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Wednesday Hail

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Over the afternoon, the weather turned nasty. The staff were talking about snow. To 300m. Have not seen any, but it is unseasonally cold.

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One son, who has cross country tomorrow, is praying hard for snow. The other is praying for no snow because he has  a school trip.

Regardless, it is unseasonably cold.

Which reminds me of this article. To quote them:

Thanks to misreading the significance of a brief period of rising temperatures at the end of the 20th century, the Western world (but not India or China) is now contemplating measures that add up to the most expensive economic suicide note ever written.

Go read it.

Note to warmists: Snow, rain and gales bring winter chill

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Ah yes, everyone is moaning. We expect a clod snap aorund now but then we want cold bright frosty days and to see the son. Not miserable gray chilly coldness.

And ii is cold. Full winter cold. Too early.

Philip Duncan, of Weatherwatch, said the wild weather was caused by the return of the low front that brought cold temperatures last week.

“Cold snaps are not unusual but for it to stick with us so long is strange,” he said. “We had such a warm April but we’ve been robbed of autumn. We’re having July weather in the middle of May, when the coldest time of this year is still to come.”

MetService figures show temperatures are only slightly cooler than last year. In Auckland, the mean temperature for May so far is 11.9 degrees, compared to last year’s average of 13.6.

Comparisons for the other main centres showed similar decreases.

“These temperatures are typical of late May to early June so they’ve occurred two weeks earlier than normal,” said MetService weather ambassador Bob McDavitt.

“We’ll probably have the temperatures we’ve got right through into June.”

via Snow, rain and gales bring winter chill – National – NZ Herald News.

I’m not a believer in CO2 as a major factor: I think water and sunspot / solar cycles have more to do with this. If Gore is right, can everyone fire up their V*s and open a few more coal fired stations, because we are two degrees down, and that matters.

Of course the Goreists would argue two degrees up proved their point. If that is the case, does this disprove it?