Video: Global warming arrives in Minnesota
posted at 12:30 pm on October 10, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
As I wrote earlier this week, we anticipated our first snow of the season last night — and it arrived. Officially we were supposed to get a mix of snow and rain, but as you can see in this video, the Twin Cities got enough snow that it stuck to the ground through the mid-morning. When I shot this off of my deck, the temperature was still at 29.5 degrees, which is rather crisp for the 19th day ofautumn:
Every time I post about this, people send me e-mails saying that “of course the weather changes from day to day — that doesn’t prove anything!” Well, that’s exactly my point. Weather gets warmer and cooler every day, month, year, decade, all the way to ages and eons, and has long before mankind began releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
However, the trend for the past eleven years has been cooling, not warming, which tends to disprove any relation to CO2 release and warming temperatures. We had the first summer in recent memory where Minnesota did not sustain high temps of 90 degrees for any extended period, if we hit it at all. We have had two cold and long winters in a row, and today indicates that 2009-10 will be longer and colder yet; last year, we didn’t get our first sticking snowfall until the end of October.
Technical notes: I shot this with my Flip Ultra HD, which was my first outdoor use, and it looks pretty good. I edited two clips into one movie, added the titles, and uploaded it to my YouTube channel with the FlipShare software, which made it pretty easy. Just for the FTC, no one compensated me for this message.
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That is shaved coconut isn’t it?
Mr. Joe on October 10, 2009 at 12:31 PM
They knocked the Moon off course when they shot it yesterday, the weather is going be even more screwed up and let’s not even think about the tides!!! What are we going to do?!?!?
Cindy Munford on October 10, 2009 at 12:32 PM
2nd snow this week here in South Denver…
Loveland ski area is already open…
Romeo13 on October 10, 2009 at 12:33 PM
It was 42 here in NW Arkansas this morning.
DerKrieger on October 10, 2009 at 12:33 PM
You are in violation of the Global Warming Prime Directive: anecdotal evidence can only be used to prove Global Warming.
rob verdi on October 10, 2009 at 12:34 PM
Bbbbbut Al Gore says…
angryed on October 10, 2009 at 12:34 PM
Great digs, Ed! Thanks for the shots of stately Morrisey Manor.
Scott P on October 10, 2009 at 12:34 PM
Yet.
Sneaky bloggers finding loopholes. ;-)
Abby Adams on October 10, 2009 at 12:34 PM
Algore unavailable for comment.
VegasRick on October 10, 2009 at 12:34 PM
Ha Ha
nyx on October 10, 2009 at 12:35 PM
Global warming got snowed in.
the_nile on October 10, 2009 at 12:35 PM
But don’t you see? Global cooling is a symptom of global warming.
Jeez, the debate is over already. :P
Rambotito on October 10, 2009 at 12:36 PM
Breaking News!
ManBearPig once more sighted near South Park Colorado….
Romeo13 on October 10, 2009 at 12:37 PM
Facts have nothing to do with the global warming faux debate. Cap and trade is about energy control, pricing and controlling the means of production. The end game remains the same–central planning.
The original folks behind global cooling are the same folks behind global warming. The goal then as now is the same. Spend some time reading the reports in the 70′s and they are the same as today. Only the excuse is changed.
patrick neid on October 10, 2009 at 12:38 PM
Expecting snow Sunday night in the western Southern Tier of NY.
heshtesh on October 10, 2009 at 12:38 PM
Run away, run away!!
mchristian on October 10, 2009 at 12:38 PM
The almanac says ‘Numbing Cold’ for this year. Can that be measured?
bbordwell on October 10, 2009 at 12:38 PM
Love the doghouse! Saw a little skim of ice out on Long Lake this am.
lizzee on October 10, 2009 at 12:38 PM
There must be a pending Al Gore speech .. he always does them on the oldest days of the year.
J_Crater on October 10, 2009 at 12:39 PM
What happened to all the hurricanes?
CWforFreedom on October 10, 2009 at 12:39 PM
47 degress this morning in the Mid-South. It’s times like this I miss our former Troll sethstorm, just to watch him flail about in the face of evidence.
kingsjester on October 10, 2009 at 12:40 PM
Gore won a Nobel for his climate change BS and he has a business investment in it. Seems he has a dog in the fight. How can they give an award to someone in that case?
CWforFreedom on October 10, 2009 at 12:40 PM
remember they changed the argument to climate change
therefore, they win whether it appears the climate cools or warms
CWforFreedom on October 10, 2009 at 12:41 PM
yep….and the leaves havent even changed and fallen from the trees yet….
alexraye on October 10, 2009 at 12:41 PM
Did you see this BBC article posted on Drudge this morning? “What Happened to Global Warming?”
IU_Conservative on October 10, 2009 at 12:42 PM
Ha , thats not a green house , you fail..
the_nile on October 10, 2009 at 12:42 PM
And we’re supposed to have a baseball game tonight…temps in the what? High 20s?
tastes like chicken on October 10, 2009 at 12:42 PM
Well its because the warmth of the planet is heating up the moon of Triton and thats causing all the ice to travel from Neptune here to Earth to make it snow. Duh.
Rbastid on October 10, 2009 at 12:42 PM
And the coldest ones as well!
*smartass
VegasRick on October 10, 2009 at 12:43 PM
FBIT Award Nominee — “Funny Because It’s True”
And that’s the other thing.
Beagle on October 10, 2009 at 12:43 PM
Braking News!
In a stunning announcment, the IPCC has stated they have a new study that prooves that CO2 has caused the increased volcanic and tectonic activity which has caused the recent spat of undersea Earthquakes in the Pacific Ring of Fire.
Based on this study, the UN has declared that the US must pay a 30% VAT tax to help alleviate the suffering, and to help combat undersea volcanic activity.
Romeo13 on October 10, 2009 at 12:43 PM
Warmer?!
Cooler?!
Climate change is out of control!
Only an economy-crushing, fat-cat-subsidizing, UN-strengthening world-wide tax is gonna save us!
/sarc
Did I get the libgic right?
ROCnPhilly on October 10, 2009 at 12:43 PM
On Friday one of my coworkers showed me a photo of the backyard of her friend who lives near Helena, Montana. At least two inches of snow had fallen. Their temps are in the twenties, with more snow expected. In Washington state the temps at night have fallen into the low 30′s. I woke up to a pale frost on the roofs of my neighbors on Monday morning.
theotherone on October 10, 2009 at 12:44 PM
33.7 greenhouse gas-trapped, global warming degrees in SE Minnesota right now.
paragon27x on October 10, 2009 at 12:45 PM
H/T Joe Soucheray
paragon27x on October 10, 2009 at 12:46 PM
Ah, the corporate-mandated, royalty-seeking mention of the Flip Ultra HD. Make a note for your tax return Ed…
BKeyser on October 10, 2009 at 12:46 PM
It’s fake! The house is obviously miniature!
zmdavid on October 10, 2009 at 12:46 PM
Go here and then enter “Most Recent 12-month Period” in the period field. You will have to scroll the pick list down, it is at the bottom. Select 1999 as the “First Year to Display”. Then click “submit”.
You will find that North America has been experiencing a cooling trend over the past 10 years of -0.77 degrees per decade. That is a huge trend considering that “Global Warming” is only 1 to 1.5 degrees per century.
We are currently less than half a degree above the 1901 to 2000 average.
crosspatch on October 10, 2009 at 12:46 PM
Not to worry. With the I-bama’s doing everything they can to wear out Air Force One and the entire presidential fleet, we’ll have global warming before you know it.
TXUS on October 10, 2009 at 12:49 PM
Same here in Denver. Big fat flakes coming down all morning.
I was talking with a co-worker the other day and was laughing about global warming. I said “so what’s with freezing temperatures and snow in October”?
Her response (before she stormed away in disgust), “Cold temperatures are all a result of global warming”!!
I kid you not.
katy on October 10, 2009 at 12:50 PM
It snowed for about 20 minutes here in Madison today as well, less than 24 hours after Gore visited the city. He is his own worst enemy.
BadgerHawk on October 10, 2009 at 12:50 PM
He and his brownnosers in Hollywood
CWforFreedom on October 10, 2009 at 12:50 PM
What’s a hurricane?
DerKrieger on October 10, 2009 at 12:51 PM
Any change is due to global warming silly– doh!
/
CWforFreedom on October 10, 2009 at 12:51 PM
Global warming will cause the next ice age. Just you watch. Don’t doubt me.
DerKrieger on October 10, 2009 at 12:53 PM
Yes.
Unfortunately Global Warming need not be real for them to implement their “solutions”.
zmdavid on October 10, 2009 at 12:53 PM
“War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength.”
Sounds about right.
katy on October 10, 2009 at 12:54 PM
That really was the plot for The Day After Tomorrow.
zmdavid on October 10, 2009 at 12:54 PM
In other breaking news…if you want to lose weight, eat more!
DerKrieger on October 10, 2009 at 12:55 PM
Supposed to be 80F here today, sorry, Ed. :)
Bob's Kid on October 10, 2009 at 12:57 PM
High tomorrow in Novosibirsk of 60 degrees. You’re in the wrong place…
Realist on October 10, 2009 at 12:57 PM
October snow is not news, it almost always snows in Denver in October and very frequently in September. The earliest snowfall ever recorded was September 3rd. I even saw it snow in July at 7500 feet when I was a kid.
On the reverse side, it can be 70 in January. My second year of college I had a fabulous tan by spring break in March and it wasn’t from skiing.
That said, it is very cold today – 16 degrees this morning – and they’ve postponed the baseball game. Baseball players aren’t as tough as football players I guess.
The great thing about Colorado though, is it will be 55 and sunny tomorrow and all traces of the snow will be gone.
Common Sense on October 10, 2009 at 1:01 PM
LOL
conservative pilgrim on October 10, 2009 at 1:07 PM
Lived in Chicago and Buffalo for a combined 5 years – never saw snow before Halloween.. but i come to Minneapolis and i see snow this morning.. temps below 30 with the windchill.
Global Warming – Thr biggest fricking hoax on mankind since communism/socialism – and what do both the environMENTALists and commies share in common ? an overwhelming desire to control the means of production, a desire to preach about “shared sacrifices” and an overwhelming desire to control people’s lives and their freedoms.
Environmental radicalism is just communism by another name.
nagee76 on October 10, 2009 at 1:08 PM
Doghouse? ‘Tis a “cottage.”
conservative pilgrim on October 10, 2009 at 1:09 PM
We have a chance to enjoy Global Warming tonight… record lows for Chicago. Tomorrow morning wind chill in the teens, actual temp. in western suburbs in the 20′s. I just love Gorebal Warning.
Hobbes on October 10, 2009 at 1:10 PM
In beautiful downtown Silicon Valley, the temps are in the low 70′s. We gots yer global warming right here.
Buford Gooch on October 10, 2009 at 1:10 PM
77 here in Raleigh, with humidity it feels like 81 (pretty normal). Y’all can have the snow!!!
SouthernGent on October 10, 2009 at 1:12 PM
It’s coming your way dear. Should be arriving by Monday sometime.
katy on October 10, 2009 at 1:14 PM
Record low temp in Spokane, Wa last night.
artist on October 10, 2009 at 1:16 PM
I was counting on Ed keeping the snow up there and not sending it our way. It’s been a crummy summer here and now a long winter.
conservative pilgrim on October 10, 2009 at 1:16 PM
I had an overnight in Denver last week, it was fah-REEEEEZZZZ-ing!
We had a mild summer this year, I hope this doesn’t mean we’re gonna have an extra cold winter, I don’t wanna win that argument with the Lefties! I’d rather say “You know, it’s not very cold this winter, maybe you guys were right … for once.”
Tony737 on October 10, 2009 at 1:16 PM
The cause of the coming long, cold winter is low sun-spot activity. Everyone in the climate field has been talking about this since last spring. Records show that when sun-spots don’t return as the cycle turns upward, the northern hemisphere gets really cold for a year or two. Stock up on fire wood and longjohns, you’ll need them.
lonesomecharlie on October 10, 2009 at 1:18 PM
I woke up this morning to 4-5 inches of snow on the ground here in the Omaha, NE area! The forecast only called for about half-an-inch that would melt by midday. Imagine the sight out my window: there’s enough snow that you can’t see the (now dying) green grass sticking out, and most of the trees are still green! On top of that, it’s 30 degrees, with lows tonight nearing the teens! Freakin’ weird…
Two weeks ago were flirting with 75-80 degrees.
KellyBomelly on October 10, 2009 at 1:18 PM
So what is the left’s argument of the day on this one: global warming? Global climate change? That carbon emissions are bad just because they are, and any possible long-term climate impact is just icing on the(ir) cake? It’s hard to keep up!
Which,you would think, would also make it hard to support. Unfortunately, we all are not so lucky.
johnny alpha on October 10, 2009 at 1:26 PM
Missoula got some snow a skiff.
http://www.umt.edu/grizcam/
Lookout Pass has got a little snow.
There are weather webcams for Montana and Idaho.
Dr Evil on October 10, 2009 at 1:27 PM
What I want to know is if we enter a sustained period of undeniable cooling will the global warming crowd suggest that we increase our carbon emissions to save the earth from cooling too much or will they will just bag the whole idea that carbon emissions cause the planet to warm.
Joe Caps on October 10, 2009 at 1:27 PM
Yep, the summer was bad. It’s not “FAIR” that we should now have a cold Fall.
Mr. Obama, while your redistributing the wealth how about redistributing the warmth too! Instead of “Obama Money” like they’re getting in Detroit, I’ll take “Obama Warmth”. Shouldn’t be hard for you since you are the “Messiah”. Ha!
Hobbes on October 10, 2009 at 1:28 PM
Even the BBC is starting to say global warming may not all that real
ConservativePartyNow on October 10, 2009 at 1:28 PM
Karl Rove isn’t President anymore. Hurricane machine retired.
Del Dolemonte on October 10, 2009 at 1:29 PM
2nd snow on Whiteface Mt of NY 10-01-09
Jed1899 on October 10, 2009 at 1:30 PM
Game has already been postponed to Sunday. Sunday’s game pushed back to Monday.
Del Dolemonte on October 10, 2009 at 1:31 PM
Phillies/Rockies game for tonight has been postponed. Weather people reporting snow on the ground and 32 degrees.
Unusual wintry weather aside, I would like to know who the idiot is over at TBS that schedules today’s game in Los Angeles for the afternoon game, and schedules the game in Denver for a night game.
Ridiculous.
fogw on October 10, 2009 at 1:31 PM
Here is the instrumental temperature record from 1980 – 2005. As you can see, the overall trend is warming, even though the global mean temperature was significantly lower in 2005 than its recent maximum circa 1998 (which, iirc, was the result of a strong El Niño). This doesn’t prove AGW, of course, but it certainly doesn’t disprove it.
According to the climate models, temperatures are expected to rise in kind of a drunk walk over the next 100 years. I don’t know if the models are right. I have a problem with how they’ve been treated like gospel before there’s been a chance to examine their predictions on the decadal resolution that they can attain. But… a decade of cooling is consistent with their theory. In fact, that’s exactly what one prominent climate scientist is predicting for the next decade.
I don’t have a problem with AGW skepticism. I consider myself a skeptic, but “it’s snowing in Minnesota” isn’t a valid criticism of AGW (even though it’s probably an effective one).
RightOFLeft on October 10, 2009 at 1:31 PM
Don’t you neocon wingnuts get it??? Global warming is slowing down because of peole like ME who now drive a Prius!
- Lefty McGreenboy
Tony737 on October 10, 2009 at 1:32 PM
Ed, I want to friend you on youtube. :)
FontanaConservative on October 10, 2009 at 1:33 PM
Those are some beautiful photos, I especially liked the first one.
Dr Evil on October 10, 2009 at 1:34 PM
- Rahm “Twinkle Toes” Emmanuel
Joe Caps on October 10, 2009 at 1:36 PM
That’s why they had to change it from Global Warming to Climate Change. No one really knows what Climate Change really means, after all the climate changes all the time. But the Global Warming mantra hasn’t fit the data for some time now, so they had to back off that. It’s all so phony its pathetic. Yet the globalists are still trying to convince you to give up your freedom for this hoax and Obama is taking up the mantle along with McCain!
BTW, Ed, is Al Gore giving a speech in MN today?
Christian Conservative on October 10, 2009 at 1:37 PM
Ed, I want to friend you on youtube
- FontanaCon
Yeah, me too Ed! TonyN737
Tony737 on October 10, 2009 at 1:38 PM
Cool Weather Gear.
Dr Evil on October 10, 2009 at 1:38 PM
Any condition that precedes an event is said event’s cause.
thomasaur on October 10, 2009 at 1:39 PM
Sports headlines: Snow postpones baseball playoff game in Denver!
docdave on October 10, 2009 at 1:39 PM
Sunspot count: ZERO.
Imagine three decades of ‘cooling’.
Imagine this as the ‘good olde days.’
CPT. Charles on October 10, 2009 at 1:46 PM
Hey, Dr. Evil, I tried to look at the webcams you poasted, this was all I got …
Global warming must’ve melted (or frozen) the cameras!
Tony737 on October 10, 2009 at 1:51 PM
Ed, we had snow in Des Moines this morning too!
Rndguy on October 10, 2009 at 1:55 PM
Ed rake the leaves,find the shovel and put up the firewood.
We’ll call you when it’s spring!
tim c on October 10, 2009 at 1:59 PM
All I can say is, bring on the snow!
An early ski season is fine by me.
JetBoy on October 10, 2009 at 1:59 PM
Ironically, all it would take to end this argument is for our illustrious press corps to corral Al Gore and start making him defend his assinine theories.
There too, start suggesting that all the funding Congress sends out there to study this stuff, obviously isn’t being spent wisely. The problem is, the money is sent out there to prove that man is responsible for global warming, rather than asking what influences our weather, which could be a much more noble study and one that could actually reveal worthwhile results.
bflat879 on October 10, 2009 at 2:02 PM
Bozo’s climate czar Holdren predicted 1 billion would die due to a coming ICE AGE.
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=112073
These people will use any means and stop and nothing to perform social engineering to control us and effect what THEY think is correct.
dogsoldier on October 10, 2009 at 2:03 PM
Holdren:
They continued: “Even more dramatic results are possible, however; for instance, a sudden outward slumping in the Antarctic ice cap, induced by added weight, could generate a tidal wave of proportions unprecedented in recorded history.”
The authors then predicted global cooling could “give way to global warming,” writing: “If man survives the comparatively short-term threat of making the planet too cold, there is every indication he is quite capable of making it too warm not long thereafter.”
Why? Because overpopulation would lead to increased energy consumption and energy consumption would produce more heat, the authors argued.
This shit is funny but not as funny as the scare movie “The day after tomorrow.” Funniest movie I’ve seen in a long time.
It’s not about weather or the earth. It’s about making us poor so everybody can be poor together!!! Which wouldn’t work btw
Haunches on October 10, 2009 at 2:13 PM
Going to be a really bad winter for the hoaxers.
I wonder how much crop damage we will have overall.
tarpon on October 10, 2009 at 2:14 PM
This proves that Global Warming is a snow job.
pckle on October 10, 2009 at 2:14 PM
Yeah, but it’s not really cooling cooling.
Ed, you obviously haven’t seen that movie about global warming. It has graphs and stuff which clearly show that the Earth is warming! Globally!
And need I remind you that the movie won 2 Oscars and was endorsed by celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio and Bono.
Al Gore, the genius behind the movie, is a Nobel Peace Prize winner! Yes, a Nobel Peace Prize winner! It’s not like they hand those out to just anyone with no accomplishments whatsoever! Jeez!
redzap on October 10, 2009 at 2:15 PM
Who lives in the little house, Ed?
petefrt on October 10, 2009 at 2:16 PM
We had our first snow in Bozeman, Montana on 30 September, and it’s snowed about four times since. Yesterday we got six inches (powder, not wet), and it’s presently 16ºF.
Montana State University, Bozeman webcam. (Note all the trees and hedges that are still leafed out.)
jix on October 10, 2009 at 2:20 PM
Cold and snowy here in Denver.. Where is the global warming……..
reshas1 on October 10, 2009 at 2:24 PM
Wolfe:
Global Warming for $300 Alex……
Alex:
Who Didn’t invent the internet but did make up Global Warming?
BigMike252 on October 10, 2009 at 2:24 PM
Saw it coming in betwixt 2 & 3 this morning. The heavy mist turned to snow as the wind whipped it around. We also had our first power outage over here in the eastburbs about 7:30 this morning, so it was about 60 degrees by the time the power came back on around 9:30 or 10:00am. No more turning the thermostat down to 69-70 at night. Sucks to be stuck in Minnesnowta.
Oh, one more thing. Went to two big outdoor stores (in Owatona and Rodgers) last week looking for a new Winter coat. They’re not in yet. Did they forget we have Winter here? Do they only watch Algore”s Current tv and planned on global warming? One big wtf to them.
oakpack on October 10, 2009 at 2:31 PM
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