January 2008: Second Coolest January Worldwide in 15 Years

And according to data from Remote Sensing Systems of Santa Rosa there has been a significant global drop in temperature of 0.63 degress Centigrade in the past 12 months. That goes a long way towards explaining the significant global winter weather events of the past year, including here in the Inland Northwest.

I have heard of the Sports Illustrated jinx. Is there a Nobel jinx?

National Weather Service: Winter 2007-2008 One for the Books

Think its snowed a lot in Eastern Washington this winter? You're right.

The National Weather Service says that we have not seen snows like this in 12 years, In fact, this January in Spokane was the 4th snowiest January since records have been kept. What's more, through January 31, this is the seventh snowiest winter EVER in Spokane. Even if it doesn't snow again this winter, it would be the 20th snowiest winter since 1881.

So much for the "hockey stick" (the 3rd and 6th all-time snowiest winters were in the Nineties.) Does anybody know how that global warming event went in Moscow yesterday? Or was it cancelled because of snow?

UDPATE: From yesterday's Moscow-Pullman Daily News:

Talk warming - The Palouse Clearwater Environmental Institute will sponsor a night of global warming information, discussion, and entertainment at 6 p.m. at Mikey's Gryos on Main Street in Moscow. The "Focus the Nation" event will include a forum on how things such as the media, denial, and technology can sometimes be obstacles to combating climate change. Kenton Bird, Fritz Fiedler and Heather Truelove will be on the panel. THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED DUE TO THE WEATHER.

Life in Hell, Part Two

14 inches of snow since last night on my previously freshly shoveled driveway...


...plus the foot we already had on the ground adds up to a whopping 26 inches of the white stuff.


My house on Paradise (soon to be renamed Glacier) Ridge.


Digging out Dr. Forbes. Nice of the WSU administration to wait until 10 AM to close. Needless to say, the Blizzard of 2008 has shut everything down in Pullman, including for the first time in many years, WSU and the Pullman School District. And the snow is still falling, with more on the way....


GLOBAL WARMING CAUSES EXTINCTION OF WAL-MART CHRISTMAS DEER!!!!!! Those greedy corporate bastards....

That's Old Man Winter, SIR, Maggot!

A cornice on Liberty Ridge, Mount Rainier? Nah. The rock wall beside my house.


Street scene today in Pullman. For you West Side readers, while virtually every school in Eastern Washington was closed yesterday, Pullman schools were on time. We're saving our snow day for the planet killer asteroid strike.


The Himalayas? Nope. It's a vacant lot where all this winter's accumulated snow has been dumped after being plowed from the Port of Whitman County Industrial Park parking lots. I figure it should all be gone by June.