Rainfall, Snow, and Cold Records around the World

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India floods - thousands missing - 30 Aug 08 -

 The death toll from this year's monsoon season across India has climbed past 800. Some 1.2 million people have been marooned and about 2 million more affected in Bihar, where the Kosi river has burst its banks and submerged all roads leading to the region. 

Aid agencies claim the Indian government is playing down the scale of the disaster and not taking into account thousands of people who they say are missing after the Bihar floods.

 India's prime minister, Manmohan Singh, has described the situation as a national calamity.

 Authorities have rescued nearly 140,000 people and put most of them in state-run relief camps, said Prataya Amrit, secretary of the state's disaster management department.

Officials in Bihar have warned that the real danger is still ahead. When the swollen Kosi river burst its banks in Nepal just north of the Indian border, it changed course, flowing through a fresh channel 75 miles to the east that has no protective embankments. The river traditionally swells to a flood peak in October.

All this, after the UN called last year's floods the worst in living memory.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/30/india.naturaldisasters?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront

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Snow levels to drop to 4,000 feet in the Cascades - Aug 30,2008
Snow levels in the Washington Cascades and Olympics are expected to drop to 4,000 - 5,000 feet this Labor Day weekend, says National Weather Service.
http://www.weather.gov/alerts/wa.html#WAZ519.SEWNOWSEW.190600


Rainfall in three days,Aug.27th:
Waco, TX---7.37”
McKinney, TX---5.38”
San Antonio, TX---2.91”
Austin, TX---2.01”

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thats amazing. winter  is  coming.

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new articles posted on TWW I
Here is a thread to tranferr all the snow and weather data to-> http://z2.invisionfree.com/Tropical_weathers/index.php?showtopic=1301&st=0&#last

thanks

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Snow in Brazil and Uraguay 5 Sep 08 –

Here’s an email from a Brazilian reader
My name´s Dimitri, I´m sending a photo of snow in plains of south of Brasil. Not on mountains but IN PLAINS! This does not happen in MORE THAN ONE DECADE!.
Dimitri Ramos da Silva
Clique no link para ler a notícia completa no UOL
Imagens do dia (photos of the day) Notícias - 05/09/2008
http://noticias.uol.com.br/album/080905_al...htm?abrefoto=24


Rare late winter snowfall in Southern Brazil Friday, September 5th 2008.

This day will go in our climatic history of the southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul as one of the coldest ever witnessed in September. It was an amazing day. Temperatures below 5 degrees Celsius during afternoon hours are quite rare even in the coldest months of calendar from June to August, but today temperature dropped to 2 degrees in several cities after midday with the lows occurring during the afternoon. What began in the morning as granular snow and sleet quickly became moderate to heavy snow in the afternoon. The city of Pinheiro Machado (450 meters) never could expect to be whitened, despite the snow forecast from MetSul Weather Center, the only public or private weather institution in Brazil to warn on the snow..
See entire article, with photos
http://icecap.us/images/uploads/Rarelatewi...allinBrazil.pdf
Thanks to Bonnie First and Ron de Haan for this link

Snow also observed in Northern Uruguay.
In the southern areas of Rio Grande do Sul, temperature dropped in the afternoon to 2,5ºC in Bagé, 2,7ºC in Santana do Livramento, 2,2ºC in Canguçu and 3,1ºC em Caçapava do Sul. MetSul’s chief meteorologist Eugenio Hackbart notes that it was for sure one of the coldest ever recorded afternoons in September in a century. Hackbart explained that the synoptic pattern that favored this Friday snowfall in Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) was very similar to the one that produced the first snow in Buenos Aires since 1918 last year.
By Alexandre Aguiar
MetSul Meteorologia Weather Center / Porto Alegre – Brazil
Pictures from Zero Hora newspaper and from MetSul.com readers.
More on the snow in Southern Brazil at www.metsul.com/blog (Portuguese only)

For more articles since Sept.1st, visit:
http://z2.invisionfree.com/Tropical_weathers/index.php?showtopic=1301&st=0&#last

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that  is  incredible!!

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that  is  incredible!!

And more to come as we approach fall !   

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Sea level falling around Australia

16 Aug 08 - Sea level rose about 130m between 17,000 and 7,000 years ago. It has subsequently fallen in steps as the planet has cooled to our present level.
This is in the published science literature and much can be readily "Googled".


I contend that those professional scientists and advisors that are knowingly complicit in climate science fraud and all that is derived from it, will continue to be exposed by the science itself.”

Dr. G. LeBlanc Smith is a retired CSIRO Principal Research Scientist (geosciences – sedimentology)

http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/dispelling-delusions.pdf


I wonder how much longer people will listen to these communist bastards in the media ??    I was out the other night at the beach at 3AM.  It was low tide and I can tell you, it was extremely low.  In the past years tides at low tide have been getting very low.   Almost a quarter mile between the dunes and water level.  I don't remember ever seeing this 28 years ago here. 

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Border towns report record lows 13 Sept 08 -

"It seemed ominously like winter near the Canadian border this week as two towns recorded record low temperatures. In Washington, the temperature fell to 31 degrees in Boundary Dam overnight Wednesday, breaking the previous record of 34 degrees set in 1986, according to the National Weather Service. Porthill, Idaho, set a record low that same night at 27 degrees, 3 degrees colder that the previous record set in 1964. But the coldest was yet to come: Porthill broke the 1949 record of 27 degrees the following night with an overnight low of 23 degrees going into Friday."

 

Thanks to Robert Bissett for this info from the Idaho Spokesman Review

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Some high Alpine villages snowed in most of summer

A scary email from a reader in Germany:
15 Sep 08 - Here in southern Germany we experienced what seemed like a very short wet and cool summer ! For the first time in nearly 50 years mountain passes did not open at all this year because the massive snow from winter and spring failed to melt.
http://www.iceagenow.com/Some_high_Alpine_villages_snowed_in_most_of_summer.htm

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Coldest in 14 years in southeastern Australia - 9 Sep 08 -

Last night one of the coldest spots was Cooma, where it dipped to minus nine degrees at the airport, 11 below average and its lowest September temperature in 14 years. Canberra chilled to minus 3.7 degrees, seven below average and a six year low for September.
http://www.eldersweather.com.au/breakingweather.jsp

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wow!! australia seems to be really  cold and the snow didnt  melt  in germany. thats amazing!!

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I know.  Makes you wonder how this fall and winter will progress 

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Coldest string of five days in 70 years in California, grape production down 20 percent

15 Sep 08 - Many California grape growers are reporting lower quantities due to frosting.

The drop in production is shared across California with many winemaking and vintner organizations reporting the same trend. Some state estimates indicate a 20 percent decrease from last year and one-third fewer grapes than in 2005.

"In San Benito County, we had the same problem as everywhere else in California - terrible weather during the flowering season," said Steve Pessagno, owner of Pessagno Winery.

He noted that from April to May, cold weather and overcast skies created perfect conditions for frost.

"My notebook reads, 'April 12 to 16, coldest string of five days in the last 70 years.'"

Josh Jensen, owner and winemaker at Calera Winery, had vineyards yielding as little as half a ton per acre where they usually produce around twelve times that in a good year.

"We are seeing a very small harvest because we were absolutely slammed disastrously by the frosts during April," he said.

http://www.freelancenews.com/news/248490-grape-growers-feeling-the-freeze

 

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Many farmers worried about unusually cool weather 16 Sep 08 -
Farmers from Michigan to California to Wisconsin to
North Dakota to Kansas are concerned about the colder weather.

North Dakota farmers fear killing frost
The Agriculture Department says in its weekly crop report that the harvest made good progress until rain and cool temperatures hit the state late last week. The agency says corn farmers are worried about their crops reaching maturity before a killing frost.
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2008/09/16/ap5432142.html
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Weekend's heavy rain leaves farmers' fall crops to rot underwater - Michigan
His harvest, which had promised to be a bumper crop, was just getting under way, starting about three weeks late because of the cool, wet weather earlier in the season.
http://www.mlive.com/kzgazette/news/index.ssf/2008/09/weekends_heavy_rain_leaves_far.html

Record lows
Traverse City, Michigan reported 46F on Drummond Island ( Upper Peninsula ) yesterday at noon time,Sept.15th.
(From Channel 10 News)


Farmers in northern Wis. report light frost
State farmers are hoping for more heat and more time before a killing frost arrives this fall after some light frost was reported in northern Wisconsin early last week, according to the latest crop report issued Monday from the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service.
http://www.madison.com/tct/news/305105
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Kansas: Brisk Late Summer Temperatures Draw Concerns For Early Freeze
Unusually cool weather through much of August and early September in the central High Plains is sparking concern that crops may not reach maturity before the first freeze.
"Most fields will probably reach maturity before the first freeze, but dry-down could be a problem," said Kansas State University agronomist Kraig Roozeboom, adding that the first freeze would be when temperatures across a region drop to a growth-halting 28 degrees F rather than when the mercury dips to 32 F in scattered areas.
http://www.cattlenetwork.com/Content.asp?ContentID=252914
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