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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| Big chill in Churchill |
| 2009-06-21 |
| It is the winter that refuses to go away in northern Manitoba and most of the eastern Arctic. Prolonged cold snowy conditions in the Hudson Bay area are expected to obliterate the breeding season for migratory birds and most other species of wildlife this year. According to Environment Canada, the spring of 2009 is record-late in the eastern Arctic with virtually 100 per cent snow cover from James Bay north as of June 11. May temperatures in northern Manitoba were almost four degrees C below the long-term average of -0.7, and in early June, temperatures averaged three degrees below normal. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration images confirm snow and ice blanket all of northern Manitoba, part of northern Ontario and almost all of the eastern Arctic as of June 12. U.S. arieal flight surveys confirm the eastern Arctic has no sign of spring so far. "I have lived in Churchill since the 1950s, and this the latest spring I have ever seen here," said local resident Pat Penwarden. "The spring of 1962 was almost this bad." Six-foot snowdrifts blocked Churchill-area roads. A thick blanket of snow, in places three- and four-feet deep, coated 90 per cent of the local taiga in northern Manitoba. Ecotourists, who normally flock to northern Manitoba every June to see birds and other wildlife, cancelled their plans this June "in droves," according to local ecotourist specialists. Snowy conditions are largely to blame. "It is like a winter landscape," said Ruth Baker, a Michigan tourist who spent June 9 to 12 at Churchill. "I couldn't believe the snowdrifts, like mountains of snow". Researchers confirm that the lateness of the spring of 2009 dooms local birds to a virtually complete reproductive failure. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #15 these "experts" conveniently never take into account the trajectory of the earth as it orbits the sun. The minute variances of the earth's orbital movement as it travels closer and farther from the sun impacts the heat factor on the planet & has done so since our planet was formed. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2009-06-21 23:54 |
| #14 Alabama has been running 95-98 degrees aout a week now, not really out of range, but a bit earlier than "Normal". |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-06-21 20:28 |
| #13 Wellhell, here on GUAM this AM the Sun was out early, bright, and espec HOT-HOT-HOT-.... Have I said HOT!? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-06-21 18:42 |
| #12 > Such major oscillations are part of a bumpy ride toward global warming ABSOLUTE RUBBISH. If you predict a warming trend then prolonged cold should be HIGHLY unlikely. Has he even considering that maybe the holy model of Gaia is in error (sorry for the blasphemy)? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2009-06-21 18:11 |
| #11 Warm temperatures are evidence for global warming. Average temperatures are evidence for global warming (somewhat bumpy ride). Cold temperatures are evidence for global warming (even bumpier ride). Thus "global warming" is a hypothesis that can not be falsified. It's religion or something but not science. |
| Posted by: Harry Uling1086 2009-06-21 17:00 |
| #10 Major oscillations? What a shithead. Try a major cooling trend here for nearly a decade -- a cooling that has also been noticed on other planets. Man-made warming? Bull. Try looking at the big orange-yellow ball of fusion plasma up in the sky that provides all the energy hitting this planet in massive amounts daily. It might actually be the thing at hand, not "man made". What an idiot this "expert" is. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2009-06-21 15:37 |
| #9 Towards the end of the article Such major oscillations are part of a bumpy ride toward global warming," said Thomas Karl of the National Climate Center. "For awhile at least this will be the shape of things to come." " "Experts" are sooo good ! |
| Posted by: Willy 2009-06-21 13:17 |
| #8 Patagonia possibly, not here. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-06-21 12:55 |
| #7 about 50F as of this post might even hit 60F today |
| Posted by: Lord garth 2009-06-21 12:48 |
| #6 Rember that the buzz words are no longer -- "Global Warming"; but they are "Climate Change". Therefore any deviation from the mean temperature requires massive Government programs, regulation, and intervention. Oh, and making sunscreen a prescription drug. |
| Posted by: Highlander 2009-06-21 12:21 |
| #5 Right now the eastern seaboard is experiencing a winter-type northeast blow. This variety of storm is exceedingly rare after April 1, and almost unheard of after May 1. It's the third week of June. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2009-06-21 05:57 |
| #4 GWMA --- Gospel Music Workshop of America ? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-06-21 04:30 |
| #3 GWMA. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2009-06-21 01:48 |
| #2 I hope the Polar Bears are okay! /sarc |
| Posted by: Crart Tojo1570 2009-06-21 01:42 |
| #1 Has Al been in town recently |
| Posted by: Cheaderhead 2009-06-21 00:21 |