https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c391jmgmev4o 

Not just the Gulf Coast "extreme cold warnings throughout the provinces of Ontario and Quebec. With the wind chill, temperatures will be as low as -50C (-58F) in some areas." and it was only a couple of months ago that this area was recording record high temperatures"

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/weather/forecasts/odd-november-warmth-breaks-records-in-southern-ontario 

Some decent snow in some of the pictures 

https://i.imgur.com/BfzCjFb.png 

There was 8 inches - 20cm - of level snow in New Orleans as the result of all this.

It is, of course, galling to see places like that have more snow on the ground than we've had here this millennium! Hell, there are people buying houses and raising children who've never seen that much.

All that cold air bodes ill for us, as it'll just keep the jet revved up.

Nearly a foot of snow falling right on the Gulf coast next to water that's currently around 20C that sits at latitude not far off the tropics.. Now that is what I'd call truly spectacular weather. 

Nearly a foot of snow falling right on the Gulf coast next to water that's currently around 20C that sits at latitude not far off the tropics.. Now that is what I'd call truly spectacular weather. 

There is no bias.  Global warming doesn’t mean everywhere must gets warmer, it means the climate system becomes more erratic…. Like deep cold penetrating to the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.  Plus, it has been reported quite widely.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c805k7gj91ko 

https://www.itv.com/news/2025-01-22/florida-among-us-states-hit-by-record-snowfall-as-major-winter-storm-spreads 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14308769/winter-storm-warning-enzo-2025-ice-snow.html 

Given how large airmasses circulate around the world, any warming will be felt equally over time. This not a pick and choose situation. A random heat wave over Europe, or a cold plunge over north America, is no real proof of climate change. What is proof is the weight of warming over a longer period, which indeed is the case. As an example of this, the mean temp of my own country has risen by 0.4c  just since 2020 alone, as compared to the 1981 - 2010 average. 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YfpuMWqiclM

Some of the major stations had over 400mm yesterday, some smaller ones were 700mm in a day. The system started Friday and is due to go through Monday so I think the BOMs "up to" could be a "well over" in reality.

We stayed in Mission Beach one year and the nearby town of Tully has the golden gumboot in the centre,. It is 8 metres high and the claimed record rainfall for a year for any town in Australia. This is pretty close to Innisfail, which is one of the towns affected now.

It's an area with interesting topography in that the mountains (well over 1000m and up to 1600m) are very close to the coast along this stretch so the tropical lows just circle around for days on end like this system is.

Ingham Aerodrome is up to 1040mm in the last 3 days with 5 hours to go until the 9:00am cutover, today is already at pretty much 400mm.

In the last 2 hours, the rate has slowed to 30mm/hr, with the 2 hours preceding that at 50mm/hr.

http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDQ60801/IDQ60801.94004.shtml 

and https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn4z2py8448o

Like I said in an earlier post, I know they are at opposite ends of the globe each with their own particular climate type and season but it's something that interests me.

24c must be close to a record.

Looking at weatheronline, Fitzroy hit 27C on that day! Not sure what the record is though

Google says

Mount Pleasant 29 °C (85°F) January 23, 1992

Apparently that area has been experiencing an unusual sequence of tropical LPs with potential development

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-30/bom-forecasts-four-potential-cyclones-in-coming-days/104872330 

EDIT - correction - it's western Australia that's being hit🫢

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/category-5-tropical-cyclone-zelia-slams-australia-iron-ore-hub-rcna192186 

(But I had got up rather early and was rushing to go out)

And if the longer term forecasts pove to be in anyway correct, this could be followed by some record breaking warmth. 

At least 10 people have died as torrential downpours over the weekend drenched parts of the south-eastern US, submerging roads and houses. The same areas could now be affected by drier but colder conditions, and the risk of snow, ice and significant disruption - according to BBC forecaster John Hutchinson.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1wewj551q0o 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/india-postpones-winter-games-in-kashmir-citing-insufficient-snowfall/ar-AA1zcA87 

There was a similar lack of snow last year with consequences for tourism and for summer irrigation.

Quite amazing how much flooding a burst pipe has caused there and then freezing! Extremely remarkable, hate to think how much it's going to cost to fix. Millions of dollars down the drain when it thaws.

Read that there will be some locailsed snowfalls anywhere from the coast to inland areas that very rarely get it so let see this otherwise will be a bust and big opportunity missed to match 5th Feb 1950 coldest day that brought 1 and half foot of snow outside Nicosia area, and snow covered in the centre of Nicosia.  

It'll be interesting to see if the low temps and snowfall happen anywhere in lowland Cyprus - do keep us posted.

In any case, Cypriots are due for an abrupt change - WX charts for week 1 say day/night temps are about 4C in week 1 but 14C in week 2.

http://www.wxmaps.org/pix/temp4