AccuWeather.com - Weather News | California Mountains Face Crushing Snowfall

On top of Mammoth Mountain Ski Resort, at an elevation of around 11,000 feet, 9 feet of snow were measured Sunday morning!

At the base of Mammoth Mountain Ski Resort, at an elevation of around 8,000 feet, 6.5 feet of snow were measured. The all-time yearly snowfall record at the base is 139 inches, and the snowfall through Sunday morning brought the snowfall to 107 inches for this year so far.

Parts of Australia may face white Christmas with summer snow - The National

SYDNEY // Snow fell in Australia on Monday, as the usual hot and summery December weather was replaced in parts by icy gusts sweeping up from the Southern Ocean, giving the country a taste of a white Christmas.

Boris sticks his thumb in the wind – Telegraph Blogs

This scepticism and anger will most likely intensify after next winter. And the one after that. And the one after that too. This is not Nostradamus speaking here. Just someone who reads enough to know that the Pacific Decadal Oscillation moves in 30-year cycles (and we’re entering a cold one) and that low sun spot activity tends to coincide with miserable winters and dull summers. And cold is the thing we should – and shall – most fear, not warmth.

Polar Scientists Discuss Polar Bear's Fate - NYTimes.com

Robert F. Rockwell, a population biologist at the museum and City College of New York with whom Gormezano has collaborated in the Hudson Bay bear study, provided this reaction:
... The thing that is sure is that 2009 and again 2010 were years when lots of cubs were produced. When Linda, Daryll Hedman and I flew the coast in mid July 2009 – Daryll and I were especially struck by the numbers of cubs. 2010 was similar.
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Amstrup questioned that work, saying that the ice hasn’t degraded in spring — and isn’t expected to for many decades even under sustained warming — and that is when bears are out on the ice seeking mates:
    There is really no evidence that the recent observations of hybrid polar bears, however, have anything to do with global warming.