I know a lot of people have their hearts set on eating bugs, and the world ending with pestilence and fire devouring humankind. Cranky as they are in their native, foaming-at-the-mouth state, the sort of intermission we seem to be in right now on our march to our self-induced, fiery (or watery, if you\u2019re, like, on an island or in Miami) climate change doom just makes them worse. You know, the scrabbling around in Saharan dust looking for excuses to explain\u00a0why<\/em>\u00a0we\u2019re\u2026well<\/em>\u2026frustrating as it is\u2026not all dead yet. Or drowned. Or at least have wet ankles.<\/p>\n Considering the weather outside lately, if we were expiring in any great numbers from Global Warming\/Climate Change\/anything AL Gore\u2019s ever predicted, our bodies would be well preserved into early summer.<\/p>\n Take the U.K.: \u201cBalmy\u201d\u00a0is not the word<\/a>\u00a0for springtime in England this year.<\/p>\n This morning, -7.4C (18.7F) was\u00a0the UK\u2019s official low temperature<\/strong><\/em>, set at Loch Glascarnoch, Scotland. This\u00a0breaks the nation\u2019s coldest-ever low<\/strong>\u00a0for the date, previously held by Glenlivet\u2019s -6.1C (21F) set in 1956<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n Mainland Europe is also enduring a late-season freeze, bringing heavy show [sic<\/em>] to the higher elevations\u2013most notably the Alps<\/span>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Our very own wild west is wooly, too, but that\u2019s what they\u2019re wearing, not a state of mind. Records have fallen over like frozen antelope. The snow and ice coverage extent measurements have only started since the advent of satellite monitoring in 2001, but when you approach doubling the average?<\/p>\n HELLO<\/em><\/p>\n \u2026Starting with the chill \u2013and according to \u2018warm-mongering\u2019 NOAA data\u2013 the\u00a0U.S. has set\u00a07 \u2018all-time\u2019 low temperature records<\/strong>\u00a0so far this year<\/em>\u00a0(to April 24) vs just the 1 for heat; while in April alone (again to the 24), 321 \u2018monthly\u2019 lows have fallen vs 66 for heat.<\/span><\/p>\n Moving onto the snow \u2013and in official books dating back to 2001\u2013 prior to this year, the highest-ever area of Western U.S. land covered by snow\/ice at the onset of April was the 398,000 square miles posted back in 2019. This year, however, has blown past that benchmark, with\u00a0satellite imagery revealing more than\u00a0444,000 square miles of the West was under snow\/ice as of April 1<\/strong>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n For reference, the average snowpack in the Western U.S. by the end of March stands at 242,000 square miles.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n That\u00a0crucial mountain snowpack<\/a>\u00a0is\u00a0at record stages<\/a>\u00a0in many parts of the west.<\/p>\n \u2026The estimated water content of the western snowpack on March 15, 2023, expressed as a percentage of 1991-2020 average for that time of year. Areas in darkest blue, from parts of California into Nevada, northern Arizona and southwest Utah, were most above average. A number of 150 means it is 50 percent above the average for March 15.<\/span><\/p>\n T\u200bhe\u00a0Central Sierra Snow Lab at Donner Pass\u00a0has tallied 668 inches \u2013 over 55 feet \u2013 of snow<\/strong>\u00a0this season, their third-snowiest season since the end of World War II<\/em>.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n That\u2019s a boatload of frozen goodness that will be joining the rain in the rivers and reservoirs when it starts to melt, besides causing mayhem with flooding already saturated hillsides and inland valleys.<\/p>\n Crazy! In #LakeTahoe<\/a>, the staff at Bear Valley Ski Resort posted this before\/after photo. That\u2019s a lot of snow! pic.twitter.com\/IRzFUeW8jl<\/a><\/p>\n — News Source LA (@NewsSourceLA) March 14, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Snowpack-730x417.jpg\")
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