Record cold and snowfall hit many parts of North America over the Easter weekend, continuing what has so far been a largely Arctic April.
Records were toppled across many U.S. states, with Montana, Iowa, South Dakota, and Colorado seemingly worst hit.
A winter storm system moved through Iowa on Sunday delivering between three inches and a foot to the majority of locations — several northern Iowa towns saw all-time records tumble:
The 3.7 inches that fell at Sioux Gateway Airport broke the record for April 12th; it also made it the second-highest Easter snowfall ever behind the 4.7 inches during Easter 1929.
The town of Ringsted in Emmet County (also Iowa) came in with a record-busting 11 inches.
Robert “Lightning” Petersen was the man to log the accumulation — he uses his back yard measuring equipment to keep track of snow and rainfall. He works in concert with the National Weather Service out of Johnston.
When the snow fell on Easter Sunday, Petersen checked his 12-inch gauge and was shocked to discover the almost 1 foot total, reports whotv.com/news.
“I was flabbergasted because it was not a blizzard activity during the day,” said Petersen. “But holy smokes, when I got that gauge up on the deck, it was plum full. I thought it can’t be. I must be seeing things.”
According to the National Weather Service (NWS), other Eastern snowfall records tumbled in Rock Valley (7 inches), Hull (6.5 inches), and Rock Rapids (8.3 inches).
Nearby Sioux Falls, South Dakota saw a whopping 5.2 inches on Monday, the most snowfall on any date in the city going back to 1893.
Make it stop!
Heavy snow now falling in Sioux Falls! pic.twitter.com/Xl0MGsd4j1
— Matthew Dux (@MatthewDux) April 12, 2020
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The COLD TIMES are returning, the lower latitudes (where us humans reside) are REFREEZING; in line with historically low solar activity, cloud-nucleating Cosmic Rays, and a meridional jet-stream flow.
Even NASA agrees, in part at least, with their forecast for this upcoming solar cycle (25) revealing it will be “the weakest of the past 200 years,” with the agency correlating previous solar shutdowns to prolonged periods of global cooling here.
Don’t fall for bogus warm-mongering political agendas — our future is one of ever-descending COLD & CROP LOSS.
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Here in the Denver area where we’ve already broken record lows a couple days ago we are getting another snow storm with highs not even reaching 30F (avg high at this time of year is in the 60s). Nearby Boulder has broken the record for snowfall for the season and it’s still coming down–so much for our grandkids not knowing what snow looks like!
Way to bad Eco-Freaks the Earth Is Not Fragile and Mother Nature just threw another fastball and out you struck out Back to the bench Eco-Freak
Ummmm…without all our evil anthropogenic CO2, wouldn’t it be more colder?
So much for this Fragile Earth,Delicate Balance of Nature load of Malarkey were always hearing all this Fragile Earth,Delicate Balance of Nature Nature Bats Last were Destroying the earth load of Malarkey all the time The Eco-Freaks have been lying to us since Carson and Silent Spring
From the NASA page linked above – apparently not updated since 2006:
“From 1650 to 1710, temperatures across much of the Northern Hemisphere plunged when the Sun entered a quiet phase now called the Maunder Minimum. During this period, very few sunspots appeared on the surface of the Sun, and the overall brightness of the Sun decreased slightly.”
It’s not the visible light – “brightness” – that changes ‘slightly’ – it’s the unseen ultra-violet that changes ‘considerably’. I guess NASA doesn’t have too many surfers or beach bunnies on their staff. Now here’s a thought – cases of skin cancer – will be down?