Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past
Britain’s winter ends tomorrow with further indications of a striking environmental change: snow is starting to disappear from our lives.
“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is.”
The BBC is always busy looking for ‘proof’ of global warming….here they are in Oz in July….
Artificial snow on slopes of hotter Australia
Australia is sometimes the petri dish of climate change – a place where global warming is not just a theoretical concept but a tangible reality.
Ready, set…snow! Australia blanketed in a winter wonderland as cold front delivers a brisk start to the weekend
And this is from June a month before the BBC paints its picture of doom….which really shows how untrustworthy the BBC is…they knew there was heavy snow in Oz and yet they report ‘artifical snow’ stories….
Best snowfalls in a decade forecast for eastern Australia. Strap yourselves in for the megablizzard
While Australia rejoices in the heaviest June snowfalls this century, with the majority of lifts at all resorts set to open by the weekend, the Kiwis have barely got two snowflakes to rub together.
Of course the late snow on Mt Buller is an entirely new phenomenon isn’t it?…
“Historically speaking though it is not unusual for us to have no snow on Opening Weekend,” says David McNamara from the Victorian ski resort of Mt Buller.
Ahh…an explanation…the reporter is the never-reliable Jon Donnison telling us that the snow is so late and so thin that artificial snow is needed.
Really? The snow came, in bucket loads, two weeks ‘late’ into the skiing season…..
Experienced weather watchers are calling it the storm of the century. They’re saying it could snow on and off, but mostly on, for the next 10 days.
And now the megablizzard has arrived. The NSW resorts of Thredbo and Perisher received 40cm and 50cm respectively overnight. Hotham, Falls Creek and Mt Buller (pictured below) in Victoria all reported similar totals.
A spokesman for Thredbo confirmed to news.com.au that as of about 3.30pm, 80cm of snow had now fallen in the past 24 hours.
“It’s an incredible amount for June, I’m not sure it’s a record, but it has set us up for the rest of the season,” he said.
The official Australian ski season started two weeks ago but up till yesterday then, there had been a desperately thin snow base with only a lift or two turning at the NSW resorts of Perisher and Thredbo. Victorian resorts, which are a little lower than their NSW counterparts, had nothing but grass.
That all started to change yesterday and after a brief lull in the early morning hours, the storm appears to be intensifying now.
Here’s what a user called “Snowblowa” said on the forums on leading snow industry website ski.com.au:
“Seriously when was the last time we were looking at a potential 100cm event to kick off the season properly with potential mega follow up?!!!!!!! We gotta savour this, it’s gunna be awesome, we might be saying in five years “remember late June in 2014”. Besides, we are so over due, last few years in General have been pretty average.”
So let’s see…that’s deep snow and lots of it.
The BBC is obviously trying hard here…they even drag in Al Gore who tells us he isn’t impressed by Oz PM Tony Abbot who is somewhat sceptical about the extent of the threat that is global warming….that’ll be the Al Gore who made a video with copious ‘errors’ in it that misled viewers about climate change and had to be ‘corrected’….and the same Al Gore who has massive investements in green technology companies reliant on the climate change bandwagon to keep rolling and bringing in the dollars.
I live in southern Australia and yes, last winter was a real blast in every sense – I wrote to the BBC to complain about their warmist nonsense only to be told that they were acting on “the best advice” from their correspondents in my country – who only live in Sydney, which has a totally different climate and never sees snow.
Adellad. I have every sympathy with you. I live in the uk, but i read up on reports on the, and looked at pictures on a lot of aussie newspapers. Correct me if I am wrong, but it seems that you guys got a particular harsh winter, with a lot of snow in the highlands.
I hope that you get wise to the bbc and what it stands for, and chase that w____er donnison and co out of your country.
Meanwhile the bbc_ met office here are claiming that the uk is going to have the warmest year on record going on month to month on their”Cet” records through this year.
But this december has been much colder than they thought so far, and they just might have jumped the gun
I would be so happy if they are left with egg on their faces.
That’s why the BBC declared early. They got their warmest ever reports in before inconvenient facts proved them wrong in December.
The US has the Heartland Institute, Australia has the Lavoisier Group and Britain has the Global Warming Policy Foundation.
But I would say that things are much worse in Britain than the US and Australia, when it comes to the science, not just because of the BBC censorship of science, scientists and scientific debate. But I have never seen an article from the GWPF about the core issues. While you in Australia have David Archibald.
“Told that they were acting on “the best advice” from their correspondents in my country”
Another ‘BBC asked the BBC and the BBC told the BBC the BBC had got it about BBC’ special? Spiffy.
Still, adding the never unreliable JonDon and his vast Australian experience to the Sydney team will doubtless assist mightily.
Maybe soon we will treated to tweets of a distraught fellow bearing what’s left of his snowman to waiting cameras, only to find it was shot in Cairo. Likely by our man, who seems to shuttle between his new home and an old stomping ground in some kind of craft powered by unicorn farts.
Did you know that this much trumpeted Central England Temperature is gleaned from an area inside from London (along the M4) to Bristol then to Lancashire (up the M5 and M6) then back to London (down the M6 to the M1) It does make you wonder if all those temperature gauges are sitting on the edges of motorways? The original CET was with just 3 reporting stations. So because there has been adjusted temperatures from within this triangle, the whole of the U.K. is having its warmest year yet….and how quickly did this morf into the warmest Global yet? I do despair I really do.
PS: I have all the met office data sets concerning everything to do with our U.K. weather since 1900. (well almost everything)Interesting reading, they even state that much of the data has been “adjusted”. Hmmm, by whom, how and why? Another FOI going off soon enough.
Oh and Alan, have a closer look at where the BBC places its pension fund(s). Climate Change anyone?
New York has just experienced a huge snowstorm so how does this fit in with the BBC’s line on global warming? Plus I think we almost always get a lot of snow 6 -8 weeks after heavy snow in New York. Could be wrong but maybe worth a bet on a ‘White Christmas’.
Over a wider area – the Great Lakes started freezing over this year much earlier than usual
It’s always worth Gurgling “Piers Corbyn” on ‘Youtube or anywhere else. Apart from anything else, he reminds me of the science teachers of my school days – a vanished breed, in Britain, anyway.
It was snowing in Sheffield this morning …