and it’s even too cold for a zoo penguin walk -- the ravages of 'global boiling' have set in over Western Canada.

Polar air has tanked temperatures to levels approaching -50C (-58F) over a wide area, prompting Environment Canada to issue extreme cold/Arctic outflow warnings for swaths of the Yukon and Northwest Territories, most of B.C., Saskatchewan and all of Alberta.

A biting -49.3C (-56.7F) was posted at Oglivie Camp, Yukon yesterday — the lowest temperature Canada this winter; -48.4C (-55.1F) hit Watson Lake; a low of -47C (-52.6F) was posted in the NWT; -43C (-45.4F) in Alberta; and -42C (-43.6F) in British Columbia.

With regards to metropolises, Prince George dipped to -29C (-20.2F) Thursday, with a forecast -36C (-32.8F) Friday. Thermometers in Calgary and Edmonton read -30C (-22F) and -31C (-23.8F), respectively, with lows nearing -40C (-40F) forecast Friday.

Daily records have been falling, such as the -43.4C (-46.1C) in Yellowknife, NWT which pips the -43.3C set back in 1965.
https://electroverse.substack.com/p/all-weather-stations-in-bc-dip-below?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2

[Mark]

All-Time Cold Sweeps North America
This Arctic Blast always threatened to be big—for all those mainstream meteorologists attempting to downplay it.

Starting in Canada, and with the daily record lows: According to Environment Canada, at least 17 communities across British Columbia alone set their coldest-ever temperatures for the date on Saturday, including 10 in the Interior region.

Penticton shattered a record set back in 1950 by more than 3C, after the daily low on Saturday was -26.6C; Osoyoos also set a new record with a daily low of -22.3C, surpassing its previous record for Jan 13 of -19.8C; while in the North Okanagan, Salmon Arm saw thermometers hit -30.4 C, breaking their previous historical benchmark of -27.2C, set all the way back in 1911.

And before all that, Friday delivered Canada's first -50C (-58F) of the season, at Keg River, Alberta, with the mercury there eventually bottoming out at -51.5C, which is also the Alberta's coldest January temperature since 2004's -52C (-61.6F).

Elsewhere, -49.7C was posted in Sambaa K'e, NWT, -46.4C in Leader, SK, and -45.5C in Fort Nelson, BC.

All-time records lows were among the fallen, including Sunday's -42.6C at Yoho (in books dating back to 1965); the -40.3C at Sparwood (1980); the -27.6C in Penticton (1907); the -23.7C at Nakusp (1991); -21.9C at Nelson (1992); and the -27.2C at Creston (1993). New monthly records include the 26.3C at Castlegar (1954); as well as the -26.2C at Summerland (1990).
https://electroverse.substack.com/p/all-time-cold-sweeps-north-america

[Mark]

An ice jam has flooded homes in Wilmington, Illinois on the morning of Jan. 26, 2024.
River ice and rain are causing flooding on the Kankakee River in Wilmington, Illinois, about 50 miles southwest of Chicago, according to ABC7 Chicago's Stephanie Wade.

Police told residents to be prepared to take action, including evacuation if necessary, after the river rose at least 3 feet overnight. More than a dozen people were evacuated Friday morning.

"The ice jam on the river has not fully broken, and there is the potential for flooding throughout the day as ice begins breaking apart at a rapid pace," Will County Emergency Management Agency said.
https://www.sott.net/article/488287-Ice-jam-flooding-causes-evacuations-in-Wilmington-Illinois

[Mark]

Measurable snowfall in the CONUS as of January 17.
The United States has one of the most diverse climates in the world. It has forests, beaches, deserts, plains, and mountains. This allows the population to experience an array of different landscapes and weather conditions.

However, despite the incredible diversity and differences in longitude and latitude of the country, and the fact that only 37 of the 50 states have operating ski areas, remarkably all 50 states have seen snowfall this season. This isn't unheard of as it is winter and it has happened before. The hardest state to get snowfall is Florida, which saw flakes on January 17, in the town of Milton, after the recent winter storm Heather.

One state that many also think is rare to get snow is Hawaii. However, the Big Island's volcanic summits of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa are over 13,000 feet in elevation and receive measurable snowfall nearly every year, including December of 2023.

Although it is not uncommon for all states to receive snowfall in a season, having snow on the ground in all 50 states at the same time is very uncommon. It is also challenging to measure. However, it was achieved back in February 2010.
https://www.sott.net/article/488249-All-50-states-have-seen-snow-this-season

[Mark]

On Sunday, 16-hours of continuous snowfall led to more than a foot accumulating in parts of the South Plains-Panhandle.

Breaking a daily snow record for Feb 11, Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport received 3.6 inches, surpassing the previous benchmark of 2.1 inches from 2010.



The Amarillo area saw upwards of 6 inches Sunday, according NWS office in Lubbock, while residents of Plainview and Hale Center picked up 14 inches.


A truck clears snow in South Amarillo. 

Another drop in temperature is expected over the weekend bringing the chance of further flakes, as that polar front we've been discussing sweeps much of the CONUS:
https://electroverse.substack.com/p/south-plains-panhandle-sees-record