Flooding due to record snows and second fastest decadal cooling period in the record not warming PDF Print E-mail
Written by Joseph D’Aleo, CCM, AMS Fellow   
Saturday, 25 June 2011 09:44

Flood waters continue to increase into Minot, N.D., with about 15-20% of the city inundated with water and flood waters expected to increase in the coming days. About 12,000 residents have been evacuated from the previously-identified flood zones. Officials are considering additional evacuations as projections worsen. Water is flowing toward Minot from Canada faster than ever, due to record water levels upstream. The current forecast is for the crest to reach between 1,564 and 1,565 feet above sea level sometime during the overnight hours of June 25-26, and continuing through June 30. This crest would be more than 6 feet above record flood stage, and 9 feet above major flood stage.

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Of course, there will be some like ‘Stagecraft Tim Wirth’ who milked this hoax into a lucrative UN post who proclaim this is further proof of global warming, which they project results in more moisture and extremes of flooding and drought. They claim spring snowmelt comes earlier resulting in rapidly disappearing glaciers.
The data shows they are wrong...again. Here is the Missouri River Basin stretching from the Northern Rockies through the northern Plains to the Mississippi.

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Here was the snow water equivalent as of May 1, 2011. Only southernmost Colorado and New Mexico and Arizona had below normal snow packs and water equivalent in the snowpacks.

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Many areas of the west had over 180% of the normal. Snow still is abnormally very deep in parts of the mountainous west. The melting of the snow coinciding with heavy rains this spring as the same active La Nina storm track shifted slowly north is what brought the flooding. 


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So why is this not the result of global warming. WELL, BECAUSE WINTER ARE COOLING....AT THE SECOND FAST DECADAL RATE OF ANY PERIOD SINCE 1895!!!  (only the decade ending in 1950 had a slightly greater cooling). Here is nthe winter trend the last decade for the NCDC North Central Regions over which the Missouri River flows - Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota and Nebraska.

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Cooling results in a squeezing out of moisture from the air. All condensation is the result of a cooling not a warming process - water droplets condense on the outside of ICE WATER not HOT COFFEE.
The hemispheric snowpack has been increasing during this cooling. This last winter was the third greatest for the Northern Hemisphere behind 2009/10 and 1977/78 and just ahead of 2007/08. See a pattern. COOLING IS HAPPENING AT AN ALARMING RATE. 

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Mount Washington to open in July for first time ever

Thousands of people skied and snowboarded this weekend at Mount Washington (British Columbia, not NH) and this wasn’t even their last chance.
Mount Washington Alpine Resort opened to skiers and boarders in June for the second straight year this Father’s Day weekend, and with so much snow still on the hill, the mountain will be opening for skiing and boarding July 1, 2 and 3 - the same time as it opens for summer operations with its Mile High Chairlift rides.
“That will be the first time we’ve been open in July,” said resort spokesperson Brent Curtain. “I don’t see in a week and a half to two weeks (the snow) melting away.”
Lift tickets will cost $25 for the first July skiing in Mount Washington’s history. “It’s a bit too early to tell what will be open, but it will probably be very similar to what people saw this weekend,” said Curtain. This weekend, Mount Washington opened Whiskey Jack, Coaster and the Stomping Ground Terrain Park, which is two more trails than last June.
Close to 2,000 people skied or snowboarded, which is more people than last year’s Father’s Day weekend opening, according to Curtain. Mount Washington staff had the Eagle Express chair on standby during the weekend, and they had to open it up Sunday as the crowds kept coming, he noted.
What is becoming Mount Washington’s longest-running season was a record-breaking one. This winter, Mount Washington received more than 19 metres of snow - the deepest winter in resort history - and it claimed the deepest snow pack in Canada before opening day in December.
To find out more, visit mountwashington.ca.
Last Updated on Saturday, 25 June 2011 10:11
 

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