Three feet of new snow for Washington Cascades

Snow level falling to 1,500 feet (457m)

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper shows Greenland was warmer during the 1930's and 1400's than the present

A new paper published in Climate of the Past reconstructs Greenland temperatures over the past 800 years and shows that reconstructed temperatures were higher in the 1930's and 1400's than at the end of the record in the year 2000. The paper also finds Greenland temperatures correlated to "solar-induced changes in atmospheric circulation patterns such as those produced by the North Atlantic Oscillation/Arctic Oscillation (NAO/AO)."

Migrating birds leave frozen Germany - Moving back south

“Migrating birds are doing what many people in Germany would dearly love to do – heading back south in the face of the continuing freezing weather.”