At Tuolumne Meadows, January was the warmest and driest January on record, according to weather measurements/NPS
Until a storm blew into California this weekend, winter weather had largely gone missing in Yosemite National Park, especially in Tuolumne Meadows. Rangers there reported that this January was the warmest and driest on record in Tuolume Meadows as measured at the weather station there.
That said, they noted, skiing on the Tioga Road and in the meadows was still pretty good.
"And, if you are feeling adventurous and creative, you can leave the security of the road and try your luck skiing on local summer hiking trails where, at least, there are fewer obstacles," Laura and Rob Pilewski reported on their blog on February 4. "Snowshoers are also using these corridors. We skied 17 miles yesterday while patrolling for the rare Sierra Nevada red fox. We only had to take our skis off once, and yes, we were feeling adventurous and creative (desperate is another appropriate adjective!)
"Just remember, it is Tuolumne Meadows without the cars; a wilderness paradise regardless of what mode of non-mechanized transportation one uses to get here."
According to their weather recordings, total settled snow depth was 5 inches as of February 4th, 2015 (at 8,600 feet); high temperature was 52°F, recorded on February 1, and the low temperature of 18°F was noted on February 3.
Comments
Ah Ha!
Obviously more proof that the world is actually becoming cooler.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/globalwarming/11395516...
Thank you trailadvocate (I have always like your post name on Traveler), I sourced your "Telegraph" listing on the climate change article by Chris Booker. I also scanned several other articles he wrote on the same subject. Trail, I just did not find them creditable, not that it makes me right about the issue. I was also interested in the fact that the "Telegraph" is owned by the billionaire twins David and Frederick Barclay, part of a media empire they own in the British Isles. The political/editorial thrust of the "Telegraph" is quite conservative, considered the spokesperson for the Tory Party. Generally, both in English and American conservative circles, climate change is not denied, but they do not accept the role humans are alleged to have in accelerating it. In any case it was interesting reading.
Thanks, rmackie! If you can agree that being conservative, in itself, isn't bad or assuredly wrong we can be friends:).
http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/01/10/meteorologist-anthony-watts-on-ad...
But not in the WH, apparently.
Why did you not find his report "creditable"? Do you have evidence that any of is reporting is fictional or that he has misrepresented the facts? Or, is it not credible merely because you don't want to believe it?
And NOAA and others are reporting that 2014 was the warmest year on record worldwide since 1880.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/
But using the more accurate satellite data, which NOAA doesn't want to use, the global temperatures are falling and 2014 was not the warmest.
I found the missing snow!
The union of Communist Concerned Scientists warns that winter in Boston is becoming very warm, and they are running out of snow.
You should feel ashamed of yourself for making Boston so warm, and depriving them of snow.