36.9 total inches in November 2022 (3.1 feet). November record is 45.6 inches (3.8 feet).
63.1 inches in December 2022 through the 26th (5.25 feet). December record is 82.7 inches (6.9 feet).
January record is 68.3 inches.
February record is 54.2 inches.
March record is 38.5 inches.
April record is 15 inches.
May record is 7.9 inches.
The mean average season is 85.4 inches, 55 of which come after Dec. 31st.
What we know: TVA ordered rolling blackouts for the first time in 90 years amid freezing temps
The result, no doubt, of the generally wetter conditions in the Great Lakes over the long haul as predicted by slightly cooler Pacific Ocean waters indicated by the Oceanic Nino Index.
We've had 14+ inches so far in Dec 2022 with 2 feet expected in the latest storm, so this December might break into the top 5.
Winter. It's what's for Christmas.
2022 mean average temperature eleven months through Nov = 50.4
Mean average temperature through Nov since 1892 = 50.0
28 inches of snow, second highest November on record, all melted now.
We've been busy around here with three days in a row of 7+ inches of snow each, and in excess of two feet in five days.
Total November snow is already at 27.3 inches, which beats November 1951 at 26.9.
The snowiest November of all time at KGRR was November 2014 with 31 inches.
It was 75 degrees F here in Grand Rapids on November 10.
We dropped to 18 F last night.
Record November snow in Buffalo was 45.6 inches in November 2000. The second snowiest November was 31.3 inches in November 1976.
BUF is officially at 36.9 inches already through the 19th, also making November 2022 its second snowiest November ever, with ten more days left in the month.
Its three-day history is 9.4, 5.7, and 21.5 inches yesterday.
It was 79 F in Buffalo on the 5th, and dropped to 23 F in Buffalo last night.
Urgewald’s Schuecking told CNBC that since the 2015 Paris accord was signed, the global coal plant fleet had seen a net increase of roughly 157 gigawatts. That’s the equivalent of Germany, Russia, Japan and Poland’s coal fleet added up together.
The research found that 467 gigawatts of new coal-fired capacity were still in the pipeline worldwide. And, if realized, these projects would increase the world’s current coal power capacity by 23%. ...
China was found to be responsible for 61% of all planned coal power capacity additions and, perhaps unsurprisingly, the top four coal plant developers were found to be Chinese companies . . .. China Energy Investment Corporation was the world’s top thermal coal producer last year. This was closely followed by Coal India . . ..
I omitted Schuecking's temper tantrum parts of the story, here.
She is, predictably, a German environmentalist wacko who is also against nuclear power. Urgewald is full of crazy Karens just like her who agitate against corporations and try to get individuals like David Malpass of the World Bank fired because they don't mouth the right words like the Paris Climate Accord hypocrites do.
Urgewald is Exhibit A for the prospect of Germans freezing to death this winter.
Mean average temperature in Grand Rapids MI through September since 1892: 51.1F.
. . . the Inflation Reduction Act was signed by President Biden earlier this summer. It had been thirty years and sixty-five days since President George H.W. Bush signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Rio de Janeiro.
Here.
George also spawned the redundant hate crime legislation, huge increases to LEGAL immigration, wheel-chair access at every intersection's crosswalk among other expensive accommodations for the ambulatory handicapped, who in 2016 are fewer than 7% of the population, an unchastened Saddam Hussein, and READ MY LIPS . . . NEW TAXES.
Oh yeah. He also literally spawned the guy who didn't keep America safe on 911 and gave us the expensive nation-building wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the insidious Patriot Act, but don't get me started.
Everything BUSH has been terrible for America, which is saying a lot when everything Democrat always is anyway.
Average temperature in Grand Rapids, MI, Jan-Aug since 1892 = 49.6
As you can see, today's posts so far show a pattern: Elect women leaders at your peril.
Through 2021 mean precipitation for the eight months Jan-Aug is 22.88, but for Jan-Aug 2022 we've got 27.61 inches.
Wet. Wet. Wet.
Meanwhile out West it's the reverse.
Dry. Dry. Dry.
The three day history for KGRR shows that the high on the 19th was 88 degrees F at numerous points throughout the afternoon and evening, and that the low was 71 degrees F early in the morning, but if you look at the daily data for a month it says the high was 90 degrees F and the low was . . . 49 degrees F.
The mean minimum for July going back to 1892 is 49 degrees F, so that explains that error. Some idiot transcribed that value instead of the actual value. So far this month, the lowest minimum was 52 degrees F.
Can't explain the 2 degree F discrepancy for the high, though. You would think that there would be room for a spike up to 90 during an hour interval by the presence of at least one 89 value at some regular hourly interval, but there isn't one.
Is someone's fat finger on the scale over there?
It's a good reminder that the human element introduces error into the record, whether intentional or not, and that you can't believe everything you're told, even about the simplest of things.
By the way, I'm just four miles from the station as the crow flies, and we had a rain shower last night which doesn't show up in the three day history either.
I know, I know, aLl wEaThEr iS LoCaL.
The blaze in Yosemite National Park was
measured at 2,044 acres by evening. It had no containment, and it was
likely to continue to grow amid light winds and hot conditions, U.S.
Forest Service officials said Sunday. ...
The summer temperatures were abetted by abundant fuel, officials said. Garrett Dickman, a Yosemite National Park biologist, explained the problem in simple terms: “There’s a lot of wood on the ground, and that wood is going up in smoke.”
Wood on the ground includes dead trees and branches from a 2013-15 die-off.
More.
Coal Makes Comeback as World Thirsts for Energy...
