Tuesday, March 04, 2008
January and February were cold in Australia, too
Weather tells us nothing important about climate change, unless of course there is a heat wave in Europe or Manhattan. Readers of righty blogs, however, know that January was the coldest globally in many years, according to all four of the data sets crunched in climate models.
Hence the high hopes for a good ski season in Australia:
A light dusting of snow blanketed the NSW ski resorts overnight as temperatures dropped to a low of minus 3.8 degrees Celcius at Perisher and minus 3 degrees at Thredbo.
Intermittent light snow flurries continued to fall into the morning on Mount Perisher.
Weather forecasters are already predicting a bumper snow season for 2008, according to resort management. Temperatures are expected to remain low with persistent precipitation throughout winter.
"We have barely had a summer this year," said Gary Grant, Perisher Blue's general manager of marketing. "It's felt as though it's remained cold since the end of the 2007 season, apart from a few warm days, there air has always had a nip in it."
Ski Oz!
4 Comments:
By 
Georg Felis, at
Tue Mar 04, 09:58:00 AM:
Which brings a interesting comment. If we are indeed entering a period of global cooling, (which I don't really think we are, but bear with me) how much would the temprature have to drop before the Global Warming (insert Adjective here) people will shut up? And how long until they would support technology that would increase CO2? (My personal opinion would be "When the Glacier hits Nebraska", and "When the North and South Glaciers meet")
By 
, at
Tue Mar 04, 12:41:00 PM:
Im sre AL GORE and the wackos from GREENPEACE will find a way to blame this on GLOBAL WARMING and SUVs knowing how far out in the feilds of wacky weed they are
By joated, at
Tue Mar 04, 01:24:00 PM:
By my reckoning, Australia has yet to begin its FALL (March 21) which means these snows in NSW are occurring during SUMMER!
Now, granted it's in the part of the country nearest the Antarctic, but still....
By Who Struck John, at
Tue Mar 04, 08:14:00 PM:
As I said in the earlier thread on climate, we've got an extended sunspot minima (basically, the normal 11-year cycle did not start its next upswing on schedule). So solar output is down and surprise! surprise! the planet is cooler. If the sunspot cycle starts up, this will go away. If it does not, then we'll have some cause to worry about another Maunder minimum.
