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The three strongest December-April La Ninas since 1950 occurred in 1974, 1971, and 2011.

Since 1960, 1974 and 2011 were the two worst years for tornadoes in the US. 1971 was also in the top ten.

Since 1960, the worst floods in Queensland were in 1974 and 2011. NSW had severe floods in 1971.

As Al Gore explains, it must be the CO2.

Low, high or medium levels of ubiquitous CO2 all produce major hurricanes. Here is some cool data from Klotzbach and Gray at CSU.

http://www.e-transit.org/hurricane/welcome.html

http://www.nytimes.com/

http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sst_anom.gif

ftp://ftp.aviso.oceanobs.com/

2010 was the hottest year ever and saw record melt from Greenland and Antarctica. Continental glaciers melted at a record rate and the oceans continued to gain heat. Polar Bears were drowning and decomposing in the oceans. Jeff Masters says that SSTs were the hottest ever. And yet, sea level plummeted. We now have missing water as well as missing heat.

Or more likely – just missing integrity from the hockey team.

Julia wanted to stop global warming, and she succeeded.

Ski season ‘shaping up to be best in decades’

IT’S all white for this year’s ski season, with fresh snow falls breaking records and reaching depths of up to 1.6m at some resorts.

The resorts are experiencing the deepest snow in the first week of July since 1990, with 158.9cm recorded at Thredbo and 13 of its 14 lifts in operation.

Perisher has had one of the best starts to a ski season in nearly 20 years, with 62cm of fresh snow recorded in the past few days and the snow depth also reaching 158.9cm yesterday.

“This season is shaping up to be one of the best in decades with the snow depth at Perisher officially reaching 158.9cm today,” a Perisher spokesperson said. “Not since 1990 have we seen such a snow depth at this time of the year.”

http://www.news.com.au/

h/t to Marc Morano and globalfreeze

During most years, Lake Powell loses water in July. This year it is rising rapidly, despite the fact that they are releasing twice as much water as normal from the dam.

http://lakepowell.water-data.com/

http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/

To get a feel for just how clueless the New York Times is, compare July 1934 vs. the current drought.

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